F.F.G

Yesterday, finally, I have signed myself a "contract" that will make me do a lot of things for myself -- for the better. I will have to quit smoking, drink moderately (I have not been a drunkard though. I drink ocassionally), eat less junk and eat lots of healthy food. Hi fruits and vegetables, goodbye sisig, crispy pata and all that goes through frying. I am not quite sure if I can make it through this and if I'll be successful with my plan on getting rid of excess belly fat and building a godly physique. I am trying.

I have enrolled myself, together with my friend Rey, in a fitness gym for a month. I spent Php550 for a membership that, well, I am not really 100% sure I want to get into. That doesn't mean that I don't have the resolve to lose weight. I do. But I am not quite sure if my schedule would permit. I work in a call center as an Account Executive and I work during nightime (US daytime). The gym's schedule is M-F 6:30am until 8:30pm and during Saturdays 6:30am-12noon. The only possible time that I can spend my time at the gym is between 6pm until closing time on weekdays and from 8:30am til noon during Saturdays. Reason is: I am still at work in the morning and I usually go straight to bed after coming home from work. So there.

I am giving myself a month to lose some decent weight and inches around my belly. After a month, I am planning to enroll onto my next class of choice -- Aero dancing which includes kickboxing. Pretty interesting if you ask me. I will keep you posted on my progress -- or defeat. (knock on wood)

Murder mystery

Do you like to read a good murder mystery? Not even Law and Order would attempt to capture this mess... This is an unbelievable twist of fate!!!

At the 1994 annual awards dinner given for Forensic Science, AAFS President Dr. Don Harper Mills astounded his audience with the legal complications of a bizarre death.

Here is the story:

On March 23, 1994 the medical examiner viewed the body of Ronald Opus and concluded that he died from a shotgun wound to the head. Mr. Opus had jumped from the top of a ten-story building intending to commit suicide.

He left a note to the effect indicating his despondency As he fell past the ninth floor his life was interrupted by a shotgun blast passing through a window, which killed him instantly.

Neither the shooter nor the deceased was aware that a safety net had been installed just below the eighth floor level to protect some building workers and that RonaldOpus would not have been able to complete his suicide the way he had planned.

"Ordinarily," Dr Mills continued, "Someone who sets out to commit suicide and ultimately succeeds, even though the mechanism might not be what he intended, is still defined as committing suicide." That Mr. Opus was shot on the way to certain death, but probably would not have been successful because of the safety net, caused the medical examiner to feel that he had a homicide on his hands.

The room on the ninth floor, where the shotgun blast emanated, was occupied by an elderly man and his wife. They were arguing vigorously and he was threatening her with a shotgun. The man was so upset that when he pulled the trigger he completely missed his wife and the pellets went through the window striking Mr. Opus.

When one intends to kill subject "A" but kills subject "B" in the attempt, one is guilty of the murder of subject "B."

When confronted with the murder charge the old man ad his wife were both adamant and both said that they thought the shotgun was not loaded.

The old man said it was a long-standing habit to threaten his wife with the unloaded shotgun. He had no intention to murder her.

Therefore the killing of Mr. Opus appeared to be an accident; that is, assuming the gun had been accidentally loaded.

The continuing investigation turned up a witness who saw the old couple's son loading the shotgun about six weeks prior to the fatal accident.

It transpired that the old lady had cut off her son's financial
support and the son, knowing the propensity of his father to use the shotgun threateningly, loaded the gun with the expectation that his father would shoot his mother.

Since the loader of the gun was aware of this, he was guilty of the murder even though he didn't actually pull the trigger. The case now becomes one of murder on the part of the son for the death of Ronald Opus.

Now comes the exquisite twist.

Further investigation revealed that the son was, in fact, Ronald Opus. He had become increasingly despondent over the failure of his attempt to engineer his mother's murder. This led him to jump off the ten-story building on March 23rd, only to be killed by a shotgun blast passing through the ninth story window. The son had actually murdered himself so the medical examiner closed the case as a suicide.

A true story from Associated Press, (Reported by Kurt Westervelt)