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The ratio of the observed frequency of double crossings-over to the expected frequency, where the expected frequency is calculated by assuming that the two crossing-over events occur independently of each other.

the same value of the denoted intension in the actual world-time.

Say whut?
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1 Message received.
"Hi ma'am! Di raw pwede si Michelle 2nyt. May hahabulin daw cya n project. Some othr tym na lang rw ds wk."

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Reply.

"Okidoki."

Send.

But I'm already here.

You could use the walk.

Tama.

Down the long strip that runs outside the mall.
A hundred nameless faces per 50 meters. Easy.

And then. There was one. Perpendicular to your path.
You're heading east.
Him south.

Walks right past. Crosses the street.
Completely oblivious.

Call stiffled.
Why bother?
But what were the odds of that happening?
The moment's too rare to pass up.
Call, you idiot.

10 rings.
You're about to hang up, when he picks up.

"Are you at SM?"
"Yah. Where are you."
"I can see you from across the street."
"Hold on, i'm coming over."

End call.

"Wanna grab something to eat?"
"We don't have to."
"But what are the odds of this happening?"
"Guess you're right."
"Coffee then."

A few meters.

"So what brings you here?"
"I got stood up. You?"
"Thought I'd look something up at some store."
"Cool."
"Yeah."
"What were the odds..."
"You already said that."
"oh yeah. sorry."






"It is kinda cool."
"Yeah it is."

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occurs when unexpected parallels can be drawn from two or more events. In the popular sense it is used to describe events (or, more accurately, combinations of two or more events) which are of low probability.

Coco Jello!!!

So what if I'm sooooo like 5 minutes ago? I'll still say it.

I've discovered Nata de Coco.



Of course you can argue that the thing has been in packaged existence for more than a decade now. But until recently, I haven't really paid attention to it.

So much so, that it has led me to Google the thing. And here's what I came up with:

1. According to the Dept. of Science and Technology, we owe our chewy coco dessert to this man: Mr. Teodula Afrika of that really, really old school along Espana, Manila.
(As an aside, the makapuno, a less resilient relative of our coco companion, was developed in the 1970s by a Dr. Guzman who called her creation a "mutant coconut". Bet you won't look at your halo-halo the same way again, will yah?)

2. Apparently, as it is with cheese, Yakult, beer and vinegar, nata de coco traces its beginnings from little microscopic animals we call bacteria. Now if only the more complex organisms like homo sapiens could just be as useful...

3. Other than dessert, nata de coco has been found to have some non-food applications:

- bacterial media
(made from bacteria, so it's home sweet home, i guess.)

- wound dressing
(here's an idea: dress your wound AND have dessert! --- yummmm...)

- acoustic diaphragm for audio products
(if your mp3s start to sound coco, now you know. Hey that rhymes! Ain't I soooo clever??!?!)

- cloth
(Hungry? Eat your shirt.)

- computer chips
(Coco computers! what will they think of next?!)

- candles
(They make everything into candles. I mean, I won't be surprised if they made them out of used bubble gum. Eww.. that's just gross - even for me...)




That said, I enjoy my coco jello with a twist of calamansi.

If I ever get around to doing it, I was thinking of getting shaved ice, sweetened pandan syrup and topping it off with a generous helping of nata de coco cubes.

Then I'd give it some awfully original name like
"nata de coco over shaved ice and pandan syrup".

Think it'll work? If you get to do this before I do, let me know.