I am the kind of person who really hates sticking into a routine. Everyday, I try to inject something new in my life. I do a lot of different stuff. I also read a lot of random stuff, excluding fiction.

As I was skimming the Top 500 Non-individual Taxpayers of 2009 earlier tonight, I happened to notice Golden Arches Development Corporation at Rank 95. Golden Arches is the corporation behind McDonald’s Philippines. Because of that, my stomach began growling but as far as I knew then I only had 20 pesos in my pocket.

As time passed, my hunger intensified. Hungry, I searched for the room for coins. I found coins on the floor, my bag, the cabinet, among others. I was able to collect 11 5-peso coins, 146 1-peso coins and 8 25-centavo coins (which one of them I later discovered to be a 1964 5-centavo coin).

Crazy as it may sound, even though I can already afford to eat at McDonald’s already I decided to sort the coins according to year before eating. First thing I did was to create a MySQL database for it. Then I wrote the PHP app where I’ll encode the coins. After which I started encoding data for my 1-peso coins. I made sure that the data in the database are correct by checking it on my physical count every ten coins. I failed to encode the year of one 1-peso coin since it was already mutilated to the point the year is not recognizable already.

Here’s the result in coin-graph:

And here’s the dump from MySQL sorted by year and by frequency:

As you may notice, among the 145 1-peso coins I had no 2005 1-peso coin. Oldest coins minted back in 1995 whilst my latest coins in 2010. As expected, 2010 coins took the lead. I can’t seem to understand why I got a lot of 2004 coins. I speculate that the Central Bank over-minted coins in 2004 to the point that they halted production for 2005. Another observation was that all of my coins minted from 2004 onwards were magnetic. I also got 3 magnetic 2003 1-peso coins out of the 10 I have in possession.

Enough of those coin stuff. Way back in high school, some of my classmates and even teachers suspect that I have ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). I tried running through the symptoms of ADHD in Wikipedia and now I’m diagnosing myself with ADHD. Hahaha.

Here’s the list of symptoms (those highlighted in blue are the things that apply to me [I think]):

• Be easily distracted, miss details, forget things, and frequently switch from one activity to another
• Have difficulty maintaining focus on one task
• Become bored with a task after only a few minutes, unless doing something enjoyable [sorting coins is enjoyable!!]
• Have difficulty focusing attention on organizing and completing a task or learning something new or trouble completing or turning in homework assignments, often losing things (e.g., pencils, toys, assignments) needed to complete tasks or activities
• Not seem to listen when spoken to [rarely]
• Daydream, become easily confused, and move slowly
• Have difficulty processing information as quickly and accurately as others
• Struggle to follow instructions
• Fidget and squirm in their seats
• Talk nonstop [do I need to elaborate on this???]
• Dash around, touching or playing with anything and everything in sight [and everyone, LOL]
• Have trouble sitting still during dinner, school, and story time
• Be constantly in motion
• Have difficulty doing quiet tasks or activities
• Be very impatient
• Blurt out inappropriate comments, show their emotions without restraint, and act without regard for consequences
• Have difficulty waiting for thingI think my friends would agree on me s they want or waiting their turns in games

There you go. If you know me well I think you’ll have to agree with me. On the Wikipedia article, it also says “Untreated adults with ADHD often have chaotic lifestyles, may appear to be disorganized and may rely on non-prescribed drugs and alcohol to get by.” LOL.