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In Fish and In Love

"May likod ba ang isda?" This one mind-boggling and pretty much stupid question was once the center of discussion in our block and during our PFP Combined Integration and Phases Training Seminar held in Oasis Hotel, Los Banos, Laguna. It never fails to put a smile on the lips of the people whom I asked this question to. Imagine, a simple question, seemingly so easy to answer, could eat so much of your and your friends' time just thinking of the most logical answer. If you say that a fish's back is the one opposite its head, then your saying that the backside of the fish is its tail. However, if you would relate the backside of a vertebrate to its backbone, then the backside of the fish would be nowhere to be found, because a fish's backbone is in the middle. Actually, we even asked our Logic professor this question and he did not have any answer. It could go on for hours and hours of non-sense debating and in the end, you would still have no answer. But that is no