graduation ball

last october 17 was my graduation ball held at the garden ballroom of edsa shagrila hotel. Papsi was my escort. here are some of the picslast october 17 was my graduation ball held at the garden ballroom of edsa shagrila hotel. Papsi was my escort. here are some of the pics:

paps and me

my prime- mates

at the grand stairs

the beginning of super toxic weeks

im reviewing for the final exams for next week. i just thought of surfing the net to find out if my cousin passed the physician's licensure exam which just ended this monday. i really hope she passed even if all the eyes will be on me afterwards. whether she made it or not, the pressure will still be on me. expected na yun e. ganun yata talaga pag may nauuna sayo. either they expect you follow their footsteps or do better than they did.

i'm gonna live in a dorm again. i should have moved last thursday but our laundry woman didn't work for a week now. my mom got a reliever just yesterday so my uniforms wouldnt be ready until this afternoon. i'll be moving tomorrow morning. i guess i'll just hail a cab to get my things just like a city girl in the movies hehehe.. only my mom's gonna be paying for the rent and my allowance. hay. i wish i my finals will turn out well so that i can have my clerkship this october.

(okey, i've just seen the list of board passers from PRC. my cousin didn't make it =(... hmmm..)

wish me luck. and pray for me.


and paps, hindi ka nag- iisa.

pedia, please pass me too.

and so here it goes...

after a loooong time, im blogging again. i know i owe a LOT of kwento to all of you guys. sorry. ive been super busy since school started. well, ive been doing ok. i feel good that midterms almost over. i can now watch t.v. and sleep more than the usual '2- 3 hour- sometimes- none'. school will be over by september and i am really really nervious and that's not because of clerkship but because of the things i have to catch up just to get to it. oh well, thats lot of superlatives already.

jeezz, i miss everbody. paps and tina, how are you doing? i havent seen you guyz for a long time now. i hope we can go out on the sem break. just the three of us.

the 'kwento' is, dryn and i went out a couple of times. uhmm...just to clarify, it's not like were 'dating'. my baby and i are still very much together. (oi, defensive. hahaha. landi!)

dryn got a car already. he's scared to drive alone so he's been inviting friends to have joy rides with him. well, the first time we went out with his car was when he fetched me after my night duty in obstetrics which was uh a couple of months ago(halata naman puyat sa pic, di ba?). it was a day of a lot of FIRSTS. we had breakfast in chocolate kiss (in bahay ng alumni) and drove around UP Diliman. it was my first time to eat there and it was his first time to drive around the campus. we had a pretty serious talk over breakfast. im happy he's moved on. he's dating somebody and as i see it, he's serious about the girl. i haven't met the girl yet. we were supposed to have a double date at imax but everybody got a little busy and dryn is in germany for a couple of weeks. he drove me home afterwards (first time he drove to bulacan) and we had lunch there.

the second time was in eastwood. wala lang. naisipan lang naming lumabas dahil wala kaming ganang mag- aral. nakakatuwa lang isipin na nagiging comfortable na kaming pag- usapan yung mga relationships namin. that's what weve been talking about most of the time while strolling the patios of eastwood.

ayun. pagkatapos nun, mongha na naman ako. i was tied with my books coz i have to prepare for midterms.

how about you guys? how have you been doing?

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anong bago sa friendster?

i always get the shock of my life whenever i visit friendster. hay naku, kung meron mang pinakamagandang source ng personalized chismis, friendster na yun. katulad ngayon, na- shock ako ng makita ko yung dalawang classmates ko nung high school na nagkatuluyan at may baby na. syet. hindi talaga ko makapaniwala. kelan pa naging sila? hah. feeling ko im so left out. para kong nasa bundok na walang kaalam alam sa mga nangyayari sa lupa. hay.


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latest addiction

hoyyy! nanonood ba kayo ng wedding? hindi yung sa simbahan ha. ang ibig kong sabihin yung koreanovela sa channel 2 pag saturday at sunday ng tanghali. hay grabe. kumpleto linggo ko pag napapanood ko yun. ganda talaga. feeling ko minsan nakaka- relate ako sa love story nila. gusto ko si xena kase napaka- kikay nya at mahilig sa pink. at si darren din ang type kong guy. hay. nakaka- inlove talaga yung love stroy ng dalawang 'to. PRAMIS!

lost in track... trying to get back (and hoping its not yet too late)

this semester is taking especially hard. i dont know if im the only one who feels tired and sleepy all the time. as in hindi na ko makapag- aral. it got to the point that i cried because i feared i failed one stupid prelim that probably most of my classmates had a perfect score.

right now, im getting back to the student i was last semester. this is my first day of my new study schedule. sana tuluy- tuloy na to..




by the way, milord, you look good in v- neck. :)

hi, im back!

i feel so drained... it's the sixth day of my prelim.hay. hindi ko alam kung maayos yung mga sagot ko kanina sa gyne. pagod na pagod na talaga ko. hmm... konti na lang. sige pa konting tiis pa. tatlong bwan na lang naman matatapos na ang paghihirap na ito.... at mag- uumpisa na ang panibagong mas mahirap na paghihirap... hay... pero at least wala na ko sa IM nun... gradweyt na sa buhay classroom...

last saturday, i watched da vinci code ... finally nakanuod na rin ako. nakakalungkot lang na hindi ako sa gateway nakanood as what was originaly planned. kase naman hanggang 5 pa yung exam ko at talgang pagod na ko.

hmmm.. sabi ko nga madami na kong kwento. pero sorry. wala pa ko talaga sa mood. ayaw na ng utak kong mag- isip... huminto na ata... hehehe... antok na antok na kasi ako e. naku, bukas pala may report pa ko sa applied nutrition... at hindi pa nga pala tapos ang first prelim. meron pa akong mga exam na na-moved for this week. i still have applied nutrition (exam) on thurs and community and family med on friday... which reminds me... may report pa pala ako ng surgery preceptorial class sa friday. hay, buhay third year talaga. toxic !

last stretch in the academe is the toughest

• first prelims starts on may 29
• two sugery subspecialties in a week
• duty at the OB- GYN OPD on monday and night duty on friday
• report on monday for gyne
• do research in community and family med
• study for the upcoming prelims in the midst of the busy sked and with a very tired body
• quiz quiz quiz. you dont know when you'll get em
• battling 22 subjects every week
• CPC.... need i say more
• clinical ward... cute ng adviser ko. hehehe. type!

well that's what a normal week's composed of. hmmm... nothing really interesting except for a few medical terms i learned yesterday in pedia hematology class.

Hickeys and purpura subpleasure are the medical term for love bites or 'chikinini'

may pasok na ulit

• hmm... nasayang na namang oras. pedia ko ngayon, 7:00- 11:00. nag- lecture lang yung doctor ng 1 hour. kaya eto ko ngayon.
  
• i'm not feeling good today. i don't know why...

baby on the way, my latest addiction , and preparing for school

Yes, I admit that I have been ammenorrheic for the past three months but NO, im not pregnant. there are a lot of probable causes but im one hundred and one percent sure a fetus in my womb did not cause it. Actually, its my friend, ate Noreen who’s gonna have another baby. I remember when we were both praying she wont get pregnant again- not at least before graduation- so she wont have a (very) hard time in her studies. One time when she thought that she was, we quickly went to the hospital lab and asked for a free pregnancy kit. We did the test in the comfort room and I remember some of her pee spilled in my notebook. Gross! Hahaha. Though the test was invalid, maybe due to the busted pregnancy kit or because of our nervousness, it turned out to be negative. She had her period three weeks after we did the test.

when summer vacation came, eto na naman kami... when she texted me she collapsed in the church, we again asked the question which is becoming a hundred million worth already- is she pregnant? this time, her sister, who is an ob-gyn confirmed it. her daughter's gonna have a new sibling.

hmmm... kaya naman pala...He let this happen to us (ate and i wont be classmates this semester because she failed two subjects). another blessing in disguise. of course i'm happy for her coz she will have a less stressful sked but im sure gonna miss our kalokohan and kakulitan. one of those things that i'll terribly miss is that when our feelings are down we'll both wish we're showbiz stars like kris aquino who spend sleepless nights to earn millions and doesnt having to go through the pressures of med school. then we'll both laugh in the end with our silly thoughts.

yes, im an addict- again. ate (my true-blooded sister) got a new phone and whoa! it's got new games in it. 'new' as in hindi lang snakes. may iba na wala yung mga lumang nokia. hehe. and so here i am. thanks to the new game that im so in to- im spending a lot of time playing and beating the top score which is none other than mine coz im the only one playing it since she got her phone. and because im sooo addicted, i even offered we switch phones. hay, now my 'review series' is ruined.

yes, im getting my self ready to be grilled again. it's three days more to go before school starts. i went to the mall a couple of days to go to buy new stuffs for school. notebook, ballpen, highlighter highlighter- a lot of highlighter, envelopes envelopes- a lot of envelopes... jeez i got really tired walking to- and -fro in the national book store to buy the things that i need and LIKE. you see it has to be both- in perfect combination. hehehe i also went to the parlor and have a new haircut. my hair is now shorter. i think i look younger din (i say it's my hair- ala pantene commercial). i also finished doing my own bullet-type review series of ten chapters of harrison. im proud of myself for being able to do them despite the temptation to procrastinate but im also sad that i wasnt able to finish ten more chapters. hey, im tired already. besides, my addiction's eating most of my time now.

oh i'm getting anxious again... about this semester, my new subjects, new doctor- lecturers, new ward work- pedia ward, new set of classmates, hmm... im beginning to be scared huhuhu.

btw ospital ng maynila's gonna open on monday. it's back to toxicity for the clerks of plm too. sabay tayo sa ka- toxic-an. funny when elaine told me it drive them nuts that they dont have a busy sked for the past two weeks ('benign', as they call it). hehehe. i know they've been praying for a time- out but when they got it, ayun, tinatakot naman yung mga sarili nila. hay, praning talaga med students. look what they have done to us!!!!

i remember mom cooked my fav ginatang mais a couple of days too. hehe. im getting so takaw nowadays. i guess papsi and i are now the opposites. he do the dieting while i do all the eating. well, i have to enjoy now. coz next year, i have to fulfill my promise that i'll stop eating red meat and fat as in taba ng baboy- which i also love to chew- at 25 (then cut half on sweets at 30).

tomorrow's gonna be a manaoag day for me. im gonna pray really hard. i remember when our class offered a mass before the finals, we didn't know what we'll write in the petition. we joked that we should write there '...deliver us from all evil like pedia and medicine' hehe. well that's a part of what im gonna pray for.

on sunday will be my last major date with my baby before school. i wonder what's our itinerary. he told me it's gonna be a surprise. i bet its all walk... ala mla walking tours hehehe.

tata for now, everyone. help me pray that im gonna make it this semester.

ho humm

i've been reading my posts for the past 5 mos and i've realized how bad i' ve wrote. sorry guys, blame it to toxicity. my gray matter couldn't have stand the ruthless nights and days of reading and memorizing countless facts and trash from my biblical medical books that it seems so hard to force anything out from it. well, life as a bum could never been so uhm... boring. for my first week of staying in the house, full- time, i've read two topics 'viral hepatitis' and 'hypertension'. actually, im just half-way through with both hehe. hay, it seems med school has really gotten in me that i can't stand a day without reading anything.

yesterday could have been a more 'fruitful' day for me if only my phone didn't ran out of prepaid. darn. hate it when it happens. of all the time in the world... it happened in the very minute that i badly needed it. so there i was strolling in sm north ALONE. trying to see if i can get a reload anywhere and eventually find nothing. hay, i just can imagine papsi hating me for asking him where he was and if he's gonna do anything and not replying to him and worse, not being able to answer his calls. hay, when i felt my phone vibrating, i was already in the middle of elliptical road, about to go home.

on my way, i decided to pass by feu hospital to ask how much HBsAb is. my doctor prescribed the test on the last week of march but i wasnt able to accomplish it due to my very busy schedule. when i was there, i took a glimpse of the outpatient department and i saw a familiar guy sorting little pieces of paper in one of the drawers. 'totoo na ito, clerk na sila,' i said to myself as i felt a chill run down my spine.

i have my own share of anxiety about clerkship. well maybe my share is a little bit bigger than anybody else that i wanted to skip it na lang and just go straight into graduation. the only things that made me come to terms with my apprehension were the stories of my buddy, elaine, about her duties. i guess what really scare me about clerkship is not being able help save a life because i don't know things or i forgot about them... it's the feeling of inadequacy and self- frustration that i am really afraid of. that one day, in my rounds, im going to ask myself where the hell i was when things were lectured to us. and that im going to realize that ive learned nothing in those three years that i sit in the classroom listening and/ or trying to listen and in so many sleepless nights of forcing multitude of facts in my brain which is in near liquefaction due to lack of sleep and stress. i just hope i'll be able to remember my bud's stories when its my time to be a clerk, which is not so far from now.

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THE MANILA WALKING TOURS

ok, so i guess im a little frustrated when i learned about the walking tours and how literal those words would be. i've been interested the moment i've read one of papsi's friends entry about it that i wanted to try joining in one of the tours this vacation. well, touring manila on foot is ok with me but with this kind of summer's heat... yay! ayoko. im 99 percent sure, i wont be able to enjoy it.

I am a frustrated tourist and i wanted to go wherever and whenever my schedule and my budget permits. what i really like about going is not the actual place that i will be visiting but the experience of going there. for me, sitting at the back of the driver is the most fun part. that's the time when i can get in touch with my thoughts and my wild imagination. but most of the time i enjoy seeing a lot of things that we passed by, like a movie strip rolling in my window. ok, so i guess im not just a frustrated tourist but a frustrated director too. i often joked that what i really like to go into was film and directing and i was just fooled by my eyesight. pareho kaseng 'd' at 'r' yung umpisa at dulo. akala ko yun na yun (director at doctor) hehehe. hmmm, well that's another story.

so i guess i would be spending my second to the last vacation at home. i just hope my mom would be kind enough to arrange an outing before i go back to school like hear a mass in Manaoag or a swimming spree in one of subic's beaches. hmm.. i must still be dreaming.

salamat, salamat! (reposted)

'Lord i offer my life to you
everything i've been through
use it for your glory...'


Finally... im done with first semester of third year. grabe. until now im still speechless. parang panaginip lang :) hehehe.

yesterday, i took the remedials for my medicine subject(s) ----> may 's' to dapat kase medicine is comprised of 6 subjects: gastroenterology, pulmonology, cardiology, hematology, immunology, communicable diseases, plus two more: ward work and clinico- pathologic conference (CPC). the six subjects, i take an hour each a week. on major exams, those six subjects are given in just ONE exam. hehe. yes, nakakabaliw po. at mas nakakabaliw magremedials kase comprehensive yung exam. i cant believe i passed it. salamat talaga. salamat sa lahat ng mga prayers. it really helped me a lot.

in this subject, out of a hundred, only THREE students passed without taking the remedials. and only around 30 students passed the remedials.

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last week has been the longest week of my life. i go to school everyday looking at each of the departments' bulletin boards to see if they have already posted the list of students for remedials. it was nerve wrecking- going to every floor of the academe then going to the hospital and back again... looking at each and every piece of paper posted making sure my name isn't in it ... when i saw my name on medicine's list, i went to school the following day to study in the library. im glad my friends decided to study there too. mahirap kaseng mag- aral kapag frustrated at nag- iisa. most of the time, you tend to give up na lang. unlike pag may karamay ka di ba? hay... i'm just glad its over. i can relax now. do anything i want. watch t.v. until the programs run out. sleep all i want. lalala.. :)


PEDIA... this is the only optimistic department. why? because they chose to post the name of students who PASSED instead of posting those who did not. :) out of a hundred, only around 30 of us passed without taking the remedials.

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next semester will start a month earlier so we can have time to prepare for clerkship on october (hopefully). and hopefully it will be my last sem in the academe. hay, nakakalungkot lang kase mas madami sa min yung hindi na makakapag- clerk sa oct... i will miss them, especially ate noreen. di bale, iisa lang naman din kami ng patutunguhan.

the center pic is our 'unofficial' class photo taken by one of our lecturers in surgery.

center, my sub- section. counter-clockwise: (1) our classroom, (2) watching a procedure in gastro (3) our last CPC for the semester- waiting for the lucky one (4) ... and there she was trying to be calm while talking in front of the gods (5) bags, ako, sandz... ang magkakatabi sa CPC (6) arfie and me (7) sheila's place. she cooked us lunch on her birthday (8) groupmates ko sa ward (9) sandz and me

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the week before the finals, i bumped into my classmates in first year. clerk na sila! their duty will start on april 1. hay, im gonna miss them. especially ibyang, marika, mitch, and april. :)

april, jeremy, ibyang, me, ange, eli, hans.

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me, mariks, and mitch. si leo yung nasa likod... ganyan sya dala ng pagkabaliw sa papalapit na finals.

this week's highlights

i was really looking forward to post something at the end of the week but geez, im getting busier and more anxious every day. midterms is fast approaching and i still have a lot of readings to catch up. hay, the life of a med student... moreso, the life of a third year med student. hehe. here are the highlights of my week.



on this site will rise....

• lobby entrance of the medical center

• commercial arcade ( i hope they'll have starbucks at least. hehe)

• 8 suites which are of two kinds, one has a kitchen of its own and the other, a receiving area. sorry, nawawala yung picture nito. i knew i had uploaded it somewhere....

tuesday

i had clinical ward. my patient this time suffers from drug induced gouty arthritis. he's very emaciated and in pain due to the lesions he's got in all his limbs.

the view ain't so good no? i just took a stolen photo of the guy. i dont have the guts to find a better view and mag- ala professional photographer pa dun. hehe.

thursday

i was able to watch a procedure in gastro. they inserted a PEG tube into the patient's upper gastroinestinal tract in case he's esophagus will undergo stricture due to his progressing laryngoesophageal cancer. so i advice you people, smoking is dangerous for your health and very dangerous for your appetite.

the finish product. the tube inserted in the epigastrium.

what's friday without surgery?

im beginning to love surgery. i thought when friday comes, i'll be sitting in the full eight hours trying my best to fight boredom. but hey, those guys from surgery really make our week everytime. they don't just teach us surgical stuffs but they give us good advices in the practice. and i love to hear their stories, thinking that someday, i'll be as successful and fulfilled like they are now. hmmm.

this friday, i became especially proud of being an feu- med student. I learned from Dr. Porciuncula (our lecturer for today) that Dr. Kim Shi Tan, the current head of our surgery department is the founding president of the laparoscopic cholecystectomy in the Philippines. wow talaga. next week, i'll be meeting him face to face for the first time. he's going to have a make- up class with us probably on wednesday. i hope this time he'll make it.

Dr. Porciuncula is the chairman of surgery in UDMC and also practice in FEU medical center and St. Luke's as a colorectal surgeon. sorry, i dont have a picture of him. nahihiya ako e... hehehe. but it's interesting to know that he loves photography. he's taking pictures anywhere he goes and shows them to class in his lectures.

our alumni from 25 years back are having their homecoming this week. i was in awe to see their proposed project of the new lobby etc of the hospital. parang ala- medical city ang dating! i'll try my best to take a picture of it next time. they're already starting the construction and i heard, the budget was tumataginting na 56 million pesos. and it's gonna be finished 8 months from now.

the picture was taken while waiting for our preceptorial class moderator in surgery.

toxic

in chaos i found order.
in letters i found wisdom.
in answers i found more questions.
in pages i found miracles
in pictures i found perfection

toxicity level on the rise

its five days before the first prelims. gawd, i'm getting very anxious about it... i hope i'll get through it with flying colors.

knina, i rode a taxi to get to school. first time kong ginawa yun. :) pano ba naman, 6.45 na hindi pa din ako nakakasakay. may qiuz pa namna ako ng pedia. i was crying and cursing my fate. pano, i only slept for three hours para lang matapos kong aralin lahat, tapos hindi lang ako makakapag- quiz dahil late ako. it was 7am when a taxi passed by. i grabbed the chance. 'bahala na' sabi ko. i told the driver, 'manong, sa feu hospital po. paki bilisan lang. nagmamadali po talaga ako.' the driver, heeding my request drove ala fast and the furious. ambilis talaga! aakalain mong ambulansya ang dina- drive nya :) syempre ako sa backseat, aral pa din. i trusted him na hindi kami mababangga. well, that's all i can do, e. i arrived at 7.15. my teacher entered the room at 7.45. hehe. kung sumama ako sa ate kong mag- bus, hindi pa din ako considered na late. pero hindi ako nanghihinayang. hehehe.

merry christmas!

updates on my life so far:

• super busy pa din. lalo na ngayon, prelims is fast approaching. i'm gonna have my exams on dec. 14 to 21. birthday pa naman ni daddy sa 14. sana kung may handaan man, simple lang para naman makapag- aral ako.
• nalulunod na ko sa dami ng handouts! hindi biro ang 17 subjects ha!
  
• yesterday was my lola's first year death anniversary. syempre may handa. sabi ni mommy konti lang daw pero nung nakita ko pag- uwi ko, mukhang pang party. hay, nako. what's new with mom?
• nakanood na ko ng harry potter!!! hahaha! yahooo!

yun lang. got to run. still have to go to surgery department. i'm going to ask what's the best management for my mom's cholelithiasis (gall stones) and how much lap chole costs.

have a nice weekend , everyone!

hi everyone!

kamusta? namiss nyo ba ako? hehehehe. sorry ngayon lang ako nagkaroon ng time. it seems were getting busier every week. for this week, i have three reports, 3 quizzes and 1 shifting exams, at tatlong make- up classes para sa mga subjects namin sa monday kase holiday. to top ot all, duty ko last monday and this friday sa ward. mukhang makakatulog ata ako sa overnight duty sa friday sa sobrang pagod. :) ooops, pero hindi naman ako nagrereklamo. hehe. nakakatuwa nga kase puro clinical na lessons namin and lahat na ng lecturers namin ngayon are the best clinicians we have in the medical center.

meron kaming class called Clinico- pathologic conference every thursday. it's one of the highlights in third year kase that's when they make us feel that they are welcoming us to the physician's world. a case is given to us every week (history of a patient and his course in the ward.true to life yun ha) and were gathered (all third year that is, 300+ of us) in a hall. one student is chosen (by lottery) to present the case, give the diagnosis, differentials and pathophysiology with all the clinicians, residents, pathologists, and students seated before him. mukhang nakakatakot no? hehe. sa umpisa lang yun kase sa bandang huli sila- sila na nag- didiskusyon kung ano ba talagang diagnosis. para kaming pinaglalaruan ng mga pathologists. kase at the end of it, sila magdidiscuss kung ano yung autopsy findings, thus telling us what is really the disease of the patient. hehe. nakakatuwa talaga sila.

sige na. nagugutom na ko. lunch break lang namin. hehe. next time ulit!

miss you all!!!

to the stars... with difficulty

Yesterday was my enrollment. There was a feeling of elation and sense of pride as I went to the registrar window and asked for the C.O.M. for third year. Hay, sa wakas!

It's true that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I once stumbled and fall. I reckon the hardship I have faced as I retraced my footsteps. The self- struggle and self- pity that I have went through. The days that though seems to be endless, I still believed with my heart and soul that this too shall come to pass like all the other temporary defeat that I've been through.

Looking back, I have realized there are things you appreciate more after rediscovering them. There are things that become more meaningful when you grasp it again after slipping from your fingers.

Medicine is surely the hardest climb I ever have so far. Now that I have regained my footing, I know that the climb will be tougher and steeper as I continue to reach the peak. I just pray that I won't stumble and fall once again. ^__^ I guess now, after all that I've been through, I will always be on guard carefully planting my next steps. ^__^

Yes, 'what doesn't kill you makes you stronger' and it also makes you wiser and better.

what happened to my list?!

hehe. i totally forgot. (you see, i'm THAT lost. hehehe) :) actually i was planning to do them next week. after i've accomplished all my business here in school.

i wasn't feeling well yesterday. all those sneezing and itchiness makes me really upset. i planned to start sorting out my handouts but then i was afraid it'll get dusty and further aggravate my irritated condition. allergic rhinitis is nature's way of telling me it's christmas time once again.

i saw the list of students who'll be having their removals in medicine. there's one hundred eight of them. o-oh... i wonder how much more next semester's life would scare me out.

i passed lab dx. thanks to God!

huh!? pffffftt!

it's been two hours that i've been staring at the computer avoiding the site feed button on every blogspot that i visited. i felt there's nothing to write about until this very moment, it dawned on me. i hate my current state. i feel lost. i mean, don't you just hate it when you've been busy for the longest time and suddenly you just have nothing to do. i know it may sound weird for those people who would enjoy studyless schooless days spending it sitting around doing nothing. yeah it's weird. i'm weird. maybe what i'm feeling is just some sort of a 'jet lag.' it will dawn on me soon.

i'm here in school's internet cafe. waiting for lab dx's final grade result. thinking what to do when i got home afterwards.

'bawal yan!'

The title is a personal joke between the goddess and me (and also a reminder for us). totally walang kinalaman for this entry. sorry papsi, next time na namin ikukwento sa yo Thank you for IMBESTIGADOR for being an eye- opener.

Bakasyon na! Examination week is over! Though I still have to spend a week in school to check my grades, do our research and other stuffs, I can already feel the relaxing air of vacation. Hmmm… finally. I can watch all the t.v. shows that I wanted, read books and magazines not related to medicine and just lie down maybe think on what to do next or just simply drift off to dreamland. But before I plunge in to slothfulness, I have made a list of things that I must do. And may I just remind myself that it's not optional but a M-U-S-T because the next four weeks will be the last vacation that I will have (hopefully… crossing my fingers) as a med student and the last chance I have to do all those things.

So what does the high priestess must accomplish?

• Clean my library. Its time to dispose all those trash that I have accumulated for the whole semester, which I'm sure, is a lot. Compile all my handouts. Segregate the handouts given to me by Ate Glo who's already a clerk now. I tell you, seeing that big plastic bag full of papers makes me feel nervous about next semester. Its like screaming to me that I will surely have A LOT to read. Btw, the handouts were only for pedia and O.B. hay nako, maloloka ako.

• Bedroom make over. Since I won't have much time to spend to clean my room, I thought of getting rid of those things that are unnecessary and accumulate a lot of dirt. That way, it would be a lot easier for me to clean it later on. Sorry, but that means all those hairy stuffs must go. I'm planning to give the stuff toys to charity for Christmas. And please, if someone reading this thought of giving me a stuff toy, I would gladly appreciate it if you change it to something else. No hairy stuff, ok? :D

• Clean the house. Time for general cleaning.

• Gardening. Now, that's something I will truly enjoy and surely miss. I also need a lot of things to do there so maybe I'll spend a week soiling my gloves. I just hope it won't rain that much.

i hope i passed everything. ^_^