1st duty this sem

pretty uneventful... we were scheduled for a 6am-6pm duty today. i thought dapat 7-7.. so anyway, i was late.. but our CI was suuuuuper nice... wala lang sa kanya un.

so we were assigned sa ward4... he asked us if we wanted to take all the patients there, meaning 2:1 or 3: 1 for some since there were 27 patients and 12 of us... or 1:1. easy choice!

so we had our pre-conference, patient assignments, then break. then we went back to take the 9am vs, got our patients info for our drug study & NCP... oh before that, some of us heard mass. since we were not toxic naman, our CI asked us who wanted to hear mass... i went na since i was there doing nothing. after mass, we stayed for a few minutes sa ward10 (oncology) since their conf room had a/c... wow, sarap matulog!

so after getting our patient's info, we were just sitting sa conf room, kwentuhan.. then lunch break. then we went to onco again para sunduin si sir.. kwentuhan.. soooo funny! then we went back to ward4 for our 1pm vs. tpos kwentuhan uli.. then all of us moved to onco for the a/c! then we were dismissed at 4.

actually, he wanted to dismiss us at 3, kaso the other CI from ward3 was kinda strict with the time..

oh well.. how eventful no?! next week, we're assigned sa ward8.. we're gonna request na we'd have sir rene nalng as our CI the entire sem.. every time we're assigned sa VMMC, sha na CI namen. gusto nya kase kame na lng i-handle coz we're all nice people sa group namen :p

so anyway, im planning to read a chapter for MS... bagong buhay na talaga ako.. im really gonna study na.. hahaha, i say that every sem! since i was in the ateneo! :p

but i think ill do my ncp and drug study first.. copy-paste from my old ones kse i had the same case na before :p

haaaaay, slow start talaga ung sem.. im scared lang na biglang maging toxic! wag naman sana, ryt?

AJA day

flashback black saturday 2005...

these 5 girls with nothing else to do decided to hang out in my house and rant our hearts out. i provided the place, they provided the food... (they brought bohol food! chips, supersticks, etc :p)

afterwards, we decided to have dinner in metrowalk. during dinner, we talked about our state of singlehood.

a brief background of S.A.W.I.:

there are 12 of us former paulinians who later on became ateneans (with mama b as exception!) in college, we were all single... technically. but we can't help it if some love issues come up once in a while... during gatherings (xmas dinners, bday dinners and hang out dinners) it would usually be just us girls. and we'd always say that next dinner, we'd have guys na with us. pathetic no?!

so anyway, that black saturday, the 5 of us were talking and someone suggested that we needed to do something with our situation. that time, only one of us has "graduated" from the group. and we said that we should all follow soon. so we made this AJA covenant. basically, it says that at a certain date, we would all be in a relationshp or have had a relationship already. it was a weird covenant with consequences and stuff. we wrote it at the back of our chicken inasal placemats and signed and kept it.

so what happened during that year?

one got into a relationshp (she was very optimistic during aja day.. and a little over a month later, she got a bf!) but it ended due to ... uhm... ugly circumstances.

another had her ex lurking in the background... and another guy (who she insists looks like bentong) thinking that she likes him.

one found herself a stalker. an obsessed stalker who rides a motorcycle and has an MD tucked under his belt.

another found a guy who she liked and appeared to like her back... but had a gf... and denied liking her and having something with her when confronted by people.

and another who liked someone who had a gf while this guy's friend liked her. and when she started liking the guy's friend, he got himself a girlfriend and things became complicated.

... the other SAWI girls who were not present:

as i said, one already had a bf before the AJA thing.

one got involved with a guy who had kids but claimed that he was separated from his wife.

another had this sort-of relationship with a close friend, but they ended it because.. uhm im not sure, i guess the guy wasnt ready and he was moving far away soon.

one got involved with an a-hole who she left but kept going back to. she liked another guy, but she liked this a-hole more despite everything he did to her...

one was too busy with what she had to do to pay attention to the guys who liked her.

one remained single.. happily single.

and another had a bf!

so now, we have 2 official SAWI graduates. there should have been 3... but due to uhm.. ugly circumstances, she decided that she'd rather be single right now.

hay, hulaan nyo na lng who's who! whoever gets this ryt, gets to date any of the single and ready to mingle girls ng sawi... kung girl ka, u get a chika sesh.. kung guy ka, u have to take one out on a date... basta ung single and ready to mingle lang ha.. kse ung iba single pero not ready to mingle e! :p

ano buh!?

seems like school doesnt like me.. or it doesnt want to start for me.

so yesterday, i was supposed to have a 5-9pm class, ryt? i told my friend that ill meet him at 4pm in school so we could talk to mam cherry about something. 3pm, my friend tin texted me asking if i had class, she was in school already. i told her i was just dressing up and will head to school after.

so i was in school around 4. met up with tin & noni. they had class 4.30. so at 4.30, they went to class and i went up to look for my friend. he just arrived so we hang out sa corridor. 5pm, we went out to eat kikiam & squid balls. our class will start 6pm raw.

6 pm.. no prof yet. all of our classmates were still outside. around 6.25, someone finally asked an admin person if our prof will arrive. she texted our prof. turns out she hasnt really accepted the task of teaching our class yet. she still had to see what her CI sked will be.

so great! another wasted day. since i was already there, i decided to wait for noni & tin to finish their class. dean paul suggested that we eat at tin's, but we decided to eat at prince kabab instead. when we were finished, 4 of our friends arrived, inviting us to 1 round of beer. we passed since we were supposed to have an orientation in lung center this morning.

so this morning, i woke up earlier than usual, had breakfast, took a bath. as i was dressing up, tin texted me that she and noni won't be going to the orientation since we were not actually required to attend this one. so ok, i changed into my "home attire" to go back to sleep.

but hell, i couldnt! damn it! so i went online.. then decided again to try sleeping.. still couldnt.. so here i am.

arggggghhhh! how crazy is this? i know i wanted a break from all the studying that's why i didnt enroll last summer.. but cmon! this is toooooo much!

oh yea, i don't have duty this 1st rotation.. meaning i don't have duty this week and next week. so talk about being idle!

muni muni

continuing the thought from my previous post...

sometimes i feel that iv been left behind.. my batchmates are all working (well, not all.. some are still studying, but they either are going to law school, or getting an mba or whatver master's degree...)

they're permanent na sa company, or getting a pay raise, or promoted.. or moved to their 2nd (or 3rd or 4th or 5th...) job... some are pursuing a master's degree...

but me, im still studying, getting another bachelor's degree... and currently nagged with the feelng that i should really start planning my life.

then i miss that experience... i was working... i switched job several times... got a raise, got promoted... then i decided to come home.

sometimes, i ask myself if i made the right decision. i was already settling down there. i didnt exactly love my job, but my employers were nice (at least they were to me..)... pero tinotoxic nila ako... and my other officemates... grabe manoxic! and to think that i was their bunso! but it was fine, if i stayed a month more, i was ready to ask for a raise since i was really doing so much na then... plus my employer was already offering to sponsor me as immigrant.. green card na, hindi lng working visa! but then, i thought that 1) i wasn't really ready to stay there since i was getting more and more homesick 2) if i accepted the offer, i would have to stay with them for some years & 3) super mahal mag process ng papers

so yea, i guess coming home was really the right decision.. and taking up nursing is probably the best decision iv made so far. im really enjoying myself. i love what i do. and when i graduate and get my license, im gonna be earning real well... which means id just have to work my ass off for 5-10 years then put up a business and have the time of my life!

plus iv met a lot of great people... that probly is the best thing im getting out of this experience :)

then i realize that when we graduate, we'll be going our separate ways... and unlike the people i met when i was in ateneo, we will really go our separate ways... different countries, different states. reunions will be too hard to organize... and we'd be lucky if even 1/10 of our batch shows up to one!

e now pa nga lng, it's hard na to organize a block reunion ng ateneo blockmates ko e! last week, we had an H2 reunion, and only 10 of us showed up. but we're hoping that more people show up next time.. although i doubt if i can go to one in the next couple of months...

hay, ang sad no... "people always leave"... nux, one tree hill (gawsh, its super addicting! james lafferty! and im so loving the lucas-brooke exclusive relationshp thingy!)

hay, next year's getting me all excited, anxious, worried, happy, sad... excited that ill finally graduate and get a job (oh God bless us!), anxious coz i need to get my license & find a job that will sponsor me, worried that i might not get that license, happy since i can finally start living the life iv been dreaming of, and sad coz id have to say goodbye to most of my friends..

alam mo un, when we graduated from ateneo, we said we'd still have get togethers, dinner/movie/coffee/inuman regularly... just to keep in touch...

pero now, pag malapit na ung graduation, parang its sad to even talk about it. like you ask "o, where ka na after this?" and one goes "sa aussie" or "sa LA" or "new york" or "san francisco" at kung saan saan pa... like when will we see each other again, ryt?! haaaaayyyy...

and then, if a college friend leaves for another country to work there, we all have this get together, a despedida for that person...

e what about us? siguro we'd be having despedidas everyweek.. o baka everynight pa nga e.. or probly one big despedida for everyone na aalis...

aw, this is sad.. i dont know why im even thinking about that now.. wala lang.. the sem's just started and i should worry about doing ok sa 102 & 103.. pero kase everytime i realize that im finishing next year, i know i have to start planning na what to do after i graduate.. do i still take the local boards? where do i go? stuff like that... tpos when i think about where im going, i realize na konting people lang ung kilala ko na pupunta ren there... haaaaay... :(

super extended vacation!

as it turns out, i don't have classes the entire week. my sked was changed. originally, i was supposed to have hospital duty mon-wed & sat, and lecture thurs-fri. our entire batch was crammed into one section, meaning all of us would have duty mon-wed, then we choose between sat or sun for our other duty, then lecture on thurs-fri for those who didnt take it last summer....

last minute, our fabulous school decided that it would be hard and totally unwise to cram us all into that sked since sayang naman ung thur-sat rotation. so yesterday, i went to school, supposedly for our class.. turns out i was assigned to the new section (i actually was requesting for that before pa, but dean told me someone had to make a formal proposal for it, but since i was too tamad for something like that, i settled for the original sked)

which means i went to school para tumunganga! crazy nga since i slept around 4am na the night/morning before.. tpos i woke up to mamoi's text ng 10 am.. tpos gigi texted me ren saying that she's in school na. originally, we were planning to meet at 1pm.. but she told me to take a bath na and go to school to meet them. and me, being the super masunurin girl that i am took a bath agad.

so when i got to school, i was just following them around coz i really had no business there. they were changing skeds, adding subjects and whatever.. i had nothing to do.. so nanggulo na lng ako.. i saw my sked na.. but i totally forgot. actually, i just checked who my groupmates will be. i dont know most of them since they're from the other section... but im happy-happy-glad-glad since im groupmates with my besty/shoti! hehehe :) and carlo! may kukulitin nanaman ako sa duty! yey!

so there... oh, my sked now?
mon&tues, 5-9 pm: med surg lecture
wed: IM OFF! my free day!
thurs-sat: ncm 102 duty
sun: ncm 103 duty (11 or 12 hours straight!)

how fun, ryt? RIP social life!

goodbye to H2's monthly get together... sorry guys, i can't organize those anymore since hindi ren naman ako available.. kayo na bahala! just dont forget na blockmate nyo ako.. we shared 4 wonderful years together!

and spontaneous SAWI weekend getaways? bye bye! i know hindi ako mashadong nakakasama since before coz something always comes up.. pero now, tlagang hindi na ako makakasama kse ill be in the hospital taking pictures of my patients and eating... :(

haaaaayy... its gonna be tiring and all... but i gotta do what i gotta do ryt? for a brighter future!

i just realized that im graduating (again! and i havent gotten my ateneo diploma yet!) next year... which means i have to seriously think about what im gonna do after that. this is so unlike graduating from ateneo. then, i didnt have to think about what i was gonna do after college. i just assumed that id be applying in some bank/big company or whatever here in the philippines...

then i found myself working in an interior design place in west hollywood, then at a tela importer and supplier in downtown LA, then moving to a bags manufacturer still in downtown LA, then finally in a law office in mid-wilshire still in LA...

then after 3-4 months, i was buying myself a return ticket...

and a week after, i was boarding that plane home... feeling excited but unsure...

then 2 days later i was inquiring in kester... taking the entrance exam that afternoon... and enrolling the next day!

now, 1 1/2 years after, im faced with the dilemma of planning my future.. seriously planning my future. and for someone who isn't used to making definite long term plans, this is quite hard.

i mean, iv a general idea of what i want to do... i see myself working as a nurse in some hospital (but preferably a nursing home actually) in another country for the next 5, 10 years max.

what that "another country" is, im not sure. when i was starting pa lng sa nursing, i was sure i was going back to LA after i graduate. then before my first sem back as a student ended, i decided that i want to work in australia. now, im not sure. 1st choice remains to be aussie, but then i haven't actually studied that yet (i mean, applying, the hiring process, moving there and what that entails, etc etc...) moving back to LA seems much easier, but then again, i don't know!

oh gosh, im toooooo young to think about this! im supposed to be thinking about what ill eat next lang e... im hungry AGAIN (i had lunch an hour ago!) & im craving for siopai (the one i get sa gh promenade, the chinese place between gonuts donuts and mexicali... yum yum! sobrang miss ko na un! just last year, i eat that like 3-4 times a week whenever we have our perse but i have to charge sessions in cbtl there!)

haaaaay, im hungry and bored... but iv nothing to eat here except chocolates.. and iv eaten 2 already, another one and ill have sugar drop na!

yeah, let me complain now.. coz starting next week, i won't have to complain about this anymore!

extended vacation...

i was all set for classes to begin yesterday... turns out i have 2 more vacation days! (and i don't know if i should be happy or pissed!) anyway, i can't wait to go to school tomorrow, although i bet we won't be having classes yet and we'd be spending like 10 mins for introduction and then we'll be off... anyway, hospital duty starts again next week... and our sched is super gulo pa ryt now...

anyway, at least that's something to look forward to. that is definitely more appealing than spending the entire day at home, moving from the living room to watch tv, then to my room to go online, then back to the living room.. or to the dining room to get something to eat.. i think i gained 5 lbs the past week!... or the past 2 days... i dont know!

mamoi's back... and as pasalubong, he gave us LOTS of chocolates... (thanks again babe! :p) i love chocolates... everytime i open the fridge, id always hope that there's a bar of chocolate waiting for me... and often, id get frustrated coz there'd be none...

but now, when i open our fridge, all i see-- chocolates! i think they're trying to take over our house! but im not complaining. i just hope no one complains that iv gained 10 lbs by next wk!

i gotta learn to control myself. i need to make my chocolate supply last the entire sem. so id have a source of energy everytime i have duty! :p

so anyway, iv been eating since i woke up.. my stomach feels too heavy... this is what ive been doing everytime im home during the summer vacation... and it's about to end.. but id still eat... a lot... gotta survive, u know?!
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1. In one sentence, explain what ended your last relationship:
.+. we were toooooooooo young for it to be legal... and it wouldnt work anyway, we're really better off as friends (hindi yan showbiz answer ha!)

2. What made you smile today?
.+. chocolates!

3. What were you doing this morning at 8 a.m.?
.+. sleeping :D

4. What were you doing 15 minutes ago?
.+. was on the phone w/ gigi

5. Something that happened to you in 1985?
.+. i celebrated my 3rd birthday!

6. Your prom night?
.+. food!

7. Last thing someone else said to you?
.+. matagal ka pa jan?

8. What was your answer?
.+. mejo

9. Worst thing currently on television:
.+. i like tv!

10. What was in the mail today?
.+. i got no mail... :(

11. How many different beverages have you drank today?
.+. just water

12. What is your favorite part of the day?
.+. before i go to sleep

13. Your current To-do list?
.+. get up and do something...

14. Where is your best friend right now?
.+. SFO

15. What color is your toothbrush?
.+. green and white

16. What is out your back door?
.+. what back door?

17. Any plans for Friday night?
.+. i dont know...

18. Least favorite place to shop?
.+. anywhere's fine

19. things you bought today?
.+. none.. i havent gone out our house yet

20. Last gift you received?
.+. pasalubongs fm mamoi

21. Funniest thing that happened all day?
.+. nothing yet..

22. Favorite mug?
.+. wala e.. my tumbler :)

23. What color is your front door?
.+. brown

24. Describe your keychain:
.+. i dont keep one anymore

25. Where do you keep your change?
.+. a coinpurse

26. What was the weather like on your graduation day?
.+. freakin warm... and we didnt have ac coz we had it sa ateneo highschool covcourts!

27. Last ice cream flavor?
.+. i forgot...

28. Last rainbow you saw?
.+. gosh, i forgot na!

29. Something you are excited about?
.+. everything!