more than just a busy sched.

The first week of duty in the community, week of preparation for the first ish of TAC and unending reports in different subjects.

Our first three days in duty was fun! last week I was so nervous thinking that I might not wake up earlier that my usual routine, good thing there were people who woke me up. hehehe. We were assigned in GMA2 cavite, going there we have to take a 30 minute ride (an hour if there is traffic) and take southwoods exit. I got so excited knowing that we’ll pass through my school back in the secondary level. I miss the place more than before, the long paths going to our rooms, green pastures in the field, friendly and familiar faces and the feeling of being young again, to reminisce back to the days when life was not so hard unlike now, when the only thing that we live for is to see our friends and fall in love, that was before, when our innocent minds were protected by the high rise walls of Colegio San Agustin Binan.  ok enough of the emo stuff. We arrived in our destination and as we went down we were instructed to attend the usual flag ceremony that was held every monday morning (i think) and our presence was acknowledge by the mayor himself! not that’s how you welcome future nurses! heheheh… the next two days was even better because we helped in the community clinic, we took Vital signs, admitted new patiences from different barangays and watched a special cleaning procedure.

ON thai people

I also this week we also finished our report about Thailand in our Asian Civilization subject, I was assigned to report about the values of thailanders and surprisingly they have some attitudes which is similar to us Pinoys like “utang na loob” having high respect for one’s ego and being faithful to their faith. There is more to them than what their smiles look like, there are 13 different smiles of Thai people and just by merely seeing them is not enough to know one when they show it.

COTC

being considered as one of the best is a real pain in the head, of course its flattering to know that people acknowledge you as one but then they tend to expect too much and that makes us pressured more than what other blocks feel. news is spreading that our passing rate result was not that good, I don’t know if that is true but if it is then we’re dead, they’ll push us far more than our limits. that’s why my classmates came up with something fun and at the same time educating?? hehehhe… they made a rule that everyone should speak the universal language in preparation for our upcoming individual interview to pass second year second semester. they also listed some usual excuses that a student can use… don’t know how they came up with these excuses I just know and try to excuse myself when I can. hahahahaha.

EXCUSES:

1. blame the government (ex: scenario. when you’re late in class and you have to get an excuse slip from the dean’s office you can state your reason as, “late due to traffic in SLEX related to road construction”)

2. blame you parents (ex: scenario. when you don’t know the answer to a question and the teacher asks, you can say that “my parents are not intelligent therefore I am not intelligent” just like what Dr. House once said “blame your genes”)

6. stay silent, it means you are gathering your thoughts.  I think there is no need to give an example for this one. hehehehe.

3,4 and 5  is still under construction according to the people who made it. (lester and umi!) I don’t exactly agree with everything that stated in the three excuses but then again it won’t hurt to use one once in a while especially when you’re stuck in a situation. hahahahahahaha. I just laughed like crazy when I heard this excuses and the English Speaking Rule.

Student Manual Mod.

last year I was looking for my co-writers in chronicle when I was suddenly asked to join a group of students who will be photographed for the cover of the revised student manual, being the nearest and the only Nursing student they know that time I accepted their offer, not knowing it was true hahahah. I thought they’ll just take pictures and chose one from a dozen or so and that one pic will not include me hahahahahah. Last Wednesday I saw the print out I was not specially pretty in that picture but it was fine. my PE and SHE professor told our whole class that I was in the new student manual, what can I say… I was speechless, while my classmates tease me that I’ve changed and stuff like that heheheheheh.

MicroBio and Para class

we stained some microorganism coming from different dirty places after culturing it for a week.the process was simple but meticulous first we had to make sure that the glass slide was sterile and that there are no other M.O. that is growing there, next we have to get a sample from our cultured specimen and then try to kill it by burning it just above the alcohol lamp but a violet stain and let it dry then wash the excess stain and viola! specimen na! you can look at it under a electronic Microscope. you just have to bear with the scorching heat cause while doing those things above you have to wear a lab gown and gloves (so as not to contaminate and transfer M.O.) while the fan is off, YES you are not allowed to put ON the fan.

so that’s how my week went. fun at the same time hectic and lovely. I also had my first visit in Luneta Park with some of my block mates.

from the inside

it’s gone now, all my frustrations of being a green blood student of the prestigious university, 2 years ago I cried a river knowing I won’t be able to enter it even though I was accepted, regret has conquered my mind for quite sometime. for two years I was curious on what it feels to be in there, to be see the tall rise buildings from the inside to belong, and now I know.

I woke up at 730 in the morning, surprised that I was suppose to be in the meeting place earlier to  print our IDs for the publication, I was late… nothing new.  I quickly fixed myself and left our house ran to the main street and had a jeepney ride. went down in front of mc donalds  and looked for my friends. I was not excited or anything knowing I’ll be able to see the inside of my dream school, maybe that’s the side efffect of sleeping late and waking up early. we went in, registered and went on with our real purpose for being there, to gain more knowledge on journalism and get more bonded hahahahha.

we spent our whole day listening then eating and then more listening. being inside there was something I’ve always wanted but never thought I would be given the chance. I guess being inside gave me the conviction that I wasn’t really meant to be in that school, that there is something in store for me in the school I’m in right now.

33 days to go before Happy Hearts day…

I couldn’t think of any title so I decided to count how many days before Valentines day comes… I’m bad in counting so don’t be surprised if I’m a day late or advanced, anyway that’s that.

The new year just started and a new life for me awaits, I can still remember the smell of fireworks and firecrackers that my neighbors in laguna used the past celebration, how people waited for the New year thinking they can leave everything they regret and did wrong in the year that will be leaving. I celebrated  Christmas and New year with my Family and relatives in Laguna, with was nothing unusual yet every year I look forward for those 2 days, aside from my birthday of course. We had a pot-lock party at Christmas, our place in laguna is just at the side of my mom’s older sister and to its right side was another house in which my mom’s youngest sister and her family lived. they were all 5 in the family all of them girls, so definitely no one carried the name of the family when they go married. the other two sisters of my mom was living somewhere in BF homes, one of which I used to live when I was in first year college before moving into my brother’s place here in quirino. it was easy for us to prepare food, to find each person and to stay bonded because each house was near the other. My brother helped my mom cook chichken curry and I helped her make lasagna, by 7 in the evening of december 24 everyone in the family was present, except for my cousin who was studying in vienna. there was a variety of food in the main table thai food, jap food, italian and filipino food and everyone rounded it like ants getting their own part of food.  after eating we all gatherd in the garden at one house and talked non-stop, sang using magic sing and waited for Christmas day to come. I went to mass with my four other cousins and came back just in time for gift giving, the most awaited part of the party. We would all gather around the living room and sit there patiently as our names are called, we waited like little children except that now we are all grown up and most of us are not allowed to fall in line for the aguinaldo-giving part, the only ones allowed were up to high school students and I was two years ahead. that was all I can write the rest is history.

new year’s eve came like the other new year’s eve the only new thing about the last was that I confessed before the new year started and that felt really great. I was planning to have a new years resolution list but then I got lazy a only wrote a few, good thing I went to the YFC discovery camp and they instructed us to make something like one.

The new year started, my tito lighted up all the firecrackers they bought and we had a feast in 3 different houses, with three different menus. looking forward for a new year is awkward in a way, I find myself leaving something I didn’t want to but then it feels great to be moving on and to know that I’m still alive and continuously pestering the people around me, making their lives more miserable and it could ever be. hehehehe… now that I have learned how to inject, I can make their lives more miserable than I could before. hahahaha

this entry is not something that is worth reading so now you can regret that you read it to the last word. hahahahaaahah.