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*sigh*

its 3am and i’m still freaking awake….

this week i’ve heard sentiments from people concerning how they felt about everything that’s been going on in med school… thinking back at what they were complaining about, i would say that their sentiments could apply to any course or any occassion in the lives of any one of us….

in everything that we do, it’s not just about getting the wings… it is earning those wings and learning how to make use of em…. there is no space for anyone to settle for just getting the feathers and put ‘em together to get a wing…

it’s all about learning where every feather goes and why those feathers belong to those specific locations in order to come up with your own unique wing which you could say you got because you deserved….

deserving to own something is different from just getting something…. when you get something, its the end of the story. but when you deserve something, that would stick with you for the rest of your life….

*sigh*…. i’ve never been good with words… hehehe… well, i really don’t have that much to say but ah…. - "the who"

anyways, in the year 2006 there has been so much that had happened and definitely there has been a lot to be thankful for. i am still in medicine, my family’s great, my friends are still around and love life’s good!

it’s great that i’m spending another year with my loved ones and friends… my family’s healthy, parents doing great and my sister’s carreer seems to be going ok.. my brother is fine i guess.. 4th year already! smart kid! even smarter than i am..

i’ve been taken cared of real well too…. kinda makes me think if i’ve actually behaved well enough to be worthy of that care.. hmm…

overall, day after day, i just get enlightened by the fact that there is a greater far superior force out there that continues to Bless each day of lives - namely God … yeah… i may sound as though i’m preaching again (at least i do what i preach) but hey it’s true… i owe a lot to Him for everything…. haven’t been that much of a good boy but despite that, blessings still come in and prayers are still answered… mebbe i should go to priesthood instead.. hehehe

with that, Thank you God for a great year and thank you for blessing me with another year (to wreak havoc or do more good) in this world… thank you

  in my garage, there’s a real cool car……. it was cool… it was this muscle/sports car that looked awesome… so musculine… the kind of car that would turn heads and have gals hoppin in each time you drive pass ‘em at greenbelt or eastwood or any joint for that manner where crazy sexy pretty chicks hang out for fun…
its been here for some time now.. but for some reason, i haven’t been able to really get to see what the car was like from the inside…. i was so eager to get in and "practice" my driving skills (if any) on that cool car…last night, i was able to get an opportunity to see what that car was like from the inside.
so i grabbed the keys went and made my way into the muscle car…. and what i saw after swinging the doors open would change the way i looked at that car forever!
the car basically looked like a souped up firebird with  everything  on   it… kinda like the Big Brother’s Burger with all the stuff that you could probably think of putting on it… as i said it was "awesome"… and then i got in…………………………………………….
with its black paint and various manly designs outside, what i didn’t see from afar was the pink fluffy inside of the freaking car! i was shocked… then again, maybe not…… it was pink with all the teddy bears and flowers and glitters…… (and a hidden "girl’s magazine"… or more like a "lady’s magazine too)… it was crazy…. worst part is, i’m the only one who knows…. dang….

what a day… got up early but for some reason, i left a lil too late to be on time for my 10am class… but then when i got there, which was around 1015 or 1030sh, class hadn’t start after all… what a rush… 10am pala ah!… hoo.. talaga lang ah…

so there we were waiting for class to start in front of our "oh so humble and gentleman-like professor’s" office… and then suddenly ma’am Susan passed by and asked us to help in her office.. for unknown reasons at the moment…

then as we made our way there, she said something about the flood gates opening!… what the hell… now for the non-perpeptualites (*pronounced pera-pe-tuwal-lights), there’s this big ass river right next to our school… now normally, the water there is just about waist (waste) deep… but then since it had been raining for more than 24 hours, the water rose to about hmm….. 20-30feet? and just 3 feet more, the river would have overflowed and water would have entered our oh so lovely school… not to mention the small wooden houses near by…

so going back to the flood gates, should this open, our school’s basically underwater… well, atleast waist (waste) deep in water… so there we were wondering why on earth were the students still in school when there are news of the flood gates opening! the primary reason why ma’am Susan asked us for help was to help her lift some cupboards and place em on higher ground in preparation for a possible flood…. but when you think about it, Good God man! if water rushes in, we’re freakin stranded in our WHITE UNIFORMS!!!!… damn aint no way i’m gettin my uniform dirty…

as we made our way back to waiting for our professor (who was already in his office since 10am but ignored his students for some unknown reason), we were hoping that he’d cancel class… turns out he already said No, classes won’t be cancelled… despite the fact that everyone might get stranded… 13th child? brothers and sisters? … talaga lang ah!

eventually we got started with class… that is after it took our oh so humble and gentleman-like professor an hour to set up the LCD and his laptop… we started by talking about a lot of things like, old doctors being better than the new ones, economics, being a healer, service on top of everything and so on….talaga lang ah!

and dang it man, everything just seemed so contradictory…. to him… anyways… i always said, do as you preach…. but still… *sigh….

he said that old doctors were better practicioners than future doctors…. and that quality should always come first before quantity… talaga lang ah!

how in the world would future doctors be better than older doctors when the quality of education provided to the newer doctors were simply a lot more shitty than the education given to the older doctors back in their time as med students! furhter more, QUALITY?! sheesh…. i don’t think so…. if quality always came first to everyone that vowed to any outh as professionals, why the F**K do we get crappy education?! why the hell are equiptments not upgraded?! why in God’s name are our tuition fees increasing without us even feeling the effect or modifications to every single thing that we have in school? and he talks about old doctors being   better?! their better because they were given priority… they were given QUALITY training that cannot be found anymore here in this freaking school!…. the only thing that’s keeping every med student afloat in their ocean of medical studies is their own ability to teach themselves what they are supposed to learn, along with SOME real QUALITY Doctors who do want their students to learn and be the best that they could be!…. man, my temper’s going up again….

i don’t even want to get started with the economics part…. God Damn it………… all i can say to that is…. talga lang ah!!!!

    a scorpion death lock is a submission move that involves having the leg of the victim all tied up in a hold made by the   executer…. it is a tough lock, unbreakable reality wise and somewhat painful… if that lock was made on you, you can’t   possibly move… as in you’d just be stuck there until the guy that’s got you held up lets you go free…

now, basing from experience, a whole bunch of you guys would probably think that i am again talking about a girl and a relationship… just to make things clear.. NO i am not.... now don’t be a silly bastard and start running scenarios in your head… i’m freakin tellin the truth! geez….

anyways, its about the schedule of how things are this past few weeks…. been real busy… not that i’m complaining… just figured i’d just let the whole world know that i do get tired once in a while with all the schedules… makes me look forward to the xmas vacation… mebbe then i’d feel kinda free… kinda but not completely… hehehe

  *sigh*… nothin that interesting has happened this past few weeks either… which makes things a lot worse because   that   means   i’ve been so much absorbed in work and that sucks….

  hmm… one thing that was funny was the fact that Dedz came across this exhibitionist dude on the jeepney hehehe… not that i wish i was there… just suddenly remembered it while trying to picture how Dedz was doing during that time… and she was with rare too!

anyways…. got nothing much to say here…… just thought of wasting time hehehe… cya around guys

i love coffee…. keeps me up… for a while anyways…. there was this one time when i wanted to drink coffee so much… i could smell the great aroma just teasing me, beconning me, triggering my appetite center to tell me to come on over and take a sip….

when i got to that table right where that coffee was at, though i pretty damn sure know that that coffee wasn’t mine, i couldn’t drink it right there and then because it was too hot….

but i wanted to… i wanted to have that sip of that great coffee… aroma palang pamatay na!… so i waited, waited and waited, blowing at it every now and then to speed up the cooling process…. and then finally it was ready!

so i took a sip…………..

and after that sip…..

i realized that that coffee wasn’t that good after all… it was dull… it was good in the outside, but it wasn’t something that i would want to drink to the end… guess i should’ve just taken the initial hint which was;

this coffee aint yours buddy…

i’ve been staying in this country for about 5years of my so called mature life and about 3years of my wisdomed life……. and guess what, i don’t feel too proud of being here anymore…. i’m starting to see how bad this place is… honestly, i really am…. and its sad but i think i’ve just about out grown my being a patriot… i’m beggining to see that this place is actually becomming the land of hopelessness…

painful? YES, sad? YES…. but what could i do? everyone has a limit, and i’ve just about reached it……….

when i came back here, i thought man, this place is great… it’s good to be back home… chance to experience things that i’ve yet to experience, chance to tour my homeland…  but now, i’m beginning to see through the thick mist that has been blinding me for years….

this country, is great… no doubt about it… it is actually a country rich in resources and man power particularly skilled workers… people here are smart in every meaning of the word… the infrastructure of SOME places are good, there are even so many tourists spots that any local or foreigner alike, would spend money to go to… we got great beaches, historical places, wild life, you name it, we got it……… i don’t complain about these things… what i’m starting to not like are the people that run this country….

but let me make something clear, i’m not referring to politicians… NO, not this time……. today, lets talk about the economy and the economists….

ever looked in the papers or the web or watched the news lately? did you guys notice that the PESO is actually getting stronger? (or the US dollar becomming weaker?)… anyways, its 49pesos to 1 dollar now all the way up from 56! aint that great? now let me ask you this….. was there any change at all? come on think!!!!! what? can’t say? let me answer you…. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO CHANGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What is the importance of a strong peso? i believe that the importance of this is that it means, that the country could import at a lesser expense… import goods to be sold to the people within the country… it means people having a greater buying power out of their peso… which means, there should be a better life for earning filipinos now than it was before… but is there? nah ah…

the prices of gas and fuel have rolled back a little… which is good… which means that every individual who owns a car, now spends less on fuel and every individual buying LPGs save more money…. but only up to that….

how many people own a car in the Philippines? not many i believe, because more than 70% of the country live in poverty! so what with the gas?!… now thinking about that, this means that jeepney drivers should be living better now because the fuel is less BUT THEY NEVER LOWERED THEIR FARE!… these people keep on asking of increase in fare each time the fuel prices rise but do they roll back when the fuel prices do? NOPE! sick…and then when the fuel starts to rise a little bit again, they increase their fare again! WTF……

enough with the jeepneys… lets talk about the prices of everything here in the philippines…. a friend of mine said living in the Philippines is not cheap at all… it is true… suprised? c’mon now, if you’ve been living here in the Philippines, you should have known that from the beginning… it is expensive to live here.. why? because despite the growing power of the PESO, the prices of everything that we consume is still the same, if not, it even becomes more expensive….

for example, the cheapest rice when the peso was at 56, was 21 at our place…. now that the PESO is up, it is still the same. the price of a meal from a local fast food restaurant back then was around 70 and it is still the same today…. this shows that no matter how well the economy here in the Philippines performs, the filipino people would still suffer because no one works together… everyone just thinks about themselves….

guess what? just tonight (13 Nov 2006) in the news, they said that prices of goods from the market would rise because it is Christmas!!!  f@#k … the hell is that?! they said that there’d be lesser stocks plus a lot of overseas workers would be sending money back on christmas… that is absolutely STUPID… who the hell cares?!…. and to think it is christmas….

lets just say that the market people just wanna earn extra so that they could celebrate christmas… then comes in the greatest question of them all… do the prices go back AFTER christmas?! NO!!!!! it stays that way for the rest of the year and increases again when the power of the peso begins to fall even if it initially stayed at 49… so if goes back to 52, prices would rise again… aint that nuts? the prices didnt go down from when it was 56 to when it rose to 49 and when it falls again below 50, prices would rise again….

imagine that, people being able to import at a lower price, but selling stuff here in the philippines at a price that is still the same when the price of import was high……. people are making a lot of money while most are becomming poorer and poorer… what a place…..

i do not know nor do i understand nor would i ever understand the mentality of most filipinos here are….

everyone keeps saying that filipinos are hospitable, kind and friendly… it is true FOR SOME but US filipinos in GENERAL?! you freaking liar…. it is not true……..

most filipinos are SELFISH… just like the BROTHER of Cinderella in my previous post…. everyone just aims to improve their own life regardless if others suffer…

just look at everything here now… nothings changed, in fact it is getting worse…. prices don’t stop increasing despite the strength of the peso…. that sucks…

the country by itself is beautiful, in fact it is paradise…. but it is the people living in it and the people running it (economically speaking) that makes this place, a living hell

    what a day this has been…..

  honestly, i didn’t think that this would be hard…

today we started our research thingy for parasitology…. and the first part involved telling all the ladies that we’re gonna collect their crap on   saturday   morning…..

at first we thought that it would be real easy… thse barangay dudes got us a place to sit down and wait for the folks to cruise on over to register and get their sample cups…. and for a few minutes, there was already this line of women willing to sign up and donate their stool! amazing!!! but then after a while, after all the smoke had cleared…. no one came… which resulted   to  us doing plan B - house to house!

  so there we were walking…. (and walking,and walking,and walking,and walking,and walking)… lookin for women who’d like to donate their crap…   we   were starting to get nutz telling every woman we see the same line over and over again…. eventually we finished at around   2pm….   ending up with over 130 people… which was cool!…

    but all that happened after us guys… yup us GUYS… not gals… GUYS… got   harrassed by some meat loving stubborn animals!!! damn were they clingy …….. i was really scared…. bad part is, i’m a stranger in every sense of the word in this area… any foul reaction that i make may result to me   having a chief complaint in the ER of perpetual (pera petual)…….

   dang those guys….. anyways…. alls well that ends well… feet hurt, body stinks, stomach aches…. but atleast we did our thing… hopefully we’d end up with over 100 samples on saturday… hoorah!!!!

    i like white shirts…. in fact i’ve got a whole lot of em….. the only problem with wearing white is that as time passes by, they turn yellowish or   they lose the luster that they once had…. other than that, when it   gets   stained, sometimes no matter how hard you try that stain just won’t come off (this guy got it off though ->)… (or you’re just too lazy to scrub it off)….

   everyday i wear white… figures coz i’m a med student… and after over a year of wearing these white clothes, stain has come on it… others were removed, others, they just stick there…..

  no matter how hard i try to get rid of those stains that came on… there just ain’t no way that i could remove it… i think i’ve tried everything… but still …….. the only other reason left is maybe i’m just too lazy.. hmmmm….

since i can’t get these stains off… i just pretend that i got them off (with great   difficulty)… eventually forgetting that i got those stains in the   first place… but then each time that i take a closer look at these white clothes i notice that the stains are still here with me……

   there are times that even if i see those stains i just ignore but there are   times   when i just can’t help but think back as to why those stains are there in the first place….and from thinking back, its either i just laugh as to why i got them or put my head down and just try to get   them   off…. but still to no avail

  *sigh*

  so for some of you guys out there who knows better about laundry… do try to give me some tips on removing these stains... otherwise, i’d be living with these stains for the rest of my life………

  *sigh* what a day….

everyone knows cinderella right? the little sexy chick that was turned into a   house slave by her stepmother and stepsisters…..

i know this story of cinderella in real life… though there were more   kids   involved rather than just two evil stepsisters…

  this little girl agreed to be part of this big wealthy family, not for the sake of earning cash but to be able to go to school and get educated…. at first this   chick thought that she was so lucky to be able to be adopted by this family…. but then as time passed by, the gal got to know how much of an unethical and greedy family that she actually got into….

  it is crazy…………. cinderella is the youngest of 13 children (she’s adopted though)… and yet everything and everyone in that family depended on her…. supplying food, money, popularity…. cinderella was capable of so many things… in fact, the only way that the family could stand is if cinderella stayed and made the family a better one….

   but just like an ordinary person, cinderella got tired of all that bull…..   especially after a natural disaster that so happened in their kingdom a few weeks back…. the whole town of Farfaraway got flooded… destroying every single gadget that the family had………. which means, there’d be a lot of   spending to do by the family to get their home back into shape……

  but to whom did they leave this to? the 13th child, cinderella…. it was crazy…. cinderella was adopted by the family…. but then she’s made to do all the dirty work……. cinderella was made to come up with rediculuos amounts of money just to pay off all the damages that she had absolutely no   responsibility to!….

my story about the poor girl ends there…. could you imagine yourself being that situation? it is absolutely insane! if i were her, i’d be out of that family very very very soon……………………..