tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27937515647105538892024-03-14T17:15:45.683+08:00aNesstajahbeginning at the end of novembernesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.comBlogger702125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-78420398454138246512019-04-19T10:47:00.000+08:002019-04-19T12:01:25.923+08:00The Return of the Come Back
After NINE long years (last post was October 2010), I unexpectedly got reunited with my blog because for some mysterious reason, I suddenly remembered my password. Out of the blue, it just "flowed" back to me. Sufferin' succutash! Great balls of fire!!
It feels so strange... and so good! to be back at my writing dashboard again.
A lot of things have come to pass in the last nine years and I nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-63236926177641221072010-10-19T07:38:00.002+08:002010-10-19T07:40:17.929+08:00Butuan, here we come!Oh, yeah!Going with classmates on our first out-of-town, far-far-out-of-town trip, to Butuan, this Thursday.Woot! Woot!nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-77642630690272001312010-09-08T18:59:00.004+08:002010-09-08T19:17:22.026+08:00Top Ten Medical Technologist Board Exam September 2010RANKNAMESCHOOLRATING(%)1GEORGE MICHAEL NGO SOSUANUniversity of Sto. Tomas92.302JOSHUA TAY UYBOCO University of Immaculate Conception - Davao91.903IRISH MAY GALICIA COTrinity Universtiy of Asia (Trinity-QC)90.704JERICHO MIRANDA CARMONAColegio de San Agustin -Bacolod City90.305FRANCISCO IV PATLING TRIAUniversity of Sto. Tomas89.406RASHID TUGO IBRAHEMManila Central University - Caloocan City89.20nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-67388398556858701202010-08-22T14:25:00.002+08:002010-08-22T14:28:35.457+08:00SUMS Open HouseDo come visit us at the SU Medical School Open House on Monday and Tuesday,August 23-24, from 9 am to 3 pm!nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-27865130208420925852010-08-18T20:45:00.006+08:002010-08-19T22:47:12.633+08:00100% !!!!I wanna scream I wanna cryI wanna jump up and down and flyNews just got aroundthe SU Med School had blasted off the groundOur very first graduatesall passedthe 2010 Medical Board Exam!Fireworks!Cannon blast!Let the drums rollLet the confetti flowSU Med SchoolGo! Go! Go!nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-34636347245249808702010-08-07T19:10:00.007+08:002010-08-09T13:55:56.456+08:00Flying to Cebu for One PesoCould it be true? Fly from Dumaguete to Cebu for only one peso?Well, yes and no. Yes because the Cebu Pacific ticket on sale was really only ONE SHINY PESO! But no, because there were taxes to be paid amounting to 18.50 pesos therefore the actual amount that I paid was 19.50 pesos. Wheehaaa!! It will take quite a while for me to get over that!So yesterday, this here below is the plane with nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-52273550978096580852010-05-27T01:08:00.004+08:002010-05-27T02:29:15.085+08:00batch tapokBatch '78 tapok again last May 19 when Jane was here. This was at Sundown, the new bar and resto right beside Caltex Station across Robinson's Place.The usual suspects are here: Abe, Grace, ako, Leolyn, Luis, Debonaire, Eugene, Marie, Bong S., Edu, Dodging, Rummel, Eric, Jane, Chona, Zenov, Joey.nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-47124632165332431652010-05-07T14:30:00.005+08:002010-05-07T15:52:43.073+08:00kakatuwa. kakalokah.an example of today's text-on-billboard language:______i love this one! secrets! jazz give me the conselation prize!nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-6342421850337227412010-04-25T08:42:00.002+08:002010-04-25T08:45:10.303+08:00in UP againFor the nth time in a short time, I am in UP Diliman again, this time for the Physiology Society Annual Convention. And I am so loving being in campus again! Wwwwwhoooooooo hoooo!!nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-68423293476647991362010-04-05T18:15:00.002+08:002010-04-05T18:25:39.290+08:00Monica CadienteA couple of weeks ago, I left my Smart cellphone in the pool shower room (amf!). Almost in a panic and with a sinking sensation in the pit of my stomach, I dialed my Smart number hoping against hope that whoever found it would have it in her (I left it in the female shower room) heart to answer.Lo and behold, after several rings, a young voice answered. "Miss," she said, "I found your phone in nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-70251946841996516182010-03-23T23:14:00.002+08:002010-03-23T23:16:25.556+08:00March!Gosh, is it March already??? And even that is about to end.Been here and there and back again.nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-38957558500325010672010-02-28T20:33:00.002+08:002010-02-28T20:45:02.059+08:00Am back!From nowhere, really. Just have been preoccupied with stuff and stuff and have sort of forgotten that I actually have a blog!!It's been a month that I've not been here. Huwaaw.So what's been happening this past month?My laptop is ok now, except that they forgot to reinstall Photoshoppe and my printer. It sounds such an easy problem but really, for me, it's not. ::Sigh.::And what else? Oh, I nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-28385121514139599622010-01-29T21:33:00.002+08:002010-01-29T21:43:14.345+08:00Top LessI've been Top-Less for more than a week now.Well, actually that should be LapTop-Less for more than a week now because I left my computer at the computer shop Wednesday last week yet, on the morning before we left for Manila. But incredibly, until today, more than a week later, my laptop is still not fixed yet. Grrr.So I'm just posting from the kids' computer, which is not very conducive to nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-7464932317089367842010-01-20T10:45:00.003+08:002010-01-20T10:48:42.531+08:00biggest delegation Leaving for Manila today with 19 medical students(!) and some faculty members to attend the annual medical schools' convention, this time to be held at my alma mater, UERMMMC. I have a feeling we are going to be the biggest delegation this year. Go SUMS! nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-37586042752094580572010-01-18T01:03:00.005+08:002010-01-18T01:17:39.046+08:0001-11-10the newlywed's first danceA week ago to be exact, on January 11, 2010, our surgery resident Herbert Rebaya and his long time sweetheart, our former student nurse, Louella Mendoza, wed in a love-filled ceremony and reception at El Pueblo Genovivo.H and L nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-84909221945255186572010-01-16T23:55:00.001+08:002010-01-16T23:57:20.157+08:00Avatar, Again!! To prove that I really, really liked that Avatar movie, I watched it again today, yey!!With my parents and nephew, three generations kami didto. nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-57638124600575396902010-01-09T16:44:00.004+08:002010-01-10T07:37:28.913+08:00drama momentsI just got home from our OR OUTing at Robinsons where we had a gulped-down lunch of finger-lickin'-good KFC chicken and where someone (who will remain nameless) said, "This mushroom soup tastes different" before he found out that it was the gravy he was scooping up!! Heheheh. Gulped-down because we wanted to catch the first showing of Avatar at 11:25 am. It was quite funny eating with someone nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-27408531455369519582010-01-08T23:45:00.003+08:002010-01-09T00:30:16.460+08:00O.R. and OUT!Needless to say, the Operating Room (O.R.) is a very high-tension place. Many of the things that happen there are acutely, and literally, a matter of life and death. Oftentimes, energies are in high gear, movements are very precise and well-coordinated, sequential events anticipated, instruments snapped smartly, equipment humming smoothly. Sometimes things can get harried, and a lot of things flynesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-44020399382801945182010-01-03T22:09:00.004+08:002010-01-03T22:26:23.062+08:008 years It's been eight years today since our dear Lola Agre passed on. nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-16912383617027270612010-01-01T23:20:00.006+08:002010-01-02T06:34:39.921+08:00hand, full of flowers This new morning of this new year of this new decade, I find my hands full. Of flowers. From our yard. From the the manicurista who painstakingly drew tiny white petals with a pink center dot on each and every nail of my middle-aged hands.Such delicate skill. Such intricate artistry, from the human and the heavenly. Such is the mystery of the precious moments we hold in the palms of our hands. nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-11807344409983262792009-12-29T23:41:00.004+08:002009-12-29T23:59:50.939+08:00a Merry Christmas...is hard to have when...a mother of ten suddenly finds that the new growth in her belly is not baby number eleven but a vicious, monstrous tumor.a ten year old boy collapses and goes into coma when a blood vessel ruptures in his brain.a newly-wed couple learns that what was originally thought to be a benign cyst in the wife's ovary turns out to be malignant.the brother of my dear classmate passes nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-71207890812893253382009-12-29T06:29:00.002+08:002009-12-29T10:45:29.042+08:00year endingThe year is almost ending and incredibly there's a tremendous backlog of things that need-to-be-done-but-have-not-been. Foremost of which is writing, as there have been a handful of things I really wanted to write about-but-haven't.Secondmost of which is to really, really clean up my room (and house, why not?).Thirdmost of which is to finish wrapping the gifts scattered in my bedroom. I've been nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-63864490872643926742009-12-24T23:02:00.005+08:002009-12-24T23:47:48.166+08:00Merry Christmas? It's kinda hard to be jolly when somebody filched my precious Nokia phone this afternoon at Lee Plaza. It's not just that the phone was expensive, I had pictures and important text messages there.Bummer.And Patrick lost his wallet, with all his IDs and ATM cards, perhaps in the bus, on his way from Cebu to Dumaguete tonight. Arrgghh.Then my car's thermostat went way, way up with matching smoke nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-57222616126148705802009-12-19T17:51:00.005+08:002009-12-19T18:12:12.638+08:00finally, the grassy pics!here we are!i'm in the apple green grass skirt, Agong is wearing a blue g.s. while Nini has an orange g.s. Behind Nini, is Connie, in a darker orange g.s.wheeee!!!ito pa.di ba bongga?!heehee(more later)nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2793751564710553889.post-39507183393824422072009-12-11T07:17:00.007+08:002009-12-12T09:19:41.373+08:00grass on grassWhen I was a child, I secretly envied my cousins and friends who went to dancing lessons, mostly because I wanted to wear the fancy dance costumes. But such luxuries were way out of budget for us so I buried my nose in reading free books instead.Fast forward many years later, when one December afternoon Dr. GCA tells me, "We're going to practice our Hawaiian dance at 5 pm, why don't you join us? nesshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01325917167727003033noreply@blogger.com3