Trek to Southern Luzon

Right now, I'm trying to plan the best time to do one of the things I want to achieve before becoming a doctor, to walk from Manila to Lipa, Batangas.  I'm still in the middle of planning things since it would be impossible to do it after the Medical Licensure Exams next year, therefore I have to finnish this after internship.

I've been wanting to do this since my college days in UP, and I've been practicing e.g. usual walk from UP Diliman to Katipuan and back, walking from SM North to UP Diliman, SM Mall of Asia to PGH.  It has been ok, though I really need a tougher pair of shoes for this feat.

Well, just watch out for updates on this, and I'm sure I'll be able to do it next year.

Cheers!

It's a start...

It's been a while since my last entry... really waaaaaayyyy back!

About two years ago, I was writing about hardships, medical angst, and being somehow tired of studying, and now here I am, still writing about being tired of studying.  However, it's a totally different life.  I am on the verge of becoming a new doctor next year.

I can say it was a turbulent life in medicine, and so much studying with just little (monetary) compensation.  I guess I became numb of pain later on, that yes, It will be a long hard way up.  Still, burn out looms for me.  At 25, I think I need to start earning.

Anyway, I welcome myself back to my blog!  Cheers

Third Year Blues

Five more months, and the neverending job begins.  No more breaks, no more summer, no more one week outings... just an eternity within the whitewalls and antiseptic aura of hospital duty.  Not that I'm complaining, it's just fear of the things to come... will I ever survive endless nights and insomnia drowned in lattes and frappes in this forever journey.  By the time I could have a week's worth of vacation, I would have hit 40 with a thriving profession, but with a belly a size of a watermelon (not if I can help it).  Youth is withering away, in place is knowledge and wisdom to be gained through sheer skill and determination to become a successful doctor.  Will I ever be ready for this?  Ready, get set....GO!

Half a doctor...

Yahoo!!

I'm halfway from becoming a vampire...ehehe doctor pala

So far, 2nd year is the most depressing, hardpressed, and sleep deprived year I ever had.  Madaming subjects, madami pang aaralin.  Who knew I could better than passing grades this year...

Disappointing din kasi bumaba to the max ang grades ko.  Thank God at least nasa 80's pa naman most of them, so next year, humanda na ang lahat dahil babanatan ko na ang mga subjects ko, masunog na pati dalawang kilay ko!!

Heniweys, past is past, so to be ready, binabasa ko na ang Harrison's Internal Medicine this summer para hindi na ako masyadong mamatay sa kakabasa ng mga libro.  Nagrereview na rin ako ng 1st and 2nd year subjects para hindi na ma-toxic kapag mag-Revalida ako, hehe.  I'm wasting my last summer, AAAAHHHH!!

Hell yeah, I'm a nerd this summer.  Palagi naman akong ganito every summer.  Ala pera pang swimming, outing, hiking, diving, Baguio, Boracay, Puerto Galera, Bohol, Pearl Farm, Enchanted Kingdom, Splash Island, etc...  Unless less than P500 (as in LESS) ang gastos, haaay di rin ako makakasama...  But this summer, nakapag-ipon na ako more or less kahit pang Bora so go ako sa mga outing, kaya lang at most, medical missions and tuli missions ang mga outings ko pa lang, hehehe.  Kailan pa ang tunay na beach outing!!!

So sa mga nagpapa-tan dyan, enjoy.  Advantage ko lang, kaya ko nang tuliin mga little bros and pinsan nyo, hahaha!

God bless!

Wasting away

It has been a long, uneventful, unproductive sem break...

With just a comfy bed I hardly slept on, a dial up internet as fast as a snail could ever go, and a restless TV for 18 hours of non stop channel surfing, I was as good as a couch potato could ever be, or even worse...

Thank God it just lasted for one week, or my intestines would become necrotic with all the lying around and wastefulness of ATP from food stuffs I've been dying to ingest since June.  A big bulging belly is not what I need for the upcoming summer trip to Bora (if I could afford it!).

As for my books I took home to "read", well, they all gathered dust in one corner and remained hidden till the end of the break.  Not a page have been lifted...

All the exercise I ever got was washing my filthy shoes and bags, repairing gym bag, and walking around the city to buy a daily requirement of newspaper.  This is the most exciting thing that could ever happen in my entire break...

All in all, the extra time that I could have at least used for advanced reading just went down the drain so that I could fatten up and make the gym I enrolled in alot richer...

...and it was all I ever needed, and it was good!

NOW, it's back to the old ways of coffeemugs and all nighters till the next break (Christmas!).  Darna and Encantadia will be sorely missed...