October 12, 2011

What's with the CI logbook?

What's the most famous logbook among the PGH interns?
Answer: CI logbook.

This logbook is the interns' attendance logbook at the Cancer Institute and every single intern who gets to spend some few hours of duty there looks forward to flipping the pages of this logbook. It doesn't look any extraordinary at first glance, just plain and cheap logbook bearing the interns' names but the important pages are found at the back. It holds important and controversial secrets that only interns know. This is where we vote for the Sunog-Puri awards. 

Trivia: interns traditionally burn an effigy of the most loathsome resident, nurse or any hospital staff perhaps to get even and label them as Sunog Awardees while the effigy of those heavenly angelic residents or any hospital staff are being raised on a pedestal, they are the Puri Awardees.

In between hourly monitoring of patients or doing ward works such as blood extraction or IV insertion, one would definitely get entertained by just leafing through the back pages filled with vandals expressing their frustrations, hatreds, mundane thoughts, sometimes love and everything they want to express. Conversations between people who probably doesn't know each other would happen sometimes. But people have an unspoken rule of NOT indicating their names. But there's a particular intern whose name is the "talk of the logbook". Of course I wouldn't tell who. 

Now, to give you an idea of what I'm yakking about. Here. 


"This is what CI boredom does... It's called the CI Effect Syndrome:

1. Enhanced chismis skills.
2. Grammar regression
3. Literary warfare
4. Decreased hemoglobin secondary to lamok. Echosera." 
True! You might not get dengue but you'll suffer from anemia (chos!) from excessive mosquito bites!



People even mercilessly taped the mosquito carcasses on the page!! Boredom!!


People would even show their artistic skills by drawing!


...Or greet their friends.. HELLO BLOCK U! That's us! :) Hey! *waves at Block U*


And these are the reasons why nobody would even dare to tear a single page of the logbook:

BAWAL MAGPUNIT NG PAGE. ANG PUMUNIT:
1. IPAPASOK SA TIME CAPSULE PERO NAKALABAS ANG ULO.
(Imagine riding an aircraft with your head out the window!)

2. IKUKULONG SA ELEVATOR NG CI MULA 2-4AM NG UMAGA. 
(There had been rumors about bizarre creepy events at the Cancer Institute especially during the wee hours of the night. Gusto kong maniwala na chismis lang lahat ng yun.)

3. PIKTYURAN PWET AT I-UPLOAD SA FACEBOOK.
(Unless you're some whore, then you wouldn't like people to be feasting on your ass)

4. FOLEY CATHETER! 
(worst punishment ever!)



The CI logbook is a huge source of entertainment, but still, I don't like going on duty at the Cancer Institute because it feels creepy even at daytime and..
it smells of death. 

2 comments:

R said...

Ito na pala new CI logbook! Tagal na namin di nakapag-CI. Sana naman di na to nakawin. Sore loser talaga nagnakaw nung luma. Boo! Anyway, time capsule yung parang sa My Sassy Girl (yung inilibing nila sa lupa na capsule na may mga letters nila, hehe)

Love your new layout btw! May ganito na pala Blogger. Parang ang sarap tuloy bumalik :)

Aziza said...

Mas aliw nga yung dating logbook! Daming chika dun! Hahaha! Ooopps, sorry about that time capsule! Hahaha!

Thanks! Love ko Tumblr mo! :)