I purchased a book called "One Day" by David Nicholls, my second non-med book purchase during internship. By looking at the cover, you wouldn't mistake it for any other genre than love story. It's already on big screen, you can watch the trailer HERE by the way, starring Anne Hathaway and Jim Sturgess (hottie!), which I have missed to see with my friends who rated the movie excellently. So I thought that if the movie is great, then the book must be tenfold greater! Admittedly, I bought it out of utter desperation for love stories nowadays, may it be fiction or stories of real people. I guess it's human nature to crave for something that's lacking in you. Therefore, this book is now juxtaposed to my William's Obstetrics book. 

"You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle."

We're on our week and a half in OB-GYN and I'm so excited to move on to the next rotation! Hopefully I can update this blog on the things I sorely missed for the past month!! 

Friends were inviting me to watch Transformers 3 at iMax. I refused because I am not into violence-related movies, specifically robots.
Hence.
At a coffee shop alone.
Caffeine overdose.
Advance OB-GYN reading (weh!).

That's what future spinsters  single ladies do on Saturday nights.

TGIF!!

I told my Dad (via SMS) that I'd be off somewhere this weekend with my friends while crossing my fingers he offer me some dough. All he replied is a plain and dry: "Ok. God bless you". I'm busted!!  You see? That's why it's always good to save whether for rainy or sunny days. Hehe. :) 

Tonight, I'm gonna leave you a photo of a Thai movie (A Little Thing Called Love) that transported me back to my silly ol' crush/-es, and of that ex-longtimecrush that just like Nam, the female character, somehow made an impact in my life. Chos!! Thanks  to him for kicking in my evolution. Eeeckkk! Crush lang kaya yun. :) *sparkling eyes*  I want to elaborate more on this, but I'm packing right now plus the internet connection is insanely slow. I might as well leave you with...

That dance that created a twist. <3

You don't forget that crazy little thing called love, do you?

P.S

I'm supposed to post about Psychia and my Satellite Health Center rotation but some technical difficulties came up. Next time, perhaps. :)

The Non-Clerks.

It has been a week since we baptized ourselves as "non-clerks" after starting to rotate in the Ancillary Services. Technically, we are still, of course, clerks except that we don't have to suffer the 24-hour++ duty, writing lengthy history, physical exam and progress notes of patients, doing ward works and that helluva pressure of being a clinical clerk 24/7. Ah, we're past that already and hey, look at us, Group 4 have emerged unscathed!! Wohoo!!

The sad thing though is, we go on duty in pairs which means that for the next two months, I wouldn't be able to see (unless scheduled) the rest of my groupmates (I miss you already, buddy Juey and adorable nightmare Tisoy!). So my partner is the Korean Bug (as she's been fondly called by Dr. Marquez), Sheng aka Shengita/Shenggay/Toy/Pet.

In this rotation, we will report into 8 minor departments: Anesthesiology/Dermatology, Pathology/Rehab Med, Health Centers/Psychiatry, and Ophthalmology/Radiology during clinic hours. That implies how much free time we got on our last two months of clerkship! So below are some photos of Sheng and I in the O.R. as Anesth clerks and our killing-time moments at some nearby coffee shops. 

Since I am blessed with so much spare time, I jot down the productive things I plan to do (ahem, good luck to me! )*shunning away procrastination* :

a. Finishing my backlogs, i.e., discharge summaries, IM census, etcetera. 

b. Reading both medical and non-medical books. As you know, reading time is meager while on duty. And I seriously need to catch up on my internal medicine readings since it is the rotation in which I read/learn the least. I almost read none!!

c. Write more. I have abandoned my journal for quite some time.

d. Watch more movies. Yeah, I'm catching up. I've seen Good Will Hunting (a 1997 film that made me understand why a lot of girls drool over Matt Damon and why a lot of guys wanna be just like him!), Black Swan (a psychological horror film that made Natalie Portman Best Actress in the recent Golden Globe Awards), The Social Network (Mark Zuckerberg, I appreciate your genius but I wish you didn't entertain your idea of creating Facebook!),  Tangled (a feel-good movie that will surely blow your blues away!) and Love and Other Drugs (Anne Hathaway!!). :) And counting!!!

e. Go home frequently. Since we don't have weekend duties, I want to spend more time with my family. Nothing beats the feeling of being at home.

f. Laag/Lakwatsa/Travel! Our group is still deciding where to go. Possibly at Dahilayan in Bukidnon. C'mon Shengita, draft our lakwatsa schedule now! Weeee!!

The point of this entry is to make the rest of our classmates who are "still clerks" jealous!! Haha!

Code Blue

"Every noted doctor was inexperienced at first". -Dr. Aizawa

This Japanese medical drama had been a craze among my classmates last year. It's a cross between Grey's Anatomy and House MD minus the former's excessive drama on love, sex and life and the latter's seriously crazy only-in-the-books medical diagnoses. Now that the craze had died down, it's my turn to rise! Hahaha! Yeah, the non-conformist side of me is talking. Anyway, I just started it last night at the quarters while I was on duty out of boredom. BOREDOM?! You heard me right, twelve lang ata admissions namin ni Sheng last night! Benign! Back to Code Blue, it's a story about young doctors on their first year as trainees in Emergency Medicine. What I loved about it is that their cases are the common ones you usually encounter in the ER like orthopedic emergencies, cardiorespiratory arrest, shock and etcetera, plus they're Asians! :) I can't wait for next week, during my Ancillary rotation so I can finish the entire 2 seasons!