Reality Bites...And It Also Chews And Swallows!

Philippines... the pearl of the orient, is now facing a deep crisis. Financial stability seemed to get worse everyday, and the people suffer too much from it. This is REALITY... IT BITES... IT CHEWS... and IT SWALLOWS!!!
But there are somethings in our culture that made me still proud of being a Filipino inspite of all the crisis that keep on grinding our nation... here's my story...
After a tiring duty from the hospital, we (my friends) decided to watch a movie. After that, we decided to go home right away. So we ride into a FX ( a passenger taxi with 10 passengers capacity). We're at the middle sit and we talked about the movie we just saw on our way home. Suddenly a man sat next to me. Then I felt there something touched my hips... and to my surprise... that damn man's hand was on my hips, so I shouted at him while he hurriedly went out of the FX. Then the driver asked me what did that man do to me, I told him that he touched my hips. So the driver got a (sort of a baseball bat) and he followed the man. (I don't know exactly what happened next) then the driver came back and asked me if I'm alright... I said "YES... I'm fine now... Thanks!" Then the driver told me that that man was actually a foreigner... NOT a Filipino.
The reality is that, such things really happen to you, to me, to everyone else! Reality had just bite me... chewed and swallowed me into the real world full of sinful and lustful men. But then, God never forsake His people, He used other people to help you, me, and everyone else. That's where our culture (Filipinos) is counted as one. We always help others even though they are a complete stranger in our sight. The driver, was a stranger... I am a stranger to him too... but still, he is willing to take the risk ( by following that foreign maniac) of getting into trouble.
God Bless That Driver...
Vengeance is not mine (Damn Maniac!) ... its God's!

INTERNSHIP BLUES:PART 6 (The Saga Continues)

So here it goes, like a new place but definitely old. I'm missing everything from my first internship, but I have to move forward, I have to open up my doors. A new tale had just begun... but its just a part of the book I'm portraying, writting... this is my LIFE"S SAGA. Enter the new chapter, learn from it... again!!!

Adrenalin Rush

Date Written: October 20, 2005

I'm here @ the hospital, but this time, I'm not a Med-Tech, my mom is here too, but this time, she's the patient. As the nurse rush my mom in the operating room. Different kind of rush embraced my heart, I saw the bright lights all over the halls, so much of the lights and its blinding me like a little girl left all alone in her dark room imagining monsters right beside her in bed. Fear is rushing all over my nerves, I wanted to cry but my tears were frosted by the coldness of my inner soul.
Dear God, You hold everything, knows everything, and cares for everything. I'm entrusting you everything. Life has always been good to me, cause I may feel persecuted but you never forsake me, I may be troubled but not distressed, perplexed but not dispair, cast down but not destroyed. THANK YOU. Amen.

INTERNSHIP BLUES:PART 5 (The Graduation)

During the last week of September...
Monday... was the day I would like to call "the day", because we did everything we've planned to do. Me and my friends went to Kamay-Kainan, an eat-all-you-can restaurant, and we ate there until we can't breath, we had a lot of fun eating there. After the nice and fun meal, we went straight to SM west and played a lot of different games at the arcade (I like the firing - its nice to hold a riffle and feel its power as you shoot the target!) its really nice! After those games, we rent a mini KTV room and had a party in there. Life really rocks! Let's get wrecked!
Tuesday... was an ordinary duty-day for everybody, but not for us, coz we're busy preparing for the graduation.
Wednesday... was another tiring day.
Then came the special day for us, the graduation day... and @ the same time my grand-24 hours-duty. It was my last day and night at United Doctors Medical Center Laboratory ( as a Med-Tech intern). The graduation was full of emotions. But the most unexpected moment that happened to me was when our Assistant Chief Med-tech announced my name as one of their MPIs (Most Proficient Intern) - I really did not expect that.
After the ceremony, the fun continues at he laboratory. My co-interns stayed @ the laboratory, we had a small shots of liquor for the celebration and it all end up well-emotional especially for me.
The things I will cherish in my stay there @ UDMC are the fun and jolly moments with my co-interns which are my friends (cheers dudes!!! for the success of everybody!!!), the things our staffs shared and tought to us, the complements of the doctors, PGIs, and nurses - (one thing I can't forget about them was when I heared them talking about me and said that I'm industrious and very nice - hehehe!!! - "WHAT A COMPLEMENT!!!"), the pressures that the relatives of the patients gave to me everytime I enter their respective rooms to extract blood. The patience, concern, humility, alertness, cheerfulness, and the HEART of a real Med-Tech that those patients that I've interacted with tought me. I'll never and won't dare to forget those life's great lessons and simple pleasures.
So as I hang those frames of memories on the wall of my soul, I'm starting a new beggining again. A new place, new people to interact with, new friends to meet, new lessons to learn, and a bunch of up-coming memories to cherish. As it goes... we can say "ITS THE END BUT A NEW TALE HAD JUST BEGUN".

Message In A Blog:Part 2 (My Paradigm Shift)

Last September 24 was my birthday... I'm already living in this world for 2 decades and a year... yup! I'm 21 years old already.And right now I do really feel that I'm growing old and I'm running out of time to do all the things I wanted and I should do before I started to decay.
I woke up that day and I realized it was raining outside. I was not in the mood yet to get out of my bed, but that was Saturday and I have to go to the church, and besides, its my birthday, I want to give thanks to God for adding another year to my life.So I got myself dressed up and went there.
At the church, we had the breaking of the bread, which, we do not usually do during ordinary Saturday service. So I was a bit happy, inspite of the rainy whether, because I felt that I was special to God (which I know I am) because we had the breaking of the bread on the day of my birthday.
After the worship hour, I went back home to prepare for my night duty at the hospital. I'm not happy anymore because the fact that it was my birthday, yet I don't have enough money anymore (I've spent all my allowance for that week!). So sad! I can't celebrate my birthday, I can't treat my friends, I don't even have a simple gift for myself.
I went to the hospital and started working at 3 pm at that same day. Everyone greeted me a happy birthday, but still, something was missing inside of me that I can't made myself happy. I was just faking a big hollow smile.
So hours passed by, and then it was almost 12 midnight when my friends surprised me with a small birthday party inside the laboratory. Honestly, I was so touched... really, I am!!! I wanted to cry at that very moment but I held back my tears, because they might think I'm too emotional. But if only they know how much I appreciate their simple, wacky, and funny surprise to me. Oh man! I miss them all now!!! (cause destiny held us by the wrist and directed us where to go!!!)
I want to thank them for making my birthday special and memorable. I can't forget that time in my life, and I'll cherish my friends out there forever in my life. I'm lucky to have them, my inner most being is overwhelmed for that wonderful memory they'd left to me... THANK'S DUDES!!!!!!!
The next day (of my birthday), I had a serious talk with my big brother. Its serious because it was about our lives, about what's happening in us. By that time, I've just realized that... hey! I have a great brother. I realized that I'm very lucky for having a brother willing to sacrifice for me.
So what's the PARADIGM SHIFT? Read the Part One and you'll know why. I called this Paradigm shift because right now I can see both sides. I don't see black, I don't see white, what I can see is gray... its TWO SIDES AT A TIME...