Quotable Friends

"foget him, please. have mercy on yourself"

-from elaine to me. hahaha! guess i'm a little masochistic. i thrive on pain. don't worry, laine. i'm working on it. with a little more time i'll be singing "i remember the boy, but i don't remember the feeling anymore" ....heehee!

"to hell with boys"


-sharon's words whenever guys mess with her head. i have co-authored this line with her. now that she's happily in love again, that leaves the line all to myself. i shall stand by it.

"ladies, this song goes to the three of us"

- jessa 's intro when she was about to sing "we're all alone" on videoke one lazy afternoon with elaine and me, all of us single. jessa's among those friends with the best sense of humor.

The Hardest Things In Love

lifted this post from the blog of Loi, a co-xangan and kikay sister... the lines in bold fonts struck me the most... then again, the hardest thing about love is believing it does exists

1. Flashing your smile to someone you don't want to see.
2. Bringing back the feeling you've learned to forget.
3. Showing that you care.
4. Finding a way to mend a broken heart.
5. Learning that you've been used by someone you truly love.
6. Saying 'i love you' when you mean it and when you don't.
7. Letting go of a person you've just learned to love.
8. Realizing that you love somebody you've just taken for granted.
9. Realizing that you love the person you've just broken up with.
10. Waiting for promises you know he/she will never keep.
11. Saying your love for someone who loves somebody else.
12. reminscing the good times you shared together.
13. Shielding your heart to love somebody.
14. Trying to hide what you really feel.
15. Having a commitment with someone that you know would not last.
16. Trying to hide the tears that involuntarily fall from your eyes.
17. Sharing the one you love with someone else.
18. Loving a person too much.
19. Giving up someone you never thought of giving up.
20. Falling inlove for the first time.
21. Loving someone you haven't seen.
22. Having the right love at the wrong time
.23. Exerting effort to make the relationship last or work.
24. Not being appreciated when you know you've given your best.
25. Taking the risk to fall in love again.
26. Hiding your relationship from someone else.
27. Controlling your feelings to avoid hurting a friend.
28. Choosing between 2 persons whom you really love.
29. Finding out that you can never have the person you just let go of back.
30. Seeing the person you love with someone else.

Loving involves two phases.The first intuitive one is loving the person because of who he/she is. The second nobler one is loving the person despite of who he/she is not. The first one sparks love, the second one makes it last.

Quote of the Week

"Do you know what could be more disturbing than people asking you why you are single? People telling you why you are single."
--Karenina Yaptinchay

Jump

Happy pictures like this make my day.Larry's expression totally cracked me up. Now you get the idea how much I enjoyed my internship. With these people as co-interns, you just don't spend any dull moment.I took this photo, so don't look for me among the jumping loonies :).

Pine Trees

This pic was taken a few minutes before the storm came and got us running like kids for cover.

Kikay Sisters

The girls of Kikay Sisterhood on a night out at Conservatory. This is the group where you meet girls with passion for beauty, fashion and more. Vanity at its finest. Gail started it all.

Bigby's

Tess, Me and Isobelle with her little angel, Bea. Bea, my godchild is a miracle baby. She survived stage III of dengue hemorrhagic fever when she was barely a year old. Prayers do work wonders, really.

Malou's wedding

Doc Connie, Tading, Elaine, Me and Cherry. My COMC ER friends. When Malou, a resident at COMC got married, she made us wear gowns even when we were not part of the entourage. I was a candle offerer while the rest in this pic were usherettes.

Ann's wedding

With classmates at Mary Ann's wedding. Jing2x, the 1st girl from the right, got married recently too. Everybody's getting hitched, alright.

Tale of the Rambutan

Scary how this sweet, round ,slippery delight of a fruit could put you on the ventilating machine. On my last duty, we had this patient who was rushed to the ER cyanotic and gasping for air after eating rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum). My co-resident immediately intubated him, finding a big piece of the fruit stuck in his trachea. Good thing it wasn’t deep enough so the intubation blade was able to dislodge the fruit, enabling air to pass through once again. But it was too late. His brain has suffered a few minutes of hypoxia (lack of oxygen delivery), hence causing a part of it permanently damaged. It could have been avoided had someone perform the Heimlich’s maneuver at home.

See, the patient was recently discharged from another hospital weeks ago, treated for stroke. He was confined at the ICU that time, narrowly escaping death. However, luck wasn't on his side when the perils of the normally harmless rambutan caught him. His recent stroke had something to do with his inability to swallow properly. Usually, post-stroke patients are advised soft diet or nasogastric feeding until their swallowing function improves.For some reason, he enjoyed eating the fruit too much that he accidentally swallowed it whole.

A few hours after admission, the ICU nurse referred the patient to us for seizures, a manifestation of the hypoxic injury to his brain. With that, we knew his chances of survival were slim. The next day when I was logging out from my 24 hrs duty, he was still holding on to his dear life. If he does survive, he’s a vegetable, that’s for sure. (digression: odd how a fruit can turn you into a vegetable). I haven’t gone back to duty and I’m not sure whatever happened to him, most likely, he’s dead. It got me thinking how in a snap of a finger, practically anything you do, even something as trivial as eating, can bring you face to face with the angel of death. Life, indeed is short.