Portraits from Garance Dore

While reading Chuvaness.com, I wandered on to this site by a popular blogger named Garance Dore. I loved her portraits. She picks random, beautifully (and artfully)dressed people and writes fashion notes. I love how her pictures come out...they have a beautiful quality to them.

I've always wanted to take good pictures people... Admittedly, I find faces and expressions, even wild shows of emotion more affecting that landscapes and postcard perfection. I'm not fast enough for them yet, though. ;-)

Different people have different stories to tell...and i'm very interested in capturing that. i'm learning how to.

It's not easy to post pictures online, though. You can't just pluck a picture from your collection to post online... one of the doctors told me that you needed written release forms to post these pictures online. 

Frankly, that really slows things down...sharing your "stories" requires a lot of work pala However, if that were myself involved. i wouldn't have it any other way... There was one time, you know, when i saw one colleague's networking page, she put a picture in one of her albums of herself standing next to a patient who had an arrow stuck in his head. Now, the man was clearly identifiable, no effort had been made to protect his identity.

That was just plain terrible. On one hand, it was going to give an appropriate "shock" effect, but really, how would you feel if you were the patient and you saw that you had a picture of you with an arrow stuck in your skull? worse, it was posted online. For any one of give or take 6 trillion people to see?

Cheats, 80's style.

They had this on sale at the Lee (cheap) books section... :-p I'd say this was the eighties (or early nineties) form of getting "cheats" for gaming. haha. quirky.

As a child of the eighties (and a good nintendo player, for Super Mario at least, ahem), i had to chuckle at the find.

After that decisive (and very lucky) "running" three-pointer...

Team Coach Dr. RVJ with the winner's trophy
That's Brobo, a.k.a. Mr. Three Points, getting an arm up after scoring the winning point.
Some of the guys and their muse, Doc Saceda.
(The team and some of their fans...this one was behind the camera the whole time.)
..exeept of course, in this one. :-)

Congratulations to the 2009 First Silliman Medical Center Inter-Color Basketball Tournament Champions... The DOCTORS!

Prodigy

…the Kristine Claire Uchi-Galano performance night was absolutely thrilling, I was very impressed. I got wind of her performance schedule from Doc MCVC’s blog. This time, I was lucky enough not to be on duty to catch it.

The talented child-wonder played a variety of classical pieces and pop songs…for an encore, she even did a Bond-type performance, complete with funky little rocker digs that made her even more adorable. She was a dynamo of talent, I have to say, and I was very lucky to have seen that show.

Now, I’m not a music expert, and I don’t play the violin, but I listen to a lot of classical music and I knew enough to know that she did complicated pieces there.

It takes a lot of work to reach that level of skill with the violin, I suppose… Besides, I’ve always been amazed with prodigies.

I went with my cousins Popoy and Lala and we all had a good time(They’re the best concert-watching mates, of course.;-)) Violin music is so raw…and the experience of listening to a virtuoso play is one-of-a-kind. .

They thought it was funny that I wanted to go backstage and have my picture taken with KC…it didn’t matter, though. I always went for what I wanted, and as a result, I got to have my picture taken with her. ;-) This is a casual snapshot of her backstage, with her co-musicians, one of them Ian Caballes.

Hehe…I was starstruck, but then, who cares? I sure don’t, what’s important is the moment. And the snapshot to remind you of it. (*wink,wink*)

“24 Plus” (Or, What I’d do if I had more than 24 hours in a day.)

I go on duty every three days… my regular schedule (as with every other intern in the country) is 24 hours every three days, then eight hours for the days in-between.

For example, if on duty day, I go to work at 7:30 am, I’m officially off-duty by 7:30am the next day, but I can’t leave until 5pm of that day, so, in effect, that would make it a 34-hour work stint.

Then the day after that, I just have to put in 8hours of work and then go home at 5…because the day after that, I’ll be doing my “34-hour” duty again. :-p

That being said, I’m usually left with just a few hours of “rest” in-between days. Which pretty much means that as much as I want to go see art shows, or go hang out, or just even stay at the university library…I can’t. Most days, all I’m good for when I get home is a few minutes of TV-watching, a chapter (or half), some chitchat over dinner, and then maybe an hour or two online.

After that, I’m usually asleep…until dawn, which, of course, marks the start of another workday.

I’ve been trying to add in some exciting stuff to do, so as much as possible, I try to catch some shows or watch some movies when I can. Actually, I’d really love some more time to just go jogging at the sports complex…or have a workout regimen, or participate in a cause.

Don’t get me wrong, I love my job…it’s just that I wish there were more hours to a day to do more things…

Why, if I had extra time, I’d probably…

sleep a little more.

Read more chapters of my books

Sit in at Ian Rosales Casocot’s lectures (which I heard, are a blast)

Jog at the oval

Write letters to people that matter

Take more pictures

Blog more often

Go visiting friends and family

Go traveling

Go to the beach

IM my friends

Organize the gazillion pictures I’ve been taking of everyone and everything

Study some more.

Get a job that’s fun and pays a little extra.

Volunteer for Gawad Kalinga

Go to church

Pray more often

Read Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina.

Run, play badminton or tennis.

Mope a little less…:-p

Make someone happy.

Visit my grandparents.

Do research.

Volunteer at the provincial hospital.

Go speed-dating. Lol

Study Philippine history…especially about the People Power days

Go shopping for comfortable, size 8.5 - 9 shoes

Go do more ukay-ukay

Learn how to cook…well.

Learn a new language (my French CD’s are gathering dust.)

Show a little more love…

Think about the future. ;-)

I’m missing out on many things, I suppose… Everyone always tells me that once I’m done with everything (work and all), there will always be time to do things.

well, we'll just have to see now, won't we?

The Daily Headache

The trip from home to the hospital where I work, usually takes around 20 minutes. These days however, it takes almost an hour…

This is why..

I usually leave by 6:30 in the morning if I want to make it in time for work (which starts at strictly 7:30). It’s a strict time that we have to keep, and it's absolutely a must that we get there before the clock hits 7:30 (or before the resident marks/ “closes” the listing, whichever comes first). If your name comes after the bar, you're pretty sure to have 4 hours worth of effin' extensions...which is a bad thing because it adds up.

If I want to get to work with enough time to see some patients and scratch out respectable progress notes, I have to leave by 6 AM or earlier.. *sigh*

There aren’t that many roads leading from my place to the city, so it doesn’t leave me much of a choice except to wake up really early and take the multicab early. Oh how I wish they would get the road repairs over and done with already!

It’s stressing me out. Seriously.