Video: Magic Mike Trailer

Lovelle and Pearl, my coresidents were talking about watching this hot new movie earlier tonight... I wanted to watch it with them after dinner, but I ended up not doing it, and going home right after. <-- I wanted to sleep so bad after a long day of screening patients. (Intense all day work often leaves me drained.)

But anyway, while we were talking about it, I joked about it, and told one of my coresidents, RG, "Hey man, we're watching this later, you want to come with us?" He laughed and said something, and then goes on to ask another coresident, Joff, "Joff, Magic Mike daw o. Sama ka, pare?"

And Joff gives this funny look, as if to say, "are you kidding me?" and it was so funny we all laughed.

Anyway, Magic Mike....what a man.

 *sizzles*

Love,

S.

Photos: Everybody Loves Gen!

Gen, one of the my friends from medical school, the birthday girl, celebrates her birthday with dinner at Italianni's...and yummy cake from Theobroma!

Almost everyone was there, including "The Three Amigos", Vick, Tope and Chamie! :-D

Some of us girls; Gen, Kuai, moi and Jenai.

Gen slices her cake!

That vegetarian pizza was something else... well, she was on a diet, and the health kick was pretty obvious in the food we ordered. Love Italianni's! :-D

Floyd  does her souvenir photo for her birthday!

Phillip and Jerry...:-p

Now THIS is chocolate cake. Theobroma, thou art <3. :-)

The girls in dresses (per request of the birthday girl).

[One of the many] Faces of @flipadfoot.

Good conversations all around.

 

 

 

 

Tired, but definitely happy. :-)

 

:-) Happy birthday, Gen. May true love and the happiness it brings find its way to you... :-)

Photos: Football Afternoon

He just wandered into our game, and wouldn't let go of the ball... AND, because he had threads like Football dude RG, we dubbed RG Jr. :-)

Oh, and that's me, making a goal. Against RG.
(Next time, I'll tell him not to treat me like a girl. :-) )

David Beckham vs. College football varsity. hehe. :-p

Swag. Need I say more?

I loved football practice!

Even the drills were fun! :-)

( Personally, I think I'm more of the striker type than the goalie type...I like being on the offensive.) 

(Also, it seems more painful. I already have a bruise on my right lower leg from earlier...)

Love, 

S.

P.s. This was taken at UST when we were playing earlier this afternoon, after work. 

Let it Be, shirt edition.

Guess what I found. A Beatles Shirt, with Let it Be on it. :-)

 

And no, I did not forget my pants. haha.

 (Weekend outfit for watching the Pacquiao-Morales match.) 

Photo: Daddy's Girl

Gail does back-up for her dad on Videoke. (I just loved the expression on her face!)

(BDH Christmas Party, December 21, 2010.)

Think of Me

EarWorm ( a.k.a. The song that never stops playing in your head)

I've practicing this one, singing it so much, it even woke my ma, who shushed me. haha
After watching it on youtube.com, it somehow grew on me.
Aside from the fact that I love Broadway. :-p

~ S.

p.s. once i'm good enough, you'll hear it here, live. Or not... :-p

The return

August 27th, 2009
7:00 PM
Thursday
Dinner Table


I haven't been writing for a while now...the last time i wrote here was a month ago when I decided I wasn't going to write anymore for a while because of the upcoming board exams.


The boards have come and gone, and yes, I have passed, with a better performance than I expected. ( In fact, I had just gotten back from the PRC after spending the whole day waiting in line and breathing the same air with close to a thousand other new docs. :-p I'm expecting my license card to arrive in the mail in a few days... )


I don't have much longer to stay in "My Favorite City", and I'm concerned about the next few steps I am going to take in life. So, it was a spur of the moment decision to just stay in my auntie's condo unit atop a mall, everything's easier to comprehend from the vantage point of the 27th floor...with hardly any voice to listen to except that of a soulful singer's crooning on the radio, or the silent din of the traffic below, and of course, the thumping voice of my own heart...

I was supposed to stay at my uncle's home in Paranaque, a comfortable behemoth of a house with my Auntie Linda's delicious home-cooking, with unlimited internet time, and the company of cousins...however, instinct decided against it... I needed a few precious days to explore and to rethink about how I am faring in life..


In solitude and alternating silence and music, I am happy. I may desire human company again, but right now, I feel the urgency to relearn things that make me happy again... I sleep until 4AM sometimes,with no one telling me that it was late and I needed to go back to bed, I would lounge for a good hour (or two) in the luxurious bathwater if I wanted to, I drink as much coffee as I want from pre-bought stores (thank you very much, Uncle Eric) and I can stand motionless in the balcony, in silent wonder of the beauty of the vast expanse of twinkly lights of the cars in traffic, the nearby train and the buildings, all spread out beneath me, stretching out as far as my eye can see...


I can breathe in the city air, and if i think hard enough about it, I can even feel the life that pulsates beneath me, teeming, living, expansive and dynamic... and of course, maybe even dangerous.


I'm doing this because after such a long time of being bound by responsibility, I want to know what it's like to enjoy the simplest of joys that other people would otherwise take for granted..

..singing at the top of my lungs to Taylor Swift's "Love Story" shamelessly,
...having casual text conversations until 3am...
...dancing around the unit with freshly-washed hair in an old shirt and ratty shorts....


...and of course, having the time to sit down, and put my favorite black Parker fountain pen to paper, luxuriating in the delightful happiness that is writing.

Ladies and gents, Sonia...er, I mean, Dr. Sonia, has returned.

:-)

Kimono Ken (and his fabulous fish)

In my past blog entry, I metaphorically compared eating raw fish with sex. In retrospect, I regret to say that that would not be the case. I'm sure ahem carnal relations of the good kind may be mindblowingly outstanding (I suppose), but in this case, eating sushi the day after you want it so badly is like owning a little bit of heaven, especially at Kimono Ken's...

Sushi Morawase (Sashimi sampler)

Spicy Maguro (Fresh tuna with special spicy sauce)

Kani Salad Maki (Crabstick, Mango, Cucumber Salad)

And, my reason for breathing... Shake ( Salmon Sashimi)

Kimono Ken offered a menu that was "Enticingly Japanese. For Less." It was a bit more than I'd usually pay on my current allowance, but hey, it was well worth it, for an occasional splurge. I was giddy with glee even until after the last bite.

I'm plugging mercilessly (for free), but you should really try it. There's a Kimono Ken on Tomas Morato, one in SM NOrth Ave. (that's where we went to), at the Podium, and the Shang. :-)

Bon appetit!

Manila, Day 9

Hello world!

Before anything else, I’d like to give a big belated happy birthday Hi and Hello to my old friend Chules who celebrated her 28^th, and my cousin Christian, who celebrated his 29^th (plus 5? Hehe!). He’s in Cubao, and probably had a big party, which I more or less…missed out on.

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Today is my 9^th day in Manila (yes, that fast), and I’ve been to both review centers, Dr. Toom’s “Cracking the Boards” Review Center as well as to the UST Medical Board review classes as a, well, a visitor.

Actually, they have signs where they have say “No ID, No Entry”, but from what I’ve observed in the last few days, that’s not a strict ruling. I’ve got it down pat, and I think that basically, if you act like you belong there, there’s a good chance that you can pull it off. :-p Why, one time, I even had one of the guards greet me, “Good Morning, Ma’am”, with matching smile pa, as they let us through. Hehe. He couldn’t have possible known that I was just a visitor, that I was using my roommate’s ID and that I didn’t pay the Php 12,500 review tuition fee.

Like I always say, “sa pag-carry lang man na ah”. I kinda feel a bit guilty whenever I go there in my free time, thinking it’s unfair to those who paid the tuition in full, but my friends tell me that it’s no biggie because not everyone attends anyway. People just pick who they want to listen to…otherwise, they just pack their bags and go home to read on their own. And besides, I don’t get any of the handouts anyway. That would be overkill. :-p

(There, guilty feelings, begone! )

One of our reviewers said that during review time, we should be like sponges…absorbing every little tidbit that comes our way when we prepare for the board exams…which we will promptly forget once they’re over in August. ;-p That was cute. I feel “spongy”, though, during these review lectures…I’m usually in the front-ish part, 4^th row center, and I lean forward every time, hanging on to the speaker’s every word. Like last time, we had a neuro-psychiatrist (or was he just a psychiatrist who gave a lecture in neurology?) who lectured, and being the neuro-psychiatry freak that I am, I was leaning forward in my seat, craning my neck, and making eye contact whenever he’d be asking questions/making statements in our direction.

I even got to ask him after the lecture. Olanzapine (Zyprexa), an atypical antipsychotic was good for negative symptom schizophrenics because it delayed brain degradation. Hehe. That, I learned, and other interesting stuff besides. :-D

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You know, I’m actually enjoying all this study time I’m having. It’s blissful to not have to worry about anything else, but just learn and relearn.

To not be under any pressure, to not have to worry about other people, and to have economic freedom…hehe, it’s almost like a vacation. I’m just taking it easy…currently, my life is all about the board exams. I’m not entertaining any hanky panky, or anything unnecessarily taxing, these days, by choice.

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Well, I better get back to work…a big Gracias to my classmate Morin who loaned me his laptop so I could do my “necessary vice” , blogging. My 11 year-old refurbished Fujitsu , which I brought with me here in Manila, (a second-hand laptop from my Kuya Pete, which Pop put an XP OS in) has finally breathed it’s last.

I think, more than anything else, I would need a new laptop. Need. Not want. J Anyway, I’m pretty optimistic, it could work.

I’m channelling Rhonda Byrnes’ “The Secret” vibes now. Haha. (May the Universe hear my call for a new laptop...”OOohhhmmmm…Ohhh…)

Hehehe. Jk.

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Ok, back to the books.

Anyway, check out my pics.

Have a nice day, everyone!

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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.

Birthday wishes

I saw this sign near a washroom in one of the department stores in Dumaguete... Now why do you suppose they put this sign up? Are their employees really that bad?

yeesh.