lilmisscaffeine

Once upon a time you saved me from something so devastating I thought I'd never recover from it.

And now you're doing the exact same thing - leaving. And I know why.

I'll be fine. I think I'm getting used to being strong that way.

It's just that...

I miss you.

I miss us.

So, while I'm wiping off the virtual dust atop this journal, let me ask everyone to join me in taking a moment to Squee.



October 3 at the Mall of Asia concert grounds.

Okay.

I will SO not eat out for a month. VIP section, here I come!

Took a break from studying (Micro! Para! Aaaaack), and found this interesting survey. :)

Pet Peeves Survey - What Annoys You Most?

• In the mall: People saying, “Scuse” instead of “Excuse me”.
• In school: The too-small walkways and spacing in the BSLR-West. You just can’t move around without knocking over something else.
• In Conversations: “Aq”, “D2 na me”, “Wer na u”, etc etc. Aaaaaaaaaaaaaack.
• Body/Personal Habit: People who spit on the ground. Would you want the ground to spit on you?
• Grammatical error: “Result to”. Most hated phrase. And it sounds annoying, doesn’t it? “Result to result to resultoresulTTTTTooo.” Compare: “Result in”. Perfect.
• Fashion statement: Wearing shades indoors.
• Personality trait: People who are late. Not in general, just those who are late for important things, even after promising to arrive early. That’s a huge improvement from my college self. Back then, any late person annoyed the hell out of me.
• Personality trait #2: When people are matampuhin for the shallowest reasons. Sometimes it’s cute, funny even. But when you’re having a crappy day and someone suddenly bitches because you forgot to say hello, or did something to that effect, doesn’t it make you want to smash something big and breakable? I know it does for me.
• About mornings: When people take 30-45 minutes to shower. Really, what else is there to scrub/lather/rinse/repeat?
• About noon: The sun. Well, I actually do love the sun, but not when it’s 40° out and there’s no semblance of a sea breeze.
• About afternoons: When I open my transbox and it’s like the transes underwent exponential growth.
• About night: Having to study when sometimes all I want to do is have a cup of coffee and spend time with friends.
• Sense of humor: Corny, na feeling nakakatawa. =p Pero if they’re my friends, they get a pass on this one. Haha.
• On the Radio: There was this morning program on a former (yay it is no more, bwahaha) FM station that had the DJ talking like he was constipated for three hours. I guess he thoughtit was supposed to be energizing and fun. NOT.
• On TV: Celebrities (and pseudo-celebrities) who lip-sync while singing.
• About professors: Med professors who underestimate their students. Just this afternoon I overhead a Lab professor complaining about most students leaving early during lab, and skeptically asking, “may natutunan naman ba sila?” And just for that I wanted to retort, “Sorry if we took all of 30 minutes to view (just) 12 slides. Ever think we were just quite efficient?" ***Let me just add, I also do not like med professors who overestimate their students. But this is pretty normal. Haha.
• About friends: I love my friends. Yun lang. Haha.
• About family: When they meddle. But this rarely happens because we talk about everything anyway.
• About your country: No comment. TMTM. But I love the Philippines, haha!
• About other countries: Some airport food. Does that count?
• Word: Let me just share, I used to HATE the word “Photox”. I can feel Chie laughing right now. We only heard the term in college, not once before that. I can’t explain why we despised the word so much. The word is ‘photocopy’. How hard was it to just say that? Or use the common error ‘Xerox’? Or maybe just ‘copy’? I think we just didn’t like the odd placement of the “X” because it made the word so… unnatural? The hate was so extreme that Chie would only have to say “PHOTOX PHOTOX PHOTOX!” to piss me off. I’ve acclimatized to it. But I won't be saying it anytime soon. :)

Wow, I feel much much better.

What are YOUR pet peeves? :)

Even the best pictures can only say so much.

Congratulations sisses!














*** Will now go back to reading 300 pages worth of material for Pathology. Is there something wrong when I say that I really do enjoy looking at disease-ridden organs? Eeep.

Things never go the way we plan them, but we hardly ever expect that to apply to the most significant moments, in the worst ways possible.

But those are the times we find out who our real family is. We come to find that we never had to search for a "real" one because, really, the most important people have been here all along.

I want to thank all of you, for making me realize that.

I braved the weather today and ended up wiping floodwater off my feet in the Midtown restroom. :\

If it's only going to keep on raining like this anyway, I'd rather enjoy it in style.



LOVE.

Ate Au, why did you have to send me this link? =p

plueysmanila.com


Oh funds, where art thou?

This is what Mu's Service pillar is all about. :)

The Mu Health Caravan
May 29, 2009
Concepcion, Tarlac

Thank you, sisses, for continuously opening my eyes to what one can do for others. Can't wait for the next leg. :)




* On a totally different note, going back to med school in a week! Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. :)

May 28, 2009
Senate Hearing
Hayden Kho Scandal a.k.a. The-Issue-Gripping-the-Nation-that-is-Apparently-More-Important-than-North-Korean-Nuclear-Launches,-AH1N1,-and-the-Global-Economic-Crisis-Combined


Topic: Transferring of the Explicit Videos to a Laptop


Bong: *authoritative tone* Anong software ang ginamit mo???
Hayden: *awkward silence* Uh, software? It was just a USB.



And that, ladies and gentlemen, is a picture of the intellectual capacity of our dear Senate.

*Sigh*

Yesterday I had the honor of meeting and talking with a sis who:

- is a doctor (UPCM grad) specializing in ENT
- has an MS in clinical epidemiology
- graduated in the top 20 from UP Law
- is a full-time lawyer in one of the top law firms in the country
- is a wife and mother of three kids
- finds time to go to the gym three hours a day
- is an excellent conversationalist
- is vibrant and looks like she enjoys life to the fullest.


Goodness. I have no excuse to complain about my academic workload from now on.

Mu is love. :)

So May is just about over, and in a couple of weeks I'll be out of my summer shorts and into my peach twill pants. I will also be swapping the teeny clutches for bags with mandatory dimensions of at least 11x14in, and my unfinished Neil Gaiman novels for the works of Robbins and Katzung.

My summer can be divided into roughly three parts.

The first one consisted of an ordeal which I voluntarily underwent and came out of a changed person, I believe. I also gained an incredible family.

The second was that 18-day vacation to Singapore, the country my close friends jokingly refer to as my "Tagaytay". The best experience this time was being 165 meters above sea level, on the world's tallest Ferris wheel, marveling at the beauty of a country that has already won me over too many times to count.

The third, I call pre-June anxiety-induced toxicity. There are a million things to do, and barely enough time to do them all. But I'm doing all of them with a smile on my face and the knowledge of their worth.


Still, I can't wait to put on that ill-fitting white uniform, pin the nameplate on my blouse, and walk back into the college that I've sorely missed since March.