So this is it…In a few months I’ll be wearing my 2^nd to the last toga. Yup. You’ve read it right. Second to the last. And that is simply because I am planning to pursue medicine after I graduate. And I am really hoping to get into UST med school not only for being one of the best in medical courses in the Philippines and the world, but because it has become my home for the past 8 years. We had our graduation picture taking couple of months ago and here’s a glimpse of them…

and here's the very chique formal photo

and we have a fashion shot...

and the crazy creative shot....well I was indecisive for this and I was thinking about Tomb Raider or a Greek goddess...but nah...greek goddess has a  softer look so I ended up with it.

few shots were really awkward cause I am not used to this thing neither have I practiced posing the night before! haha so yeah...just thought it'd be cool to post them somewhere apart facebook. :p

The Sixth Sense

      Most people are blessed to be born with the complete senses: sense of sight, of hearing, of smell, of touch, and of taste. While others are just unfortunate to be lacking one or maybe two of these. And unfortunately, the people who have perfect senses forget to value every single one of them. They abuse them, put them into wrong use, blah blah blah...so when they lose one of them, they regret it. All these senses have one thing in common, though. They all are on to tangible objects. You can see food, hear it cooking on the pan, you eat it with your bare hands and finally taste it. But there is one sense, the sixth sense as I call it, that is above all these. And by that I mean it can sense other things intangible. It senses beyond that.

      It is the sense of feeling...you get what I mean, though, right? The five other senses are produced from certain organs like the eyes, ears, nose, skin, and tongue. But can you guess where the sense of feeling comes from? That's right. It comes from the heart. Well, scientifically speaking this is bullsh*t. But from an ordinary person's point of view, one will/may agree. The heart can practically do half of what your other senses can, like it can see, hear, or touch something or someone. And it doesn't need the eyes to see, nor the ears to hear, neither the skin to feel. Cause it just happens. It's a part of the complexity of being a human. 

PRECAUTION...the next paragraphs will get a lot cheesier than the first ones so if you're the person into it, then continue reading. But if you're not, I suggest you close this window. haha

     I have said that the heart does not need the eyes to see. And sure as hell it doesn't. Say you have a girlfriend, and you love her so dearly but your friends don't like her and they always convince you to break up with her cause she's no good for you. But lo and behold you guys are celebrating your what, 7th-ish anniversary? Why is that? It is because your heart sees beyond her. You see good things about her that your friends' ordinary sense of sight don't. 

     I also said that the heart does not need the ears to hear. True friends...they are the people who hear you weep even without tears falling down your eyes. They are the people who know you are sad even though you have a big perfectly shaped smile glued on your face for like the entire day. They don't need to hear the words for them to know what you're feeling. They just know. Cause they can feel it...they can feel something's wrong. Now that is how a real friend differs from a "friend" whom you met on the bangketa or somewhere else. I'm not gonna talk about categories of friends here, though. 

     I have also mentioned that the heart can touch something or someone. And people experience this whenever someone shares a story or when an unexpected person did something unexpected to make feel better, and others. For instance, the heart touches another heart by sharing one's story like what happened to Regine Velasquez's Silver concert. On the first concert, she got a lot of people crying in the crowd. Why? Because even though it was impossible for her to continue with the show due to her condition, still she went out on the stage and sing her heart out as good as her condition possibly can. And she used her baby boy and her husband to serve as her strength while doing the nearly impossible show. She was there sitting at the edge of the stage crying with her baby on her lap while singing beautifully from her heart. Then I hear people crying quietly, as well as my mom.

     And then at the end of the show while we were on our way to the parking my mom told us, "mararamdaman niyo rin yan kapag nanay na kayo." I totally understood what she meant though I didn't have a full grasp of the idea since I am not "them" yet. And as for the other example, well if you're watching Willie Revillame's noon time show, or those show like Wish Ko Lang, that would probably do. The heart touching another person doesn't need to be near them. As long it can make a connection, it will touch you how farther you may be. 

So the next time your teacher/person asks you how many senses you have, you know what to say, alright? hahaha kidding :P

Is it real or just another crush?

I heard people say that a crush only lasts for about 3 months. More than that you’re already inlove. Well I really don’t know if that’s true or not. Personally, I have crushes that last as long as…10 years? Yeah…kind of stupid right? I don’t how I was able to hold on to that that long. But I just did. As long as they can brighten my day up, they may still be my crush.

Before “things” has happened to me, I only see the term crush as a part of growing up. All of us have it, even the little ones does. But as I grow up, and as I experience things (fall inlove, get hurt, then fall again) I start to realize the benefits of having a crush. But sometimes they don't only serve as our source of positive vibes, they could also be our reason for hiding from the truth because we've been hurt so much in the past we'd just want to settle in this no- strings-attached kind of thing. And let’s all be realistic cause most of the time we don’t end up dating our crushes. Lucky for those who does, though.

Anyway…let’s proceed to the PROS and CONS.

PROS:

That person gives us that special feeling (almost or maybe comparable to the feeling given by a special person whom you may be in a relationship with ) without the headache that real relationships give. It is kind of childish but admit it, IT’S FUN. It’s almost kinda like playing safe. Especially for those who are afraid to get hurt (like me I guess). It’s like holding onto something imaginary but still it can keep you going. It’s like finding a reason or a thing that can make you’re entire bad day shrink and can finally pull the corners of your mouth into a smile. That blood rushing through the vessels of your cheeks, that heart skipping a beat, all are clichés but definitely are true. And those things make you happy. Sometimes, it could even bring the best out in one person because they wanted to either 1)impress him/her or 2) be in his/her level or 3) get his/her attention. And it won't be necessary to recover from a fight or worse a breakup cause those will never occur. You’re off the hook from pain. Although one thing you have to face is that he/she may never be yours. Now that is one of the cons.

CONS:

Im just going to run through the cons cause nothing could be said more about these things cause they are rational. They don’t need a flowery presentation like the pros. Haha they’re almost like a fact you know.

• it’s stupid, especially when that person doesn’t even know you exist

• it’s kinda like having an imaginary friend

• he/she will never be there for you when you need him/her (unless s/he is a friend) if you’re not in his radar that is

• it can be pretty tiring

• you’ll become smarter than the FBI in finding info (that’s not a good thing cause it’s kind of creepy)

• you will neither be geniunely happy nor genuinely hurt

• you’ll miss out the fun of dating cause all you can do is stare :))

Happy Holidays! (I guess?)

This is gonna be a bummer so I’d rather go to 9gag than read this blog, my own blog haha Anyway….we’re few of the lucky UST interns who experienced a Christmas/New year break. It’s the one and only highlight of my stay at EAMC. The ONLY ONE.  Cause apart from this break, there’s really nothing else aside from the very systematic protocols…oh nevermind. I’m not blogging this to bash EAMC lab. Haha To continue to the real story, I am just going to bum you, the reader, whoever you are :P, by sharing with you my very short story of how I spent my Christmas break and my New Year’s eve.

To start off, I had a pretty long Christmas break. Well not long enough compared to the undergrads, but just enough days off from duty. Guess what…we stayed at our newly built house in QC for the entire Christmas/new year break. Yey for that. However, since it’s new, we don’t have internet connection (so my laptop is only good for watching movies -.-) and cable yet. So can you visualize how I spent days without those, which by the way are my life at home in Avida. For three days without them, I managed to find every unknown movie in my dad’s hard drive. Then after 3 days, tadaaaa! The cable was on! Oh yeah. J So half of my life is back. To cut it short, here’s how I spent the supposed-to-be-5-day-break that I converted into seven (hihi :>):  tv-movie-eat-book-sleep. For one week, that’s all I was doing. Haha

Paskuhan: Must be the most boring paskuhan I have ever attended. Although the good thing about it was that we did not have that much of a hard time finding each other. But it was genuinely boring that my friends and I stayed at the lover’s lane and sat there cause the place is too crowded you wouldn’t want to walk around just to bump onto people you pass by. And can you believe that I spent half of the time staring at people and things? Well half of it is spent on taking pictures and a little bit of chitchatting. And to put the cherry on top, I even got scolded before my night ended. It was not my fault though. But I’m not blaming anyone. Haha just saying. So yeah..and the fireworks were okay. But it’s simpler compared to last year cause the 400^th year celebration was over.

On Christmas eve: well, we just slept through it. We didn’t have the traditional noche Buena at 12am cause it’s just me, my mom, and my sister and brother. All my mother’s side relatives are in Bulacan. But they were here the next day and stayed for 2 days. It was pretty fun and I missed my cousins.  For the past 19 years, we always had noche Buena in our house on Christmas eve. It’s kind of a new thing for me to just sleep through it so I had this grumpy adjusting period. Haha But I had fun that Christmas night when my tita treated us with starbucks haha The picture is a bit messy though haha

After all these, I went back to duty last Dec. 29. I was forced to go even though I was planning not to because of the 1:15 makeup threat.

New Year’s eve: So I’m on an AM duty the next day so I kind of need to sleep early tonight. All the fireworks are going on while I am typing this but sadly I’m gonna have to sleep afterwards.  And yes, we are just going to sleep right through new year’s eve AGAIN. So it’s starting to get really frustrating and I really don’t like this. If not only for that 1:15 makeup, ay jusko po.