Today is...

...January 13.

and i should be studying!!! instead, i'm here at the internet shop, typing away... which isn't a bad way to end my day. i could be drinking, or worse (?), sleeping. i had a few things on my mind just before i came here, but they've all been swamped by certain "mababaw" things. such as the comics i read earlier tonight, (100bullets and the Ulitimates, FYI)... the fact that my "past" is sitting just two units to my right, haha! ang galing din 'no? we're actually really good friends still! HOWEVER... now's not the time to reminisce and such.

this week has actually been a good week. i started my internal medicine rotation @ the PGH OPD last monday and, hey! what do you know?! i actually picked up on stuff these past few years in med school! la lang, sobrang kinakabahan lang talaga e. you know the feeling that you're supposed to know this and that about that and this (medically speaking,in my case), but you somehow can't shake the feeling that you actually don't know squat...? as it turned out, i knew things! i was able to think clearly during the time i was interviewing my patients, including different things to consider in diagnosing their ills (history, physical exam, differentials...). pati ako naniwala sa mga pinagsasasabi ko nung nag-e-explain na ako sa pasyente! ANG GALING! i feel... invigorated, to say the least. :)

(oh yeah... thankY Peach! for the kind words, for trusting me with your stories...)

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i really am going to have to start my stories soon... for now, though, i'm saving my "love story" for when i feel i'm good enough to deliver on its promise. that said, i guess the Princess and the Peach will have to wait a little bit longer. hmm, has a nice ring to it... the Princess and the Peach. what do you think? (anybody who's ever read ANY of my entries...) another story idea. or a poem. or... g'nyt, for now.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

...what it says on the title.

hmm, where the heck to begin...? see, it's been over a month since i wrote here, and in that month, many things have happened. the week i turned 27 was the best week of the year, bar none! it started with a ho-hum post duty day on the 6th of December and there i was, on my bed, on the eve of the 7th thinking "how's this birthday going to measure up...?"

aw, man... this is what i get for getting too lazy. i wrote/typed a lot this past month, stuff about all the things that were happening to me at the time, and i had them all saved up in this little laptop of mine. however, for some reason, even though i went online enough times, i wasn't able to post at least once. and now, i've lost the magic of all those entries. they're all in the great cosmic recycle bin in the sky... MY HARD DRIVE CRASHED LAST WEEK!!!! grumblegrumble....

anyway, i'm over it. maybe i'll try to recreate those entries little by little, in some sort of update or year-in-review thing.