Scribe of Neverland

Las Vegas Pinay

Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:05:56 GMT

Got to the airport earlier than expected.
After spending 5 days here in vegas.... Am glad to be going home to sanfo, It would just be a short stop hehehheh cuz on saturday am gonna fly to san diego to visit my grand aunt.
The security checks here in the states has been very strict, but thats the post 9-11 world for yah!

Funny tning happend at the hotel

There was this Filipina lady who asked me "Where are you from?"
I said from the Philippines
She said "From where?"
I said: PILLIPINE
She said: "KABABAYAN"

Hahahahha so funny, you have to say it with a hard accent for her to understand (pati siya natawa hehehhe)... wala lang

I love Las Vegas, but am glad to go back to California.... Am all buffeted out hahhahaha.... SOBRA TABA KO NA!!!!
pics to follow

For One More Day

Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:06:04 GMT

Mitch Albom, the author of Tuesdays with Morrie, has a new book
"For one more day".
It is an easy read book that will touch your heart.

Excerpts:

"Let me guess. You want to know why I tried to kill Myself."

" This is a story about a family and, as there is a ghost involved you might call it a ghost story. But every family is a ghost story. The dead sit at out tables long after they have gone."

"You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart."

"There's a story behind everything. How a picture got on a wall. How a scar got on your face. Sometimes the stories are simple, and sometimes they are hard and heartbreaking. But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins."

"One day spent with someone you love can change everything"

"A day to listen, to love, to apologize, to forgive"

"If my Mother said it, I believe it."

Synopsis:

For one more day is the story of a mother and a son, and a relationship that lasts a lifetime and beyond. It explores the question: What would you do it you could spend one more day with a lost loved one?

HEROES

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 01:12:52 GMT

I just finished watching the first 11 episodes of 1st season of heroes on the inet to keep me up to date
The series season return was aired last monday night

I used to hate mondays... but now I can't wait for monday to arrive
just to watch heroes... and thursdays for the all new season of grey's anatomy heheheh.

I love the comic book, superhero, xmen thingy that the series present.
you never know who will be the next mutant... gene mutation... and what powers they pocess

SAVE THE CHEERLEADER.... SAVE THE WORLD

HEROES on NBC, Mondays at 9pm/8pm central

ARE YOU ON THE LIST??

Sun, 31 Dec 2006 07:01:51 GMT

Goodbye 2006

Happy New Year Everyone!

Welcome 2007

Christmas 2006

Sun, 24 Dec 2006 00:02:49 GMT

Turkey day

Wed, 22 Nov 2006 22:18:30 GMT

Happy Thanksgiving!

De'ja Vu

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 23:50:31 GMT

2 weeks notice ;)

Can I have a kitkat???

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:10:16 GMT

My Muscles are all getting SPASMS

My MPS are building up!

MAJOR Decision to be made

Close friends are Migrating

Oral exams up and coming

Pre- Residents to Guide

Post Graduate course at the end of the month

ASEAN pain convention at the start of next month

Christmas is fast approaching

Getting OLDER......

ARRRGGGGGHHHHHH................ STOP IT!

Doctor's Life

Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:07:28 GMT

Four Years of High School

Four Years of College

Four Years of Med School

By the time we graduate we are at our late twenties

And we haven't done anything

Except go to school and think about science

TIME STOPS

We're all SOCIALLY RETARDED.

(Grey's Anatomy Season 3)

******************

Thats the doctors' life for you... We are all 17 years old, So..... can you blame us if we try to re-gain our lost youth????.
Doctors life... Never easy.... Never was... Never will... Alas!!!

Its been an uphill climb ......still a long way to go!

Pain....is there for a Reason!

Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:02:58 GMT

GO USTE!!!!! GO USTE!!!!

UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS

2006 UAAP MENS BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS

Bookworms

Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:30:17 GMT

After work, I went straight to the world trade center........
It was full of......

BOOKS.... BOOKS.... BOOKS and MORE BOOKS.

It's the 27th Manila International Book Fair.

Check it out guys
Aug 30 to Sept 3
10 AM to 8PM

See yah there..... Am going back to buy more books hehehehehe

SMS Moments 2

Wed, 09 Aug 2006 03:41:27 GMT

A couple of quotes ... I got thru the text line :)

True Strength of character is not just calculated by how well we manage to carry some sizable load under challenging conditions, but it is perhaps better measured by out ability to remain kind and ligth-spirited, even when we're sure that we can't bear the weight of one more ounce of life.

>>>>>>>>>>>

We don't look for love because it sucks to be alone watching movies, because it's sad to eat meals alone, because it's nice to cuddle up with someone on rainy days; We look for love because we want to be forgiven; for the sloppy way we dress, for the clumsy way we eat our meals, for bad hair days and for the plainness of ourselves. Love is an act of forgiveness, that for all our imperfections, we are accepted and forgiven.

Why a broken heart causes physical pain

Tue, 08 Aug 2006 16:08:09 GMT

I'ts midnight, I just finished talking to cuteshox, he told me about this article . . . . . Just want to share it with you guys :)

Why a broken heart hurts so much
Social rejection may affect brain as much as physical pain

ASSOCIATED PRESS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 — A rejected lover’s broken heart may cause as much distress in a pain center of the brain as an actual physical injury, according to new research.

CALIFORNIA RESEARCHERS have found a physiological basis for social pain by monitoring the brains of people who thought they had been maliciously excluded from a computer game by other players.
Naomi I. Eisenberger, a scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles and the first author of the study to be published Friday in the journal Science, said the study suggests that the need for social inclusiveness is a deep-seated part of what it means to be human.
“These findings show how deeply rooted our need is for social connection,” said Eisenberger. “There’s something about exclusion from others that is perceived as being as harmful to our survival as something that can physically hurt us, and our body automatically knows this.”

Eisenberger and her co-authors created a computer game in which test subjects were led to believe they were playing ball with two other players. At some point, the other players seemed to exclude the test subject from the game — making it appear the test subject had been suddenly rejected and blocked from playing with the group.
The shock and distress of this rejection registered in the same part of the brain, called the anterior cingulate cortex, that also responds to physical pain, Eisenberger said.
“The ACC is the same part of the brain that has been found to be associated with the unpleasantness of physical pain, the part of pain that really bothers us,” Eisenberger said.

Mysteries of the brain

Eisenberger said the study suggests that social exclusion of any sort —— divorce, not being invited to a party, being turned down for a date —— would cause distress in the ACC.
“You can imagine that this part of the brain is active any time we are separated from our close companions,” she said. “It would definitely be active when we experience a loss,” such as a death or the end of a love affair.
In a commentary in Science, Jaak Panksepp of the department of psychology at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, said earlier studies have shown that the anterior cingulate cortex is linked to physical pain.
He said the new study by Eisenberger and her co-authors demonstrates that the ACC is also activated by the distress of social exclusion.
“Throughout history poets have written about the pain of a broken heart,” Panksepp said in his commentary. “It seems that such poetic insights into the human condition are now supported by neurophysiological findings.”
The tendency to feel rejection as an acute pain may have developed in humans as a defensive mechanism for the species, said Eisenberger.

“Because we have such a long time as infants and need to be taken care of, it is really important that we stay close to the social group. If we don’t we’re not going to survive,” said Eisenberger. “The hypothesis is that the social attachment system that makes sure we don’t stray too far from the group piggybacked onto the pain system to help our species survive.”
This suggests that the need to be accepted as part of a social group is as important to humans as avoiding other types of pain, she said.
Just as an infant may learn to avoid fire by first being burned, humans may learn to stick together because rejection causes distress in the pain center of the brain, said Eisenberger.
“If it hurts to be separated from other people, then it will prevent us from straying too far from the social group,” she said.

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 14:17:26 GMT

Let us pray for lasting

PEACE

NO TO WAR

Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:41:39 GMT

Atlantis productions will stage AIDA..... I can't wait :)

As Long As You're Mine

Sun, 25 Jun 2006 07:39:53 GMT

Kiss me too fiercely
Hold me too tight
I need help believing
You're with me tonight
My wildest dreamings
Could not foresee
Lying beside you
With you wanting me

Just for this moment
As long as you're mine
I've lost all resistance
And crossed some borderline
And If it turns out
It's Over too fast
I'll make every last moment last
As long as you're mine

Maybe I'm brainless
Maybe I'm wise
But you've got me seeing
Through different eyes
Somehow I've fallen
Under your spell
And somehow I'm feeling
It's "UP" that I fell...

Every Moment
As long as you're mine
I'll wake up my body
And make up for lost time...

Say there's no future
For us as a pair...

And through I may know
I don't care...

Just for this moment
As long as you're mine
Come be how you want to
And see how bright we shine
Borrow the moonlight
Until it is through
And know I'll be here Holding you
As Long as you're mine.

- Wicked The Musical

Walk

Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:36:55 GMT

Holy Monday, I was talking to my patient, who is suffering from a complete spinal cord injury. She is confined to a wheel chair. A resident from ortho-spine told her that she will be able to walk after the operation. I admitted her a month ago. It was made clear that the goal for her admission was that she would be taught transfer techiniques from bed to wheelchair etc... etc..., Last week we learned that she is expecting to walk again. The truth is.... she will not be able to.

I was doing my daily rounds, when she asked me "Doc, Hindi na ba talaga ako makakalakad?". How can I tell the person that she will not be able to walk again???. How can I extinguish what little hope she has?. The truth has to be said.... "Sa mga nabasa at naaral ko po, sa kalagayan nyo ngayon, hindi na po talaga kayo makakalakad." She started to cry. I had to tell her that my knowledge of her illness is based on science and that hope still exist...if she has faith.

"Tao lang din po kaming mga doctor nyo, maaari rin pong magkamali kami ngunit ang mga basehan po naman sa pag taning sa inyo na di na kayo makakalakad, ay base sa aming mga pagaaral. Ayaw ko naman po na mawalan kayo ng pagasa."

"Doc uuwi na lang ako sa bicol, tutal wala na rin namang magagawa kasi di na ko makakalakad."

"Di naman ho porke di na kayo makakalakad eh wala na po tayong pwedeng gawin, Maari pa po kayong maging isang ipektibong miyembro ng kommunidad... Tuturuan kayo para di na kayo aasa sa iba sa mga pag-galawgalaw nyo kahit sa loob lamang ng bahay."

Walking is one of the first lessons we learn in life. We are expected to walk by one year of age. How would you feel when in your 40s, this gift is taken away. We value and treasure so many things. We give importance to material things, when the true blessings are with us, we can see, smell, hear, walk, feel and love. Sometimes we just take all this forgranted. Having this conversation with my patient made me realize that I am still lucky and blessed, with it comes the responsibility to help others. She taught me compassion and sensitivity in those few minutes that we talked, by showing me complete surrender, humility and acceptance. I saw in her not bitterness, but Hope.

It was hard for me to tell someone that she will not be able to walk again, I cannot begin to imagine what she must be feeling. I hope God would give her the strength to pass this ordeal... Who knows God may grant her the ability to walk again.... Only God Knows. Only God heals and can make the lame ......WALK.

Oath of Office

Mon, 13 Feb 2006 15:26:48 GMT

February 13, 2006

Today I took my oath of office, together with 30 other doctors as Medical Officer III. Its been almost a month that I started my RESIDENCY program here at the Philippine General Hospital. I cant believe I finally decided to specialized on something already. Its been very busy lately.... PGH = MADAMING PASYENTE!!!!!. Am not complaining ha! :)
I decided to take up, Physical Rehabilitation Medicine, and I hope to subspecialize in Sports Medicine or EMG. Most of my friends who knew of my decision thought that Rehab med is the one for drug dependents hehehheh, Nope its not Psychiatry po yun!:P. Am on duty tonight and ready to sleep, Ive learn a lot these pass few weeks but I need to catch up cause my pre-med is biology, It would help a lot if I have a PT background,Its one of the elements of rehab kasi :). )
Last saturday, I went to the Jaipur camp in Bulacan (its like a medical mission), our aim was to screen patients.... Amputees for measurements for Prosthesis. I had a mute patient. While doing the Physical exam she started to cried... so I went in after her when she was being measured for the artificial limb and I could see that she was truly grateful.... she would hold my hand and look at me with a thankful smile... I said to myself that If this is the kind of thanks that I would receive through out my medical career.... then Its all worth IT!!!!!

Happy Valentines Day!!!!!!

Eleven Minutes

Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:07:41 GMT

Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.

Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions of all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.

Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it -- which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?

I don't know.

Excerpts from " Eleven Minutes" by Paulo Coelho

stolen from got2nuni

Sun, 23 Oct 2005 11:04:33 GMT

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Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:14:16 GMT

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Sat, 10 Sep 2005 23:40:51 GMT

2 weeks notice ;)

MAGIC MOMENTS

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:34:47 GMT

You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the Miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Every day, God gives us the sun -- and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that moment, that it doesn't exist -- that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow, but if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us. But that moment exists -- a moment when all the power of the stars becomes a part of us and enables us to perform miracles.

Joy is sometimes a blessing, but it is often a conquest. Our magic moment helps us to change and sends us off in search of our dreams. Yes, we are going to suffer, we will have difficult times, and we will experience many disappointments -- but all of this is transitory; it leaves no permanent mark. And one day we will look back with pride and faith at the journey we have taken.

Pitiful is the person who is afraid of taking risks. Perhaps this person will never be disappointed or disillusioned; perhaps she won't suffer the way people do when they have a dream to follow. But when that person looks back -- and at some point everyone looks back -- she will hear her heart saying, "What have you done with the miracles that God planted in your days? What have you done with the talents God bestowed on you? You buried yourself in a cave because you were fearful of losing those talents. So this is your heritage: the certainty that you wasted your life."

Pitiful are the people who must realize this. Because when they are finally able to believe in miracles, their life's magic moments will have already passed them by.

Excepts from "By the river Piedra I sat down and wept", Paulo Coelho