Quickie

Sheltered

Shot in Quiapo

• So this is how being espresso-powered feels like. Add Kesha's Tick Tock (and some dancing and head-bobbing) and I think I can last until 5AM like this. I will make this Scope pubmat pretty!
• Hay.
• Last two exams, two management papers, and one management report to go! Fight, Bea!
• I'm seriously loving the Gastro-intestinal-Nutrition module :) Well, except the Biochem part.
• Learning how to actually count calories from food and knowing the exact amounts of food groups needed by the body made me more food-conscious. I love thinking about health. Haha.
• Winter Wonderland by Jason Mraz ♥
• Christmas shopping in a few!
• CHRISTMAAAS ♥

Acetyl CoA

Hello to a nerdy Biochem-filled weekend!

My Source of Sanity

...my source of love and strength :)

Just messing around with my adorable mom, who I missed badly since I didn't see her for four days. Now I miss Dad, too :(

Okay, back to the liver. Effin' hepatic segmentation.

Bluer Than Blue

One sem break Monday, I went with my mom to the south to check out their project at NAIA 3. The sun was high and the sky was lovely blue, so I could not resist taking some photos.

The NAIA 3 landmark that my mom, dad, and brother are working on. Can't wait to see it when it's completely done!

We then drove to the The Fort to wait for my eldest brother. Hello, sky and skyscrapers.

White

I like white roses. Some find it weird because white roses, according to them, are for funerals. But I beg to differ. I find red roses to be overly.. Romantic, I guess? Not that I am not a hopeless romantic because I totally am. There is just something about how the beauty of white roses is so simple and pure and real that it makes me feel light inside. It makes me smile. I wish I could be as beautiful as a white rose.

Thank you to Borbs who gave me a large, pretty white rose on my birthday back in September. I wasn't able to capture a photo of it when it was still in its best blooming glory, but above are photos of it before all the petals fell off. I secured a couple of petals between the pages of one of my thick science books, I just can't remember which one. Heehee.

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I Slept until 10 AM today. I didn't have to stop my phone's alarm from ringing because it wasn't able to wake me up to even the minutest level of consciousness. I was really exhausted from yesterday, I don't know why. Maybe it was because my shoes killed my feet. Or I felt bad because of the maggots and fungi that found their new home in our cadaver. Or I was just smitten tired by Dr. Reyes' greatness. Yet too bad for us med students crushing on him since he's married already. Haha.

Anyway, I had a number of dreams last night. I can't remember what they were exactly, but I do know that they were nice ones. And today, I'm feeling nice, too. Thank you for this non-working holiday, I can laze off a bit and rest. I'll be posting more photos later, study, then attend a meeting for our batch jackets.

I Can Make it Through the Rain

In commemoration of my long-awaited, much-adored, but recently concluded semestral break, allow me to look back and savor the lovely time I had with my family and friends with a couple of sem break posts. I enjoyed taking lots and lots of photos, and here are some of them.

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Wawel visited me while I was in Tanay. It was a gloomy Friday afternoon, which kind of matched our mood then. Since rain was pouring on and off that day, we ended up hanging out under the comforts of the roofed asotea at the dike with our umbrellas, some junk food, my journal, and my colored pencils.

Wawel attempted to draw me. I wish I don't look like that in real life.

He ended up discovering my Hip Hob Abs DVD that was tucked in between my journal's pages. Hehe.

I saw this in the grocery and I just could not not buy it. It was green, plus it was sour cream. Nomnomnom. MSG-goodness.

We then walked a bit.

At the end of the dike, this sculpture stands in memory of the victims of Typhoon Ondoy.

Lastly, the beautiful old school light house of Tanay.

Reminiscing

Nakakamiss ang UP.

Sunshine-y Day

Good morning :)

Despite not being able to sleep properly because noises in our kitchen woke me up and scared me like crazy (I blame it on Paranormal Activity 2 haha), this morning came up to be a pleasant one for me. I'm here in Tanay, having a vacation and helping my Dad and my brother. They don't have a regular househelper here, so here I am, being their semi-yaya/personal assistant for a week. I missed being with them so much, and I realized how I missed Tanay as well.

I woke up at 5AM to prepare breakfast and baon for Dad and Jay. Then I helped them prepare for work and school, edited our research methodology, took some random pictures here at home, and now, I'm surfing to my heart's delight while watching Grey's Anatomy. It's a wonder why I still have energy after having just three hours of sleep, but yay to enjoying my second to the last Friday of my sem break.

Later, I'll be drawing and coloring and sketching, and I'll be planning the rest of my sem break. Keep the happy vibes coming! :)

All Piled Up

Even my cute stuffed toy is pooped because of med.

Lethargy

My dose of energy + my dear B- and T-lymphocytes

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Greetings from Starbucks Megamall. I just had to take a break from histology, hematology ang immunology, hence the random camera phone photo and post.

How I wish I could simply laze around and stare into outerspace.

P.S. The baristas here let me try drawing on the Starbucks blackboard. I (awfully) sketched a Coffee Jelly frap. That's one down out of my gazillion dreams in life :)

Soak up the Sun

Ah, the long-awaited beach trip of my summer vacation and the reason for my two-week diet and pseudo-workout regimen (which didn't really produce much results)--the UP PsychSoc Kick-off 2010.

The kick-off was definitely the best way to destress after one busy and draining summer semester at ADMU and ASMPH. And of course, I loved being with my orgmates who made my four years in UP fun-filled, memorable, and awesome. I missed them because admittedly, I wasn't as active as I should be in PsychSoc because of my Mandala responsibilities. Still, PsychSoc defined my UP life in tremendous ways, ways that I am very thankful for.

I actually can't believe that I'm now a VOPS (Veteran Of PsychSoc) and not a POPS (People Of PsychSoc) anymore. PsychSoc was my first home in UP, and without it, I would not be who I am today. It brought me out of my shell. It pushed me to do more and show my talents. Most importantly, it introduced me to cool, dedicated, fun (and grade-conscious haha) people who made my life crazily hectic yet wonderful.

For this year's kick-off, we went to Bakasyunan Resort in Iba, Zambales last May 22-23. The nice things about the place? The free two-hour videoke, free one-hour kayaking, the public trampoline, and the rock-less beach bottom! The kick-off was great in itself; I enjoyed the booze, the sweet tokens for us kickees (AKA recently graduated members), Migo's supply of Skittles and Lifesavers Gummies, the company, the good times, the laughter. Thank you so much, VOPS and POPS!

With Marge the Large!

Lovely South girls that I will surely miss: Reg, Ate Khat, and Marge.

The sand was not white, but the place was still nice.

Reg getting baked. I love the print on her bikini!

Migo not getting a tan, so he just goofed around. Haha.

Reg, on the other hand, became sunkissed.

One of my forever PsychSoc loves, Reg.

Migo's kayak team. Too bad we didn't have a picture of ours :(

Abandon ship!

Mico, my phonepal! I will never forget that super random phone call. Haha.

Although I didn't get a proper tan, finally being able to hit the beach was refreshing. But I do hope I could go to the beach one last time before med school starts. I shall keep my fingers crossed.