I know. Nobody needs too many blogs. But since I want to separate all med life related entries (as they can be so many) from the non-medicine related, I created a new blog.

 Doktor Kwak-kwak!

Plus, I really miss writing in Filipino. Considering the things I wrote there, I think I make a tad more sense there than here. Please do drop by. Thank you.

Happy Birthday, Mama Mary!!! Thank you for all the answered prayers.

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I’ve got loads up in my head. As I have expected, life will be excruciatingly more complicated once I get my license. I have applied for residency training in the Department of Medicine of the UST Hospital. If I got the numbers right, each one of us applicants have, mathematically speaking, ~40% chance of bagging one of ten slots available for the 1st year of training. All else considered, I think it is even less (for me at least). Especially when the competition includes a handful of upper class doctors and a board topnotcher.

“Almost despair prey upon my soul…”

I want that slot. And I need it badly. Please let me be qualified.

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To make matters more complicated, the department moved the interview to a latter date – which is this coming week – which totally conflicts with my scheduled Medical Mission here in my barangay (the very first one). The only thing I pray for today is that I won’t be scheduled for interview on Wednesday, Sept 12, the day of the mission. I thought of rescheduling the mission to Sept 14, but then again, pre-residency will start on that day. I am TOTALLY lost.

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I have decided to channel all my frustrations to creative energy and came up with this.

For a week now I have come up with a couple of designs for the Starbucks Create-Your-Own-Tumbler I am planning to give. This one has definitely won my thumbs up. I will be designing more in the next days to come if the schedule permits. I love you, Adobe! (The lady in the design is my Emem. I love you! )

I was desperate to search for the news article about the results of the most recent Nursing Boards here in the Philippines because – well, I just like to know. By the way, to a good friend, Victor Perez, RN, congratulations!

I finally got what I was looking for at the Inquirer website. Looking at the Pageone Image, I saw the following article:

You can read the full article here, as I did. I can’t believe what the headline bore. Mother Teresa, nearing her 10th death anniversary this September, is not called the living saint before when she was living for nothing. But this really is shocking. Then I tried to imagine how all the more hard it was to do what she did. As if what she told the world to do wasn’t epic and saintly in proportions, she must struggle within herself to rationalize why she does it.

But I remembered what she said. “Do ordinary things with extraordinary love.” She could have doubted God existed, but I believe it is only because she too busy looking after other people that she failed to take a look inside herself. There in her was God. Only He can love that much.