The Fifth Marauder

mrssnuffles

i seem to have gotten over my troubles with sleeping for the time being, thanks to PRC's philippine orthopedic center duty requirement for all nursing students. hindi nakakatuwa ang layo ng POC sa kung saan ako nakatira. POC is in banawe by the way. so i have to wake up at 3:30 am, then i have to be finished with my morning rituals by 4 so i can make the 4:30 call time at evacom, wherein i will be meeting up with my groupmates. waaah. and going to POC and back is ridiculously expensive too. anyway, i was watching friends earlier after i got home from POC and i could feel my eyelids getting heavier by the minute. grabe, i had to drink coffee at the middle of the day so i won't fall asleep.

anyway, the good thing about this rotation is that we don't actually do nurse-y stuff. we just tour the hospital, do return demos and take quizzes. there's also a tiangge inside the hospital grounds, plus food! sarap sana mag food trip, but i can't cause my uniform's getting tight around the waist area as each day of school progresses (must be our new helper's fault, umuurong ang damit!!! hahahaha in denial!!!), and though everything is relatively cheap, i'm trying to save up as much as i can because i'm already halfway through my weekly allowance and it's only tuesday. hay.

we have a return demo tomorrow. and i'm so gonna flunk that. i'm too sleepy to study. hehe

mrssnuffles

i never used to like sleeping or napping, even as a kid. i think it's a waste of time, i would rather watch tv or read or play or whatever. maybe that is why i am still short. hehe. anyway, thanks to our 6-10 shift at POC, and having to wake up at 3:30 am during duty days, i have developed this hobby of taking a nap from 3pm to 5:30 and then falling asleep at 9:30. sarap! i used to have sleeping problems, but i bid them goodbye for the moment. next week we are supposed to be at the national center for mental health, which is in  mandaluyong, meaning we get an extra hour of sleep compared to our POC days, maybe even more if our group gets assigned to the later shift.

oh by the way, thanks for all the greetings! i didn't get to do something crazy during my birthday because we were at POC, and we had a case presentation and a quiz the next day so i didn't celebrate that much. as a birthday gift, our group leader assigned me to do the physical examination part of the case presentation. ngarag! because i only have the faintest idea on how that works. i may be graduating in less than a year, but i still wonder how i even got to where i am in my nursing education with my meager knowledge in the topics that i should have mastered when i was in my 2nd year. hay.

 parang may nakabara sa lalamunan ko. hope i'm not getting sick.

mrssnuffles

i officially bid the toshiba laptop goodbye last saturday. now i don't have a computer, and i don't even care that much, until yesterday when i'm supposed to construct a script for a skit on social manners to be performed to an audience of mentally ill patients. so right now i'm using shari's macbook while she is still asleep. won't be using it for very long though because i have to be in the national center for mental health in about two hours to report to a clinical instructor who has a tripolar personality disorder. bipolar pa lang ang nadidiscover, but yung sa kanya, ibang level kasi! hahaha.

anyway, will be blogging about the mental hospital experience and how it smells (haha) soon.  

mrssnuffles

finally i can blog! been busy and tired these past couple of weeks. not that i was doing schoolwork the whole time but my computer got busted and then they took away the toshiba laptop so... anyway we have a duty free week (hehe) and we just took the prelims last thursday, friday, and saturday so i can pretty much bum around until thursday afternoon, because i have to go back to my usual schedule.

we officially said good riddance to the national center for mental health last tuesday. we couldn't celebrate though, because prelims are in about 48 hours after that moment and we haven't made any progress with our studying. anyway i am not going to miss that place. the patients are a delight though. we kinda got used to the "mental" smell. the patients have this certain smell because of the anti-psychotic drugs that they were taking.

i finally got to read and finish the last harry potter book this weekend, after a week of longing and agony. hehe exag. can't say that i loved it as much as prisoner of azkaban, but still loved it. i didn't have to wait until near the end of the book for exciting fight scenes and duels, it seemed to me that i was reading about them in every other chapter. i would like to reread the book though, as i found myself just skimming (or scanning? whatever hehe) through some pages because i was so anxious to get to the end. i felt a little sad though, after i read the last sentence of the last chapter. i found myself still flipping through the last pages, looking for parts that i may have missed. hay. sure i can read all the books again, but am sure going to miss the characters. it's just so sad that i won't be looking forward to any more books nor will i be expecting a new one in july 2008 or 2009.

went to festi mall this morning to have my computer fixed for the nth time. is still slow, because i have to reformat and remove a few hundred music files, but i'm too lazy to back them all up. i watched ratatouille to kill time while waiting for my laptop.

oh well. i guess that's it. my life's been pretty boring. it's been a school-bahay-duty-inom once a week thing for me. haha. now i'm off to finish the friends dvd marathon so i can go on with my life after that. hehe