The Fifth Marauder

mrssnuffles

yeah it was me who suggested this cheesy love song to be sung in our clinical graduation. sorry batchmates hehe. well i did suggest this song mainly because of the title and the first line. i still think it was wayyyy better than graduation song by vitamin c. i mean hello, could you really imagine the second coursers singing that said song? hehe

anyway, i had two graduations. one for nursing, for finishing all the health cares and ncms, the other one was for finishing college. maybe God wanted me to have two graduation ceremonies because i have spent N years in college already. haha. so the clinical grad was hot, literally. we were all forced to buy new uniforms and shoes just for the occasion. my feet were killing me because i haven't had the chance to break in my new pointy white shoes and i got half a size too small. i took lots of photos as you all could probably see in my multiply, not really caring that i look ridiculous in my spanking new white uniform. when we are about to march inside the church, i got scolded by at least 3 clinical instructors for having a camera and a clutch bag with me, and even confiscated my fan because they said that it wouldn't look good in the pictures. i didn't feel any particular excitement or sadness or whatever during the ceremony. i was just bored and sweaty and tired and hungry and my feet were killing me. actually i was a bit worried because it's already thursday and i still don't have a dress for the academic graduation. i was lucky enough to be seated with sef and rica so i was not as bored as all my other friends.

the academic graduation was not really that different from the clinical one. hot weather? check. painful feet? check. really long ceremony? check. the only difference is that during the clinical graduation i wore my hair in a tight bun whereas in the academic i left it loose around my shoulders. i did my hair by myself by the way, courtesy of my tita's heated curlers. hehe. it was quite easy for me i guess, because my hair was curly to begin with. i also did my own makeup. if only i knew how to make my make up last as long as the parlor made ones.. anyway, we had to leave after my name was called because my tita had a dinner chorva in makati and was already running late because the ceremony did not start on time. i was only sorry that i didn't have a chance to take a picture of my dress. it's blue and silver and has a super duper low neckline. i was still wearing it when i attended a batchmate's grad party in jaipur the same night, and i got hit on like twice. me thinks it's because of the neckline and the dim lights because i don't normally get hit on in normal clothes and during broad daylight. haha.

so graduating was really a non-event for me, surprisingly. i have been waiting for this for N years now, and i always thought that when this day comes i would shed tears of joy. but look at me, i had two graduation ceremonies, and on both times i was just irritatingly fanning myself with the grad invitation with my shoes off because i felt like my feet was about to turn black because they were dying little by little every second that i was wearing the said shoes.

i did have a mini epiphany during the clinical grad. i just realized that maybe this was where i was meant to be. i mean i still marvel at how i manage to get passing grades when i've got almost non-existent study habits. i also realized that even if i did grumble and mumble about hospital duties and case presentations, i miss doing them. i don't know why.

on other things though, i almost done with twilight after two months of reading it. hehe. i only have about a month and a half till the board exams and although i am busy with the review on most days, i do not make an extra effort to read my notes and books. it's just that i feel tired and drained after the review and when i get home, reviewing is the last thing that i wanted to do. last night i did try to study, i had all my review booklets and "pirated" review manuals spread out beside me and i just ended up sleeping early. haha. i think i may have found the liver-friendly cure for my insomnia! haha.  so i was thinking that maybe after i am finished with twilight, i hide all my other unread books and concentrate on my review materials. not. haha.

so much for the longer and more detailed blog entry. i think my pictures in multiply could tell my graduation story better than i could. hehe 

mrssnuffles

As of yesterday, i am officially a makati girl. Haha. For the next month and a half and about 4 times a week anyway. But still. Haha. I and a few rin-house eview classmates decided to enroll in the test-taking strategies chorva of ICSEC-Kaplan because the in-house review ends on the second week of may and i do not trust myself to have the initiative to review on my own in those two remaining weeks before the board exams. The review center is along ayala ave i think, basta it's beside the LKG tower and across standard chartered. wala lang. it's just that i remember having a conversation with faye ata about how walking around in makati and hearing her heels go clack-clacking on the pavement makes her feel grown up. Well standing in front of the starbucks in standard chartered made me feel like a kid more than ever because my friend and i were lost. we didn't know how to get to glorietta from there haha. plus we were dressed wrongly. i was in jeans and he was in this bright yellow shirt. wala lang. haha. not that everyone else was in business attire, but i don't know it felt like we stuck like a sore thumb on the sidewalk. haha.

oh and also as of today, i am the woman of the house. again. my tita and her whole family left for their US vacation earlier this afternoon. and it couldn't have come in a better time, as i find it difficult to study when there are people walking around. so i won't be able to enjoy the coming-home-at-the-time-i-desire privilege that usually comes when my tita goes on vacation. and house parties are out of the question. not that i am planning to lock myself inside my cousin's room with only my review materials for company. nothing that drastic. haha

oh and i decided last monday that if i can get around to collecting my school papers and stuff anytime soon, i will be leaving for the states at the end of june. i wanted to leave at august because i wanted time to rest and bum around, but i realized that all that i will be doing is to make my already big ass grow even bigger. besides, i need to earn those dollars already damnit! hahaha 

mrssnuffles

so after the psychiatric nursing exam and rationales yesterday, i went to national bookstore sm to buy an eraser, as i have discovered that morning that i lost my nth one. i left the store with my new eraser and a copy of jane austen's pride and prejudice. haha. i know i know i have like 10 other unread books waiting for me at home and i am better off reading something from my large stack (and still growing omg) of review materials, but come on, the book costs 99 pesos. who could resist? haha.

i love carly smithson. i know there's really no chance that she can win against the davids, but i just wanted her to last longer than brooke, syesha, and jason.

i am running out of time. i have barely a month and half to go before the boards and i still am not ready. maybe if i drop all my books and review materials in boiling water, let it simmer for about 15 minutes, then drink the whole thing, i will be able to remember everything. haha sana lang. sana lang talaga. ah leche. i'm almost done with the psych nursing review questions. i'd better get back to it. like right now.

mrssnuffles

i think i may have developed a lesbian crush on iza calzado after seeing the new(-ish hehe) urbandub music video yesterday on youtube. i've been singing evidence on my mind all day and even played it on my way to school.

i was 100 questions away from finishing the psychiatric nursing review questions booklet. but i decided to paint my nails baby blue instead. i didn't do a good job of course. my friend even told me that my hand looked like a sampaguita girl's. how rude, i know. those poor girls. haha. but i really, really, really, a hundred times really need to finish the said booklet because i have like 4 other unopened booklets collecting dust on the bookshelf.

our topic in the review was medical-surgical nursing and i dunno if it's the hypochondriac in me talking,  but i may be an emphysema away from having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. and speaking of the review, our lecturer was sooo.. well i couldn't put into words how great she is. she does her lectures old school. just her and a whiteboard. no powerpoint presentation, no handouts, not even a book in her person whenever she goes in front of the room to lecture. grabe. it's been our third day with her today and she still manages to amaze me. i just hope i remember everything she teaches us come exam time. my only problem with her is that the "kalyo" on my writing hand is now turning black because of all the writing that i have to do during her lecture.

oh well. gotta try going back to my test booklet now. wish me luck.  

mrssnuffles

waaah carly's gone. i was getting teary-eyed at the middle of carly's tribute video when our helper suddenly barged inside the room and told me it was time for dinner. sira ang moment. haha. it was really sad seeing her go, her performance was the only one i looked forward to whenever i would watch ai..well there's still david cook but still..

anyway, yay me i finally answered 27 questions out of hundred unanswered ones. i was reading the answer key with the explanations when after answer number four, i decided to go online just because. haha. at least this night was not a complete waste. hahahaha.

it's been a "curacha" (you know, yung babaeng walang pahinga haha) week for me.. i've been going to the review since monday and i won't be having a proper weekend because i we have the CHN lecture tomorrow and saturday and the exam on sunday. grabe. the kalyo on my hand has grown twice its size because of all the writing that i've been doing.. it was like copying the udan medical surgical book from cover to cover. haha exag. but it really felt that way.  

sana monday na bukas. hehe