Clik here to view.
On Being SINGLE, Bad Dates, Macho Luxury Liners and Sarcastic Midgets
So you're suddenly single. Or you've been single for a long time, maybe a few years or months, and at this time, you're probably wondering when you're going to find someone new. Someone that could...
View ArticleClik here to view.
How to Get Robbed by the Marcos Highway Robbery / Hold-Up Gang
Everybody gets robbed at least at one point in their lives. At least here in the country this figure is generally true. Whether you just found out that your cellphone is missing from your bag or you...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Blah Stage and the Other Stages of Life That I Completely Invented Out Of...
Recent realizations have forced me to face this undeniable fact. This constant plateaued down stage of endlessblahness is the worst of them all.See, in the roller coaster of emotions directly...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Date A Girl Who Rides Jeepneys
Date a girl who rides the jeepney. Date a girl who leaves the house armored in comfortable clothes that won't draw attention from innocent bystanders. Heaven knows commuting in the metro may sometimes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Scrub Suits and Sogo: How I Survived the "Habagat" Great Flood
Marikina River 2 days post HabagatOkay, so let's pretend it's still August and I haven't completely abandoned this blog for more than a month now. As you get your bearings on what month this is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Top 7 Ways To NOT Get The Girl
7. Don't have a sense of humor. Or have a sense of humor of a 5-year-old, unless of course the girl you're courting share the same level of comedy appreciation. Girls generally gravitate towards people...
View ArticleClik here to view.
33rd Manila International Book Fair 2012
For someone who has consumed books like daily vitamins for the past 13 years, how ironic it is that this is the first time I've attended the MIBF when they've been doing this for 33 years. Stalls and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Why I Could Never Be "The Mistress": A Review of Olivia M. Lamasan's 2012 Hit...
Consider me naive, or inexperienced, or too full of myself, too proud, maybe, or too feminist, possibly, but I could never understand the reasons and the thought process (if that even exists in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Starbucks Inspired Shorts: Table for Two by Marla Miniano Book Review
Every once in a while, everyone (at least everyone who reads for pleasure) needs a good novel to curl up to during rainy evenings under the cozy warmth of a comforter surrounded by familiar...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Where We Stand
The beauty of the Internet lies in the freedom to air opinions and expose truth without the fear of persecution. #notocybercrimelaw
View ArticleClik here to view.
100: The Hundreds Project by UP Writers Club
It takes 43 muscles to frown. 17 muscles to smile. 14, 17, or 35 muscles to kiss. It takes much more muscles to make love. It takes a wink to be noticed. A note to make the moment memorable. Or, a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Inside the Operating Room: An Introduction
Blood. There is blood everywhere. On the floor, pooling in basins, dripping from sponges and coating once glimmering stainless steel instruments. Smoke lazily floats up the room as the smell of burning...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Inside the Operating Room: The Sterile R.N.
They stand at the end of the line, near the foot of the bed, away from the action. While everyone is looking one way, a lone entity looks at another, fussing over a table littered with blood streaked...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2013 Opening Remarks and the 19 Books of 2012
So. The world refused to end last December 2012. I'd like to congratulate everyone for surviving yet another Armageddon. We are getting good at this, people!First, I'd like to take this opportunity to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
2012 in a Paragraph
Because endings are beginnings and beginnings are both thrilling and exciting, like when you start the year with an optimistic view of the weeks and months to come because you are now employed, well...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Nurse's Notes: 1 1/2 Years Shift
OPERATING ROOM NOTES(August 2011 - December 2012 Shift)> In from bum life / office work via ward with fat pads stubbornly intact on hips, belly and on subcutaneous layers covering self> With...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Things One Learns From Regularly Seeing Bodies Sliced Open
I was supposed to write this deep and profound (redundancy intentional) blog series about my 1 1/2 year experience working inside the Operating Room. I planned it to be hard-hitting stuff,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
I think it's safe to say that I've never read a novel or any book like this before in the hundreds (if not thousands) of books I managed to get my paws on in the almost two decades that I've been...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Top 12 Signs You Are An Operating Room (OR) Nurse
12. You have dry hands and you fear imminent varicose veins eruption in the very near future.11. You can sleep while standing up then snap awake at a sound of an instrument's name being called.10. You...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Inside the Kikay Kit: Etude House's Dear My Blooming Lips BE101 Lipstick
I am not a beauty blogger. The only thing I know about beauty is that it is believed to be in the eye of the beholder. What I know about make-up? Less so. Daily regimen consist of face powder, little...
View Article
