An Unexpected Holy Week Mini-Medical Mission The original plan was just to stay home for the rest of the week, that is until Sunday, because Monday would be back to work. Also we had a memo from the hospital that for health workers receiving the 2nd dose of vaccine next week, we should be staying home, that means no travels and no big gatherings. So, when my mom asked me to buy her stuff for the "binignit" (this is like a sweet porridge cooked with coconut milk, glutinous…
Love in Different Ways I had a little obsession a decade ago that twice a year I visited this small island near Bohol, called Batasan Island. It only has more or less 50 families living in this island, it has a small church and a small public school. This island is so much unique because, every single day during high tide water would rise up to the streets and even to the houses, yet you would still see people living here. Every time I visited this place, when the motorboat…
Araw ng Kagitingan (Day of Valor) : Tour to Mt. Samat, Bataan Today, April 9, 2021, the Philippines celebrated the “Araw ng Kagitingan” (Day of Valor). Historically, it commemorates the fall of Bataan during the World War II. I have visited Mt. Samat in Bataan way back 2009 and it is something that any Filipino can be proud of. I am glad that I have witnessed even in photos and replicas the heroism of the Filipino and American soldiers, and even the ordinary citizens, for…
National Siblings Day : Reflection What a wonderful day?! Not literally because my weekend was a bit mundane, not to mention the throwback photos in Facebook "see your memories" feature bugging me of memorable summer vacations that for now is a No- NO, sad life. Anyway, as I was browsing on Facebook the "National Siblings Day" caught my attention, for me it's a wonderful topic to write about at the moment. Thinking about siblings, I’m blessed and there are some times that…
A Tribute to a Teacher Who Believed In Me Her name is Maam Lily and she was my subject teacher in Science. I met her first way back my second year in middle school, but she was not just a teacher, she lived on inspiring other people. I know it because I am one of those. When I graduated from Elementary, my parents moved in Iligan City to finally settle down here after my grandmother offered a land for us to ultimately build a home (after several years of renting apartments…
Life and Chess As I was watching "The Queen's Gambit" it seems life must have been different for people like Elizabeth Harmond. For a person like her, life is tough on her childhood being an orphan. However, with her skills she manage to pull herself up. She might be struggling with some insecurities but it outweighs her obsession in playing chess - where her life revolves around on it. I like this quote from the series, "You've been the best at what you do for so long, you…
7 Commandments for Commuters this Covid19 Pandemic Today, I got a new patient endorsed under my care for home PT, it was a bit far from home so I commute on a jeepney from the hospital to the patients home. I was sitted near the driver thus I was able to read some reminders for the riding public, and that includes this 7 Commandments for Commuters this Covid19 pandemic. I wanted to take a picture of it but the paper was a bit torn on the sides, with stains on some part, I…
How to Control Hypertension? As we grow older, it seems diseases becomes unavoidable. That's why it is so important that we have to adopt a healthy lifestyle while we are still young, and while we can still control these weird physiological deterioration that accompanies with aging. Hypertension is one common disease that it seems a lot of people are so conscious about. The other day I went to the last vigil of my high school teacher- one I made a **tribute** article few…
"Is it Time for Another Baby?" “I love baby Jan,” the mother continued wearily, “but chasing her around tires me more every day. On the days when I feel that I screamed and break into tears – on such days I question whether it’s right and acceptable for me to keep on having babies just because I can.” This was the line of our neighbor when we had a short conversation in my mom's mini-convenience store. I know, being a mother is a great responsibility, thus it requires…
Grace Under Pressure How many times have we been in a difficult situation and despite of it we need to compose ourself or else sanity will leave us? Have we find ourselves in a dark pit, like a tunnel that hope is our only chance to lead us into some light at the end of it? How often do we become so cranky when life had become so tiring and messy? Can you still smile with bouts of frustration and disappointments? Can you still push on dreaming when life pulls you down…
In Losing and Not Having a Child The little seconds rolled into minutes, minutes into hours, and hours into a day, a day unto night, nights after nights, from the infinite drag of time and on and on, a mother’s heart is longing, continually craving for her baby. Losing someone we loved and worst from us feels like a dagger pointed on our heart feeling the pain every time our heart beats. I was deeply disheartened on a comment of a colleague on Facebook about their struggle…
That Day They Succumbed Death and Covid19 It has been more than a year now when the Covid19 outbreak started and changed the world. No one is an exempt, even the skeptics of this coronavirus thingy succumb to death. From first world down to the third world nations, economies crashing. Even the smallest unit of our society is affected, that is my family or yours, and must be your neighbors too. This morning I was emotional to receive the news that my uncle, my mom's cousin…
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