I jinxed it. I jinxed it big time. Moments after wishing to have a benign last duty, here I am at 2:30 am, wide awake while waiting for the last patient to come in for the CT scan. At 2 freaking 30 a.m. This is terrible! Even my first year dutymates have told me how this has never happened before! Patients scheduled for CT scan at 2 am? Who in the world schedules a non-STAT diagnostic imaging at this very ungodly hour? =S I may not really want to go into the field of Radiology but at least one thing I learned from my rotation is when to schedule patients the most humane way. I can’t seem to understand why there are consultants who wake patients up at the wee hours of the morning to undergo an elective procedure such as this. If I were the patient, I’d get angry for my interrupted sleep/rest time. =S Good thing that today is the last time I’ll be staying up late to wait for patients. I can’t do this for another duty day unless I’m looking for a very quick weight loss program - quick but very unhealthy.

It’s my last duty as a Radiology intern today and I’m hoping to be benign. I remember how I always end up really busy on my last duty during a rotation back in clerkship. There was even a time when I had to do ambubagging three times in one night… two of which happened to be social service patients. How toxic is that? Good thing that this is a private hospital where I’m doing my internship otherwise, I would have ended up doing the ambubagging the whole tour of my duty if it were a government-run hospital where mechanical ventilators are worth a gem. Although I would have saved a lot of apidexin, I’d end up sick and wrinkled doing ambubagging every duty! Who would want that?!?!?

Has anyone else noticed how almost everyone is into running and marathons lately? It’s so evident in facebook where even my non-health conscious friends seem to have gotten into the hype. The question is, how long will this last?
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I’ve always wanted to enroll myself in a gym - not to lose weight (I don’t even need weight loss pills!) - but to get fit. But it’s only today when I finally had the time to enroll in one. In my search for a gym, I realized the scarcity for fitness gyms along the St. Luke’s QC area. I can name three that I came across with during my web search: Planet Infinity, City Lifestyle and Pinnacle Health Pointe. After much ado (and after considering my budget =) ), I got a membership at Pinnacle Health Pointe at Php 999/month. The membership includes use of gym equipments, fitness classes and use of wet areas in their spa. As a member, you are also entitled to enjoy discounts when you avail of their spa services. I can’t say much about their equipments. They ain’t Gold’s Gym after all, but they’re good enough if all you want is something to use. The place is also rather small, thus it can easily be packed at peak hours. Actually I can’t really say much about them yet ‘coz I just started a few weeks ago. But for sure joining one of their classes is at the top of my list. =D

Here’s to good health!

And the soaring Blue Eagles bow down to the Tamaraws in their first loss for UAAP Season 73 with a score of 72-69 in favor of FEU Tamaraws. Breaths were held as Nico Salva tried to tie the score at 71-all in the last few seconds of the game with a not-so-futile lay-up, but it was not his moment to shine. A free throw in the last 0.04 seconds of the game (yes, you read that right) sealed the victory for FEU.

No doubt, the action-packed game thrilled all basketball aficionados. I wish I could have said the same for my alma mater but their 80-62 loss against host team De La Salle on their first-ever UAAP game this season was a heartbreaking and terribly embarrassing one.

Still, it’s very early to predict my team would be a bottom-dweller once again this season. After all, rookie Mike Silungan has shown much potential at the pre-season games. If there’s cure for hair loss, then there’s hope for a perennial bottom-dweller. =D

Browsing through my older entries, I noticed how I’ve received comments from total strangers off the internet. It would have been nice if their comments were at least related to the post; but alas, most, if not all of them were just comments aimed to publicize random links from diet pills to list of car insurance companies . I even suspect that these were actually from evil bots that litter the WWW. What happened to spam guards? Have bot-makers looking to cash in on spamming outsmarted even the best spam guard developers in the world? Looks like it. Any good Wordpress spam guard out there? My blog needs some cleaning up. =)

*Sigh* The perils of online shopping…

I just received the package of my online purchase and was sad to discover that the product did not match the photo the seller posted on the internet. I felt I had been scammed the moment I laid my eyes on the package: label not in place, package poorly wrapped. I may sound too harsh but I believe that if the product were authentic, proper labeling and packaging would have mattered much to the manufacturer as a marketing strategy. I’m just thankful that the seller kept an open mind and assured me of its authenticity despite my reservations. So I’m giving her the benefit of the doubt. I decided to keep my purchase to try for a few weeks and see if it works. If it doesn’t and I was indeed conned. It’ll just serve as another lesson for me and for everyone else why we should be really wary about shopping even adipex without prescription online.