I am sorry for everyone who I disappointed in one way or another, yesterday. I really do.
I’m not a Superhuman like what my baseball cap says.
“Disappointing others – that’s what humans are only good at.” – Remind me who said this. I can’t remember.
Oplan. noun. A term coined from the Filipino word plano (or “plan” in English). Funny, because I always knew the meaning of this word ever since I was in grade school, not because it was obvious, but because it has been always associated in events such as oplan kapit-bisig, oplan tuli, oplan linis-kapaligiran, etc. Maybe when someone asked me that time why it was called oplan, I wouldn’t know exactly what to say.
Amazing how one unknown word becomes so familiar just because it’s been associated with something else so many times.
I have been working so hard for the last couple of weeks for an ambitious goal. It’s not for anyone. Just me and my insane idea of putting up a fun (but credible) keepsake for my first year in med school.
I can’t talk about it, but the idea was easy. At first. And now that I have started it, I feel like giving up already. Every time I continue to work on it, a lot of alternative ways/ideas just begin to pop in my head telling me to stop the crap because there are a lot of other [easier] ways on how to do it. But then I keep telling myself not to because I have started and I have done so much already. Patience. But I’m tired. My hands are tired.
Then I stop typing. I look away from the monitor and space out. Thinking. When I become a doctor, is this the way how I’m going to decide for myself? That I’m tired already? How will I be able to last in an institution where people just keeps moving, stays alert all the time, awake for days? What I am trying to achieve is out of the ordinary. I can’t finish all these before the classes start. But on my way to reaching this goal, I feel like this is just like med school. A tiny version of it. I set an ambitious goal and then try to do everything to achieve it.
Maybe this is how I am going to be as a doctor. Ambitious. Full of new ideas. Ideas that are out of the box.
My motivation then, is the idea that I am responsible for this. For everything I’m doing. I wanted this. And I started it. There is no giving up. No turning back.
I am almost in the middle of Grey’s Anatomy (Season 5) when this episode about Dr. Sheperd’s mom dropping by the hospital left me LOL-ing.
Meredith anxiously prepared for her boyfriend’s mom and apparently (with Izzie’s suggestion) she decided to prep up her hair with a very high pony(tail). I’m sorry if I have to blog this, but Mer really looked ridiculous! I was laughing since then every time she appears. It was a great laugh. Great, great, great laugh. In the end, Dr. Yang told her how ridiculous it was and eventually she removed it. End of story. The story of the great high ponytail.
“FREE ERICSSON LAPTOP! Just forward this message to 8 of your friends!”
A couple of weeks ago, I received an email from a friend about a free laptop being given away by Ericsson [yup, the same name that goes with the Sony-Ericsson (SE) brand] if and only if you get to disperse the news to at least eight people. According to the email, the action was part of the company getting more exposure to the consumers.
I opened the email and I even saw SE’s company logo.
But hey, being quite a techie person that I am, I immediately googled Ericsson T18 Laptop to find out what it can offer ‘cause seriously, I haven’t really heard anything about it. Then whala! Internet search gives me this:
Hoax: Ericsson Free Laptop Promotion - Urban Legends
For one moment I told myself, wow, an Ericsson laptop? That’d be cool. An then I snap back to reality with the feeling that I wasted 10 minutes of my time.
As what most internet freaks say, do not believe anything you see or read on the internet as if it was the Bible or anything close. We have all the information we need with just one click. Let’s just use these wisely, okay?
Only a few minutes left before the American Idol Top 3 Results Show airs in local TV, I decided to log in for a while to download last night’s songs. I really liked Kris Allen’s performances. While surfing, I also figured that it is possible that news about who made it to the finale might already be published online! So right now, I am very, very careful not to click on anything, or read further AI articles, open social networking sites (someone might actually announce it via his/her status, which I REALLY HATE) or even google anything. No spoilers please!
Okay. I am taking too much time in here. Time to turn on the TV.
