The Last Mon Standing

I was listening, I guess last week, on a Radio Show when a Nurse called. The topic was about kissing and the Nurse relates how she not so in the hype with torrid kissing. She was like, “I imagine all the germs that can be transferred with kissing.” And I guess that’s what happens when you know too much. As with me, ater I went to college, I never let a beggar or a street child touch me, I never touch the railings on escalators and stairs, I never hold the door knobs in public restrooms, and I even get irritated sometimes when I have to lean on buses’ windows. One time I even rushed myself to the hospital to undergo an appendectomy only to be laughed at by some mediocre midwives since according to them I didn’t even “pain enough.” [READ MORE]

The first reference I had about the Train Man (Densha Otoko) was when it was mentioned in one movie review of the Korean film My Sassy Girl. I made a mental note that I have to watch the film. That time I didn’t know that the movie was just an adaptation of a book with the same title so I was stunned when I saw the book by accident at a bookstore last November. I planned to read it throughout the Holidays last December but I didn’t have the chance to do so. [READ MORE]

When I was younger, I once saw an experiment about mice in an Educational TV. The test was about the effect of drastic increase in population and the sudden scarcity of rations in food in the social behavior of rats. The little documentary first showed a very small group of mice happily living together in a frolicsome environment where overcrowding and food crisis is totally unheard of; then the camera focused on an overcrowded cage of mice given only with limited supply of grains. Soon, the competition for space and food in the latter set up became fierce. The mice in the second group became more aggressive and irritable until such time that they resorted to infanticides and cannibalism. [READ MORE]

This is how I spent my holidays

December 24, 2008
My sisters cannot celebrate Christmas with us; so instead, we went to their house to celebrate Christmas with them. I finally received the book, Train Man (translated version of the book Densha Otoko), which I asked my sister to buy for me. For awhile I thought that she’d give it to me as a Christmas gift but then she still asked for the payment. I decided not to read it yet.

December 25, 2008
Since we didn’t really prepare for Christmas, we have initially planned to spend the day at the Star City but since Glorietta is nearer we chose otherwise. While we were strolling along, I saw an eight-year old girl in pink dress. For awhile I thought she was just wearing an ultra uncomfortable dress as she scratched herself until I discerned a bulging figure on her chest. It seems like she put a pair of golf balls under her shirt. She kept on cupping the artificial breast to keep them in placed and caressing the area where her breasts’ cleavage should have been. It was incredibly funny. And when she finally realized that we were looking at her she made an obvious attempt to push her chest outward to make the area look fuller and I guess more noticeable.[READ MORE]

My stay last week in the bloodbank, when I had my three days and two nights straight duty, would have been less cheerful if I didn’t get to know Juan Paolo Sanchez.[READ MORE]

I spent another graveyard shift last night at the blood bank. I was with Kathleen RN, Mary, Mark RN and Kim. The group, together with some volunteers who did not attend their duty last night, became close friends because of these nightly shifts. Initially, they have been unintentionally scheduled together until finally[READ MORE]

A certificate of completion is given to every volunteer who finishes at least 100 hours of duty in the blood bank. Since a.) I was always absent or b.) 2 hours late for my scheduled time of duty because I was just sneaking under my father’s nose (he didn’t allow me to volunteer), and c.)I opted to be absent on November and October to prepare for my board examination, and d.) if ever I attend the duty I’d be 2 hours late, I was not able to complete the required 100 hours duty in the blood bank. Heck, even the second batch of volunteers last October was able to beat me in the attendance. So last week I thought of spending three days and two nights in the blood bank just to make up for the wasted times. [READ MORE]

I just got back from a three-day-straight duty in the blood bank. I am still groggy since I only had two hours of sleep last night and I’m not yet in a mood to write about what happened. Besides I still… [Read More]