Happy New Year!!

kudos to Freepik Blog

I am actually sad a while ago as I need to go to work though its new years eve. There are no holidays in my company, the only non working holiday that we have I guess is the Thanksgiving day last November 22.

But I think destiny wants me to enjoy the coming year and wants me to celebrate and welcomes it with a big smile on my face, as though I have waited couple of hours in the bust station it makes me wait for nothing as there's really no bus that came along the way thus I went back home and celebrate it with my family and my kids and no doubt it is a nice one, having them by my side with such happy moment like this would make it happier and I just hope that people are contented with simple things like this too.

as the midnight came by I have made a wish: that hopefully 2013 wouldn't stress me with problems, please let me rest haha of course I have wished of good health, protection for me and my family, more success, stress free year and years to come and of course the one I am longing for: financial stability lol

Cheers everyone! have a happy and prosperous new year!

Congratulations Ms. Philippines

Miss Universe Logo of H.O.M.E

Maybe it’s too late but I still want to extend my appreciation to Ms. Tugonon for making us proud of our own Filipino-authentic beauty.

It has been 3 consecutive years since Ms. Philippines is bagging places on yearly beauty pageant Ms. Universe as recently, Ms. Jeanine Togonon the representative of the Philippines to the said beauty pageant placed 2^nd to that 2012 Miss Universe Pageant held in Las Vegas, Nevada USA.

I really thought that Ms. Philippines wouldn’t be in Top 15 as she was called last and the rest has became in favor of her.

from epbites

The answer to her question in the Question and Answer portion makes the Filipino crowd proud as she tremendously gave the best answer for it.

But then 4^th Runner up were called which was happen to be Ms. Brazil, Ms. Australia for the 3^rd runner up and Ms. Venezuela for the 2^nd runner up and there it goes two of them left Ms. USA and Ms. Philippines and I really thought that she will win, as her answer is way better than the Ms. USA, In my opinion but Ms. USA were later called to be the Miss Universe 2012 and Ms. Philippines ended up 1^st runner up.

Not bad though, she still makes the whole nation proud though it’s a close fight that is why there are judges and we are not all judges.

Let us be proud of her and thank her that she did a really outstanding job of showing to every nation that Filipinos are beautiful, stunning and damn intelligent in any aspects.

The question here is that: by next year will Philippines finally have its Miss Universe Title again? The last one I think was last 1969? What do you think? hmmmmmm 

Jeanine Tugonon during the Swimwear
by missosology

Jeanine During the National Costume
by Time Style

The Question and Answer Portion by emirates

The moment of truth, Ms. USA bags the Miss Universe Title by philstar

Merry Christmas Everyone

Thanks for the Photo tweakyourbiz

Since I am working in an International Company, Time isn't the same with what we are having here in the Philippines thus I spent my Christmas in the office. 

I am looking forward to this day since then, I always wonder if I could handle the sorrow of thinking that it'll be a lot better if I am home spending dinner together with my love ones but I am doing this for them and I just thought that there will be more Christmas we could spend next time and there it goes though finding a transportation going to work is so hard that makes me think-that-i-shouldn't-go-but-I-still-did-because-I-gave-a-word-to-my-boss I still manage to come though I was an hour late haha

my first break is 12am and as I stood up from my office chair and look at the window a nice and colorful set of fireworks welcomes me with Christmas and then everybody seems to greet each other with "Merry Christmas" and they're exchanging gifts too. I also greeted my friends of course I just don't have a gift for them.

and then, we spent our dinner after and I think that would be the highlight of the night they at least make me forget my longiness for home that day and exchange it with laughter and nice stories plus my boss just introduced us to the newest part of the team (oh my! I am one of the team's pioneer and these people are the 4th batch that my boss added on our team! It seems like I am old na tuloy!)

but as I was going home I have been lonely again and that's not because I am still sad as I am missing home, i am actually excited that I am finally going home... maybe this loneliness is because I am still SMP (Samahan ng Malalamig ang Pasko) for 23 years!! lolz

Merry Christmas Everyone!! 

Manny Pacquaio will still be a Filipino Pride

Credits to Tahoe South

The roads are almost empty when I hit it as I went out of the office last Sunday, December 9, 2012. But it is not as this clear during Sundays, I can still remember that during Sundays there are still a lot of buses and jeepneys though they’re not that full unlike the ordinary days and I suddenly realized that that day was actually the airing of the Pacquaio – Marquez Round 4 fight. Imagine the 2 hours travel I used to take before just to get home cuts to an hour and It is so hustle free, no traffics at all and this is what I call an Ideal life! Lolz

I really can feel the excitement for every Filipinos to witness this alleged fight. It has been talk of the town and banners and so as the live streaming posters were scattered everywhere. But to be honest with you I have this prediction that Manny will lose and I never pay any attention to it, I just killed myself doing stuffs at the net and have a long sleep.

As I woke up my sister updates me with it and my prediction is correct but I never thought that Manny will be defeated that way. I think this is the first time or if not this is the first time that I have heard Manny has been defeated by a knock out and it all happens during the 6^th round.

I commend Marquez that he was able to defeat and knock down Manny Pacquaiao. But  I also commend Manny, We all know how much you wanted to win that fight and that you still did your best and we know that. Just don’t mind those critics who’s telling you your faults I know that you even didn’t want to lose that game, and winning is not always the indicative of victory. You are still the champ for all Filipinos. We are still here to support you no matter what.

And just remember that there’s only JUAN (Marquez) who knock Manny down. But how many boxers have been knocked down by you? = MANNY (Pacquaiao). 

I So Hate my Work Schedule

Saturday, Sunday and Monday are the one that I considered the best days to rest. Sunday is a very peaceful day and for me it is the best day to rest after going to the church. Monday is also a great day for me to stay at home because usually Mondays are rush hour, there are lots of commuters plus the heavy traffic awts and of course I so love the Saturdays as it is the best time to hang out with friends: going to the mall, have a sleep over or better yet get drunk at the club! Hell yeah! And I used to have these three or if not, even two of them as my rest days and now, they’re all gone on my list.

Three months ago I have received my so called permanent schedule of Thursday to Monday and it is from 10pm to 7am so meaning to say my day offs are from Tuesday to Wednesdays and that I have to go to work during my favorite days: Saturday-Sunday-Monday. And according to my boss “that is your permanent schedule”

Okay, I thought everything will just remain the same. I should be thankful though because it is still two rest days and that I will get use to it. Everything seems to be okay at first but after three months I am now having second thought If I can still hold on due to the following reasons

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We Gora sa Bora! (We went to Boracay)

Station 2 of Boracay White Sand Beach

It has been a dream of mine to go to this wonderful place called Bora. I ought to invite most of my closest friends to go there but none of them agreed. Thus, I thought that going to Boracay will always be a fantasy but not until one of my colleagues in my Masters class invited me and I thought everything is just a casual invitation but not until we booked in Travel Online and paid for it two months before the trip and it seems like everything has a distinction that it’ll happen and everyday makes me so excited for this trip and it all went done so well!

We were supposed to be four on our trip until one of us experienced an unavoidable circumstances thus, she prefer not to go and her lover (who’s suppose to be with us as well) never go as well. How sweet. But that didn't stop me and the other companion as we still pursue it and had the fun no matter what.

Our departure from Manila International Airport 4 was last Thursday. We arrived at the airport by past 10 a.m wherein our flight is by 11:30 a.m. haha we’re late as we should arrived two hours before right? But luckily, the service in the airport is pretty quick as we checked in and had the process by 10:30 a.m. so we shared our breakfast and waited for the plane and the impressing thing is that, the plane is on time J

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AMALAYER! Fever

Recently, a video of a school girl confronting a lady guard in LRT - Santolan station has gone viral in several networking sites. I had a glance of it on the day it has been released and I just said “Ah, okay” and then browsed other things in facebook until I saw one of my friend commenting the video and well, it is not just a usual comment as she is so irritated of the video, of the girl I mean.

Photo courtesy of PinoyAmbisyoso

I really have nothing against the girl on the video, I know that sh*t happens for once in a while. Everybody has its own bad side and the sad thing on her is she got caught by a video, it was uploaded and there’s a lot of people who judged her right away. She got bullied. Tsk..tsk

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I wanted to have another degree….. again!

photo from boston.com

It’s been almost a month since my last day of regular classes in my Masters. I just earned enough units to take my comprehensive examination and after passing the exam, then I will be set for my Thesis making-proposal-defense-revision-defense-revison-defense (lolz) etc. and It seems like I am not yet satisfied that sooner I will be having another abbreviation after my name, I wanted another one.

I still can recall when my father ask me “what I want to be when I grow up’ for the first time. I said I want to be a doctor, because we often go to my ninang (Godmother) for my medical check up and obviously she is a doctor. I really love it when she recovers me from my illness and since then I ambitioned to become a doctor. I even dreamt of being a Pharmacist, a chemical engineer because I wanted to make and discover new medicines, I dreamt of being a Physics Teacher, A Journalist and a TV Reporter, A successful business manager, a theater actor, a restaurant owner. But despite of all of my dreams I end up being a nurse. But I don’t regret that I became one. In fact, I am so proud of it. It is one of my big dreams and ambition.

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I am not Sensitive, You are just too Offensive.

from DotMmoGame

 I admit that I've been in a phase wherein I am so sensitive. That even a single unlikable word will really piss me off. But as I have learned and grown up matured I have realized that being too sensitive will never really help me at all, so I became more understanding and patient.

I remember that the last moment I have been offended was when I read this article about Nurses, I even had a blog on it We are not Just RNs!! We are RNs!! and when I experienced being Power Tripped and being Bullied (I guess) and these three issues are very obviously offensive at all but now, I just experienced one of the shit-est offensive thing ever!

First Issue, In some activity, we have to look for a partner and I was partnered with this girl and since we were partnered we are supposed to help each other right? One time, she was having trouble with something whivh is very unusual and since I am her partner I said “Wait, I will look for some help” and so did I. I called one of the people who obviously know the answer and they respond and approach us. But the offensive thing that the girl did is that she still stood up and is calling the attention of the other people who knew the answer though I already did that. My eyebrow raised, Is this girl has an issue on me? I said I will call for some help right? But since I tried to be more understanding I just let it slipped and said that maybe she is really panicking that moment

Second Issue: Is an issue that happens a lot. I often see this girl at the bus when I am heading home but then, this girl seems never noticed me as all! As in Deadma!.. even when we’ll bump each other while walking she never even smile or say 'hi' as in deadma lang talaga. I even remembered when this girl closes the door of the elevator when I was about to come diba naman?. And one time, I let him pass and ride on the elevator and I just waited for another one just to never be with her then.

And the last issue. Is when she is asking for some help for the issue she can’t resolve (again). I tried helping her with that though I am so bitchy of her but since I am trying to avoid my bitchy attitude I stay calmed and friendly and I know I gave the right answer but the girl asked for some more help, wherein they just told her the same thing, she did not even say thank you for helping at least. I just let it slipped, I just said that maybe she really wanted to make sure. But the damn thing is she keeps on doing that thing and it is really pissing me off!

I tried telling this to some of my friends, But they said that I am just too sensitive. They said that she is just like that, she is not that approachable but she is trying to be friendly as possible and that I just misinterpreted everything. But damn! Am I just sensitive or she is just too offensive? I know that she is not that friendly but is it enough grounds to do such thing like prig you down the corridor or even closes the door of the elevator for you not to hop too? A simple thank you would help ease the situation of answering her queries then why can’t she do that if she is really trying hard to be friendly or not to offend somebody with her freaking attitude? And this does not happened once. I am not that obnoxious to treat things like this if it just happened once. Duh?!

I know that you cannot please everyone but if that’s the case then stop doing things that will freak them out right? I am just so offended of all the things she did and so I decided to stop minding her, not talking to her and not approaching her at all as it’ll be less stress on my part.

And let me tell you this.

Stop thinking that I am trying so hard for us to be friends because I am not. I am just trying to be nice but If you don’t like me then just say so, we don’t have to pretend that we are good anyway. Be professional at least!

Long Weekend.... You Wish!

Oh... I love it whenever November is coming, I remember that it is the time where we, College students will be having our first long vacation as it is indeed our Semestral Break, that after struggling with our homeworks, long lectures, midterms examination, case studies, Nursing care plans, final examination, boring duty (lolz) and so on, we are finally free and is hoping that days would be extended and give us enough rest before the next semester.

But I graduated last 2010 and work and November has been one of the most foreseen days as it will give me long weekend as November 1 and 2, sometime October 31 was always declared a holiday thus, It'll give me longer rest period and I am being paid for that. Of course, I'll visit my love ones in the memorial park and will spend some couple of hours there but I am still relaxed, stress free and resting.

But not now, I am now working in an International Company and we don't have holidays in here, though we are paid doubled during those days but still, I still miss those days wherein me and my friends used to have halloween party somewhere and now everything is totally different. 

But then, I should realized that things will never be the same before I entered this industry right? and so I should move on and adjust on it. So, I just visited my loved ones during my off and get back to work as usual.

and besides we should never be disappointed on it because we are gonna be paid in double plus the night differential will be doubled as well, thus I should be looking for a good pay instead lolz

from Books we Read

Enjoy your nice long weekend everyone!

Childhood Friends Reunion

Photo of Prolific Living

I am really having second thought if I will go though I am the one who organized it. I am so afraid to show myself to them. Well, not actually afraid that I am so scared and I am avoiding them because there's something not good that happened in the past but I am afraid that they might tell something not so good about what I am now.

To tell you the whole thing. Today, at 8 p.m. in a not so crowded place in bulacan, Me and some of my childhood friends decided to meet and believe it or not it has been  11 years since the last time I see them and now I wonder, how they are and I wonder what they'll think about me during the meet up.

I lived in many places in Bulacan, I spent my first dozen of years in district 4 of bulacan and of course I have met a lot of friends there that I really do treasure while the other dozen of years of my life were spent to the town I am currently right now, and I never been to that place I was before. Thus, I never kept in touch with them, we all just met again in Facebook and all agreed to meet and have a nice update-chat.

But it's been 12 years and I can say that I am totally different now. I know I really changed a lot. From my appearance, with my charm, with my attitude, with my character and my way of life and what I feel so pressured about is their impression of me after all of those years. Of course, who wanted to get bad impressions anyway?

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My Last Day in School

Yes! Fortunately and literally speaking it is indeed my last day in my Masters class because last Saturday, I just finished and earned my 36 units that will allow me to get the comprehensive exam by December and if I pass it will allow me then to defend my thesis.

It has been a year since I enrolled to get a post graduate degree which is Master of Arts in Nursing. I am always been dreaming to enter this field as I wanted to facilitate and teach nursing students and will soon develop young competitive nurses like me (chos!) as well. I was actually inspired by my mentors to aspire this and I know, that yes, this might be not the right time to have the degree (as nursing in the Philippines is kind a disaster nowadays) but I still pursue it and I know my time will come that I will be like my mentors too.

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We are not just RNs!! We are RNs!!

I was once asked about which Pre-Medicine course is better and I answered ‘Nursing’ without any doubt and I expound it by saying that “Yeah! We might not have the broad medicinal knowledge as physicians have but at least we have all the foundations to it thus, I think nursing will be beneficial as well”

After I said that, an acquaintance answered back “No it should be Medical Technology, because they study almost the same thing as what Physician takes in medicine proper” actually with an eyebrow raised

“Well, I just stated my opinion” I just said smiling, I am not opposing her opinion anyway

I am always proud that I am a Nurse with Units in Masters (actually almost finishing it! Yipee) though we all now that nursing in the Philippines is really not well nowadays but still when people asks me what course did you take, I answered “Nursing” with my chin up and if they asked if I am already licensed I used to say “Of course!”

I may sound so arrogant but I am not. I am just proud that I’ve finished a course who is not just hard but is needing a lot of heart for you to understand its concept and I am proud to say that I am not me if I didn’t took up nursing, because nursing really builds me. Yeah, I am so proud that I am a nurse but it didn’t makes my head grow big. I know the trials and hardships of nurses around the world thus I won’t let anybody says something not nice regarding Nursing.

But as I was browsing facebook, there is a photo which is going viral. It is actually a series of conversation between two people who is talking about which pre-med course will be better and I didn’t like what I just saw

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Power Trip

It’s been a long time since I experienced being power tripped; a thing wherein your superior will use their power, influence, friends with higher profession etc to you and you can’t do anything with it as they have more power than you.

What’s with power tripping by the way? Isn’t it that only Filipinos were the one doing this as they are so fond of tele-novelas? Or Filipinos are really having big heads if they will grab power and they wanted to tell everybody that they have come that far?

It’s not actually wrong to tell everyone about your accomplishments in life but to use it to step on somebody’s foot is actually not right.

If you are just yearning for respect then that is not the right thing to do. Do you think that if you stepped on them then people will still respect you? It won’t actually makes you powerful, It makes you look like pathetic as you have to these things just to get noticed of your power.

There’s one thing I have learned after the instance that I’ve been tripped; Power tripping won’t makes you look like powerful, earning friends will make you look like one as at the end of the day if you loose almost everything in your life then you still have somebody to lean on, unlike these people who love to stepped on somebody, they’ll end up tripped by their power tripping.

Ridding of Insecurities = Big Head

A big headed person sculptured by Thomas Lerooy in Brussels, Belgium
photo courtesy of  Chavannes

I really don’t know what happened and I don’t think that I did wrong to somebody else, I am actually trying to be as friendly as possible to everyone because I wanted to change the bad attitude I had before as suddenly I felt that being friends with everyone will be less stressful but suddenly there are group of person who seems not to like me.

One day, I was in the locker room and of course I’m trying to fix my stuff there as I am a bit OC with the arrangement of it when suddenly I felt somebody stopped from walking and stayed on my back, I looked at this person as I thought it’ll be somebody I used to know but then, I was wrong; the person is so new to me and the strangest thing that the person did is stared at me from head to toe and walks out and after a moment a friend of that person walks in front of me too and did the same way. I was mesmerized. Who are these people? I can’t recall if I did something wrong to them… that incident made my day worse.

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Model Employee Awardees

I still recall that day when I am freaking in need of cash, I only have 20 bucks in my pocket so how can I go to office with that? So, I hurriedly went over the nearest automatic teller machine (atm) near our area to withdraw some and what surprises me is a long line of withdrawers, actually it is a very long line, the longest line in atm I have ever encounter.

not the actual scenario
photo courtesy of j-on-news

But I have to wait as I don’t have any choice anyway, and it took me almost half an hour just to get my turn when some intimidating thing happened…

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June – July 2012 Nursing Licensure Examination Results

I know it’s never too late to update this and I want everyone to be informed regarding this matter, especially those who wanted to determine the Top Performing School in Region 3.  

Well then, the Philippine regulatory Commission just released the result of the June – July 2012 Nursing Licensure Examination with 27, 823 passers out of 60, 895 or 45.69%. Among these examinees, a student from the University of Sto. Thomas named ROXANNE TRINITY DOTINGCO LIM stand out with 86.20% followed by KRISTEN ERIKA HIFE PINO with 85.40% from Cebu Normal University. 

Here’s the list of the Top-notchers according to their Rank.

TOP 1 

• ROXANNE TRINITY DOTINGCO LIM UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS 86.20

TOP 2 

• KRISTEN ERIKA HIFE PINO CEBU NORMAL UNIVERSITY (CEBU STATE COLLEGE) 85.40
• CARMELA CELEBRADO SHIMIZU UNIVERSITY OF SAINT ANTHONY 85.40

TOP 3 

• JOHN VINCENT USITA MAGALONG UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES-MANILA 85.20
• WAYNE STEVEN MIRANDA ZAMORA WEST VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY-LA PAZ 85.20

TOP 4 

• JOEY GONZALEZ DELA TORRE JR CEBU NORMAL UNIVERSITY (CEBU STATE COLLEGE) 85.00

TOP 5 

• JOENER BALEDIATA BANGERO WEST VISAYAS STATE UNIVERSITY-LA PAZ 84.80
• VANESSA JOY PALACIO GASAT UNIVERSITY OF THE CORDILLERAS (for.BAGUIO C.F.) 84.80
• MAR JOHN ALMEDORA JAMBORA XAVIER UNIVERSITY84.80

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Sec. Leila de Lima's appeal why she have been disqualified to be the next Chief Justice of RP

In accordance to the impeachment of former Chief Justice Renato Corona, the government has to select the new leader of the said department so as to manage it and keep the justice in the Philippines rolling.

Recently, the Judicial and Bar Council (JBC) has screened the qualified nominee to be the next Chief Justice of the Philippines as what the president ordered them to do so, thus these people did their best to screen these people to select the most appropriate one.

DOJ Secretary Leila De Lima

One of the nominees to be the next Chief Justice is the Department of Justice (DOJ) Secretary Leila De Lima who is also been part of the witness during the impeachment trial to have the chief Justice be impeached. It is so awkward right? But since she is the pet of the President, the JBC let her in.

 But Leila De Lima has been disqualified because of the disbarment case that she is currently having and the funny thing here is that De Lima wants to protest of why she’ve been disqualified. Oh My God look how pathetic this scenario was, it only shows that the reason why she supported, witnessed and influenced the president to have the former chief Justice impeached is just because she wanted to be the Chief Justice instead??!! That is really pathetic!

List of the Official Nominees to be the Next RP Chief Justice

And the funnier thing here is that even the president as malacanang has said that they are disappointed of the short-list that JBC presented them, as they said that disbarment shouldn’t be a valid reason to disqualified a nominee then why they let the JBC do the selection process? Why don’t PNOY just selected his all-of-the-time-favorite-because-this-lady-keeps-on-tracking-former-president-GMA-to-have-her-sued Leila de Lima! Isn’t it so biased that the President of this friggin-I-don’t-know-what’s-the-matter-with nation has favoritism and is breaking his own rule “walang wang-wang” wherein he is the one who is breaking it because he wanted his wants be accomplished, I think he is becoming a dictator.

Oh My God, my dear government you keep on disappointing me! and I am so sorry if I am having this opinion because that’s what an ordinary people see in everything that you are doing. You know what? As long as the day goes, I keep on tracking who are the politicians that we can trust. And I just can count them in my fingers! And I just hope that those almost 13 million people who voted you do not regret of having you as the leader of this country as of the moment.

For more information regarding this please click in any of these: Yahoo news, Rappler, GMA NEWS and Sunstar.

Closing of the 2012 London Summer Olympics

The 2012 London Summer Olympics just ended and I can really say that this event gone so well and it only proves that sport fanatics and so as athletes proves that we can be united by doing sports and that we can show the world how great our country men could be.

Though the team Philippines did not get any I still want to congratulate them for being so brave and dedicated to advance just for the sake of gaining pride for the country, there's a lot of Olympics waiting, so this is not the end yet my dear. (I just hope that I won't hear not so nice thing with our dear administrators regarding your performance because It is also their fault in the first place)

Anyway, I am looking forward for another great Olympics event on 2016 at Rio De Janeiro in Brazil and I also hope that athletes as well as the fanatics will still show their compassion and so as showmanship.

The Olympic Medals

and just to update you here's the official medal tally

RANK	NAME OF COUNTRY	GOLD	SILVER	BRONZE	TOTAL
1	United States of America	46	29	29	104
2	China	38	27	22	87
3	United Kingdom	29	17	19	65
4	Russian Federation	24	26	32	82
5	South Korea	13	8	7	28

and for the closing ceremony....

Sorry, but those are the best videos I can see in Youtube. Have a Great Day everyone!!