i am officially starting my duty as a psychiatric nurse in the mental hospital tomorrow.

one patient will be taken cared of by two nurses.

partner ko ang crush ko.

i'd die if someone from my class reads this.

Interesting facts which i got from Kath's blog.


You entered: 10/3/1985

You were born on a Thursday
under the astrological sign Libra.
Your Life path number is 9.

The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2446341.5.
The golden number for 1985 is 10.
The epact number for 1985 is 8.
The year 1985 was not a leap year.

As of 6/28/2005 1:39:18 AM CDT
You are 19 years old.
You are 236 months old.
You are 1,030 weeks old.
You are 7,208 days old.
You are 172,993 hours old.
You are 10,379,619 minutes old.
You are 622,777,158 seconds old.

There are 97 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 20 candles on it.

Those 20 candles produce 20 BTU's,
or 5,040 calories of heat (that's only 5.0400 food Calories!) .

You can boil 2.29 US ounces of water with that many candles.

Your birthstone is Tourmaline

The Mystical properties of Tourmaline:
Pink Tourmaline promotes female balance and protection. Green Toumaline promotes male balance.

Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewlers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)

Opal, Jasper

Your birth tree is
Hazelnut Tree, the Extraordinary

Charming, undemanding, very understanding, knows how to make an impression, active fighter for social cause, popular, moody and capricious lover, honest and tolerant partner, precise sense of judgement.

There are 180 days till Christmas 2005!

The moon's phase on the day you wereborn was waning gibbous.

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interesting, isnt it? :D

it was generated from this site

i am in dire need of an mp3 file of:


TECHNOLOGIC by DAFT PUNK

lam nyo yun? the theme song of ipod's comemrcial?

kung sino man may mp3 nito, please, pahingi po!!!! i am desperate!

please email it to iamlica@gmail.com


whoever you are, maraming maraming salamat!!

yesterday, sherwin and i went to the office of the head of the P.E. department since the dept head was our *pe teacher* daw. the department agreed to open a new section exclusively for graduating students who still lacked p.e... turns out, 7 lang pala kaming nag enroll. anyway, the section was opened last june 13 pa but until now, the teacher still hasnt met her students. kasi naman, our schedule is 12noon-1pm since all 7 of us have classes from 7-12 and 1-7. yun lang talaga ang avialable time namin. everytime we go to the gym, ther's always a note from our teahcer saying that she'd meet us at 2pm nalang. e lahat kami may class at 2, so wala talagang magaattend dun sa 2pm meeting. that's why until now, hindi pa rin kami nagkikita-kita lahat.

yesterday, pumunta pa rin kami ni sherwin sa gym eventhough we knew that the teacher would not be around. we were planning to leave our classcards to the secretary nalang. when we arrived at the office, there was no one around except for a guy and his mom. we asked the woman if a teacher was around, she told us na wala and they were also waiting for the head of the department. she asked us if we were late enrolles din, we told her that we were just there to pass our classcards but we were regualr students. she told us that they have just arrived from Dubai the day before. they were pinoy but their family lived in Dubai. sabi nya, ngayon lang daw sila dumating kasi katatapos lang daw ng school term sa Dubai. she told us na nahirapan daw yung anak niya sa entrance exam since schools in Dubai follow the british curriculum instead of the american curriculum. nahirapan daw siay sa mga spellings since iba daw yung turo sa kanila sa Dubai. so the coordinator advised him to take AB general for a year muna before proceeding to nursing para makaadjust muna siya sa bagong environment.

so tinuloy niya yung story niya bout Dubai. she told us that Dubai was an open city contrary to the belief that it was like Saudi Arabia na strict ang government. sabi niya, liberated naman daw ang mga tao dun. they can wear whatever they wanted and they were even allowed to wear swimsuits sa beach. she told us na hindi daw mahihirapan ang mga pinoy dun kasi most people spoke english. kaya lang, mainit rin da dun so most houses had 3 or more aircons. sabi nya rin, mura lang daw ang mgabilihin dun, lalo na pag may sale. she told us na uso daw ang mga Billabong and Quicksilver stuff dun. we asked her how much yung mga ganun dun, she converted the Dubai currency to peso and we foundout that the stuff usually sold here at 2,000 pesos was only 500-600 pesos dun. grabe. she also told us that perfumes in Dubai were really cheap. sabi pa nga nya, her children were so used to wearing the designer perfumes that everytime she comes home to pinas, she buys penshoppe and bench colognes forher kids kasi mas nagugustuhan nila yung mga locally made.

she told us that she was a nurse. we asked her if malaki ba ang kinikita ng mga nurses dun. she convrted her monthly salary to peso and came out to be 122,000 pesos! per month yun ha. amazing talaga. sabi niya life was easy daw in Dubai kasi under british control naman yung hospitals so english ang mga tao dun. so we wasked her kung anong requirements for aspiring nurses, hindi pa naman namin planong mag-apply pero malay mo diba, atleast may option na kami. she told us na board exam result langdaw and 2-year experience. no more CGFNS, TOEFEL or NCLEX. sabi pa niya, ang salary daw for starting nurses was 60,000pesos when converted locally. ok na dba? plus may dorm naman daw yung mga walang tirahan, may tv, washing machine plus may furniture allowance pa daw. and, lahat ng nurses allowed ng 45-day leave every year. kahit on leave, binabayaran pa rin sila plus, libre pa daw ang plane tickets! parang gusto ko na tuloy magtrabaho sa Dubai. hehe

anyway, she told us more about Dubai than dumating kami sa topic about magic cream. apparently, kilala niya raw yung inventor ng magic cream. i forgot the name but she said that the inventor lived in a hotel in Dubai daw. parang may resident na siya sa isang hotel. i forgot how they met but when she tried the magic cream products daw, first application pa lang daw, may effect na. pati yung daughter niya raw na may skin asthma, na cure using magic cream. she told us that thay saw Boy Abunda's show about magic cream containing mercury. sabi niya, magic cream was supposed to be 100% herbal, kaso, the sole distributor here sa pinas mixed magic cream with chemicals, including mercury. kaya when the inventor heard the news, tinerminate niya raw yung contrcat niya with the distributor dito sa pinas. and one more thing daw na ayaw nung inventor was the packaging used by the pinoy. kasi daw, yung elongated container na ginagamit dito, pang urine sample daw yun sa hospitals. container pa lang, parang unsanitary na raw. so ngayon, wala na raw distributor sa pinas. since naging friend nya yung may ari ng magic cream, nag offer daw siya na maging ditributor dito. may friend na raw siya na naghahandle ng luzon so sa visayas and mindanao daw yung ihahandle niya. she even told us na the inventor met claudine baretto daw in Dubai when the abs cbn staff were in dubai. they stayed in the same hotel where the inventor lived so ininvite daw si claudine to have a sample of the magic cream products and eventually, lahat daw nung abs cbn staff na nandun nag order the magic cream kasi nagustuhan daw nila yung effect. claudine daw is the current image model of magic cream.

i dont use magic cream naman but i think the product is effective. based on what i saw from ate lorna (yung mother), maganda yung skin niya, pati face niya. sabi niya, since she was gonnabe an agent of the product, dapat daw siya mag experiment sa sarili niya para may first hand proof daw siya na experience sa mga effects ng products. so far, sa lahat ng hospital staff na gumagamit nung product, isa pa lang daw ang nagka allergic reaction. so i guess the product's really safe.

first of all, HAPPY FATHER'S DAY to all your dads!


ive been searching the net for the perfect fone. ive spent 4 hours scanning sites for that "fone." gusto kasing bilhin ng pinsan yung current fone ko which is 3650. ive been planning to sell it since january pa. the price range was supposed to be 6-7 thousand since ive been using it for more than a year na. but then, my 10 year old cousin fell in love with it and being the only child, she usually gets what she wants. plus, siya mismo ang nagoffer to buy it for 8thousand! of course, with the permission of her dad. i guess that's fair since dad nya naman nag offer nung price eh. theyre planning to buy at the end of july. kaso, wala pa kong nahahanap na kapalit! alangan naman ibenta ko phone ko tapos wala akong ipapalit!

eto yung hinahanap kong features:

• may camera
  
• may mp3
  
• may radio
  
• expandable yung memory
  
• preferably series60 na fone (meaning pwede yung .sis files na games and applications not just plain java apps)
  

yun lang naman ang hinahanap ko. unfortunately, ang hirap makahanap ng fone na may ganung features. usually, it has 4 out of 5 features pero hindi talaga pwede kung wala yan lahat. hahay.

gusto ko sana yung bagong nokia 3230. yung mukhang SE k700. it has all the features that i want kaso, nabasa ko s pinoy exchange na ang marami rin palang downsides tong fone na to. and one thing that worried me was the comment na ito yung magiging "fone ng bayan" in the near future since it's quite cheap for a fone with exceptional features. it was 22thou when it first came out about a month ago, pero now, its 17,000+ nalang. ang dali nyang nagdepreciate.

kung sino man may ganitong fone, please share your insights. or kung sino man may maisasuggest na magandang fone, please do share it. i'd gladly appreciate it. salamat!

i could not recall a significant event that occured yesterday, maybe because i only had 3 hourse of sleep. went to bed at around three and woke up at 7. nahilo ako buong araw! parang blurred lahat ang nakikita ko. everything was in slow motion. i came back to my senses late in the afternoon coz i had to accompany fiona to the hospital kasi iaadmit namin si martin. kawawa naman kasi coz his parents arent around. he's been sick since last saturday and his fever hasnt gone down since. he didnt want to be admitted but we had no other choice. baka lumala pa if he stayed at home. besides, there wasnt anyone to take care of him there since he only stays in an apartment with his cousin who's also in college. may pasok rin si tina so she couldnt be there all the time. when we arrived in the hospital, andun na silang dalawa. martin looked so sick and pale. kawawa talaga. we had him checked in the ER. at first, ayaw pa niyang magpaadmit kasi the only space available was in the hallway! apparently, all the rooms are taken kaya sa hallway nalang yung ibang patients. Gad!! a lot of people are getting sick nowadays. kahit yung private hospitals puno! as in fully booked! we wanted to go to the other private hospital but they declined kasi wala na daw talagang space. wow. our other option was to have him administered with IV tapos uuwi nalang siya. parang out-patient lang. then he'll go back to the hospital para check ups lang. atleast may intravenous na nakaattach sa kanya. besides, he lives across the hospital naman so its not that hard for hime to go back to the hospital. but then sabi ng nurse di daw pwede yung ganon. kung may IV, dapat ipaadmit daw. hindi daw pwedeng iuwi yung patient with IV kasi wala daw magmomonitor nun. so fiona and i said na "nursing students naman kami so kami nalang magmomonitor sa kanya", but then hindi pa rin nakalusot. so yun, martin had no choice but to take the "hallway." he's still there right now but he's getting better. atleast he wasnt as pale as yesterday and he can eat na. before he was admitted, hindi kasi siya nakakakain due to his tonsilitis, which, by the way, is the main reason why he got sick. Tina said there were times when he'd only take three spoons of noodles in one day kasi masakit daw talaga yung throat nya. oh well, hope he gets better.

another first day. first day ng major subjects.

it went pretty well. the group, composed of 50 heads, wasnt what i had expected. im SO glad it wasnt. i imagined greeting a group of serious minded nursing freaks on my first day of class. instead, i found myself in a room full of noisy, magulo, carefree people. HAY SALAMAT! my new blockmates werent that bad after all. kala ko kasi mga kj ang bago kong classmates. haha. ive never been fond of having new classmates every year, nor every semester! i prefer being in a block section and retain that block for the whole year, and if possible, for the rest of my college days! Di naman talaga ako anti-social, may separation anxiety lang. hehe. i have a hard time letting go of the bond that has kept us together for one whole year.

wel anyway, i havent met all the 14 heads with whom i will be spending 12 hours every single day for the next 6 months and possibly 10 months. ive only gotten to know a few. ive already met rizza and ate tess, whom i spent my entire junior year with. there's also ate arlene and ate jeryl, whom i spent my sophomore year with. there's albert, who was my 6th grade classmate and there's mark who was one of my blockmates in my freshman year. so there, 6 down, 8 more heads to go. apparently, these 8 new heads are new to me, but from what ive seen this morning, them seemed ok to me. di masyadong seryoso pero di rin naman lost. im thankful that i fell in the company of these people instead of being thrown into the pit with oh-so-serious students. ayoko ng ganun. ive experienced it before at ayokong maulit yun. ilagay nyo nalang ako sa maiingay at magugulong klase kasi mas nakakarelate ako dun. :)

my friends went to school early so they got to choose the seats. being the good friends that they are, they reserved a seat for me rin. IN FRONT! as in front seats! i have never in my whole life sat in front! im a certified back seater! bakit ako nasa harap?!? but then again, that's what i get for being a late comer. i couldnt blame them either, even if i arrived early, di rin sila papayag na umupo sa likuran. i guess im doomed. intructors usually call the people in the front line. parang automatic na yun e, especially in a class as big as ours, they would have the chance to get to know each one of us, so tinatawag nila yung una nilang nakikita. yep, that would be us. and to make things worse, my professor is a friend of my mom. so she knows my name. at lahat ng kalokohan ko sa skul ay pwede nyang isumbong sa parents ko. crap.

being in the front seat would also mean that i could no longer get away with wearing slippers to school. i dont know why the nursing department forbids the student to wear slippers in school. hindi naman talaga pambahay na slippers ginagamit namin e. at hindi lang slippers ang tinitira nila, pati shorts (boys or girls), baby tees, at short skirts. parang gusto nilang magmukha kaming nerd e. dati kasi, i was always seated at the back kaya i had the freedom to wear whatever i want kasi hindi naman nila makikita yung suot ko. but now, being a front seater, i have to appear 'presentable' to avoid being humiliated by my prof.

aside from my seat, wala naman ako masyadong reklamo. i think this class would be fun. i hope.

its the first day of school and im sick. i went to school with puffy eyes and a runny nose. what a way to start the school year.

First day wasn't so bad. Our beloved dean has extended our vacation for a week, giving us 7 more days to wake up late til classes in the nursing department resume next Monday. Unfortuantely, I have a litterature class which wasn't covered by the 1 week extension so I had to go to school at 5pm to attend my only non-major subject. I was supposed to have two non-major subjects this semester, P.E. being the other subject. Unfortunately, my major subjects doesn't coincide with the available p.e schedules so I had to sacrifice it…again. Why I'm taking up p.e in my senior year is a story that has become a subject for jokes among my friends. It wasn't because I flunked the subject, it was something more complicated. Whenever friends ask me what subjects I lacked, I'd proudly say "p.e.", and they either respond with a raised eyebrow asking "why?" or a face that's trying hard not to laugh asking "whattt?!" I just hope luck would be on my side next semester so that I could get a schedule that would coincide with my major subjects.