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.