A mom delivered quadruplets the other day! It was such a big deal at the hospital and bantays of other patients were crowding the hallway to look at the babies that the administration had to restrict people from coming close to the babies for immunity reasons. Newborns are highly susceptible to airborne microorganisms. Buti nalang the staff is free to visit them anytime :9


Boy, girl, boy, girl. The youngest (1st from right) is quite sick though kaya may IV siya :(


Anyway, volunteer duty has been really fun these past few weeks. It's so much fun that I'm actually more disappointed if I can't go on duty (like today, pero dapat family duties muna eh). Last year, I had to literally drag myself to go on duty, yung tipong nasa doorstep nako ng hospital and I'm still arguing with myself whether I'm gonna go in or just go home instead.

Fortunately, I've found new duty buddies that are so fun that work doesn't feel like WORK anymore. Parang joke time everyday lang. We're permanently on afternoon shift now since permanent morning shift yung girl na di namin gusto.:5 Afternoon shift is much more fun. Less people, less crowd, although not less chores. And we all look forward to snack breaks and dinner time. We're not really supposed to go out of the hospital during breaks, but then again, we're just volunteers so they can't really do anything about it. Eh gusto namin mag Jollibee eh :m

Once, we had dinner at Jolibee (which was quite far from the hospital), tapos may doctor na dumating. He recognized us so he said hi but he wasn't really expecting us to be "on duty" that night. One of us joked na baka pupunta rin sa hospital yung doctor mamaya kaya mabibisto kami. But we didn't really expect that to happen since he was with his family. Later that night, dumating talaga siya! We were all shocked and so was he. We didn't know what to say kaya we just smiled. He was like "hmm...?" but he just smiled back. He didn't say anything bout it.:wee Yung iba kasi, magsusumbong sa Nursing office. Thank God for good doctors.:12



This is us on a not-so-busy-that-we-have-time-to-pose-for-a-timer-shot day. These are the days when the 70-patient ward stays at 70-80. But sometimes it gets crazy around there when the census reaches 110. Imagine patients on the hallways. They sometimes just have to literally REFUSE admissions in the surgery ward because there's nowhere else to put the patients.


And these are the meds on a not-so-busy day. These meds are just for 8&9PM though. There's another set for 6PM and another set for 4PM meds for the entire afternoon shift. On unfortunate days, those meds would be twice as many while on fortunate days, that tray would only contain around 6 vials.

*Dilute the vials with strile water.
*Withdraw the ordered dose with a syringe. Compute if needed.
*Go find the patient whose name is on the vial.
*Repeat 80 times during the shift.:k

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Sa ibang dako ng chismis, THANKS FOR YOUR RESPONSES ON MY PREVIOUS POST. THEY"RE ALL HIGHLY APPRECIATED :D I tallied your choices plus my friend's choices and the second bag won. So I got the second bag. The black one was actually a Kathy Van Zeeland bag while the second one was a Tommy H. Mas mahal nga lang ng a few hundreds yung Tommy but still worth the price. :)

Eight now, I need your help again. This time, they're both have the same price, similar style but different color.

WHICH WOULD YOU PREFER FOR A CASUAL BAG?

Every music player needs a good pair of earphones. You may own an Ipod, Creative Zen, or Samsung Yepp or whatever fancy mp3 player is popular right now, but if your earphones are crappy and sounds like a poor radio reception, your music experience wouldn’t be as enjoyable. Might as well listen to the boom box instead.

Personally, I use Sennheisers for my Ipod. When I got my Ipod some 2 years ago, I didn’t even know this brand existed until I started reading forums for Ipod owners and I found out that most of the Ipodders prefer this brand. So the copycat that I am, I bought myself a pair. I was quite okay with my stock earphones that came along with my Ipod. I thought that was how all earphones were supposed to sound, until I tried Sennheisers. Don’t get me wrong, the stock earphones were okay, plain sounding, not bad, but not mind blowing either. Sennhesier headphones have clearer sound, meaning you can heard the ambient sounds, the soft sounds which you can’t normally hear with ordinary earphones. With this, you hear the “real” music.

I bought my pair last Feb 2007, and right now, it’s still alive and kicking. After all those accidental pulls and wires getting jammed when I fall asleep while their on my ears, I hasn’t shown any signs of surrendering. I hope they don’t give up on me anytime soon. Although I wouldn’t mind if they do, so that I’d have an excuse to finally get the pink CX300. Killer sounds and killer color, I wouldn’t ask for anything else!

After two weeks of waiting, it's finally here. My BDJ planner.



I've actually been arguing with myself whether to get this or the Starbucks planner. I actually like the vinatge-y laid back style of the SB planner pero PINK to eh :h

Anyway, it has lot's of features (parang gadgets) din naman like a birthday list (which I DESPERATELY need), goal attainment plan (which I doubt I'll be using), Vacation planner (which I HOPE I'll be able to use), menstural calendar (which I don't think I'll be using) and 36 discount coupons from different establishments (like All Flipflops, Celine, VNC, CBTL, and much much more).


Every month has different articles which I find interesting and a bit useful (like how to fold a Tshirt in 3 seconds :12)


It's grouped weekly so you get to organize your plans for the whole week.


Discount coupons bebeh! :uhuh


My complaints? It's kinda big. Well, it's not HUGE but it's bigger than a regular notebook and it's kinda heavy since it's hardbound. It might be too much of a hassle to lug around everyday.

As you can see, it's really more of a planner than a journal. Pero I think I'm more of a journal person that a planner type. I prefer writing thoughts than plans. I have strange beliefs when it comes to writing future plans which is why I opt to let them dwell in my thoughts than be wrtitten down.

Anyway, I'd still try my best to ACTUALLY use it the whole year round. I just hope 2008 will be a busy year for me para naman hindi magmukhang kawawa ang planner ko :g

[private]Hello [/private]

So this is it, my new home. Not much to explain, but this is it. New home. Crayondrops no more

I wont be taking down my previous domain, I'll just let it die a natural death. I'll actually make money out of it before it expires.:16 Later na, when I'm REALLY done fixing this site including my links.

Nga pala, please leave me all your links, new and old blog friends. Ya know, the hacker deleted my entire blogroll in my previous domain so i kinda lost all my links. I'll be bloghopping in a bit but I won't be able to drop by all your sites so please leave me your links thru the comment page or tagboard so that can start putting up my new blogroll. Pweetee pleez :25

Anyway, I haven't been up to anything new. Still jobless, but it's not surprising. Surprising is when I suddenly get a job out of nowhere since I haven't been sending out application letters and CVs. As much as I want to, I can't right now. And it's actually fine with me, and best of all, it's fine with my parents.

I'm back on volunteer duty, by the way. Going back after suddenly disappering last Spetember was like going to kindergarted for the first time. I'd say, it was even worse. Sweaty palms and supersonic heartbeats. I was nervous (more of scared) that they won't accept me back. Haha I was afraid that they'd have enough new volunteers and they wouldn't want old, disappearing volunteers to bother them. I was scared they'd give me this "why-are-you-back-and-what-are-you-doing-here-we-don't-need-you?" look. But I was glad none of that happened.

They were surprised to see me. Surprised-delighted-happy-and-wondering. They thought I'd left for NZ already. Chismis nga naman oh. But it's all good. They treated me like I've only been gone for two weeks. I missed them, and I can tell they missed me too. Haha kapal!:3

Nothing has changed, except that some staff nurses have been rotated to other departments and vice versa. But all the good ones are still around, which is such a relief.

The only MAJOR change is the new batch of volunteers. When I disappeared last September, there were about 10 of us who regularly went on duty and I knew each and every one of them. Now, there are more than 10 new faces and I know not a single one!:11 Can you spell lonely? I'm an outcast. It's probably because 90% of them come from the rival school *cough*spud*cough* As of today, I've met 5 of them at different shifts and fortunately, they were easy to get along with. No tension whatsoever. Okay, maybe a little tension, but not significant enough to cause uhhh..whatever you call it :1

Good thing though, there's this one second (third,actually) courser who's ot from the two schools. She's a retired manager, take note, MANAGER, of UCPB Dumaguete, but she's not old ha. She also finished law school but didn't take the BAR. But hey, she also took up nursing AND passed the boards. Grabe that woman. She's so efficient. She's actually more productive than me, considering that I've been around longer. Or maybe I'm just too lazy :18 She's kinda my life saver. She does the things I don't feel like doing, e.g. skin testing, IV follow up and the likes. She never gets tired. And thank God, I have someone to go on duty together with, aside from those 90% [tama, let's just call them 90%]. I will never-ever go on duty alone. It's worse than suicide. It's like killing yourself after you die. So a duty-mate is a MUST. She's not really my official duty-mate but I go on duty when I know she's gonna be there. Still not ready to be alone with ll the 90% :12

Anyway, hanggang dito nalang muna. Have to eat breakfast before I go to bed. Siaoow! :j

In about one an a half hours from now, will be going back on volunteer duty and I'm not so excited to be back there. Time to dig up my scrub suits from the millions of garbage bags stored in my 'bedroom'. I havent gone on duty since we moved here. I don't hate them or anything, life's just more fun when I'm not there. Kung di lang kami required magsubmit ng certificate, di na talaga ako babalik dun. No offense workmates. :)

I've been gone for 2 months and5 days and I dont know what to expect later. Let's just hope for the best. Please pray that I dont kill anyone or something like that.

Guh.

I need a domain. New webspace, new life.