MGA BAGONG SALAWIKAING PILIPINO
Ang buhay ay parang bato, it's hard.
Better late than pregnant.
Behind the clouds are the other clouds.
It's better to cheat than to repeat!
Do unto others ... then run!!!
Kapag puno na ang salop, kumuha na ng ibang salop.
Magbiro ka na sa lasing, magbiro ka na sa bagong gising, huwag lang sa lasing na bagong gising.
When all else fails, follow instructions.
Ang hindi marunong magmahal sa sariling wika, lumaki sa ibang bansa.
To err is human, to errs is humans.
Ang taong nagigipit ... sa bumbay kumakapit
Pag may usok ... may nag-iihaw
Ang taong naglalakad nang matulin ... may utang.
No guts, no glory... no ID, no entry.
Birds of the same feather that prays together ... stays together.
Kapag may sinuksok at walang madukot, may nandukot.
Walang matigas na tinapay sa gutom na tao.
Ang taong di marunong lumingon sa kanyang pinanggalingan .... ay may stiff neck.
Birds of the same feather make a good feather duster.
Kapag may tiyaga, may nilaga. Kapag may taga, may tahi.
Huli man daw at magaling, undertime pa rin.
Ang naglalakad ng matulin, late na sa appointment
Matalino man ang matsing, matsing pa rin.
Better late than later.
Aanhin ang palasyo kung ang nakatira ay kuwago, mabuti pa ang bahay kubo, sa paligid puno ng linga.
Kapag maikli ang kumot, tumangkad ka na!
No man is an island because time is gold.
Hindi lahat ng kumikinang ay ginto ... muta lang yan.
Kapag ang puno mabunga ... mataba ang lupa!
When it rains ... it floods.
Pagkahaba haba man ng prusisyon ... mauubusan din ng kandila.
Ang buhay ay parang gulong, minsan nasa ibabaw, minsan nasa vulcanizing shop.
Batu-bato sa langit, ang tamaan ... sapul.
Try and try until you succeed... or else try another.
Ako ang nagsaing ... iba ang kumain. Diet ako eh.
Huwag magbilang ng manok kung alaga mo ay itik.
Kapag maiksi na ang kumot, bumili ka na ng bago.
If you can't beat them, shoot them. (Nalundasan)
An apple a day is too expensive.
An apple a day makes seven apples a week. (really expensive)
Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Laughing With My Nani For The Past 5 Months
It’s our 5th monthsary today. Funny how time flies. We never noticed that our relationship is already that long….It seemed as if it was just yesterday when we first met and as my nani said, the rest is mystery…..este, history hahahaha!. Lately, we’re both very “toxic” (the term we often use in med school, clerkship, internship, residency which denotes a situation that requires a significant amount of attention and effort and sort of NAKAKALASON coz it really makes you feel stressed out!) because nani is reviewing for his boards, and I am so preoccupied with my travels. Im so glad I have my nani coz stress buster ko asawa ko hehehe…when I hear him laugh at my corny jokes, it makes me feel better at the end of a tiring day kahit nasa Luzon, Visayas or Mindanao ako that’s why I always make it a point to make kulit kahit ano pa ginagawa ko and nasang lupalop ako.:-) I think this is the reason why we never noticed that our relationship is already 5 months. We both love to laugh. A whole damn lot. We laugh at funny and not so funny situations.. We make fun of untoward events during our childhood. We always look at things positively and make the most out of every opportunity that we’re together. We both love to listen to each other’s kwentos, may they be about our childhood, our teen age years, about med school, about patients that we have managed etc. etc. Oh, and the most important thing for me is that, we know how to laugh at ourselves. We both know how flawed we are but we know how to deal with them lightheartedly.
I have a lot of plans for my nana and that’s the reason why I always tease him to take further studies in entomology, archeology, plumbing, beauty culture, IT, etc. etc. coz I know how intelligent my nani is. Im always left with awe everytime he would lecture about computer systems and how things work considering the fact that he is not an IT person and did not even take up any formal courses in information technology. Matalino naman ang nani kaso may konting sakit lang pag nabobore kaya nagkakalikot ng nagkakalikot ng mga bagay bagay hanggang masira! Hahahaha!. Ako naman, I’m not a techy person and not that keen on learning about new age technology. I cant even open the text messages on his damn phone when he would ask me to read them for him while driving coz I always end up turning it off or exiting from the messages screen! I just leave those things to my nani and his inquisitive mind and restless little hands (likot ng likot!). Bottomline, my nani is a fast learner that’s why I always ask him to take further studies aside from medicine and put his foot on different waters, like culinary arts nani para matuto ka magluto!!!!!!!!!!that’s imperative coz I cant eat canned foods forever hahahaha!
Honestly, whatever my nani would want to become in the future will be acceptable to me. Im just here to be a devil’s advocate by introducing other opportunities aside from being a physician which could really be useful when we finally migrate. For now, we’re taking one step at a time and our main priority is for him to pass the medical boards this August. I believe in my nani’s intellectual capacity and I don’t worry that much for him. I just hope that the issue about the junior and the 2nd attachment to his first name will be resolved soon.
I can’t wait to be with my nani again and spend one weekend with him before the boards. Hopefully, my fever and sore throat will be taken cared of by the antibacterial that I’m taking now. Miss him terribly. His kulit. His cute little likot hands. His laughters. His hugs. His kisses. Lahat.
I told my nani that I got him a cake for our monthsary so that he will have the sense of urgency to finish the topics that he’s supposed to study for the week. Hehehe. That’s a lie. He knows Im lying. And he wont be that excited at all dahil sa cake. I know he doesn’t have a sweet tooth unlike me. Maarte yan sa pagkain. Daming HINDI MASARAP for him. Grrrrrrrrrr! And ayaw din niya ng masyadong matamis So bale wala ang pang bribe ko na cake….hmmnn… I have to think of something else. Another lie. Hahahahaha! But I really got him a kilo of dried mangoes coz I know he loves it more than me! J
For the past 5 months, it really feels great to know that I’m not alone anymore.
I have someone talk to at the end of a tiring day and tell him the ups and downs of my freaking work.
I have someone to reprimand when he doesn’t eat on time or fails to take a bath.
I have someone to text when Im bored at work.
I have someone to help me finish a grande sized caramel macchiato from starbucks which I don’t usually drink if Im not with him.
And most of all, I have someone to LAUGH with for the rest of my life.
Love you nani. Happy 5th monthsary.
I have a lot of plans for my nana and that’s the reason why I always tease him to take further studies in entomology, archeology, plumbing, beauty culture, IT, etc. etc. coz I know how intelligent my nani is. Im always left with awe everytime he would lecture about computer systems and how things work considering the fact that he is not an IT person and did not even take up any formal courses in information technology. Matalino naman ang nani kaso may konting sakit lang pag nabobore kaya nagkakalikot ng nagkakalikot ng mga bagay bagay hanggang masira! Hahahaha!. Ako naman, I’m not a techy person and not that keen on learning about new age technology. I cant even open the text messages on his damn phone when he would ask me to read them for him while driving coz I always end up turning it off or exiting from the messages screen! I just leave those things to my nani and his inquisitive mind and restless little hands (likot ng likot!). Bottomline, my nani is a fast learner that’s why I always ask him to take further studies aside from medicine and put his foot on different waters, like culinary arts nani para matuto ka magluto!!!!!!!!!!that’s imperative coz I cant eat canned foods forever hahahaha!
Honestly, whatever my nani would want to become in the future will be acceptable to me. Im just here to be a devil’s advocate by introducing other opportunities aside from being a physician which could really be useful when we finally migrate. For now, we’re taking one step at a time and our main priority is for him to pass the medical boards this August. I believe in my nani’s intellectual capacity and I don’t worry that much for him. I just hope that the issue about the junior and the 2nd attachment to his first name will be resolved soon.
I can’t wait to be with my nani again and spend one weekend with him before the boards. Hopefully, my fever and sore throat will be taken cared of by the antibacterial that I’m taking now. Miss him terribly. His kulit. His cute little likot hands. His laughters. His hugs. His kisses. Lahat.
I told my nani that I got him a cake for our monthsary so that he will have the sense of urgency to finish the topics that he’s supposed to study for the week. Hehehe. That’s a lie. He knows Im lying. And he wont be that excited at all dahil sa cake. I know he doesn’t have a sweet tooth unlike me. Maarte yan sa pagkain. Daming HINDI MASARAP for him. Grrrrrrrrrr! And ayaw din niya ng masyadong matamis So bale wala ang pang bribe ko na cake….hmmnn… I have to think of something else. Another lie. Hahahahaha! But I really got him a kilo of dried mangoes coz I know he loves it more than me! J
For the past 5 months, it really feels great to know that I’m not alone anymore.
I have someone talk to at the end of a tiring day and tell him the ups and downs of my freaking work.
I have someone to reprimand when he doesn’t eat on time or fails to take a bath.
I have someone to text when Im bored at work.
I have someone to help me finish a grande sized caramel macchiato from starbucks which I don’t usually drink if Im not with him.
And most of all, I have someone to LAUGH with for the rest of my life.
Love you nani. Happy 5th monthsary.
five months... five reasons for happiness
my honey and i has just turned five. we're still in that early phase of our relationship but seemed we've gone through so much together. i remember that time when we first met. i was in white polo (all made up... di nga daw ako nag ayos sbi ng hon) and he with his polo and neck tie. when i saw him i knew i have to have him. he was so gorgeous. he exudes warmth and happiness eventhough i was late for 20minutes. hehe. i can say i was holding back then coz i thought he wouldnt like me at all. but his minute gestures that night really made me fall in love with him. since then, as they say, the rest was history.
everyday, i fell more and more in love with my honey and little did we know were already five months together. how time flies when you're having fun. in all those previous months, we have encountered tribulations and minor tampuhans but all were patched up. thats what i admire with my husband. he never let things pass unfixed. a sign that he really is into this relationship. we have so much fun together. he brought a new meaning to the word "happiness"
so why am i happy?
1. he's super kulet. for a guy like him who's so strict at work, "kinakatakutan ng mga staff, its suprising to know that he is lovable. he has this childlike things in him that is so endearing. his "sweet nothings" text msgs always make me smile. the way he would make me pronounce words like "nakakapakabagabag", or those times when he would make fun of how people pronounce words in bisaya. TV is a bad influence in him. everything he watches on tv, whether it may be NatGeo, Discovery, Animal Planet, PDA, Primetime Bida, everything he sees he wants me to be like. he wants me to be an entomologist, geologist, archeologist, lahat ng "-gist", kung anu suot ng mga pda bibilhan daw nya ako, ako daw ang star ng artificial beauty. anu ba yun! stress buster ako ng honey ko e. lahat ng frustrations nya sa work ako sumasalo. kaya hinahayaan ko na lang. hahaha. love you hon! kaya naman OO lang ako ng OO. hahaha.
2. he's my mirror image. his tantrums, his way of speaking, his attitude i tend to embibe. they say when two people love each other thay tend to look and act the same way. he taught me the "look down on the floor" maneuver pag napapahiya or nalulungkot, para daw kaawaan ako. galing di ba? haha. when i have problems, he tends to make it his own. until now di pa sya maka get over sa pagkasira ng vaio ko, or yung problem ko sa apmc. minsan nahihiya na nga ako, coz at the middle of his meeting he would ask me how are my papers going. sweet ng hon ko.
3. he's loving. whether it may be with his family, his nephews, his kids, his friends, his work. he put things equally in his priorities. unlike me, he thinks and acts in a mature way which i admire the most. sometimes i worry coz he love his work so much that he tend to over work. i hate it when he travels coz for one i know how toxic his schedule is, how many meetings he has for the day, and i know for a fact he hates travelling. he hates when he moves his body. kung may airplane lang na pwede dalhin pati kama ng hon ko mas ok. kung pwede lang makipag meeting ng nakahiga lang ang hon haaay... im sure matutuwa un. love you
4. he's a morning person. NOT! haha. i have this habit of waking him up in the morning. which he would just say "gcing ng gcing ng gcing!" hahaha. hes so cute. pagmagkasama na tau hon, dapat masanay ka na. 5am pa lang gising na tau, parang mga mama and daddy. haha
5. he always takes care of me. eventhough he hardly get to see each other coz of my review, and he wih his work, he makes it a point to call when he gets to the office, text me when he miss me. all those little stuffs makes me love him all the more. coz i know nothing can stop us from loving each other. sometimes i feel like kid na who always get reprimanded, dapat kumain, dapat mag aral, dapat maligo! hehehe. feel ko makukunsume ang asawa ko sa bahay namin. peace naniboy! hehehe
we're both not getting any younger, and im glad we have each other to get through with this life. i used to fear growing old, but with my honey, all is possible. thank you honey for keeping up with me all this time. we may not be a perfect couple but we can always make imperfect things perfect for us. i love you so much. i miss you. happy 5th monthsary!!!! mwah!
everyday, i fell more and more in love with my honey and little did we know were already five months together. how time flies when you're having fun. in all those previous months, we have encountered tribulations and minor tampuhans but all were patched up. thats what i admire with my husband. he never let things pass unfixed. a sign that he really is into this relationship. we have so much fun together. he brought a new meaning to the word "happiness"
so why am i happy?
1. he's super kulet. for a guy like him who's so strict at work, "kinakatakutan ng mga staff, its suprising to know that he is lovable. he has this childlike things in him that is so endearing. his "sweet nothings" text msgs always make me smile. the way he would make me pronounce words like "nakakapakabagabag", or those times when he would make fun of how people pronounce words in bisaya. TV is a bad influence in him. everything he watches on tv, whether it may be NatGeo, Discovery, Animal Planet, PDA, Primetime Bida, everything he sees he wants me to be like. he wants me to be an entomologist, geologist, archeologist, lahat ng "-gist", kung anu suot ng mga pda bibilhan daw nya ako, ako daw ang star ng artificial beauty. anu ba yun! stress buster ako ng honey ko e. lahat ng frustrations nya sa work ako sumasalo. kaya hinahayaan ko na lang. hahaha. love you hon! kaya naman OO lang ako ng OO. hahaha.
2. he's my mirror image. his tantrums, his way of speaking, his attitude i tend to embibe. they say when two people love each other thay tend to look and act the same way. he taught me the "look down on the floor" maneuver pag napapahiya or nalulungkot, para daw kaawaan ako. galing di ba? haha. when i have problems, he tends to make it his own. until now di pa sya maka get over sa pagkasira ng vaio ko, or yung problem ko sa apmc. minsan nahihiya na nga ako, coz at the middle of his meeting he would ask me how are my papers going. sweet ng hon ko.
3. he's loving. whether it may be with his family, his nephews, his kids, his friends, his work. he put things equally in his priorities. unlike me, he thinks and acts in a mature way which i admire the most. sometimes i worry coz he love his work so much that he tend to over work. i hate it when he travels coz for one i know how toxic his schedule is, how many meetings he has for the day, and i know for a fact he hates travelling. he hates when he moves his body. kung may airplane lang na pwede dalhin pati kama ng hon ko mas ok. kung pwede lang makipag meeting ng nakahiga lang ang hon haaay... im sure matutuwa un. love you
4. he's a morning person. NOT! haha. i have this habit of waking him up in the morning. which he would just say "gcing ng gcing ng gcing!" hahaha. hes so cute. pagmagkasama na tau hon, dapat masanay ka na. 5am pa lang gising na tau, parang mga mama and daddy. haha
5. he always takes care of me. eventhough he hardly get to see each other coz of my review, and he wih his work, he makes it a point to call when he gets to the office, text me when he miss me. all those little stuffs makes me love him all the more. coz i know nothing can stop us from loving each other. sometimes i feel like kid na who always get reprimanded, dapat kumain, dapat mag aral, dapat maligo! hehehe. feel ko makukunsume ang asawa ko sa bahay namin. peace naniboy! hehehe
we're both not getting any younger, and im glad we have each other to get through with this life. i used to fear growing old, but with my honey, all is possible. thank you honey for keeping up with me all this time. we may not be a perfect couple but we can always make imperfect things perfect for us. i love you so much. i miss you. happy 5th monthsary!!!! mwah!
Monday, June 30, 2008
my board exam dillemma
today i went to PRC to officially file my application for the coming August Physician liscensure examination. they rejected my application since there is a discrepancy with my NSO birth certificate and the name i'm using in all of my documents. apparently, in my birth certificate i am PAPA II and according to them its not the same as PAPA JR. they wanted me to file for a pettition for correction at the municipal city of paranaque regarding my name. the catch is, it would take 2 months, 3000 php fee and a 2000 php publication fee before it can be released. i was in awe with the bad luck i have. upon hearing the no-nonsense solution of the lady at PRC i just stood there blankly. her saying the words "you cannot take the board exams" quickly sinked on me as i sat outside the office of the recieving window, holding the blue application paper which said "rejected". i felt rejected. i wanted to cry seeing other people filling up their forms, asking myself why are these things happening to me. i for once, among so many others, is so eager to take the boards, pass it, because i have so many plans for in my life that i cannot afford to just wait around.
it was so hard. i feld like all my hopes where crushed in an instant. i asked my husband to call me that very same instance. hearing him i really wanted to cry, but was too shy to let other people see me. after calling him, i felt i gave my husband another problem. from among the so many problems i have, i somehow subconsciously pass everything to him. he has so many problems of his own, i dont mean to contribute more. i feel like a worthless fool. my ultimate goal after passing the boards was just to be with him. and now i dont know what will happen. nani kept on telling me that everything will be alright, that every problem has its solution. my husband is keeping upp hope when i feel like i dont have one. times like this i really appreciate my nani so much. countless times he's right. like that one time i bickered over my broken VAIO, he himself researched on how to fix it, even buying me a vista cd. and that one time i cried over my tooth, he told me that like computers, teeth can be fixed. and now, at this time when i feel like everything is not going right, he says no matter what he will always be there for me. im sure he is right, that this is just a test, and nothing but a test, and i would come out of this alive.
its 11:00pm, and keeping the hope that my husband has for me, im still striving to review. there are some pauses in between topics as questions of "what if's" come into play. i pray that i can be allowed to take the boards. like any other applicants i beleive i should be given a chance, for God knows how badly i want this and how eager i am wanting this.
i love you hon with all my heart
it was so hard. i feld like all my hopes where crushed in an instant. i asked my husband to call me that very same instance. hearing him i really wanted to cry, but was too shy to let other people see me. after calling him, i felt i gave my husband another problem. from among the so many problems i have, i somehow subconsciously pass everything to him. he has so many problems of his own, i dont mean to contribute more. i feel like a worthless fool. my ultimate goal after passing the boards was just to be with him. and now i dont know what will happen. nani kept on telling me that everything will be alright, that every problem has its solution. my husband is keeping upp hope when i feel like i dont have one. times like this i really appreciate my nani so much. countless times he's right. like that one time i bickered over my broken VAIO, he himself researched on how to fix it, even buying me a vista cd. and that one time i cried over my tooth, he told me that like computers, teeth can be fixed. and now, at this time when i feel like everything is not going right, he says no matter what he will always be there for me. im sure he is right, that this is just a test, and nothing but a test, and i would come out of this alive.
its 11:00pm, and keeping the hope that my husband has for me, im still striving to review. there are some pauses in between topics as questions of "what if's" come into play. i pray that i can be allowed to take the boards. like any other applicants i beleive i should be given a chance, for God knows how badly i want this and how eager i am wanting this.
i love you hon with all my heart
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
tapus na ang ulan
ganda ng sinulat ng hon ko sa previous post. i never really thought that it was a big deal that i made a sign of the cross before we go to sleep. i didnt even know my hon is praying when were together. coz the minute he hugs me at night pipikit na yan, little did i know hes praying na pla. hehe. my hon isnt that too expressive with his feelings. minsan nanghuhula ako kung galit sya (which most of the times tama ang hula ko... galit nga sya), and minsan i dont know if he's crying kse wlang sound. but in the course of our relationship slowly i get to know my honey. i know his moods, his tantrums, his dislikes and likes, things that make him laugh and cry. there is so much to learn from my hon and what's interesting to know is that he's helping me grow as a person in so many aspects.
i hate to admit it but i broke my vaio... yes its barely a month and i cannot boot to the OS, i tried recovering it from the CD and the partition, but it always says error at 95%. tama ang hon, curiosity killed the cat. nani knows how likot i am, kaya super sorry ako when i informed him about it. hehe. its fascinating to know that it is my hon who gets all worried and he's even eager than i am to get it fixed. but unfortunately, the fate of my notebook rests on a technical service. if wla ang nani ko, im sure nagbigti na rin ako, or pinalo ko kamay ko sa pader hanggang dumugo.
im on my 2nd week of my review, as ara would say "analyzing part". i have finished Leg medicine and Prev Medicine. Gross anatomy is on my 2nd day of reveiw. and feel ko walang pumapasok. but my hon assures me meron, meron, meron sabay sampal! (joke). cgro kung iba ang partner ko, malamang walang pakielam yun kung mag aral ako or not. unlike my nani who give me stregth and confidence that i can do almost everything. sometimes i wonder what to do without him. i have lived my world around him, and i dont know any other thing that could make me happy but to see him happy as well. thanks hon for all these times. i love you!!!!
advanced happy 5th monthsary naniboy!
i hate to admit it but i broke my vaio... yes its barely a month and i cannot boot to the OS, i tried recovering it from the CD and the partition, but it always says error at 95%. tama ang hon, curiosity killed the cat. nani knows how likot i am, kaya super sorry ako when i informed him about it. hehe. its fascinating to know that it is my hon who gets all worried and he's even eager than i am to get it fixed. but unfortunately, the fate of my notebook rests on a technical service. if wla ang nani ko, im sure nagbigti na rin ako, or pinalo ko kamay ko sa pader hanggang dumugo.
im on my 2nd week of my review, as ara would say "analyzing part". i have finished Leg medicine and Prev Medicine. Gross anatomy is on my 2nd day of reveiw. and feel ko walang pumapasok. but my hon assures me meron, meron, meron sabay sampal! (joke). cgro kung iba ang partner ko, malamang walang pakielam yun kung mag aral ako or not. unlike my nani who give me stregth and confidence that i can do almost everything. sometimes i wonder what to do without him. i have lived my world around him, and i dont know any other thing that could make me happy but to see him happy as well. thanks hon for all these times. i love you!!!!
advanced happy 5th monthsary naniboy!
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