confessions of coffee addict #1

hay...nice to start the cold friday with a warm cup of brown coffee...

Mi Familia...

Family (făm'ə-lē, făm'lē)
       Two or more people who share goals and values, have long-term commitments to one another, and 

       reside usually in the same dwelling place

I was born in Central Mindanao where I lived half of my life...I never expected I will be thrown islands away to Panay pursuing some dreams...being alone was hard at the beginning but living the past 9 years in the island where people are warm and friendly, it feels just like home...

furthermore, here the people close to my heart and brings vitality to my two-pieced life ...

 

I'm the Eldest of four and being away from my 3 buddies was not convenient for me because I was brought up with my grandmother at my side most of the time but thanx to technology we still chat together....

 My Iloilo family...

And my IMH Family where fun never ends...

House Sculpture...and Iloilo's Modern Day Mother Teresa

Last June 11, 2010 I was invited to join a medical mission at Tabukan Mandurriao hosted by the humble Ms.Bernadette Dela Cruz, one of Iloilo's hard working entrepreneur... Living in the suburbs, Ms.Bernadette taste in fine living was breathtaking. Living in an abode where sophistication meets arts, its was home of the exquisite bits and pieces, a gigantic closet of hand picked artifacts mostly asian themed...

Maam Bernadette Dela Cruz (Center, wearing black shirt with floral print) is trulyt a Good Samaritan, a modern-day mother Teresa, an epitome of humbleness...

This zen garden brings vitality and a warm welcome of the house…a blue-rock Mother Mary stands in the corner where Japanese bamboo grew. The statue is facing the kitchen and the glass door to the receiving area. The glass door has a motion detector and automatically opens!

 

Two eye-cathcing oil on canvas masterpieces placed beside the door…

 

Swarovski chains hanging both in the receiving area and dining area brings the mood and will keep everybody in awe…

 

Inspired by modern art engineering, a huge painting of Madamme Bernadette stands above the furnished stairs…

Some of the asian pieces includes a Buddha head, two thai monks atop the Chinese Medicine Cabinet and a Replica of an Old Telephone…She also has collections of antique jars and plates…bits Icy looking Swarovski sculptures.

 

Serving people in her community, mostly lived along the rivers of Iloilo, situated across her house.

 

 

Gifts we have for helping to continue her mission...now on its 9th year, Maam Bernadette together with her Lion's Iloilo family will continue the legacy of assisting people in need...

KUDOS MAAM BERNADETTE!!!!

my COMpassion...the unpublished me

     I was born normally like everybody else, raised and instilled the learnings of a typical Filipino individual. Loved and adored by people whom I find the shelter every child needs. My life is basically wonderful. And with every step I made, I’m off to do history. I’ve got all the support I need. Problems weren’t really the dilemma that hinders my journey. I always saw the positive aspect in them. They’re my vitamins, my stimulant, my breathe of life. I was never been so contented with life. At the age of 6, I wasn’t satisfied with only a toy to keep me company. I always find my happiness with the littlest thing that keeps me busy. I always did the ‘scratches on the sand’ (writing stuff on the soil) and with the murals I did, I see them as the pieces of puzzle that fills the ‘perfect’ picture of my life.

     But things turned the other way around. Instead of fulfilling my dream of becoming an artist behind the canvas I chose to be a bringer of vitality, the epitome of life. But the road ahead is not as easy as it is being said. Fitting with reality is like walking barefooted. I have to face the rough roads of medical school, like a broken glass that sinks into your sole and thorns that bury its sharpness trying to tear the souls of the weakened. Of every road, there is a concrete path waiting to ease the pain, but as the pressure of walking increases so as the burying of the shattered pieces. It happens to you, it happens to me and to everybody else. But whatever we are working with, what lies ahead is more important. And as the wounds trying to heal, so is my heart and desire of becoming somebody I am destined to be. I’ve seen the scenes on the best 4 years of my pre-med life and lived the finest 4 years of my medical days. Now, I’m facing my final course, a humble abode they called home...at the department of family medicine. My golden ticket to everlasting deliverance.

      Days flew by, people come and go. And I’m standing now in a strange place I called my final course. I had to build a life.  I had to paint my destiny with new colors I’m facing in. With the new salvation I am being comforted. I face a lot of struggles I had never imagined existing. And it molded me to be prepared to whatever will be. “Chances always favor the prepared mind”. I’ll take my chances and will never be scorned by the verdicts I will encounter.

June 9,2011...Scenes @ the ER E.T.1435hours

 Finding the right spot...Tina Panerio keep on teeling me to recognize (and did I say appreciate...) the "salt" inspired bangs she had today...hope it will not bring the toxicity






ER beds empty at the moment....but the sun is not setting yet...
there is more to come

 Doc Tina just received a call from a collegue...better be  not a referral

 hmmmmm her color glows pink to flesh....r u in love? weyyyy

Doc Pau and I together with our intern is waiting for something to happen by this time...hay...

Re: "Revenge of the Bridesmaids" ... not d usual teenage drama

Revenge of the Bridesmaids is a 2010 ABC Family Original Movie that stars Raven-Symoné (remember disney's Raven) and Joanna Garcia (Think i saw her on the now defunk R U afraid of the dark?) as undercover bridesmaids with a mission to break up a wedding.

 I already watched this movie last 2 months ago along with Hillary Duff's Beauty and Briefcase...dozing to a couple of teeny-weeny movies to rest my brain huh? he he well if u loved to experience it...i'll be grateful to let u borrow my copy...

before that, here's a li'l excerpt...

Abigail (Symone) and Parker (Garcia) are best friends since childhood who return to their small, southern hometown of Lambert, Louisiana from New York City for a visit. After running into old friends, they learn that their close friend, Rachel, has lost the love of her life, Tony, to their ex-friend, Caitli, a conniving gold-digger who pretends to be pregnant to trick Tony into marrying her. Intent upon preventing a loveless marriage, Parker and Abigail go "undercover" as Caitlin's bridesmaids to sabotage the wedding. Along the way, Caitlin's tightly-wound mother, Olivia, works hard to keep Abigail and Parker at bay as Parker falls for the town detective and one of Tony's groomsman, Henry. The bridesmaids put their best-laid plans in motion only to see them go outrageously awry. As a result, the trio are arrested by Henry, but Parker convinces him to release them. So Abigail, Parker, and Rachel sneak into the wedding and kidnap Caitlin. They take her to the hospital for a pregnancy test and trick her into admitting the truth. At the wedding ceremony Tony lies to Caitlin that his family lost their fortunes which leads to her canceling the wedding and storming off. After Caitlin is gone, Tony gets on one knee and proposes to Rachel. At the end of the film, Parker stars in a major action film, Rachel marries Tony, and Abigail sells her book on their antics as bridesmaids.

Re: "The Cobra Event" by Richard Preston ... worth the read!

I've read this book thrice and still in awe with Preston's plot of Terrorism meets Optimism...

Here's a Lil review...

      The Cobra Event is a 1998 thriller novel by Richard Preston describing a terror attempt on the United States by a lone man, the creator of a virus, called "Cobra", that mixes the incurable common cold with one of the world's most deadly diseases, smallpox. The disease that results from the virus, called brainpox in the novel, has effects that mimic those of Lesch-Nyhan syndrome and Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus. The virus is a Biosafety Level 4 hot agent, because it is lethal to humans.

      The book is divided into 6 sections. The first section, named "Trial", starts with a teenage girl named Kate Moran who violently dies one day in school. The next section, titled "1969", describes tests done in the sixties by the U.S. government involving weaponized viruses. The third section, "Diagnosis", describes the autopsy of Kate Moran and, introduces the key characters of Dr. Alice Austen, Mark Littleberry, and Will Hopkins. The book describes these three characters' journey to discover the source of the lethal virus Cobra, in the other three sections, "Decision", "Reachdeep", and "The Operation".

     The specific brainpox described in the novel is a fictional disease, a chimeric virus that attacks the human brain. The pathogen that causes it, codenamed "Cobra" by the protagonists, is a recombinant virus made from the nuclear polyhedrosis virus (a moth virus), the rhinovirus, and smallpox.

     It starts like a common cold, but then it invades the nervous system. Although not as contagious as the influenza virus, it is as infective as the common cold. It spreads like the common cold: by contact with tiny droplets of mucus floating in the air and contacting the eyes or lungs, or by contact with infected blood. It can be dried into powder and it can get into the air. An early symptom is a blistering process in the nose and mouth.

     It's neuroinvasive—that means it travels along the nerve fibers and invades the central nervous system. It replicates in the brain. The virus moves to the brain when it attaches itself to the eyelids or to the membranes in the nose; the optic nerves and the olfactory nerves in the nose are hard-wired straight into the brain. Cobra has a very fast replication phase, killing in about two days. It amplifies explosively in the brain. The virus makes crystals in the brain cells. The crystals form in the center of the cell, in the cell's nucleus.

     It damages the brain stem, the areas that control emotion and violence and feeding. Brainpox eventually causes people to attack themselves and to eat their own flesh. Specifically, the fictional Cobra virus causes the same general type of brain damage as Lesch-Nyhan syndrome. Lesch-Nyhan is a real life X-linked genetic disease overwhelmingly inherited by males. Caused by damage to a single gene, it results in a bizarre manifestation of stereotyped self-injury, biting of the lips, fingers, and arms, as well as aggression directed toward other people. The Cobra virus knocks out the gene for an enzyme named hypoxanthine-guanine phosphoribosyltransferase (HGPRT), and that somehow leads to self-injury and autocannibalism. The virus engages in a massive burst of replication, just as the nuclear polyhedrosis virus does, and the last burst almost melts the human brain, triggering this wild change of behavior in the hours leading up to death.

     Still in awe? I recently googled (ahem...) how this novel had its impact with US. and it showed that President Bill Clinton was reportedly sufficiently impressed by the terrorist scenarios recounted in the book that he asked aides and officials for closer study and suggested more funding for research into bioterror threats. However, there is some variation in the assorted accounts of this episode in his administration: about his degree of concern, who was asked to help, the depth of inquiry, the formal status of his orders, and the magnitude of expense involved.

I still have the book in my shelf and waiting for anyone to borrow he he he