October 2009

October 30, 2009

Triple Medical Celebration Mini BlogThing Game Sponsors' List

This is the list of the sponsors for my Triple Medical Celebration Mini BlogThing Game. Rest assured, this will be UPDATED from time to time.

As of Oct. 30, 2009 (Pacific Time), 01:07 AM:

My Piece of Paradise - 2000 EC Credits

As of Oct. 30, 2009 (Pacific Time), 02:48 AM:

My Perfume Gallery - 1000 EC Credits
Wishing on a Falling Star - 1000 EC Credits
Meow Diaries - 1000 EC Credits

As of Oct. 31, 2009 (Pacific Time), 06:11 AM:

Life Can't Wait - 1000 EC Credits
Up Now and What's Next - 1 1-month 125x125 Ad Space
So Far So Good - 5000 EC Credits
A Lonely Planet It is Not - 2000 EC Credits
A Simple Life - 2000 EC Credits
Moms.. check nyo - 2000 EC Credits
Mommy's Little Corner - 2000 EC Credits
A Mom's Choice - 750 EC Credits
Chronic Chick Talk - 800 EC Credits
Ask Ms Recipe - 998 EC Credits
To be. To be. Tutubi - 1 3-month 125x125 Ad Space

As of Oct. 31, 2009 (Pacific Time), 06:45 PM:

Travelin' With Marie - 2 2-month 125x125 Ad Space; 5 postal cards
Leilanie's 101 in 1001 Challenge - 1 1-month 125x125 Ad Space
Spicy Bugz World - 1000 EC Credits
Xleon Tips - 1 1-month 125x125 Ad Space
Big Love Blog - 1000 EC Credits
Blog Apetite - $5 Cash
Home and Parenting - $5 Cash
Home and Parenting - 1 2-month 125x125 Ad Space
Things I've Stumple Upon - 2 1-month 125x125 Ad Space

As of Oct. 31, 2009 (Pacific Time), 06:45 PM:

Juliana's Bits & Pieces - 1000 EC Credits
My Imaginary Travels - 1000 EC Credits

As of Nov. 03, 2009 (Pacific Time) 04:05 AM:

Øyvind - 2000 EC
Turn-U-Off - 1000 EC
Kaya Mo Pinoy - 2000 EC
Blog De Manila - 2000 EC
Pinay Mom - 2000 EC
True Health, True Wealth - 1000 EC
Blog De Manila - 1 1-month 125x125 Ad Space
Pinay Mom - 1 1-month 125x125 Ad Space
True Health, True Wealth - 1 1-month 125x125 Ad Space

As of Nov. 04, 2009 (Pacific Time) 11:45 PM:

Momgen Craft Corner - 2000 EC Credits
My Craft Stores Online - 2000 EC Credits
Wonderful Things In Life - 2000 EC Credits
Rewards Station - 2000 EC Credits
Twins Happiness - 1 1-month 125x125 Ad Space
There is Happiness - 1 1-month 125x125 Ad Space
Also Mommy - 1 1-month 125x125 Ad Space
TH Corner - 1 1-month 125x125 Ad Space

As of Nov. 05, 2009 (Pacific Time) 11:59PM:

Elai's Haven - 500 EC
Elai's Haven - 1 1-month 125x125 Ad Space
A Little Boy's Blog - 5000 EC
Just Too Little Time - $5 Cash

October 29, 2009

Triple Medical Celebration Preparation

I will be celebrating the Paper (first year) Anniversary

Of My Medical Blog this coming December 1, 2009. And at the same time, two (2) birthday celebrations will be held also, online. These will be my birthday,

this coming Nov. 24 and my nephew's 3rd birthday bash,

Kristian a.k.a. Didong, on Dec. 1 also.

I have been anticipating to have any celebration for my medical blog since I always forgot to celebrate anniversaries of my personal blog which supposed to be every 1st of July. This year, walking news paper is supposed to be celebrating its Cotton (second year)

Anniversary. However, since it always falls on exam week, especially now that I am in a medical school already, I haven't spared time for its celebration. And for now that I am still having ample time for my blogs, I want to spend my days before my first year second semester

in medical school starts.

Anyway, the celebration will be having a very very very MINI BLOGTHING GAME.

I supposed to have this just by myself, I mean, the give-aways will all just be coming from me alone. However, a close friend of mine, a non-blogger, advised me to let bloggers join my celebration not just by merely joining the contest itself, but in sponsoring also. For now and for me to be able to have my very mini blogthing game this coming Nov. 7 until Dec. 1, 2009, the contest is open for any sponsorships from you.

Below is the list of the prizes for sponsorships.

*Cash (via PayPal)

*Entrecard Credits

*125x125 Ad Space (duration will depends on the sponsor)

The pledging for sponsorships will end until Nov. 5, 2009, that would be Pacific Time. And the contest will start on Nov. 7, 2009. The contest's guidelines will be posted also on that same day.

To those who wants to be a sponsor, kindly leave a comment with what you pledged/sponsor, your name (sponsor's name), the link (website) and it's anchor text.

Aside from the prizes to be given by the sponsors listed above, medical freebies

from me will be sent to the lucky winners and to the chosen sponsors as well.

Sponsors who'll receive medical freebies will be chosen randomly using the Random.org.

I am anticipating a very warm party with you guys. Happy blogging!

Tags Boutique: Rx for Sale

I was looking

for great medical prescription

symbol that is unique to look at. However, got nothing to find.

So I just decided to make my own unique medical prescription. With the help of mr. photoShop Adobe, I got this medical prescription!

What if medical practitioners will just use this kind of medical prescription tag? Whatcha think?!?

Do I need to lose weight?

* just take a look at my arms, damn big! This was taken last Oct. 14 as I arrived at Davao Int'l Airport.

Your Weight is Ideal

Your BMI is 18.7 - a healthy BMI falls between 18.5 and 25

Congratulations, you are the perfect weight for your height.

Even though you may not be entirely happy with your weight, you are healthy.

So gain or lose a few pounds if you want, but don't go too crazy!

Do You Need to Lose Weight?

Wooooooooh!?!? So I don't need to lose weight!

October 28, 2009

Gyrotonics

Since I graduated my undergraduate degree last April 2009 and just do nothing at home, I started gaining weight. As I have observed, this is just due to my new daily routine which is a very sedentary lifestyle - eat, sleep, eat and sleep. That all!

And when I enrolled in medical school last June 2009, I was somehow glad that some things were added to my eat - sleep routine, which is study.

Does it matter? Whew! Accordingly, it somehow, add some caloric burning to me, I felt stress and my mind are working. Indeed, calorie burning. However, I found out, that I gain more weight.

Being stress, mentally, makes me crave of carbic foods. Yum! Yum! And more, after school, I eat, rest (just like sleeping) then study.

How can I burn fats?

With my desperation to lose weight, I looked for natural way to get slimmer, I mean, to get back my bowdey!

But I just bumped into gyrotonics. I actually, prefer to do sports, but with my hectic school schedules, I just prefer aerobics. However, as I discovered gyrotonics, I realized it's a more healthy way to lose weight and maintain body's immune system healthy.

Here's a glimpse of how gyrotonics work.

What do you think?

October 27, 2009

I Miss You: Incubus

I just felt mad when I arrived here in Dumaguete City. I miss my family - my mum, dad, siblings, nephew and niece.

I got new LSS for the week again, I MISS YOU by Incubus.

Hope you enjoy the Music Monday this week!

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Getting ready for second semester!

Yayks!

My second semester in my first year in medical school is fast approaching.

It's like it was just yesterday when we had our last day in our second bimonthly examination. And now? Just yesterday, I worked with my registration for my second semester which will start next week, Nov. 3, 2009.

Cramming, isn't it?

Anyway, I just bought my new books, pairs of uniforms and some school supplies. As I was arranging those things last night, I was thinking of having a medical assistant or maybe, I should work as a medical assistant, itself. What do you think? I do not know!

I was thinking these things lately because I got my nerve cracked everytime I think of medical school. As I have said and what my school mates used to advice to us, we need to triple our time studying because the second semester in medical school is more difficult than what we had experienced last semester.

Oh no!

I guess, having a medical assistant, or maybe being one is a good thing for medical student since that could surely help me a lot in understanding the medical field. Though, I haven't consulted my mum yet of what I am thinking now, I already checked some medical assistant sites online and I got St. Augustine School of Medical Assistants.

This school make a good medical assistants aside from being world class, they are absolutely affordable and one can even apply or enroll online.

With St. Augustine School of Medical Assistants, no one could ever look for anything else but surely great medical assistance.

I just hope, my mum would allow me..

Coconut Crab

Honestly, I am very much meticulous in terms of foods. Its preparations, where those came from, anything. And one of the foods that I am not used to eat are some sea foods such as shrimps and crabs.

I really don't like those foods.

When I went to my uncle's house here in Negros Oriental, in Sibulan, a Municipality next to Dumaguete City, just to visit them, my aunt prepared some crabs and shrimps for me. She doesn't know that I am not eating those.

Crabs and shrimps are actually healthy foods. I just can't explain why I don't like those especially their smell. Those make me iwww..

Anyway, for those crab-aholic out there? Whatabout trying this coconut crab? What do you think?

October 25, 2009

It's SUGAR..

..so sweet!", this was what my classmates used to text me. I do not know why until I arrived this morning at exactly 7:30 in the Dumaguete Pier.

My classmates sent me a text message this morning asking 'bout my arrival and one of them surprised me with i-do-not-know-what-t0-react thingy. She told me to open my facebook account and check my tagged photos.

This is the photo which my classmates were commenting bout me and the guy in my right side. He's also our classmate. Actually, they used to tease the two of us since the start of our class this school year. I forgot when this event was and I don't even knew who took this photo.

This isn't a good welcome back home for me especially in coming back to school next week. Surely, the whole class would be teasing me to death.

ZUKIRIN

October 13, 2009

Semestral Break

I'll be flying to Davao City tomorrow. I hope my absence for the min time in the blogosphere won't let you guys think not to drop EC and visit my blogs.

I'm looking forward seeing you again guys.

October 11, 2009

Boyzone Star Stephen Gately Dies

In memory of Stephen Gately, this week's MM will posted from Boyzone's songs.

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Macaroni Grill

It's been 5 months that I haven't been seeing my mum, my whole family. And I am missing all them so much!

I do not know if I can go home. There are a lot of vacation-get-aways queued in my diary since it's already our semestral break.

I am also craving lots of my mum and sister used to prepare especially salads.

Here in Dumaguete City, I hardly had time looking for great food stop where I can unstoppably eat what I wanted. There are only a few restaurants here which I could say that are really great

compared to Davao City. This was what I told my mum during my first long week staying here before the first semester of my first year in medical school that I couldn't find any good food house and that I couldn't satisfy my tummy.

One of the cravings that I am looking for now is macaroni grill salad. I wish I could find it here.

October 06, 2009

Medical Blogging on Vacation

After a minute of staring at my piled books,

which I supposed to study

now for our final exam tomorrow afternoon in Physiology Class, I came to think of not going home and just to stay here, instead. My mum

has been calling me

if I had already booked for my flight going back to Davao City, but I am still hesitant, so I didn't check any flight schedules yet.

I can't think of any thing good, should I say, productive things to do this semestral break but to do blog advertising which I already started last summer, April 2009.

Honestly, I miss those couple of months writing, blogging, which I am supposed to do. There are a lot of things ~~opportunities~~

which had been rejected.

However, I didn't regret still, coz a lot of academically better things happened which I considered, indeed, great and worth experiencing.

Well, now, I am planning to work on effective advertisement on my current blogs and I'll be launching two more web blogs

that are medically related, off course. Hopefully, if still have enough time, I can work on SEO for the new blogs. I won't disclose it here yet, that would be a great surprise party.

Medical Semestral Break

My first year first semester in Medical school is almost over. I only have 4 days

left before the end of our first semester (AY 2009-2010). This week is our final examination - 2nd bi-monthly exam.

And now, I am only looking forward for a two-week vacation which I do not know yet what to do.

A lot of my classmates asked me to visit some good places here in Visayas where I haven't been yet.

A great idea, though, however, I am not yet ready to ramp on.

I just recently stopped the hair loss treatment for men and women that I tried which made me conscious of showing off my hair.

I do not even have a lot of good photographs nowadays because of my hair. I indeed cut my hair down, as what my mum told me because I experienced hair loss, which I only thought abnormal yet it wasn't.

As what my friend told me, the treatment that I tried was one of the hair loss products that work since she had already used it and she had also read a lot about it online - the procerin reviews. However, it didn't in my case since I experienced itchiness and dryness of my scalp.

*this was taken during the Search for Mr. and Ms. Medicine 2009 (SUMS) photo shoot; got a short hair.

So much with my hair, honestly, I am still thinking

where to spend my two-week ~~long~~ semestral break.

Any great idea please?

October 05, 2009

2009 Nobel Prize Winner in Medicine

Aging has always been one of the vanity - checked thingy in terms of beauty consciousness nowadays. There has been a lot of food supplements, drugs even soaps that has been made

even just to slow down, if couldn't be stopped, the aging process.

Actually, aging is a natural process wherein each cells that making us a so called human being undergoes apoptosis (cell death) and that continuously being replaced by new cells. However, during a span of days, months and years

wherein an individual has been very susceptible to a lot of harmful agents from the environments, the aging process of the cells becomes faster.

Moreover, with the very technologically up generations we have now, three Aussie-American researchers namely, Elizabeth Blackburn,

Carol Greider and Jack Szostak had successfully uncover what makes the cell age faster.

Their discovery made them won the 2009 Nobel Prize Winner for Medicine.

Aromatic Food: Stinky Tofu

It is the smell of the food which enable one to identify whether it is delicious or not. Definitely, with the use of our nose.

Our eyes, also can help us perceiving how delicious the food. Mostly, on how the food has been prepared, the color.

Nevertheless, the five taste buds, located in our mouth, specifically in the tongue, that we are having: sweet,

sour, bitter, salty

and umami just help us on how we able to identify the taste and those are also one of our defenses (systems) before we could take in undesirable foods which can surely negatively affect our gastrointestinal system (digestive system) and our upper respiratory system (oropharynx area).

Thence, one can tell whether a certain food is such yummy or not by even just looking at it and smelling.

This food is indeed, by merely looking at it, delicious and yummy, right? But who could ever think that this is a stinky one? This is actually stinky tofu. This is one of the tourists' foods in China. This food is having its very acrid odor.

* a kid being near in a store selling stinky tofu*

Studies have proved that chemical aromatics where found from the food, some of these are aldehydes, furans, ketones and a lot more. This is the reason why stinky tofu has been also called aromatic food.

Miley Cyrus - Party in the USA

All I can now, with all these I am experiencing in Medical School, is a break and a party. Hopefully, a Party in the USA. How I wish!

Next week, I guess, I could party all night after our final examinations.

Song lyrics | Party In The USA lyrics

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October 04, 2009

Maya Angelou: A Quote for Medical Students

When I decided to enroll here in Silliman University Medical School, my family used to tell and remind

me that I will surely be meeting new folks

which are of having very far different lifestyle from Davaoenos, should I say, those from Mindanao, Philippines. My cousins, living in Negros Oriental, Philippines and in Cebu City, Philippines, even told me that Sillimanians

(students from Silliman University) are very far different from those Iskolar ng Bayan

(students from University of the Philippines).

Well then, they are all indeed true. In my first week here in Dumaguete City, I really told my mum that I couldn't survive here since there are no big malls here wherein in Davao City, one of the malls there is just our neighbor.

Thence, my mum just asked me if I really wanted to pursue medicine or not. She even told me, "What are you up to there in Dumaguete? Malls? Night Life? or Medical School?". There, I realized and remembered what Maya Angelou quoted.

This is indeed true and this is what I am holding now in living and surviving Medical School.

The Sandlot: Medical Softball Movie

Basketball and baseball (softball) have been my all time favorite ballgames.

This coming second semester, the Silliman University will be having it's intramurals (ball games) wherein the Silliman University Medical School is still planning to join.

Personally, off course, I am very willing to participate especially in the two ball games.

However, since we are only of li'l number in the college and that, as our dean has been saying, we are very busy, which is indeed true. But, if we are really willing, why not pursue, right?

When I was in my undergraduate degree, I haven't played softball, only basketball, since there were only limited ball games we usually play in UP Mindanao. What I did before, coz I am very eager to even just watch softball games,

I just make use of watching, then and then, the movie THE SANDLOT. It is a comedy-drama sport movie of young softball players.

Here's the casts of the movie:

Scott "Scotty" Smalls (Tom Guiry) - LF
Benjamin Franklin "Benny the Jet" Rodriguez (Mike Vitar) - 3B
Hamilton "Ham" Porter (Patrick Renna) - C
Michael "Squints" Palledorous (Chauncey Leopardi) - RF
Alan "Yeah-Yeah" McClennan (Marty York) - SS
Kenny DeNunez (Brandon Quintin Adams) - P
Bertram Grover Weeks (Grant Gelt) - 2B
Tommy "Repeat" Timmons (Shane Obedzinski) - CF
Timmy Timmons (Victor DiMattia) - 1B
Bill, Scott's Stepfather (Denis Leary)
Scott's Mom (Karen Allen)
Mr. Mertle (James Earl Jones)
Wendy Peffercorn (Marley Shelton)
Babe Ruth (Art LaFleur)
Phillips (Wil Horneff)
Billie Jean (Gretchen Hill)
Hercules aka 'The Beast' (Hooch)

Whew!

Just lovin' the movie. Hope you could watch it too. I won't spill anything here about the movie, I want you to watch for yourself.

Wishin' also that our college will really be joining the intramurals 2009.

October 02, 2009

A Medical Student joins a CONTEST

A lot of my friends had observed that I am having a lot of pimples now. Gosh! I really hate it coz it's really on my forehead. They said, these are because of studying medicine - where every medical student are expected to have.

Well, I guess I just need a rest from having those bag of full of medical books. That's why, also, I decided to join the contest of Mommy Bambie!

Just click here if you want to join with me in this contest which I prefer to be a relaxing one. haha!

TWO (2) lucky participants will win a $25 Gift Cards to the Shutterfly Store to use for the many print options on the site and additonal prizes from the SPONSORS, and another TWO (2) lucky participants will win the other prizes.

LUCKY DOLLY 1:

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$25 Gift Certicate from Shutterfly

$5 from Crayons N pencil
3000 EC Credits from All About Babies and Kids
2000 EC Credits from Our Adventures Together
2000 EC Credits from Pinaymom.org
1000 EC Credits from My Little Angel's Journey
1000 EC Credits from Samantha's Own
1 month Adspace at/from Kerstin Closet
1 month Adspace at/from Kizuna
1 month Adspace at/from Just About Anything
1 month Adspace at/from Samantha's Own

LUCKY DOLLY 2

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$25 Gift Certicate from Shutterfly

2500 EC Credits from Kaya Mo, Pinoy!
2000 EC Credits from Tasty Exploration
2000 EC Credits from Her and History
1000 EC Credits from Just About ANything
1000 EC Credits In His Steps
1 month Adspace at/from Mom Writes For A Cause
1 month Adspace at/from Kiss Me Mwah
1 month Adspace at/from Supladita
1 month Adspace at/from The Dias Family Spo

LUCKY DOLLY 3

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AGNES B. Make Up Goodies from KIZUNA

$5 from Just ABout ANything
5000 EC Credits from The Mommy Journey
1000 EC Credits from Maldita
1000 EC Credits from I HEART CONTEST
1000 EC Credits from The Story of My Life
1 month Adspace at/from Bitz N Pieces Of My Life
1 month Adspace at/from Mouth's Delight
1 month Adspace at/from Rose Obstacles and Glories
1 month Adspace at/from Pinaymom.Org
1 month Adspace at/from Annamonique

BONUS PRIZE (optional)
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