Abandoned Ship
8:35 AM | Friday, October 21, 2011
I have just committed a major blogging crime, abandoning ship. It's been 5 months since I last had the energy to put up a blog post. I'm sorry I'm too lazy but it's also been a rough time for me in the past few months going through the first semester of 3rd yr college - and yet the worse is still to come. :| It's
sem break so I'm here updating what has been...
¿Listo?
I have already been assigned to the
Operating Room and it was the best rotation I've ever had. Being a HUGE fan of Grey's Anatomy, it felt so cool to finally feel what it's like to be inside an operating room theater and observe. The immensity of the entire idea of an operation feels so far out of grasp even when you're actually a part of the surgical team - I just kept thinking and thinking that "Hey, YOU are a part of this", this great concept of cutting a person open, and then closing him up all the while keeping him alive. It was such a rush seeing visceral organs in the body's cavities and seeing amazing surgeons skillfully doing their thing.. It was just pure happiness for me. I once dreamed of becoming a surgeon but after seeing what it takes to be one, it just kept me going on back and forth about the possibility.
And then there's
Spanish. We've been learning Spanish in our first
sem and it's so fun to learn something new every now and then.. Yo
comprendo Español pero...
muy poco.
Hahaha. I can understand now, and I now understand the concept of their grammar construction but I still find it hard constructing my phrases on my own. I am in constant need of the assistance of the verb table and dictionary - but that's progress. :)
Also, I've mentioned in my older post that I have read the entire trilogy of the
Hunger Games. I've been dying to post up a review about the book, BUT I've never gotten myself together to actually start writing up one and now, it's been 6 months since I read it and it's kind of not as fresh in my brain anymore like it was a couple months back. It's now at the back of the 300 pages of medical diseases we have been studying for the past 5 months that is occupying most of my brain's memory storage. Sad. I intend to find time to re-read the entire thing, but knowing myself, I doubt any of that will happen.
Last July, I had the final bittersweet date with
Harry Potter that was what, 11 years in the making? I actually saw it twice, on
IMAX and on 2D but on whatever screen I was watching it, I kept shedding tears, even on the second time around. Harry Potter really has been a HUGE part of my childhood, I can't thank
JK Rowling and her wonderful storytelling enough for making Harry, Ron and
Hermoine such
relatable characters I grew up with. Seeing the story end was such ambivalence. But as
JK Rowling so wonderfully said,
"Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home"
And the magic lives on.. forever. ϟ
On the other side of things:
I AM NOW A PET OWNER. Hahahaha after years of wishing and convincing our parents to get me turtles - dundundundun - I finally have them! Yay. Meet
ninjaturtle and
ninjaturtle. :))
And taking care of these awesome little ones entered me into some pet-owner paranoia where I researched everything that I found unusual and kept worrying about things they were doing that was actually just normal. lol. Thankfully, I am past that phase and I now just loving seeing my Red-Eared Sliders grow. I know one day, they'll grow bigger than the size of the tank they have and we will probably need to figure out how to keep them but right now, I'm just sincerely happy to have them as these little things swimming in their tank on one side of my room. ♥ And throughout this entire pet-owning process, I realized that it takes so much responsibility to fully take care of lives - two lives - even it were just animal lives. And for a minute, it thought, that maybe this was how it somewhat feels like to have children, wanting to protect them and keep them without even exactly knowing how.. it scares and excites me at the same time.
And also!!! After months and months of saving and changing decisions, I have finally settled and bought myself an
iTouch4G. Say hello to
Thirdie (aka Lil Bitch III). It's fun to finally have a music library not confined within the constrains of 2 gigabytes. And a mobile web browser I can just use anytime, anywhere I need and of course.. a gadget that can keep me company in times of great boredom with games like Angry Birds and Tilt to Live. Viva iTouch!
I actually bought mine just a few days after Steve Jobs died. What a great mind the world lost. The world today is simply unimaginable if it was a world without the advancements that Steve provided. The iProducts are just a huge part of today's lifestyle, imagining a world without it simply just isn't right.. Thank you, Steve for the greatness you have left us. Cheers to the round pegs in the square holes, indeed!
So, there. Now, I go and have a Big Bang Theory marathon.
Hasta la proxima, M ♥
