Fourth Year, Fourth Day

The fourth day of my last year as UP College of Nursing undergrad had just ended.

And at this early point, our batch, batch 2009 is already toxic as hell. Gawd! Our schedule is so jam packed! You see, we just have four days of lecture then we immediately go to our clinical duties.

Half of our batch even has a final exam on Monday already! I repeat, FINAL EXAM! With just about four days of lecture on Psychiatric Nursing, they already have to take the FINALS for it. Imagine cramming all those psych concepts in less than a week's time! Waaaaahhhh!!! So toxic!

I am just a bit fortunate that I am assigned to the section which will take the Critical Care Nursing part, first. This means that our section will take our Psychiatric Nursing on the second half of the semester.

Critical Care Nursing, is just a little-less toxic than Psychiatric Nursing because our finals for Critical Care will be after the 6 week clinical rotations. This means that we have more time to adjust with the toxicity of our senior college life!

I've intended to make a blog entry last tuesday, the first day of classes, but I got tied up with all the assignments that were given to us. Also, I had been quite busy with my NSC Finance Officer responsibilities so I had no choice but to postpone such plan.

We'll be having the first ever duty of our senior year on Monday. Our group, Group B, is assigned at the Post Anesthesia Care Unit of the Philippine General Hospital. This area will be the first of our Critical Care Nursing, Nursing 109.1, clinical rotations.

Good luck to Batch 2009! Go Group B! Go batchmates! We can do this!!! Wooooohhooooooo!!!!

At long last! I have finally finished our Science and Technology in the Society (STS) video. Gawd! Editing and filming a movie is so taxing! Waaahhh! Toxic!

Despite all of the hardships, I still managed to enjoy the film making process as a whole. The pre and intra production required a lot of physical work and concentration. On the other hand, the post production entailed much creativity and patience. So much time and effort had been spent for this endeavor, and I have no qualms with the final outcome!

Whew! What an experience this activity was! Waaahhh! But I like it! Haha! Toxic yet fun! Unlike other stuff that we do in...... hmmmmm...... Hahaha!!!

Our video is entitled: I, the Constant Gardener of the Minority Gattaca Island (Not Another STS Movie)



I had fun making this vid! Sobra! Though what's left of my dignity will completely vanish after this video is made public, still, I am so proud of this work of ours! I hope other people will appreciate it as well!! Gawd! So melodramatic! Hahaha!

I'll post is as soon as I find a way to make the vid size smaller.

Watch out for it!!!

I'm still stuck with the tagging game Fiona "tagged" unto me.

Sheet! I'm really having a hard time thinking about 10 word that starts with the letter R.

Waaaahhhh! How toxic this game is!

I still have not completely decided on the thing I shall do. So many things are popping out of my head lately. These things are about my impending tonsillectomy. *I have tonsillitis right now.*

Stuff like:

• When will I get operated upon? It should be done prior to the start of our mandatory summer classes. However, summer classes will already start on Friday! Waaaahhh!
  
• How about my recovery, the post-operative period? How long will it last? *I should recover fast because I'll have classes soon.*
  
• How will I eat? I do not like to have an NGT (Nasogastric Tube)! *I'm OA!* 
• How about the anesthesia? Will it not affect my memory? I do not want my noobish memory get worse. *I know that this thing has not been proven yet. However, it has not been disproved as well, so there is still a posibility of it occuring.* Waaaahhhh!!!
  

I need to weigh things very well. I must develop an Intra-operative NCP for myself. I must be organized and systematic in the things I shall do. *Yuck! Toxic!*

Toxicity has always been a part of every UP College of Nursing student. It is like an integral thing that unites all of the people in such institution. Even the faculty of our college have loads of stuff to do. Since they are already few in relation to the relatively plenty UPCN students, it is quite understandable that they have got many things up their shoulders as well.

Toxicity unites all.
Toxictiy is love.
Toxicity is life.

Great!

Just great..

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It is our Group's "Free" week at the moment. We are indeed currently free from duty/clinical responsibilities, but we are still chained by the requirements we must conquer.

We have to finish our N199 research paper which is due on Monday! And we have not even started on the data processing yet! Yay for us!

Aside from N199, we have our N123 where we also need to produce written outputs! Such requirement is needed for next week as well! Double yay!

Go Community! Your are so heavenly! *Waw! It rhymes! Haha!*

Gawd! N181 still demands five more journal articles and a concept paper from us! Triple Yay!

It is just a good thing that this week, our group has no clinical duty. In this way, we can focus on other stuff we need to do aside from the mounds of clinical papers we have to submit each and every week from such duties!

I do not even know the meaning of "free time" anymore.

This thing I know though, toxicity readily comes free!

I thought I will have the time to do some good bloggin' today.

I was wrong.
Dead wrong.

Waaaahhh!!! This blog of mine is starting get rusty! Nooooo! This cannot happen! Noooo!!!

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My eyes are droopy and my knees are weak.

I want sleep!

I need sleep!!

I lust for sleep!!!

I am hungry for sleep!!!!

I am dying to sleep!!!!!

sleep...sleep... sleep... sleep... sleep... sleep... sleep......

I guess I have nothing new to blog about. Its more about the usual stuff that I have gotten my life into.

School is toxic... As usual...
I am a sleepy head... As usual...
I made papers... As usual...
I came late for duties... As usual...
I microsleeped in class... As usual...
I am procrastinating right now... As usual...

My life is indeed revolving on the same things. However, I cannot say my life is boring. Though it has become quite a routine, it never fails to give me new insights about things (read as a variable to anything random).

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You are not yet ready for that undertaking. You fail to see the vastness of the horizon.

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We went to R Papa(dua) this afternoon to throw a surprise birthday celebration for our groupmate Ron (Pa)Padua.

It was quite funny because I had to use my Maskara skills for such event. Together with my groupmates, Ayin, Jo, Ayra, Jeremy, Coy, Manessa, Diane and Iaii; we formulated an evil scheme to put the birthday boy into a tight situation. We devised a plan to ask (read: demand) group work stuff from him which we know he will not be able to produce. This lead to a major argument in which Ron was quite helpless with.

As you know, tirade of words is one my specialties. That is why I played the main antagonist on this set-up. Yey!

The scheme worked perfectly! It was very seamless! In fact, Ron had no idea what hit him until the big reveal of the real deal. Good job, guys! Very convincing!

It was very funny! Haha!

Belated Happy Birthday, Kuya Ron!!!

It was a very enjoying time at the pugad ng papel (read: Ayin's house) of Group A slash ALAB slash All-Stars slash Anlabo slash Ang Ingay slash Away slash Anggulo slash Antamad slash Ang Malas slash Ang galing! Yey!

I am really enjoying the company of my group! Go Group A!

Want to know what I had been doing for the past week?





Microsleeping.

Toxicity is taking a toll on my precious sleep.

Gawd! Sleep is indeed a luxury nowadays!

*Photo was taken without consent from the subject, by Ms Lyngel Casas*