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It's official. There will be no classes at UP Manila tomorrow.

Here's the official anouncement from Chancellor through the University Student Council:

To UPM Students, from the University Student Council: Classes tomorrow are SUSPENDED. Per anouncement of Chancellor RL Arcadio. 10:20pm. Thank you! =)

The text was typewritten verbatim.

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EIAN's ID: Woooohhhoooo! No classes tomorrow! Yey! Thank gawd! No regrets for being a lazy student! Woooohooo!!!!

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EIAN's SUPEREGO: Great! Just great! There will be no classes for tom! Just what we need is another make up duty! Just great! Grrrrrrrr!!!

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Eian's EGO: It's all right. Everything has its purpose. Everything will come into terms. You'll both see...

CHED suspends college classes in Metro Manila, 12 areas - NDCC

This is the continuation of my previous post. Well... Actually... I do not think they will be very much related from each other. I do not even know whether these two blog entries would become coherent enough to form a whole thing. Anyway, just want to keep my promise to continue what I have started yesterday. And, I guess, for the novelty of a blog entry with a sequel. Haha!

So where were we?

Hmmm...

We had our first clinical rotation in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit. It was a pretty enjoyable clinical rotation because we had the chance to perform endorsements that staff nurses commonly do. This might sound weird, but I enjoyed the toxicity of those tasks. For some reason, I really felt that I was doing something that contributed much to the care of the patient. This might sound cheesy but then I felt that I contributed much to ensure that the continuity of care to a patient is thoroughly ensured.

Let me clear it up: I enjoyed the endorsements and all the things that we do during our duty time.  BUT, I still hate all the paperworks that we have to do right after the clinical duties. Add to it the fact that all the clinical papers we have to submit for N109.1 should be HANDWRITTEN! I repeat, HANDWRITTEN! Or in Filipino, SULAT KAMAY! If typing tons of papers is not enough, this time around its worse. Manual life to the max! Gawd! My right snail hand nearly necrosed because of writing so much stuff. Waaaahhhhh!!! I especially despise those drug studies! Grrrr!!! 

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We attended the unveiling of the new oblation statue of UP Manila. Senator Angara and other prominent UP people were there. 

This new oblation statue is situated at the smack center of UP Manila. It is located in front of the Philippine General Hospital where everyone could easily see all its glory. No pun intended. Haha!

I see this new edifice as a good thing because people will now be more aware of the location of the Manila campus of University of the Philippines. It’s because people always wonder about the exact place of our campus.

Also, I guess such event was very monumental for UP Manila so it was the place to be! Imagine, someday I could tell my grandchildren that I was there at the time it was formally inaugurated! Hahaha! 

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I just learned from my classmates who are taking Psychiatric Nursing at the moment that my obsessive compulsiveness trait would have been pathologic in nature if I always come/arrive on time. 

Hmmmm…… So that’s the reason….. Hmmmmmm…..

Hahahaha!

I have not been posting much stuff lately. I do not know why this is happening because there seems to be so much factors influencing this occurrence. So much so, that I cannot seem to point my finger on the main culprit. Well, whatever it is, I do not want to waste this little amount of time I have for such winding and taxing mystery.

So, what have I been to, the past week? Uhmmmm... Quite a lot actually. So many that I cannot seem to remember everything that I have done. Errggg! Such loser my memory have become these days! Haha!

Let's start with a bad thing first. I had an argument with a couple of security guards in one of the villages here in Paranaque. They did not want to let me pass through the gate of the village because the car I was driving did not have the appropriate sticker/gate pass. I had to argue that my Dad was the block commander of the area and we were still in the process of obtaining the sticker for such village. But still, they did not allow me to get in. So, I had to use some of my assertiveness skill on them. Thankfuly, I was able to coerce them to do so with a pledge of obtaining a sticker/gate pass as soon as possible. I guess, I looked credible enough for such promise. Haha!

Gawd! I do not understand why the traffic was like hell today. SLEX and the West Service road was overflowing with vehicles. I have been in many heavy traffic situations in the past but the circumstances in the street today were worse! I was trying to figure out the reason for such commotion but I cannot seem to find the most logical explanation for it. It was a good thing that the vehicle I was driving required the use of a single foot only. It was less tiring than the more common type of vehicles

Oh no! Sudden sleepiness attack! I guess this entry must be cut short. I shall continue this entry, after my trip to dreamland.

I hope I feel compelled to act upon such urge.

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!!!!

June 14, 2005

3 Days Into UP Life

Yey!!! It is good to realize that all in all, today was a good day. 

Though it ended well, it started quite rocky.

Ang aga kong nagising kanina to get ready for school. Siyempre, I want to change na, I don’t want to be late anymore. Although UP Manila is just quite near I need to be up and awake early kasi I am kinda slow ako mag-move pag-morning at saka matagal ako maligo kasi natutulog pa ako sa CR. Still groggy pa ako during that time.

Anyway, I was really ready for school na by 6:15. But then yung mga brothers ko di pa. They were still sleeping at our couch. Since Dad would fetch us all to school I had to wait for the two pa. Ang tagal pa nilang dalawa mag-move kaya there nauubos na ung time ko. 

7:30 is the start of my class today and Mrs Recio is my prof for Nursing 1. I don’t want to be late kasi she had the reputation of being a terror. Ayoko nga mabato ng eraser sa face. And I don’t want it for that day to be the first one kaya pinapagalitan ko na ung dalawa kung kapatid para bilisan. 6:45 na kami nakaalis sa house. Mga 7 na kami nakarating sa Don Bosco Technical Institute, the new school of my brothers.

Since it is a big school with many rich kids that also ride cars going to school, clogged ang road to the said school. Kaya we, my mom, yong and yeng were forced to go down na lang sa may nearby place para pwede kaming mag-walk para mas mabilis, while my Dad drove the car along the traffic. Since it is a big school ang hirap maghanap ng room nila. Mga 5 mins pass 7 na un kaya tapos na ung pila for the Grade 1 students. It took us a long time pa to look for their room kasi we don’t know the place naman. 7:15 na eh hindi pa namin nakikita ung room/pila ng 1st years kaya nagdecide na lang si Mommy na pahatid na ako kay Daddy.

Grabe Don Bosco was still quite far from UP Manila with 10 minutes to spare na lang before 7:30. Aaaah, Late na ako!!!! Kulang na lang lumipad na ung car namin just to arrive on time. Goodness, I was really stressed tlaga.

I arrived sa Pedro Gil mga 7:40. I rushed to the College of Nursing Building mga 7:45. Nako late talaga ako. Buti na lang hindi naka-lock ung room namin at nakapasok ako unnoticed by Ms Recio.

Yes!!! Hindi ako nabato ng eraser. Masaya talaga ako!!!

Kumain kami sa Rob. As usual sa food court para cheaper kaysa sa mga resto. Late din kami sa Soc Sci pero good thing is wala ung prof kaya masaya. Nakipagdaldalan lang ako. Kakaiba kasi noon sa MakSci natutulog ako pag-free time. Ngayon di ko mapigilang dumaldal. Hanggang Math 11 daldalan pa rin kahit nasa corridor kasi wala rin ung prof. 

Yes ang saya talaga!!! Puro daldal lang ang ginawa ko kanina. Hehehe!!!

Bago umuwi nagpa-photocs muna ako and I ate Ice cream at Rob. Wala lang.

That’s it. Later mag-rerewrite na ako ng notes. Wala lang.

Obvious na ang daldal ko noh!!! Hehehe!!!

Eian Christian A Sy
Finance Officer
Nursing Student Council A.Y. 2008-2009

Hi Guys and Gals!

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!!!

Iaii, Pouch and I went to De La Salle Greenhills last Wednesday, April 30, 2008; to attend a forum for the new leaders of the youth. We represented the University of the Philippine College of Nursing as student leaders belonging to the Nursing Student Council. I was not supposed to come to this said event because I had a class. But due to fortunate turn of events, the class I was supposed to attend had been cancelled, so I was able to join my council mates on this gathering of youth leaders.

Honestly, I was not really keen on coming because I did not know the purpose of the said forum in the first place. When we arrived, I was surprised that a familiar television personality was there as well. JUN LOZADA was there! It turned out, he was the main speaker for this gathering.

I did not realize until now that he was a good deal of a speaker. He was not the usual not-so-intelligent-controversial-person we commonly encounter. The things he said during the forum truly made sense. His analogies toward issues were relevant and rational. He delivered in-depth discussions on problems that the country was facing.

Here are some of the notable points from him:

• On the NBN-ZTE deal: He compared himself to the wedge of a lever trying to upturn a giant and heavy rock lying on the ground. He said that he could only budge the stone in the most little way possible. Thus, there must be hands to support the little opening that the wedge had done, to completely upturn the seemingly invincible object.
• On people with good intentions: He found it sad when people who have the same goal yet different means become enemies. He further stated that this was the effect when people kept on demanding that they had the best way to the goal they wanted to attain while the others had got it completely wrong. This was when, in reality: there is no single map towards the common goal they had.

He also imparted a RUMOR which a person from the National Food Authority told him. Mr Jun Lozada stressed that this thing is just based from a person's word of mouth and that he had no evidence to prove it. I repeat this is just a RUMOR. The truthfulness or falseness of this contention is yet to be confirmed.

• The Arroyo government had pre-bought unharvested rice from Vietnam last year. This was when the price for rice was just about $350 per metric ton. And now, since there is a rice "crisis," the demand for rice had increased geometrically. The current price per metric ton of rice is now $1,400++. The government makes it appear that they are spending this huge amount ($1,400++) of money for the import of rice.

So if this RUMOR is true, the question here is:

• If the government have a supply of rice, bought through a contract made prior to the emergence of the rice crisis, and in which rice is acquired with a much lower price ($350 per metric ton); where does the remaining $1,100++ per metric ton go?

To delve things further:

• The Philippines had already imported a total of 1.6 Million metric tons of rice. Doing the math: where's the roughly $1.76 Billion (1.6 Million multiplied to $1,100) that came from the pockets of the Filipino people?
  

At the moment, the answers to those queries will just have to be abstracted by the minds of the ordinary Filipino people.





After the forum, we had a casual chit-chat with Mr Lozada about current issues in the country and about our school, the University of the Philippines. He was very friendly. We even had some photos taken with him, before we finally headed our way home.

These are the rest of the lectures for NatSci V under Professor Marilen Parungao.

These are the lectures by Professor Marilen Parungao for NatSciV.

Ma'am said that the coverage of the exam will be until the third lecture (Population and Community) only.

Good luck to everyone for the exam on Monday! We can do this! Haha!

Note: I divided the first lecture into two parts so that multiply can accomodate it. This is because multiply has a 20MB limit for their attachments.

Part 2 of 2

These files contain the readings for the subject Science and Technology in the Society (STS) under Professor Solano. These readings are for his STS classes for Summer 2008.

These files are zipped together so that downloading them will be easier. The first file entitled "Complete STS Readings" already contain everything that the other zip files have. So if you download it, no need to download the other zip files.

The other zip files were grouped according to the section in which the readings belong. So if you are just particularly interested on just a specific section of the required readings, you may just download the reading section you are interested in.

Please do refer to the STS syllabus for delineation of topics that belong to each section.

The files had been scanned for viruses, spywares and malwares. They are found to be clean, even to the point of being sterile. Haha!

Part 1 of 2

These files contain the readings for the subject Science and Technology in the Society (STS) under Professor Solano. These readings are for his STS classes for Summer 2008.

These files are zipped together so that downloading them will be easier. The first file entitled "Complete STS Readings" already contain everything that the other zip files have. So if you download it, no need to download the other zip files.

The other zip files were grouped according to the section in which the readings belong. So if you are just particularly interested on just a specific section of the required readings, you may just download the reading section you are interested in.

Please do refer to the STS syllabus for delineation of topics that belong to each section.

The files had been scanned for viruses, spywares and malwares. They are found to be clean, even to the point of being sterile. Haha!

 

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!*

It's official! I am on vacation!

Yey!!!

I have 9 blissful days of vacation! Sweet! So sweet! I am really excited about the perspective of fully loafing around in our house.

I'll be a sloth! And no one can stop me! Bwahahahaha!

Thank God! I have finished the past semester unscathed, alive and fighting *Why do I have the feeling that this sentence is so unparallel?!?* Ewwww... So dramatic! Hahaha!

Bum moments, here I come! Watch out for me!

The best sloth in town is back. And he is here to stay!

but not quite!

Frustrations frustrations!

I was so close to attaining my goal. But still, I failed to reach it.

Grrrrrrr!

I was so close. So close, I tell you.

This is just like a case of a three point shot with a second to spare before the game comes to an end. Adrenalin is pumping and anxiety is hovering all over your body, as you watch gravity does its work on the opportunity up in the air.

Then,

POOF!

It missed.

So much for getting your hopes up. In the end, you still failed.

Nooooo!!! I am sulking quite a lot right now.

Pessimism pessimism!

Optimism, please come. Now. Quickly. Please...

Great job for sounding the call of nature alarm with perfect timing! Thanks to my ureter which can only hold so much!

Earlier this morning, I was awoken from my slumber by the urgency of bladder fullness. It was 11am at such time. It was still quite an early time for me to awaken for a day in which I have no class or test to attend. Or so I thought...

I decided to go to the CR and relieve the pressure upon my bladder. As I was returning to bed, I noticed that the message alert light of my phone was blinking which meant that I had unread text messages. I picked up my phone and saw that there were indeed two unread messages in my inbox.

I decided to read them.

The first message was: Dudes! Wala na daw exam kay Ma'am Corcega. Di daw nia mahahabol tapusing gawin ung exam ngayon.

I drowsily just shrugged it off because I knew that it was not necessarily for me. It was just a text pass and I was not affected by it in the first place.

Now for the second message: Pucha! Meron daw uling exam lahat kay Ma'am Corcega! Ang labo talaga..

I was not taken aback by the message because I already knew that I was not affected by this examination thing.

I was about to drop my phone back and return to my peaceful sleep when an impulse of rereading the message came upon me.

Pucha! Meron daw uling exam LAHAT kay Ma'am Corcega! Ang labo talaga..

I overlooked the word "lahat" which meant that everyone was included. I panicked and immediately called up our professor who was the course coordinator for this subject, N181 Nursing Leadership and Management.

She confirmed the news. It turned out that THE LIST was only applicable to the 4/5 or 80% of the final examination. Everyone, even the exempted people was to take the remaining 20% of the finals.

Waaaaahhhhh! I became fully awake by such news. The realization that I was going to take an exam which I hadn't been able to review even a single word was nerve wracking.  I was fidgeting because it was pass 11am. The test was supposed to start at 1pm and I was still in Paranaque! So good luck if I will be able to arrive on school by that time!

Yes! So nice such situation was huh!

I quickly took a bath and rushed to school. I arrived at UP Manila at about 1:20pm. Good thing the test had not started yet. I was supposed to review for the exam but the urge to loaf around and chit-chat with classmates and friends, was stronger.

So yeah, I took the exam without reviewing. Nice huh!

Good thing though, the exam questions where just like the ones which were asked in the previous test. So yey! For a lazy boy like me! Haha!!!

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Group ALAB (All-Stars) had a group date at the Mall of Asia this afternoon after the exam. We had lots of fun coloring the place mat at Burgoo where we ate dinner, courtesy of the birthday celebrants/celebrators (?) Manessa Ferrer, Jeremy Lo and Ayin Quintin. Thanks guys! Sobrang nabusog kami! 'till next time! Haha!

We also had our group picture taken at a studio. The photos were really nice! I'll upload them as soon as I get my hands on those files.

Go Group A!!!! We are Alab-ing! Haha!

After much wait and all the agony of uncertainty, The Eian Chronicles presents THE LIST:

*This list had been edited so that instead of it being a Final's list, it has become an Exemption List. Meaning, if you find your student number here, you should be happy because you are EXEMPTED from the final examination on N181 Nursing Leadership and Management.

Section 1
1	2005 - 69787
2	2005 - 10831
3	2005 - 32929
4	2005 - 60740
5	2005 - 41358
6	2005 - 12025
7	2005 - 08652
8	2004 - 06219
9	2005 - 00057
10	2005 - 06124
11	2005 - 72782
12	2005 - 15762
13	2005 - 04791
14	2005 - 73325
15	2005 - 12804
16	2005 - 17342
17	2005 - 11071

Section 2
1	2005 - 06696
2	2005 - 39389
3	2004 - 59008
4	2005 - 43756
5	2005 - 24159
6	2005 - 17881
7	2005 - 34746
8	2005 - 33540
9	2005 - 28370
10	2005 - 10873
11	2005 - 41248
12	2005 - 13359
13	2005 - 11021
14	2005 - 12298
15	2004 - 51347
16	2005 - 41708
17	2005 - 29993
18	2005 - 21173
19	2005 - 30269

To all the people who got exempted, Congratulations!!! Great job, guys and gals!

For those who shall take the finals, do not despair, it is not the end of it all. It does not mean that you failed. It just says that you were not able to reach the cut off.

Kaya yan! You can do it! Toxic nga lang pero kaya yan!

Thanks for those who stayed up and followed this live update on THE LIST. Until next time!

This has been Eian Sy, saying good morning to everyone! 'till next time!