Memorable Philippine TV Commercials Ever!

I really love watching commercials. I remember when we first had a puppy, Kulafu, I am greatly amused by its odd habit of stalking away once a program has resumed and staying still during commercial breaks.

And, yeah, back then, my siblings and I play a guessing game of commercial; a point is given for eacj corect guess of a commercial.

But as I grow up I learn to appreciate superbly written advertisements, and somehow Close Up toothpaste, Coke and, McDonald’s have consistently made this a tradition.

Split

Coke Mismo

Karen PO McDonald’s

I Love Rain! (the lovapalooza commercial)

Bring Back the Record

Through Reading the Deathly Hallows

It is definitely worth it that JK Rowling decided to sacrifice the Half Blood Prince for this. The 6th book, just as what I said to my friends two years ago, is just a bridge to connect the 5th and the 7th books. It doesn’t have its own story. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is for me the most exciting (the 6th is the darkest) among the seven installments. Reading the book feels like that someone is watching me behind, crouching in darkness ready to pounce once it senses that I have let down my guards, the last time I felt this way was when I read The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. The pace of the story runs very quickly, yet it is still as detailed as the other previous volumes. The interactions between the characters are still very much convincing.

It is so exciting, heck, I read the whole book in just one sitting. It took me longer than with the Half Blood Prince though.

But I think JK Rowling made a mistake once; (Spoiler Alert) remember when Hermione and Ron explained Harry how they prepared for their upcoming journey? Ron showed Harry the Ghoul in the Pajamas while Hermione explained that she altered her parents’ memory. But after the wedding, when they apparated and encountered some death eaters, Hermione hesitated to do the memory charm saying that she hasn’t done it yet.

And, did you notice, for the first time JK Rowling wrote an exact date in the book; 1981 (in the Godric’s Hallow) and 1940 something for Dumbledore VS Grindelwald duel?

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

I just had the book this afternoon. I didn’t pay for the reservation that’s why. Anyway, as much as I want to read the book now, I prefer not to. I have a long exam tomorrow at nine in Psychiatric Nursing (including the dynamics of behavior patterns and symptoms and the psychopharmarcology). I’ll just read it tomorrow afternoon, afterall, I am 10PM to 6Am shift on Wednesday so i am allowed to spend the whole night reading the book then I’ll just sleep in the morning. I think I can read the whole book in one night, it is just a little bit thicker than the Half-Blood Prince anyway.

Sleepless in Duty

When we met our CI he quickly mentioned his relief because we are all non graduates in our group. It turned out that he endured three consecutive hellish, sleepless nights wrestling against the Monday to Wednesday Group-who are all consisted of second courser with some are registered doctors and dentists.

What happened was that when he welcomed that group for their 10PM t0 6AM duty last Monday, he noticed that one of the girls was chewing a gum. So he told the girl that next time he won’t tolerate it. Since our CI was a freshly graduate, Batch 2006-he hasn’t got a Masteral yet, and was definitely younger than anyone in the group, the girl thought that she can pick on him. The girl answered back by saying, “Sir, what was the rationale behind that?” So he calmly expressed that that it is very much unethical if they would face other hospital personnel and the patients while chewing a gum. The girl retorted that she’ll just stop chewing it once she’s in front of them.

And our CI recounted the rest of his night’s misfortune of meeting our Group’s Monday to Wednesday counterpart (we are the Group 1 and they are the Group A). I wanted to ask why he didn’t give the girl an incidental report but our group has an agreement to not to meddle with other group’s and other school’s affairs inside the ward so I just exclaimed my disbelief by gasping “grabe naman yun.” and by contorting my face to look that I am in disbelief and definitely appalled by the group’s insurmountable disrespect.

It must have been really hard for our CI. Actually I have never been really close with any second coursers, let alone those medical doctors and denstists. I’ve been hearing things about them from the other groups also. It was indeed brave for him to stand his ground against those huge (literally) people. And it wasn’t easy, imagine spending the whole night with them, boy, that’s suicide.

Sidney Sheldon

I tried again to read a sidney sheldon book yesterday and I stopped as I was about to start the second chapter.

 I really hate his storytelling. Five settings and a massive number of characters appear indiscriminately in just one chapter. My classmates and friends have been blabbing how they love him but I really cannot enjoy such complicated narrations with really simple and sometimes ridiculously, ambitious plots.

 Anyway I really love watching this anime, Perfect Girl Evolution in YouTube.com; this is really funny.

Another Set of Patients in the Emergency Room

Other than the juniors from Metro Subic College (comprised of 14 students), the green and white clad of APCAS fourth year students were also there (they are 12). I was the leader last Thursday, but I was thankful that it the day was not that toxic, we only had a fewer than a dozen clients. The worse case was a guy who had a minor burn and a cardiac dysrhythmia because of an electrocution.

I was thinking for a larger wave of patient the next day, Friday the thirteenth, but the patients are as scarce as it was last Thursday. But anyway here’s another batch of some of the notable clients that we had;

• UnVoidable Man; the moment we enter the ER my CI immediately asked Niel and Angelo to catheter a guy. Alex, Hanzel and I decided to observe. The guy was lethargic. His eyes wobbled everywhere. According to his father, he was brought in the ER because he can’t void. I checked his blood Pressure and after three checkings I finally confirmed that I was not daydreaming when i first saw that the BP was 180 over 120. Even my CI got the same result. I was observing the man, while Angelo inserts the catheter, he looked rather demented. Then I asked Hanzel if he is “sinto-sintu”. He said yes. According to his father, when he was 11 years old he jumped in a river and bumped his head. He had a hydrocephalus and his parents, due to poverty, were not able to seek the necessary medical attention. He couldn’t talk anymore due to the accident. He only does some simple hand signals. When the catheter reached his bladder, a whopping 500 ml of urine immediately filled the empty urine bag. His urine has floating stuff in it. Imagine a pineapple juice with all the miniscule firous compounds in it, that is how it looked like. Alex said that these were purulence and i just can imagine how painful the guy felt. He kept on holding on his penis no matter how hard we try to stop him. Sometimes he stretches his arms on his head his fist balled tightly because of the pain. He is really pityful, he cant even scream.

• Lolo Alone; an asthmatic old man was ushered then left inside the ER. The doctor would want to confine him in the hospital but he didn’t have any penny to pay for his medications. It would be useless. I asked him if he has a wife and he said while he gasped for air that he left his wife at home because she is already blind. After he was donned with an oxygen inhalation and given a dose of nebulization, we asked him if he was alone and he said that he was unaccompanied. I asked him for his age and he wasn’t sure, he just told me his birth year, 1941. I did the mathematics and after three trials (grabe kahirap magsubtract!!) I finally got the right answer. Rose asked his birthday and he couldn’t recall. So she asked what month was he born and he still didn’t know. Rose had to enumerate all the months of the calendar just for him to tell us that his birthday is on April 21. The doctor bought the medication himself, and paid for his transportation back home.

• Yellow Kid; after our dinner a 2-year old boy was admitted in the ER. He was yellowish all over, his lips were violet, and he has clusters of pinkish spots all over his body. The spots were of different diameter and are elevated to less than a millimeter. I asked the father since when he became had the jaundice (the yellowish color) and he was baffled. He asked me if his child is yellow and I affirmed (heck, will I ever ask if he’s not?). I pointed at the yellow paper and told him that he’s a color is 25% less as yellow as the paper. He was astonished. The admitting diagnosis isTyphoid Fever.

Clients in the Emergency Room

Before we had our duty, the hospital’s supervisor toured our group and the third year interns from another college, Metro Subic College, (it is their first time) around the hospital. She showed us each ward (which we fourth years are already familiar) and each personnel. When we landed on this particular room, the Supervisor exclaimed to the girls, “Girls, this is Nurse RL. The best looking nurse in the whole hospital!”

The girls laughed excitedly and wriggled their way to the door to have a clearer view. Then the “exceptionally” handsome guy seemed to have observed that the girls can’t see him clearly, so he himself stood up from his chair and went to the giggling mob of girls, beside the supervisor, and smarmily said his hello.

The Supervisor proudly smiled then enthusiastically asked us, “Sinong kamukha nya?” (Who does he look like?). He smiled automatically as the woman mentioned the question. The whole group eyed the supervisor and the nurse blankly. And when the silence was already futile, the supervisor gave up and (I thought I heard some drums rolled) eagerly answered her own riddle, “Sino pa eh di si John Prats,?” (Who else but John Prats)

The whole crowd was forced to smile and nod in agreement. Aiza turned her head to me then murmured, “Sa anong anggulo?” (In what angle?) then smirked.

Potty Training

My professor considers that Toddlerhood as the time when a child learns to exercise his power… “the power of holding on and letting go”. At this age the toddler learns to control his anal sphincter. At this stage also, the child’s pleasure attention shifted from the mouth to the anus.

 

According to Sigmund Freud too rigid toilet training for toddlers results to a Anal retentive turn out to be perfectionist, excessively clean and organized and greedy. An Anal Expulsive, on the otherhand, is a person who was not toilet trained or who has parents that are very lenient. They are generally sloppy, disorganized, generous and rebellious.