Words can't explain how much this year has been well-achieved and a success. It has been a year of teary-eyed moments,goals achieved and of course,"I never thought of..." events ;") So here it goes!

Ze birthmonth adventure.:)

I was supposed to post this last week but suddenly,shit happened in school. It almost came to a point that I won't be able to take my subjects for next sem which was horrible. So all throughout the week, I was so depressed that I even felt like I'm about to have a heart attack then as I thought of the possible remediation.But as we had another chance of re-taking our finals,I fortunately made it. :') Words can't explain but during that time,I really wanted to cry after all those tensions and sleepless nights!!Yet at the end of that day,I gave my full gratitude to my parents who has supported me all along.And most of all,to the Lord. 0:') So that ends 1st sem!Time to relax and rejuvenate in this very short sembreak aka time to YOLO! I've been actually catching up with my favorite tv series at home lately---Suits and New Girl.❤️ Plus,i'm back to reading "Entwined With You"(yes,it's been a while from my Crossfire feels.Haha).Everything seems doing pretty well.

Here goes some blog-worthy narratives.Anyway,this month is actually my birthmonth! :D All throughout has been very busy and surprising,I should say.The surprises started to flow during the last week of September(specifically,09/27) where me and my family went to Eastwood for the Beer Festival.Happily, I met Sam YG there once again since he's hosting the event! :"> But unfortunately, I had no pic with him 'cause my brother wasn't able to take it on the camera.hmppph.Either way,it was nice talking to him then ;D
The week after that,my parents finally gave me a Samsung S4 as a birthday gift! :') Then came Saturday(1005) which was my birthday and I celebrated it at URBN. I was with my #crew friends plus Jojo the love survivor of 'Boys Night Out',Dj Tonytoni,and Anjie&Vikas Gogna(Sam YG's siblings).


My crazy crew gave me a 'Fifty Shades'/radio-inspired cake and a birthday plaque.omggg yes,they're definitely the best.❤️
However,it was a bad thing that I got drunk early that night so i sadly wasn't able to talk with the other guests..i truly hate myself for that ;(( Yet, i cannot believe i just had my birthday with some of my favorites.So once again,i thank the lord for making this possible :')
The following weeks after that,I ended up being busy with the schoolwork and hospital duties.Aaaanddd there ya have it!I'll try to post more before this very short break ends,'kay? ;)

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
'til then!

(091413) feeding program.

Once again,i apologize for neglecting my blog.Last month has definitely been harsh and busy even if we have a duty break and intrams.I was doomed, finishing ze deadly thesis and requirements (plus,the never-ending make-up classes). -__- Hence, I knew this was coming eversince this whole schoolyear started---that it's gonna be a whack.And I would highlight the fact that there has never been a day without CRAMMING. Sigh,anyway 5 more months to go!
Moving on, here's to share one of the activities I've documented during our duty days. We conducted a feeding program at Parang,Marikina City.:) So this is what I wrote:


"Last Saturday, Sept. 14 2013, the BSN groups 4B and 4C conducted a health teaching and feeding program at Brgy. Cruz Compound as part of their implementation for their community diagnosis. It was the kids then, who became their audience that time since most of the adults at the barangay were at work. The program started with a health teaching about Leptospirosis and Dengue which are very common to occur this rainy season.

The health teaching of both illnesses includes its definition, mode of transmission, signs and symptoms and preventive measures. And part of it is to encourage them to go to the nearest health center when they are not feeling well already especially when the illness’ signs and symptoms occur. The kids were very participative during the whole teaching as they read our visual aids. Though, we still provide them with fliers for them to get more information about the illnesses.
After the health teaching, the group also taught the kids about proper nutrition.


We taught them how to make a vegetative juice made up of kamote leaves and calamansi. At the end, we had our feeding program by serving the kids with lugaw and juice. Happily, the kids were very satisfied about the activity we had for them."


In addition to that, I met this little boy over there and uhmm,doesn't he looked familiar?the little boy version of Sam YG perhaps?hahaha! :p No wonder,this cutie has middle east blood too! :))
'til then! *credits to Sophie for ze pics. :)

Duty at the Mental.

I bet this was one of the factors that boosts this sem's stress level! At this start of the month, we had a duty at National Center for Mental Health for 2 weeks.We were at morning shift every monday to friday and our stay there has left us with a lot of learnings :) It was a different kind of experience among the other clinical areas that we've encountered.Like it wasn't the usual 'ward chores'in the hospital but it was more on patient-interaction and therapy.



so this was taken from the entrance of the hospital. Sisa was taken as a 'psych model' there representing the mentally-ill patients admitted here. Actually it was a big hospital which consist of Pavilions of different sorts of psych patients.They don't look like clinical wards though,but they look like a jailhouse which i can't believe at first sight.well anyway.


We had a tour around the hospital on the second week of our stay there. As what I've said, the patients were classified on each pavilion based on their type of mental illness/cases.



There's even a Shangrila pavilion in the area but no,it's not for the elite! Haha :)) This is a pavilion for teenage boys. There's also another pavilion there in which they used to call it as "the Boracay pavilion". It is where regressed patients(adult patients whose intellectual thinking has regressed into a baby) stay.Since those patients think that they're still in the mother's womb, all of them are naked and mostly are in fetal position in the sides of the room.



Sooo this is our assigned pavilion aka the Chinese Pavilion!! This is were the Chinese men who have schizophrenia are admitted and as what they've said,it is the most calm pavilion among the others--And i kind of agree with that.Because as we toured along the hospital,we saw several patients who are being restrained (male or female)or isolated in a room due to mania. It was terrifying. Although we can never escape from seeing things like that there..seeing the eccentricity of all things. Honestly i was very nervous when we entered the Pav. for the first time.The patients were so eccentric at its finest! Some are naked,some have their own imaginary friends...And when they eat,it's like there's no tomorrow as they can finish 10 cups of rice,dammmn! o_O However, my views on them has changed during our sessions with them. Indeed,you'll never know them once you get familiar to them. Our sessions with them includes a lot of therapeutic actvities like dancing,singing,recreation,entertainments,arts&crafts and more.



Here's a bunch of crayons that we provided for their play therapy.It's actually one of those activities that I got impressed at them :) We played 2 songs (a happy and a sad song) and while it was playing, they need to draw something of what's on their mind then after that we get to interpret their drawings.There was really a meaning behind what they've drawn that time like as for my patient,he drew the Philippine flag because this is something that he usually sees before (he once told me that he often goes to Luneta Park).So yeah, it was neat! :-)

After several of therapy sessions, we had a Socialization Party as a means of ending our interaction phase to our patients. It was kind of emotional to my other classmates since they really got attached with their patients.Well, let alone that they were very nice people! They may act odd but they're nice to talk to. maloloka ka sa mga ginagawa nila,haha! :))
aaand that ends our duty day for the whole schoolyear!


'til then!

**credits to Sophie P. for ze pics :)