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• Platitudes

  By Will on April 9, 2010 • ( 0 )

  My hypergraphia is sometimes useful, as I am always being approached by our good friends to write speechifications for the souvenir programs of our fund raising activities and such. I would never comply, except that the prospect of writing for… Read More ›

• And For Today’s Whine Speciale

  By Will on April 7, 2010 • ( 0 )

  1 am, shirtless, in bed, wearing only boxers. Me. Disgusting, right. But it’s bleeping hot, and the electric fan in full blast was blowing warm gas. While in the middle of my sleep dreaming of being in a toy store… Read More ›

• Shrinking Violet– Salu Digby!!

  By Will on April 7, 2010 • ( 1 )

  Six years ago– SIX!!!—everyone has somehow tapped into some weird crazy mutant weltenschauung (sp?) and had the infernal collective thought to invoke something called BRP, ie, brief reactive psychosis, ie, to instantly transform from a perfectly sane person into a… Read More ›

• Editorial

  By Will on April 1, 2010 • ( 3 )

  Phony adventuristic tibak mode over! As Smoketh has so succinctly pointed out, UP Diliman days are over, there is no point speaking in such strained Filipino, I’ve just been making it difficult to read. It is indeed sad, but the… Read More ›

• Wiggle and Wooh

  By Will on April 1, 2010 • ( 2 )

  Went to church in our town last Palm Sunday and noted I haven’t been to church for quite a while. I looked around and didn’t know anyone, the priest I’ve seen only for the second time, and there were all… Read More ›

• Dyip

  By Will on April 1, 2010 • ( 6 )

  Ewan ko ba, nagising na lang ako bigla kaninang umaga at naisip ko na magsulat na ulit ng blog, parang ang tagal na rin kasi. Oo na, parang nung isang linggo lang naman ako huling nagsulat, pero dahil may sakit… Read More ›

• All Sorts of Psycho!

  By Will on March 24, 2010 • ( 4 )

  My favorite family betamax movie of all time is Back to the Future. Years ago us kids would huddle in my dad’s Batcave, which, indeed, was called Batcave until we had our rickety fire-prone house torn down. The Batcave was… Read More ›

• Food Hysteria: A Detailed, Accurate Reportage of the Internal Medicine Biggest Loser Competition So Far!

  By Will on March 24, 2010 • ( 6 )

  And so everyone is on a crash diet, with the goal of getting that pot money. We can all say it’s a quest for health, well-being, total emaciation, etc. but the pot money you would win once you underweigh everyone… Read More ›

• I, Precog

  By Will on March 22, 2010 • ( 4 )

  Having spent so much time writing and reading chart entries I now know all the handwritings of all my colleagues in the department, and being in this department, writing loooooooooong entries is the norm. Writing something in less than a… Read More ›

• Useless Pieces of Crap!

  By Will on March 21, 2010 • ( 5 )

  Finally got around to cleaning my closet, and this time my threshold to throwing things out is at its lowest. Unless the stuff inside is something I could eat, read with pleasure, smoke, or get addicted to RIGHT NOW, it… Read More ›

• Blowtorch

  By Will on March 17, 2010 • ( 3 )

  Saw Thymes this afternoon and she screamed. She screams in glee whenever she sees someone she hasn’t seen in a long time, and although I’ve seen her only yesterday the very packed, busy day and duty night must have made… Read More ›

• Huh

  By Will on March 16, 2010 • ( 4 )

  If you’ve been talking to me for the past few days and I have this huh facial expression it’s because I have a huh reaction to what you were saying, basically because I haven’t been listening. For some cosmic reason… Read More ›

• Cosmic Blues

  By Will on March 16, 2010 • ( 5 )

  Shalimar recently went home for a visit during her leave from her pediatrics residency in New York, and she’s staying here in the country for ten days. Shalimar is not to be confused with Ditz the Titz, although they were… Read More ›

• Splatter, Splatter

  By Will on March 16, 2010 • ( 0 )

  And on my face, a blotch of coagulated blood. I don’t know how it got there, all I know is I haven’t checked the mirror for almost an entire day and nobody pointed it out, but there it was, a… Read More ›

• Always On My Fucking Mind

  By Will on March 16, 2010 • ( 0 )

  “Naaaapakadaming always on my mind,” Smoketh enthused as she scrolled down my song list in my iPod. Indeed there are seven, starting with the version of the original big mama of them all, Brenda Lee, a version that actually rocks…. Read More ›

• My Magic Lasso Will Take Care of You! Said Wonder Woman, the Superfriends Version

  By Will on March 16, 2010 • ( 0 )

  As I am typing away in the bartolina that is the ICU callroom I know that if the ICU catches fire I will get cremated in two seconds. The extreme cold would make me insensitive to any nearby flame, and… Read More ›

• Attention Test

  By Will on March 10, 2010 • ( 1 )

  While sitting in the ambulance parking lot at around 3 pm, after having, er, facilitated an ambulance conduction, with the help of some residents from other departments, obviously it should be a collective effort being a very toxic task at… Read More ›

• its all a lie, said guest blogger Smoketh. Lie!

  By Will on March 10, 2010 • ( 7 )

  whoever said that fellowship was more benign that residency must have been on lsd. i was chatting with smoketh and she said with such conviction “if you are considering going to fellowship to have more success and prestige, think it… Read More ›

• Vomit

  By Will on March 10, 2010 • ( 4 )

  We finally had the megacode, some sort of practical exam for the ACLS accreditation thing, wherein we would treat the manequin with the fake veins and destroyed foam trachea, and the fun remote-controlled cardiac monitor that could instantly show torsades… Read More ›

• Silver Banshee

  By Will on March 1, 2010 • ( 0 )

  That morning the ones who shared the callroom with me during the previous duty night would tell me that my 3 alarm clocks have been ringing incessantly for hours on end without eliciting anything but a grunt from me–and that… Read More ›