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• Unhappiness of Unknown Primary—Can You Possibly Think of a More Melodramatic Title: A Self-Help Crap

  By Will on April 12, 2009 • ( 4 )

  It must be the heat diffusing the drama from some unknown primary source, but I’ve been seeing a lot of unhappiness from a lot of people at work—batchmates, former interns now surgery residents, seniors called Smoketh, everyone. Some you don’t… Read More ›

• Geeked-Out

  By Will on April 12, 2009 • ( 0 )

  In terms of geeking out, you couldn’t possibly get more geeked-out than during the Season 8 episode of Smallville entitled Legion penned by the comics god himself, Geoff johns! I’ve spaced out in the recent Smallville seasons what with all… Read More ›

• 4 Insights You Can’t Possibly Have Any Use For

  By Will on April 12, 2009 • ( 0 )

  1. I used to get annoyed at the prospect of people planning major vacations in faraway places during the Holy Week, me quaintly thinking that everyone should be joining a prusisyon or eating ginataan at home while watching Jesus of… Read More ›

• Starch Costume

  By Will on April 8, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Speaking of the Flash, I happen to remember that there used to be a (very) short-lived TV series in the 90’s called The Flash, featuring the Barry Allen Flash and starring John Wesley Shipp, aka Dawson’s dad, as The Flash,… Read More ›

• Poserhooddom

  By Will on April 5, 2009 • ( 2 )

  Back in 1998-1999 I had a poser poet phase, when I would try to write as many “poems” as I could and ask unsuspecting orgmates to write in my—euuw—poetry journal. I will spare you any patronizing comments—my poems are all… Read More ›

• Welcome Back, Barry, said Geekazoid

  By Will on April 3, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Barry Allen is back. Who is Barry Allen, you ask? Well he is MY Flash. Every generation has his own DC superhero version, and my Flash is the 60’s version, Barry Allen, just as my Green Lantern is Hal Jordan… Read More ›

• SQN

  By Will on April 3, 2009 • ( 1 )

  Hands already wearing gloves, poised to take the laryngoscope and ram a tube down a gasping patient’s throat while in the sauna that is the ER, when an intern approached me hurriedly and asked something about another patient, “About the… Read More ›

• Sushi

  By Will on April 3, 2009 • ( 0 )

  As it always happens when you’re in a hurry an environmentalist accosts you and makes you feel guilty. Case in point, I was running towards Comic Odyssey in Rob to get the long-awaited Flash: Rebirth #1 which has been released… Read More ›

• Obscene!

  By Will on March 22, 2009 • ( 4 )

  Became my dad’s bantay in Medical City, and in true bantay fashion I decided to not take a bath, brush my teeth, wash my face, or sleep well. Being comfortable and well-kempt is just not being true to the spirit… Read More ›

• Watchmen!

  By Will on March 16, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Shall watch Watchmen in a few hours. Of course movies are not required to be 100% faithful to the source material, if Watchmen were done in this fashion it would last 8 hours. You’ve heard all the raves and read… Read More ›

• Cheapo Missed Her Chance, and Other Meh’s.

  By Will on March 12, 2009 • ( 1 )

  Cheapo was supposed to raise her hand in the middle of the conference and I would call her and she would ask a planted question. Yes, I can stoop that low, specially when I’m in the scalding seat presenting a… Read More ›

• Smitheteens

  By Will on March 6, 2009 • ( 3 )

  The first year medical students had their environmental hazard tour in our wards this afternoon, and I was tasked to tour them around. There was absolutely nothing to say and I was so encephalopathically sleepy, so I just asked them… Read More ›

• Masticating

  By Will on March 6, 2009 • ( 0 )

  During our Grade 6 graduation practice we were all trying to be sopranos. Yes—boy or girl, we were required to totally emulate the nun singing “O Panginoon Ko” in the exact ridiculous coloratura (coboratura? Cororatura? I can’t remember my grade… Read More ›

• Keyser Sosi

  By Will on March 1, 2009 • ( 4 )

  Ex-housemate Keyser Sosi was recently found slumped in the pediatrics callroom unconscious, cyanotic, and frothing in the mouth. I am yet to visit him and I got this information 6th-hand, so I am not sure if the cyanotic and frothing… Read More ›

• Last 3 Minutes

  By Will on March 1, 2009 • ( 4 )

  RTD’s on drugs or scientific discoveries or critical appraisals of whatever are boring. There I said it. If not for the free food I probably wouldn’t go, so if there’s any drug company reading this you’d know how to captivate… Read More ›

• Something To Say To Donna Troy

  By Will on March 1, 2009 • ( 0 )

  As I’ve recently blathered about in this blog Donna Troy has laid their mother to rest about a week ago, with the special participation of everyone from PGH, the UP Med Choir, and of course, Boots Anson-Roa. And Selecta Ice… Read More ›

• Calling Mark V.

  By Will on February 24, 2009 • ( 3 )

  Went to the wake of Donna Troy’s mother a few nights ago, and as with any huge family events Donna Troy was not familiar with all the visitors. And before the night was up who should come in but a… Read More ›

• Esplode! Esplode!

  By Will on February 23, 2009 • ( 0 )

  I wanted to watch something explode so I went through some old episodes of the excellent Batman: The Animated Series, wherein something explodes every 8 minutes. Nothing gets more explode-y, of course, than the excellent feature, Batman: The Mask of… Read More ›

• File Under: Too Much Information/Self-Deprecation

  By Will on February 23, 2009 • ( 2 )

  Way back in March 2006 while typing the census in the interns’ callroom Ditz the Titz caught me listening to Kelly Clarkson. I wasn’t particularly a fan, but her songs were in my computer. So she’s catchy, sue me. I… Read More ›

• F*uck

  By Will on February 23, 2009 • ( 0 )

  Yes, the asterisk stands for a U, ie, fuck. I was re-reading my old Friendster blogs out of boredom and was reminded at how the word fuck, or any “salacious” word for that matter, invites a barrage of spam comments… Read More ›