In our primary internal medicine text book it is said that for oncologists, the main dictum of practice is not “first do no harm” but rather “first hasten to help”, which is kind of weird considering that one of the… Read More ›
Blogs
Dizzizit!
While driving along Commonwealth at 9 pm Smoketh rang me up. Smoketh, as you readers remember (all three of you who were able to stick it out), can use the phone, read a novel, blog, and use a luffah while… Read More ›
Cancer or Salt
One of my favorite Bible stories is the saga of Moses, but it also features my most hated part of the Bible. Towards the end Moses, after all the things he has done, has been reprimanded severely and failed to… Read More ›
Lollipop-Licking
I have recently delivered a speech to the graduating elementary students in my alma mater. This is the sort of thing that comes with aging—along with filing papers in many government agencies, becoming… Read More ›
Just Like Going On Ikot
Having amassed loads of advice on how to go about establishing private practice, I’ve distilled the major schools of thought on practice building into two: 1. That you should commit to one hospital and stick to it. It doesn’t matter… Read More ›
And For More Culture…
Back in high school we would get these required monthly subscriptions of magazines and comic books our parents paid for at the start of the year. One such thing is Gospel Komiks, with stories on how the gospels for that… Read More ›
Getting Cultured
Many months ago my friend from high school Ruth Marx (not his real name; I’ve christened him Ruth Marx because he was the only one who knows who Ruth Marx is) bought two tickets for the musical Wicked. Then he… Read More ›
Isang Sakong Pasensya Cookies
Nakaka-apat na buwan na ako dito sa isteyj ng buhay na tinatawag na “private practice”. Hindi naman ako nag-eexpect na winner agad ang practice, at pinrepare ko na rin naman ang sarili ko sa often-cited phase na “pagbibilang ng butiki… Read More ›
5 Points!
Back in first year high school we had a pretty world-weary disillusioned guy for a history teacher. Our ideas, fresh from elementary graduation, bursting with idealism and the notion that every conflict can be resolved by flowery words, would always… Read More ›
Post-Boards Stages of Whining
Thymes has decided not to receive any calls and never replied to any text messages for weeks and weeks after topping her cardiology subspecialty board exams. It seemed like she wanted to disappear from the world. She was, apparently, depressed…. Read More ›
Kaladkarin Files: Back in February
While we were having a round table discussion in NKTI on some kind of cancer I… wasn’t listening. My mind was a blur of so many things, such as: how I could make my way through those people cramped sitting… Read More ›
Life With Archie
As I’ve been ranting for almost two years now, DC Comics has decided to do a hard reset of its already multiply-reset multiverse, redesigning most of its characters and turning them into horrible clown whores, with the books written by… Read More ›
Bursting With Posiness Part 2
Previously I’ve started a list of things that make me happy, as inspired by Smoketh’s sudden burst of posiness. As Green Day sang in their fantastic 2005 album American Idiot, “I’m the son of rage and love! The Jesus of… Read More ›
Bursting With Posiness Part 1
Smoketh has recently written a new entry in her blog detailing the various sources of happiness in her life. Since she left PGH she has become the poster child for everything positive and cheerio. She has read all the new… Read More ›
Bare Ass
After having completed the stuff I needed to complete in PGH I declared that I would not want to go back to Manila for a long time unless absolutely necessary, primarily because of the stress of commuting. I’ve stayed in… Read More ›
Enough With The Life Lessons! We’ll Just Watch Movies! AHAHAHAHAHA
The past two years have been the most harrowing I’ve ever had the misfortune of experiencing. Around seven years ago I wrote an annoyingly dramatic entry in my… Friendster blog (AHAHAHAHA!) where I… Read More ›
Last Night On Earth… With a Sandwich
On my last few nights as a dormer in Manila I would hunt down Smoketh and disturb her feverish studying for the renal boards and we would call Frichmond and we would go to… Subway. Maybe it was the finality… Read More ›
Flash Fact: Shameless Self-Promotion!
Recently met up with a college friend whom I haven’t seen in a long time. She excitedly declared that she has finally bought our published book from Powerbooks. Thinking I have finally published a short story collection, she went through… Read More ›
iPot Empathy Drama
Wherein I lift significant lines from songs my iPot has played in empathy with this week’s state of mind, and I get to write a poorly written sentence beginning with “wherein”! Henceforth, in escalating histrionic self-drama:“I don’t know why I… Read More ›
Schizoid
A couple of days ago I’ve bought an extremely cheap pair of rubber shoes and ran/walk along Roxas all the way to the CCP complex. Surprisingly there were no people anywhere, which I later realized should not have been a… Read More ›
Supposed Former Melancholia Junkie 