Micro Notes

Today is a beautiful day to just hang out and do nothing...I think I feel like that most of the time everyday that I'm here in midwest central. But, today I actually have to start reading my micro notes for that test on Monday. It's quite annoying actually. There's a bunch of words used the wrong way and I hate it! It bothers me so much that I actually have to white them out and re-write them. It's the OCD in me. Here are some of the stuff that bugs me:

Effects many organ systems in a susceptible host

umm....maybe some ppl should review the difference between 'effects and affects'

The expressed phenotype is usually less then the full potential encoded by the genotype.

This is first grade grammar: Than vs then. Gaah!

Certain medications slow peristalsis and thereby increase transition of gut flora across normal intestinal epithelial barriers barriers.

Got it. Got it. Need I say more?

"Lord knows I'm not you

And if I was I wouldn't be so cruel

Because waiting on love

Ain't so easy to do"

Sitting, Waiting, Wishing ~Jack Johnson

Hazel's Family

My friend, Hazel, and her family have been so nice to me. I spent a week and a half at her family's house when I was dormless and apartmentless, mooching off her family's food and activities. Her sister, Rosie (aka GERDie), her brother, Pierre and her cousin, David helped me move most of my stuff from the dorms to my apt last August. Then, a couple of weekends ago, they spent the night at my apartment because Danity Kane (DK) was going to be in Oakbrook. Yes, call us dorks or whatever, but we consciously planned to go see DK at Oakbrook Mall just because their song 'Show Stopper' was the song we kept hearing when we were moving. Total bonding moments there, I tell you. Anyway, we didn't get any autographs or any good pictures from DK, but we did see them and we got some serious shopping & eating done.

I think what I love about hanging out with Hazel and her fam is that they do the same things my cousins and I do---mostly nothing. We just hang out and do whatever. Most of all, whenever I go over her house, I just love hearing all the noise. It's so comforting, it's so Filipino....kinda like home.

"We show stoppin'

We show, show stoppin"

Show Stopper ~Danity Kane

'Tis the Season To Get Married 1

Catherine and Kurt's Star Trek Wedding

September 10, 2006

Cutting their cake....

Our Trekkie Family

Yeah, when we find a theme we go with it...

Purr-teee.

'Tis the Season To Get Married 2

Rachna and Preet's Wedding

August 19, 2006

This was the first indian wedding I've attended.

I love the colors!

Do you like our indian outfits & saris?

So, 'tis the season to get married AND for aspiring-hubbies-to-be to bend down on one knee and pledge their love. Rachna & Preet had an all day Indian wedding last August. My cousin "The Great" (Catherine) went where no one has gone before and married Kurt at the Star Trek Enterprise last September. And then, not that long ago, I got a phone call from a friend and he told me he was getting married!!! Yeah, so deja vu from My Best Friend's Wedding except I don't like him, I'm not psycho and wanna screw up their wedding, and I didn't fall off the bed when he told me. Okay, maybe it's not so My Best Friend's Wedding. But, yes. A good friend told me he was getting married :) and I can't help but think that we are all growing up...

Congratulations Mark & Grace!

"cause it's you and me and all of the people

with nothing to do

nothing to prove

and it's you and me and all of the people

and I don't know why

I can't keep my eyes off of you"

You and Me ~Lifehouse

Playing Doctor

I found this picture of Neepa and I double teaming Payal during ICM lab last year. Hehe. Don't I look like I'm hearing something?

What The Doctor Said

He said it doesn't look good

he said it looks bad in fact real bad

he said I counted thirty-two of them on one lung

before I quit counting them I said I'm glad

I wouldn't want to know about any more being there than that

he said are you a religious man do you kneel down

in forest groves and let yourself ask for help

when you come to a waterfall

mist blowing against your face and arms do you stop and ask for understanding at those moments

I said not yet but I intend to start today

he said I'm real sorry he said I wish I had some other kind of news to give you

I said Amen and he said something else I didn't catch and not knowing what else to do

and not wanting him to have to repeat it

and me to have to fully digest it

I just looked at him

for a minute and he looked back it was then

I jumped up and shook hands with this man who'd just given me

something no one else on earth had ever given me

I may have even thanked him habit being so strong

- Raymond Carver

Grey's Anatomy

I invited some people over my apt for this season's first episode of Grey's Anatomy. Being the med students that everyone is, everyone was busy. Sadness, no one made it except for the other Rose and Kim (whose idea it was to have people over in the first place). We had an awesome time catching up...

I love Grey's Anatomy because sometimes it's just so "medical school........"

Favorite Quotes: "I love you soon-ish."

"[Medical school] is high school with scalpels."

Antigua

I have been ignoring my blog for eons! I think I only write on this thing when I'm back here in Chicago. It's my way of procrastinating...I just noticed how I never put up pics from my trip to Antigua, Guatemala last July - August when I lived with the nicest & funniest homestay family, volunteered at a clinic, & had lots & lots o' fun:

Lake Atitlan sunset.At Tikal. Kim & I just climbed the top of a ruin temple

Volcan Pacaya. We had to climb this volcano at the butt crack of dawn when it was dark. I'm afraid of the dark & heights : ( But, here's proof that I made it!

"I've heard it said that people come into our lives for a reason,

bringing something we must learn.

And, we are led to those

who help us most to grow

if we let them

and we help them in return."

~Wicked Soundtrack