Change of career

I can't believe that it's been a while now since my last blog post, been MONTHS since this blog's last entry. It's hard to believe that this blog has now officially become one of those non sense and waste of  internet space or domain name, one of those blogs which is better off deleted by its owner. Sad reality for a blogger, or should i say, a former blogger. 

Anyways, I'm not sure if I still have followers or if people has even read my blog since; number one, I don't really advertise or market my blog, two, i deleted my original blog, the one which really has a few followers. I deleted that blog for personal reasons and to finally have a much needed peace. 

But just a heads up, if someone would still even care, i am no longer in the path of becoming a doctor. That was last year, not anymore in line with recent developments. Yes sir, I quit medical school, and again for personal reasons and i am not really in the mood to sit here and type the many childish reasons as to why i quit my dream of becoming a doctor. hahahaha. but just to let u know, Medical School was fun and i had a lot of friends there and I was doing well but out of it, it just wasn't for me. I realized it later on that that i am better off with a different career. 

However, life is not a bum for me since i am now chasing a different dream. That of becoming a lawyer. Yes, i am now in Law School, taking up my Bachelors Degree in Law and i intend to graduate this time around. No more bungee jumping or what-not, its all pure seriousness now. I don't even go out partying or clubbing these days. I am more serious now and really intent on becoming a lawyer, which I will be in a few years time... 

Fwd: Invitation to Twoo!

Got this invitation via email to join this some kind of a social networking site... My golly, it seems that are just too many social networking sites now a days than there are countries in the world! But sorry, I'm sticking with Facebook and twitter! I think they're the only thing that's real and the rest are just one of those sites that you sign up and got to logged back in when your either super bored or really really horny!

not 1 but 3 Krispy Kreme Branches to open in Davao

Photo Coutersy of:Jyyllee Lap

You got that right, Davao will have a total of 3 Krispy Kreme Branches glazing the city in the next months to come. One branch will open each in Abreeza Mall, SM Lanang Premier, and SM Annex. Though no official statement has been released yet by Krispy Kreme on this matter but what is certain is that there will be a Krispy Kreme branch in Davao City soon according to the official Facebook Page in Status Message posted on 22nd February as evidenced by the screenshot below.

More Flights to and from Davao City

Davao International Airport (DIA) or more aptly called Francisco Bangoy International Airport (IATA: DVO, ICAO: RPMD) is the main airport serving Davao City and the whole Davao Region. It is considered as the busiest airport in Mindanao and one of the busiest in the Philippines in terms of passenger and aircraft traffic. In 2009 figures, it was named as the third busiest airport in the country after Manila's NAIA and Cebu's MCIA. It is not clear if it still hold the title as Clark was recently identified as the fastest growing airport in the country as it is being groomed as the nation's premier gateway and to eventually replace the ageing NAIA. DIA has registered a total of 2,229,177 passengers for 2010 according to a CAAP report posted on their website but Clark no such data is available for Clark International Airport as of posting time.

Currently, DIA is being served by six major Filipino Airlines (Philippine Airlines, Cebu Pacific Air, Airphil Express, Midsea Express and Zest Airways) and by two International Airlines (Silk Air and Tiger Airways). It also has connections to 6 domestic cities (Cagayan de Oro, Zamboanga, Cebu, Tagbilaran, Iloilo, and Manila) and 1 international city-Singapore. But that will change in a few days as for the month of March, two Filipino Airlines (AirAsia Philippines and Airphil Express) will be launching a direct Clark-Davao-Clark flight making DIA's connections to a total of 8 cities.

AirAsia Philippines finally got a nod to launch scheduled flights from its hub,Clark International Airport. To launch its commercial flights, AirAsia Philippines will initially fly to Davao City and Kalibo on the 28th of March. AirAsia will have 2 daily flights flying the Clark-Davao Route, and their website http://www.airasia.com/my/en/home.html has started to offer 20,000 free seats for booking starting on 28th of February until 4th of March and for travel on the 28th of March until the 31st of January of 2013. One only has to pay P190.00 pesos to cover taxes, fuel charge and other government fees. Clark is an alternative airport if you want to avoid the busy and overcrowded NAIA. It is also the main airport that serves the Clark Freeport Zone, Angeles City and Pampanga Province. AirAsia will be using its newly purchased Airbus A320 and with the following schedule;

PQ7023 CLARK-DAVAO Departs 1010H; Arrives 1200

PQ7024 DAVAO-CLARK Departs 12:25H; Arrives 14:15

PQ7027 CLARK-DAVAO Departs 17:50H; Arrives 19:40

PQ7028 DAVAO-CLARK Departs 20:05H; Arrives 21:55

With the entry of AirAsia Philippines, local carriers will surely be facing tough competition and it is expected that they will be fighting head on for a strong share of the Philippine Aviation Industry. Following the announcement of AirAsia's Clark-Davao flight, Airphil Express has also announced that will also be serving this route starting on the day after Airasia is scheduled to launch its maiden flight. For it's part, Airphil Express will start with 3 weekly flights every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

But wait, there's still more; Philippine Airlines, in a recent statement, disclosed plans of connecting Davao City to Darwin in Northern Australia as PAL will received its two Boeing 777 orders this year and another two more next year that's according to an article posted on the Business Mirror on 15th of February: http://businessmirror.com.ph/component/content/article/53-agri-commodities/23311-pal-set-to-get-four-777s-open-darwin-davao-route.

In the same article, PAL is also said to be considering mounting flights from Davao City to Hong Kong and Singapore. Notably, Cebu Pacific Air used to fly this route in 2007 until they suspended this service.

If PAL would indeed start flying the Davao-Darwin Route then that would surely benefit a lot of Filipinos living in Northern Australia. Further, people travelling from Cebu, the Visayas, or other areas in Mindanao can avoid having to go to Manila for their connecting flight to Australia since Manila is already congested as it is and most flights coming to and from Manila normally experience delays and even cancellations. So we just have to wait and see but surely we can expect more and more flights coming in and from Davao City in the next months to come!

A funny qoute..

One twitter follower tweeted this, and this just made me laugh!

@CHOY_911: thought of the day: Never hold your farts in.They travel up your spine, into your brain, & that is where shitty ideas come from"

So, lesson from @CHOY_911 is that never should you hold your farts in...

Really now?

A few centuries ago, i used to run a blog and post about anything and anyone under the sun but after long hiatus, i decided to just delete that blog and move on. A few years later, I decided to go back to blogging and i set up this blog on 9/11/11. Whats funny is that i never returned and published another post after that date! hahaha

But since I'm now officially on "Leave Of Absence" from Medical School, so that gives me more time to blog and hopefully I will actively blog again this time around! #FingersCrossed

Another Monday!

Another monday, another week, another start of a tedious and hair falling week!

Wish me luck!

Which is worse: No Social Life or No Sex Life?

They say that one cannot attain success without a few sacrifices, and Sacrificed I did. I don't know how I did it but I was able to minimize my time on facebook and have totally abstained from tweeting. Surprising as it may seem, but I have also succeeded in avoiding the temptations of watching my favorite TV shows. Good thing, the Vampire Diaries 3 have not premiered yet or else I would surely have a hard time resisting.

Further, for the sake of compromising for my grades and my studies, I have also resisted the urge of going out clubbing and / or drinking out with my friends. I keep on saying to my self that I have reached the point in life in which I have totally matured and is just too old for clubbing and partying. That is easily vindicable, but avoiding my friends is inexcusable, I know. But when your in medical school, a little time spent on gallivanting makes you guilty of "Not Studying Too Much". With merely 24 hours for a day, you just can't afford to waste your precious and limited time on other stuff not related to your studies. I don't even go to malls these days unless I need to go and buy some school stuff, particularly pens and highlighters!

Another major sacrifice I have made, I just realized now upon writing this, is my Sex life. Before, I can't go a week without getting laid but now, I can't even remember when is the last time I jerked off yet alone got laid! there's just too much to read and too much to know, not to mention the things you also need to do, for sake of coveting those two initials, M and D, after your name.
Sacrifices have to be made, and compromise I must!

But which is worse, really? Having no social life? Or having a zero sex life? Which is which? I can't seem to decide. Having either one is already pathetic and makes one a loser, but does it really matter?

When your in Medical School, all that matter is passing all your subjects and the rest can wait! Worst thing that could happen is when u fail a subject or worse-two. Or even worse than worst is when you got kicked out of medical school! So again, it doesn't matter which is which, cause I am going to be a doctor! (But if it really doesn't matter, then why am I posting this?? :p)

Reasons, Reasons...

Why should one choose to enter medical school? Should it be confined to fulfilling a life-long dream? Or for the fame? For the money? Or just for the sake of being a doctor?
Me? I don't know! I really don't know... I know that I have a reason or two why I pursued this course but it seems I forgot whatever reasons I have for entering medical school.
So if you could be so kind, and enlighten me as to why one should choose to enter medical school, I would be grateful and forever be indebted!

"To be or not to be a Doctor?" That is the question

Lately, I'm beginning to sense that my life is so boring and that I am loosing any purpose of living-if I have one. This is sooo not the kind of life that I want for me, clearly not what I signed up for. I feel that I was tricked into believing that medical school is the kind of life that I would choose for myself for the next four or so years.

Well, I do want to be a doctor or maybe its just the idea of being a doctor, a well respected and highly profitable profession, that have enticed me to board the ship without hesitation. But lately, I realized that maybe, just maybe, it's not the life I want after all... Medical school could be so demanding and it sucks the life out of you. It deletes the F(un) in life. You wont even have time time to meet your friends, no time for gallivanting or fooling around anymore, it can even affect your sex life. Even your weekends would be consumed with too much studying, reading, or worrying for your quizzes and lessons the previous week and even for week next. You will never have time for everything, even for life's simple pleassures like sleeping and even daydreaming.

I'm not saying that I regret entering medical school, it's just that I am not really sure if it is the kind of life I would want for myself. People say that it's just normal and that everyone who enters this profession will come to a point wherein he will be thinking this way. It's just normal, they say. My teachers, classmates, friends, and even my family have not fail to tell me that. Not once, not twice, but as many times as there are stars on a clear night sky. Sometime it helps, but sometime it gets annoying and I am so tempted to shout to their faces "SHUT-THE-F*CK-UP!!!". For once, people need to shut their mouths and just listen as you rant. Didn't anyone tell them that?

I know that medical school would not be easy but never have I thought that it would be this hard. For one thing, you have tons of advance, catch up, and follow up readings to do and it all needs to be cramped up in a mere 24hours that a day has and I'm not talking about 10 or 20 pages but close to a hundred pages per subject per day, and this is not just a normal kind of reading, but super major intense reading (superlatives deliberately emphasized). One chapter do not only require one reading but two or even three readings and that would still not be enough. I think never have i studied this much in my life time and if I am this studious when I was still in college, i think i would have graduated with honors.

For another, you will have tons of information to familiarize and memorize. From the parts of a part of the cell to it's purpose and mechanism of action, and the list goes on. You will also have to deal with different kind of doctors and their mood swings.

You will also have to deal with your friends who has nothing else to say but complain why you don't have time for them anymore, good thing Im not committed at the moment or else that will add up to another pressure that I am so not willing to deal with.

So, with all this in my plate, I need to find a way to destress myself that's why I resort to blogging. They say that writing about your worries will ease the pressure and I sure hope it does, before I end up in the nut house.

So, should I quit? Or should I continue this suffering? What do you think?