I spend my time travelling and enjoying the beauty of nature in a different perspective. We often say nature can only be appreciated thru our eyes. Imagine if you can hear the birds sing melodies of freedom, feel the wind in your face as it sway the trees, taste the fruits that grew thru time and nurtured by the elements, smell the grass as it’s scent relaxes and relieves your stress, and much more that nature can provide with all its glory. You can really realize that this is the beauty of GOD’s creations.

After our batch graduation last October 30, 2009 at Mall of Asia - SMX, some of my friends flew to abroad and some never showed their presence not even a text message, I feel so lonely and left out but I think that we just need a trigger so all of us can have fun and rejoice the company of one another. I planned to climb Mt. Calavite in Occidental Mindoro with my friends last November 16, 2009. At the top of this mountain, you can really view the whole Municipality of Paluan, including some part of the neighboring municipalities and Batanggas, and that is a spectacular scene to see.

I posted an announcement on Facebook and on Friendster about this mountain climbing. Jesse, Von (Edgar), Bon (Jeric), MJ and I are the ones who took the challenge for the mountain climbing. My mom cooked some rice, but I never thought that it’s not enough for the five of us, our supplies like cans of Century Gourmet Bangus Fillet and gadgets like flashlights,

A tricycle driver drove us to the foot of the mountain, where some natives of Mindoro called “Mangyan” lives, we met our guide who is the vice mayor of their community. The guide told us that we can reach the top in just four hours and I thought immediately that the climb would be easy. Mount Calavite has a peculiar formation, it’s like 3 mountains stocked together side by side one higher than the other and each mountain top has grassy plains.

As we are climbing the mountain, our guide explained some rules about the animals and plants that should be avoided, the thing that stunned me is there are many lich in the ground, the natives called them limatik, it’s hard to take them out of your skin because their very slimy and they stick to you with their teeth immediately, in addition to that the incline of the path we are climbing is like seventy five degrees, which is hard because you don’t have enough foot hold on the ground.


It was already 12:15 in the afternoon when I asked if we can rest and eat our lunch, the bad news is we forgot to bring a can opener where all of our food are canned goods, I remembered that I stocked in my other bag twelve Century Gourmet Bangus Fillet, which is a good news to us because we won’t have any trouble opening it. Tamang-tama for lunch!

The scenery of Mount Calavite is very peaceful; in fact we tried screaming and heard our echo across the mountain. After our lunch we continued to trek the plains leading to the next mountain slope, after a vigorous struggle we reached the second top at last, as I stepped on the grassy plain my knees just bend down because of exhaustion and I fell asleep for a while.

Our guide woke us because we still need to walk 800 meters to reach the spring, as we are walking I noticed horses running and some looking at us, it was my first time to see wild horses and I thought how did they ever get to the top?


The spring is simply amazingly beautiful; I never thought that there could be a spring in a mountain top. We set the camp where we will be sleeping; afterwards we gathered some dried woods for our bon fire. That evening was the coldest that I ever experienced, that even our bon fire did not keep us warm, so we decided to get together in my tent.

We opened my Century Gourmet Bangus Fillet as we enjoy each other’s company, we sang, we laughed out, and tell stories about our lives after the graduation, it was really a memorable experience in my life. We slept together in my tent because it is already freezing cold outside.


In the Morning while catching some rays, I thought we should have a game of who ever can finish a can of Century Bangus Fillet at the fastest time; whoever wins gets a price when we get back to town. It was so funny and I enjoyed every second while eating the Century Gourmet Bangus Fillet.


Before lunch we climbed down the mountain and reached the foot in 3 hours. The experience that we had is very memorable and the best part of that is we enjoyed every moment of it. Even though that our paths lead us to different direction; we still have time to enjoy one another and treasure our Friendship…


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Mahirap talaga ang buhay lalo na’t graduating ka na. This October ako gagraduate at sana lang ay makapag-apply na ako for the board exam at magkaroon talaga ng magandang review. Hindi na nga ako halos nakakapag-update at nakakapag blog walking dito sa Blogosphere dahil sa sobrang dami ng ginagawa. Kung free man ako, sa Facebook naman ako nagbababad sa sobrang pagkaaddict ko sa Restaurant City.

This past few weeks ay naging busy ako sa preparations sa aming Case Presentation at V. Luna Medical Center pati na rin sa Seminar in Nursing. Nagkasabay-sabay ang mga gawang ‘yun in almost a week kaya naman isang linggo rin akong walang tulugan like my other group mates.

Cystolithiasis; Neurogenic Bladder secondary to Spinal Cord Injury T11, T12, L2 secondary to fall ang aming ike-case presentation sa hanap ng aming mga panel. Diagnosis pa lang ng patient naming ay epistaxis (nosebleed) na! Kailangan talaga naming mag-aral for this one kasi nakakahiya naman kapag pumalpak pa kami since last case presentation naming ito dahil gagraduate na kami this October.

Kung effort lang ang pag-uusapan ay papasa na kami dahil sa mga sacrifices na ginawa naming for this case presentations. Mga walang tulugan nights pati na ang magrent ng 2 malaking rooms sa isang hotel at San Andres, Manila para magkasama-sama kaming group sa isang gabi para aralin namin ang case presentation namin.

Good to say na naipasa namin ang aming case presentation (September 12, 2009 : Saturday) with flying colors pa! Syempre, tuwang tuwa ang Clinical Instructor namin at halos paulitin niya ulit kami sa pagpepresent ng case namin. Talagang mahirap ang case presentation pero sa group effort na rin namin ay nalampasan namin ito.

Next naman ay ang aming Seminar in Nursing entitled “Empowering the Mind, Improving Quality of Life Through Spreading Awareness on Colon Cancer”. This time, ako ang head ng Technical Committee pati sa stage design and this time sasayaw ako for the intermission number. Lagare ako sa seminar naming ito.

Syempre, last performance ko na ito with my classmates dahil last semester na namin ito together kaya lahat-lahat na ay gagawin ko. Katuwaan lang naman ito para hindi nila ako makalimutan lalo na sa kakulitan ko.

Si Mrs. Nelda A. Escueta RN, ET, MAN ang speaker namin from Philippine General Hospital last September 15, 2009 (Tuesday) from 1:00pm to 4:00pm.

For the program proper - lighting, stage design, mga music at videos na ipeplay ay ako ang naka assign since ako ang head ng Technical Committee naman. Naging okey naman ang program from invocation na ginawa ko ‘yung video slides for Lead Me Lord na kinanta naman ni Federico Magat.


Almost 2 hours and a half ang naging time ng speaker para sa Colon Cancer topic and after that ay ipinlay naman ang interview namin sa Dean ng Family Clinic College na si Ma’am Villalon na pinagbigyan kami for the interview despite sa mga busy schedules niya as a dean ng college nila.

The dancers....

At pagkatapos noon ay ang pinakaaabangang intermission number namin na dance na remix ng Love Game, Nobody but you pati na ang Fire. Korean music invasion nga ang aming seminar intermission e! Syempre ang sinayaw namin ay ang Nobody but you ng Wondergirls pati ang Fire. Ala-Wondergirls kami sa intermission na ito with Rupert Arciaga, Marion Tarnate, Jimuel Gomez, Nikki Capili at saka syempre ako. Hehe :)

Konting dignidad lang for the day... Hahaha!

Naging maayos naman ang flow ng program hanggang sa matapos. ‘Yung food for the speaker pati na ang mga faculty na umattend ay courtesy by Golden Success Review Center kung saan nagrereview ako ngayon.

‘Yung food naman for our section naman ay kasama sa ambagan namin na niluto ng food committee headed by Anna Riza Magtira. Since hindi pwede sa Paco Park nung time na ‘yun kasi sarado na ay sa labas na lang ng Paco Park kami. Wala nang arte-arte since magkakaklase naman kami at sayang din ang food na hinanda ng food committee.

Marami na pala talaga akong nakaligtaan dito sa Blog ko! Napalampas ko sa schedule ko ang Immerging Influential Blogs of 2009 (nandito ako ng 2007 at 2008). Well, sana medyo maging maganda na ang schedule ko this coming month. Hay...



Ako, si Nadz at Jesse (mga BFF ko) last week ay nagpunta sa Manila Zoo. Ewan lang namin! Trip trip lang kasi wala kaming pasok that time kasi walang COPAR kapag Saturday... Mga facebook addicts din kami kaya magkakasama lagi.

Nag-GM ako sa lahat ng mga textmates ko na magmaManila Zoo kami at karamihan ng mga reply nila ay : "wala na bang iba kayong mapuntahan?"; "eweness!"; at meron pang, "wala na ba kayong magawa sa buhay?".

Actually, highschool pa ako noon nung last na pumunta ako ng Manila Zoo with my Mom at hindi ako nagpapahalata sa mga kasama ko na excited ako kasi for sure pag-aasaran ako.

Maglalunch na noong pumunta kaya kumain muna kami tapos nagala gala na sa park. After namin kumain ay sumakay naman kami at nagpakapagod sa pagsagwan ng bangka. Hehe! Hesitant pa kami at first kasi baka lumubog kasi malaking tao kaming dalawa ni Jesse pero okey naman at safe.

After ng nakakapagod na pagsagwan at pag-ikot sa tubig doon sa Manila Zoo ay ni-try naman namin ang Kiddie Zoo kung saan pwede talaga kaming lumapit at magpapicture sa mga animals dun!

Nasayahan naman kami kasi nakalapit pa kami at nakapagpapicture kasama ang mga maaamong alaga nila.