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Houses and Sex
The Year Level 5: ICC Year blog posts - stories and anecdotes, patient encounters and hospital drama, and the many colors of UP med school from the perspective of a third year. Here's the seventh...
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Hotdogs in Anesth
The Year Level 5: ICC Year blog posts - stories and anecdotes, patient encounters and hospital drama, and the many colors of UP med school from the perspective of a third year. Here's the eighth entry,...
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Butuan I: The Way to the South and Back
It's been two weeks since we came back from Butuan, and it's thanks to Father, who claimed possession of my laptop for the past few days (he's back in Iloilo now), that I'd been unable to blog about...
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The long night's journey into day that is 'The Bluebird of Happiness'
In today's Inquirer - here - my review of Trumpets'"The Bluebird of Happiness," an original English-language Filipino musical now running at the Meralco Theater until October 20. If you enjoy the humor...
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Beauty and Brains
The Year Level 5: ICC Year blog posts - stories and anecdotes, patient encounters and hospital drama, and the many colors of UP med school from the perspective of a third year. Here's the ninth entry,...
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Butuan II: Geography from the Sky
I had a cup of freshly brewed coffee the morning we left for Butuan. I was wide awake throughout the plane ride, skipping and jumping all over the place an hour after arrival, and was a walking zombie...
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It's 'Carrie' - and it's a bloody good show
My review of Atlantis'"Carrie," which closed last Sunday, is in today's Inquirer - here. I don't usually say this, but... Rerun! Rerun!* Â Â * Â Â * Â Â * Â Â *Calling the revered American critics and...
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Eyes, Ears, Nose, Throat, Whatever
The Year Level 5: ICC Year blog posts - stories and anecdotes, patient encounters and hospital drama, and the many colors of UP med school from the perspective of a third year. Here's the tenth entry,...
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My Last (and Inadvertent) Sembreak
So here's what happened: We had our two-week elective rotations, which meant splitting up the block for the first time since we became a block. Four of us took Pharmacology 253.1 because the course...
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Butuan III: Touristy Things
When it comes to touristy things, Butuan doesn't have much to offer, especially for people from outside Manila. There are beaches, but Iloilo's coastline is virtually one long beach. There's a historic...
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Butuan IV: Work and the City
We came to Butuan to (cough) work - to, uh, generate observations and derive conclusions on the local health system based on visits to two hospitals. "We learned a lot and became better doctors" is...
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Mortal and reachable, but still a magical 'Cinderella'
My review of Resorts World Manila's "Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella," based on the Oct. 19 7PM performance, is in today's Inquirer - here. Â * Â Â * Â Â * Â Â * Â Â * Â Â *"Rodgers and...
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An Orthopedic Surgeon
The Year Level 5: ICC Year blog posts - stories and anecdotes, patient encounters and hospital drama, and the many colors of UP med school from the perspective of a third year. Here's the eleventh...
View Article'Grease' is raunchy, gloriously sung--and quite exhausting
My review of 9 Works Theatrical's "Grease" is in today's Inquirer - here. The production plays its final four shows at the Romulo Auditorium in RCBC Plaza, Makati City this weekend. Call (02)5867105 or...
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'Maxie' and 'The Producers'
On Bit by Bit Production's Maxie the Musicale, running until Dec. 8 at the PETA Theater Center."Maxie the Musicale," the two-and-a-half-hour stage adaptation of Auraeus Solito's award-winning "Ang...
View Article'The Addams Family': Too bad it closed too soon
My review - er, post-run reflection - of Atlantis Productions'"The Addams Family" was in yesterday's Inquirer - here. Late post is the result of OB-Gyne duty, my first 24-hour in life (psych duty...
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Poetry News to Welcome Christmas
Never underestimate the power of wine, unless you have vague intentions of becoming the next Anne Curtis (of the John Lloyd-slapping kind) or just want to shake off four weeks of waking up at 5:30AM...
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Ten Memories
The Year Level 5: ICC Year blog posts - stories and anecdotes, patient encounters and hospital drama, and the many colors of UP med school from the perspective of a third year. Here's the twelfth...
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Butuan V: The House
Three months late, but here is the fifth and final installment of the Butuan series. You may recall that in September, blockmates and I flew to Butuan for some much needed rest and recreation important...
View ArticleThe Flood
I'm one of the final 22 published in the 13th anniversary issue of Pedestal Magazine! According to poetry editor John Amen, they received over a thousand submissions, which were whittled down to 45,...
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