project art

Thanks to blogging, I get myself to write every now and then. However, that's not the only thing that I want to do. Call me ambitious but I love art so much I want to practice lots of it and not just concentrate on one. Yes I've heard about the quote, "Jack of all trades, master of none," but I can't help but love them all.

My love for art has just been revived while I was talking to an 18 year old architecture student from Davao in ateneo dalnet. I showed him a drawing I made more than 5 years ago. He liked it and told me "pasado!" Plus I saw a subscription from Mark Crilley when I opened my youtube subscription again. It made me want to get my pencil and draw.





I posted this on my wall a few months ago... or was it a year already. I can't remember. Did I follow it? Nah. I'm a lazy dreamer. But I'm hard on myself. Talk about lots... Maybe I could convert the week here to months but then again why not try it out if I could do it. I'm very good at planning out but I fail at implementation. Who knows I might be able to do all those!

A friend also gave me the site for a graphic art contest online named Good50x70. The deadline for submission is on April 1, 2009. Join in! Let's all fill our life with art!

Procrastination at Its Best

I recently touched base with my high school friends. Memories of school flooded me. I love school. I loved it so much it took me 10 years to get a degree.

I graduated from high school back in March 1997. I only got my first degree, Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing on March 2007.

I started college at the age of fifteen. I studied Bachelor of Science in Accountancy at Far Eastern University (FEU). I breezed through college and was a member of the Honor Class and the Honor Society. It helped that my parents were very supportive with school plus my mom's an educator.

Education is really a big thing in the family that is why it was painful for them when I decided not to take the final exam in three subjects because my university knowingly implemented a curriculum which was only approved by the Commission on Education when we were already in third year. The curriculum was retroactively applied. This is not permitted by law.

We sued FEU. We won in the lower court last September 2002. FEU filed an appeal and until now there's no decision from the Court of Appeal.

Life had to continue. After reviewing for a year for the board exam, I finally decided to enroll in another school. I applied in UP Diliman. Luckily, I passed the talent exam for Creative Writing even if I was 45 minutes late and only had 45 minutes to take the exam. It was a blessing in disguise. It wasn't easy starting college again in a new school at the age of 21.

These years were the darkest in my life. I hope and wish that this will remain so. It wasn't easy. Zillions of times I felt regretful of the decision I made but bounced back again. It took me four years to finish the course. It was grueling.

However, it was sweet. I felt I was the happiest and luckiest of all among all the graduates who walked that stage.

Mattie

Hi Mattie!

Tita na ako!

My nephew Ralph Matthew was born yesterday February 7, 2009 at around 9:17 pm...

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Mattie,

I can't wait to see you!!!

-love Tita

6 doctors in a week!

I've seen six doctors in a week.

1. Family Med Doctor from Intellicare advised me it was vertigo and prescribed betahistine. She told me to check with an EENT. (January 30, 2009)

2. EENT Doctor at Makati Med told me that my ear drums were fine. It's just diet, lifestyle, and stress. (February 2, 2009)

3. ER Doctor at Makat Med just gave me meds and asked me to continue with betahistine. He advised me to see a neurologist because I had head trauma when I was a kid, it was my second attack and my ears were fine, and i was under medication but it still had the symptoms. (February 4, 2009 close to midnight)

4. EENT Doctor from UST asked me to do several tests. He changed my medicine to stugeron and prescribed vitamins. I will go back to him once the test results are in. (February 6, 2009)

(Tests were scheduled for February 16, 2009.)

5. Optha Doctor from UST advised me my eye pressure was ok. I had 20/70 without glasses but 20/20 with glasses. Nothing wrong with my eyes. (February 6, 2009)

6. Neurologist Doctor from St. Lukes told me that the medicine the second EENT doctor gave me was good and the tests too. He asked me to do the test and come back to him if the EENT doctor has tested me negative for peripheral vertigo. (February 6, 2009)

(He requested the tests too and I checked with St. Lukes if theirs were faster. I was scheduled for tests this coming February 10, 2009, Tuesday.)

*sighs* I was so tired last Friday...

when the world is spinning round and round

Last Thursday January 29, 2009, at around 4pm I was awaken by severe pain. My left ear was inflamed again. I mustered the strength to get up and buy myself medicine at the nearest drugstore. The pain subsided.

Around 8:30pm, Joan and I were talking about how she will go about her resignation and when I stood up to start cooking, I was attacked by severe headache and dizziness. I also felt like vomiting.

I went to the doctor the following day and her diagnosis was Vertigo. Since my left ear was inflamed, I was advised to see an EENT doctor come Saturday.

Saturday, they referred me to a certain Doctor, however, he cancelled going to his clinic and was asked to go back Monday. I went back Monday February 2 and was advised my ear drums are intact and that the only problem is my ears are too clean. He advised me that it might be diet, stress, or lifestyle that might have caused my vertigo. He told me that vertigo might have stemmed from problems with the ear, eyes, brain or general blood circulation.

I continued the medication of the previous doctor I saw.

However last night, February 4, at around 9:30pm I had the same symptoms again. This time my ears were not inflamed. I asked my brother to take me to the hospital. They arrived at 11:30pm and I went to Makati Med's ER. I was advised to rest and go to a neurologist.

I hate getting sick. It's expensive and it's not fun. =(















Do you want to know more about vertigo?

Here are some sites I came across:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertigo_(medical)http://www.healthscout.com/ency/68/462/main.html
http://www.healthline.com/adamcontent/vertigo-associated-disorders

new year, new numbers

I know, I know. Ilang beses ba ako magpalit ng number sa isang taon. E sa mura na ang sim e. Hahahahaha. Kidding. New year, new numbers. Sige na pagbigyan nyo ako. Erase all the old ones... Eto na yung bago...

My new numbers:

Globe 0927******* (Main, laging dala, nakalagay sa aking mumurahing phone na love na love ko kasi may FM at ang ganda ng tunog)

Smart 0918******* (secondary pero techie, pwedeng kang magvideo call or multimedia message to me dito *wink*)

Sun 0923******* (pang-unlicall at unlitext, pangtelebabad, tawag na! ha ha ha ha ha)

(numbers not revealed for security purposes)