A PetiX Life

there’s a clock sitting directly in front of me and i’m wondering: am i staring at the clock or is the clock staring at me? do we wait for time to come or does time wait for us to arrive?

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the board exams is a little more than two months away and i’m slightly anxious about it.

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i just got cable on my tv again: this is definitely not the way to prepare for a career-defining exam.

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the final leg of our revalida is coming up on monday and i’m due to demonstrate nursing procedures lumped under the difficult category. in a revalida, students not only demonstrate specific nursing procedures and skills, but they also go through an oral exam to test their knowledge of nursing concepts, anatomy, physiology and pathologies as well as rationales, purposes, indications and counterindications for specific nursing procedure. in short, a revalida is a time to reflect about your future because if you fail the revalida, there might not be a future waiting for you.

this is how i prepare for my revalida– writing a blog in friendster.

wish me luck!

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community nursing is a glamorless area of nursing practice, but reseach here almost always turns up something interesting.

sa isang survey na me kinalaman sa pagkalat ng STDs, tinanung ang mga kalalakihan nang ilang depressed communities sa metro manila tungkol sa paggamit ng condom.

1) i-describe ang babae na gagamitan mo ng condom:

sagot: babae na nakalugay ang buhok, naka-sleeveless, nakasuot ng mini-skirt, at morena ang kutis.

2) i-describe ang babae na hindi mo gagamitan ng condom:

sagot: babae na nakatali ang buhok, nakabistida, maputi ang kutis, at nakasuot ng uniform na parang nurse or doktor.

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despite arguments to the contrary, filipinos are highly regionalistic. pinoys tend to cluster together based on the geographic regions they come from. for example, in school, we often see ilokano students or bisayans or other regional groups forming small groups. this is their natural tendency.

based on research, it’s been found out that people often hold certain attitudes and assumptions about other regional groups. ilokanos, for example, are widely known to be "kuripot" (frugal). certain regional groups are known for specific qualities:

ilokanos = kuripot

kapampangans = mayabang

bikolanos = malibog

bisayans = aswang

the clock on my desk tells me it’s time;

the luxury of it must have been overused

coz i find myself drifting, sifting, trying to find

the right moment.

now i am split between the end and the start

and i have done nothing but read time.