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On Being SINGLE, Bad Dates, Macho Luxury Liners and Sarcastic Midgets by ORCHESTROSCOPY on May 21, 2012So you're suddenly single. Or you've been single for a long time, maybe a few years or months, and at this time, you're probably wondering when you're going to find someone new. Someone that could elicit overly hyped up but undeniably true feelings o...

COMMUTING. More Fun in the Philippines by ORCHESTROSCOPY on Jan 10, 2012The new DOT slogan has invoked mixed reviews from the public, but it has also inspired many to participate and create numerous memes on the countless things one thinks is more fun in the Philippines. Here is mine.There is one thing all middle-class w...

Blood Stains, the Smell of Disinfectant and the RH Bill by ORCHESTROSCOPY on May 21, 2011Blood stains. I saw them everyday for months during a certain period in my life. Blood on the floor, on hospitals gowns and on previously pristine white sheets. The room could almost be a set of a horror movie if not for the dozens of crying babies a...

Top 10 Things I Learned from the OB Ward by ORCHESTROSCOPY on Oct 9, 201010. 60 patients in the ward versus 1 staff nurse and 1 trainee is considered a benign shift.9. "Not seen during rounds." Trodat. is an accepted Nurse's Notes' charting.8. Ampicillin, Ketorolac and Nalbuphine are best of friends. Sometimes, they also...

Remembering ONDOY: Lessons Learned and Unlearned? by ORCHESTROSCOPY on Sep 26, 2010It was exactly one year ago when I woke up and found our world submerged in meters of muddy flood water. Never did we imagine it would reach our house (the highest one in probably the highest street in the area), but as everybody now knows, Ondoy was...

The Anatomy of Nurse Volunteerism by ORCHESTROSCOPY on Sep 17, 2010So you just graduated from college, pinned that university nursing pin on your left collar, passed the board exam and pledged to God, BON and Nightingale that you will spend your life in purity and practice your profession faithfully. You undergo a m...

The OB Nurse by ORCHESTROSCOPY on Sep 11, 2010Volunteering in a tertiary government hospital in the OB-GYNE Ward will open one's eyes to the chaotic but endearing world of a woman's uterus and all the things connected with it. Oh, and babies, lots of babies. An OB nurse might not sound as hard c...

QMMC Broadway Week by ORCHESTROSCOPY on Aug 15, 2010Our sophomore week was supposed to be spent monitoring Vital Signs, I & O, doing bedside care, sample chartings etc. But instead, in a twist of fate I still cannot explain but am eternally grateful for, we were thrust into the world of stage prod...

The Blackout Diaries by ORCHESTROSCOPY on Jul 15, 2010Typhoon Basyang, even though old and just likes to tell stories in her spare time, has managed to rip off trees, cut off electricity, mobile communication, internet, cable TV and light rail transits' operation in just a few hours of heavy blowing. Ok...

IVT Training: More than just learning how to prick people correctly by ORCHESTROSCOPY on Jun 12, 2010After almost exactly a year after taking my Nursing Board Exam, I enrolled at an IVT Training at a hospital near our home. Yes, the perpetual laggard is a laggard no more. Almost all of my friends (those who are not stuck in a call center) have alrea...