The 2-0-1-3 That Was: A Year of Random Nothingness

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This year has really been one hell of a great ride for me! 

And you, yes you, my dear reader (the heck I care if I don't have one!), well apart from my family and friends has been a great part of it! 

Kudos! ^^

Before we finally bid adieu to 2013, join me once again as I try to look back at the year that was: 2-0-1-3

#BangonBohol: HHCL Goes to Bohol

12 out of the 17 HHCL Responders pose in
front of the boxes of relief goods while awaiting for the
PAF C-130 bound to Tagbilaran City.

Seventeen people. Three days. One group. One destination. One mission.

#BangonBohol

DO NOT Read: I am Not a Relationship Guru

It's not the love month, I know.

Nonetheless, as they say, when you're in love, every waking moment with the one you love makes you feel the magic of it no matter what month of the year it may be - all year round -  so to speak.

Hmmm. Now that makes you think I'm in love, huh?

[HOW TO] Renew Your PRC Identification Card in Less Than 5 Minutes!

Is your professional identification card (PIC) about to expire? Are you sick and tired of the long queues at PRC? Or just don't have an entire day to spend at PRC? 

Well, fret no more! There is now another way of renewing your PIC 7 days a week and in just minutes. This innovation is the "PRC ID Renewal System at the Malls", part of PRC's e-Services, available at SM Malls. 

Read on to find out more.

The FAD-tastic Experience

Ever heard of FAD, or the Foundation for Adolescent Development? How about Dial-a-Friend? If yes, then that's just on FAD's projects.

The Foundation for Adolescent Development, Inc., more commonly known as FAD, is a non-stock, non-profit, non-government organization that has long been established since 1988.It caters to a very specific clientele of Filipino adolescents and young adults aged 13-24 years old.

I am A Filipino Registered Nurse

"Why did I take up nursing in the first place?"

This could be one, if not the worst question a duly registered nurse in the Philippines would have to ask himself.

Given another chance, would you still take up nursing? Or would you rather choose another path?

Personally, NURSING has been my first choice back in college (Journalism ranked #2 on my list). I was never forced nor coerced by my parents or whoever Judas that is to take up the course.

I wholeheartedly choose to take up nursing.

Remembering You on Earth Day

It has been five long years since the day you bade us a permanent goodbye.

Five years has passed yet I can still visualize the entirety of your face - your chestnut colored hair, your sweet little innocent eyes, your not-so-pointed nose, and your soft lips. 

I can still vividly recall how you used to call me your "Kuya Jay".

LBK-KP on Wheels Invades Bulacan

Greetings from the Local Chief Executives of Bulacan

Calumpit, Bulacan – It was one fine Thursday of March 21 when the Department of Health’s Lakbay Buhay Kalusugan – Kalusugan Pangkalahatan on Wheels visited the municipality of Calumpit in the province of Bulacan.

In line with LBK’s mission of promoting health through a fun, festive and entertaining way, the LBK Bulacan team headed by Provincial Health Officer Dr. Jocelyn Gomez decorated the grounds of Northville 9, Iba O’Este with festive colored banderitas resembling that of the fiesta traditions the Philippines is well-known of.

How My Father Unfortunately Sees It

"Ang mga nurse ay katulong lang ng mga doktor."

These were the exact words my very own father told me when we talked over the phone last night.

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These were also the exact words which caused me to burst in rage, anger, and fury. Sorry! It doesn't sound like I am really mad! Do I?

Honestly speaking, I didn't expect this to come out during the course of our conversation. Never did I ever anticipate this from anyone - more so from within my family.

BPO: A Step-by-Step Infotorial. The How-To's and What-To's of the Recruitment

It has been over two weeks now since I last posted about random nothings and more than a week now since I stepped foot on the doors of the Business Process Outsourcing industry, for the second time.

It was on March 4, when I blogged about the decision of going back into the field of contact centers. Here again is the link to that post just in case you left the planet Earth and just came back. ",)

This post will be more of a diary-slash-informational-tutorial-slash-whatever-you-may-find-it post. Diary for there will be several dates mentioned. Informational tutorial as I'll try to provide some "useful" tips. (How useful? Well, you gotta figure it out yourself).

Musicals and Me

"The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return."
~ Toulouse-Lautrec (Moulin Rouge, 2001)

I have always been a self-proclaimed fan of musicals both on film and TV ever since I can remember.

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I even partook in a musical play during my final year in elementary in our version of Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil's Miss Saigon, which made our very own Lea Salonga infamous in the Broadway and West End.

Looking on the Brighter Side of Bad Publicity

Yeah! I know I still owe you a post regarding EDSA, but that'll come in this site sometime...  ^^

For now, here's what I got.

It has been more than over two weeks now since the whole of the Filipino people witnessed former Congresswoman Cynthia Villar, a senatorial candidate of the Liberal Party in a Senatorial Forum entitled Pagsubok ng mga Kandidato on GMANewsTV.

I need not mention about the issue and what she have responded to the questions posed by Mareng Winnie Monsod as I have a post regarding that one. You may want to click on this link just in case if you've been on the moon, and haven't read it.

Nurses and the BPO

"Sabi ko nga sa nanay ko, hindi ako magko-kol center hangga't may nakakain pa ako"

"So, ako, kailangan ko na mag-call center ulit kasi wala na akong makain?"

This has been a laughing stock among our group of friends when the thought of working in the Business Process Outsourcing industry has been brought out in the open.

Well, it's not that I have anything against working for the said industry. I will not deny the fact that this has been my bread and butter for the past one and a half year (July 2010 - January 2012).

I was then a Transition Advocate in one of the most well established and esteemed BPO company in the country. However, I had no choice but to leave the workforce for medical concerns.

AYNLA, other nursing groups' Official Statement on Mrs. HanepBuhay

The Alliance of Young Nurse Leaders and Advocates International, Inc. (AYNLA), a dynamic youth-led nursing organization, through its Board of Trustees has released today, March 4 its Official Statement regarding Mrs. Cynthia Villar's derogatory remarks on GMA NewsTV's "Pagsubok ng mga Kandidato"

In its three (3) years of existence, AYNLA has been in the limelight of constantly advocating for nurses' rights and welfare.

Here is AYNLA's Official Statement as posted on the its website:

Now Trending: Mrs. Cynthia Villar

I was supposed to create a blog post regarding EDSA 27, but I find that a post in relation to the derogatory remarks to the nursing profession of former Las Piñas Representative and now Liberal Party Senatorial Candidate Mrs. Cynthia Villar in the "Pagsubok ng mga Kandidato" aired last February 23 on GMA NewsTV is more timely.

Here is the video.

Blogging. Why Only Now?

How do I start?

Blogging nowadays has been a form of expression, a way of life so to speak.


Almost everyone I know in the cyberspace have their own blogs. Here are just some of those I personally know and follow:

1. The Nightingale Chronicles
2. Nurse Tambayers - The Blogspot of RN Kapuyaters
3. The Irony of Non Sense
4. RaNts of a Queer Guy

And the list goes on and on.

Honestly speaking, I wanted to start 2013 with a blog.

It was way back December 2012 when I started out conceptualizing this blog.
Matter of fact, this blog post was on the "Drafts" since then. 

It's not that I don't have the luxury of time to maintain and or manage a blog, but there are just certain reasons why I failed to do so for the past couple of months. (Whatever. Just testing my reasoning skills.)

“Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time,' is like saying, 'I don't want to.”  ~ Lao Tzu

There you go, I decided to put up this blog and name it "The Randomness of Nothing" for I will be posting anything random here - from news and updates regarding the RN profession to blabbers and anything in between. 


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