Chasing my Dream: 42.195 km on February 24, 2013 Tthe Bull Runner: Dream Marathon)

My last real long run was two years ago when, from out of nowhere, I decided to join Team Sinarapan's Run for Lake Buhi.
I trained for three weeks under the well lit roads of UST .
Before and after  that period, I used running to waste time and "get fit", there was even a moment when I thought running isnt for me.

My brother, who is now an ultramarathoner (finished 100k in TNF 100) started the craze about running when it wasnt this popular yet. he finished his first full marathon in the first The Bull Runner Dream Marathon about four years ago.

It was then when I first met The Bull Runner herself, Jaymie Pizzaro, who has been my "running inspiration" and Coach Jim Lafferty who wrote our training program which I try to follow religiously.











When I registered for The Bull Runner's Dream Marathon slot online, I was still unsure of what I was signing up for. I took my successful registration a sign from God; that I will do it and that I could do it.

But why?
(My story might be boring and pointless for a couple of people but it is what it is. This is why I am going to run a  marathon.)

After passing the board exam last June, nothing good was happening so I felt that my life is been down low. When I got a job in a well-known hospital in Makati, I thought that it would bring me fulfillment and joy, but after few months on my first work, while the job fulfills me as a pharmacist, I wasnt happy, I didnt know why, I wanted to keep moving but I didnt want to resign yet, then I felt that I hit rock bottom, "quarter-life crisis" as when they call it. So I was constantly looking for something to do aside from work, something that I could enjoy, spend my extra time and energy on and have a fulfillment after. Then my brother who is now an ultramarathoner went home from Singapore for a short business trip here, he reminded me of running, of how people could break boundaries with it. So I thought, "I will run a marathon."And then things happened so fast after it. The Bull Runner's Dream Marathon, a marathon specially for first and second time marathoners has just announced its registration date. It is with TBR DM where my brother ran his first full FM and I was there to cheer him and i saw how important every runner is and how they would cheer for you from the beginning until you cross that finish line. So I chose TBR DM for my first full marathon: February 24.

This is something that is as important as graduating in college, as important as passing the board exam, this is my dream and I am going to cross that finish line on february 24 and I am going to fulfill my marathon dream.

I have been training for two weeks now, following the TBR DM program by Coach Jim Lafferty.

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LIFE: Student vs. Employee

What an adventure it was tonight going home from my work area which is just 15- 30 mins away!

While I was walking along Ayala Ave. fishing for a cab that’ll ride us home under the heavy rain which was slowly soaking me, I realized how exactly opposite life is now being an employee compared to being a student. When i was still in college, I always hope the rain would fall a little harder night before a class day even though it floods around UST so that the classes would be suspended early in the morning. But now Im praying that the rain would stop so that every employee could go home easily and safely for we have work to do in the morning, we have patients to attend to, we have lives to save!

Salawikaiin ng mga hopeless romantic

Zsa Zsa Padilla sings Through The Years at the necrological service for Dolphy.

True Love

Freshly picked fruit from out neighbor in Bicol

Two kinds of unlovable people.

Some people are nice only when you are talking to them, im front if them or your presence is being felt by them but once you have turned around and/or gone away, then they start saying things you wont imagine these people will say about you.

And then there are these people that try to say what they wanna say about and/ or to you by shouting or murmuring while you are far away or is not directly talking to them.

These kind of persons are whom I hate the most. Why cant they be brave enough to be able to say the things they want to say about you face to face. COWARDICE. Backstabbers.

Misunderstandings and childish quarrel will be lessened if less people avoid this kind of attitude.

If you wakt to say something to someone, may it be good or not, be brave enough and face him. That will be a lot better conversation.

Lady Gaga’s speech at the Born This Way Ball in Manila

Straight from the heart!

People should really be open minded these days.

Graveyard Duty (RPh)

There are three things I love about graveyard duty:

1. No traffic. Since almost everybody is already homebound by around 2100H.

2. Time flies. Because of the amount of work, which is relatively just enough to get through the night, I dont even notice that its already 6am and we’re about to go home.

3. Night differential 

There are also three things I dont like about graveyard duty:

1. Eyebags. It is harder to sleep during daytime because of the hot weather and bright sunlight.

2. Transportation hazard. Lots of bad people roam around after dark.

3. No office hour = No drug Info = Harder questions from the phone that needs to be answered. (HAHA)

* But in general, graveyard duty is the schedule that I love the most.

Butchoy: our wonder dog. :)

He who makes every frowning face smile.  )

The Dolphin Show

Ocean Adventure
Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority

Sail Away!

(Boracay, Philippines)

Love Sucks

"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isnt it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, suit of armor so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, so different fron any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didnt ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like smile at you, and then your life isnt your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass of splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love." ~Neil Gaiman

Selecta Ice Cream: Magnum

February 29, 2012 was a leap day. Extra 24 hours of our lives that comes once every four years. A day when everyone tries a little harder to make that day count.

That Wednesday afternoon, we completed our Medical Exam in a reputable hospital where my friend and I are applying as pharmacists. That way, we made our Leap Day count. :)

Because #magnum was trending in the Philippines the night before (Februaru 28, 2012), my friend and I were talking about it almost the whole time we were together. Because I wasn't quite interested about #magnum that evening, I never checked what it was about so at first I thought I was a gun or something but to my ignorance, the trend happened to be an Ice cream that Selecta launched that evening. So we ended up going to a 7Eleven Convenience Store to buy and give it a try.

I bought Magnum: Almond.

The chocolate coating tastes like cadburry chochettes; sprinkled with bits of almods that isnt too much to overpower the chocolate. The Ice Cream inside is the usual Selecta Vanilla flavor.

It costs 60 pesos. 

As a foodie with sweet tooth , I would recommend Magnum: Almond.

It satisfied my taste buds and it is pretty cheap! :D

yosi?

It was supposed to be a boring evening, alone at my dorm room with some TV host frantically speaking in the background while I was trying to read for a pharmacology quiz in two days when I thought of doing something unusual for someone like me that time (3rd year, 2nd semester just began: College)

So there was my spontaneous self, as usual coming alive again because of the monotony of life that week, when I thought of doing something new, something that I used to hate from people: puff a cigarette( my first). I bought a stick of Marlboro Lights Menthol from Manang sidewalk vendor infront of Wendy's Dapitan and then went in front of Pampanga's Best which I chose because of the dim lighting and smoked my first stick of yosi. I didn't like it. I think every first timer will never like it unless he/she is a hypocrite. It tastes bad, not only your breathe but every string of your top clothing and your fingers will smell like you just burned a house and the nausea it brings feels almost like a hang-over (to the first timers).

Friday after that evening, as usual, we ended up drinking some in Tapsi to treat ourselves a little after a week's work at school, when I tried to puff my second stick, the second time was alot better, then a third stick until I thought I was going to be hooked up with it but because of my intoxication with a relatively lot of beer bottles, I forgot about the cigarette thing and it became irrelevant.

Morning after that, I realized that I am not capable of being a chain smoker because my body and brain wont tolerate the nicotine and I can not continue living as a chain smoker because of the obvious lot more reasons not to than the very few reasons to continue doing it.

As of now, I only smoke whenever im really stressed out and pressured or whenever a problem is about to consume me. I puff a cigarette to relieve my worn out mind and body and to calm me down when ever I am very angry or about to cry or shout out really loud. Sometimes I smoke because of peer pressure, just to look cool, but i do that seldom because I find that pointless and life threatening. :D

You will eventually get tired of each other; everyday quarrel and misunderstanding, routinary dates and escapades and sometimes even the sweet text messages. And then you will break up; try everything to loose contact with each other, fight against your own will to stop looking at your old photos; which will last for days, sometimes weeks. And then that morning will come when you'll suddenly, from out of nowhere, long for the good morning messages or good morning hug or good morning kiss on the forehead and you'll realize  that you miss that person, regret what just lasted for days or weeks and still, until the very end ignore the reality that you still love that person. So now you're back having daily conversations with him.