Totally Mad

Attended the launching of yet another big, important and affordable drug in the market.  We don’t normally accept invitations like this when drug companies splurge for one night to stick to our minds the names of their products when we prescribe. There are only a few good reasons why we come though.  What endears a doctor [...]

Flying, Turning Leaves, and Eating Eggs

My previous dream of not being able to find a parked car turns out to mean confusion on which direction to take in life.  This dream I had last night is the opposite in terms of significance.   I was flying, or specifically levitating to great heights, and finding some structure, was it a post–from which I plucked [...]

An Unlikely Unlucky Number

In China, it’s about numbers: add up the dates of the snowstorm (1-25), the Tibet riots (3-14) and the earthquake (5-12) individually and you get “8″ normally an unusually auspicious number and the reason the Olympics will kick off on 8-8-08 (and why it costs significantly more to get a phone number with multiple 8’s).  [...]

Finding Cars In Dreams

Woke up thirty minutes later, defying my internal clock rhythm, because in my dream, I was trying to find in vain my parked maroon van in a parking lot some place I could not figure where.  It’s very uncommon for me nowadays to have dreams,  much more strange ones like this.  I’ll try to grapple the meaning [...]

Nymph of the Rain

Chasing the nymph of the rain has been a tough pursuit, producing the longest restful sleep I’ve had in years.  She visits me seldomly.  Last night I saw her gossamer profile sashaying in the corner of my mind as in a mirage but never even caught a glimpse of her fiery eyes that they say [...]

Heads Rolling

And so the culprits are out in the case of the poor baby who was decapitated during the course of delivery at Baguio.  The NBI has just ruled in their autopsy findings that the damage was secondary to malpractice when the head was forcibly pulled from the birth canal, and not due to osteogenesis imperfecta [...]

Bed Weather, Killer Quake, Global Warming

In the Philippines, summer seemed to pass by so fast with the early onset of rain–starting to fall barely before the middle of May.  The rains of May though make these days truly worth spending in the house to curl up in bed and catch up on lost sleep.  In China, a killer earthquake had [...]

Jesus Phone Coming Out Soon in RP

The iPhone will be offered soon in the Philippines courtesy of Globe Telecom, a news bit revealed although the exact date is still unknown.  The craze has already died down indeed but with this announcement, mass hysteria is bound to happen again in our shores.  The full potential of the revolutionary phone cannot really be optimized [...]

Lulled by Lea

Had the rare chance of catching Lea Salonga live last night when we attended a doctors’ convention, a large gathering of doctors from all over the country. Lea sang standards and cuts from her musicals for her set to the delight of the audience.  Couldn’t help but feel that my heart dropped for awhile while listening [...]