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Apple has just launched its new iPhone 3GS series. With faster speed and video capability, it is supposed to trample upon the nearest competition thus far, the Palm Pre, which on the other hand is touted as Palm’s redemptive factor, to secure its niche in the PDA business. What’s more, Apple has lowered the price of the new iPhone’s predecessor by a hundred dollars. This is a tech war that’s cool and exciting to witness in the next few weeks.
Things went fine and great recently as prayed for, but the prospect of doing something that’s really close to one’s heart came to mind repeatedly, causing an avalance of ideas that might spell my future. A career transition is on the horizon as I ponder endlessly of what can be, after my MPH. To stay in my current job, with no signs of personal growth but with fairly OK financial returns, or to enter government service to jumpstart my public health career but with minimal income. The answer to this needs serious introspection and deep prayers.
Lord, please make me your instrument. Please help me decide on what you want for me. On what it is that will give me real fulfilment and happiness. On what it is that I need to do to bring you greater glory.
Judgment day has come! I passed our Comprehensive Exam for MPH! After 2 years of juggling work and studies, after 6 weeks of toiling in the field, and after less than a week of review, I made it! This signifies the start of my career in Public Health, more than having a valid reason to have another 3 initials attached to my name.
Praise God! He blesses me so much these days. Hope this will continue…On my part, I will do my best to get His signs and plan my future according to his grand design.
The DOH has just announced the second case of H1N1 influenza virus infection in the country, in the person of a 50-something woman who flew in from US sometime last week. Though apparently she had already recovered, the threat of an epidemic in the country is still imminent. We still have to await the developments related to this mysterious flu virus. Is this the flu that had been lurking in the corner, through the years, waiting to create menace among humankind. Reviewing the history of deadly flus in the past, we can conclude that deadly diseases wipe out mankind more effectively than wars do.
The battle against killer diseases starts now…
Seen these tw0 big summer blockbuster movies in the big screen, two-in-a-row. Twas a good treat to be able to watch again during these busy days. And these two movies did not disappoint. Though I’m not a fanatic of both, I really enjoyed these movies.
These movies are big. But not as big as the buzz that’s been going on lately. The buzz is only about 2 things: H1N1 virus, and the Hayden Kho-Katrina Halili sex video scandal.
2 in a row…
After almost 10 years, my dad went home. And after 30 days, today, he will again leave for the States. One lifetime worth of memories shared. A complete family picture finally, one that will stand the test of time…
May God continue to bless our lovely family.
The WHO has raised the swine flu alert level to phase 5, in which cases have already been established to geographically cross from one country to another, from Mexico to the US that is. One level short of causing a pandemic, this new strain of virus is already an imminent threat to humanity. Travel restrictions have become stricter; but eating pork is still safe. After bird flu and swine flu, what type of animal flu next? In this age of information and innovation, viruses still work in ways that make humans look dumb.
Been blogless for many weeks now because of fieldwork for MPH. Our group is assigned in Pila, Laguna, the Vigan of Laguna because it is home to a lot of heritage houses and a museum. We’ve been here last year for our Laguna Loop tour; but this time, it’s all work. This is the culmination of our masters studies and this is where the theories get to be applied to real practice to benefit the community. Four more weeks to go, and this will soon be over. But hopefully we can gain much from this exposure.
Up to my neck with work and school lately. Fieldwork will come soon, right after Holy Week, so we’re doing last-minute tasks to make the transition in the clinic as smooth as possible. And by the by, we’re also busy reviewing for exams and preparing required reports before the sem ends. Few months to go and I will already get my MPH. It’s been tough juggling work and school for almost 2 years. Hope to reap the fruits of all my labor soon.
Attended a 2-day postgrad course on infectious diseases and tropical medicine at RITM. All topics are relevant to me. We learned more about common infectious diseases, enlightened about new emerging diseases (some actually old already), and updated on challenges facing us today, particularly drug resistance. Bugs are becoming more resistant than ever to our arsenal of anitbiotics and vectors especially mosquitoes are becoming more efficient carriers of diseases.
Nature is coming back at us humans. No matter how forward-thinking we are, these biological agents always have ways of emerging as winners. The battle is on! We must wage a battle in the research front and upgrade our current capabilities as healthcare providers.
Ronald Paw Hay Law, part-Chinese and mostly Filipino, is a born Piscean under the sheep zodiac from the Philippines, is a young struggling doctor torn between his profession-the curing science of Medicine and his passion-the healing art of the Humanities. He holds an administrative position in a big healthcare organization and on the side studies Masterals for Public Health. He seeks to conquer the world by influencing people with regards the wholistic aspect of medicine–nurturing and healing, not only the body, but the mind and soul as well. He loves to travel, read non-Medical books, write literary stuff, listen to any genre of music, watch art films, shoot anything (photography that is) that catches his fancy, and paint female forms. He would often be caught sipping his cup of black coffee (without sugar and cream), tinkering with his latest gadget, or staring into space to keep him sane.
