Wow. This blog has not been updated for over a year. The last post isn't even a legit blog post but is post for a contest. Why so? Have I been too busy to go online? Hell no. The past 3 years in medschool, I have always been the kind of student who still checks her FB account, 9gag (need to stop this) tumblr (this one I update more - part of the new goals) and other things to waste my time even during exam weeks.
I think it's necessary to have these breaks since I easily feel the need to sleep and these distractions nudge me awake.
This update is just to inform any readers that this blog will probably not be updated anymore (but blogger now has a better interface! Tagal kong di bumabalik!) since clerkship starts in a little over a month. I'm anxious but hoping for the best!
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Friday, December 23, 2011
Gifts Ahoy and Drowning Equilibriums Giveaways
I'm a bit of a late bloomer in liking and using accessories. However, it's still better late than never. :)
Here's a giveaway by Gifts Ahoy and Drowning Equilibriums
Here's a giveaway by Gifts Ahoy and Drowning Equilibriums
Gifts Ahoy x DE Giveaway!
Here's the 3rd series of my Holiday Giveaway! This time 2 of you lovelies could win these oh so pretty items from Gifts Ahoy ! :) And while you're at it, go check out their store too. They have lots of pretty items on sale!
1st prize - satchel bag + skull necklace
2nd prize -- bow ring, forever 21 clips & stoplight necklace (so cute noh?)
Mechanics:
1. Must be a follower of my blog via google connect and bloglovin
2. Follow Gifts Ahoy on FACEBOOK 3. Repost this giveaway (linking Gifts Ahoy) on your blog, Facebook (tag Drowning Equilibriums & Gifts Ahoy), Twitter (tag @paxieness) or Tumblr. Post the URL/link below!
4. Leave your name and email below.
Contest will run until Jan. 4, 2012. What a great way to start the year!:)
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Just a quick update
First semester is over! Woohoo! Our college secretary showed us all our grades from the first and second shifting, as well as the final grade for Ethics.
I knew my grades in the first shifting and I failed one, Histology ( I really don't get it!). Thankfully, I passed all my subjects in the second shifting. I will continue to pray for passing grades, and hopefully better grades. I need to work on my self-discipline though. I haven't read anything over the semestral break. Waaah. Need to do my resolution, ASAP.
I knew my grades in the first shifting and I failed one, Histology ( I really don't get it!). Thankfully, I passed all my subjects in the second shifting. I will continue to pray for passing grades, and hopefully better grades. I need to work on my self-discipline though. I haven't read anything over the semestral break. Waaah. Need to do my resolution, ASAP.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Erratic
The first shifting exams are a week away. We've taken the long exams in our major subjects. The first long exams yielded favorable results but after just taking the second Biochemistry long exam, I'm feeling so down. I do not think I did a good job. This sucks because I studied before the exam. I can stomach my failed second long exam in Anatomy because I slept more than I studied but in Biochemistry, I studied fairly enough. Granted, I also fell asleep and did not finish studying so I was cramming during the lecture (which made me get low marks in the quizzes) but I think I could have done a better job. The exam had potential to be doable if you've studied well enough. Okay... after writing that line above, I realized that I did not study well enough. :(
This is such a disorganized post (much like my ethics paper).
Because of the toxicity of medical school and the long travel time, I have been sleeping only a few hours per day. This is not good because when I'm reviewing I find it hard to keep my eyes open thus I cannot finish studying.
I seriously need to manage my time well. Hell week in a week but next week is already hellish as well.
This is such a disorganized post (much like my ethics paper).
Because of the toxicity of medical school and the long travel time, I have been sleeping only a few hours per day. This is not good because when I'm reviewing I find it hard to keep my eyes open thus I cannot finish studying.
I seriously need to manage my time well. Hell week in a week but next week is already hellish as well.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Top 5 Favorite Gryffindors: Neville Longbottom
I thought of making a list of my favorite stuff from the Harry Potter series. I thought of starting with my favorite characters but there are so many so I decided to make categories. Here is the first post of my five favorite Gryffindors during Harry Potter's stay at Hogwarts. They are not in any order as it varies.
Neville Longbottom is the only son of aurors, Frank and Alice Longbottom. He has grown up with his paternal grandmother, Augusta after the death eaters tortured both of his parents to insanity. Most of his relatives thought that he might be a squib (non-magical person from a pure-blood family) since he did not show signs of magic at an early age.
He was first introduced as a shy, clumsy, easily bullied boy. He also showed poor wizarding prowess in his subjects with the exception of Herbology. He persevered though, and developed his skill and his personality with some help from friends.
He was always on the receiving end of Draco Malfoy's bullying but he fought back after a pep talk with the trio. In the first book, he fought Crabbe and Goyle when they were bad-mouthing the Gryffindor quidditch team, Ron Weasley, and himself while watching a match. He obviously couldn't take on the two of them and was sent to the infirmary. During his first year, he also showed courage by standing up to his friends, the trio. He tries stopping them from breaking more rules to keep Gryffindor from losing more points. He was lauded by the headmaster, Albus Dumbledore and the rest of his house.
He was also on the receiving end of Severus Snape's bullying during Potions. He showed abysmal performance in this class as a result. He fears Snape the most during these years and fought a Snape-boggart during DADA lessons with Lupin. In the fourth book, we learn more about Neville's past. He is shaken by the fake Moody's display of the Cruciatus Curse. This was the curse used by the death eaters to torture his parents. In this book, we begin to see his transformation.
In the fifth book, he joins Dumbledore's Army and learns spells and counter-curses from Harry Potter. He gains considerable skill as a wizard in these hidden lessons. In this year, a few death eaters escaped Azkaban including those that tortured his parents. He did not speak of it though the others noticed a change in him. He was more devoted to learning the spells in the DA.
He joined Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Ginny Weasley, and Luna Lovegood in the Battle at the Department of Mysteries and encountered Bellatrix Lestrange. She was one of the four death eaters condemned for torturing Frank and Alice Longbottom.
In the sixth book, he also fought along with the Order of the Phoenix during the Battle at the Tower. In his seventh year, he co-headed Dumbledore's Army with Luna and Ginny stepping up for the trio's absence at Hogwarts. He gave the Carrow's (death eaters assigned at Hogwarts) a hard time and had to hide from them at the Room of Requirement.
During the Battle at Hogwarts, he rallied the other members of the DA upon the trio's arrival. He used his skill in Herbology in fighting by using plants as an attack as well as using spells learned in the DA. Before entering the forest, Harry Potter talked briefly with Neville and told him it was important to kill Voldemort's snake, Nagini.
When the Death Eaters were moving towards Hogwarts with the 'dead' Harry, Neville rebelled and crossed to the no-man's-land between the Death Eaters and the survivors. Here, I will place another excerpt as this the best one to show a Gryffindor at his best.
Voldemort was obviously angered by this and he placed a burning Sorting Hat on Neville while he was under the Body-Bind curse. I would not put all the details here because it's already a lengthy post. To make it succinct, many things happened because of this. The crowd from Hogwarts started to move the same time as Harry and Neville to continue the fight against Voldemort and his supporters.
After the good guys won, and they were in the Great Hall eating and such, Harry saw Neville surrounded by supporters and admirers. The sword of Godric Gryffindor lay beside his plate. This sword was the only remaining relic of the founder of their house.
Neville is one of my favorite characters in the series because he's grown so much from that bumbling, cowardly student to a courageous wizard. He truly proved himself a true Gryffindor and no one can deny that in the last book.
I'm sorry about the really long post. I just love Neville's character and know that he's under-appreciated so I wanted to show my admiration. I'll try to make the rest shorter. ;P
The four drawings depicting Neville in the chapter, "The Flaw in the Plan" is by Loonyl at DeviantArt.
Here's my Top 5 favorite Gryffindors. I will edit this when I'm through with all of them and make these names clicky.
1. Harry Potter
2. Ron Weasley
3. Hermione Granger
4. Neville Longbottom
5. Fred and George Weasley
Honorable mention/s:
- Colin Creevey
NEVILLE LONGBOTTOM
Neville Longbottom with his pet, Trevor and his grandmother, Augusta Longbottom
Photo taken from Forbis at DeviantArt
Neville Longbottom is the only son of aurors, Frank and Alice Longbottom. He has grown up with his paternal grandmother, Augusta after the death eaters tortured both of his parents to insanity. Most of his relatives thought that he might be a squib (non-magical person from a pure-blood family) since he did not show signs of magic at an early age.
He was always on the receiving end of Draco Malfoy's bullying but he fought back after a pep talk with the trio. In the first book, he fought Crabbe and Goyle when they were bad-mouthing the Gryffindor quidditch team, Ron Weasley, and himself while watching a match. He obviously couldn't take on the two of them and was sent to the infirmary. During his first year, he also showed courage by standing up to his friends, the trio. He tries stopping them from breaking more rules to keep Gryffindor from losing more points. He was lauded by the headmaster, Albus Dumbledore and the rest of his house.
And finally, it takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends. I award ten points to Neville Longbottom!"
—Albus Dumbledore about Neville
He was also on the receiving end of Severus Snape's bullying during Potions. He showed abysmal performance in this class as a result. He fears Snape the most during these years and fought a Snape-boggart during DADA lessons with Lupin. In the fourth book, we learn more about Neville's past. He is shaken by the fake Moody's display of the Cruciatus Curse. This was the curse used by the death eaters to torture his parents. In this book, we begin to see his transformation.
In the fifth book, he joins Dumbledore's Army and learns spells and counter-curses from Harry Potter. He gains considerable skill as a wizard in these hidden lessons. In this year, a few death eaters escaped Azkaban including those that tortured his parents. He did not speak of it though the others noticed a change in him. He was more devoted to learning the spells in the DA.
Neville: "Fourteen years ago, a Death Eater named Bellatrix Lestrange used the Cruciatus Curse on my parents. She tortured them for information, but they never gave in. I'm quite proud to be their son. But I'm not sure I'm ready for everyone to know just yet."
Harry: "We're gonna make them proud, Neville. That's a promise
He joined Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Ginny Weasley, and Luna Lovegood in the Battle at the Department of Mysteries and encountered Bellatrix Lestrange. She was one of the four death eaters condemned for torturing Frank and Alice Longbottom.
In the sixth book, he also fought along with the Order of the Phoenix during the Battle at the Tower. In his seventh year, he co-headed Dumbledore's Army with Luna and Ginny stepping up for the trio's absence at Hogwarts. He gave the Carrow's (death eaters assigned at Hogwarts) a hard time and had to hide from them at the Room of Requirement.
During the Battle at Hogwarts, he rallied the other members of the DA upon the trio's arrival. He used his skill in Herbology in fighting by using plants as an attack as well as using spells learned in the DA. Before entering the forest, Harry Potter talked briefly with Neville and told him it was important to kill Voldemort's snake, Nagini.
When the Death Eaters were moving towards Hogwarts with the 'dead' Harry, Neville rebelled and crossed to the no-man's-land between the Death Eaters and the survivors. Here, I will place another excerpt as this the best one to show a Gryffindor at his best.
“And who is this?” he said in his soft snake’s hiss. “Who has volunteered to demonstrate what happens to those who continue to fight when the battle is lost?” Bellatrix gave a delighted laugh. “It is Neville Longbottom, my Lord! The boy who has been giving the Carrows so much trouble! The son of the Aurors, remember?”
"Ah, yes, I remember,” said Voldemort, looking down at Neville, who was struggling back to his feet, unarmed and unprotected, standing in the no-man’s-land between the survivors and the Death Eaters. “But you are a pureblood, aren’t you, my brave boy?” Voldemort asked Neville, who stood facing him, his empty hands curled in fists.
“So what if I am?” said Neville loudly. “You show spirit and bravery, and you come of noble stock. You will make a very valuable Death Eater. We need your kind, Neville Longbottom.” “I’ll join you when hell freezes over,” said Neville. “Dumbledore’s Army!” he shouted, and there was an answering cheer from the crowd, whom Voldemort’s Silencing Charms seemed unable to hold.
Voldemort was obviously angered by this and he placed a burning Sorting Hat on Neville while he was under the Body-Bind curse. I would not put all the details here because it's already a lengthy post. To make it succinct, many things happened because of this. The crowd from Hogwarts started to move the same time as Harry and Neville to continue the fight against Voldemort and his supporters.
In one swift, fluid motion, Neville broke free of the Body-Bind Curse upon him; the flaming hat fell off him and he drew from its depths something silver, with a glittering, rubied handle.
The slash of the silver blade could not be heard over the roar of the oncoming crowd or the sounds of the clashing giants or of the stampeding centaurs, and yet, it seemed to draw every eye. With a single stroke Neville sliced off the great snake’s head, which spun high into the air, gleaming in the light flooding from the entrance hall, and Voldemort’s mouth was open in a scream of fury that nobody could hear, and the snake’s body thudded to the ground at his feet.
Neville is one of my favorite characters in the series because he's grown so much from that bumbling, cowardly student to a courageous wizard. He truly proved himself a true Gryffindor and no one can deny that in the last book.
I'm sorry about the really long post. I just love Neville's character and know that he's under-appreciated so I wanted to show my admiration. I'll try to make the rest shorter. ;P
The four drawings depicting Neville in the chapter, "The Flaw in the Plan" is by Loonyl at DeviantArt.
Here's my Top 5 favorite Gryffindors. I will edit this when I'm through with all of them and make these names clicky.
1. Harry Potter
2. Ron Weasley
3. Hermione Granger
4. Neville Longbottom
5. Fred and George Weasley
Honorable mention/s:
- Colin Creevey
Enrollment
I am now officially enrolled as a first year medical student in Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. The process was relatively quick. Jill and I arrived around 9 am and we finished by 11 am. A quick run-down for my reference (just in case).
1. We paid P30.00 for the SSC fund and had our enrollment procedure paper stamped. We also received a pin here which I really don't know what it's for. :S [There was no one in line here so it was a breeze!]
2.Next we fell in line to pay P70.00 for the Ang Pamantasan and obtained our enrollment stub (the paper which shows your subjects and how much you'll pay). [There was a somewhat long line but it moved fast enough]
3. Then we proceeded to the cashier where there was a long line but by a stroke of luck we were included in the line for the second cashier. How very fortunate! The line was cut about two to three persons before me. That was a shortcut but I couldn't help feeling guilty that we sort of cut the line.
4. Next was the long wait for the registration form and class cards. We were seated and just waited for our names to be called. I don't really know why it took quite a while but it was alright since we were talking to future batchmates and upperclassmen while waiting.
5.We processed our library cards and had the registration form and class cards photocopied.
*missed step - Pay student council fund (another P100.00, I think) Since there were a good number that bypassed this step, I guess it's not such a biggie. We'll do this on Monday.
6. We went to the CM office and passed one of the photocopies. We asked about the second list and start of classes but their answer was not good news.
7. Last step was to pass the other photocopy to the Accounting office and we are now officially enrolled!
In the two hours we've stayed at PLM, we've been acquainted with some future batchmates and a few students from the higher years. Out of the batchmates we've met, I think there was only one person who's also from our section. I checked our schedule and looks like Physiology is on Tuesday meaning we won't have that class this week since June 8 is orientation day. I really checked this since we have to read eight chapters already and I just finished the first chapter yesterday (and I'm still proud of that albeit my slow pace). I'm starting to get really nervous as school will start in a couple of days. Our first subject is Histology and in the afternoon we'll have Family and Community Medicine. I'm quite sure we wouldn't immediate start the teaching-learning thing yet. There would be introductions and such since it is the first day and I just get nervous about that. I get nervous talking in front of people I don't know quite often! I still don't know what to bring too and being sick is not helping my nerves.
I'm bugged that the office has not yet released a second list of qualified applicants. I have friends waiting for that list and they are really deserving to be there. I just hope they'll release it on Monday morning. It's unfair that they have to miss a few classes because the list will be released late. Let's just pray that the list will come out soon and that all people deserving to be in it are there.
1. We paid P30.00 for the SSC fund and had our enrollment procedure paper stamped. We also received a pin here which I really don't know what it's for. :S [There was no one in line here so it was a breeze!]
2.Next we fell in line to pay P70.00 for the Ang Pamantasan and obtained our enrollment stub (the paper which shows your subjects and how much you'll pay). [There was a somewhat long line but it moved fast enough]
3. Then we proceeded to the cashier where there was a long line but by a stroke of luck we were included in the line for the second cashier. How very fortunate! The line was cut about two to three persons before me. That was a shortcut but I couldn't help feeling guilty that we sort of cut the line.
4. Next was the long wait for the registration form and class cards. We were seated and just waited for our names to be called. I don't really know why it took quite a while but it was alright since we were talking to future batchmates and upperclassmen while waiting.
5.We processed our library cards and had the registration form and class cards photocopied.
*missed step - Pay student council fund (another P100.00, I think) Since there were a good number that bypassed this step, I guess it's not such a biggie. We'll do this on Monday.
6. We went to the CM office and passed one of the photocopies. We asked about the second list and start of classes but their answer was not good news.
7. Last step was to pass the other photocopy to the Accounting office and we are now officially enrolled!
In the two hours we've stayed at PLM, we've been acquainted with some future batchmates and a few students from the higher years. Out of the batchmates we've met, I think there was only one person who's also from our section. I checked our schedule and looks like Physiology is on Tuesday meaning we won't have that class this week since June 8 is orientation day. I really checked this since we have to read eight chapters already and I just finished the first chapter yesterday (and I'm still proud of that albeit my slow pace). I'm starting to get really nervous as school will start in a couple of days. Our first subject is Histology and in the afternoon we'll have Family and Community Medicine. I'm quite sure we wouldn't immediate start the teaching-learning thing yet. There would be introductions and such since it is the first day and I just get nervous about that. I get nervous talking in front of people I don't know quite often! I still don't know what to bring too and being sick is not helping my nerves.
I'm bugged that the office has not yet released a second list of qualified applicants. I have friends waiting for that list and they are really deserving to be there. I just hope they'll release it on Monday morning. It's unfair that they have to miss a few classes because the list will be released late. Let's just pray that the list will come out soon and that all people deserving to be in it are there.
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Quiz on Harry Potter and the Sorceror's stone
I enjoyed taking this exam years ago and just thought of trying it out now to see if I still remember Harry Potter stuff way back to the first book. I still do, but even though, I want to read the books again!The questions are easy with one or two moderately hard questions (except for a big fan).
It's a shame the webmaster only made these exams for books 1 to 5. The sorting-hat site also has a short quiz which tells you which house you belong to.
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I took the other four tests for books 2 to 5 and didn't have as good a result. I had about two to three mistakes in the Chamber of Secrets and in the Prisoner of Azkaban but I had nine mistakes for the Goblet of Fire and the Order of the Phoenix. :( I really have to brush up on Harry Potter! If only there isn't something more important to read.
Report Card sorting-hat.comFirst Year Exam | |
| Right Answers | 50 |
| Total Possible | 50 |
| Percent Right | 100% |
| Letter Grade | A |
It's a shame the webmaster only made these exams for books 1 to 5. The sorting-hat site also has a short quiz which tells you which house you belong to.
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I took the other four tests for books 2 to 5 and didn't have as good a result. I had about two to three mistakes in the Chamber of Secrets and in the Prisoner of Azkaban but I had nine mistakes for the Goblet of Fire and the Order of the Phoenix. :( I really have to brush up on Harry Potter! If only there isn't something more important to read.
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