The Freudian Slip Of A Bacolodnon

What do you get when 3 guys decided to go have coffee in Trinoma and talk about their miserable love life? An impromptu planning of a surprise romantic dinner date, that's what you get. It happened during the final day of our DTTB CME in Manila when my roommates and I decided to go malling in Trinoma during the afternoon break. My roommates were Tep and Prince, both then at the opposite end of the love-life spectrum. Both were madly in love, especially Tep, but unlike Tep, Prince was kinda on the rocks. Of course, standing right at the fulcrum was simple old me, the guru, the sage, the Zen master of life, love and whatever is in between. So, we talked. Or mostly, it was Tep talking, trying to ask us what he can do so he can win the love of his life. Then smart Prince suddenly suggested a dinner date at the penthouse of the hotel where we were staying. Candle-light dinner, with roses, ambience music, nice food, wine... It was a perfect idea! So, the three of us went to our masterpla...

Here are pictures from the 32nd CME of the Doctors to the Barrio Program of the Department of Health: Batch 23 Will be posting more pictures when I get back to Bacolod City within the week.

I have chosen a road traveled by a few for perhaps the most practical reasons. While the compensation may be ample as compared to a resident working in the hospital, there are sacrifices a doctor to the barrio must make which a typical resident need not give up. For one, the comforts of city life can be very titillating for a DTTB who have spent months in geographical isolation from the proofs of urban life. The attachment to the routines of daily living can be bloody for a DTTB. Many DTTBs are assigned in areas not even insurgents can penetrate. While the motivation for such persistence and endurance in the plains of voidness vary from one DTTB to another, the fact remains that any DTTB, devoted and dedicated, will let go of the noise and lights of "civilization" and exchange them for the slow-paced, almost-frustrating lifestyle in the countryside. Married DTTBs such as myself had to let go of family time and like missionaries assigned in perilous places, we leave them in o...

Here are pictures of Boracay taken during my last visit during the 3rd National Convention of Philippine Association of Government Physicians.