The Freudian Slip Of A Bacolodnon

I don't know but I feel like going back to the old online game I was once hooked up with. When my mom introduced Conquer Online to me, I was not quite ecstatic about it at first. But when I started playing the game and trying to learn the concept, I was addicted to it right then and there. I showed it to my wife and she too got hooked up with it. Now, even my 4 year old son has a character of its own. It's a role playing game where you get to choose what kind of character you would want to be. For my first character, I chose an archer and named him Carpenter which is the english translation of the Filipino hero Panday . When I changed into a new server (Sunshine), I chose a Taoist. A taoist is like a sorcerer or a magician. The character is adept in the skills of magic. Archers are of course good in bows and arrows. There are two more characters: trojan and warrior. Both are good with the sword and hand to hand combats. I have met new friends through this game and CO has becom...

It's almost half time. By Thursday, ww would have already spent a month rotating as Community Interns. Unfortunately, I really haven't felt my being a Community intern. Maybe things will change next month now that we will be assigned in the field. Anyway, the PGIs are busy preparing for the upcoming carolling activity next month. So far, we have been doing a lot of practice already and the last time I heard us singing, we were doing great progress. Yesterday, my cousin Angelie was admitted in BOLMSH because of hypogastric pain. Later PE revealed a possible appendicitis. I too examined her at the E.R. after my auntie called me up and I advised them to have her admitted for a stat appendectomy. I immediately called up Doctor Hinolan and asked him if he could be Angelie's surgeon. She was immediately operated on that afternoon and I got to scrub for Doctor Hinolan. Doctor Galon was our anesthesiologist. Later I took a picture of her appendix and showed it to her parents and my...

I was fixing my library the other day and I decided to transfer all of my old notes, documents, even love letters from my wife and important papers from my bedroom to the new library. So I started going through them, sorting them out from memorabilias, personal letters, reviewers composed of old notes, even old certificates and news clippings of previous achievements and involvements. I also happened to rediscover old pictures of my high school days. How I missed high school. What I missed about it the most are the high school plays we had. Every year, my classmates and I would produce and perform a play. I would be the writer and director and most of my classmates would be actors and performers and crew. Usually, Renalyn and/or Andrea would play the leading actress or supporting actress. Then the leading actors would either be Rommel, Kayo, or JR. The rest would be part of the whole ensemble. The first class play we performed was the story which I wrote entitled: Under the Spell. If I...

While Thanksgiving Day is not an official holiday in the Philippines, my family and I went out last night to celebrate not exactly Thanksgiving Day but my sister's birthday. We had dinner at Aboy's and for the first time after so many years, the entire family went bowling at Negros Super Lanes in Goldenfields. While we were younger, and when my parents still used to work at their respective sugar milling companies, almost every holidays, officemates would have bowling tourneys and we would join along and have our own little tourney at the side. When the sugar crisis of the late 1990s happened, bowling tournaments have been abandoned as part of cost-cutting measures. We used to enjoy these moments together. So last night, all of us, including my son Rien, went bowling. It was a rocky start at first. It has been a long time since I played duckpin bowling. But it was still fun and has remained fun after all this years. I guess if there are some things I should thank for, they ar...

It is a human act to put up signs. They are visuals that either direct, support, give advice or attract attention. If not for signs, how would one know the difference between a male's washroom from a female's. Companies and business establishments would spend millions just for print advertising. Huge billboards have been crowding over the city for the past months and usually, the bigger the billboard, the bigger the company being advertised on the board. Signs are everywhere. They are labels in a food container, traffic rules, even just simple public display of affection and gratitude from a winning politician. You can find them by the road side, inside jeepneys, hanging on fences, painted on walls, over bridges or on rooftops. Signs are eveywhere. While most signs are serious and direct-to-the-point, the signs that are funny (unwittingly or not) or creative are those that grab the reader's attention effectively. Imaginative slogans are those that are easily registered in m...

The past few days have all been about these 3 P's. Earlier in the month, the World Pool Championship was held for the first time in Manila, Philippines and while the favourite Efren 'The Magician' Reyes did not make it to the final rounds, Ronnie 'The Volcano' Alcano, a fellow patriot, defeated German Ralph Soquet to win the title of World Pool Champion. Alcano becomes the third Filipino to win the most prestigious title in 9-ball, the other two were Efren Reyes and Alex 'The Lion' Pagulayan. Last Sunday, another Filipino made it big in the world of sports. Manny Pacquiao, the Destroyer, the Pacman, fought Erik 'El Terrible' Morales of Mexico for the third time inside the boxing ring. Dubbed as the Final Chapter in this epic boxing trilogy of the modern era, Manny Pacquiao defeated the Mexican after 3 rounds of boxing. El Terrible could not withstand the speed and power of the Pacman's punches. The Mexican fell on the floor 3 times, once during t...

Today, the Bacolod Our Lady of Mercy Specialty Hospital celebrated the death anniversary of its former boss: renowned surgeon Doctor Patricio Y. Tan. Dubbed as the father of Surgery in Bacolod City, the late Doctor P-tan, as he is fondly called by friends and colleagues, revolutionized training of surgical residents and the dispensation of medical services to Bacoleños during his time. He was considered a pioneer, a trailblazer, and many surgeons today owe their training to him. Doctor P. Tan is beloved by many even after his death, both by his former employees, former residents who are now surgeons and consultants, and even fellow medical doctors who are in other fields of specialization. P. Tan was also former chief of the Bacolod Our Lady of Mercy Specialty Hospital and during his time he had made numerous contributions to the field of medical service. During his death a few years back, employees and doctors of BOLMSH dedicated a shrine in his memory and renamed the hospital’s cha...