My Semester-Ender: Bacolod

After passing the board exam, I have always prayed and thought of traveling to places, have a job and earn for it- try different foods, take pictures, buy stuff.. meaning, gumastos (Hahaha) but maaaaan, Medschool happened.

On the first month being in the City of Iloilo also known as City of Love (Naks naman), I had plans of going on to the other places alongside Visayas. Before Medicine officially started, I met someone (Hindi ito lovelife, okay? And besides, she's a she), who was introduced to me by a handsome friend, named Mia. She became my classmate. The first semester of our Medlife was exhausting yet fun, dreadful but .... DREADFUL. Hahaha. Anyway, this is how we spent the first and second day of our Semestral break: Bacolod trip! It's good to be away for a while.

We have talked about the place several times already, though both of us haven't been there ever since. Thank God for online informations and Google Map! Days before the trip which is during our final exam week, we were still contemplating if "Madayon ta?" because the thought of it is somewhat impossible for some. "Wala ta tulugan" was her statement, "The Lord will provide" is my mantra. On the last day of class, we finally decided to push through. Even though some have said that the place will be jampacked with different fellas because they are celebrating the Masskara Festival, we bought our ticket on the exact day that we were going. Everything was smooth except for one of the most important thing.. where to stay in for a night.

Our original plan is just to try foods as many as we can and visit the famous The Ruins. We walked along Lacson Street, where food chains line up and party was going on. You can see that everyone's having a good time, with or without maskara. We enjoyed the traverse while looking up for food to try on while, simultaneously, place to stay in. It took us hours to have known that almost all places were fullybooked. But that didn't upset us. One of the beautiful thing that happened to us is when i needed to go to the comfort room and I could see starbucks few meters away. We entered there and after a few minutes, the rain poured down. The timing was pretty amazing, isn't it? So we decided to have some caffeine for a while until the rain stops. After that, we continued looking for. ... love. Kidding! The place! We were tired but amidst everything, we both stay calm and even made fun of things that are happening to us.  I have suggested that we take the Jeepney so that we may come across some hotels or inns away from Lacson Street. Without knowing where we are already, the Jeepney stopped to a terminal. I don't know what came up in my mind to tell her, "Ayala tayo!" and without being hesitant, she just said yes. (Guyyyysss singaot niya na ako!! Hahaha Joke!) And so we asked some locals on how to make it there. We wanted to take a jeepney or tricycle because we are kuripot like that. Some of them answered "Taxi nalang kamo"...."Bus nalang kamo, baba lang kamo sa. .. tapos.." but there's this one person who told us "May free shuttle man pakadto Ayala", meaning there's a free ride. Yes, you read that right, freeeeeeee!!!!  You don't know how ecstatic we were upon hearing that. We arrived at Ayala around 7 pm and we have had shopping...Akalain mo yun? Nagsho-shopping pero wala paring matutuluyan. Hahaha We've come to a point that we thought of just staying in a 24-hour coffeeshop up until dawn. Oh, desperate measures. But behold for the great revelation of blessing: One of our friend/classmate, named Abby also known as Anne Curtis of our class (Bwahahaha) was in Bacolod, too. While we are strolling at the mall, Abby told us that she had a booking to a place and she needed to transfer for some reasons. Again, the Majesty has provided. Oh, good Lord!

The rest of the trip was purely fun, spontaneous and definitely memorable! We visited the The Ruins and entered 12 stops for munching/ swallowing/ metabolizing and fattening food- from lunch to the day-after lunch. Imagine that? Because there are a lot of foods to try on, we'll surely come back for more! Bacolod, for me, is a place for a foodie. To sum it all up, Mia and I wondered "Bakit 3 meals lang ang required per day?" Hahahahaha! oo nga naman. Why not 10 meals?! So many food, so little stomach. Eat pa tayo more!

Thank You Lord for this mini adventure! Everything that Bacolod has in store for us was worth the decision of letting You handle everything. God bless Bacolod and God bless my grades. Hahaha

P.S. Because there's just the two of us, most pictures were solo because you know the drill. Lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oh, Medicine.

This girl is on fire

for Jesus Christ.

20 THINGS LOVE HAS TAUGHT ME SO FAR

Behold, the 20th thing love has taught me!

Disclaimer: These aren't absolutes, laws or principles. What's right for me may not be right for you. These weren't just all plain personal experiences but also something that i have pondered upon people around me. 

1. FIRST LOVE NEVER DIES. You may consider someone, may it be your ex-girlfriend/boyfriend or your crush when you were at gradeschool, as your first love. As for me, Jesus is my first love. We love because He first loved us. He isn't choosy to whom He will give His love and i tell you, it's only His love that is Unfailing. If God wasnt loving,the universe would be loveless. Because, really, God is Love.

2. Love is like taking a drug. In my three years in the Pharmacy course, I've encountered a lot of professors wherein they can associate lessons to love. Amazing as it was, I have these tattooed on my mind.. When you love, it is like taking a drug: first, you have to take it and it has to pass through certain barriers to be able to do what it is supposed to and it takes time to take an effect and reach its expected outcome.Thus, it needs to consider those adverse reaction and side effects it could probably do.

3. Different dosages. Each person you love are like different dosage forms. You also love differently just as according to dosage strengths, it may be low dose or high dose. What matters most is what is it that fits for you.

4. Cry if you have to. This world is full of heartbreak-inducing people. You are not weak when you cry. The moment you stop crying, you'll realize that it's worth it! Then, you'll laugh it all up.

5. There is no such thing as CTRL. You may control things: your wealth, your health, your schedule but you can't control love and yes, people, no can do. The best thing you can do is enter and scroll with life. Use backspace if you need to.

6. Heart abuse. Each human body comprises 206 bones but only 1 (one) heart. So if you're breaking someone's heart, try to consider breaking first one of the bones of that person. I guess, it hurts less. 

7. People change. The only constant thing in this planet is change. Yes, people do change, not abruptly because it really needs time. But still (back to number 5), you can't force a person to change. It's a matter of showing someone a deep understanding of why is she/he like this or like that and in the process, you'll see and discover what that person can actually be. Remember that if we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

8. Bs in Bitterness. If only this course exists, maybe half of the population were enrolled or better yet many would be topnotchers, considering myself. Badnews: The world doesn't care. 

9. Love is like playing cards. We serve as player and each of us must accept the cards life deals on us. Once they are on our hands, ourself alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game. Did i mention about some player that cheats? Beware.

10. Love is a mystery. Since I was in gradeschool, I'm fond of reading books about mysteries. As you turn the pages of the book, you're a kind of excited about something that you just can't bring down the book or close it, not until you finished reading it. Love is somewhat a kind of a secret that is yet to be revealed, it doesn't come just out of the blue. And once it has been unwrap, I swear it'll be a mystery anyone should seek for. The truth is in your hands. It is best when you yourself discover about it, not merely on stories that others are spicing up for you.

11. Heartbreak formula. It is from one of the published sorts of The Rock, my college student's publication. Though we have a lot of formula that is needed to be memorized at school, there is this something that i couldn't just forget eventhough i just encountered it on one-read. Length of relationship multiplied by the amount of tears divided by the happy moments equals time a person needs to overcome such heartbreak. :)

12. Letters are the sweetest. This may be old-school for some but i guess it is worth-reading than those lengthened text messages the world of communication now offers, considering it has been unlimited. haha! I just want to experience the snailmail the old people have had plus the encounter to the beautiful handwriting of the person who wrote that letter. And another plus, the A for Effort. I just wanted it that way, got a problem with that?

13. Love knows no plagiarism. It doesn't come with what you see in movies, people. Well, if that's the way how you make your relationship work, I can probably say that it wouldn't work. Because first and foremost, it isn't your story. Just like in movies, if people already knew about how that will end, they would go home disappointed, wasting their money. Your story is your own, consider it to be somewhat worth-watching!

14. Past is past. The more anger you have carried in your heart from the past, the less capable you are of loving in the present. The word "move on" now enters.

15. Love is like a business. Invest on moments for it will be soon cherished memories. It may soon make you rich, not for the money but for the superb experience, sadness or happiness all over. 

16. Love is a game. Some may lose, some may win. Well as what Barbara De Angelis said, "You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back" 

17. (1 Corinthinas 13: 1-7) Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps norecord of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 

18. The best love story is your story. . My story is yet to be told. Wish me all love in the world!

19. Do not date anyone if you don't have any intention of marrying him/her. I do sound like an expert in love, right? But NO, i concede, so put your eyebrows down please. Who wouldn't find it amazing,to the power of infinity, if someone will just love you immensely?. ... The future is forever, so why waste time with someone whom you knew from the very first start that you wouldn't end up with, prior to the future starts to unconceal. 

20. Love is like taking board exam. Some people failed on their first try, but that doesn't mean its gonna end there. The world keeps revolving and you need not to give up. Try again. The good new is, it is inevitable: You'll be a professional, hence you will be called "the lover of someone". It will happen and arrive in the best time God has set for you. Always remember that the heaven knows first before it gets online.Thank God I passed my board exam but in love, NO...NOT YET. Still not giving up. :))

Guia Fernandez De Los Santos, RPh

Thank God It's Friday - first day of being a Registered Pharmacist( not yet licensed though because I'm still underage)

Thank God for this gift. No language can praise it enough! All by God, from God, through God and with God- the Only Source.

Thank You Lord for letting me enjoy You during review months.

Thank You for leading me to the right books, right review center and right reviewers (who weren't hesistant to personify passive diffusion- from them who have higher concentration to us, who have lower concentration lol). You are indeed Jehovah Jireh, my Provider.

Thank You Lord for the people (parents, siblings, frinds, countrymen, expatriates) that are supporting, uplifiting, praying or even having thoughts for me. How much more are your thought oh Lord?

Thank You for such an AMAZING peace before and during the exam. The moment I saw the first question, I break out in exclamations for my confidence surmounts the heavens. You are, indeed, the Prince of Peace.

Thank You for letting me rediscover Grace and for making me learn that "Faith never struggles, it rests". I love You!

I want everyone to know that "The more you pray, the more it is not hard for you". 
God Himself is right alongside to keep you steady and on track until things are all wrapped up. He will never give up on you. Never forget that. If you have time, Read Philippians 4:6-7. Stay blessed!

Guia Fernandez De Los Santos, RPh