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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

Recommended, finally.

FINALLY. AT LAST. AFTER A LONG TIME, NR no more, bypassing conditional, to recommended! 

Oh how good it is to experience being redeemed from a heartbreak that pharmacy life has brought me. Those days, even nights, that you cannot comprehend emotions that you're feeling (Just like John Mayer sung "When you're dreaming with a broken heart, waking up is the hardest part" Hehehe) are now being compensated by the joy that is unfathomable. Got the result of the latest mock board exam and I should say, it uplifts the spirit in me! Thank You Lord for the good score. Indeed, You are my confidence. All of these are by You, from You, through You and with You. Claiming my RPh-tail already!

2 Corinthians 3: 4-5

"Such confidence as this is ours through Christ before God. Not that we are competent in ourselves to claim anything for ourselves, but our competence comes from God."

Filed everything for PRC. Again, thank You Lord for there's nothing wrong with the life that i used to know Lol. OKAY GUIA, STUDDDYYYYY!!!!! 

Where Erythromycin was discovered

A month, I've gone to the city of Iloilo. 

TIt was really overwhelming to remember one of  My heart's desires for this year and it really happened - to TRAVEL, unexpectably. Oh how God works through other people. Hihihi

TRAVEL FOR FREE. FREE. FREE. KAKAO TALK. JOKE.

So this is where Erythromycin was discovered, aka Ilotycin with brand name Ilosone. Used for Opthalmia neonatorium and Penicillin allergy, a macrolide. Bow.

 I'd always known that my roots were here and it actually felt like home.

                                             

   

                                   

 

And now, I am back to the actual review for my board exam. And it was way way better than reviewing for the supposed-to-be-June board exam. I've been earnestly praying since i started self-reviewing that may the Lord give me delight in all that I am studying, memorizing, analyzing and solving. Pharmacy was not easy. And Pharmacy will never ever be easy but I know I can do it. Apart from Him, I can do nothing. So yes, Lord, we can do it!  :)

So shout out to all atoms becoming molecules, carbons, functional groups, elements, drugs with its constituents, reagents, apparatuses, worms, diseases, drugs of choice, side effects and contraindications and everything else and whoever else that comprises the Pharmacy World, Philippians 1:3 (I thank God everytime i remember you)

Anyway, Congratulations to my one and only girl bestesest friend, CHIQUI TENECIO, whom we visited last month and who recently passed the CPA board exam. We knew it because we prayed for it! Bringing back all the glory and honor to Jesus that made all those things possible :)

My Nutella Gelato Story

Who among you have watched Despicable Me 2 and, perhaps, remembered that scene when one mobile ice cream car appeared then one minion shouted "GELATO!", saying it in the cutest way possible? :)

"Gelato is the italian name for an ice cream based on an egg custard mixture."

Here's the thing: Brace yourselves for I have made my own Nutella Gelato! You read that right!!! Okay, actually not my own, i just followed from some cookbook entitled The Food of Italy: A journey for foodlovers that i rummaged at our mini-library. Do you know that feeling when you want to try out cooking all the recipes found therein but you just can't because 1.The ingredients are expensive; 2. Ingredients are not usually found in the supermarket at your place; 3. You're a frustrated chef/cook. :(

As I flipped through pages, my heart was strucked when I saw how to make a gelato, which I think by far the easiest of all the recipes in the said book. I really really really love Nutella, to the point that you cannot fool me with other nutella-like brands that are available out there. Nah-aaahh. Those impostors, fakers and posers of my love. How dare you!! I really don't care if I carry my bag having 1kg of Nutella in it. Hahahaha! yes, 1 kilogram or 2.2 pounds!

Here are some pictures of Nutella Gelato

    

                                             Are you drooling now? =P

For your information, those photos above are not mine. All from the internet!

The sad part of my Nutella Gelato story:  No matter how perfectly you follow the instructions in the cookbook, your food will just turn out looking and tasting horrendous. But hey, Nutella saves!! It's an exception to that punchline.

MY OWN NUTELLA GELATO, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN....