NOAH REVIISTED

NOAH

In the year 2008, the Lord came unto Noah, who was now living in the United States, and said:
Once again, the earth has become wicked and over-populated, and I see the end of all flesh before me.

Build another Ark and save 2 of every living thing along with a few good humans.

He gave Noah the blueprints, saying: You have 6 months to build the Ark before I will start the unending rain for 40 days and 40 nights.


Six months later, the Lord looked down and saw Noah weeping in his yard - but no Ark.

Noah! He roared, I'm about to start the rain! Where is the Ark?
Forgive me, Lord, begged Noah, 'but things have changed.

I needed a building permit.

I've been arguing with the inspector about the need for a sprinkler system.

My neighbors claim that I've violated the neighborhood zoning laws by building the Ark in my yard and exceeding the height limitations.
We had to go to the Development Appeal Board for a decision.

Then the Department of Transportation demanded a bond be posted for the future costs of moving power lines
and other overhead obstructions, to clear the passage for the Ark's move to the sea.
I told them that the sea would be coming to us, but they would hear nothing of it.

Getting the wood was another problem. There's a ban on cutting local trees in order to save the spotted owl.

I tried to convince the environmentalists that I needed the wood to save the owls - but no go!

When I started gathering the animals, an animal rights group sued me.
They insisted that I was confining wild animals against their will.
They argued the accommodations were too restrictive, and it was cruel and inhumane
to put so many animals in a confined space.

Then the EPA ruled that I couldn't build the Ark until they'd conducted an environmental impact study on your proposed flood.

I'm still trying to resolve a complaint with the Human Rights Commission on how many minorities I'm supposed to hire for my building crew.

Immigration and Naturalization are checking the green-card status of most of the people who want to work.

The trades unions say I can't use my sons. They insist I have to hire only Union workers with Ark-building experience.

To make matters worse, the IRS seized all my assets, claiming I'm trying to leave the country illegally with endangered species.

So, forgive me, Lord, but it would take at least 10 years for me to finish this Ark.

Suddenly the skies cleared, the sun began to shine, and a rainbow stretched across the sky.


Noah looked up in wonder and asked,
'You mean you're not going to destroy the world?'

'No,' said the Lord.
'The government beat me to it.

Nurse Licensure Exam 2008 Passers! Congratulations!!!

To all my friends, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

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Sulpicio Lines History and Mystery

Welcome to my paraAbnormal Thoughts. After watching news for the last week, i cant figure whom to blame in the surge of the capsized ship story. As it hit the toplist in the headline news chart this week, it put aside the Drilon Adventures in Jolo and the real depths of the Iloilo Underwater World.

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Here goes ...Well, nature has its way and disasters can happen anytime and anywhere with or without warning. It is indispensable from the natural evolution of the earth or so i think it is! Tracing back the history of Sulpicio... this is what i found out :

Sulpicio Shipping holds the world record for the WORST MARITIME DISASTER! The MV Doña Paz collided with an oil tanker MT Vector off Mindoro in 1987 that is regarded as the "world’s worst peacetime sea tragedy" with about 4500 people dead; dwarfing off the 1500 deaths of the Titanic. Then in 1988 the MV Marilyn that claimed at least 250 lives sank while the vessel set sail from Leyte for Manila under storm Signal No. 3. Ten years after, in 1998 the Princess of the Orient at the mouth of Manila Bay sank at the height of Typhoon Gading. And this year, after another ten years lapse from the last disaster, several dead bodies were found from the capsized MV Princess of the Star. It submerged near Sibuyan Island after sailing in rough waters during the typhoon Frank last Saturday with about 700 passengers on board.

1987 1988 1998 2008. It figures.

Anybody who can break this curse?!

Ms Universe Philippines Mispelled at the Prepageant Show

Jennifer Barrientos represents the Philippines in the 2008 Miss Universe Pageant. Dazzling in her black outfit but the sash is awful! Whoever did that should better know how to spell!

Just don't let me know some Pinoy did it coz thats a heavy slap!

check out the photo gallery

The Gen Y Nurse

The newest generation to enter our workforce, and the largest since the Boomers, is Generation Y, born between 1980 and 2000 — also known as the Millennials, Generation Next, MyPod generation, GenY, Digital Natives, Echoboomers, and the Boomerang Generation (Kogan, 2001).

This generation is globally aware, well educated, wired, and technologically sophisticated. Nexters have positive expectations and a desire for collective action (Zemke, Raines, & Filipczak, 2000). Life experience of the Nexters has created a generation that possesses traits such as a lack of trust in corporations, a focus on personal success, and a short-term career perspective. Nexters have a desire to improve everyday life by volunteering and giving back.

This generation has a great ability to multitask and maintain several dialogues, which makes them versatile communicators. While this generation communicates through technology, they remain quite savvy in verbal communication skills (Melik, 2007).

Nexters have been exposed to technology from birth, using technology since their years as a toddler. Nexters access information 24/7; therefore, they expect to work anytime and anyplace. Using the Web for information and social networking is part of the Nexter's core competencies. Web-based social networking and accessing information on such sites as LinkedIn, Facebook, and MySpace are normal practices.

YouTube already has a few videos created by young members of the nursing profession. Each video exhibits out-of-the-box thinking, with the intent to recruit people into the nursing profession. One video done by students at Decker School of Nursing is titled "Bring Nursing Back" (2006). This video has had 140,000 views through November 2007. The other, created by emergency center nurses from the University of Alabama, recruits candidates through a hip approach ("UAB Emergency Room Rap," 2007). This video has been posted not only to YouTube, but has also appeared on Yahoo video.

Parents of this generation have been highly invested and involved with their growth. Some critics call this generation coddled. They may require more mentoring up front, but have shown an ability to make dramatic and constructive changes to the workforce in the short time they have been a part of it. According to Claudia Tattanelli, CEO, Universum Communications, this generation gets a bad rap but has an "incredible will to make changes" ("The bottom line on next gen workers," 2007).

As a whole, younger workers can take great work risks; therefore, they are more mobile and able to pursue better jobs anywhere. The workplace will need to adapt to the attitudes and needs of this generation (Rasmus, 2007).

Each generation comes to the workforce table with different life experiences. Each communicates and perceives verbal and nonverbal messaging differently. While this does create complex work environments, it also presents a wonderful opportunity to put these diverse approaches to initiate new innovative practices.

on Body Image...

Some people feel they are too fat, others lament being too thin. You may obsess about the size of your nose, while your best friend may wish her feet were smaller....

Here's a fact:

Even the most successful and seemingly confident people privately fret about at least one of their physical attributes, including the women who model for magazine ads.

Life is good.. so smile :-) haha..

Your Humor Style

In today's personality stakes, nothing is more highly valued than a sense of humor. We seek it out in others and are proud to claim it in ourselves, perhaps even more than good looks or intelligence. If someone has a great sense of humor, we reason, it means that they are happy, socially confident and have a healthy perspective on life.

This attitude would have surprised the ancient Greeks, who believed humor to be essentially aggressive. And in fact, our admiration for the comedically gifted is relatively new, and not very well-founded, says Rod Martin, a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario who studies the way people use humor. Being funny isn't necessarily an indicator of good social skills and well-being, his research has shown—it may just as likely be a sign of personality flaws.

He has found that humor is a double-edged sword. It can forge better relationships and help you cope with life, or it can be corrosive, eating away at self-esteem and antagonizing others. "It's a form of communication, like speech, and we all use it differently," says Martin. We use bonding humor to enhance our social connections—but we also may wield it as a way of excluding or rejecting an outsider. Likewise, put-down humor can at times be an adaptive, healthy response: Employees suffering under a vindictive boss will often make the office more bearable by secretly ridiculing their tyrant.

Though humor is essentially social, how you use it says a lot about your sense of self. Those who use self-defeating humor, making fun of themselves for the enjoyment of others, tend to maintain that hostility toward themselves even when alone. Similarly, those who are able to view the world with amused tolerance are often equally forgiving of their own shortcomings.

Put-Down Humor

This aggressive type of humor is used to criticize and manipulate others through teasing, sarcasm and ridicule. When it's aimed against politicians by the likes of Ann Coulter, it's hilarious and mostly harmless. But in the real world, it has a sharper impact. Put-down humor, such as telling friends an embarrassing story about another friend, is a socially acceptable way to deploy aggression and make others look bad so you look good.

When challenged on their teasing, the put-down joker often turns to the "just kidding" defense, allowing the aggressor to avoid responsibility even as the barb bites. Martin has found no evidence that those who rely on this type of humor are any less well-adjusted. But it does take a toll on personal relationships.

Bonding Humor

People who use bonding humor are fun to have around; they say amusing things, tell jokes, engage in witty banter and generally lighten the mood. These are the people who give humor a good name. They're perceived as warm, down-to-earth and kind, good at reducing the tension in uncomfortable situations and able to laugh at their own faults.

Talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres embraces her audience by sharing good-natured, relatable humor. Her basic message: We're alike, we find the same things funny and we're all in this together.

Nonetheless, bonding humor can have a dark side. After all, a feeling of inclusion can be made sweeter by knowing that someone else is on the outs. J.F.K. and his brothers would often invite a hated acquaintance to vacation with them; they'd be polite to his face, but behind his back, the brothers would unite in deriding the hapless guest.

Hate-Me Humor

In this style of humor, you are the butt of the joke for the amusement of others. Often deployed by people eager to ingratiate themselves, it's the familiar clown or "fat guy" playfulness that we loved in John Belushi and Chris Farley—both of whom suffered for their success. A small dose of it is charming, but a little goes a long way: Routinely offering yourself up to be humiliated erodes your self-respect, fostering depression and anxiety. It also can backfire by making other people feel uncomfortable, finds Nicholas Kuiper of the University of Western Ontario. He proposes that it may remind others of their own tendency toward self-criticism.

Farley, who died at age 33 from an overdose, had a streak of self-loathing. "Chris chose the immediate pleasure he got in pleasing others over the long-term cost to himself," his brother wrote after his death. The bottom line: Excelling at this style of humor may lead to party invitations but can ultimately exact a high price.

Laughing At Life

When we admire someone who "doesn't take himself too seriously," this is the temperament we're talking about. More than just a way of relating to other people, it's a prism that colors the world in rosier shades. Someone with this outlook deploys humor to cope with challenges, taking a step back and laughing at the absurdities of everyday life. The Onion is a repository of this benign good humor. The columnist Dave Barry has perfected it with quips like this: "Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting."

Studies that link a sense of humor to good health are probably measuring this phenomenon; when you have a wry perspective, it's hard to remain anxious or hostile for long. Martin calls it "self-enhancing humor," because you don't need other people to entertain you—if something peculiar or annoying happens, you're perfectly capable of laughing at it on your own.

Psychology Today Magazine, Jul/Aug 2006
Last Reviewed 28 Sep 2006
Article ID: 4095

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8

For everything there is a season,
And a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to

die;

A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;





A time to throw away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, And a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;

A time to keep, and a time to throw away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
A time to love, and a time to hate,
A time for war,



and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8

Boyfriend list of DOs

Every girl dreams that one day she
will find a boy that does these things
for her. Even the smallest action can
have the BIGGEST impact on someone's
life.

• give her one of your t-shirts to
sleep in.

• leave her cute text notes.

• kiss her in front of your friends.

• tell her she is gorgeous.

• look into her eyes when you talk to
her.

• let her mess with your hair.

• touch her hair.

• just walk around with her.

• "FORGiVE HER FOR HER MiSTAKES"

• look at her like she`s the only one
you see.

• tickle her even when she says stop.

• hold her hand when you`re around your
friends.

• when she starts swearing at you, tell
her you love her.

• let her fall asleep in your arms.

• get her mad, then kiss her.

• tease her and let her tease you back.

• stay up all night with her when she`s
sick.

• watch her favorite movie with her.

• kiss her forehead.

• give her the world.

• write her letters.

• let her wear your clothes.

• when she`s sad, hang out with her.

• let her know she`s important.

• let her take all the photos she wants
of you.

• kiss her in the pouring rain.

• when you fall in love with her, tell
her.

• and when you tell her, love her like
you've never loved someone before.

9th Post Graduate Course: Pedia Redefined

The Pediatrics Department of Zamboanga City Medical Center as spearheaded by Dr. Fortunato Cristobal and Dr. Bernadette Chua-Macrohon, held its 9th Post Graduate Course with the theme "Pediatric Nurse: Redefined" from February 8-9, 2007 at the Garden Orchid Hotel. About two hundred forty nursing participants from the academes and from the hospitals all over Zamboanga City registered for the event.

The seminar covered several topics including Nurses Redefined, Spirituality in Medicine, Health Consumer Management (ER Setting), Complementary Feeding in Infants, Legal Rights of Nurses, Role of Nurses in ER, Caring of the Family, Handling Doctors, 6th Vital Sign, Good Grooming and the Filipino Nurse Practitioner. Among the speakers were Milabel E. Ho, RN, MAN, Ed.D., Fortunato Cristobal, MD, FPPS, Nadah Ahmad-Abutazil, MD,DPBP, Grace Uy, MD, Atty. Giovanni Luistro, Bernadette Chua-Macrohon, MD, FPPS, Crispin Dalisay, MD FPPS, Cesar Jeffrey Masilungan, MD, FPPS and Ms Brenda Pajaron (Fuller Life Representative).

On the second day of the event, there was an open forum on the problems of nursing practice as hosted by Honorable Congressman Erbie Fabian. Among the panelists that were challenged from different angles were Lorna Paber, RN, MAN (Dean College of Nursing in ADZU), Pilardo Ledesma RN, MAN (former Dean College of Nursing WMSU), Agnes Fernandez, RN (DOH Representative), Lourdes Alvarez, RN (ZCMC Head Nurse) and Rudyard Abarquez, RN. Important issues such as the Magna Carta for Health Workers, Ethical Issues, Exodus of Nurses, Standard Education and Nursing in the Global Market were tackled down.

The two day seminar provided an in depth discussion of the nursing issues. Each event in the seminar was projected in two big screens that were erected at both sides of the room. In addition, the lectures were distributed to the participants in a cd-rom format.

hero-in

The youth of the 70s and 80s have suffered so much compared to the youth of today. They have experienced so much oppression that they needed to find their way out to breath fresh air.. But despite their fight for a good cause, the country is still struggling today, because of all the social injustices that still exist. The phil was a *shinning star 40 years ago, but its brilliance faded and it turned into a "falling star.

In this generation, some has decided to become the "Bonifacio" kind of hero, the katipunero who would dare shed blood. In other words, there are protesters of this age who would rally down the streets, rebel against the government or plan coup attempts.

On the other hand, there is also the "Rizal" kind of hero who believes that the pen is mightier than the sword.He believes that with education he can make a difference. He is the kind of person with compassion and intelligence.

There are so many ways that the "kabataan" of this age are expressing their views. There are some who would engage in written arguments, debate, rallies etc...

Pls baby boomers, dont compare your thought to the gen-x and gen-y ;) hehe...
You see the means of communication was limited compared today. We all have radios, television, cellphones, email adds, friendster/myspace accounts that makes our world flat. It is easy for us to reach out to everyone not just in the phil but around the globe to bring our message...

Currently Updating My Multiply Account

Its almost two years now since i had my multiply account but it had been neglected for some time. So now, i decided to update this account.. However the photo upload is soooo slow.. . its eating a whole lot of my time and often times, it fails to upload a large number of photos.. But anyhow, patience is a virtue.. hehe

Expect updates from me.. hehehe.. :-p Enjoy my life right here in my blog ;-)

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Innevitable Fact of Life: Everyone Will Get Older Soon...

I was in class that day, but all i did was answer calls and reply to sms. My phone memory was jam packed with greetings. Next, I had to recharge my cellphone twice. I couldnt even concentrate in class... lol.

My college classmates came that night and some close friends and relatives too. We had dinner, a few sweets and colds and some drinx. It was sort of a reunion for my class. In a few months time some of them would be miles and miles away. Only time can tell. We are not getting younger... awww... (look who is talking) lol. But its just age, im always young at heart.

To my NOD friends, really it would have been fun seeing you guys.. hahaha..

To those who greeted me, thank you so much that was sweet. You add color to my life.

I hope this year of the rat will bring forth prosperity ;-)

On High

Like flipping open the pages of a new magazine. He came at the most unexpected turn of my life. So the first page begins with colorful pictures that paints a smile across my face. I was amazed at how things were turning out. But surprisingly, i found an attachment every day that i can't help. Every day, i spent overnights trying to decipher the vague message that every page brings. I have once said, i would never get involved in such facade but my defenses failed me. And so i found a new quest that is really not me. I have called it my addiction. The hardest part is the withdrawal syndrome. But like every magazine, it has a last page. And every story has an ending. ;-)


♥

Year End

2007 was wild crazy and unpredictable. I always loose track of time.
But, good bye 2007 and the back lags that goes with it.

To those whom i just met this year, am glad i met you guys! Your existence somehow changed my life. Thanks.

To those whose friendship never fades, our friendship will be a stuff of legend engraved in my heart forever. I miss you guys.

To those whom i have hurt in whatever ways. I am SORRY. peace na tayo!

To those who used to be my friend but for some reasons just cant stay. You made a difference in my life in ways you didnt know. Thanks for being part of my life.

Hellow 2008... I'm READY!...

its a badddd sign

i have been procrastinating for the last month and that is a very verrrrrrrrry bad sign!

I spent too much time on the net and i accomplish very little during the day. My Research paper that took me a whole semester to accomplish couldnt even be done on time... and that sux big time! Man, Im an adict. But now i want to grab my life back! Wahh!.... Maybe next week i can plan for my career. Take the next leap. PASS my exams and move on.

Excruciating Pleasure

Geez that test 3 was brain hemorrhaging...
others said it was test 5

Denial: shet! this cant be difficult!
Anger: arrgh! OR!
Bargain: Wahhh..
Depression- google search
Acceptance- HHwWatever!

We hit mcdo right after the last test and debated on all the possible answers. At least i know i can defend myself from the debilitating arguments for more than an hour. Although, Im still not sure about the diet issue of T and A. Nevertheless, there is the internet - my ever loyal source of information and updates. So i googled the answer to every question i can remember. A little satisfied with what i got yet i still wanted to get involve in an argument. Therese was silent... and Marti was irate. There wasnt anything to do but wait for the final answer.

The Waiting... the most dreaded part of my life. I hate waiting. Id rather come in late than wait. But now i have no choice. I have to wait. It doesnt make sense at all to me but im not in my right mind to make sense at all. Everyone had to wait for the result. And i found out that staying at home was a difficult task. But thanx to my comrades for the afternoon jogs, the sunset viewing, the badminton evenings and the night outs... it made my 2nd vacation colorful.

Back to school. I missed it unintentionally but now i am back deliberately. Like i said, staying at home to do all the waiting was more difficult than reading a pile of journals in the library. I can stay online all night and not feel drained the next day. But of course, thanx to Centrum. It backed me up all the way. There's just always something to do... school papers, seminars and of course.. the hangout scheds.

Did i make the right move?! I should have taken the entire test and not just A PART of it. So sometimes i am thinking whether i did the right thing. I had all the books i needed in the first place... even the latest community book which i had carried from cebu to my vacay destination. It was never even opened. So, had i not taken my vacay, i would have whole heartedly taken the entire test which was really my plan. But its over now- i have passed. I deviated from my own plans after successfully convincing my friends to take the entire test. There wasnt much time to review. I had 3 weeks utmost and my time was running fast. I felt i wasnt ready to be battered by another exam but there wasnt any choice. When i got back home, i wasnt even registered to take the board until it was almost deadline.. Finally, my decision became final. After selling the books that will make me take 1-5, i finally found my focus.

Library seemed to be the second home we got. I spend 4 hours utmost. The rest of my mates can hang in there for the entire day. Moreover, all the books were there; all the information we had were right before us. Except of course, we do not have reviewers who make nasty jokes and nonsensical remarks. All we got is peer... and PEER PRESSURE is a good thing... despite that we slip off to watch movies in the cinema at least once a week. But even the review questionares were brought in the cinema.. which is pathetic really. But it sure worked for us... at least we produced a 10th placer. Congratulations BSN-A LibTeam and to all my batchmates..

McRestRoom

I was with friends at a local McDonalds outlet eating and chatting for more than an hour. When my friend John stood up and went to the restroom.... He came back and said he couldn't find the room. Then Ellery went to venture for the restroom himself. He did his thing (hahaha) and came back. John again stood up and went to seek the rest room himself.
We continued chatting around our square table with empty french fries boxes. On the other hand, Mark was as usual, the nutty person that he is- making fun of our loloh Ivan. And the two were retrogressing...

When we were about to leave, i excused myself, asked for the rest room directions from the guys and went to find it myself. I saw the restroom label and i knew it was the restroom area. The restroom area was unisex. There was no doorknob so i pushed the door forward. The sight behind the door opened up to the customers eating behind where i stood and they all started laughing. The man stood behind the unrinals and.... u knw... he he... He looked back surprised and saw the people staring at him laughing... Seeing him embarassed, I rushed back to my seat with my friends and tried to contain my laughter... I told them what happened.. and laughter burst out again.


Lesson of the Day: Do not forget to Lock the DOoR!

Summer 2007: Get Away part1

From smooth flight down to long bumpy rides, I had a good time. The weather was as usual unpredictable. Rain pours in from time to time despite that it is summer. But still, the sceneries were captivating and sitting back at home for a day would be a crime. I was hoping i can finish up one volume of Medsurg Brunner book for my entire trip but i only managed to flip a few pages and couldn't even remember what it was all about. So after my vacay, i felt a little guilty.

I left my friends behind but i met really good people during my trip. I was with my family- mom, dad, sister and except for my brother who was left back home for summer classes. Our new friends would invite us over for dinner or for little excursions around town. It was a small town actually and impossible for you to get lost for as long as you kno w how to read and you know where you live. We stayed near the beach in Puerto and it was really cold at night and warm in the mornings. But the people are always warm and welcoming. They have been accostomed to bakasyonistas from Filipinos alike to foreigners.

Steep Alley

Forrest Gump would say, "life is like a box of chocolate, you'll never know what you'll get."

The laughters and smiles we shared were once so real yet so superficial.

I was not blind. I was just narrowed focus but i was Loyal. I dont regret the good times we shared. It's all part of my memory now.

In the first place it wasnt my typical kind of relationship.I knew from the start that it wont last or maybe i already had that odd feeling. I accept that some things just dont turn out the way it should be or let me say, some things are not meant to be.

The feeling was right but the situation was not.


Stucked up in a mutual inpatience. The gap in between was never filled. And no one took the first step. Blameeee or blame-u.. doesnt matter now.

If you thought that i would never change then you're wrong. Only fools dont change. So I tell you, if you cant accept me at my worst then you dont deserve me at my best.


Not everyone would understand and i wont start explaining myself to people around me who keeps on asking how its been.

I got uneasy when people started talking nasty stuff about me behind my back which is nowhere near the truth. But whats more hurtful is to know that the people who i trust and consider my friends are the ones hitting me at the back. But that is in the past now. I was told, that if im not worth anything then people wont bother to talk about me. I even thank those people for making my life colorful and fruitful.