tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51359325221428706102024-03-14T09:13:11.241+08:00A Positive Point of Viewfishinthepacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00227934403494850577noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135932522142870610.post-41221266418042002982010-05-11T21:29:00.002+08:002010-05-11T21:32:12.782+08:00SupernaturalOkay, I think I'm sick. Y'all know I'm sick but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm having a runny, sometimes, clogged nose. I'm also having phlegmatic coughs every now and then. It started last night. My throat suddenly became very itchy and the next thing I know, I could hardly breathe through my nose. I got really worried so I went to bed right fishinthepacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00227934403494850577noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135932522142870610.post-737272192801948032010-05-04T19:18:00.000+08:002010-05-04T19:18:15.147+08:00A New Lesson LearnedIt's very long day today but I'm too tired to go through the details anymore. I'm even too tired to write another hundred words. Anyway here's a recap of what happened today.
1. Went to the Hills for my consultation. I was informed last week to come a little earlier than lunch time.
2. Disappointed Ate A was not there. The OPD was full so I had to tell Kuya R what my fishinthepacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00227934403494850577noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135932522142870610.post-64673755519481416172010-04-29T20:49:00.003+08:002010-04-29T20:54:46.723+08:00My Lucky NumberI've just came back from a much-needed vacation. For a few days, I made my life feel like the old days. I wished I could just stay there in paradise and escape from reality. But then I reminded myself that I have to face this challenge. Life is not all about sitting by the sandy beach sipping glasses of banana shakes. I know it's going to be a bumpy road up ahead butfishinthepacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00227934403494850577noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135932522142870610.post-90923096866653108392010-04-19T21:23:00.002+08:002010-04-19T22:11:58.983+08:00Weekend PanicLast weekend, I went out of town. I needed to see at least a change of scenery so when a friend from the office invited me and some other officemates to her provincial home, I took that as an invitation for myself to relax and breathe some fresh air.
Yes, the scenery was of course green. The air was fresh except in the sugar fields where the soil was mixed with cow dung. The fishinthepacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00227934403494850577noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135932522142870610.post-70260340651216293672010-04-16T19:49:00.003+08:002010-04-19T19:48:11.798+08:00The HillsI woke up very early today. As a pozzie, I think this is one of my biggest days - go to the Hills. The Hills is a place where pozzies go to have their vital statistics checked. I was kinda stressed out thinking about all other illnesses I might have, so a few minutes before meeting my Mother who would accompany me to the Hills, I lit a cig. Oops. (Mother isn't fishinthepacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00227934403494850577noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135932522142870610.post-7753577644836273472010-03-30T20:54:00.000+08:002010-03-30T20:54:51.993+08:00The BoxFor the few weeks that I've been waiting for my confirmatory result, I have been somehow a bit hopeful. After all, the rapid test is only 95% accurate so for us optimistic mortals, that remaining five percent is enough to push us to dream that once Pandora's Box is opened again, it would somehow say, please God, non-reactive.
But of course, I have also remained positive that the rapid test fishinthepacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00227934403494850577noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135932522142870610.post-34520743575978181662010-03-21T19:07:00.004+08:002010-03-21T19:13:15.716+08:00Goin' Bananas!Saw this posted somewhere and this is good news! A study found out that lectins, naturally-occurring substances found in plants especially in bananas, are just as potent as two current anti-HIV drugs. A friend wittily commented that bananas could indeed prevent HIV even if you don't eat it. And guess what, I think you can even have unprotected sex with bananas, if you're really into fishinthepacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00227934403494850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135932522142870610.post-19617096625091278662010-03-21T12:20:00.002+08:002010-03-21T12:22:30.272+08:00A License to Party Again?I know it's very early to say this but I think I'm beginning to get the hang of this. I've always been a happy person; okay, happy-go-lucky as well. I've never taken life seriously before. I've just taken it for granted like it's my privilege and right not to worry so much about it.
I was also never ambitious. I was born poor but my Mom has taught me how to be satisfied all thefishinthepacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00227934403494850577noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135932522142870610.post-24187391135858726182010-03-16T21:58:00.007+08:002010-03-17T21:40:20.404+08:00Something to Entertain and EducateIt sometimes takes more than just a long lecture to get the message across. Yes, lectures do get the message across but most humans - hard-headed ones like me - just don't have the attention span to listen especially if the topic does not directly affect them. Before I got diagnosed with HIV, I wasn't also paying that much attention to people who are living with the virus and to what fishinthepacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00227934403494850577noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135932522142870610.post-62242787209077337272010-03-14T12:39:00.001+08:002010-03-14T19:29:53.965+08:00The Night I Got ResurrectedI was having lunch yesterday when I checked my inbox and was glad to have received an email from LT. That's Lucky Trese for you bitches but if you first thought it's Lorna T., I'm sure he wouldn't mind; he's just as beautiful as I would have found out later that evening. He gave me his number in the email and told me that if I do need someone to talk to or meet up for coffee perhaps, fishinthepacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00227934403494850577noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135932522142870610.post-61829457139488854082010-03-12T20:24:00.003+08:002010-03-14T19:30:13.606+08:00Dear Nay and Tay,How I wish I'm there with you. I miss home. I miss the warm Tinola at dinner and how we all used to argue about politics over the table but ended laughing about it. I miss how we all used to squeeze ourselves together just so we could all sleep in one bed.
You are the greatest parents any child could wish for and I am so proud of you. I wish I could also be the greatest fishinthepacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00227934403494850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135932522142870610.post-6976789669319358632010-03-12T10:18:00.001+08:002010-03-14T19:28:07.103+08:00How to Stay Alive PlanAs with all situations, there's a need for a good plan. My goal is to stay healthy and be productive for as long as heaven grants. I am very poor and my family partially depends on me (my father being diabetic now) so dying early is not an option. I've just got to live despite the difficult circumstances.
1. Talk to someone I trust.
Unfortunately for mefishinthepacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00227934403494850577noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135932522142870610.post-7237543392164750802010-03-11T19:40:00.001+08:002010-03-14T19:29:16.521+08:00Calls swamp HIV hotlineInquirer.net
MANILA, Philippines—The HIV hotline of party-list Akma-PTM was swamped with hundreds of calls within 24 hours of its launch last week, indicating a serious “thirst for information” among Filipinos on the dreaded infection.
Kevin Carreon, spokesman for Akma-PTM, said most of the callers were young people employed in industries outside the BPO (business process outsourcing) and call fishinthepacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00227934403494850577noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5135932522142870610.post-91314470234480620572010-03-11T13:07:00.001+08:002010-03-14T19:29:40.260+08:00This is it, Pansit!This week is a roller coaster ride. One moment, I see glimmers of hope; another moment, I see blurry visions of death.
Last week, I got really ill. A childhood disease came back to haunt me but it's not suppose to because once you've had it, you're suppose to have a life-long immunity from it. So there I was wondering what's up? I'm not too stressed out at work so it must be something else. fishinthepacifichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00227934403494850577noreply@blogger.com2