Brotherly love

EDWARD

Derived from Old English - ead (prosperity) + weard (guard).

ALBERT

From the Germanic name Adalbert, which was composed of the elements adal "noble" and beraht "bright".

EDWARD ALBERT

Was an American film and television actor.

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Aside from all these definition, EDWARD ALBERT is my KUYA/ BIG BROTHER.

In this blog, you will see the 29 THINGS ABOUT MY KUYA

1.       Kuya was born on the 7^th of March 1983

2.       Pisces is his zodiac sign

The following are the schools in which my Kuya had been to

3.       Vey Garcia

4.       Don Bosco Technical College, Makati

5.       Angelicum College

6.       Notre Dame of Greater Manila

7.       THAMES

8.       College of St. Benilde

9.       You may call him Eggy, Egy, Egyboy, Dward

10.   He looks like my Mother so much

11.   At some point in our lives, we didn’t get to live together. He was with my Lola in Manila and I was with my Mama and Papa in Caloocan.

12.   He is ARTISTIC. I sometimes envy him because he draws so gooooood. By the way, when it comes to my assignments which had to do with drawings back then, I often asked for his help to do the drawings. HAHA!

13.   He is SCARY. Well, not the monstery-type-of-scary but He has this MAANGAS and MAYABANG look that even my friends get scared of him.

14.   As far as I know, He is 5’7 or 5’8. And yes, how I wish that I have the same height as him. HAHA!

15.   He doesn’t like ear piercings because of his stupid reason that our ears are near our brain! OMG LANG DIBA?! AND YET…………………

16.   HE HAS A LOT OF TATTOOS!

17.   He has this mole on his nape

18.   He is a GOOD DRIVER like PAPA

19.   He once co-owned a Mini-Chinese Restaurant near Benilde

20.   He also had BUFF n’ GRIME. An auto-detailing shop.

21.   He currently works at Project Lifestyle Manila

22.    He is a member of DEFTAC a Mixed Martial Arts community in the Philippines and He is on Wakeboarding as well. SPORTY HE IS!

23.   I don’t know how many medals he has right now but recently, He won a bronze medal at the 2012 Phil Open held at Trinoma

24.   He is a LOLA’s BOY.

25.   He loves to have a soup everytime he eats and he wants it HOT

26.   He cannot live without a JUICE

27.   He is always NOT AT HOME (literally speaking! HAHA)

28.   He is my TAGA-HATID/SUNDO when I was still in Uni and even when I was already working as a RN

29.   He loves his FAMILY so much. OUR FAMILY!

Apparently, 29 things aren’t really enough for me to show everybody who my Kuya is. Honestly, we’re not really that close with each other.  We often fight at home and that fight will end up with me going inside my room… crying. I always remember my Mom telling us “Dalawa na nga lang kayo, tapos mag-aaway pa kayo” or “Paano na lang pag wala na kami ng Papa niyo?” everytime my Kuya and I are having some arguments.

Oh well, my Kuya has also thought me a lot of things in life. Such as when I lost my cellphone that my Papa gave to me. I was really crying so hard when I get home from Uni that day and the only time that I stopped crying was during dinner and that was when Kuya told me not to worry about it anymore and the quote that I will always remember that came from him “Kay, just charge it to experience”.

He is also not just a brother to me He also somehow became my second Papa because our Papa has been working abroad for such a long time. He has been the one who is taking care of me, Mama and Lola. He was the one who represented Papa during my Capping Ceremony, Pinning Ceremony and Graduation.

This would be my first time making a blog for my family and si Kuya pa ang BUENA MANO. I know that I’ve been a SUPLADANG kapatid sa’yo and I may not be that malambing as you are but I LOVE YOU, KUYA! You have sacrificed a lot for me especially with this Australia thing. Thank you for being such a supportive, loving, caring, responsible and sometimes nakakatakot na KUYA for me. I promise to do my best here and work hard for our Family and may all your wishes and dreams come true! SABAY TAYO MANGARAP, KUYA! HAHA! I will see you all soon.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KUYA!

I will forever be your little sister.

XOXO,

Kay-Ann :)

PS.

Hope you liked my gifts!. All from hard work yan. HAHA.

To my love, Stepdara Simon :)

Happy Birthday, Steph! :)

Helloir! A big shoutout for you my dearest friend.

Who is Steph for me? 

1. Batchmate- UERM batch 2009, OASIS

2. MultiplyMates- We basically became friends through that site together with Ivica but whenever we meet at Uni, we barely even speak to each other. How funny was that? Haha.

3. Group D17- Unexpectedly, God played tricks at us and Steph and I became groupmates. Honestly, at first I wasn't that comfortable yet being with her and talking to her... maybe it was because we were MultiplyMates so it was really awkward for me (well, for both of us) to be close with each other. That awkwardness became visible during our first shift ever as a group at OR (Operating Room) because our group was split into half and Steph and I were unfortunately put on a different group with different shift. It was just only during end of every shifts that we were able to see each other. As days pass by, we became more comfortable with each other. Not knowing that by those moments, we were now starting to have this so called 'FRIENDSHIP' that I didn't know would last this long :)

4. Group B12- From being D17 we became the mighty B12. Haha. This time, I can now proudly say that our Friendship has now moved on to the next level. We started to be each other's confidant in times of difficulties regarding studies, heartbreaks, kilig moments and lots of random stuffs. Oh and how can I forget the songs like "TAKE A BOW"

"FAT"

Those songs were EPIC! I wonder, where those songs are right now?!! Haha. 

5. CinemaOne buddy- She has always been my partner when it comes to watching Filipino movies especially when we were still in the Philippines. I remember to always text her whenever there's something good to watch on Cinema One or whenever I can relate to the movie itself. Haha. Lastly, I will never forget the last movie that we watched together before she left for Australia :) Till My Heartaches End! 

6. Sister- Steph is not just a plain friend to me she has also become my sister like a family. I remember having this problem and she was always there for me (either giving me advice or just cheering me up!) Up to now, I am proud to say that Steph is one of the few people whom I can consider as my TRUE FRIEND :) 

Once again, have a blissful birthday love! May God continue to bless you more with good health & bright future ahead! I am wishing, hoping and praying that ONE DAY we'll be able to hang out again (Hello! We're just in one country?!!) I miss you so dearly and God knows how much I love you :) 

All the best,

Kimtrina Reyes

IVICA RAE'S DAY :) Wooohoo!

TRUE FRIENDSHIP CONTINUES TO GROW , EVEN OVER THE LONGEST DISTANCE :)

      Come take my hand. I won't let you go. I'll be your friend. I will love you until the end of time 

              
Happy 24th birthday, Ivica Rae Ching Say :) Wishing you all the best and happiness in the world. We may be thousand miles away from each other but I hope that this blog of mine could somehow lessen that eeky feeling. 
Hm. First, thank you for being such a good good friend to me. We may had arguments before but then look at us now, going strong pa rin ang friendship natin. Haha. 

These photos aren't really enough to show how much we've been through as friends. And now that I am in the land down under, I can't really stop myself missing all our simple bonding moments (Starbucks, Mezza!) Hahahha. Argh! Can't wait to see you next year and hopefully... my goal of travelling to Korea with you, Angel and Kikx. And oh, I am praying for your HKG thing. I know you'll do well. Just pray hard and good vibes lang :) 
Once again, happy birthday dear :) More bdays to come! Stay pretty and sexy. Hahaha. Let's always keep in touch, okay? Mwah!

From Oz with love,

Anakat <3 

Your Love Is Everything!

                     

Have a Blessed Sunday, Everyone :)

                                

Your love heals every disease

Your love fulfills my every need 

Your love is everything to me

Your love is everything

I wont forget nothing is impossible

I will not forget 

I wont forget your love. 

Truth be told, I really enjoy listening and singing to worship songs. It became my daily dose of vitamin that keeps me going despite of challenges. It gives me this sense of strength, hope, trust, faith, joy and love especially the moment I decided to move here in Australia.

My decision to leave Home and family was by far the hardest decision that I ever made in my 23 years of existence. From time to time, I always question myself like... ' What would happen to me after my visa expired next year?, Would I be able to get a stable job after my graduation?, Would I be successful here? etc etc' Suddenly this phrase will just come out of my mouth...

Proverbs 16:4
The LORD has made everything for its purpose.

And then, all my fears will eventually subside because I know that His words will never fail. 

As a Little Nurse... This is what I do :)

I started working in UERM as an orientee nurse around February of 2010 together with Maggie, Maverick, Arax, Roni, Bernice and Lorraine. The orientation being held at the Nursing Education office took one week with a duration of 8 hours a day. After that week, we were already assigned to our own respective wards. Luckily, I was put to one of my favorite wards... 4East. During my stay at that ward, I gained knowledge about what a Nurse really does in a hospital or practical setting. I learned how to be punctual and arrange the medications as soon as I get there. They thought me how to properly receive an endorsement from an outgoing Nurse, review the charts from the previous shift, receive an order, review medications, giving of meds, charting and so on. In short, they thought me almost everything that I could learn. Thanks to Mam Cora and Sir Chris who were there and who had been very patient in teaching me. 

After a brief delibration, Mam Tenerife of Nsg.Educ called me for me to report on duty the next day on morning shift. Meaning to say, I am officially employed. Officially a Nurse... earning money. Hahaha. They first asked me to report on the same ward that I had my orientation. Of course, I was happy. Who wouldn't be happy returning to a ward that had been your home? Anyhoo, few hours after my duty started, I was asked by Sir Chris to assist a patient to go to GIT room for a procedure when suddenly, Sir Chris followed me there and said that Mrs. Dacanay our Assistant Chief Nurse wanted to talk to me. So yea, I called her back and she said that I should immediately report to 3 North 2 ward,  a ward just on the 3rd floor. Haha. Upon hearing that, I felt so sad because reality is I was not meant to work there :/ 


Welcome to 3 North 2! This time, I didn't feel the same excitement I get everytime I work at 4East but atleast I have a classmate from college who was also assigned there so It wouldn't be that hard, I guess knowing that I have an instant friend named Mij :) 3 North 2 is basically a general pay ward located at the 3rd floor of UERM Hospital. Back then, It consists of 14 rooms but the room 333 was made as our stock room. Our Head Nurse is Mam Marlo and the Staff Nurses are Ate Ofel, Ate Ara, Ate Ella, Ate Wendy, Ate April, Ranjith, Miguel and Angel plus Me. We also have our Nursing Aide: Ate Gemma, Ate Annie, Ate Lena, Ate Lucy and Ate Kathy. 

Me: 3 North 2 this is Anna, how may I help you?

Adm: Mam, may admission po. Sa room 327.

Me: Okay po. (Get the details of the patient) From ER po ba ito o Direct?

Adm: From ER po.

Me: Sige, papalinis muna namin yung room. 

So I started to prepare the chart and everything. Waiting for ER's call since the patient will be from the ER. Then, the admitting called again:

Me: 3 North 2 this is Anna, how may I help you?

Adm: May admission po ulit. Room 331.

Me: San po galing?

Adm: Sa ER po.

Whoa! I could smell TOXIC :) Anyway, at exactly 1 AM while I was doing my IV rounds, a patient in a stretcher was being brought to our ward with a complete set-up... name it, she had it. So I called the admitting and got really mad at them for not telling me that the patient was not from ER and she had this complete set-up. I started panicking. I honestly didn't know what to do and then the room that they had was pretty small considering she had this contraptions. But wait there's more, alongside of this admission, my another admission was also being brought up from ER. FUN indeed. Then the rest is history. 


During those times, I experienced being yelled by a Doctor, being summoned by supervisors and even having Incident Reports, CPAR and Explanation for which I didn't really do anything wrong and that made me cry. Yea, I was a crybaby but that was because I was still on probation and there are still no guarantee if I could make it as a regular staff nurse. 


At 3 North 2, I also experienced my first birthday in a hospital. Since, I was not yet a regular employee yet, I was not entitled with a benefit of having a birthday leave. So I welcomed my 22nd bday working on my first solo duty ever, handling a full house ward... in the season of DENGUE. Basically, I was the only nurse at my ward with an aide and a junior intern whose name is Gelo. And did I mention that in that duty, I had to transfuse 6 units of platelets on a patient, had to feed 4 patients two times in my shift and also be the medication nurse. 

November of 2010, my ward together with 4 North were set to be renovated. Meaning to say I would be assigned to different wards each and every day and one of the wards that I didn't want to be in was 4 South (Do I still need to elaborate on that) But of course, FORTUNATELY, I was always assigned there. My experience at 4 South was more different that what I had at 4 East and 3 North 2 because 4 South is should I say, the most toxic ward of the whole pay ward. The system there is different from ours... very different! I was always assigned to receive either the middle or the front wing and have I mentioned that those wings are really far from the Nurses' Station so everytime I give my medications or attend to patients' needs, I had to make sure that I have all what I need to conserve time and yea, energy. Haha. At 4 South, I just had to receive 8-9 patients but I will also be the Med Nurse of those patients. It was always tiring being there, having a duty there but the skills that I gained were awesome! I also learned how to be more FAST but SURE in every actions that I made. 4 South will always be a memorable ward for me for it is where I experienced my first Code ever and as usual, I am not a perfect Nurse, I made a mistake when I was about to transfer my patient to CCU and eventually I learned from that mistake. Tip: Don't panic, just do what you have to do and do not RUSH :) After few weeks of uncertainty to what ward would I work with, I was assigned to 4 East again and will stay there until my ward is done. Yey! Reunited again with my first ward :) Felt so good although it was a more larger 4 East compared to as before since it was also renovated. Pay ward will always be BUSY and TOXIC, and I already embraced the thought of it :) With my experiences at 3 North 2 and 4 South, I felt I was already capable of being a responsible and good nurse and I think I did good. I spent my first New Year's Eve at 4 East, not with my family. It was memorable because we only had 3 patients but the catch was my aide Glesyl was pulled-out at 4 South and my co-staff Miguel was brought down to ER for an extra help so in short, I was alone. Haha. I loved 4 East and leaving them was really hard because I already got close to all the staff and they had become a family to me and those night duties wherein Roni and I would do our own rounds pretending to be just going to the SHO. Those were the nights :) And those, lectures and sermons about LOVE. 

 

Reality bites: I had to go back to my own ward and what made it worst was two of closest co-staff will not be going back with me. Miguel stayed at 4 East for good and Angel made it be the newest staff of ER. It sucked for me! Welcome to the new 3 North 2 :) New ward, bigger census (as big as 4 South) and new staff. I together with Mam Marlo, Ate Ara and Ate Ofel were left as the original 3 North 2 Staff Nurses. Some of the new staff nurse were Avery and Keifer from Surgery, Jean, Moshie and Kat from Neuro, Ate Donna, Kreistian and Ate Mafe of Med ward and Ate Jen from 3 North 1 replacing Ate Wendy. We also had our new probationary nurses Jianne, Jovi, Ralph, Raj and Tania all from the batch Aeolus (the batch after us). Together with the opening 3N2, I also became somewhat senior to the new staff eventhough some of them were much seniors to me because most of them came from the Charity ward the protocol and the system are really different from us coming from the Pay ward. This senior thing, gave me a sense of having this responsibility of knowing the WHATS and the HOWS in the pay ward. It also gave me this confidence to be a good kind of nurse :) And that time, I always wanted to be the Charge Nurse instead of the Medication Nurse because I already had this time management skills that I learned being rotated at those wards that I mentioned a while ago and the hellish experiences that I had during The OLD 3 North 2. By this time, I also had been friends with a lot of hospital people from the Consultants up to the global people :)  

Then my Visa came. I had to resign from the work that I began to LOVE and VALUE. It was hard leaving all these people who had been so close to me and who had been a family to me. And most especially, leaving the work itself. The thought of me not receiving and endorsing, not carrying out orders, not admitting patients, not referring to the resident on duty, not giving meds, not doing my IV rounds, not charting, not experiencing the Input=0 Output=0, not having those kilig moments with my Didi... all those and a lot more just made it so much harder for me. 

May 2011. My last month as a Staff Nurse. Honestly, I just wanted May not to end but It had to. So, during this last month, I just spent it by savouring each and every moment that I had with my friends from the hospital, by being the Charge Nurse always, drowning myself into endless admissions :)

Last two days :[ Bittersweet memories. 

 

 

I really do miss them so much :/ Sometimes, I just want to take a look at these photos for hours so I could remember somehow that I was happy and content with my working life as a Little Nurse. And most of all, I miss my Work, although the salary may not be that high compared to here in Australia but the experiences, the knowledge and the friends that I gained are more than what I asked for to God. I miss youuu, my UERM peeps. I shall be seeing all of you soon :)