and so it goes...

What's the best part of a fish to chomp on? The head.  Especially when its sinigang or tinola (cooked in soup base) or even grilled. Filipinos has a funny gusto of eating fish, we are used to cooking and serving a whole fish -- with all its head, tail, bones, and skin on!  Which, I know most people in California would gape at a sight of it--- a whole fish! Gawk. Ande cooked dinner yesterday.  She called me saying  "saan ka na" (where are you now?) at 645pm, while I was cruising or actually sitting in the traffic of SR-55 and I-5N.  She said she cooked dinner.  Yes, that's how lucky I am!  I have a rent-free place and a dinner to look forward to. As expected, the one in my soup bowl was a milkfish head... and so in Ande's bowl.  I went back to the kitchen for seconds and found the same heads and some tails of the milkfish in the pot.  Went back to the table, grabbed my eye glasses again as milkfish are really, really bony! I asked Ande, "

I found myself staring at my keyboard, my right hand is lightly settled on top of my red mouse.  I knew I already caught myself red-handed but there is that satiating feeling my head is experiencing right now... Sigh!  I did not bother moved a bone.  Kept staring at the keyboard for nothing, without my mind in it. Until I heard Mel calling out -- "hoy! okay ka lang?" I shook my head, propped up in my chair.  It's 553AM.  I stood up, went out of the treatment area, I needed a breather! It's 617AM,  I already washed my face with a cold water, my eyes are so sore, uhmmm, strained. Yesterday I was in my Third World, in our newly opened Clinic.  I found myself staring at my hand in the keyboard too at 240PM.  I saw 9 patients non-stop from 10AM and it just slowed down after 1PM, not even a soul showed up to 6PM. Most of my cases were pink eyes,  2 kids being sent home from school, a grandma with swollen eye, a dude with a massive conjunctival

I heard a rumor, it's scandalous of sort! The Kingdome is in havoc. Last Thursday was the finale show of Scandal, a political drama series I've been watching since 2012.  The Gladiators' were finally out in the open.  Olivia Pope, played by Kerry Washington, reclaimed her soul; her Dad unexpectedly sold out the entity he created and testified against it, the B613. Fine, you're not following  what I'm mumbling.  All I can say is-- I won't have TGIT anymore with channel ABC.  Thursday is my one and only BIG break day of the week, so I called it TGIT which matches up with channel ABC 7's TGIT that I partake in:  Grey's Anatomy - Scandal - How to Get Away with Murder.  Oh I liked the TGIT crossover event shown in March, where How to Get Away with Murder went Scandal-ous, and vice-versa... Olivia Pope and Annalise Keating's meeting was splendid!  And of course, Grey's Anatomy had to crossover Station 19, a new series set to replace Ho

Today's a freaky Thursday... it should have been a throwback Thursday huh, but nah, we do not have that in the Kingdom.  It is either you go out here smiling or freaking-out!  And everyday is a deja vu, not a throwback! But today is freaky in a different way... So me and the Black Widow switched days, that is why I am here on the other side of the Kingdom with the Extraordinary People. At 5am, I was surprised to see Black Widow in the floor... eh, I am pretty sure that I should be in the floor today.  It turned out-- she was here to help as we are short-staffed... and she will be one of my Techs, freaky, LOL! 7am, the Iron Man arrived in a hurry, mumbling about how bad the traffic was from I15 to 91 to 55 to 405.  Who wouldn't?  She lived in the mountains LOL!  A fashioned mountains anyways, with the biggest known casino in town. And there were three of us RNs -- in the floor for the first time...how prolific! or Epic???  Since we are missing one, I tried to

I fret the day I died. There should have been good memories to create, laughter to share with my fellows, and never-ending chit-chats in the chair. Now, I will have a lot of missed treatments.  My phone will be ringing non-stop as Prime and Sentinel must be calling me back to back for not showing up today and the past couple of days.  My chest is aching.  Something is wrong with me, I can feel it.  They are working on me now, I'm probably due for my treatment.  Hmm, its getting crowded in here...why are they hustling with my heart?  Wait, I cannot breath, give me some space! Stop pounding my chest!  My aching heart is bleeding.  Gulp, I'm drowning now. It hurts.  I fret the day I died. I have been here for several days now, and its cold out here.  I wonder if  Prime called me?  Did she get tired of checking on me?  Or she just stopped loving me? No more I love you's... the language is leaving me. No more I love you's... the language is lea

While June was sitting in the lobby, I noticed her face is differently-colored.  Her aura is as translucent as the light bulb behind her.  Well, the monitor of the lobby camera is hidden in my station--- I see everyone and anybody who sets foot in the Kingdom.  Two months ago, there were two bull-necked belligerent guys in my lobby as early as 5AM...I called the cops on them. When June was in the treatment area, I called her attention and told her how refreshing it is to see her smile like she's still playing with her bubble bath--- frothy and fizzy! "Oh yes!  I was in the tub with the running water for 30 minutes!" she replied. Her CVC was removed recently... after one long year!  She said when she was in the hospital for the removal procedure,  she told the Surgeon "it's about time, it's been a year". She was not mad, in fact she was happy, in her mind--- "finally I can take a long shower". So June, tell me, what will