August 2011
3 posts
Death and Lessons from Google
I have a confession to make: I google-stalked someone today. It all started out like this… “Code! Code!,” someone screamed even before he was through the double swing doors of the critical care area of the ER I was manning about a week ago. The orderlies and triage nurse rushed through the doors pushing in a stretcher containing the limp body of a young man. As we’re programmed to do, we...
Twentysomething No More
One of my all-time favorite albums is that one by Jamie Cullum, entitled “Twentysomething.” As I celebrated my birthday yesterday, the album came to my mind as I realized I officially am no longer a part of that twentysomething population. I still am surprised when children born in the 1990s, the little kids of my youth, are wheeled in to the ER as adult patients. When did they grow...
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July 2011
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November 2010
1 post
Clichés and the End of R1 Year
It has become a cliché to say that something you’ve been waiting for seemed to have arrived sooner than expected. “As if it was only yesterday that we were starting our residency training” is a statement I will not agree with. This year seemed to have passed too slowly and the end could not have come sooner. I am happy to report that I learned a lot this year, not only about Internal Medicine but...
June 2010
1 post
An Encounter with an Old Mentor
I saw my old med school mentor the other day. He was with his family at the photo printers. I was about to have my picture taken when, out of the corner of my eye, I saw him looking expectantly at me, like he knew I would recognize him. And I did. He’s gained some weight but he seemed more cheerful and relaxed than when he did his rounds at the hospital way back then. I approached him and...
October 2009
5 posts
Daydreaming at Starbucks
I cracked open John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath the other night. I bought it from a used-books store a few weeks ago, right when I was halfway done with East of Eden. For the first time, I noticed the writing on the book’s inside front cover. In fat and neat American print, someone wrote “Tuan Grogman Mrs. K. C-24.” Someone, somewhere used to own this volume. As I sit...
East of Eden
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New entry at Chronicles of Medical Residency...
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Code #1
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New entry at Chronicles of Medical Residency:...
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September 2009
4 posts
New Blog: Chronicles of Medical Residency
While my main blog, Chronicles of Boredom, is still active, I have decided to officially start a blog called Chronicles of Medical Residency. All medicine- and residency-related posts will appear on the latter website and all other boredom and general interest posts will appear on the former. I hope you can all visit the new site soon: http://imresidentdoc.blogspot.com Posted via email ...
Thoughts on Dinner at Fuente Osmena
There’s something, umm … weirdly romantic about having dinner alone at a Jollibee on Fuente Osmena. I think it has something to do with feeling out of place, a foreigner, while the entire world of the locals continues to revolve and move forward. It’s the amused smile of the counter attendant as she hears the different language spoken; she realizes that I’m out of place and...
The hotel I'm staying in...
serves “breakfast.” Hmmm. Sent from a BB. Posted via email from karlmd’s posterous | Comment »
Unbelievable
For quite some time, I’ve noticed one or two ladies walking around the Robinson’s Galleria branch of Burger King, wearing scrub suits with the BK name tag on them. I’ve always assumed they were hired to clean up tables after customers. Just today, I found out that they offer backrubs and hand and neck massages to customers. I find that strangely inappropriate. And weird. The...
August 2009
7 posts
Twelve Things I Learned from Pixar's Up
(I doubt you can consider some of these points spoilers but consider yourselves warned…)
Plastic garden hoses are made of very, very strong stuff.
Old men in canes are also almost as strong, apparently.
It is possible to rip wooden houses off of their foundations, with just the right amount of helium-filled balloons, and can be made to fly across two continents.
We all know that...
To celebrate my 28th birthday ...
I unwrapped and cracked open a brand new Moleskine! This will be my new journal for the next year, chronicling my 29th year of existence. I can’t wait to fill its pages. A decent birthday post is forthcoming. Posted via email from karlmd’s posterous | Comment »
My latest blog entry: A Picture Exercise
A look back through my (almost) 28 years of existence. Posted on my main blog. http://bit.ly/vqVDH Posted via email from karlmd’s posterous | Comment »
The Philippines After Yesterday
We all watched as the staggering events unfolded on our television screens, if we weren’t there on the streets ourselves. We saw the tears pour down the faces of President Corazon Aquino’s family and friends and even strangers off the street. We saw the massive lines that snaked around La Salle Greenhills and the Manila Cathedral as people lined up for hours to pay their last respects...
Humanism's great premise... →
… is that man is essentially good. Really?
Using what meager Photoshop know-how I have...
A few days ago, I tweeted this: http://bit.ly/1yn0Sl The attached graphic is what I came up with and to be honest, I’m a little proud of myself. I don’t know much Photoshop tricks and had to scour the internet for tips, especially on making things look silvery. This will look decent on any letterhead, don’t you think? Posted via email from karlmd’s...
Wanted: Moleskine #3
I need to buy a new small, plain moleskine in the next two weeks. Two years ago, I started a tradition to crack open a new moleskine on my birthday. I’m on my second moleskine this year and am about to start on my third one for 2009-2010. I expect that by the time I’m 40, I’ll have 15 of these little black books on my shelf, enough material for a few chapters of the...
July 2009
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Life Without Limbs
via lifewithoutlimbs.org Nick Vujicic was born without arms and legs, a rare condition called Tetra-amelia. His testimony is inspirational and reading about it on his website (link above) tugged at my heart. For a man who has undergone so much and yet have such a positive view of life and of God is a testimony to the Lord’s all-consuming love. I first found his video on Facebook and...
Same blog, new address
I’ve wanted to change the URL of my main blog over at blogger.com for years because of its clunkiness (karlmd2006 is a mouthful). Well, tonight, I was finally able to do it. Please change your bookmarks (if you even have it bookmarked!) to Chronicles of Boredom’s new address: http://karlmd.blogspot.com. Posted via email from karlmd’s posterous | Comment »
Who wants a good middle-of-the-woods scare?
via vision02.com The idea is brilliant, the execution even more so. I’m trying out the posterous bookmarklet app for the first time so I’m not sure yet if there will be a link. In case there isn’t, here’s the original website: http://vision02.com/hollow-man/ (link via @neilhimself on Twitter) Posted via web from karlmd’s posterous | Comment »
Francis Collins' nomination to the NIH questioned
The NYT Op-Ed piece by Sam Harris is here: http://bit.ly/3oeh2i For those who aren’t familiar with Dr. Francis Collins, he was the head of the US-government arm of the Human Genome Project (there was a private firm working on the project too). The HuGo Project attempted to map out the entire human genome, that sequence of letters that dictate the growth and development of our entire body. ...
Ain't this the truth.
Saw this at Powerbooks Shangri-La. Sent from a BB. Posted via email from karlmd’s posterous | Comment »
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RT @jaemiejaem It’s not a transformation from being bad to good, but rather from being dead to being alive. - Calvinism in a sentence!
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Posterous
I’m loving this new thing on posterous.com. I only need to send a single email to them and they automatically post it (complete with attachments — photos, mp3s, etc) on every possible social media website I could ever want. Armed with my blackberry, I can have my social media fix in a jiffy. Photos are automatically posted on my Flickr account, a status update is posted on my Facebook...
Untitled
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RT @jaemiejaem She wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts. :) - And I hope it’s not JUST a T-shirt.
Arroyo could have cut down on opponent-bashing though, given that this is her last #SONA and should have been a historical milestone.
Those who are familiar with my political leanings may not be surprised to learn that I liked President Arroyo’s #SONA.
I’ve been very productive today. I got to work out, consumed a really good cup of cappuccino, and got myself a haircut. -via http://isip.ph
“As a child, when the “tooth fairy” left money under my pillow, I...”
– Anonymous, an email message to PostSecret.
There was no accompanying postcard on this one but it really tugged at my heart.
RT @dancerinthedark spinach + green apples + tomatoes + walnut + feta = my fave salad. Yummmm! - Candied walnuts are even better.
Good morning all. Had very little sleep last night. Mulling over a design for my dad’s ministry’s 25th anniversary logo.
Medical mission at Golden Acres today.
RT @kevhenson argh! 80% of the exam was recycled!!! - Isn’t that a GOOD thing?
RT @mashable Twitter Correcting Follower Counts: 1000s of Spammers Perish - http://bit.ly/3SttGr - AAAND I’m back to 80+ followers. LOL!
RT @ryanjla me too! weird @kristiansromero lost some followers today, dont know why - Here’s Why: http://bit.ly/17i917
Who knew a preschool cultural activity can drain all one’s energy? Am so ready for lunch. Headed to CPK. I think I’ll have some ravioli.
Good morning all. Going to see a pre-school cultural show, starring my nephew. Well, maybe not starring, but still.
RT @theofficenbc Scoop! Season 6 of “The Office” officially begins today, with a table read of Episode 1, entitled “Gossip.” - Hurrah!
RT @aplusk this dude did NOT get punkd http://bit.ly/Iia8x - And I thought it was going to have a funny punch line.
Dr. D. James Kennedy’s book, “Lord of All,” is a must-read for all Christians. -Update via SMS using http://isip.ph
About to get a haircut. I’d get myself a barber’s shave too if I didn’t have to stick to a budget. -Update via SMS using www.isip.ph