I haven’t updated that much this past couple of months. I was busy with stuff related to my transfer to another school, and in work. I know as a blogger, there is a lot of things rumbling inside my mind. Especially when there are events and experiences that I want to share to my readers. I have a bunch of those since the last post I had in the month of December. Everything just went quickly. Yesterday I post some updates of what had happened to my life prior to this month. Since I didn’t officially posted it on the web, it just came out yesterday.

Just to give you some of the 411 about me this 2009.. It is a tag of hundred list about me. What I like and what I don’t. What’s new with me and what’s old.

I don’t want to name people that i have to tag. Just feel free to copy and paste this post to you blog. The rules are still the same, tagging your friends. so I tagged everyone.. Enjoy.

1. Last beverage: apple cedar!
2. Last phone call: Jeric
3. Last text message: Jenny Lyn
4. Last song you listened to: I Belong to You by SuperChick
5. Last time you cried: A while
HAVE YOU EVER:
6. Dated someone twice: not yet
7. Been cheated on? Yes
8. Kissed someone & regretted it? Yes
9. Lost someone special? Yes
10. Been depressed? Yes
11. Been drunk? No

LIST THREE FAVORITE COLORS:
12. Green
13. Red
14. Black

THIS YEAR HAVE YOU:
15. Made new friends? Yes
16. Fallen out of love? No
17. Laughed until you cried? yes
18. Met someone who changed you? no
19. Found out who your true friends were? Yes
20. Found out someone was talking about you? no
21. Kissed anyone on your friend’s list? no

TRUTH:
23. How many kids do you want to have? I’m not sure of how many, as long its a blessing I’ll have it.
24. Do you have any pets? no
25. Do you want to change your name? YES
26. What did you do for your last birthday? Atlantic City
27. What time did you wake up today? around 8 in the morning
28. What were you doing at midnight last night? Watching tiwanese Drama, My MVP Valentine.
29. Name something you CANNOT wait for: Finish nursing and go for architecture
30. Last time you saw your father: last night
31. What is one thing you wish you could change about your life? be in my 15’s once again
32. What are you listening to right now? nothing
33. Have you ever talked to a person named Tom? Yes
34. What’s getting on your nerves right now? people trying to be you friends but not. and guys that showed they love you but they are only just after sex.
36. Whats your real name? Lady-Jan Guanzon Jauod
37. Relationship Status: single, happy and not available
38. Zodiac sign: Gemini
39. Male or female: Female
40. Elementary: SSES
41. Middle School: I don’t have middle school. I go directly to High school after Elementary
42. High school: 1st two years, SI… Last 2 years, FBC
43. Hair color: Dark Brown
44. Long or short: long
45. Height: five 1
46. Do you have a crush on someone? yes yes. a lot
47. What do you like about yourself? responsible and Independent
50. Righty or lefty: righty

FIRSTS :
51. First surgery: minor surgery, cyst removal.
52. First piercing: my first pair of earings when i was little
53. First tattoo: None
54. First best friend: jedaidah
55. First sport you joined: volleyball
56. First pet: dog
57. First vacation: i cant remember when was it
58. First concert: same, can’t remember
59. First crush: 4rd grade, and he is a gay..
60. First alcohol drink: when i was 4th year high. i was 16 then.

RIGHT NOW:
61. Eating: nope
62. Drinking: nope
63. I’m about to: cook dinner
64. Listening to: nothing
65. Waiting for: tomorrow

YOUR FUTURE :
66. Want kids? yes
67. Want to get married? yes
68. Careers in mind? many

WHICH IS BETTER WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX?
69. Lips or eyes: yes
70. Hugs or kisses: hug
71. Shorter or taller: Taller
72. Older or Younger: Older
73. Romantic or spontaneous: spontaneous
74. Nice stomach or nice arms: stomach
75. Tattoos or piercings: no where
76. Sensitive or loud: loud
77. Hook-up or relationship: Relationship
78. Trouble maker or hesitant: Troublemaker.. coz i wann straight him up. ;P

HAVE YOU EVER :
79. Kissed a stranger: no
80. Drank hard liquor: i didn’t get drunk yet, so i guess nope
81. Lost glasses/contacts: no
82. Sex on first date: Never!
83. Broken someone’s heart: yes
84. Had your own heart broken: Yes
85. Been arrested: No
86. Turned someone down: Yes
87. Cried when someone died: yes
88. Kiss on the first date: never

DO YOU BELIEVE IN:
89. Yourself: yes
90. Miracles: sometimes
91. Love at first sight: No
92. Heaven: yes
93. Santa Claus: no
94. Kissing on the first date: nope
95. Angels: yes

ANSWER TRUTHFULLY:
96. Is there one person you want to be with right now? Yes
97. Had more than one boyfriend/girlfriend at one time? No
98. Do you believe it’s possible to remain faithful forever? yes as long as they love each other and happiness always persist.
99. What’s the one thing you cannot live without? water….
100. One thing that most people don’t know about you? I am now a new me. I could be innocent in my expression and in my looks but my brain is working analyzing stuff.

February 20 was the day we surprised our 3B Geriatric unit Nurse Manager, Ate Janice. WE gave her a party bash- A farewell and a baby shower all combined.

Ate Janice knew that we are going to give her a party but she did not expect us to give here a big party. It’s like the whole building was there to celebrate thank and congratulate her. Ate Janice was a great Nurse Manager, she is also a big sister figure to me. She understands my in related to my crazy schedule. I was inspired with her dedication to grew the 3B unite into a good and healthy relationship between employees and patients. She accommodates everyone even with the bump on her belly. She still work hard in making the unit in a better shape. I will really miss Ate Janice. Dessuie said: ” You baby belongs to 3B, she is the baby of our unit”.

See picture of the party: Janice’s Farewell & Baby Shower Party

My sister next to me Dale has graduated from her Associates Degree in Graphic Art Design in Wood Tobe-Coburn School. The commencement was held in The New York Society for Ethical Culture @ 3 o’clock pm. The place was cozy and small but guess the important thing in that day was the ceremony graduates.

Nancy and Dale

Everyone that I know that goes in WTCS school was dress up nicely and it was my first time seeing this “childish professionals” in a nice outfits. Nancy was dressed up with cute pink halter floral dress, Norma’s was dressing up with a black vintage kind of cocktail dress, and Moshie and Luise was dressing up neat and manly. There are also others that dress up like they have a ball to go. I mean they have this dress sweeping on the floor. It’s kind of too much because it does not look good with a toga on it.  But, it’s their day, what can we do.

At the graduation even though I was shy, I still manage to get over with it because if I’m not gonna step up and go at the front to take picture of my sister, she wont have any remembrance at all. I faced my fear and started acting as a grown up. I was my sister’s photographer. I was the only one there because our parents had not arrived, yet.

Whenever my sister walked on the stage I immediately go at the front and took her pictures. My sister received a gold medal for being the 1st honor student from her major. She gained the highest GPA among her classmates. 3.94 GPA.

After the ceremony, a young girl approached me and said “your dale’s sister, right?” I didn’t know that was Fatima. Fatima was Dale’s and Nancy’s co-worker in the Statue of Liberty, in the Liberty Island. We all now had our picture taken and I was now at the picture because both camera that I before had was now with my Dad and my step MOM. They are the one’s who was taking the picture at the end of the ceremony.

The day will not be completed unless there is dinner feast. So, we went to Red Lobster in Times Square.  We ordered this Lobster meal, and it was so delicious. Myself, and Dale’s had the same kind of dish. We also had this fried calamari for appetizer and New England Clam Chowder Soup, my favorites. Even the dinner was so expensive my dad still allowed us to order anything that we want to eat. As I recall, I think the bill was running to $300, and there were only 4 people that ate.

It was an amazing experience. Every hate was stepped aside and everyone was just having a good time. As if nothing had happen from the previous days.

A week before the graduation, I and my sister went to SOHO in Manhattan to buy a graduation dress for her. Well, of course, it’s her graduation and it is a big deal for me to give my spoiled sister a graduation gift. I pay her dress. We came in this Asian type of boutique, plus the sale, I saw this cute dark purple kind of cocktail dress. It was just $7.00. I mean.. hello.. seven bucks, how cheap was it that it dropped from the store price to this sale price. This little amout to this expensive Asian boutique merchandize? My sister liked the dress, and I matched it with a silver belt to make it more attractive. voualla! master piece!

Check out the Picture in Dale’s Graduation Day & Dinner Delight in my MultiplyAlbum.

Yeah it is really wasted. Wasted opportunity to go and enjoy life as an adult. Seriously, i am so pissed about  having nothing else to do in my life aside from school, work, and staying home. It is really boring doing stuff over and over again. I want to have a healthy life.  I mean I want to have a healthy living and that includes mental, emotion and especially social life.

I know that my dad is being protective on me and my sister, but it’s just too much. I feel like I was being caught in social deprivation. I always want to go somewhere with my friends, to hangout with them, have fun being young, but i can’t because dad always opposed on it. I am not a wild daughter, not even a bit. I don’t smoke, I don’t drink, and especially I don’t have any interest in hooking up with some guys nor with girls. I even go home before curfew. I always have clean fun, I don’t mess up, and most especially I choose my friends. I be friend with people that are not BI, bad influence. I got a lot of friends but because i can’t go out, I am now isolated from them.

Sometimes I’m so jealous of kids the same of my age that goes out and had good time in their youthful years. If you were to ask me what was the happiest times I had with friends, I’ll simple answer you, when i was in the Philippines. My mom is strict too, but not the same as this- having no interaction with piers the same as my age, or piers that I could call my own friends. I am already grown up. I know what’s wrong and whats right. I know that i am still young to take responsibility of myself but how would i learn if I am being deprived of learning and experiencing something in the real world. How would i grow? How would I merge to a new me? How would I become an adult if i just jump into an adult without experiencing my teen years.

Seventeen, eighteen, nineteen are the years that I suppose to have more fun. Those are the years that I suppose to have a learn from your mistakes” but with fun. The way you enjoy knowing something you like even though it could be wrong. Frankly speaking, I always cry myself to sleep thinking of the sad days that passes by. America is a good place but there is no happiness for me here because i can’t get it. When friends invites me to go out to have dinner, bowling, going to the beach, or watch a movie, I instantly always turn them down because I already know that my dad will not let me go. So instead, I stayed home, chillin’ by myself. Alone with the computer. Making network of friends in the internet. Making connections in the internet but it’s still not enough. I always feel like there is still lacking something. Something that has face, eyes, nose, mouth, hands, that one that walks, the one that you could giggle with.

Last month, I was thinking of going for a trip far away before next year May. I wanna go for snowboarding or skiing. Since I heard from my sister that her friend and her friends family are going for a snowboarding trip, it gave me a though if we could go with them. Of course I’ll pay for mine and my sisters expenses. I want to go with them because there will be people same as our age. So we will definitely  have fun. However my dad, opposed on it again because he was thinking that it’s my sisters wish to go with her friend, and she was only using me as a front man. But i am not a front man, I am the one who wishes to go somewhere else. I want to have a happy memory being young. I’ll be 22 next year and time will just fly by like a flick of a finger. I don’t want to waste any of my years. I don’t want to end up innocent of something simple or something fun. I don’t even want to be like my uncle who just pass away so young and it was so sudden. I don’t want to end up like neither of the two. It’s only a simple wish, happiness , happy memory, and i can’t still get it.

I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday.

Here is my adorable niece, Rebecca Hayden. She is enjoying here 1st Christmas. She is our precious blessing our family have this year.  Her mom, my cousin, sent me this cute picture of her’s.

She looks like she is saying “Auntie, auntie, regalo ko? (where’s my gift?)” Just look at the hands, her hand gestures. LOL Becca. I’m guessing she is 5 months old already. She grew big so fast. And surely she looks like here mom.

Ahhhh.. Becca, the first grandchild of the family..

“Becca, auntie can’t wait to see and carry you.. “

A family friend’s child, from the Phlippines,  made this video as a tribute to our Uncle who pass away last month.  You could see how is he as a son, as a brother, as a father, as an uncle, as a coach and as a friend. Thank you tita nanet’s son or daughter for making this one. Sorry if i dont know its gender.

The title tells it all. Give LG (me) a shout.

I had been puzzling of how to put this shoutbox in my blog visibly, and it already took me a year or so in figuring this out. I am tired of cracking my coconut shell thinking of what other html code i could alternate with JavaScript. Now, I had enough figuring this shoutbox. I think there is no other way in making this one seen in my worpress page aside from linking it. So, give me a shout. The link for that page is at the top of this page beside the “ABOUT THE AUTHOR”. If you really can’t see it, which i think its impossible, here is the link. Give LG a SHOUT. If you are just too lazy, here is the link to the SHOUTBOX.

I used to have this shoutbox since 2006, i guess, and it was posted in my personal website. I mean “personal” because everything was made my by me- the web layout, the background designs, everything, from scratch to finish. However, I just don’t know what happent to my incredible mind, i just want to torn the site down. My web site still exist, my domain still exist but the layout, the links, the backround are no longer to be found. I’m thinking about building it up again. ladyjan.us.ms, you’ll see it as a disaster.

If wordpress will allow me to make my own layout, i will do it. But i don’t want to add another payment for customizing my css, coz i am already paying for my domain. If you’ll ask me where i learned this stuff, it’s from hacking web sites, and also with the help of my computer genius dad and his books too. (thank you)

It’s been a while that i haven’t updated any post. Since a lot of my blog buddies had tagged me with awards might as well spread this award to my wonderful buddies online who doesn’t have this yet and deserve this awards.

However, before anything else, my i emphasize that this tag is like a chain letter that if you don’t have anything to post you could use this. I would also like to apologize before hand to the people who i’ll be tagged.

Thanks to Ate Jen and Kuya Potpot for this Blogger Buddy Award.

Thanks to Ate Apple and Kuya Potpot for this Lemonade Award.

Thanks to Kuya Potpot for this Power Blog.

(in fairness cute ng Power Puff Girls ha! Fighting crime trying to save the world. lol)

The Rules (i combined the rules of these awards because it still state the same procedure):

1. Each blogger must post this rules. (done!)
   
2. Put the logo on your blog or post. (check!)
3. You need to choose at least ten people to be awarded. (ten! i don’t know if i could reach up to ten people..)
   
4. Be sure to link to your nominees within your post.
5. Let them know that they have received it by commenting on their blog. (what to say? “you’ve been tagged?”)
6. Share the link of the person from whom you received your award. ( did that already!)

The links below are blog of those people, my blog buddies, that i happen to visit quite often whenever I go online, and are people that views my blog, as well. so, here we go, sorry if i tagged you guys but there is no turning back this time.

My nominees for either or for all the awards are:

1. Dale- you are first in my list because you are me dearest younger sister, and we have similar genes, and similar stubbornness..
2. Ate Jen – might as well tag you to the other two awards, and you are my 1st blog buddy ate here in the web.
3. Ate Apple – you too ate, i tagged you because you don’t have the other two tags, and you are my 1st iloggo babe blog buddy. so, papatol o hindi?
4. Ate Banana- so that you could update some post, haven’t heard from you.
5. Ate Kengkay – you are one of the awesome buddies I have in the web.
6. Bethany – well because my sister’s knows you, and gwapa sa imo dhay!
7. Chaotixfusion – you are one of my great friends on the web, you are always there to cheer me up, and replies to me all the time.
8. Moodyel – because you are moremacncheez, and i love mac and cheeze!
9. Kuya Potpot – I know you got all three of them and i was in you tag list as well. Better acknowledge you because you my potilicious! charus!
10. ……. see i told you, can’t reach up to the tenth……

Sorry i broke the 3rd rule…

next step is to let my nominees know that they have been acknowledge with three awards..

I saw this tag from my tag surfer so just copy it. The game is to bold the entire sentence and number if you ever had this or did this before..

so here i go!

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink

02. Swam with dolphins

03. Climbed a mountain

04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive

05. Been inside the Great Pyramid

06. Held a tarantula

07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone ( i wish i could)

08. Said “I love you” and meant it (i always do, i won’t say i love you if i don’t)

09. Hugged a tree

10. Bungee jumped

11. Visited Paris

12. Watched a lightning storm at sea

13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise (that was an unforgettable moment, but now that was all nightmare, just forgive and forget)

14. Seen the Northern Lights

15. Gone to a huge sports game

16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa

17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables (every summer we grow tomatoes and eggplant in out backyard)

18. Touched an iceberg

19. Slept under the stars

20. Changed a baby’s diaper (I used to have baby cousins to take care. i love them)

21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon

22. Watched a meteor shower

23. Gotten Drunk on champagne (my dad gave me champagne until i fell drunk, yet he didn’t know, i can’t tolerate alcohol.)

24. Given more than you can afford to charity (went home with an empty pocket)

25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope

26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment (hehe.. and you sometimes felt like peeing on you pants.)

27. Had a food fight

28. Bet on a winning horse

29. Asked out a stranger

30. Had a snowball fight

31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can (hell yeah, cheering, well yelling for my team, instead of cheering)

32. Held a lamb (not just held, but also i experienced being chased but it too.)

33. Seen a total eclipse

34. Ridden a roller coaster (Florida, Hulk)

35. Hit a home run (yeah.. i was sophomore and our opponent are the juniors high.)

36. Danced like a fool and didn’t care who was looking

37. Adopted an accent for an entire day

38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment

39. Had two hard drives for your computer

40. Visited all 50 states (not yet but i have plans)

41. Taken care of someone who was drunk ( yeah, my ex, he was heavy good thing my aunt helped me.)

42. Had amazing friends (i always have amazing friends)

43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country (in Argentina, tango baby)

44. Watched whales

45. Stolen a sign

46. Backpacked in Europe

47. Taken a road-trip

48. Gone rock climbing

49. Taken a midnight walk on the beach (in boracay, philippines. it’s so nice there.)

50. Gone sky diving

51. Visited Ireland

52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love. (yeah, i was 13 years old, with my 1st love/bf.)

53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them (yeah, they were friendly. there is no table available)

54. Visited Japan

55. Milked a cow

56. Alphabetized your CDs

57. Pretended to be a superhero

58. Sung karaoke (we have it at home!)

59. Lounged around in bed all day (if my dad i not home then i do that)

60. Played touch football

61. Gone scuba diving

62. Kissed in the rain (to whom?)

63. Played in the mud

64. Played in the rain

65. Gone to a drive-in theater

66. Visited the Great Wall of China

67. Started a business

68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken

69. Toured ancient sites (in Shakespeare hometown.)

70. Taken a martial arts class (arnis, it compose of two stick on each hands)
71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight

72. Gotten married

73. Been in a movie

74. Crashed a party

75. Gotten divorced

76. Gone without food for 5 days

77. Made cookies from scratch (i love food experiments, i ones baked one. its in this blog too.)

78. Won first prize in a costume contest (i guess its a costume contest and i have to impersonate the person.. I’m the best impersonator of Ms. Emelda Marcus.)

79. Ridden a gondola in Venice

80. Gotten a tattoo (temporary one, or henna tattoo)

81. Rafted the Snake River

82. Been on a television news program as an “expert”

83. Gotten flowers for no reason (when i was in highschool and until now i don’t know who was the sender)

84. Performed on stage (Many times again, especially in singing competitions)

85. Been to Las Vegas

86. Recorded music (my dad recorded me while i was singing in the kereoke and he even put it in a CD with out my knowledge.)

87. Eaten shark

88. Kissed on the first date ( that’s a no no no)

89. Gone to Thailand

90. Bought a house (almost there)

91. Been in a combat zone

92. Buried one/both of your parents

93. Been on a cruise ship

94. Spoken more than one language fluently (illonggo baby)

95. Performed in Rocky Horror

96. Raised children (i’m raising my baby sister financilally, who is in the philippines)

97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour

98. Passed out cold

99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country (trisikad/padyak)

100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over

101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge

102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking with the windows open

103. Had plastic surgery

104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived (car accident, i was horrified coz i was at the front seat)

105. Wrote articles for a large publication

106. Lost over 100 pounds

107. Held someone while they were having a flashback

108. Piloted an airplane

109. Touched a stingray

110. Broken someone’s heart (sorry)

111. Helped an animal give birth ( my pet dog. she was so young when she had her 1st baby. she was about to delever it yet she acn’t get it out so we tried to help her pull it out. i was crying)

112. Won money on a TV game show

113. Broken a bone (always when i was in the volleyball team)

114. Gone on an African photo safari

115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears

116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol (when i was in an army training in highschool, my comandadant let us hold and fired a pistol.but i already handled a rifle and M16, not firing them.)

117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild

118. Ridden a horse

119. Had surgery (just minor)

120. Had a snake as a pet

121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon

122. Slept for 30 hours in a 48 hour period

123. Visited more foreign countries (philippines, united kindom, korea, china, taiwan, canada, argentina, uruguay, chille, paraguay, bolivia, barazil,)

124. Visited all 7 continents

125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days

126. Eaten kangaroo meat

127. Eaten sushi

128. Had your picture in the newspaper(yeah.. in Argentinian news paper, through Volleyball)

129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about

130. Gone back to school

131. Parasailed

132. Touched a cockroach (Unknowingly)

133. Eaten fried green tomatoes

134. Read The Iliad and The Odyssey

135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read

136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating (chicken, duck and fish!)

137. Skipped all your school reunions (since i am here in United States, apparently yes)

138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language (use body language)

139. Been elected to public office

140. Written your own computer language

141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream (It’s an awesome feeling)

142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care

143. Built your own PC from parts

144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you

145. Had a booth at a street fair (my grandma used to have it, and so i helped)

146. Dyed your hair

147. Been a DJ

148. Shaved your head

149. Caused a car accident

150. Saved someone’s life(many times.. my patients… )

now my tag:
Ate apple , chaotixfusion, Ate Jen, PotPot, Ate Banana,Ate Kengkay, Azrael

this is a long tag, i know.. but just bold it!

How flattering it is to be nominated as Pinoy Blog of the Week, week 135.

Actually i don’t really know who was the one who nominated my blog as a PBW, week 135, but i have to thank him for nominating my blog. Whoever you are, thank you for being so good to me. Ok, in tagalog, (I have to practice this).

“Maraming maraming salamat po sa pagbigay pansin sa blog kong ito. Hindi ko po inaakalang napuna ninyo ang mga nilalathala nang utak kong ito. Sana po nasiyahan kayo sa pagbabasa and may natutunan po kayo.” (spent 20 minutes in constructing this paragraph, literally)

First, I really not intended to make my blog with sense however, I’m really happy that I bring entertainment and fun to all my readers. Eventhough this blog is full of my personal stuff and experiences, hope that most of my readers learned from it somehow, and hope that my blog is helpful too.

On the other hand, in some manner, i don’t know most of  my readers and if my entries are worth reading for coz i don’t have that much comments. Yet, i still freely write because whoever is out there might click my site and read it randomly. Especially, this blog a part of my life. It clings as my personality. “This blog is ME”.

To vote you should go to this website, http://salaswildthoughts.blogspot.com/ and i know it is so hard to find the poll where to vote, because even I i had difficulty to find it too. Just make this image as a clue of where the poll is located.

Thank you..

I was an NOVA (Negros Occidental Volleyball Association) athlete, since i was 10 years old. Back in my childhood years, as an athlete, we were always taking our oath in the opening of the volleyball competition.  A representative from our team or from the senior team has to read the oath taking speech, and we had to follow after his words.

I, state your name, will play sportsmanship…… blah blah blah…..

… but i always went

“I, STICKER NAME, will play sportsmanship…… blah blah blah…….

who would know that it was “state you name” not “sticker name” i was only a little kid back then.

now, it’s you turn to state you name.. take note, STATE YOUR NAME, not sticker name..don’t be dumb as me like i used to be.

“I, state you name, who happen to pass by this blog. I… blah blah blah…” then you could put whatever you  wanna say in your second or in your third sentence, or your paragraph. it should be a first person type of speech and it should describes you. It doesn’t really need to state you full name, alias, is fine. just address it to yourself. Make your mark people..

I went to fetch my sister at here graphic school in Manhattan and while we were walking, crossing the street, I saw a familiar face. It looks like Raymond Gutierrez but i was like there is no way that i will see him here. So i told my sister that i saw a Chinese looking guy who happen to look like the Gutierrez twins. And my sister bent backward and she gave me this shocking expression.

“it’s Ann Curtis”. That’s all she said. Back in high school her classmates always compared her to Ann. so she was like, “that how i resemble to her?”..

me and my sister were keep on staring on them, we wanna go help and talk to them because they seemed to be lost. They were asking for direction to the bus tour flayer guy however, hesitation still remains because they are celebrities.

We continued walking, two more blocks, and making glimpse at them until we saw some Filipino guy came up and took picture of them. we stared at each other and we both pace up towards them.

Dale (sister): are you Ann Curtis and Raymond?

Ann & Raymond: Yeah.

Dale: can we take picture with you guys?

Ann & Raymond: sure

and so we took a picture with them.

after taking picture with them, four of us talked while walking the same direction, like about two block. We asked them how they been, how long they had been here in New York, and how long they will stay. they said they are in vacation and they just got here a while and they are going back to the Philippines soon.

We want to help them locate the location of the tour bus but me and mys sister was kind of hungry, and Ann and Raymond are worried that the tour bus might leave them. if they were not in a hurry we want to invite them to have lunch with us. But we have to go to our separate ways..  We are so luck that we saw and meet them out from the blue.

Before reaching the end of 2008, I was wondering why most of the people who are close and dearly to me pass a way so sudden. These people that i am mentioning are my patients at work which are like mother and father to me, one of my bestfriend, and my dearest uncle.

My uncle, JUNDY JICK GRUPE JAUOD, is a former Philippine Swimmer-Athlete who represent the Philippines in back-stroke category in South East Asian Game. He is a veteran swimming coach in bacolod city and handles potential swimmer champs. He is a jolly, kind, and funny person. He is a good father to his daughter, and good brother to his 4 brothers, and a comedian uncle for all of us, his nephews and nieces.

However, things turned upside-down when he was diagnosed with lung cancer, and it was already stage four. And this cancer cells had already metastasized through out his brain. My dad really did his best to keep my uncle alive and back onto his feet, through moral and financial support. My dad once went back to the Philippines to manage my uncles medical finances and status. That was around last September, and spent 2 weeks there. Uncle Jundy went to serious treatment, and aside from that his brothers even putted him in a herbal treatment which made him even feeling better, and be able to walk again. Before my dad came back home here in New York, Uncle Jundy’s health was already in progress. He was dancing a bit, he has smile on his face, and he even try to make joke.

My dad was always making contact with them, and tried to get the prognosis of uncles condition. Every one was happy when the cancer cells went away. I mean with those medical and herbal treatments that they were doing with him, thank goodness he survived between life and death which caused by this parasite, cancer.

Everybody in the family was already stable thinking that uncle survive the stage four cancer, yet he is still under treatment just to follow up and make sure the cancer cell won’t appear again.

When they went back to Bacolod, Tatay, my Grandfather, notice a slightly difference on uncles feet. The size of it was uneven. They went to River Side Hospital to consult the matter, and the doctors confirmed that he had a embolism. This embolism caused edema to his leg. The doctor prescribe an embolism stockings to minimized the edema and to prevent the emblolus to freely flow into the circulartory system. We ordered the embolism stockings in Manila because they don’t have stock in bacolod. Week past by and there is no package came.

The doctors even put him into blood thinning to break up the coagulation of thrombosis in his vain. The process was successful, his leg return to its normal size. However, he was complaining about respiratory difficulty. Once again, he went back to the hospital to be checked up. the doctors finding was the blood clot was dislodged in the vain and was freely flowing through out his circulatory. they even gave us option to put a filter into his vena cava to filtrate that thrombosis.

As a relative, i really don’t like the way those doctor’s treating my uncle. They didn’t apply precaution before hand. They didn’t think that this blood clot might dislodge from its post instead of thinning it. They should thought about putting filter first into my uncles vena cava before putting him to blood thinning. I know that they are doing their best to heal my uncle but they just lack of analytical perception of the situation. And now my uncle is already dead and that freaking embolism stocking still didn’t came.

My uncle didn’t die in stage four cancer but in blood clot dislodge. That said thrombosis went to his heart or lungs that cause another blockage.

Jundy Jick Jauod, died November 10, 2008, ten days before his 44th Birthday, around 4 o’clock in the morning in River Side Hospital in Bacolod City. His belonging lies at Rolling Hills Funeral Home. The burial is going to be at the 18th or the 19th of November.

I really wish that i could go back home for the burial. The last time i saw him was 2004 and see him for the last time.

May you rest in peace tito nonoy (jundy)..

We all love you and hope to meet you again in God’s will.

It’s November 4th, have you voted yet?

Just a reminder to all that this is the day that could change our nation in to a better one. It’s time for us to vote for the leader of our country. It is the time to speak up and raise our voice to the nations national election. Our vote make big difference to everyone in our country. This election is important to our self, to our love ones, to the next generation, and to the next next generation.

Don’t just sit in your house and let your friends or the people vote for you. You vote is precious to all, especially for the kids.

Vote for the one whom you think is more likely bring up the economy into its better disposition.

“VOTE!”