These are some photos of us during our stay


Me and the giant slide- the longest slide int he Philippines

A nice family picture. The one standing in our back is my hubby.

The four sisters with our mother(in blue)

My Operating Room experience was a quite pretty to reminisce. I have learned a lot that made me more confident with myself. I and my colleague decided to volunteer ourselves to one known hospital in my place due to difficulty finding a work for we don’t want to waste our time doing nothing and our main purpose is to gain experience that we could put in our resume for future work. During our first day of duty, we felt so awkward and don’t know what to do and our first main goal is to familiarize or memorize all the instruments.

We’ve been to a lot of adjustment both in work and the people inside the OR but slowly we learned how to mingled with them and win their hearts.He! I have assisted different kinds of operation but the most common are exploratory laparoscopy, cesarean section and appendectomy. It is a must and a hospital requirement to wear scrub uniform in the OR and during operation we need to wear some protective measures both for the benefits of the patient and to us, health workers. I found the latest style of scrub suit fit for today’s trend in here http://www.blueskyscrubs.com/categories/Scrubs/Scrubs-for-Women/.

Every time we went outside or during break time, we always wear our lab coats as one way to preserve our uniform from getting exposed to some microorganism. Sterility is practiced and there are some guidelines and techniques we followed. Through this exposure I gained a lot of friends, mostly Doctors. I have realized that they are not strict as what people see them outside in fact during operation they fond of making jokes to make the team on going.

For the purpose of information, here is the table for HURRICANE CATEGORIES
FIVE: Winds over 155mph (249km/h). Storm surge more than 18ft (5.4m) above normal. Only three such US landfall hurricanes – Labour Day 1935, Camille 1969 and Andrew 1992
FOUR: Winds 131-155mph. Storm surge 13-18ft
THREE: Winds 111-130mph. Storm surge 9-12ft. Katrina hit New Orleans as a three.
TWO: Winds 96-110mph. Storm surge 6-8ft
ONE: Winds 74-95mph. Storm surge 4-5ft
Source: Saffir-Simpson Scale/US National Hurricane Centre

Isn’t this scary? The picture looks so serene in complete contrast of the tornado twisting around. This is an actual photo of a tornado taken from outside the front door of an Orchard, Iowa resident Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at 9:04 p.m. It is amazing that this gigantic and devastating funnel is as unpredictable as nature itself. At least in this photo it just touched ground and went back up the dark clouds without much damage except the trees and crops.

1. We can reduce the specific energy consumption in its operation through improved technology and processes. New and much better equipments and processes are being developed and constantly improving and are earth or “environment” friendly, and even cost us less energy and less heat or smoke emission.

2. Sequester greenhouse gases especially carbon dioxide, through a large-scale forestry programme. We know it really helps. It cools our place down and even gives us fresh air. It does not only mitigate the effects of global warming, derive joy also in planting trees and watching them grow.

Footnote: Sharon Stone was regretful for the May 22 remarks about the disaster in China.

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Can you imagine a fish 10 feet long and weighing 300 pounds? That would be a record length alligator gar you would have. This was one of the unique things we saw in New Orleans. Alligator gar fish. The Cajun’s call the alligator gar “Poisson arme” which means “Armored fish”. And it is. The scales of the alligator gar are made of bone and they overlap each other and are really tough. So tough that the native American tribes down in the South actually made their own bodies armors out of them, they would wear them on their chest to help stop knives and arrows.

Now you can also eat garfish, they are good to eat. But the problem is trying to cut through these scales. If you catch a large one and use a fillet knife, you would starve to death. They are really tough it literally takes a small axe or hatchet to chop your way through them.