Prudence and Madness

It may sound cheesy, but love was the latest topic of discussion between me and my friend, Allan, early today in Google Chat.

It’s kind of fun disturbing him while he’s busy coding. But, I guess he actually lets me nag him with senseless questions. He calls it multi-tasking. I call it corporate boredom.

Let me share with you the conversation we had today. I’ll have to edit out some of the details, of course. And I have to translate some in English for the benefit of our non-Filipino speaking readers.

Me: An ex-bf chatted with me in YM today. After not hearing from him for 10 months.

Allan: And?

Me: He’s asking for another chance.

Allan: What?! You aren’t going to, won’t you?

Me: How I just hope that this guy that I like court me so that I don’t have to be confused by this.

Allan: Hay, the life of non-plants is complicated. Tsk, tsk.

(Note: In our circle’s lingo, plant is a person whose love life is non-existent and is not interested in having one. As in No Boyfriend/Girlfriend Since Birth.)

Me: But that makes life worthwhile and exciting!

Allan: Really? (A sarcastic smile here.) You must be a masochist. Hehehe.

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Again, I’ve decided to put up a separate blog for all my medical and health-related entries. I just notice that it can rather confuse readers as to the tone of my blog writing. So, since I started Prudence and Madness as a personal blog, I’ll retain it as a personal blog. For that health and medical aspect of my writing, these will have to be shunted to a separate blog so that readers who are more apt to read my medical opinions, they can just go to that health and medical blog and be spared of my personal rants.
And, no, this isn’t what my previous post is about. Making a medical and health blog isn’t feisty.
Here’s today’s entry in my new medical and health blog:

Season of the Leptospires

by Tess Termulo, M.D.

In as much that we welcome with open arms the palpable (and very wet) onslaught of the rainy season, which could be a solution to our present problem of water shortage, we should be wary that this, also, signals the beginning of the flood season. And for the medical clerks and interns in different institutions of healthcare, this means, not only a more difficult and dangerous trek going to duties, but also, more patients contracting leptospirosis that will be filling up the wards (from the medical school I came from, this case is rather common during the rainy days and is a favorite topic for edema rounds, admission conference, and even morbidity/mortality conferences).

For ordinary, non-medical people though, what should the word “leptospirosis” make them think?

Two words: Avoid floods.

To have further understanding why we should avoid getting caught in flood waters, let’s look further into the details of the disease.

Continue reading this entry.

Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

–Samuel Johnson

It’s been too long enough that I dwelt in the thick slush that is the seriousness of the posts I have in this blog. For two years of blogging in here, I’ve known every nook and cranny, received the most scathing comments and the most encouraging and constructive ones, met a guy who made me feel right again, only to be left hanging in mid-air and soon crashing down the rock grounds of reality, and rise again and again.

And now, I’m bored.

But don’t worry. I ain’t leaving. It’s just that I’ve got my sights on something new..and a little feisty.