Bubble Thought #7: Hello, again!

For the past months and year, I've been pre-occupied with so many things that I didn't get to blog and to be updated with my favorite bloggers. But now, my hiatus is finally over. 

Yes, I'm back!!

Posted this photo on Instagram with a caption "Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you."

Bubble Thought #6: Books are like real-life Best Friends

"The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind."

I've been a full-pledged bookworm ever since grade school. I started reading pocketbooks when I was in third grade; then started collecting Archie comics by then. When I was in sixth grade, I fell in love with Nancy Drew and started collecting her mystery novels. 

I always make time to read every summer vacations, at least two to three books and hate it when I finished one.

Today, most of my time are spent by reading novels. Left and right they are there. I read on paperbacks and before I go to sleep I read ebooks to help me fall asleep. I just can't resist the urge of reading for they help me discover the world I've never been to. 

Look how my to-read books are piling up. I'm currently reading Inkheart and a hundred and fifty pages away to the last chapter. It's actually a children's book but I love it.

"Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend."

Bubble Thought #5: June and July, Where have you been?

These past two months have gone by a swift. I can't barely contain everything that happened for the past few weeks. Everything is overwhelming.

Last June, I applied for a job, took my qualifying exam, was called for an interview with the nursing supervisor, scheduled for my final interview with the HR and given instructions for my medical exam.

July: After my physical exam, I was scheduled for my orientation and after two days I started my orientee week in ER. I had a productive week in emergency room and the staff gave me a grade-above my expectation-for my first week.

On my second week, I was transferred at OR. Almost everyone is shocked when they've discovered that an orientee was placed at OR. I don't know if it was a complement or something that would give me pressure. The staff were kind enough to teach me things I need to learn.

I was on my third week at OR and I know I had so much to learn. Last Thursday, I was assigned to be a second scrub at a ceasarian operation. Somehow, everything went well. So far.

And this past week, I was supposed to be in Bohol with my friends. I gave up that trip because of my soon-to-be-career as an OR nurse.

Everything happened so fast. I am still in awe at what was happening. I barely had time to blog and read posts from bloggers I follow.

Bubble Thought #4: Let Your Tears Flow

This past few days had been a roller coaster ride of emotions for me. For the reason/s I can't pinpoint. I find myself crying over the show I was watching; next thing I know I was crying because of the novel I was reading then I was crying while staring at a blank wall of our room.

People see me as a vulnerable one. My friends can attest to you that I've cried over petty things. I cried during our Junior Prom. I cried during our pinning ceremony. I cried because I was touched with the song I heard. I cried because I was so happy for someone being announced as the batch Magna Cumlaude. I cried because someone prepared a surprise for my birthday. 

Back then, my friends especially my bestfriend would tell me that I was the Maria Clara type. I am modest and well behaved and the one who talked calmly.

Fast forward to today, whenever I talked to them they would always tell me that "Maui, you've changed and we love it.", "Maui, you are more of a fighter.", "Maui, you are so brave and strong."

I take them as a compliment and I guess I was so overwhelmed that I wanted to live with that. I wanted to be strong.

Bubble Thought #3: We Found Love In A Hopeless Place

I quote Rihanna's We Found Love In A Hopeless Place and I really do believe. I've been spending most of my time reading N. Sparks' Message in a Bottle. I am halfway through, yaaay! I'm not a slow reader but because sometimes I read the same paragraph over and over again and give it a thought.

I've been smiling every time I read this book. I must say, I am falling in love with the story.  The inner romantic in me has been aroused. I used to believe that I am a cupid in my past life. I'm a believer of happily ever after and that each of us is destined to someone. I've always been happy for my friends whose happily in love (with whom I thought is and was the right person for them). And when time comes that they broke up with that person, I was the first person who'll get sad for them. I've been broken once. twice. but I won't give the thought of finding the one who I will love head over heels.

Anyway, I've been single for almost one year and reading this book made me want to fall in love again. Yes, I know I don't need to rush everything and that it will come at the right place and at the right time.

"Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love usually do. 

It's in their nature."

Bubble Thought #2: Quarter Life Crisis

It's the time of the year that people are gearing themselves with raincoats and boots and their weapon of choice - big umbrellas. Rainy season is here in the Philippines and this weather sucks. That's a big statement, isn't it? Though I'll give credit to the cool breeze I'm feeling when I wake up every morning but this weather gives you all the reason not to get up from bed. Bed weather it is. When I'm all alone, everything around me disappears. It's like I'm stuck in a black room and everything starts to flash back and the next thing I know, my cheeks are wet because of tears.

I am 24 years old and there are things that bother me and will continue to bother me in the future. I take it as part of the so-called "quarter life crisis".  I don't know if it really do exist but it seems like the right words to describe what I am feeling. I don't regret anything that happened in the past and the things I regret are the things I didn't do.

Bubble Thought #1: What I Learned When I Was A Student

It's June again and it's time for students to go back to school. The place where you'll learn and slowly transform into someone you wouldn't believe you could be. I miss being a student. Believe it or not, I miss the feeling of waking up in the morning, dragging myself out of bed, preparing myself for school and anticipating the things my teachers/professors prepared for class. Spending an entire day at school and when I get home, driving myself crazy with all the homeworks, projects and exams our teachers gave us. I miss wearing our school uniform, buying school supplies and looking forward to everyone's favorite part of the day - recess and lunch break. I miss memorizing an entire chapter of the book for tomorrow's surprise quiz or recitation (while praying that my name wouldn't be called). I miss cheering for our batch's representatives in any school activities and showing support by being one of the props men/women. I miss that time of the month that my school celebrates something like Linggo ng Wika, Foundation Day, etc and we won't have any class thus we have fun extracurricular activities. I miss my teachers and professors who not only taught me algebra, human anatomy and parts of the sentence but also who inspired me and encouraged me to get out of my shell. But the thing I miss the most was my highschool classmates/batchmates and college blockmates who became my friends and someone I wouldn't mind spending my leisure time with. They were the people who made my life as a student memorable. They were the spice of my so-called-boring-life as a student.