Feast of the Immaculate Conception

on her feast, our lady gave me one of my wishes. may the other one be as sweet and heavenly as this...

-lz

my interesting cases in ob-gyn

Placenta Previa Totalis - assisted Dr. Cabang/Santos
An Endometriod Cyst on the left ovary, a Mature Teratoma on the right and multiple intramural leiomyomas in the uterus - assisted Dr. Gamilla/Go
Fraternal Twins CS - assisted Dr. Cabatu/Gaerlan

Let it pass... and so it passed... mourning has ended. The black veil has been lifted. Life must go on.

Many a smiling face hides a mourning heart; but grief alone teaches us what we are.

- Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Congratulations!

john marc's surgery was successful!

-lz

john marc's baptism

my former patient during pedia rotation john marc was baptised last sunday... and now i'm a godfather again! welcome to the christian world john marc! and good luck on your operation tomorrow. may our lady of the most holy rosary la naval de manila be at your side during the entire operation.

bothered

it has been ages since i have had any effortful output here. i feel the need to see things i've been thinking written, to remind me... albeit they all be in abstract.

i'm being nagged for quite sometime of some things that i've thought i'm so over with. apparently, i'm just being kept busy of everyday tasks i have to do.

i have been pondering whether to jump in the pool. i don't know if it's icy, lukewarm, or hot. whatever, it is, i keep telling "me" to give life one more chance. i've been numbed, that's for sure... and i'm not sure if my defenses will be down enough to let "it" happen. sigh... these are stupid problems as the just recently "me" would think, but a few days have changed "me," i think.

a big sigh ends this, as of this night i have decided that this will be it (may God allow it) or i pray i just be left "be".

-lz

addendum :
i understand we live a life "we" ourselves complicate. i accept everything life throws at me. i hope i will know everything i need to make a decision.

funny...

i prayed for two things during the annual la naval. and... i think one is already being answered (my God! help me) i'm thinking i should have been serious in thinking about it a second time before asking my lady for it... now... IM getting it. bleh... (i do hope the second follows through... definitely)...

Mag-tachy

taken october 31, 2007 after lunch at mark's

your relationship continually remain an inspiration

im honored to have captured such a moment

-lz

marge's graduation ball

congratulations dra. maawgie!

the grad ball was held in shangrila edsa plaza

Resident's Night 2007

smacked in the middle of our pedia rotation is resident's night, one of USTH's major events of every year where residents show their talents in producing major production numbers with dance, song, and multimedia presentations all happening at the same time hoping to bag the braging rights of winning team for a year.



pediatrics had one goal. to reclaim the trophy. they have won the championship 3 years in a row albeit last year when surgery took it away. so there were no boundaries, sky's the limit to everything! i was tasked in creating a saloon (the year's theme was "resident's go western!"). i was lucky enough that the one i made out of my classmate jen's design was the "more" realistic one than the other departments conjured (haha) ^_^. well... anyway, the whole point of the story is that... we won! i can't wait for the official dvd of the whole event so i can see how the saloon looks like on video ^_^. thank you so much to jen, philip, steff, verle, tin, gelo, miko and the manong from b&g (have i forgoten anyone?) for helping out on creating it.

d'barkads

sapang palay lunchmates at d'barkads

ian, gelo, ron, tish and anna

congratulations!

Congratulations to my brother

Christian Ponceca-Alipio

the new

Editor-in-Chief

of the

Angelicum Nth

Official School Organ of the

Angelicum College High School Department

mr & ms thomasian doctor

on stage after the mr & ms thomasian doctor pageant

we were there to support our pedia residents who won 2nd and 1st prize! ganda my former classmate won the crown for ms thomasian doctor!

verle's birthday

steff, chris, jhoie, verle & tin

verle treated us to napoli's and went to musicmatch after that to sing our hearts out! thanks verle!

the high priest and the high priestess

marge is staying with me for two weeks for her rotation in jose reyes. i was really surprised when she really did moved in when she asked me because i've previously offered several times when she rotated in hospitals nearbyl. well.... anyway, it was a lot of fun especially last weekend when we went to glorietta to watch rush hour 4 and then ate at capriciosa in greenbelt 3.

i thought i knew everything about her already... well... almost everything. hehehe it's funny i never knew she liked cold bread (bread from the refrigerator). me. i LOVE bread. everyone who knows me knows that, but NOT cold bread... so i often frown at her when she offers me bread she bought from my own ref. :-(

Pulmo Elective

group one, batch 2008

faculty of medicine & surgery

university of santo tomas

san martin de porres socio-medico community center

sapang palay, bulacan

more pictures here >>

First Week in Sapang Palay

i've just returned from our first week in sapang palay, bulacan. we're sent there as part of the clerkship curriculum for community, family and preventive medicine. the santo tomas university hospital has a center there called san martin de porres socio-medico community center that provides services for the community and has programs like feeding & nutrition, and livelihood.

mark's birthday celebration in sapang palay

it's fun. we cook, market, and clean for ourselves. we see patients everyday in the opd, and we tour the community for field work. the best part is we get a lot of rest time, especially post-medicine rotation. ^_^

team jaundice cooking

real work... clerkship

Me @ STUH-OPD
Sab & Jen
Jamie & Kat
Dra. Ong
Dra. & Ron

Jun - ambubagger
Jamie - korean (kunwari)
Our Senior and Junior Resident

Dr. Hendra and Dra. Ong

Edlyn, Sab and Mika

Jed, Sab, Gela, and Mika