As I am studying for my exam this Wednesday, I end up procrastinating.

Hence,


Abortion does not cause depression or low self-esteem in adolescents

and

Moving closer to outdoor recreation not a recipe for being more physically active

Of course these are US data and I would like to see how it is here in the Philippines. No doubt the culture of religious oppression and guilt would play a role. For the second link, I think this helps argue for a more walker friendly city.

Pictures from a museum visit in Indonesia. Only now have I found the time to upload photos. =|

My desktop PC is crashing. My younger brother tells me we need to reformat. Looks like I'm gonna spend my weekend backing up my files.

I'm more stress about the fact that I don't have an installer for Stata 11. I'm such a nerd.

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I'm very close to giving up on Pulmo. My brain wants to vomit.

I have a new steth. See the navy blue (looks black from the picture) with my old gray one. Actually, the gray one is not mine, it's my grandfather's.

Will be going to Bambang later. I hope some shops are open so I can buy a new steth. I do not want to resort to borrowing the consultant's stethoscope again during the practical exam because my steth can not pick up the faint sounds.

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Only one month left. I'm so excited to work on some other stuff including our therapeutics research.

It hurts when you're doing a nice thing for someone and that person tells you to go to hell.

Now, I get an idea of how our OB coordinator feels.

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It's hard to be a leader of a group of people who feels like they're entitled to have special treatment just because they want to do something else. Reality check. Everyone wants to do something else. Everyone needs to be somewhere else. If you really want, I could just remove you from the list of those who worked in the research project. If you really need to go somewhere else, explain first before leaving and approach me asap to learn what you missed and what you need to do to make up for it.

And it's really hard to lead if people don't respect you. I guess they should just form their own group if they don't want to attend meetings. I've been relatively lenient because we are med students and presumably, mature individuals, but they're really forcing me to be a b*tch.