Grand International Food Feast

It's a Saturday duty once again and Mam Barney and I decided that we'll be having the grandest and biggest food feast ever as we celebrate our last Saturday Night Duty Food Tripping.

 And so we decided that to have the grandest food feast ever, we'll be bringing foods from all around the world, three foods from three countries. Mam Barney decided that she'll be bringing Kimbap & Kimchi from South Korea, Pad Thai from Thailand and Baklava from Greece (or is it from Turkey...I don't know).

I, on the other hand, decided to bring Kani Sarada and Melon Pan from Japan, Minced Chicken and Mushroom in Lettuce Wrap from Vietnam and Ponchesitos (a Spanish milhojas variant, I think) from Spain.

It's an overwhelming food feast but I guess something went wrong because for every Saturday night duty that we have, this is the first time that we had an emergency case. The bad thing is it is not only one but two cases, fortunately enough they're only minor cases (emergency appendectomy and CTT insertion only :) )

But nonetheless, the food feast that we had is awesome and Jops (the only guest who arrived) brought us some Chilean Red Wine. And we were also grateful to him, because without him we may not survive the toxic night that we experienced. :)

It's A Chinese Night

Yup! Yup! Its Saturday Night again and we decided to have a simple dimsum and dumpling night pero dahil sobrang init we decided to include halo-halo for the night food fest...and so we decided we will call this night, the Chowking Night. Our plan is to order some foods in Chowking fastfood chain but unfortunately they told us that they won't deliver in the night...just a weird thing dahil hindi ba mas malaki ang kita ng ganun lalo na't gabi pa!

Anyways, because they won't deliver, we decided to order in the nearby resto, Noodle King that is. Kaso as usual hndi pa rin sila nagbago, after an hour pa namin nakuha ung order namin at yung Halo-halo nila, naging juice na...

But all in all, ok naman ang food, nabusog kami...hndi rin kami na-toxic dahil walang case pero hndi rin peaceful night namin dahil tawag ng tawag yung intern dahil lang sa CD case...yun pala hindi daw tatanggap ung OR-CD ng case from 7am to 12nn dahil may power interruption sila and all their cases would be sent in our OR...e wala naman kaming memong nareceive...so ayun nagalit si Mam TJ sa OR-CD...but everything ended well naman.

It's a Sticky, Sticky Night...

Because we're craving for some kakanin and we still don't have a tribute for our own food (Filipino food that is), we decided that for our theme last night we'll be a kakanin night. And because some people will come over (they'll be sleeping over because the call time for their medical mission is so early) we decided to bring lots of kakanin. Jops decided ot bring some pistachio ice cream (for Mam Barney I guess...)

 

Last night is one of my favorite Saturday night due to the foods that we brought. I'm always craving for the kamoteng kahoy na suman and good thing there's one. As well as ube halaya...the only thing missing is the kutsinta, which is the thing that I'm craving the most.

Anyways, we had a good night, no cases and all. I had another session with Jops regarding my moves to my love but I decided not to tell him my dilemma (the thing is I don't know if I'll still pursue it or not due to the fact that I'll be leaving soon and it might hurt her).

Happy Birthday on a Black Saturday Night Duty

It's Black Saturday, I have a night duty and it is also my birthday! Unfortunately all Catholics are in the mourning state due to Jesus Christ's death and so I decided that I'll celebrate my birthday when the midnight strikes instead. Yup! I'm moving it on the 24th this year, for the Easter celebration.

Anyways, because it is a Saturday Night, Mam Barney and I decided that we will be having a Cake Galore Night. Initially, our plan is to celebrate my birthday with the cakes that we will bake each. "Surprise each other with the cake that you'll bake for me" should be the theme unfortunately we didn't anticipate that all supermarket will be closed on Friday so we didn't have any ingredients to work with and so we decided that we'll just bought some in Red Ribbon.

Mango Cashew Roll and Mocha Chocolate courtesy of Red Ribbon and Blueberry Muffins courtesy of Benj :)

I arrived in OR and to my surprise, Jops, Sir Aldrin and Benj will be coming to celebrate my day with me, even if it is the night of Black Saturday. I'm really touched.

Saturday Night Duty and Early Sunday Trip

It's Saturday once again and our theme for tonight's duty is Street Food. And for the sake of no emergency case, Jops and I decided that each of us should bring something because we realized that if only one of us bring something, magkakaroon at magkakaroon kami ng case. Or if we don't bring any at all meron pa rin. So this time around both of us should bring something. I'm in charge of bringing the fishball, squid ball and kwek-kwek while Jops is the one responsible for the chicken and pork isaw.

Anyways, as usual late nanaman ako pero pagdating ko doon wala pa rin itong si Jops. After 40minutes dumating din siya together with Sir A and Sir P.J Hindi naman sila invited pero dahil andunna sila ininvite na rin namin sila. Yung mga inimbitahan namin, sila naman yung wala, although Benj came with mangga with bagoong.

Anyways, I realized na effective talaga ang pagdadala ng food every night dahil this time around hindi na kami nagkaroon ng case, although napull out naman itong si Jops sa DR-Pay dahil nagkaroon sila ng emergency CS.

Anyways, ambilis naubos ng food namin dahil andami ngang uninvited guests so in the end (ng umuwi na at natulog na ang mga uninvited guests) nagkwentuhan na lang kami nila Benj at Jops sa workroom at around 4:30 in the morning na ng magdecide kaming matulog dahil hindi na namin kaya.

Around 6 in the morning dumating na itong si Rain, na supposedly ka-COS ni Chia pero maya-maya biglang nagtext si Sir R na sya daw ka-COS ni Chia at parating na sya. Ayun nagulantang ang mga katauhan kung sino ba talaga, in the end ang naevict ay si Rain at dahil sobrang nabad trip si Rain dahil sayang lang ang effort niya, Jops and I decided to accompany her somewhere para hindi na sya umuwi. We decided to have a cup of tea in Tomas Morato. 

As usual kapag mga juniors lang ang magkakasama, andami naming napagkwekwentuhan, love story ng mga tao sa OR, mga experience namin from different monster surgeons atbp.

After almost two hours of sipping our teas, we decided to change location: Bannaple. Dahil sobrang aga pa at akala namin 10am nagbubukas ang establishment ayun dumating kami dun na sarado pa. After 30minutes nag-open din sila and we ordered Banoffee pie, Double CHocolate Tiramisu Cheesecake at Baked Creamy Cheesy Penne.

After that naglakad kami papuntang National Bookstore sa may Quezon Avenue. Syempre hindi pa rin naubos ang kwentuhan namin. Ito yung mga araw na gusto ko, yung tipong nag-eenjoy ka lang, walang stress at kasama mo lang ang mga taong hindi stressful. Talking anything, everything under the sun without any pressure. It's nice knowing some people like them.

"Instant Food" Saturday Night Food Fest

It's Saturday once again and as usual we have our Saturday-themed food fest duty just to avoid the toxicity of the night. Anyways, si Rain naman ang kasama ko this time around at dahil sya ang nagdala ng ice cream the night before, I promised her that I will bring some tonight.

What I didn't know is may mga kaso pa pala sa OR, good thing pagkadating ko tapos na yung mga case at magliligpit na lang kami, the other case was rescheduled the following day.

At dahil duty naman sila Jops and Benj, I told them to stay behind na lang dahil may dala akong food. So after umalis nung ibang 2-10 sabi ko may dala akong ice cream and they volunteered na bumili na rin ng ibang food, at dahil gusto nilang kumain ng noodles, bumili na sila ng yakisoba at mga noodles, habang kami ni Rain ay naglilinis ng OR.

After maglinis, we decided to eat and magkwentuhan ng mga pangyayari sa OR. The relationships na namuo sa OR and lahat ng rumors na kumakalat pinagusapan namin. This is one of those nights na hindi ko malilimutan dahil I'm with the people na hindi mga plastic at mapagkunwari. We really had fun that night, good thing nga at wala kaming emergency case ni Rain, although na pull-out sya sa DR-CD around 4am.

Summer and Reunion

It's been our RLE tradition that whenever Gale is here in the Philippines we will have our RLE reunion but as usual every year, we cannot complete ourselves but we don't care as long as a number of people will show up even if it's just three or four it's okay.

Anyways, this year, Gale, Haidz and Yhani wanted to have a beach reunion. The initial plan was to do it in Boracay but because of time constraints (almost all of us have a job and cannot get a week-long vacation), they decided that we should do it instead in Puerto Galera. Its a sudden announcement so only few were able to come.

This is my second time in Puerto Galera, but I'm still excited for this trip because of the planned activities Gale and Haidz were planning to do. My first trip in PG is so memorable due to different close to death encounters we had experienced. Anyways, at that time we stayed in White Beach Resort so to make it a little different this time, I asked Haidz to look for accommodation in the Tamaraw Beach instead and luckily we found one that is cheap considering its already a peak season.

Jes, Cis and I met Haidz and Gale in the bus station in Buendia then we took the 6am bus going to Batangas Port and there we meet up with Yhani and Edward. We then took a boat ride going to Puerto Galera. We reached the island around lunch time but our service going to the beach resort wasn't there so we decided to call them up.

We were really amazed at the place when we arrived there. It's like being in a private beach resort due to few tourists and the calmness and serenity of the place is too overwhelming. Ang sarap magpahinga talaga. We then ordered for our lunch which is quite disappointing kasi ang tagal nilang i-serve. But to our surprise the food serving is really big quite the contrary to what the receptionist mentioned. The food is quite delicious too and even though it's a bit costly it is all worth it.

After eating lunch, we asked the receptionist if they could give us a ride in the SandBar where we already have an appointment for our banana boat ride. Its a good thing that the Tamaraw Beach Ressort is the same owner of the place. Feel na feel tuloy talaga namin na mga bakasyonista kami. When we arrived in the SandBar, there were no other tourist instead of our group, solong-solo tuloy namin yung lugar and they even gave us additional 10 minutes in the banana boat so instead of just 20 minutes 30 minutes kaming nagbabanana boat ride.

After that, we returned to the resort then played some beach volleyball till dusk. After that linis na ng katawan then went to White Beach for the night party. Weird lang dahil ang konti ng tao so hindi mo ramdam yung party scene that night and ang lamig pa. Around midnight, Jes, Cis, Yhani and Edward decided to return already in the resort.I stayed behind to accompany Haidz and Gale.

The following morning, we decided that we will do snorkelling and island hopping but Jes and Cis decided to do a rain check. They rather enjoyed the beach daw kasi last day na nila and they will not have enough time to explore White Beach. At dahil kasama namin sila Yhani in doing the snorkelling and island hopping parang hindi rin namin nasulit dahil nagmamadali kami dahil baka maiwan ng boat sina Yhani. pero in all fairness naman sulit pa rin ung ginawa naming activities.

Haidz, Gale and I decided to stay behind and have our vacation extended, unfortunately hindi rin na-enjoy ni Haidz dahil nagkasakit sya during our second night. Pero before that happened we were supposedly do parasailing our visit the Tamaraw Falls but because we don't have enough budget anymore, we decided na magpahenna tatoo na lang and do a massage the following morning.

All in all, my second trip to Puerto Galera is also memorable minus the scary part. More of fun actually considering that I'm having a night duty the same day we returned to Manila. I really loved my RLE kaya I'm hoping that someday we can really have a reunion that all of us were complete.