I couldn't believe time fleets fast at times, except when you are in head to toe waiting for a big break. Christmas is near as Saint Nicolas savors the December fever. May this season be filled with hope, love, unity, joy and faith in God and Christ. Whoever one's God is, whether it be the universe, let's enjoy this season of love, and to quote Nigahiga on his Off the Pill on Farts, let's do it loud and proud.
It really pays to recall some good things that transpired in the first two quarter of the month. One night time, desolate with the itch to get out, I went to Tingko Beach in Alcoy on my own and spend in a place along the coast until dusk and went home early in the morning. It felt great to finally spend a night having soundwaves of waves transmitted in my ear canals after almost a year of having heard crickets before going to bed. Both of which are soothing after all.
Few days ago, I was invited by one of the nursing faculty in our graduate school about including our summer nursing research study which I headed in an international nursing research congress in Waterfront that Cebu Normal University will be sponsoring. It slightly bleeds my nose on the positive side and felt flattered since last time, they also invited me to present the same research in front of the nursing students in a research congress during the university's charter day. Who would have thought that a scaffold of analysis on the viewpoints of health care providers on family presence during cardiopulmonary resuscitation and bedside invasive procedures conducted in Sotto for more than a month catches eyes of the research folks? I just feel elated at thought of it and should get over it just as the Sunscreen Song says, do not congratulate yourself too much. After all, it's a piece of work of a novice, a little trying hard, obssessive, compulsive and at times passive professional. I shouldn't berate myself either. This is just cool.
Earlier, the Nursing Council of New Zealand acknowledged that all my documents for assessment have been completed after complying them the lacking requirements they asked. I have been desperately complying all the necessary requirements since April of the year, completed them in October and just today I have been approved by the nursing authority and invited me to take the competency assessment program to be finally registered afterwhich. Well, it still has a long way to go and thanks God, I have surpassed the rigid assessment without being denied. Now, time for hunting schools. Looking for schools will take an ample time. However, it's one of the best early Christmas presents that I ever have.
We also conceptualized just few days ago a high school reunion on the 27th of the month. It's going to be whole fun and giggles in Habitat, a swimming pool in Cansantic, in our hometown. It's good to see some of your buddies in high school after five years since we parted from the pedestals of our school in Papan. Some have their children already while others remain single and are desperately waiting for their right ones. Others have been tied already with real knots while some also have been tied with strings or worse, loosely tied with a lupis.
Thanks God. We should thank God for all the wonderful blessings bestowed on us and for the strength to look opportunities for more. Let's look up and there will be more. True indeed, Les Brown made it right when he quipped that if you can look up, you can get up. Have a great and festive holidays. Have a merry merry Christmas and a happy happy New Year.
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