Category: The Filipino Vet Student

Hey everybody! I thought I’d fill you guys in on what’s been happening with me these last few weeks, as I haven’t been around the last month to really say anything here. I’ve kind of been on a hiatus of sorts during that time, and wherever I used to be active online I wasn’t for that time period (sorry to all my readers and to those at WGSpectacle — mianhe) As you all probably know, I ended my summer classes…

Sorry for not posting lately. Things have been a blur since I’ve come back from NY and yes guys, this is the start of my 5th semester here at the University of the Philippines: Los Banos. I’ve been in class for just over 2 weeks now and so far it’s been going well. Most of the teachers I have this semester are interesting people. I’m really excited for my surgery and clinician rotations this year. This time around, I’m a…

Sorry I haven’t updated much about my summer classes. I’m really only taking one summer class right now and it’s really a pain. I’ve been really busy just studying, doing work and chillin’ out this summer. It’s really something. You’d think that I’d have more time to blog since I’m only really taking one class but the thing is because I have so much extra time, I actually go out and do stuff. It seems that the busier I am…

So that pretty much sums up my year so far. I’m done with finals week. I’m going to go around these next two weeks before summer school starts and just chill out for awhile. My plans? Right now I’ll stay in Los Banos for bit. This weekend I’ll be hitting up my cousin’s place for a few days, and then I might come back to do registration. However, I just found out that for one of my summer classes I…

I needed to take a break from studying. I have a really huge Parasitology final tomorrow and I’ve been studying for hours. I really need to stop and take a short break, because my head is going crazy with all these freakin’ parasite life cycles and names. And what I’m afraid of is actually forgetting them tomorrow. Aish, I really hope they stick. 😛 Anyway, today I found out that I passed my Surgery I class. All in all I…

Yessir, finals here are at the University of the Philippines: Los Banos are still taking place and guess what? It’s HARD! Hahaha… So, I took a Pharmacology final on Wednesday, which really sucked. It was basically an exam made of 3 professor’s parts, so in essence it was 3 exams in the span of an hour. 3/4 of it was alright, since at least it was multiple choice, but then again, there was a whole part that was solely identification…

… okay, so not literally dying, but I think you get what I’m saying.  It’s getting pretty ridiculous.  I’ve come over the hump today with the amount of exams per day, but that doesn’t mean that it wasn’t a bumpy ride. So I had three exams today.  Pretty much back to back.  So three exams, yeah?  Surgery first, Equine Production second and Parasitology Lab Final last. So I spent a lot of last night trying to cope with all the…

The answer is EIGHT.  Which means that I will be having exams pretty much everyday this week, including Saturday.  Isn’t that insane? Gosh, and I’m not feeling too well either.  I’m very headachey and someone out of it at the moment.  And of course this is the worst time for that to be happening.  How lame. I have a Parasitology exam tomorrow in the evening. Let’s hope I’ll be somewhat prepared for it by the time the exam comes rolling…

… and the procedure went well!  For yesterday’s procedure I was the assistant surgeon, and my friend Faye was the main surgeon.  At around 11:30am James and I picked up our other team members, Faye and Belle and we went to get lunch before heading to the veterinary teaching hospital at TABON in UPLB to start the procedure. Belle was the anesthetist for this procedure with James being the nurse.  Faye was assigned to be the main surgeon while I…

And it’s an ovariohysterectomy! Gosh, I’m a little bit nervous because I’ll be the assistant surgeon in tomorrow’s operation. The one that will be leading the surgery is my friend Faye. I think she’ll do well, but of course since this will be our first surgery together we are afraid that something bad will happen. While this is a routine procedure in most veterinary hospitals, it will be our first time actually doing it, so naturally there’s a little apprehension…

The title roughly translates from the Tagalog (Filipino language) as… “I don’t want to anymore!!!” Or at least something to that effect. Before I start on why I’m saying that, let me start off by saying a little something first. Anyway, I’m writing this blog entry because I’ve decided to come back to my very own web-site and finally keep you guys updated. The last few months have been a little hectic and I’m really, really stressing out about everything…

My goodness it’s been a long time since I’ve done a blog. It’s been months and I really have to apologize for that. School has pretty much taken over my life and I don’t have much time to do anything but really study, study, study. I’ve been able to do other things as well, but honestly the feeling to blog about things has never really been something that I’ve wanted to do in the last few weeks because I’m just…