Photo blog entry: Highlights of my 2014!

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JANUARY
First night out with Sir Jerwin, Sir Jhay
and my UST and Calayan co-interns
Bride for Rent - Racks - Music Bank kind of night!

FEBRUARY

Eunice's 18th!

Birthday salubong with the fam!

My 20th birthday, spent at San Juan De Dios Hospital PM duty.
Thanks to my group, Group 7, for the surprise!

Last day (night duty) at SJ!
Last day of internship!
Thank you to my first and second in, JR and SJ, for a wonderful internship!

MARCH
Thesis = CHECK!
All OTs and working for thesis after sleepless night duties were all worth it!!!

Post-birthday surprise c/o my college friends,
and post-birthday dinner @ Dad's Kamayan Saisaki

Post-birthday celebration with the boys at home!
All-night videoke + inuman with my SJ staff!

Baccalaureate Mass 2014
Pyromusical: Frozen's Let it Go
UST Tradition: Arch of the Century Exit

 APRIL
Darlene Angelica U. Dayandayan
BS in Medical Technology
University of Santo Tomas

Graduation Day!
 Thank you to my family and their unconditional love and support.
 I wouldn't be able to make it without you, guys! I love you!

MAY
Ilocos Tour with my family and Pantoja family!

JUNE
New school year, new school, new friends, new classmates, new environment,
Hello MED SCHOOL!

JULY
Too proud! Finally, got my nameplate! :)

AUGUST
Just like the old times!
Inuman + karaoke night with Angel, Eloi and Jhojo!

SEPTEMBER
My favorite highlight of my 2014 would be my graduation.
 But I guess, the best gift I've received this year was
when I passed the board exam for the medical technology.
Proudest achievement, so far.
Proudest parents threw me a simple RMT celebration at home! :')

OCTOBER
Sem-ender party with my favorite people in med school,
groups 15 and 16 B!

Oath taking for the newly registered medical technologists
at the Philippine International Covention Center

UST Testimonial dinner for the new RMTs
 at the UST Main Building Civil Law Lobby

NOVEMBER 


My very first JFT (Just for Tonight)
 at De La Salle Health Sciences Institute


DECEMBER
Christmas party with my awesome med school favorites, group 15 and 16 B!

After 2 years, I finally got to spend my Christmas at home again!
Indeed, a  merry Christmas! :')
(Christmas 2012 was spent at the road and at the mall because
 we had to drop my brother at the hospital for his 24-hour duty.
For Christmas 2013, I spent my Christmas at the hospital
since it was my turn to experience my 24-hour duty at the hospital!)


CHRISTMAS 2014

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Christmas decors at home! :')
There is no reason for you not to feel the Christmas vibes!!!

My baby Ashley occupied her new favorite spot at home!

My  bestie Eloi and I, having our own Christmas party!
More Christmas party with you, girl! Love ya! x
(photo c/o Eloi)


A complete 15B Family Picture
during the 15/16 B Christmas Party at Jan Ray Amargo's place!

A Simbang Gabi will never be complete
without this traditional, and my personal favorite, puto bumbong!

Never in our whole lives did we have a real family reunion.
I mean, we were from a small family.
This year was different.
My dad's first cousins invited us to join their family reunion, and asked us to join every year!
I guess, there's a first for everything!
Hooray for our very first family reunion!

Christmas Eve 2014

Ohana means Family! Merry Christmas from my family to yours!!!

It is impossible to forget about you...
Christmas visit to my eldest brother, my grandparents and my ninong! 

Christmas gifts :')

Merry Christmas, everyone!
And have a blessed and prosperous New Year!!!

Medicine Week - Just For Tonight (JFT) : Glam 2018

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DAY 1 of Med Week : Opening Program
DAY 2: Mr. & Ms. JFT

Batch Picture after the Mr. and Ms. JFT event!

With my favorite girls in med school!
(l to r: me, Adele, Yssa & Trish)

Dinner at Giligan's with my Med food buddies!
(l to r: Chants, me & Adele)

Day 3: Just For Tonight (JFT)

With my hair stylist and make-up artist, my bestie Eloi!
Thanks for doing it for me! :*


(l to r: Yssa, me & Trish)

with my twin brother (kidding, he's older), Kuya Ardin.

Obligatory whole body picture with Eloi! Lol.


Group 15B represent!
(l to r: Chantey, me, Mico & Den)

Free scramble and popcorn!
(l to r: Kuya Ardin, Eloi, me, Chantey & Den)

Another obligatory selfie because she went home early!

Broadway production!
C H I C A G O

GLAM 2018


Almost complete Group 15B photo.
Could not find Karla and Aseel at that time. :(

Gwapo kasi ni Mico eh. Dami nagpapapicture! Lol!

Our own post-JFT party @ Draft Molito!
(l to r: Mico, Trish, Adele, Yssa, Chants and I)

After my group's drinking session at Draft, we went straight to Carmelo's,
and look who went by: my two best girl friends, Eloi (again) and Angel!

It was such a memorable experience.
I just cannot wait for next year's JFT!

All Souls' Day 2014

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It's that time of the year again - the time to reflect and reminisce the memories with our loved ones who were once with us. I just miss them so much, and how I wish they are all still here. 


Gethsemane Memorial Gardens
Dayandayan side
My grandparents, my brother Kuya Donn and my uncle Ninong Minio.

With Kuya Ardin & Eunice @ Gethsemane.

Himlayang Balayan
Umali side
my grandparents
(photo c/o my cousin Ate Rio Umali)

Himlayang Balayan
Umali side
my grandparents
(another photo c/o Ate Rio Umali)

Book Review: Why Men Love Bitches

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Currently reading: Why Men Love Bitches


I've been eyeing this book for quite a long time already because I've read and heard many good reviews and comments about it.

 This book was a gift from a friend. He gave this to me when he knew that I've been wanting to read it.

 Anyway, I just started reading this book. I read it during my day off from duty, and I can say that it is such a good book for ladies! I mean, if you want to have a good and amazing relationship with guys, then this book is highly recommended for you. :)
Photo credits: http://suueechi.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-men-love-bitches-must-read-for.html

Internship: 3FMT turned JRRMMC's interns

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 3FMT turned JRRMMC's interns for first sem A.Y. 2013-2014

l to r: Joelle, me, Luchi, Kim, Mae
(Missing? Eden)
May 6, 2013
This is actually the first picture I had since the internship started. :)

To tell you the truth, seeing this picture gives me two emotions.

First: HAPPY
Who wouldn't be?
I got the hospital I dreamt of. And not just that, there are 6 of us from 3FMT who got in there.

Second: SAD
'Cause I got used to spending the whole year with my blockmates, and now?
I am spending a whole semester with only just five of them. :(

I miss FMT.
I really do. :(
It sucks that I am gonna see (some of) them only on Tuesdays.

Photo credit: Kimberly Victorio

TO THE MAN I WILL LOVE SOMEDAY, please read. ♡

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"Fingers crossed and palms held together, I hope that you're out there somewhere, waiting for me, too."



Found this entry entitled My daughter’s letter to the man she will love someday by Cathy Babao-Guballa. It was posted on August 8, 2010 in Philippine Daily Inquirer




RELATIONSHIPS ARE always a difficult terrain to navigate.As a woman, you spend hours pondering alone or with your girl friends the intricacies of the human heart. You always hope and pray that the next generation will get it better than you did.

Below is a letter I found in my daughter's website (I have her permission to share this). She wrote it to the man I will someday love. 

I was expecting to read a gushing, romantic, idealistic tome. I was humbled instead by her sentiments. It's filled with sensible expectations.

I pray that this will make every girl believe that hope does spring eternal, and even if your heart has been broken a few times, you can always put the pieces back together, and make it right the next time around.

Take your time. Don't rush and don't just settle. If it's part of His plan, God's best awaits you out there.

Letter

Dear You,

I will admit that sometimes I really do wonder if you exist.

There is a part of every little girl's heart that envisions her prince charming. At age three, it is usually of a man who can save her from the wrath of an evil stepmother, wake her from eternal slumber or give her that true love's kiss.

In elementary school, he becomes the boy with the least cooties, the one who's willing to cross the playground to share his Oreos even if it makes him a target for the week of all the other boys.

Come high school, it's that boy you stand with at prom, who your father stared down at the door, who provided you with an experience complete with photos you will cringe at a decade later, a corsage that yellows in the refrigerator, and a faded memory of a night that seemed almost too magical to be real.

Nineteen years into this life, however, and still unwilling to give my heart away, I am still that same little girl who hopes for her prince charming. And although I wonder why it has taken you this long to sweep me off my feet and whisk me off to your palace on horseback, I know that it is probably because meeting you will be better than any fairytale I could've read as a kid.

A couple of heartbreaks and a few years wiser though, I will admit that there are times when I question your existence. Because I have yet to meet the guy who makes me hear songs like "All My Life" or "A Whole New World" in my head when I see him does not mean I don't hope that it'll ever happen. 

I may already know you or may still meet you someday - something I leave completely up to God because I'm pretty sure our story will be epic.

However, I can't promise you that I'd make the world's most perfect princess. In fact I'll probably keep you on your toes and amuse you with my eccentricities - there are a lot of them. I'll probably steal a bunch of your T-shirts and turn them into shirt dresses, or drive you slightly mad with my obsessive compulsivity and my need to fix your collar constantly.

I can promise to be your best friend however; that person you can rant to after a rough day, the hand you can hold when you get sad, or the person you can text when situations get awkward.

I'll probably mess up your hair sometimes and hug you for too long, but that'll only be because I absolutely adore you. I'll bury my head in your shoulder during scary movies and make you feel like superman when you kill those flying cockroaches that really shouldn't exist. I'll cook your favorite food on your birthday and try my best to make friends with your mom.

I'll respect your nights-out with the boys and make you seem like the perfect guy to my barkada. I'll watch basketball or soccer games with you, and not complain when you cheer too loudly at the TV set.

I'll know the difference between giving you space and being constantly there for you - even if it means sitting and playing video games with you or taking hot chocolate runs when it rains.

I'll listen to your music and we'll go on epic adventures together - seeing the world, taking awesome pictures, eating awesome food, and never running out of things to tell each other along the way.

I won't be waiting for you to sweep me off my feet and take me on a magic carpet ride, because I know I won't need anything like that to fall for you - I will love you for you.

You will be that someone to make goofy faces with in pictures, to lace fingers with when I'm lonely, and to take long walks under the stars with on the beach.

You'll be the guy who takes me the way I am; and will laugh as I burst into Disney song or pick out pink wallpaper.

You'll be that someone I envision a future with - us filling out visa forms as we travel the universe, picking out our first dog together and arguing about what to name it, or being snap-happy stage parents in our preschooler's annual mini-plays. And I keep hoping that maybe someday when we find each other, you will become that someone whose smile I wake up to in the morning and the last one I speak to every night.

So to the man I know does exist, and who will help me maybe make sense of the world someday, this man I can't wait to love. Please know that I can't wait to spend the rest of my life with you. 

But for now, I wait. Fingers crossed and palms held together, I hope that you're out there somewhere, waiting for me, too.

With the hope I will be yours for always,
Me

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