Last Saturday, I went to UST for the first time to support several friends who were competing in the annual APMC Medgroove dance competition and Medrhythmia choir competition. During the entire dance competition, this was mostly running through my mind: ZOMG! Dancing Doctors! LOL!!11!. Doctors exude professionalism and more often than not a certain level of seriousness so it is always amusing to see doctors and future doctors shake their asses.

While some of you will grudgingly associate Muse’s Supermassive Black Hole with vampires playing baseball, I have the benefit of conjuring up in my mind’s eye our med school’s dance group’s hot choreography instead. The group’s interpretation of the theme “Eros” centered on free love. Take that inaccurate and completely uneccessary bioethics lessons on sexuality! Hah!

(For the record though, both guys are straight.)

Aside from the innate entertainment value of the event, what made my day was seeing several undergrad classmates, one of whom was part of the winning dance group. I found out via multiply that even my high school seatmate was there. Too bad we didn’t run into each other.

The competition was right after our 3 weeks of exams ended. Despite my atrocious academic performance (I can now claim that I crammed my way through med school) I had some small achievements: I was exempted from taking the final exams in radio, ent, commed, pedia and internal med. The last one was the best cause the department treated us to several boxes of pizza, asked several residents to give us a pep talk and encouraged us to take up internal med as our specialty. I’ve been considering it for a while now, actually.

Dr. ClaireBear encouraged me to take a year off after getting my license. I was already planning on taking two. If all goes well, I’ll take up Multimedia Arts (MMA) earlier than I originally planned. I was inspired by *cough*jealousof*cough* my sister who is already enrolling in her 2nd course next term. She’s also a frustrated artist so she too decided to take up MMA.

Dr. ClaireBear also tagged me in her ‘Seven’ meme, part of which I’ll answer.

Seven Things I Like The Most

1. Seafood

2. Traveling and immersing myself in a place or culture.

3. Hanging out with my friends

4. Dancing. I’m no dancer but I love to dance, whether I’m alone in my room, in a club, or on stage for school churva.

5. Other forms of self-expression: singing, drawing, writing, etc.

6. Things that can capture my attention for hours: books, the internet, music, real good/bad movies and tv shows

7. Good food and good conversation

Seven Random Facts About Me
(It’s getting more and more difficult to come up with “random” facts with all these memes so I lifted the last 4 from my “25 Random Things” FB meme.)

1. IQ > EQ

2. I blog so I don’t forget.

3. I’m a try-most-anything-once kind of person.

4. It could take me days, weeks and even months to respond to tags and emails. I think about my replies and by the time I’ve mentally edited what I wanted to say, I’m too tired mentally to type them out. LOL

5. I’m a bit of a hypochondriac.

6. I lovelovelove chicks with pianos and/or guitars, opm bands, and indie music.

7. I download music and buy cds at random. I like discovering unknown, new, or quirky artists.

Seven Things I Plan To Do Before I Die

1. Make a certain secret an unsecret. (Naintriga ka no?)

2. Travel. A LOT.

3. Make a difference.

4. Achieve my professional and personal goals.

5. Get married.

6. Write a novel or create a graphic novel or make a movie or do all of them.

7. Leave a legacy.

Seven Things I Can Do

1. Cram exceptionally well.

2. Accents.

3. Seal impressions.

4. Run in stilletos. Wear 4in heels all day.

5. When asked programming or geometry questions (or anything that involves coming up with algorithms), I know the answer before I understand why it works. And I need to type it out or write it down before I try to understand it lest it would slip away.

6. A really good poker face.

7. Listen.

I’m not gonna tag anyone but if do this or if you’ve done this before, give me a link so I can check it out. :)