MDAS: Simpleng Math

Ilang araw

Ang nagdaan

Mabilis….nakakapagod

Isang paligsahang sinalihan

Kahit talo may premyo

Eyebags,,,,itim pa

Pero may pag-asa sa

1*10^2+5*4

Minuto lang yan

Makakauwi din ako….

Sa bahay

Modern Nightingales

“This is our dream… to nurse foreigners” uttered comically by a clinical instructor in our RLE laboratory while showing picture slides of a nurse with a white patient.

I was struck on my seat while I ponder on the thought of her saying that. She was right thinking that majority of our nursing professionals are going abroad for what they say a greener pasture and perhaps many of us in the room will also agree.

I will be a hypocrite if I try to argue with her on that matter because I also have a dream of improving the quality of living of my family like everybody else and the easiest way of doing such is taking up nursing as a stepping stone for a greater chance of going abroad. Perhaps I am a lost for the country in the making, born and raised here but will soon leave like the millions who are now in different corners of the world.

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