Clay Pots & Wooden Spoons

Lately I’ve been taking so much medicines I feel like going on a trip for a drug treatment in San Diego, California where no one knows me. Lol. I’m not addicted to drugs or anything but the ones I’m taking can be addicting when taken longterm. As you might remember, I’ve mentioned having to take prescription drugs to help ease my cluster headaches. I’ve been told by my doctor to take some relaxants which will help reduce the stress and muscle tensions I’m having.

I’ve been juggling the medicines since we keep on changing it when the other ones doesn’t have much effect anymore. Since I have a really bad cold this week, I stopped my other medicines (the ones for my headaches) and I started to take ones for the cold that I have. So at the moment, I have some mucolytics, paracetamols, multivitamins, iron and vitamin C I think. Lol. Maybe I should have taken Pharmacy rather than business management. Good thing I didn’t take nursing. One really can’t expect me to take care of a patient when I’m having all these health problems. Haha.

I should call my bestfriend, Les, and ask her what to do with this cold. She’s a nurse now, she knows better when it comes to these things.

My sister and I have a thing for advocacies. I’ve always been interested in them, I even applied for the LOVE, which is a volunteer program at the university. However due to unavoidable circumstances, I wasn’t able to really participate and take part in it. My sister after a year or so decided to join it. A few days ago she informed me about the Sumilao farmers. If I wasn’t that sick with my colds, I would’ve liked to join them in Makati even for a few hours.

I remembered some of the things my professors on my past subjects talked about. How land is important to people, especially to the agricultural sector. I remember the time we went to Pagbilao. There I saw really huge tracks of land which were left unattended mainly because the farmers had no funds to buy seedlings, as well purchase expensive feeds and fertilizers. You will hear many of them speak how much they want to till the land yet they cannot because they cannot afford the expenses anymore.

Maybe when we learn that we are lucky enough to have constant food in our tables, as well as be able to afford good education, we can stop wanting frivolous things we don’t really need to exist like another trip to Hongkong or an Oakland facial plastic surgery and other stuff which we think is important but really isn’t.

I was watching some talk shows again earlier and I was just wondering how one usually notices a person who’s had a face lift surgery? I usually notice then nose ones, but sometimes I can’t really tell if they’ve had a face lift. When I was in the salon, one of the beauticians there told me that an eyebrow tattoo was a good investment. Lol, I’m not old yet. I don’t need to have it tattooed. Besides, I don’t really need to have my brows made up all the time. Some would freak out if their eyebrows aren’t trimmed and tamed for a week, but I can last a month not minding it at all.

I know some of my mom’s friends who’s had some of their parts fixed. Lol. I’ve seen some of her friend’s nose jobs, I think one also had a lip job. Lately I’ve seen those permanent make-ups too, much like the tattooed eyebrows. Is everyone really so busy nowadays that they need to have their make-up made already when they wake up? Maybe next time when someone says, the “Morning Look” it would be “a made-up Morning Look”.

Scary but it seems everyone is after comfort now. Maybe next time we can have permanent gargle and baths too? Lol.

I was a bit pissed when I went to a cafe the other day. They had a virus, the one where constant barrage of nude and pages of stupid celebrity sex tapes and their links pops up nonstop. It is annoying and embarrassing especially if the other people using the internet beside you can’t mind their own business. I hate it when they look at your screen and peek at what your doing. Sheesh, now people think I’m a pervert. As if I chose the computer I was going to be in. v.v

So I’m really pissed because the presentation I was doing ended up being erased plus I had people looking at me weirdly. Duh, if I was going to check out some adult sites, I’m not going to do it on public cafe’s. Ugh. I still gave the decency to do it on my own computer. Lol.

Good thing my flash disk was already broken. I don’t need that virus on my home pc. I still remember Mina’s pc when we were doing our thesis a year ago. It had the same virus and images of naked women kept popping out while we were typing and doing the survey tabulations. Good thing her great grandmother didn’t see those. It would have been more humiliating than the incident in the cafe. Haha.

Its not that unusual to hear of people actually going to drug rehabilitation centers. I’ve had some distant relatives who went through some of them since I was little. It seems that drugs these days are much easier to gave access to than back when I was in high school. Its really saddening how many of the youth today get addicted to drugs. Many have been running to it to escape their problems or even forget the harsh realities of their living conditions for a bit.

I’ve seen both the poor and rich get addicted to it. Though not many poor people have the luxury to afford treatments to get them back on track. I see a lot of poverty stricken youths in the stairs of LRT stations, on street corners, beside fastfood joints, beside terminals and you’d see them at times carrying these plastic bags filled with some rugby which they inhale. I know poverty isn’t an excuse, but then how can we make them listen if we don’t suffer as much as they do.

I hope this Christmas these children can find food that they can share with their families at home, instead of staying outside in the cold.