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	<title>Shades of Gray &#187; heart beats</title>
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		<title>lost in courtship (nanliligaw, naliligaw?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I had a casual chat with with some of the people I work with at the hospital. I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;m just betraying my age with my answers or if they just belong to a different generation with a different set of rules, ideas, ideals and ideologies.
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 07:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[the following is an article I wrote fro the valentine's edition of the Aesculapian, official student publication during my medicine school days. found it while uncluttering the hard drives, and since it's been a while since I wrote anything here, this will have to do for now]
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		<title>choosing happiness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s inevitable. In a few more hours a new year is about to begin. And as it has already been a tradition of most, I have been receiving text messages on my phone greeting me a happy new year. Of course I try to reply to all those who remembered as well. It&#8217;s also funny [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dichotomousthoughts.wordpress.com&blog=3895524&post=175&subd=dichotomousthoughts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>genuinely happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 12:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just recently I learned that my best friend is getting married.  She was planning of telling me about this herself but another friend simply couldn&#8217;t contain her excitement and soon the cat was out of the bag.
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		<title>forgiven and not forgotten</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As was expected, I was on hospital duty on Christmas day. Not that I&#8217;m complaining, these things you get used to when you&#8217;re in the medical profession. Anyway, it was a particularly busy day, like it wasn&#8217;t even Christmas for the doctors and the rest of the hospital staff on duty. It was around past [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dichotomousthoughts.wordpress.com&blog=3895524&post=167&subd=dichotomousthoughts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>memories</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:23:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“What makes a friendship special is the way each one remembers the other when they are apart. They miss the talks, the laughter, and the times they were together. Life changes, memories don’t”
I went back to my alma mater today, both undergrad and in med school. I did it for the memories. I may never [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dichotomousthoughts.wordpress.com&blog=3895524&post=114&subd=dichotomousthoughts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>learning to smile once more</title>
		<link>http://dichotomousthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/09/21/learning-to-smile-once-more/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Sep 2008 07:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was doing my evening rounds of the patients I have admitted. Passing by one of the nurse stations I notice that they were wearing frowns on their faces and I reminded them that it takes 17 muscles to smile, 43 to frown. She tells me she is once again on extended tour of duty. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dichotomousthoughts.wordpress.com&blog=3895524&post=101&subd=dichotomousthoughts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>my father&#8217;s son</title>
		<link>http://dichotomousthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/my-fathers-son/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2008 13:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was already 12 noon and I was supposed ho have left the Emergency Room at 10:30. On any other day, it would have just been fine, but today is not just another day. I had a lot of things planned for the rest of the afternoon, but before I could deal with it, there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=dichotomousthoughts.wordpress.com&blog=3895524&post=20&subd=dichotomousthoughts&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>black white &amp; gray</title>
		<link>http://dichotomousthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/06/08/black-white-grey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2008 07:29:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes we long for and love someone and yet we never really had the courage to speak up and  say it out loud. Is it because of the fear of rejection? Do we hesitate because they may not reciprocate what we feel for them? Will we just contented with forever loving them from afar?
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