One Day More

In less than 24 hours, my fate will be decided. God's will be done. It will be His voice if He really wants me to stay here or to go back to our country and do what is needed to be done. Tomorrow, the NRMP website will open for the Scramble. To tell you honestly, the rest of my guns are not yet in place. I have to yet acquire a fax machine and print hard copies of my files. I need a person and another phone line. I'll be trying to fix these in the next hour after doing this blog entry. So far, I told my contacts that I will be "scrambling" for a residency position tomorrow. And tomorrow it shall be done.

Shucks, I feel excited, scared and elated. I finally have answers after lulling in career limbo for sometime. It was fun, though, I really had a good one. Last year was fun too. I did not make any money but I traveled a lot and met someone special. Now, it will be a different ballgame. Career and finances are on the frontline. It will be interesting, I bet and it will commence in another decade of my life.

I'm turning thirty in two months. I had some resolutions in mind that I plan to pursue:
1. Establish a bank account. Be firm with decisions about money and follow the new mantra for the decade: Save, save, save. But then, I do not plan to deprive myself. I just plan to save at least a certain amount a month just to keep up with a good AND working bank account.

2. Read a hundred books before 40. Any material of fiction, business, medicine...about anything will do. It will be another bank for me to keep. A bank of knowledge until I have the courage and inspiration to conjure up a book. Ten books in a year? I think I can do better than that though. Ok, I'm moving it up to 300 by the time I reach 40.

3. Keep my waistline down to a 29. Actually, I adjusted my eating habits. No soda and less rice. I try to exercise everyday and keep away from alcohol. Smoking is another story...it will take a while before I kick it out of my system. But, yes, I am trying.

With respect to a fellow blogger, I would like to share his blog to rest of the world. The blog http://coconuter.blogspot.com puts this one to shame. Monster's ink seems like a blond cheerleader blog compared to this one and I think, every Filipino should read this one. I picked out this blog from a forum and I've been hooked ever since. I thought, at first, that it was just a picture/travel blog from a handsome, young Filipino but when I watched his interview with ABS CBN and read the articles in the site, I was definitely moved. And the guy has a character. And a great intellect to boot. I am proud that he is Filipino. Actually, reading his blog makes me think my life all over again. Why do I really want? Why do I have to keep pushing myself to train and work in the US? Will everything that I seek for would make me happy?

In a recent movie from Will Smith called The Pursuit of Happyness, the main character ponders on a line from the Declaration of Independence. It goes "...blah,blah for justice, equality and the pursuit of happiness". He continues to ask how their forefathers know that happiness is something you pursue. And happiness can never be realized but something that is only pursued. True. I think this proves that Maslow's hierarchy of needs is true. Human nature aspires for the top and being on top in not enough for there are heights unconceivably far and we, as dreamers, still want to soar to those heights.

Its good to be back in NYC. Jeff lives two blocks behind the Time Warner building (shown below) where I use their Borders store as my own private library