Monday, January 23, 2006 

While we're on the subject of "Beautiful"...

I've got a song stuck in my head and on forever repeat on my PC right now. It's a song called "Beautiful", and it's by the former half of Russian boy duo SMASH!!, Sergey Lazarev. His other half, Vlad Topalov, stuck with the name SMASH!!, but performs solo now, since Sergey left him for a solo career of his own. Anyway...if you didn't know, I like boy-bands. Ever since NKOTB. And if you don't know who they were, good for you. If you do know, however, I hope you know I can sing a mean "Step by Step" in karaoke. :p

So, this song called "Beautiful" is from a boy-band turned solo guy, and the lyrics go:
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I could drown in you
I would fall right through
You could crash me down
Take me underground

Something you don't see - something you don't know
I wanna spin you around and tell you that you're beautiful
You're beautiful

You're beautiful
I wanna show you that I know you don't know you're beautiful
You're beautiful

You're beautiful
I wanna tell you that I know you don't know you're beautiful
You're beautiful

Like the feel of a gun
Staring at the sun
Like a step on a crack
You give me no way back

But you still don't see - No, you still don't know
I wanna pull you down and show you how you're beautiful
You're beautiful

You're beautiful
I wanna show you that I know you don't know you're beautiful
You're beautiful

You're beautiful
I wanna tell you that I know you don't know you're beautiful
You're beautiful

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When I first listened to this song, I immediately thought of my sis, Chet. She is my superstar, and she will never know how truly beautiful a person she is, no matter what we say or do to prove it.

If you want this on mp3, just let me know. I can find a way to host the mp3 file for a short time. It's really a cool song, in my opinion, although he repeatedly says "you're beautiful" over and over and over, so much that it becomes ridiculous. But it's forgiveable because of how it's delivered, and the music backs it up. The only problem I have with it lyrically (or perhaps I just don't understand its meaning), are the lines of the second verse:

Like the feel of a gun
Staring at the sun
Like a step on a crack
You give me no way back

Well...who knows...maybe something got lost in translation somewhere...afterall, the boy is russian...

He's a cutie :-) But right now, he's sporting some kind of weird mullet-type hairdo. Check him at his official site: http://sergeylazarev.ru/main.php

1/23/2006 11:29:00 PM | |

 

The beautiful people

I'm a little late in knowing this, but...

The two most beautiful people in this world are "mapot'gi" or "buntes" or "pregnant". Yep...that's Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. I just found this news to be remarkable and interesting...for what will the product of two such beautiful people be? Perhaps a beautiful child? Well...everyone pretty much knows ALL babies are beautiful, but what about the baby of Angelina and Brad? Will it be super-beautiful, because these two people have beautiful genes? And what of Angelina's adopted children? What will they think of this upcoming baby in the future? I'm sure they will know that they are not the biological end of their mother and father, and this child is.

That's right...mother and father, I said. Brad's adopting the two kids Angelina already has, and changing their last names to Jolie-Pitt. But I didn't hear any news of wedding bells for the newborn parents-to-be. Maybe they'll do what couples in this day and age do...have kids and don't get married until later, or not at all.

Well...whatever they do is none of my business and out of my control. But the nature of the entertainment industry makes it their business to tell us their life-stories because it's interesting. It's fun to know what people of a seemingly different class are up to and into. It's just curiosity being fulfilled by mass media.

I'm betting on a baby boy. How 'bout you?

someone's rendition of what a brangelina combo would yield...

1/23/2006 06:31:00 PM | |

Thursday, January 19, 2006 

Wiping away the body-ache mugu from my eyes

You know how the old Chamorro folks say "when you have lots of mugu in your eye, you're having body ache"? Well...my mom says that, anyway...

I was supposed to be off from work today. But I knew today was an important day at work. Moving day. Yes, we've finally moved back home...to the unit where we belong. There's supposed to be this great new place within our unit called the Progressive Care Unit (PCU), but progress on it has been slow and practically on hold. Our bed capacity increased. Oh joy. More patients to care for, same amount of nurses.

Well...I got home at 12:00 AM, went to bed by 01:00 AM and woke up at 05:15 AM to get to work by 06:30 AM to help with the move. I thought I was just gonna be there for a few hours...you know, to help physically move the patients (18 of them total) over to their new rooms. But, as it turned out, they were lacking one nurse on the floor, so I was asked to work on the floor with the other 7-3 shift nurses, and I did. I'm a team player. I help when I can.

But now, I'm tired as hell. Got home and took a nap. Woke up with bodyache. And lots of mugu in my eye. Be back to work tomorrow. So much for my day off...

1/19/2006 09:27:00 PM | |

Sunday, January 15, 2006 

Why not be an "infitmera"?

I've been thinking about this for some time now. Being a Chamorro "infitmera" is rare. In my nursing class at UOG, how many Chamorro students were enrolled? Three...including me. The rest of the students were of other ethnic backgrounds, mainly Filipino.

Majority of the nurses working at GMH are Filipino. In my unit, there's about 5 or 6 Chamorro nurses. That's a lot compared to other units, but still, Chamorro nurses on the whole are rare. And I ask myself, why?

I visited this website: http://pinoynurse.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=0
to see if I can learn anything on why Filipinos become nurses, because it seems nursing is a career that's easily chosen by them. And, the article mentioned that nursing is a profession that's highly respected, and Filipino children are encouraged to be nurses for many reasons, such as employment opportunities in the US, financial security, etc.

Now, why don't the Chamorro feel the same way? Why is nursing not valued in the Chamorro culture? Is it that bad of a profession? Is it gross and unbecoming? I know in the Chamorro culture, we are taught to respect and care for our elders. I chose to be a nurse because I wanted to know how to care for my family, especially my grandparents, when they get sick. Do other Chamorros feel the same way I do?

What do we need to do, in order to recruit Chamorro students into nursing? Is it lack of information about the nursing profession? Is there a negative image of nursing amongst the younger generation?

I already know that salary and benefits for nurses on Guam are poor, especially those working at Guam's only civilian hospital, GMH. But still, nurses like me stay at GMH for something more than just money. I know I stay because I want to help my people, and I want to contribute to them as a nurse. But I realize nurses leave GMH for better opportunities in the US. Perhaps we need to make the nursing profession a lucrative one for the younger generations. Although, the profession itself is rewarding.


1/15/2006 08:06:00 PM | |

 

On a diet

My health insurance finally approved my doctor's request for nuclear studies of my thyroid. It's a radioactive reuptake scan (2 days), where I ingest a radioactive pill and let my thyroid have at it. Then, on the second day, nuclear dye gets injected in me. I'm confused as to how many times within those two days my thyroid will be scanned, 'cause my instruction paper says it will be "measured". It says the last thing to be done will be a "scan". Well...whatever it takes to get to the bottom of my damn hyperthyroidism.

The medicine I take for my damn hyperthyroid (and which I will stop just 4 days prior to this test, and then resume post-test) is completely gross - PTU. PTU sucks ass, and leaves a miserable, lingering taste from your throat to your tongue and taste buds. It doesn't matter how good you swallow the damn thing, but if any part of the pill touches your mouth or gums, that's it...you're doomed even more. I mean, the aftertaste happens even if you swallow it well...it's a given, and it's a pain.

So, anyway...

I'm on a strict diet for the thyroid scan. It's a completely no iodine, and low salt diet. I absolutely cannot have iodized salt. What's that? When you go to the store, you buy the salt in the blue wrapper with the lady and umbrella on it? Well...that's Morton's salt. They make two types...one with iodine, and one without. Most times, people just grab whatever salt. So, basically, since I won't know (or it's hard to find out) what salt people use in their cooking, I cannot have any fast-food, any restaurant food, any food that I did not cook. Plus, nothing packaged, preserved, etc. No dairy, no red dye #3 and #40. No chocolate!!! No everything!!! *sobs*

It sucks. I miss my KFC. I miss my McD's. I miss my Pizza Hut. I miss my Winchell's. I miss my chocolate!!!

*grrrrrr*

Just wait until my test is over and done. I'm gonna have a pig-out fest. Take-out and fast-food all day...

1/15/2006 07:04:00 PM | |

Friday, January 06, 2006 

my latest craze...

Aeon Flux wa hen desu ne! Demo, hounto ni suki desu! (Aeon Flux is strange! But, I really love it!)

I'm referring to the animated series Aeon Flux. Well, more specifically, I received the DVD box set from Val for christmas. I've already watched it 4 times. I want to watch it again and again, thinking I've somehow missed a tiny sercret or hidden meaning the previous time. I don't know why I never bothered to watch it before, when it was actually airing on MTV. But, now that I have all the episodes (the mini-episodes, and the 30-minute shows from MTV), I regret missing it in the first place.

Val already watched the Aeon Flux movie. I haven't. I'm scared to. I love the series so much, and have read many reviews on the movie to know that they are dissimilar. And I think to make the movie without staying true to the series is completely wrong. I guess that's why I haven't gone to see it yet. Plus, Charlize Theron as Aeon just seems wrong to me.

What I do love from the series, is the complex love-hate relationship between Aeon and Trevor (no, not my brother). It's inspiring and strange at the same time, how these two opposites can get together, or even mesh. I don't think I can get the same feeling from watching the movie, but I heard of the different angle from the movie (where Aeon and Trevor were married initially and were continually cloned for years, but still harbor the love inside), and I think that works okay, but not nearly as interesting as the series.

Well...I guess that's all I can say about this for now. By the way, Happy Belated New Year.


Aeon - [singing to herself] Ready if I want it now, Danger Boy...

1/06/2006 11:36:00 AM | |