A Journey To Remember

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, 

but is played out over and over again

 in the quietest chambers. 

The mind can never break off from the journey.

Seventh Heaven

The world is a book. And those who do not travel read only one page.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. We took off around 23:00. Everyone seemed so charge even if some of them were very drained of hospital work. I missed working with them. It's been almost a year now since I left my second home. My hospital duties, giving an hourly medication to a dying patient, administering intravenous drugs, starting an intravenous lines etc.. AHHH! I missed everything! Hahaha! (~~,) #MsSenti

But then! I couldn't help my excitement and happiness, knowing that we'll gonna have a huge and exciting vacation for the next 8 hours. 

 #SurigaoCityHereWeCome

Surigao isn't an unfamiliar place for me since we used to travel with my mom and it's where the port is stationed for Visayas travelers.  But it was just a passable place and I haven't explored it yet. 

Not until today.

Surigao City is located at the northeasternmost tip of Mindanao Island in the Philippines and the capital of the province of Surigao del Norte. 

The city serves as a jump off to visitors of nearby Siargao, Dinagat and Bucas Grande Islands.

And that's where were going. 

The ride took off around 7-8 hours to the port of Hangayabon.

From here, we took a 40minute pump boat ride to the island. 

and then, CHARAN! First pit stop. 

Welcome to the Cinamon Island of Bucas Grande, Sohoton Socoro Island.

This kind of scenery will welcome you as you slowly approached the shore of Cinamon Island. This is where we stayed for 2 days and 1 night for P 2, 450.00 - (54.46$.) That includes free breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. But expect to have lots of sea foods every meal. 

With airconditioned room that starts only when you go to sleep. :D #Seriously

Electricity starts only from 6pm til 5am the next day. #TheyOnlyUseGenerators

On and Off Water flow. #SometimesYouHaveToShout #NOWATER!

On and Off Phone signal! You don't have the right to complain because duh! You are on an Island! 

#IdealForPeopleWhoWantsToBeAlone

My co-nurses enjoying the soft, pure white sand beach in Markaa Islet.

Exploring God's creation.

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Fighting Chances

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. 

Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

                                                                  -Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everybody deserves a second chance. When you fathom what true love is, forgiveness unfolds. 

He has hurt me so bad that came to a point of loosing myself. The feeling of betrayal and the miffed heart when you have given all your love and your best to be the best for him. That moment when you feel your heart has been stabbed a million times and even the strongest pain relievers couldn't take that pain away.

Five years on a long distance relationship has never been easy. You might think it's crazy or stupid or a lie to have a relationship with someone, you have never met for real. Only video chats and pictures are the only things that kept your relationship alive and having the hope you will be on each other's arms someday. 

But when problems and trials strike the both of you, there you can say destiny always has its way of testing this so called unbreakable bond.

I called it "the silent break up" when he started not talking to me, deactivating all the social media accounts - (on where our only place we could communicate) just two months before our sixth year anniversary. I almost got crazy that time. Always on denial and that I am just dreaming, that he is just busy or whatever. I communicated all his friends and even thought of following him there. But it seemed that the odds has never in my favor. 

Denial. Anger. Bargaining. Depression and Acceptance.

It took me a year to finally accept the fact that we are really over. That he chooses to stay away and cherry-picked the days/months relationship over the five years. 

But what always hurts me the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

Two years after, August 30th on a rainy day, he sent a message and asked If I could talk to him even for just a minute. He sent me a link and  found out that the woman on the picture was the woman he had a relationship married to a different man. 

At first I thought "So what? As if I care.." 

But the long lost love you have for someone can change everything you ever thought you knew about yourself.

Something happened that I couldn't explain when I decided to hear the side story. But it's private so I'll just left you with the thought that he never really left. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

There's always been a special level of comfort between two matching souls. An unbreakable bond of constant support and closeness. It's when a warm embrace feels so right or when two hands fit so snugly. It's a feeling that's hard to define but easy to recognize. And when you find that comfort, you'll just know, you'll never let go. Everybody in this world is scared and sometimes, it takes two scared people to do one brave thing. To fall in love.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success  of the future. 

Being with him again is scary yet the happiest. They say love is sweeter the second time around. And this time, I believe. It will be forever. 

 

You're Somebody's Type!

the Gift of Blood is the Gift of Life

On an ancient system of medicine in which blood and other bodily fluid were regarded as "humors" that had to remain in proper balance to maintain health, it is claimed to have been the most common medical practice performed by surgeons from antiquity until the late 19th century, a span of almost 2000 years. 

So why donate blood?

Because the blood you donate gives someone another chance at life. One day that someone maybe a close relative, a friend, a loved one  - or even YOU.

Life is precious. Be a Life-Saver. Give blood.