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Minutiae of my every day since 2004.
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December 29, 2014
My Reading Year 2014
December 27, 2014
Fellowship
December 14, 2014
About to begin
November 22, 2014
Lila by Marilynne Robinson: a story of grace
November 17, 2014
Soaring like the eagle in the light of the eternal sun
November 13, 2014
Karl Ove Knausgaard on brothers
November 12, 2014
Laughing at politics
November 08, 2014
To be the best for my patients
November 05, 2014
Undeserved
October 23, 2014
My NBI Clearance experience
October 23, 2014
Roddy Doyle's The Commitments: listening to the soul of Dublin
October 16, 2014
The second paid job of my life
October 14, 2014
The first paid job of my life
October 04, 2014
Reciting the Hippocratic Oath
October 03, 2014
In which I list the books I've read, lest I forget them
September 26, 2014
Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping: suicide, adolescence, being different, losing someone
September 25, 2014
On "An Auto-Corrected Journal of Printing Properties: Selected Texts On A Contemporary, Art, and The So-called Elsewhere-Anywhere"
September 06, 2014
Chronicles of my passing (the Boards)
September 05, 2014
Pass
August 20, 2014
PTSD
August 18, 2014
Routine
August 13, 2014
The Library
August 06, 2014
Surprised by life
August 02, 2014
Groaning
August 01, 2014
Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies: stories that resonate with me
July 27, 2014
Prayer warriors and battling sleep
July 27, 2014
A lamentation
July 23, 2014
Mabini's 105th birthday is today
July 22, 2014
David Robertson's The Dawkins Letters: Challenging Atheist Myths
July 21, 2014
I like this pen
July 17, 2014
To help me relax
July 10, 2014
What to read in prison: James Joyce's Ulysses and 1,045 more
July 06, 2014
Chef, the fun movie I watched with an actual pastry chef-friend
July 04, 2014
Distracted
July 01, 2014
On Nora Aunor and the National Artist distinction
June 30, 2014
My study companion is a kid named Theo
June 28, 2014
Old men around
June 26, 2014
La vie en rose
June 25, 2014
Paintings
June 23, 2014
Overheard
June 19, 2014
A. W. Tozer's The Pursuit of God: debunking the secular-sacred dichotomy
June 18, 2014
Like Daniel
June 15, 2014
Tatay's farm
June 14, 2014
Day trip to Dinalupihan, Bataan
June 07, 2014
Dune by Frank Herbert: my favorite fantasy/sci-fi thus far
May 20, 2014
Isang Lagda: Response From The Graduates
May 18, 2014
Tips for the young student
May 16, 2014
Congratulations, Dr. Sean!
May 15, 2014
Whirlwind
May 07, 2014
Haruki Murakami's After Dark: surprised that Eri Asai hasn't died from pulmonary embolism
May 04, 2014
Sunday morning ritual
April 30, 2014
The End has come
April 26, 2014
The fake graduation that felt real and fun
April 25, 2014
Three hours before I "graduate"
April 18, 2014
Remembering Gabriel Garcia Marquez, for nobody else in the world could write like him
April 16, 2014
Sigizmund Krzhizhanokvsky's The Letter Killers Club: so meta!
April 16, 2014
A special place
April 12, 2014
Countdown: days 28 to 19
April 12, 2014
Hipster, academic, hobo
April 01, 2014
The Countdown (29 days left): Summary Rounds, and remembering my first surgery
March 31, 2014
The Countdown To The End of Med School: A Prelude
March 28, 2014
Barrel Fever by David Sedaris: short book, explosive laughing spells about Santa, sympathy, and smoking
March 26, 2014
Edward St. Aubyn's Bad News: learning about heroin addiction
March 26, 2014
Ian McEwan's On Chesil Beach: stories that wound us
March 23, 2014
Round and round the bend
March 23, 2014
Send off
March 20, 2014
The Countdown
March 20, 2014
Kate Atkinson's Case Histories: rooting for a character
March 17, 2014
Gently
March 13, 2014
Jon Bloom's Not By Sight: powerful stories for the weary Christian
March 11, 2014
We go a long way
March 11, 2014
Comfort in conversations
March 10, 2014
Round
March 09, 2014
Your face
March 04, 2014
Crushed
February 28, 2014
A quiet habitation
February 26, 2014
Unborn
February 24, 2014
Happy 58th birthday, Nay!
February 24, 2014
Jesus was a busy man—and He prayed a lot
February 21, 2014
Coffee, puto bumbong, and funny words
February 16, 2014
Alice Munro's Open Secrets: eight stories in Carstairs, Canada
February 16, 2014
Juan-Wei, the first wedding in my MBB block
February 16, 2014
John Piper's When the Darkness Will Not Lift: a wonderful encouragement for the depressed
February 03, 2014
Blue Jasmine: not your typical riches-to-rags story
January 31, 2014
In shirts, shorts, and slippers: our day trip to Tagaytay
January 28, 2014
Getting the hang of it
January 18, 2014
Bailen
January 13, 2014
Albert Camus' The Plague: death is an omnipresent reality
January 11, 2014
My favorite twins
January 05, 2014
Juan Pablo Villalobos' Down the Rabbit Hole: in the eyes of a clueless child
January 04, 2014
Joseph O'Neill's Netherland: playing a game of cricket in New York
January 02, 2014
My first Christmas Eve in Manila
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