I was supposed to wake up at 3am to type a part of a report on pediatrics but as usual putting all the alarms on was useless. Believe it or not dalawang celphones na at isang alarm clock ang gumigising sa kin kanina. Ala effect yung snooze!!!i dont even remember putting them off! I already woke up at 8:30I got even more frustrated later at about 9:00 when the alpha hydroxy mask on my face was taking an unusually loooong time to dry. I have no choice but to wash it off because I have to meet up with a professor at 10am.

Last night, my internship group and I were nearly going crazy as we can't come up with a good research question. Apparently, my suggestion about aquatic therapy can't be executed due to the lack of a standardized assessment tool for body concept. (And why the hell would you use aquatic therapy just to treat a body concept problem?! bat ba di ko yun kagad naisip yun?Maybe I was just excited about studying the properties of water and physics for a change.). The time pressure on us was too much because we still have to consult the professor for approval. Today was the deadline. Suggestions played around Alzheimer's Disease and Arthritis still using aquatic therapy as an intervention and ADL performance as the context. Ok na sana talaga yung sa arthrits pero kelangan talaga ng series of treatment sessions to see the results at may clinical internship ka pa from 8-5 on weekdays and a class every saturday so kulang lang talaga sa time kahit na good for one year yung thesis. Sa Alzheimer's naman, hirap makakuha ng patients kasi di ba Alzheimer's Disease is rarely diagnosed in the country and caregivers/family members just think of the memory problem as a natural part of aging which is also true in some cases. It was already 7pm last night and we still have no settled research topic and we're late for the mass in St.Jude. We were becoming hopeless and we can't think clearly because we were so exhausted from the school works yesterday. You see, we still have to make the following:

- Down Syndrome report for Pedia

- Flexor and Extensor tendon injuries report for PhysDys

- telephone interview with the owner of Trichet Learning Center for additional baseline data (akin lang pala to)

- documentation of the program planning, and implementation for Trichet (akin ulit)

- translate in tagalog management programs for speech delay for the lecture-discussions with caregivers/parents of children in Trichet.

All of those should be finished next week, including the reporting. Sounds simple? Well, spend one of these days with me. Im exerting too much negative energy here, am I? Eh what can I do? I really feel...I dont even know exactly what I feel today after knowing what centers/hospitals Im gonna be for the next twelve months (starting April). All I know is, I'm tired, but not sleepy pa naman. Type ko lang muna siguro report for Pediatrics tapos, tulog na ko talaga. Going back, we were so desperate to have a reasearch topic, we consulted our professor. With his help, we were able to come up with this and it was already approved (eto lang nagpasaya sa kin ngayon).

ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIABILITY AND VALIDITY MEASURES FOR iSEE, A COMPUTERIZED ASSESSMENT TOOL FOR VISUAL-PERCEPTUAL SKILLS

iSEE was a program developed by the previous OT batches with the help of computer programmers. Astig di ba? We're planning to go to schools that have access to computers. Getting reliability results like, say, test-retest reliability might be a little time consuming, pero kaya namin yan!!

Happy Birthday to Michelle Lo!!!

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Sh*t! I just realized that I haven't finished reading Memoirs of a Geisha!! Double time dapat lahat so I could read it pa. Yung school works naman kasi eh, biglang dumagsa. To my classmates and friends in CRS - the few chosen ones who know my blog (hehe!)...are u still aware that last week lang tayo nag-2nd shifting exams? eek! abnormal talaga.By the way, sobrang ganda ng Memoirs...! One of the few books you would gladly read all over again.