What ungrateful, vile, loathsome, disgusting… (the list goes on I’m afraid, and I’m thinking about placing explicit adjectives here but, I’ve been taught better manners, so there you go…)

I never thought I’d get to meet such narrow-minded people in my lifetime, but, oh unfortunate me, I had to meet the worst of them.  And I’m pretty sure I’ll be meeting a lot of them in the future.

I just realized that I was being taken advantage of.  A tool to get someone else’s desires.

There I was helping them to be the best versions of  themselves as they can and all the while, these people you were helping were talking about you behind your back, telling people lies and absolutely making themselves look good in front of others.

How exactly do you make of these people?

Is hate the alternative you have for them?

How do you forgive them if they haven’t even apologized?  They just left.

That’s it.

Seriously.

It’s funny how the greed for material things and money can make such stupid idiots out of seemingly nice people.  Their true colors did shine through, I guess.  I suppose they just shone a little too late for me.

These people do not deserve a lengthy post so I’ll end here and I’ll let you contemplate on what you would do if you were in my shoes.

I passed it again…

By now, I think you now know what “it” is.

Last June 2007, the passers of the June 2006 Nursing Licensure Examinations (I am unfortunately one of them) retook tests III and V of the Board Exams and tonight the results are out.

I was working in the PM shift and I was through with endorsements for my patients when I read two text messages that bore the words: “Congrats!  You passed!”  In a completely shocked and impulsive mindset, I showed someone else the text messages in case I was seeing things (Yeah, that’s how paranoid I am).  I was grinning like a fool and I practically gave a yelp in the Nurses’ Station, which got a lot of people wondering.

The results can be viewed in here.

Since I didn’t get to attend Sunday mass, I figured it’s only fitting that I put a prayer in my post for today, for I feel like all God’s blessings are falling on me like rain…

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes, came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.

Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice: have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. Hide not thy face far from me; put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up. Teach me thy way, O Lord, and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies. Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty. I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

- Psalm 27

 

No spoilers… I promise.

After I have flipped the last page of this book, I felt a deep sense of disbelief and loss.

It was over.

The series, which I have followed for years, was finally over.

All the questions that were burning in my mind weren’t answered, but on the whole I absolutely loved this book!  I felt all kinds of emotions with this book and so far, only J.K. Rowling has managed to do that to me with a book.  If I remember correctly, my eyes welled up about three times in this book.

Usually, she does it only once.  But with this book, I cried three times.

I can’t say I loved the epilogue.  I thought it could have been better.  But on the whole it wasn’t so bad.

The overall story was amazing.  Humor, angst, adventure, drama, action and, of course, magic, was splashed all over the pages of this book.  J.K. Rowling is simply one of a kind.  I was so proud and so impressed with her to have written such a wonderful, engaging tale of a small, scrawny, bespectacled boy who would carry the weight of the world on his shoulders.

I absolutely feel sorry for those who haven’t read this series.  The movies do not contain a tenth of the wonder and magic of the books.

I can’t say much since that will totally spoil everything for some people, but my mind got to thinking after finishing the book…

Somehow, in some way or another, there is a Lord Vol—

Ooops!  I meant You-Know-Who, in all of us.

Sorry.  I forgot the name’s taboo.  *Wink

I ask myself,
Have you said goodbye?
I know you have…
And you’re not going to cry.

The time is close…
It’ll be over soon..
Say what you have to say…
Words from everyone are strewn.

I looked again.
I stand to wait and see.
See if you’ll seize the chance,
Before He sets him free.

And then I blinked…
There’s no more time to wait.
There he goes… going… gone…
I hope you weren’t too late.