SHIKIMIKIE

This is a picture of my mom and I riding a very horrifying ride at Sea Paradise. Taken when I was still 4. First of all, I don't know who the heck decided that this ride is okay for children. Can we just look at the picture for a moment? I don't even know how I survived that shizz. And look! my feet aren't even halfway close the feet rest thingy.

It was actually my dad who made us ride this thing and my mom was actually terrified because one thing about my mom is that she's actually terrified of everything that's not carousel or Ferris Wheel and I can actually remember her asking my dad if this ride isn't scary and all that and my dad said that it's nothing like that so my mom agreed to ride and took me with her. Poor Mikie. What do I know at 4, right?

When we finally rode this thing, all I can remember is that we were being tossed and turned ON REPEAT! I know I closed my eyes the whole time and when I tried to opened it once, I saw autumn trees and then I don't remember anything after that. I probably fainted or whatever. So after the ride, my mom was really punching my dad as we were walking and she was scolding him for not telling her the truth and my dad was just laughing and laughing and yeah. That's all! :)

What should I say? You didn't think I chose this as my first choice, right? Since it's all over now, I would like to share why I ended up with this course a few years ago.

I can still remember clearly when my mom asked me what I want to study in college. I then said NURSING. Not because it's in-demand or not because it's what's "IN" but because I really wanted to be a nurse. My mom disapproved of that and said I wouldn't be a good nurse because I'm BURARA daw hahaha. Which I didn't take quite seriously and just carried on. This may sound odd but from that day forward, I researched on things I potentially want to study. Psychology, pharmacy, tourism management, biology, and accountancy are some of the courses I considered but my mom said NO once again. And for some reason, I still didn't take that seriously. Okay, I should just carry on. Then one day, she suggested Medical Technology to me and I was totally clueless what the heck that is and then mom provided me with the information that it's the course of the person who do home service sort of and the one who's getting blood sample from her every once in a while for her laboratory tests. Not bad, I thought. I told myself that if I can't be a nurse, I wouldn't want to go that far. So I was okay with Medical Technology. The next thing I researched on is what universities offer such. MCU, CEU, and UST. Cool. 

I consulted my mom with this and she said I should just go to MCU because it's nearest our place. I don't know but I kind of don't want to be there since college for me is about exploring things, having fun, and all that and since it's near our place, it didn't really excite me that much. CEU was okay for me because my best friend actually intended to go there as well. But my mom told me that if I want to be a Medical Technologist, I should go to a university with a hospital because that means that the course is really one of their expertise. It makes sense but not really. And then UST. To be honest, UST actually scared the hell out of me because it's just something I am terrified of for some reason. Wait, what? You know, when I was younger, my grand mother's sister would always say "IKAW SA UST KA SIGURO MAG-AARAL" And I didn't know UST that time. But since we're talking about bright future and stuff, I assumed it's hard to go in and all that stuff.

Come entrance exam, I am very certain that my mom would really insist for me to go MCU so I didn't take their application form and I didn't even visit the place to check what's happening there or whatever. I did take CEU's entrance exam which I gladly passed and I also took USTET which I think I didn't pass but it turned out differently. I actually don't know what happened but I was really okay with the whole exam except READING COMPREHENSION. I was answering the questions regarding the first paragraph when the proctor asked us to submit the paper. I think there were 5 paragraphs all in all. And I was totally hopeless that time.

But I made it! :) I can still remember my high school adviser distributing the envelopes that contain whether or not we got accepted at UST and I can still remember his smile and said, you passed. Oh well.

Medical Technology is a degree and a profession unknown to many people but it doesn't mean that it does not play a big role in the society. I actually learned to love Medical Technology. It was a very rough road but you know, it's worth it now that I have my degree. I regret nothing.