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This is an excerpt from The Big Two-Zero-One-O, my really late year ender post. You could read the whole blog post on The Macroblog (louiegomez.com).

One of the most fun and memorable experiences I had last year was way back in February and March when I had my first taste on how it is to be on a graveyard shift in the hospital. Well, it’s easier than the other shifts because there is less work during the middle of the night, the only thing that makes it hard is that you have to stay awake when your body was trained to be asleep.

And because there was only little to do, during my duty with my group mates, we played Uno and Monopoly Deal at the hospital. Actually, it was our clinical instructor who suggested it, so we were not in any kind of trouble. On the last day of our duty — another graveyard shift — we didn’t handle patients, we only played from start to end of our duty (and one of the other groups who was with us had a movie marathon). How awesome were we? Here are some tweets from that time:

This week was fun, even though it’s very taxing, thanks to Monopoly and Uno. -February 26, 2010

I just got home from my graveyard shift. My Mom was surprised to see me. She thought I was about to leave. Super LOL. -March 16, 2010

We just stopped playing Monopoly and Uno a few minutes ago because it’s almost time to go. -March 17, 2010

I hope my college won’t be alarmed with this. :P

Originally posted on The Macroblog (louiegomez.com).

I was never the sporty guy. My built and frame is not suitable for any action-packed contact sports; I prefer watching fouls that being on the receiving part of a nasty tackle. I didn’t like any kind of sports until a few years ago. As a matter of fact, PE was my enemy number one back in my years as a student —luckily for me, I was able to knockout the freaking subject — not just barely knocking it out, but almost killing it.

That’s why back in elementary and high school, intramurals week was basically a rest week for me. Basketball was, is, and will definitely be not for me. The ball is just too heavy for me, as such, I can’t throw it up high into the air. I’m no Superman, the highest jump that I could probably do is just a quarter of  a meter. And just like any Filipino, I have a height disadvantage.

Volleyball is like a punishment to me, every time I hit the ball, I fear that my bones would break. It’s like being spanked with a humongous leather belt, really. The only way I know how to serve is the underhand (which is the weakest form of serve). I can’t do a spike, I can’t block, and I would never go for a dig. I also can’t predict where the ball would actually land, so I would aim to the left when it would actually go to my right. Volleying the ball back into the opponents’ half of the court is also a problem for me, so I would only hit it straight up into the air (set) and let my other teammates do the job of sending it back to our opponents. Interestingly, back in senior high school, when my class was divided into four or five groups, the team that I was with made it all the way to the final. I scored a few points, the teams that we played with (and even the best volleyball players in our class) were — strangely — having a problem with returning my underhand serve.

Table tennis is too weird for me, the almost weightless ball could travel so fast that I couldn’t almost see it, and I haven’t learned how to handle the paddle (which almost looks like a <em>palu-palo</em> to me) properly. We have not also studied it, so there was no way that I would get interested with it.

Badminton would probably be the most suitable sport for me, but almost everyone of my friends really do know how to play it. So I always end up being the loser.

I could go on, but I think I should stop embarrassing myself.

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Fail naman pala itong customer support ng webhost ko. They asked me if I wanted them to move my account from their non-working server to a working one. I said yes. After 12+ hours, they did. Now, my files are gone. They didn’t tell me anything about the consequence. They should have at least cautioned me. I assumed when they said that they would move my account, they’ll move everything! I hope they could salvage my data.

But so far, the only match that I was able to watch was the Murray v Soderling match. I’ve been busy for the past few days, since Tuesday, I had to go to Manila everyday. Hopefully, I’ll be able to see the semi-final and the final matches.