I wish it's always these happy for each and every OFW

It was back in October 2009 when I finally went home as an OFW after two years of staying in Dubai.  Two years ago.  I can identify with the guy with the father going blind.  I wanted to be home while my father could still see me.  
But... 
When I went home, it wasn't the usual homecoming.  Not a vacation or a back-for-good kind of a decision. I was diagnosed with a medical condition that made me HAD to come home.  
Instead of making arrangements for beach resorts and parties, I had an appointment with the hospital for clearances and other medical procedures.  
And a lot of things have already happened ever since.
My father's cataract was extracted so he's got better vision these days.
But if there's one great thing that happened is that I am still here!  

Far from Thomas' Rainbow

It was a tough book, and here are my few notes about it.

I hope that there would come a time that I'll be ready for this book.  That I'll remember that here, Mexico is a name and not a place or a country.  That I need to remember the name of the psychologist and his girlfriend, or if Mexico is the psychologist with a girlfriend.

3, 4, 5, Alice and the Knave

I remember the first eBook I ever read.  It was "Twilight" by Stephanie Meyer.  Someone gave me the complete series (as of that time it was one to four:  Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn) all on eBook and I got to read only the first.  And it was I guess about two or maybe three years ago.

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This time, having running out of books to read, I opted to try reading an eBook and to make the experience not really that dreadful (since with Twilight, I preferred to read the printed word), I opted to choose just a short, classic story, just to have something to read, to past the time, and to experience eBook once again.

You might call it weird but I randomly chose Alice's Adventures in Wonderland at goodreads.com.   I discovered that in that website, there is a wealth of book titles as well as eBooks that are ready to be downloaded and read.  One good thing about it, too, is that you won't be mislead in tracking down the pages if you downloaded the book on the website itself. 

The other good thing that I discovered on the website is that you can embed the eBook itself on your blog so people could see it and maybe download it for themselves.  How cool is that is so cool to me.  

Anyway, as I have started with my last few books, I am linking those few notes that I have written about the book.  As I said in my book blog, I do not make reviews since I believe there are already a wealth of sites that are offering reviews for millions of books.  So, I decided to give it a little twist by incorporating it with my life, or sometimes being an extension of it.

Here is the link to my notes on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

To give you the experience of having the book embedded on a blog, here is it:

Pasalubong #34

Back from the seventh cycle

As they say, we learn as we go along and as we experience things.  So, like what I did after the sixth cycle, I called the hospital early in the afternoon to size up their admissions.  They say that they have quite many and the guy at the reception asked me if I want to reserve.  I said, no, of course, since it was really impractical.  I told him I'll just call again a few hours before we leave home to make sure that they have available rooms.

About thirty minutes before we left, I called again and asked.  This time, the lady said that they have quite a few vacant rooms and said outright that Room 310 is available.  I don't really know if she already knows me but I was really glad she opened it up.  I told her we're already on our way and if there was still a need for me to make reservations.  She asked where I was coming from and finding out, she said, it's okay, it's near and we'll get it ready by now.

So, on the last three succeeding cycles, also cycle 3, I was admitted in the same room, the room that has been so familiar with me ever since I started chemotherapy.  Yes, it was coincidental that it was also the same room number that I stayed in college.  Well, the reason why I like this room is that it's neither big nor small enough for us.  The toilet was not tall nor short enough and the other things just fit right in the room.  The other room I was into one time was near the oxygen storage area and it was kind of noisy every time they will have to move the tanks.

I hope that it would also be my room on my supposedly last cycle... the eighth.