funny thing. i just finished reading some e-mail psych test about adding numbers and thinking of colors and tools, and i first thing that came to my mind was a green neurohammer. i am now officially part of the 2% of the population that doesn't think of a red hammer off the bat, and an even smaller percentile that actually entertain medical equipment in their normal train of thought. but really, how different, or *abnormal*, as the test puts it, can i be? a neurohammer is simply a more specialized play on the regular tool, and i've just been obsessing over the color green for some time. my brain's just bubbling over from my mental excursions. or maybe i've just got too much med on my mind.

it's not really surprising, seeing as how i spent the better part of this day enrolling for my first year in med proper. i arrive there before 8, just to have to wait for migz to come with my enrollment papers sometime before 8:30. the "unibersidad ng pila" lives up to its name in no time, with 160 or so students pushing papers at the same office. we finally finish around 11, then head off to the freshmen orientation sponsored by the phi frat and soro, where i squander my greater thought processes by mentally and verbally projecting my raffle number into the hosts' brains whenever they put a sphygmomanometer or stethoscope up for grabs. that, as expected, was to no avail. the promised free buffet lunch couldn't have come up at a better time, and after which i trouble myself with ordering the majority of books and equipment i would be needing for the first year. there were plans about going to sm mall of asia after all the activities, but despite the adventurer and shopaholic in me, i pass the offer up, seeing as how i'm left with barely enough money to commute home (and why? let me just say that i was dealing with 5-digit figures at the phi store). which leads me to the pc, yahoo, and the e-mail as mentioned.

my return from the schooling hiatus was pleasantly... pleasant, i should say. i hadn't made my acquaintance with the 120 new faces in the college of medicine crowd, but from what i saw, i can't wait to actually know these people and start my med life with them. but if i'm talking about people, let me just mention the people who really matter: imed. it was weird, actually, since during the summer, never did i feel that i really missed these people, with whom i was so used to spending all my time with for the last 2 years. thoughts of loneliness never came, and if i wished for the schoolyear to start already, it was just so that it would mean i would have to finally stop working. but when i got there and finally saw the oh-so-familiar faces (some not-quite-as-familiar, with the summer diets and summer pig-outs, myself included) it struck me that my summer existence did feel *empty* in some way, that i really did look forward to and was excited with seeing all these people again.

but right after that point of self-reflection, everything seemed to pop right back into place as it was before we all got dispersed. the same groups, the same topics, the same interactions; it was as if we were never apart to begin with. and as the feeling of normalcy came so quickly, so did the reflections on companionship and company disappear so abruptly. must've just been games in my head, some more plays of my mind.