trip lang

Trip. In the English dictionary, this would mean a journey. But in Filipinism (using of an English words and having its meaning change to something only us Filipinos can understand), this connotes another thing: something you do out of fun or just some random actions.

And this week, I was just in the mood to do something that I was not supposed to as a student. Just for the heck of doing something unusual, I absent myself from class twice this week. Trip lang. That’s how we Filipinos would term it.

Tuesday. The night before I read some pages from Novak’s Gynecology to prepare for our small-group discussion. And I wrapped up the night watching Psyche series on my laptop and slept already at 3am. I did not really intend to get absent but when I woke up, it was already fifteen minutes before seven. My class starts at seven. Added to this, I was still sleepy so with my mind not yet at its good thinking condition, I gave way to my primary need: a good sleep. I then intentionally skipped two other classes that day, our 8am Legal Medicine and our Psychiatry III makeup lecture at 12am. I only attended the afternoon classes.

Friday. Mondays and Fridays are critical days for us. On these days, we have quiz on Medicine II which only few of us have managed to pass. I, myself, have not passed any quiz. Out of nothing, after that 7am to 12pm Medicine II class that Friday, I thought of not attending the two afternoon classes, Psychiatry III and Pediatric Surgery. Again, trip lang.

I really have changed much now that I am in med school. I have never get myself absent from class when I was in elementary, high school, and even in college just because trip lang. I don’t know, maybe I’m just beginning to shift from being the good boy to semi-bad boy. Deviance. This is something I never do when I was young. I always followed the rules, did the things I am told to do, and never (or just seldom) broke rules and regulations. Now, I’m turning to it.

It was during my Freshman in med school when I started skipping classes. I tended not to attend the 7am Anatomy lecture in exchange for a longer sleep. In second year, I never attended any of our lectures in Psychiatry II in almost two months (hehe, and what’s amazing is that I passed the shifting examination wherein many of my classmates failed).

Now, the saga continues. Hehe, maybe I am just having the time of my life and having fun. But it was the wrong way.

When will I change for the better? I should have never changed, I think. But trip lang. Even this writeup is just a trip lang thing, hehe.