Leadership

I had a very long day today. Apart from having sleep deprivation (which is already given), I was solely worried about school stuff... thesis, case presentation, Med-Surge project, & my nursing care plans. Everything is set on a fast pace, & I'm afraid that I'm not keeping up with the speed.

First of all, I woke up at four o'clock in the morning to prepare for my duty at St. Luke's Medical Center specifically in the INS. Take note, I slept at around two o'clock in the morning so I really need some idiopathic strength & energy to be alert. From six o'clock in the morning up to two o'clock in the afternoon, it's all about work, work, work & work!

After our duty I went straight to Union Bank to encash my cheque. I took a two-hour break in the mall to watch You Changed My Life which is really, really good & better than the first one. I then went to Ayala Station to go to Market! Market! & straight to FTI to get help for our thesis. I then went back to Market & figured to buy some clothes. For short, I went home at around eleven thirty o'clock in the evening. Dang it!

But today I really did hone my leadership skills because of the fact that I am very committed to finish my group's thesis. While some of them say "we'll try," & some of them "we'll do our best," I on the other hand am doing whatever it takes. Being a good follower sure makes a person be a good leader... I think.

Anyways, I'm still in the verge to finish my nursing care plans & continue revising my thesis. Good luck to everyone of us! God bless & take care everyone! :)
 

Signing off, Lan

Clothes Over Bros For Him Steen!

February 26, 2013- C/B for Him released another clothing line that's been hanging in the fashion racks for a long time now. C/B for him spokesperson Allan Leyva is happy to introduced Steen! as part of the ERA collection & will be featured on The 2013 Clothing Concierto that will be happening on April this year.

"We've been having so many practices for it (Clothing Concierto). Dan, Dave, Geun, Ron & I will perform on the Kodak Theater while endorsing the line." said by the Platinum Prince himself.

Presenting Steen!

When asked why isn't Zac Efron part of the event, Allan explained that he's already part of another clothing company, but isn't disappointed nor will be out of place. "We're just happy to the fact that Z (Efron) is part of the movie, besides, he's also busy with one of his movies. Still, he'll be watching us on the clothing concierto anyway."

Steen is short for Stylish Teen, which is more like the sunny side of the ERA collection, since the first line of it was on more on the dark & professional type. "It will represent as the modern teen fashion  of the kids today." Sophia Bush, one of the owners of the C/B, said in a statement.

"Clothes Over Bros is on full swing this year," Leyva stated, "Just expect more events, with Megaman X & MTNB Encore!"

To know more about the Steen Collection, visit www.c/b-forhim.com.

Back to Zero

All it takes for me to realize that I'm taking a misguided path is a conversation with a friend of mine... & five months.
  
Actually, it's not really a misguided path, it's more like an over-my-limit path; I'm always on top of my game when it comes to business (you can say I'm an over-achiever) rather than being nonchalant on the bucks side after harvesting all the seeds that I planted. I'm just worried that I already became a leader on this business & I'm the one who had to leave temporarily. I'm coming back again anyway because this business will remain forever.
  
Thanks to a friend of mine who truthfully answered all my questions, I just had an epiphany last night after a couple of beers & a tequila. We are both right- I cannot balance two things- but the only difference between our belief was, I thought I can weigh studies & business at the same time. I'm missing the old Allan who used to study, who used to tutor & who used to be a normal low profile kind of guy. Now it all changed. I'm not saying I dislike the Allan I am now, it's just that there's a part of me that's missing, even though I added something. I used to be on top of my game when it comes to studying. They never credited me in doing the business anyway so why do I have to exchange what I will know to what I will earn? I'm not being pessimistic, after all without me doing this business, it'll grow & grow much more. Until then, I'm going back to where I started from.
  
Skipping everything last night, I actually had a very long worry-free night. What a way to make up for what I have discontinued. I'm going to school later to let our adviser check up on our thesis & maybe get some head start on Pathophysiology. Thank you for constantly visiting my blog, God bless & take care everyone. Have a nice day! Life continues...
  

Signing off, Allan V.1

Get a Globalian Grip!

(This is my entry post for the Blogger.com contest)

I sit here today pondering on how I should begin my post to create awareness for our school. I made some grandiose introductions on how the school proved to be one of the very best as it grew over the couple of years & some analogies & comparisons about how my school seems to be like an eagle- the strength it endeavored to spread its wings & fly towards the sky... towards success. For short, it's all about a bunch of crappy motivational moving trifled words, not that any of them aren't true, it's just that it's given already! If I talked about how Global City Innovative College transformed itself from a 'starlet' to today's 'it girl' of colleges & universities because of the products (GCIC graduates) it created, then we'll just get into circles. I mean, how am I supposed to make a 'blog entry that will create awareness for GCIC & should generate community readership'? I can't even make my little sister to eat her vegetables, what more can I say to convince the school about being a true, proud Globalian.

To tell you the truth, no matter how many epiphanies I'm having to reel in some blogging ideas I just couldn't find the right words for this blog post to sell. I thought, even without some big appetizers for this message, at least I could find the right entree, but I just can't. I know GCIC has the incredible talent to make itself one of the best colleges today, but how can I prove that it is? What result should I tell the world? Then there it was... it slapped my thoughts into working- I am the RESULT!

A suggestion from a little conversation made me visit the GCIC institution back when I was looking for a good school with a cool environment, literally. I got acquainted with the school atmosphere faster than I thought, transforming me from a silent shy guy to a fresh confident (I even ran for secretary for the GSSA election) responsible student nurse. I experienced the overhaul even more with the innovations the school it implemented. I was once unsure about the course I have chosen because my mom made me took nursing, but believe it or not, I fell in love with it because of the school itself. I have met the right ingredients in being a good person. I am the result, & the ones who experienced something good too are the results as well. Forget the confidence I acquired, forget the real life lessons I learned, forget the friends I met, forget the perfect grades, forget the teachers & clinical instructors who never failed to give me the knowledge I need, forget the pieces I've put together on my missing parts- I owe it to GCIC & nothing else.
 
Although I'm not a leader or something, I'm still a person too... more importantly, a GCIC nursing student & a proud result of this institution, & I'm trying to give something back to the school- respect, not that we're behaving like children, one of the things we learned from our school was to be mature in every step of the way, it just seems that we don't appreciate the things the school is giving us. How can we do that? It's really that simple- prioritize! GCIC wants to continue their legacy, which is to create better results. The only thing they're asking from us is to set those games aside & bring in the culture of competence. Whatever we want from our lives, our school is making it better. We just need to follow with the waves of our academe; who ever said change isn't good, right? Get a Globalian Grip everyone, because as responsible results we need to score a little more attention to prove that Global City Innovative College never failed to paved us through the right way. We can do this- there's no 'I' in 'team' right? :)
 
I sit here today pondering on how I should end my post to create awareness for our school. To try & make a good dessert for this post, I would end it with a simple reminder for all of us Globalians- College is like a place to keep you warm between a faulty highschool life & a normal job career, so make the most out of your GCIC life. Let's prove that we're not just a school, we're a family. Let's all plant the seeds of our school.
  
A composition I created & submitted for a competition during GCIC Nurse's Week entitled GCIC Family.

Global Family

Allan Aldrinne Leyva

(Verse I)

We plant the seeds of faith

Then everything becomes so great

From the start we were unsure

But now we all salute the excellence

  

We need to be innovative

Cause we are strong & shrewd

To show the truth to you

(Chorus)

That we are one when it comes to GCIC

Opening opportunities

We are one by sharing a single passion

We all have dreams & it’s our right to be

Part of Global family

(Verse II)

For years we renovate

Commitments made we never break

When it comes to giving more

We balance all the love we teach

Today I strive to fly above the sky

We build the hopes & dreams

To conquer everything

(Chorus)

Cause we are one when it comes to GCIC

Opening opportunities

We are one by sharing a single passion

We all have dreams & it’s our right to be

Part of Global family

(Bridge)

& now we marched to the start of our victory

Having all the praises they were throwing at me

All the while we’ve been ready to spread our wings

Having knowledge & the talents that our God can give

There can be a hindrance to this world

But I believe & I have faith

To reach more than we could what we’re reaching in

Cause we have one song to sing

(Repeat Chorus 2x)

Celebrate our victory

MTNB Bagged the Oscars!

February 17, 2013- The Newest Beatles have done it! Bryan Edworth, Andrew Tennessee, Lucky Evo, & Suk-Eunkyu almost bagged all the awards on the 85th Academy awards that was held in the Kodak Theater in Hollywood.

The director of the movie MTNB, Robert Zemeckis, said he couldn't been so much prouder. They won the awards for the nominations of Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Daniel Radcliffe in a Leading Role (Allan Leyva as one of the nominated), Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Daniel Henney, Best Cinematography, Best Sound Mixing, Best Original Song (for Don't Revolve, Change Passenger & Keep- Leyva's original compositions), Best Costume Design, & Best Foreign Language Film. It was nine oscars from thirteen nominations. No questions asked- MTNB starred the Academy Awards.

"We worked hard for this film & I know we deserve it," said by Oscar winner Daniel Radcliffe, bagging the Best Actor award against his fellow Beatle Allan Leyva. "Even from the start, we knew we just had to enjoy the whole cake than a piece of it."

Meet the Newest Beatles Encore

 

Jang Geun-suk, who failed to make it to the Awards night, sent a video telling that the pressure is getting harder & harder. "I apologize if I couldn't make it to the Oscars with you guys, but I couldn't be more happier than winning something so prestige & having Dan (Radcliffe), Dave (Archuleta), Lan (Leyva), & Dane (Henney) as the ones who pulled me up from the start. We made movie history, & now the pressure's on us. Part two will be bigger!" said by Geun-suk in a statement, where everyone just stood up & cheered for his message.

Allan Leyva never was devastated at all, not winning the Oscars for Best Actor unlike last year, because of the fact that his movie companion Radcliffe got it. "It's like trying but winning at the same time- trying because you get to compete with the biggest stars in the whole wide world & even though Dan won the award, I felt like winning it too. I mean, we're always together on the set every single day & one of us getting it means a lot on us. Besides, I'm more happier on the fact that we won nine awards, & that my compositions proved to be a lot greater than what I had expected." Allan also blew the audiences' breath when he performed Battlefield of Love at the end of the show where he also cried tears of joy because of what they won.

David Archuleta, who joined Allan Leyva on the stage when they sang Leyva's original song hit Don't Quit, also bursted out in tears at the end of Zemeckis' speech while winning Best Cinematography. "It's like you're there & you just cannot believe what happened. I'm so thankful that we have gotten this far in such a limited amount of time & we will still be standing up & chase what's behind our dreams together."

Now prepare for the sequel of MTNB which is the Meet the Newest Beatles Encore where Zac Efron & Robert Pattinson will be joining the boat. Cheers for MTNB!

Gone are the days...

There will be times when you just can't handle the pressure anymore, thus resulting to confusion- you don't know what to prioritize & you can't even realize it. I used to be spending some quality time with my ol' blogger here, but I guess the only enemy we have in this world... isn't change, but time itself.

Even in school or business, we always lack time.... well sometimes, we just don't know how to utilize it. Let's just say that there are things that just get in the way. Even if you can finish the race in a matter of time, then another one will start again.

I could find many ways on how to use your time wisely, but I couldn't find a way how to actually do it. Even if I shouldn't find some excuses on my complaint, we just can't find enough seconds, minutes or hours to fill up another day... that's why there's procrastination... that's why there's changes... that's why there's problems... that's why there's confusion.

Seriously, gone are the days where you can find so much time to control your day. I'm getting back on Lefty's Journal, just let me find the right amount of time. God bless & take care guys!

Signing off, LAN

123rd & 124th Song- It's Not Easy to Know & Alone Again On My Valentine's Day

It’s Not Easy to Know

Allan Aldrinne Leyva

You said I should just let it out

& never go back at all

Release all my problems

& give me time to haul

Be there & you’d understand

The things behind my fall

I thought you know my bad goodbyes

You just bid & go

(Chorus)

It’s not easy to know

When your heart is in toll

& you never get to understand why I bid goodbye

& you’ll find a new one

To be happy, it’s not

That easy to find someone when my heart’s still with you

I’m sick & tired of your glee

You found my sympathy

Give me time to mold myself

It’s too late, I believed

You said faith comes into us

Now you found someone

What happens to forever love?

I’ll say this one more time

(Repeat Chorus)

It’s not easy to fall

It’s not easy to go

Why’d you left me here?

(Repeat Chorus 2x)

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Alone Again on My Valentine’s Day

Allan Aldrinne Leyva

St. Valentines wants to play

She always gets into my way

Saying that I’m just dreaming for

Because I never get to tell the truth

I’m tired & falling

No one would dare to catch me

I’m alone & broken

I guess she’s right after all

(Chorus)

Alone again on my Valentine’s Day

Desperate to look for someone better

On the day when I could’ve met you

The stars aligned to complicate my venture

St. Valentines wants to play

I’m over the news that I

Can’t find a date in Valentines

My friends say they’ve all I got

But they fall in love one by one

I’m shallow & stupid

I guess I’m just so frightened

Of loving or longing

A girl that would complete me

(Repeat Chorus 2x)

For those who are in love

Thank you for still showing me

That I can find someone

I guess it’s not the time to see

Still I’m

(Repeat Chorus 3x)

St. Valentines wants to play

Rebirth

Allan Aldrinne Rodesma Leyva

Born: January 20, 1990

Died: February 4, 2009

Reborn: February 10, 2009

This maybe the longest & most devastating absence I have ever committed in the blogging business. 6 days?! Now I'm not pretending to be busy anymore, seriously. I can't even remember how to sleep well. The past few weeks have been so problematically awing in my hysterical life- I can't read my novels, my phone is broken, I'm behind my projects & thesis, I'm nearly broke because of overspending, my pimples are getting back at my face, & my hair's effing ugly!.... I don't know what I'm doing in my life now.

Sigh! *Breathes* Enough of the whining! I still need to be positive & alert! One thing I learned from this business is that the more excuses you're giving to yourself, the more it would be hard for you to cope up with your problems. I should be able to get on with my positive side than to drown myself with pessimism. I'm still in the verge of the multiple mayhems syndrome but these too shall pass... these too shall pass.

Signing off, Allan :)

Sales Rally. DL. Holdup. 60K.

Those five insignificant words you see on top of this were actually the things that filled my attention this week. A lot of nerve-wracking tension & excitement have been revolving my occupied life, which is why I want to apologize for the two long day absence that I used for school & business work. I just got home at quarter to twelve o'clock yesterday night so I'm got really worried at Midterms today because I didn't give much of my time to it. However, it's a good thing I'm on my verge to make up for what I have lost in my grades. Let me show you how my week is going so far...

SALES RALLY

The Bloody Spartans at the Sales Rally

At February 1, 2009, Sunday, we were all moved by the constant cheering & enjoyment from my company's Sales Rally, where the Mocha Girls performed, in AFP Theater. We all had fun from the start upto the end of the show.

We all have stories, & they were the ones who shared how they truly became successful in the business. I was really motivated when William Barbo, the president of the company, talked to me & said it will be my turn next time. He was really approachable & funny, & I look up to him. The event started at three o'clock in the afternoon & ended at eight-ish? We became a family when all of the members united on the event, it was a successful Sales Rally & it got heated up when the Mocha Girls, Philippines' own version of the Pussycat Dolls, appeared & raved up the party, claiming the position of the newest endorsers for the company. Everyone never failed to have a good time but our group had to cancel going with our top earners/uplines for a keeping because some of us have to study for the exams. Life really got so much better with my business!

DL

Amidst the merriment we experienced this Sunday, tribulation is still there waiting around the corner. I actually had a mismanagement with a downline, I don't know why, but it seems people don't like me nowadays. It's not like I'm doing something not connected with business, so forgive me for not always being there. Like you, I also have to focus on some of my downlines... that's why I made you a leader, remember? No aversion please.

HOLDUP

It seems like bad luck followed me around on Monday Madness! After the long, long nursing enhancement class (from eight in the morning to four in the afternoon), I went straight to Taft to go fetch me some slimming pills whom Theo, my friend, ordered. It was really a normal busy business day but of course, ironic it may seems, I'm not that normal as a person too. When I was crossing a bridge to go back to the train station, two men grabbed me by the shoulder & got my wallet. Actually, they still have to grabbed me to get my phone but I luckily got a chance to run away, albeit one of my straps on my bagpack got torn away. At least I didn't get hurt, but there's the worst part- without any money at all & my load which expired two hours before the incident, I started walking for two hours, from Taft Avenue to Mandaluyong. I was so exhausted from the journey I had & became so hungry & thirsty. I will never forget that five kilometer walk. Dang those men who took three thousand six hundred fifty pesos of my life. It could've been my payment for my make-up duty.
   

60K

   

Okay, so I'm kinda getting crazy when Tuesday came. All I can say to this is that I can earn one hundred fifty thousand weekly on this. I cannot get over it until today, since it really is a large sum of money to be produced by somebody like me. :)
  
Those four insignificant words you see on top of this were actually the things that filled my attention this week. Now I'm still looking forward tomorrow for another round of mayhems. Sheesh! It's my thing already. God bless & take care.

Signing off, A

Sales Rally!

Yesterday night I went to my office for a not-so-quick visit to check up on my downlines. At least they're still doing good (Smiles). I also grabbed a ticket for the Sales Rally today entitled Pride & Glory that will start at three o'clock in the afternoon.
 
I'm excited just to see my uplines walking up the stage again & claiming their awards. It really feels good when you are cheering for the people you love & are now part of your family. Hence, I need to be preparing for today now.
  

Me, MARK, & Lota

Before I forget, I want to greet my bestfriend Mark Anthony Jabalde a happy, happy birthday! He turned twenty today. Dude! Never worry about your age, you still have the kid's heart & the brain of a doctor in your young adult body.

Happy Febru-allan to everyone! God bless & take care! :)

Signing off, Allan

CS

I had the best & probably the longest medical hangover yesterday at 4:30 in the afternoon.

One of the inspirations I got...

When I was a little nursing student back at the year 2006, I was inspired pursuing my chosen course because of a drama series called Grey's Anatomy. I think Meredith made me realized that being in the medical field is way cooler than any other professions, so I also had thoughts about being a doctor too. Let's just say we have to take one step at a time.

From the start of my third year as a student nurse, I kinda got lost from the path I was taking when I realized that the only reason I'm studying nursing is because I wanted to make money & then I stumbled upon my business which is still going great by the way. Up until that day I made a decision to fly low in my studies & focus on the bucks. I also tried to balance the two opposing parties, but I failed.

On my first duty assignment, I was really overjoyed when I handled the nursery room in Cardinal Santos Medical City. The babies there were a lot cuter than I have expected, & they were the ones who cheered me up. I still remember my first patient- my baby boy "Siopao" whom I missing right now. Anyways, the rest of the duty days gave me an all new exposure that made me continue studying, although I'm still apt to continue my business. I already planned it actually- after I graduate I would continue building up my business rather than look for a job in hospitals. I NEVER imagined myself working in the medical field. My dream of being a doctor was just a thing of the past for me.

Then yesterday, something changed me...

Nurse Ryan was absolutely right when he said the OR (operating room) was the best place a nurse can get. At first I really wondered why but then again, I'm so excited when he assigned me to scrub in on a caesarian section operation where you have to cut the abdomen to get the baby. After the review of the surgical handwashing (which is weird cause I enjoyed it), the closed method of gloving & the gowning, I was ready to see the inside of an abdomen for the first time. All those memories of wanting to be a doctor lifted up my spirits again when I assisted in handling the bladder retractor, the suctioning, & some of the OR equipments.

I was in a medical frenzy of some sort- I can't take my eyes off the procedures the surgeon is doing, especially the stitching part. The best part about it was when the doctor grabbed something underneath the abdomen & out comes the baby's head! It was so cool seeing it for the first time. I realized that the operation took more than an hour but it felt like I just stood there for twenty minutes. I told my groupmates I never got sick or anything when they asked me if I got nauseous on my first time. The doctor-feeling just swept over me in the OR that I never even thought of the operation being disgusting.

It may seem vague at first, but once you found the path where you really belong, the way will just become clearer to you. Up until this point I'm still not sure whether to pursue a PHD after I graduated as a nurse but I'm open for considerations. At the age of nineteen, I'd still be able to do & experience a lot of things so I wouldn't need to worry about my future... I guess for its sake.

I'm still thankful that I experienced this & to Grey's Anatomy which got me here. Special thanks to the readers & advance happy birthday to my dearest friend (who I also am looking forward to pursue doctorate), Mark Anthony Jabalde! I wouldn't need to wish you anything because you actually have it all. Just stay as a person you were on the day I met you & we're here when you need us, just say the word. :) God bless & take care everyone! Have fun on the rest of the day.

Signing off, Allan Aldrinne Leyva, RN, PHD