J-Dorama Review: Kira Kira Kenshui

Kira Kira Kenshui means “Sparkling Medical Intern”. It revolves around the life of Oda Usako, a new medical intern at Otowa General Hospital. The show follows her around as she barely survives the life of a normal intern trying to get by and trying to understand the minds of her very different but very real instructors and the different nurses in each department. There she gets the help of a male nurse named Tachioka (although he is always teased with the name “Tapioca”) and a very attractive (my personal opinion) medical representative named Yamazaki.

The show runs for 11 episodes, and I watched it for an entire Sunday just stopping to eat. It was so funny and I could really relate to the character. It was just kind of annoying that she cries in every single episode! My favorite instructor was Kawai-sensei, the OB doctor. He can really be a good mentor if he tried really hard. They say that the story was based on a real intern’s blog. ^_^ It really feels good to write about your experiences in a blog, but for it to be turned into a movie? That’s a different feeling right there.

I recommend this show to all of my med friends out there. It’s not as AMAAAAZING as Iryu: Team Medical Dragon, but it sure is entertaining. I wonder why there aren’t any Filipino medical shows? I don’t think it is too hard to handle…

22 days and counting

1 more week in rehab

1 24 hr duty left for my entire internship

2 more weeks of internal medicine

2 more final exams (pedia and OB)

1 oral exam in IM

a few hours of make-up

and I am DONE!

Time flies when you are having… FUN?  I can’t say that all of that work didn’t have moments of laughter in it, sure it did.  Especially with great blockmates like mine (aww…).

Everything nowadays is pretty benign, considering that most of my work is in the clinics, and most of the sleepless nights are because of the final exams and not because of physical work.

Me and my cousin tikoy even got to watch the annual DLSU Pops Orchestra concert!  I was a part of this group during my college time.  I am so glad that they are still doing damn well.  The only bad part about the concert is that they chose not to have any cool hosts, and so it was just like listening to song after song, without as much as a story-telling effort.  Plus they were having a lot of mic problems, which is really unfair for the singers, since most of the are probably nervous about their performance and then they end up not being heard at all! I hope they were able to fix the problem for the gala night. 

The concert was held last March 29, 2008 at the Yuchengco Theater in DLSU-Manila.  The title of the concert was “On stage Tonight”.  The show featured tracks from movies, musicals, and some TV shows.  Some of the pieces that they played were familiar to me since we also played them back when I was still there, but there were a lot of new songs as well.  I am really proud of my Pops family   Going to the concert also meant going back to DLSU-Manila… ahh.. nostalgia… DLSU Manila is still one of my favorite campuses ever.  The best times in my life were really spent there.  No doubt about it. ^^