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i've been to 4 funerals of 7 people known to me who have passed away in the past 2 weeks….. life is but a fleeting moment, make every second of it count.

the seventh one, sadly, was an officemate who i saw was happy joking around in the offcie yesterday. i heard he was in his 40's, Noel Garcia. Sometimes, I doubt and very much want to question our company's policies when it comes to emergencies (heart attack, they said go him).  I heard he was revived twice, the ambulance was "hinarang" by the guards, that he stayed for sometime on the clinic before he was brought to the hospital, that the stretcher was not brought upstairs and that he had to go down to the elevator by himself….these were all hearsay….regardless, he's gone. who's to say if it was really his time, every second counts, a second delayed could have costed him his  life.
(Note: a Company guard told me the Building guards were called to the Company's office (Country manager's Office , no less) to explain why the ambulance was made to go around the vicinity so many times cause they would not let it park by the side of the building, word going around was that it took the ambulance almost 20 minutes to unload the stretcher beacuse of the "merry-go-round", and once the patient was downstairs, they had to cross the street with the stretcher beacuse the ambulance was parked accross the street and not beside the building! Smells like a lawsuit to me…)

having an experience of emergency on the floor (calls are stressful, really!)  myself, i dunno what to think.  once i found myself almost out of breath with heavy chest aches, luckily turned out to be muscular spasms.  but i know i walked myself to the clinic downstairs with no assistance (from QSPs on the floor who saw me, who i think were more concerned why i LOGGED OUT of the phone than why i was "limping" on my way out)…. i was administered oxygen at the clinic by tthe then lone nurse (Mommy Glo) and went to the ER of Medical City by taxi with her (nurse), too.  imagine, chest pain, throbbing, at 3:30AM and trying to flag a taxi…DAMN!

i read from one e-mail that when we do, we can easily replaced in our cubicles….but when we go, we cannot be replaced in our families' hearts.  think about it.

Noel, i saw you look at me man, i had thoughts of wanting to joke around with you, exchange a few words even if we only know each other by face…that was actually the first time i had a good look at you and
remembered you look like our former team mate from Cavite….Rest In Peace Bro! You will surely be missed…

p.s.
the list: Nanay Nemia (a friend of the gf's), Tito Ely (husband of my Tita Lourdes), Edward (ex-bf of my gf's niece), Lola Felisa (sister of my Lolo Cito),  two fathers of the gf's best friends, Noel…. the list
WILL END HERE.