Dr. Harvey Uy's St. Luke's Clinic

My friends, their family, their family's in-laws and so on are Dr. Harvey's patients.  As Harvey has left Asian Eye Institute, he is now the best eye surgeon at St. Luke's.  Or so he claims. :)

Dr. Harvey Uy (center) at the Kuang Chi Awarding Ceremony last 3-11-11.

My friends' reactions were varied.  One friend hoped that his new clinic would be at St. Luke's Global City, while Madam Upuan said, 'I am fervently praying he means St. Luke's QC and not in Fort?"

I told Madam Oop to fervent away, as Harvey will hold clinic at South Tower 611 starting October 27.  He will also set up another clinic at Pacific Center (formerly Pacific Bank Building), 460 Quintin Paredes St., Binondo in mid-November.

The Kuang Chi Awarding Ceremony was held at Xavier School.

This is his second clinic in Binondo.  Before joining AEI, he held clinic at State Center, when I was holding office there, too.

If not for this coincidence, we would not be friends today.  I took the elevator to his clinic and told his secretary that I just wanted to say hi. He came out and invited me to play badminton and we became good friends after that.

Skechers Sale Until October 15

I got the olive greenish beige mules (top row, third from right).

The Skechers sale at Planet Sports has been extended to October 15.

My first pair of Skechers (third from left, bottom row, in the photo) at SM Department Store at Megamall at full price.

I also got a pair of glorified 1"-high black 'glorified tsinelas' at full price less P 200 vouchers, at their VMall branch.

The Skechers sale is only at Planet Sports.

My friend got a pair of black sandals that she comfortably used for maybe three hours.  They were ouchy when she used them for a longer period of time.

Blog Stats

Congrats to my friend Dr. Gerard "Raddy" Mabasa on his two new blogs, Athletic Motion, and World Passages.

He wants to know how much traffic my generic blog makes, so I'm posting them here.

He also wanted to know where my views were coming from.  Techie She is a regular regular site, but I have not figured out why.  I suspect that most of these referrals came from backlinks?

How to get to Xavier School, dated March 24, 2011,  with 7 views, is the top result in Google search.   So is Podium Opens at Noon on November 1, dated October 31, 5 views, also last year, with the search words 'Podium Opens at Noon on November.'  Another November 1 post, Via Mare Open on November 1, 3 views, has the thirdmost views.  My fourth highest post, Clinic Christmas Break, 2 views, is the third holiday post in the list.  So I guess holiday skeds attract the most views to this blog.

In case of a heart attack, 2 views, is the second health-related post in the list.

Feng Shui Figurines,  7 comments including mine, Canon Pixma MX 416?, and Professional Dog Trainer also had 2 views each.

Both health and holidays are part of the site description.

120 of my pageviews come from the US; 31, Philippines; 5 and 3, Argentina and Singapore, respectively.

Atimiti has had a total of 18,068 pageviews from 79 posts, or 228+ views per post.

This blog had 980 pageviews last month.

Raddy, you might want to join Top 10 Emerging Influential Blogs.

Fashion Advice

I have been looking for something yellow to wear to our office meetings for maybe five years.  I had not been happy with the blouses that my mom got me, but was too lazy to shop on my own until this year.  I saw a yellow blouse at Bayo Greenhills, but I did not like it.

Then I chanced on a mustard blazer at Robinsons Department Store Magnolia.  Why not?  Then I can wear any white, black, grey, or brown blouse underneath the blazer.

Short.

Then I chanced on a long cardigan with matching ribbon tie.  I was happy with it until I saw a short version.  Now I'm undecided on which one to get.  What do you think?

Now that I'm looking at the photos, I think that the long one would fit most of my clothes, as the short one's sleeves are too short.

Incidentally, my office has announced that there are plans to change our color!  I told them that they couldn't, as I had already invested in a blazer!

I was told that mustard is the company color, but that our group color was yellow.  Waaah!

Long.

Holiday Banking

Metrobank Xavier was cordoned off today.

I don't know about you, but I've been confused with banking hours this week.

BDO V-Mall used to be open on holidays.  I even took a photo to show xT Pro how many people were in it, as in marami.

Then it was closed one holiday, but I don't remember which.

Then it was open from 10 am to 4 pm last Monday, but I thought that it would be open on its regular hours, so I got there past 4 na.

Then today, I went to Metrobank and found it closed, despite my mom relaying 3i's message that Chinabank Greenhills Manager Sandra called to say that they would be closed.

So I'm summarizing the banking skeds here in case history repeats itself:

27-Aug
National Heroes' Day
BDO V-Mall	10 am-4 pm
30-Aug
Pinaglabanan Day
BDO V-Mall	closed
BDO Greenhills Shopping Center	upto 4 pm
Chinabank Greenhills	closed
Metrobank Xavier	closed

BDO V-Mall Open Until 4 PM Today

Clearing Cut-Off tomorrow, August 28, is 10:30 am for dollar deposits.

I was in ChaTime today when a lady asked her daughter (maybe) if BDO was open today.  I told her that it was, since I had just been there.

There was only one man ahead of me, and only because I filled up a form.  If I had gone in with a filled up form, I would have been first in the single transaction line.  There was no line in the multiple transaction line.  Hmm. If only I had brought my other passbook or another check to deposit so I could have been first in line, too.

The teller said that the line was short because it was a holiday.

Au contraire, when I bought my Asus Transformer, the line was so snaky, I showed it to xT Pro where I bought it, to prove to them that BDO was open.

Poker Without the Chips

I have plans of teaching Texas Hold 'Em to a friend maybe in a resto.  This means we don't want to go around with an unwieldy poker set.  So I'm reminded of the time when Boy Kuripot and I played Texas Hold at Astoria Boracay, where we stayed for free courtesy of the hotel.

 A possible flush.

We had both been 'abandoned' by our roommates, so we decided to play Texas to pass the time.  I had brought a deck of Qantas cards (photo), hoping to squeeze in a game.

He devised an Excel program to keep track of our chips.  It wasn't perfect, but it's only today, two years later, that I figured out a simple way of doing it.

I have not tested this in an actual game, but here it goes:

Player 1		Player 2		Pot
Bet	Balance	Bet	Balance
	1000		1000	0
100	900	100	900	200
200	700	0	900	400

If you want a copy of this file, post your email in the comments section of this post.