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dean & trent

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“dean & trent is a manila based men’s clothing line born out of our necessity and desire to find great layered looks and indelibly lasting garments.  more than a product it is an attitude of reserved modernisms with an appreciation for things that are classic as well as new.”

– from dean & trent, fan page company overview on facebook

i have been buying clothes from dean & trent since 2008 and i usually visit their branch at crossings, shangri-la mall whenever i’m on days off to check out their new stuff but it was only last night that i tried searching on the net if they have a website.  lo, and behold they did have one and i was the last to know!  lol.  they even have a fan page at facebook and a multiply site.

when i was on vacation last month they had discounted items at shangri-la.  i bought a gray cotton cardigan and a pink v-necked shirt for me to wear when i travel back for work.  i also got my best friend a cream colored blazer and brown polo shirt as a christmas gift.

the thing that i love about dean & trent is that their style is uniquely theirs and they are into details of the clothing (notice the coconut shell buttons?).  it is also affordable which means quality fashionable menswear need not to be expensive.

half digested biryani

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i know it’s quite gross blogging about it but . . .

a pakistani patient of mine just puked about two plates of biryani (a rice meal cooked in spices, veggies and meat) on the rig clinic’s floor – guess he ate too much of it while welcoming 2010.  lol.

well, happy new year!

stone former

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it started days ago as a sharp pain on my lower left abdomen, i tried to ignore the pain until one time it woke me up from sleep.  i had a medical consult last friday fom an internist from one of the local hospital near our place. she assessed my condition and took my medical history and i told her that i had kidney stones – she gave me anti-spasmodics to relieve the pain and requested blood work, urine and a k-u-b ultrasound. i have been on the same situation before years ago, so i already knew.  when my lab results were done i checked it myself, my creatinine was normal and my ultrasound read like this:

kidneys:

the right kidney measures 10.4 x 4.6 cm with cortical thickness of 1.0 cm with non-shadowing echogenic focus at the mid cortex.

the left kidney measures 10.6 x 5.7 cm with cortical thickness of 1.6 cm with shadowing echogenicity at the upper 3rd measuring 0.3 cm.

no hydronephrosis noted.

impression : nephrocalcinosis, right.  nephrolithiasis, left.

nephrocalcinosis is a disorder in which there is excess calcium deposited in the kidneys.  nephrolithiasis on the other hand is the condition of having kidney stones.

i then consulted with a urologist, he prescribed me a number of medicines to take saying we do first the “conservative approach”.  he also scheduled me for a ct scan (stonogram) just to make sure if more stones are present which were not visible in the ultrasound.

they say if you’re a stone former, it cannot be eradicated in your system.  obviously, the not-so-friendly stones are back again to haunt me.