PGI Year Through Billboard 2010's Top 100 Songs

Tomorrow, a year ago, I started doing my Post Graduate Internship at Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center. It was then one of the most awesome twelve months of my life. I learned a lot of things - related to the world of medicine, lessons on dealing with life and the rest trivial, met a lot of cool and interesting people and gained a lot of values that I still uphold and will hopefully for time immemorial.

To commemorate the end and the anniversary of this milestone that is dear to my hear I have compiled lyrics of last year's biggest hits and correlate it with the events I have experienced.

1.) Teenage Dream by Katy Perry

Let's go all the way tonight
No regrets, just love
We can dance until we die
You and I
We'll be young forever

This is for those carefree times where it feels like being an adolescent again - watching pointless movies, eating here and there and just fooling around the quarters.

2.) Live Like We're Dying by Kris Allen

We only got 86,400 seconds in a day to
Turn it all around or to throw it all away
We gotta tell them that we love them
While we got the chance to say
Gotta live like we're dying

During the start I said to myself "I will have a good year". But in the end it was great. So this song is a testament to living fully really, which I did the past year.

3.) Ridin' Solo by Jason Derulo

I'm feeling like a star, you can't stop my shine,
I'm loving cloud nine, my head's in the sky.
I'm solo, I'm riding solo

For the past twelve months I have learned to stand up on my own two feet and mostly do the things I want to on my own. I have regained some confidence I have lost and acquired new skills that I still want to improve.

4.) Club Can't Handle Me by Flo Rida

You know I know how
The Club Can’t handle me right now
To make em stop and stare as i zone out
The club can’t even handle me right now
Watchin' you im watchin' you we go all out

This is Jo and I's anthem every time we go out clubbing or just chilling to music. This also applies to me when I work and when I am so focus I feel unstoppable. No matter how busy one twenty four duty might get, all I say is let's go!

5.) Raise your Glass by Pink

So raise your glass if you are wrong,
in all the right ways,
all my underdogs,
we will never be never be anything but loud
and nitty gritty dirty little freaks
won't you come on and come on and raise your glass,
just come on and come on and raise your glass

One of my anthems for the past year. Since I consider us the underdogs considering we were only twelve to begin with an the hospital averages 140 patients per 24 hours in the ER but still we did it! Veni, vidi, vici!

6.) Dynamite by Taio Cruz

I throw my hands up in the air sometimes
Saying AYO!
Gotta let go!
I wanna celebrate and live my life
Saying AYO!
Baby, let's go!

Another feel goo dance track that I always relate since every where I go, whichever rotation I always try to have fun and most of the time I really do have fun!

7.) Sing by My Chemical Romance

sing it for the boys, sing it for the girls.
every time that you lose it sing it for the world
sing it for the heart, sing it 'till you're nuts
sing it out for the ones that'll hate your guts
sing it for the deaf, sing it for the blind
sing about everyone that you left behind
sing it for the world, sing it for the world

Though the band didn't write this to be appreciated by the medical community, I think it applies. Very applicable indeed for those public servants which I was for a year.

8.)Young Forever by Jay Z

Fear not where, fear not why, fear not much while we're alive
Life is for living not living uptight
til you're somewhere up in the sky
Fear not die I'll be alive for a million years bye bye's are not for legends i'm forever young my name shall survive

I have also learned in PGIship to be less afraid of the fear of mismanagement. I will never ever totally overcome that one but I am not paralyzed by that anymore

9.) Like a G6 by Far East Movement

Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6
Like a G6, Like a G6
Now I’m feelin so fly like a G6

This really reminds me of the fun nights at Cebu Trivia Nights. My teammate Dr. Basti writes this on the white board. So this kind of became the unofficial anthem for Group 12, playing trivia and the wonderful people I have met and interacted. I'll definitely miss it!

And I can't think of another song that will apply that was released last year. To the people who made the past twelve months, fifty weeks and three hundred sixty five days amazing, thank you from the bottom of my heart. You guys know who you are.