"About a Grrl Rock band and simple times gone past."

 "About a Grrl Rock band and simple times gone past."

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr,MD 

My friend ST and I were talking a few weeks back about the days of Club Dredd. The last time I checked this was already a shooting range in present times but it used to be the center of a thriving rock scene in the heart of QC.

Our discussion turned to a girl band , not the kpop kind , the kind that was loud and did not care. And my old brain could not remember their name. Only a long time crush named Jeng Tan. Oddly enough I started looking at old issues of Rock and Rhythm online and was a bit saddened that these old things were one of the bonds that youth of my age shared. People would buy the latest issue , practice the chords and in a lot of places who ever can master the song first was thought of as the coolest. They usually were.

So back to the girl band , my friend said that he was able to interview them and deep inside I envied him as I have only seen them on covers and several appearances on TV. They were something else during the 90's , they were girls who were drinking and swearing in a male filled bar and they were good looking too. Yet I could not remember their name until I searched Jeng Tan and found Pin-Up Girls who were originally from the band Kelts Cross. 

The rock songs of the 90's are now considered classics and weirdly enough you see these 3 decade old songs being blasted on special programs and even in Grocery stores. Of course I sincerely doubt that German cut from this band will make the...ehem...cut for public consumption. And that is probably what endears them to me still , when their is something from your youth that can't be turned into a power ballad or boy band version then you love it even more and Kelt's Cross will most likely never cross over to that more mainstream sound. 

"The Saddest Fear"

"The Saddest Fear"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

I guess nothing is more frightening than typing in your laptop , asking for help from a workmate and then realizing that you are on your way to the clinic without even remembering how you got into the elevator and unto a wheel chair. 

From the chest pain and the numbness of your limbs  , to the shortness of breathe despite being on oxygen you have got to think that this is the scariest right?

Yet this patient's scariest thought is that he would inconvenience his family. That if he was sent to a nearer ER none of his family would come. Or he would cause them all a hassle. He was scared that he would be in that ER all alone. 

And this fear is probably the saddest one that I will remember.