Remembering our past makes us stronger because it made us what we are today

It’s really nice to hear some good news from your batchmates around the world although we can’t avoid sometimes that bad news can come along likewise. Recently, I have just reunited with my friend Arvin who’s currently on his flight back to Sacramento, California and with his news from a meeting also with our friends from Sultan’s in Negros Matt, Tata, Joemarie and Francis who currently had an emergency vacation from United Kingdom due to the unexpected loss of his father. They formulate plan and date when to have our reunion if not possibly done with the batch but with Sultans in 2010.

We in the Sultan’s are almost like brothers so we share emotions be it bad or good to our fellow Sultan’s. To our friend Francis, our deepest sympathy

It’s really nice meeting your friend for so many years especially if it’s also been a long time since you last saw each other. This is exactly how I pictured meeting Christina-Dojoles-Omolon. She is my classmate at the Colegio de San Agustin in Bacolod City, Negros Occidental. Our batchmates would commonly call her “Amo” (monkey) despite her beautiful face because she’s very kalog. We last met in 2005 right after our graduation. Amo has then been working in Texas. Amo also happened to be my wife’s third cousin, too.

We set a meeting with my sister-in-law Mimay (who also happened to be her classmate in high school — talk about small world) with her husband in Cravings at the Shangri-la Plaza Mall in Mandaluyong City. Amo brought along her daughter Tricia. That kept my son Kyle busy as he and Tricia played while Amo and her husband, Mimay and I caught up with what’s happening with our lives. The meeting was capped by coffee at Starbuck.

Hope to have many more reunions to attend to.

Courses Offered

Bachelor of Science in Nursing (B.S.N.)

Associate in Health Science Education (A..H.S.E.)
     (Ladderized program of B.S.N.)

Goals and Objective

    Specifically, the College of Nursing aims to:

1. form nurses imbued with scientific and Christian Augustinian principles dedicated to the service of man;

2. provide and integral knowledge of humanities, natural, social and behavioral sciences, and nursing principles and practices which will equip the students in understanding persons, assessing factors in nursing situation and initiating change of optimum wellness;

3. prepare students who can work interdependently with other members of the health team in the delivery of health services, and assure leadership to non-professional nursing personnel;

4. train students to observe, initiate, do research and participate in studies pertaining to various forces affecting community health and interpret and utilize results for the improvement of health; and

5. develop a graduate who is responsible to national health care needs and global concerns.

The Eraserheads, Eraserheads, or E-Heads was one of the successful Pinoy rock bands of the 90’s. Dubbed as the “Beatles of the Philippines,” its original members were Ely Buendia, Raimund Marasigan, Buddy Zabala and Marcus Adoro. The band is one of the most successful, critically-acclaimed, and significant bands in the history of Original Pinoy Music.

The band released several different singles, albums, and EPs that reached with ther debut album UltraElectoroMagneticPop who gathered multi-platinum awards with their unforgetable hits songs like “Ligaya”, “Tindahan Ni Aling Nena”, and “Pare Ko” which became Sultans’ favorite band and songs around that time. It was followed by 10 times platinum album if I remember right “Circus” with their songs like bato, sembreak, alapaap, hey jay, insomya, minsan, with a smile, alkohol, wishing wells, kailan, magasin, sa wakas. me paningit pang punk zappa monologue.

The Eraserheads‘ tapes we had before certified hits are most often played in our cassette players in our boarding house. Sadly the Eraserheads disbanded when Ely Buendia left the band in mid-March 2002. He continuies his career with and the band also continues with different members.

It’s our routine every afternoon after class. Sometime it is our music while others were playing chess game with Arnel and sometimes while playing pusoy or poker game.

On my next post I will write about those Filipino bands who were popular during the 90s and their music that still captures our heart.

 It happened almost a month before graduation. Since our batch was compose of six sections, we were cut in two sections. The sections A,B and C held class classes alternately for the week while the half sections D, E and F were doing their hospital duty. This was to accommodate the bulk of students who would have hospital exposures and classes.

 So with this set up, there were tendencies of three sections taking the exam first and then the next three sections would do so in the next week. Even though the teachers and instructors were changing the set of questions, students who would take exam after the first batch already knew what were the types and set of questions to be asked. So the student who took the exam first would likely inform those who were still about to take it.

 Until the system was spotted when there was leakage floating around the classroom, not only by a minor teacher but the terror school guidance councilor as well. We were asked one by one because it was handed by one person to another. And with all those interrogations and investigations done to be able to identify where it was originated, the president of the class and the batch number one a magna cumlaude student took the responsibility of it. So what could the school could do.

 Wise move, I thought. It ended the issue and they still graduated with flying colors.