AT THE DORM

Room 5 Francis with the Bugays

Bugays

Dorm girls with Dodong Dantes and Piolo Paulate!(Feb.27,2006)

Ian, Bha, Grace & Shareen (A.K.A Keana Reeves) dancing in the tune of "Ever After" by Bonnie Bailey......the song I introduced!

D Viva Hot Bugays (room 5) with Marimaw!

Room 1 dorm girls

Prim & Grace.......La lang! Nagpapa cute hehe!(Feb.26,06)

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posted by Francis

Inside RSL Bus ( On the way to Manila for the affiliation )

Moyo Moyo!

Grace & Sarah showing their pearls

Prim & Connie adoring the huggable teddy Bha!
(February 25,2006)

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BRTTH

Orientation

Delivery Room

Operating Room
(7 nursing students & 1 midwifery hehehe!)

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YOU GOTTA READ THIS!

This is the winning speech of Patricia Evangelista (a Filipina) in the International Public Speaking Competition conducted yearly by the English speaking union in London. This isn't new guys. But its a good read! by Francis Anton

Blond and Blue Eyes
by Patricia Evangelista

WHEN I was little, I wanted what many Filipino children all over the country wanted. I wanted to be blond, blue-eyed, and white.

I thought -- if I just wished hard enough and was good enough, I'd wake up on Christmas morning with snow outside my window and freckles across my nose!

More than four centuries under western domination does that to you.

I have sixteen cousins. In a couple of years, there will just be five of us left in the Philippines, the rest will have gone abroad in search of “greener pastures.” It's not just an anomaly; it's a trend; the Filipino diaspora.

Today, about eight million Filipinos are scattered around the world.

There are those who disapprove of Filipinos who choose to leave. I used to. Maybe this is a natural reaction of someone who was left behind, smiling for family pictures that get emptier with each succeeding year. Desertion, I called it.

My country is a land that has perpetually fought for the freedom to be itself. Our heroes offered their lives in the struggle against the Spanish, the Japanese, the Americans. To pack up and deny that identity is tantamount to spitting on that sacrifice.

Or is it? I don't think so, not anymore.

True, there is no denying this phenomenon, aided by the fact that what was once the other side of the world is now a twelve-hour plane ride away. But this is a borderless world, where no individual can claim to be purely from where he is now.

My mother is of Chinese descent, my father is a quarter Spanish, and I call myself a pure Filipino -- a hybrid of sorts resulting from a combination of cultures.

Each square mile anywhere in the world is made up of people of different ethnicities, with national identities and individual personalities. Because of this, each square mile is already a microcosm of the world. In as much as this blessed spot that is England is the world, so is my neighborhood back home.

Seen this way, the Filipino Diaspora, or any sort of dispersal of populations, is not as ominous as so many claim. It must be understood.

I come from a Third World country, one that is still trying mightily to get back on its feet after many years of dictatorship. But we shall make it, given more time. Especially now, when we have thousands of eager young minds who graduate from college every year. They have skills. They need jobs. We cannot absorb them all.

A borderless world presents a bigger opportunity, yet one that is not so much abandonment but an extension of identity. Even as we take, we give back. We are the 40,000 skilled nurses who support the UK's National Health Service. We are the quarter-of-a-million seafarers manning most of the world's commercial ships.We are your software engineers in Ireland, your construction workers in the Middle East, your doctors and caregivers in North America, and, your musical artists in London's West End.

Nationalism isn't bound by time or place. People from other nations migrate to create new nations, yet still remain essentially who they are. British society is itself an example of a multi-cultural nation, a melting pot of races, religions, arts and cultures. We are, indeed, in a borderless world!

Leaving sometimes isn't a matter of choice. It's coming back that is. The Hobbits of the shire travelled all over Middle-Earth, but they chose to come home, richer in every sense of the word.

We call people like these balikbayans or the ‘returnees' -- those who followed their dream, yet choose to return and share their mature talents and good fortune.

In a few years, I may take advantage of whatever opportunities come my way. But I will come home. A borderless world doesn't preclude the idea of a home. I'm a Filipino, and I'll always be one. It isn't about just geography; it isn't about boundaries. It's about giving back to the country that shaped me.

And that's going to be more important to me than seeing snow outside my windows on a bright Christmas morning.

Mabuhay. And thank you.

Capping & pinning Ceremonies

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Class Photo #1

This is our very first class picture,taken during the capping and pinning ceremonies.You might find the picture blurry.But unfortunately, this is the only pic they gave me...sorry! Click on the picture to view a larger image


by Francis Anton

The Nurse's Prayer

Dear JESUS, model and inspiration of the
nursing profession
I know when YOU ascended into heaven
YOU left the care of the sick
to those of us whom YOU have blessed
with the holy vocation of Nursing

Help me to be faithful to the calling
so I can do always
the things YOU want me to do

in the manner YOU want me to do them

grant that my voice may be gentle
that my hands my have the softness
and the sympathy of YOUR hands
that my presence may bring something of the hope
and consolation
which YOUR presence brought to the sufferers of
YOUR days

I want to do all these things LORD
but I know I am weak
and I can do little without YOUR aid
please give me aid this day
and everyday of my life,so that I can always
be what YOU want me
you want me to be.......
An angel of the sick room....

A M E N.

B4 Anything Else

Hello everyone! I made this blog for our batch so that we can have our own site where we can update each other about what we have been doing after the graduation. Here, we can share pictures and write or post whatever we want like articles, news, quotes, passages, our thoughts and insights. Feel free! But let us not use this site to hurt or embarrass anyone. And also, since we all have an access to this site. Please do not erase what others have posted. Respect for others is just as important as self respect. ThanX! GOD bless!

Francis Anton