Notes from Typhoon Ondoy

McKupad!!! My frustration over Mr. Jose B. Viado Jr.’s story…
by Wen del Rosario Raymundo
 

I got the story that follows this note from Darby, who got it from one of his egroups.
Sobrang nakakainis talaga!!!
I find it hard believe the government and the NDCC really exhausted all means to rescue people during the [...]

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ONDOY LEAVES 106 DEAD AND MISSING

from SunStar

MANILA (Updated) — Rescuers plucked bodies from muddy floodwaters and saved drenched survivors from rooftops Sunday after Typhoon Ondoy tore through Luzon and left at least 106 people dead and missing. The death toll caused by Ondoy (international codename: Ketsana) is expected to rise as the country’s capital region struggled [...]

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Maligayang Inauguration!

Favorite Obama Commercial:

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Happy Slip’s Christmas Balikbayan Box

for the lyrics to the song “More Processed Meat, visit her site at www.happyslip.com

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Surgeon dies in Pasay City car crash

By Marlon Ramos
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 13:12:00 11/21/2008
MANILA, Philippines—(UPDATE) A surgeon died after the car he was driving crashed into a lamppost as he tried to avoid a warning sign on Edsa-Roxas Boulevard flyover in Pasay City early Friday morning.
Dr. Jose Javier Suntay, 51, a resident of 59 Dacca Street, BF Homes Northwest, Parañaque City, [...]

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Barack Obama through Filipino-American Eyes

by Benjamin Pimented
from Starweek Magazine
When Barack Obama was born in 1961, many blacks still could not vote in many parts of the United States. For many of them, being lynched, or hanged by an angry white mob, was still a threat. Filipino Americans, mostly farm workers, were still pretty much viewed as outsiders, and many [...]

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UP Centennial Lecture by Washington Sycip

(Thanks to Chee and my friend Pixie for bringing this to my attention)
Words of wisdom from Mr Washington Sycip in a speech he made during the UP Centennial Lecture Series last September 3rd. Or you may opt to see/hear him in video: via UP Centennial Website: http://centennial.up.edu.ph/?p=113 or direct access: http://dilc.upd.edu.ph/streaming/ sycip.html
It is long but [...]

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UP College of Medicine to Require 3 Year Return Service for All Graduates

Monday, August 4, 2008
from UP website
All graduates of the University of the Philippines-Manila (UPM) College of Medicine will soon be required to render a three-year return service to the country after graduating and obtaining a medical license. The new policy is expected to cover incoming medical students beginning academic year 2009-2010.
Under the policy, applicants to [...]

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INTARMED: A Giant Leap of Faith

INTARMED: A giant leap of faith
By Wen Del Rosario-Raymundo
Sunday, July 20, 2008,
from The Philippine Star
(*Thanks for sending this on Bambi!)
In 1982, I entered UP as part of the first-ever Integrated Liberal Arts and Medicine class. INTARMED began as an experimental Accelerated Medicine program that accepted 20 boys and 20 girls into the College of Medicine [...]

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NEW LINKS TO SORORITIES, FRATS, AND OTHER UPCM ORGANIZATIONS

It has always been the intention of this blog to help the members of the class keep in touch with each other and the activities in the UPCM and PGH. Thus, we are proud to announce the links to the Mu and Phi sororities/ fraternities on the blogroll (just look to the right side of [...]

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