Last Saturday, I met with my old buddies from my Marine Bio days. Although, were a rare breed (we were only 5 + - 2) in our batch, we manage to keep in touch. It was the first ever formal reunion of the USC-Marine Biology graduates after 30 years ! Yes, 30 years ! karon pa sila naka-hunahuna sa kadugay sa panahon. Most those who attended were from the latest batches of graduates, katong mga init pa ug dugo !. The new USC Marine Station was quite impressive, gone was the old rickety hut on which we spent sleepless nights and drinking binges galore. There's now a laboratory, classroom and guess what? they now have scuba tanks, wet suits and BCJ's. And all of this are in a new concrete building beside the Maribago Bluewaters in MActan Island, CEBu. And wait, the roads leading to the station are now paved and cemented! before it was full of protruding sharp rocks and thick bushes. Most of the students now are PADI certified divers, whew, very sosyal. Kami intawn sa una nakat-on ug dive tungod sa mga sponsorhip sa Special Forces' Riverine Batallion of the Philippine Army, mas heavy ! mas lisud ! mas primitive !
Added to this, the new graduates are employed as marine biologists in some NGO's and in the academe. Some of them are now in the forefront of marine conservation in Cebu. Compared to us when we graduated, we have to look for jobs other than being marine biologists, there were no jobs available for us. Dungog ray nindot adtong mga panahuna, ti-aw mu ba, MARINE BIOLOGIST imong profession pero walay kay trabaho. Faet jud kaayo. Some work as med reps, and in offices but most become PNB (palaging nasa bahay) employees.
I have to work as pseudo-marine biologist in a big hotel in Mactan. This was the only available marine bio job in Cebu and the other was a pearl farm in a tiny island far from mainland Palawan (it is that hard). All we did in this hotel chain, was clean their false beach with seagrasses and poisonous starfishes. We also built their big sewage pipe underwater, it's like swimming in their own shit and urine, everyday. Imagine, kada adlaw mi mu dive from 9am-4pm. Mura mi ug mga sirena, plus our boss was a pseudo-american oceanographer who was a tyrant and a maniac. My skin hairs were brownie-blond and my hairs were corn husk brown. My skin were charcoal brown, an all choco brown orig island girl. It was in this sorry state that I decided that I dont want my life to be like this forever, I wanted to have smooth and silky hair, I wanted to have soft skin, I wanted to have a better job. I wanted to become a doctor very very badly.
So here I am now, a dormant marine biologist and a practicing eye doctor but it still the same old hard work but less the salty water and the muddy grimes. Pana-panahon lang siguro ang tanan. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss the target! Or I was just not cut out to be a marine biologist. But one thing for sure, I never regretted being one.
To all the Marine Biologist out there, thank you for keeping our seas clean and making our ocean healthy.
Last Saturday, I met with my old buddies from my Marine Bio days. Although, were a rare breed (we were only 5 + - 2) in our batch, we manage to keep in touch. It was the first ever formal reunion of the USC-Marine Biology graduates after 30 years ! Yes, 30 years ! karon pa sila naka-hunahuna sa kadugay sa panahon. Most those who attended were from the latest batches of graduates, katong mga init pa ug dugo !. The new USC Marine Station was quite impressive, gone was the old rickety hut on which we spent sleepless nights and drinking binges galore. There's now a laboratory, classroom and guess what? they now have scuba tanks, wet suits and BCJ's. And all of this are in a new concrete building beside the Maribago Bluewaters in MActan Island, CEBu. And wait, the roads leading to the station are now paved and cemented! before it was full of protruding sharp rocks and thick bushes. Most of the students now are PADI certified divers, whew, very sosyal. Kami intawn sa una nakat-on ug dive tungod sa mga sponsorhip sa Special Forces' Riverine Batallion of the Philippine Army, mas heavy ! mas lisud ! mas primitive !
Added to this, the new graduates are employed as marine biologists in some NGO's and in the academe. Some of them are now in the forefront of marine conservation in Cebu. Compared to us when we graduated, we have to look for jobs other than being marine biologists, there were no jobs available for us. Dungog ray nindot adtong mga panahuna, ti-aw mu ba, MARINE BIOLOGIST imong profession pero walay kay trabaho. Faet jud kaayo. Some work as med reps, and in offices but most become PNB (palaging nasa bahay) employees.
I have to work as pseudo-marine biologist in a big hotel in Mactan. This was the only available marine bio job in Cebu and the other was a pearl farm in a tiny island far from mainland Palawan (it is that hard). All we did in this hotel chain, was clean their false beach with seagrasses and poisonous starfishes. We also built their big sewage pipe underwater, it's like swimming in their own shit and urine, everyday. Imagine, kada adlaw mi mu dive from 9am-4pm. Mura mi ug mga sirena, plus our boss was a pseudo-american oceanographer who was a tyrant and a maniac. My skin hairs were brownie-blond and my hairs were corn husk brown. My skin were charcoal brown, an all choco brown orig island girl. It was in this sorry state that I decided that I dont want my life to be like this forever, I wanted to have smooth and silky hair, I wanted to have soft skin, I wanted to have a better job. I wanted to become a doctor very very badly.
So here I am now, a dormant marine biologist and a practicing eye doctor but it still the same old hard work but less the salty water and the muddy grimes. Pana-panahon lang siguro ang tanan. Sometimes you hit, sometimes you miss the target! Or I was just not cut out to be a marine biologist. But one thing for sure, I never regretted being one.
To all the Marine Biologist out there, thank you for keeping our seas clean and making our ocean healthy. Tags: divers, marine biologist, ocean, reunion, scuba, sea, usc marine biology Prev: Long Live Leon Kilat!
He won ! But i can feel the pain of being vanquished and the face of cluelessness of his boxing career on Mr. Morales' face. Lets celebrate his victory but we should remember that all is not victorious. To Mr. Morales, thank you for the good fight, even if we feel shortchanged of the lessen period of brutal punching as you gave out on the third round. To Manny, congratulations, and may you not squander your wealth as some past boxers have done. Remember N-A-V-A-R-R-E-T-E! No mas!
This weekend, I was in Argao. I wish it was a laag journey but somehow, sounds-like na pud kay trabaho ug laag na man pud siya. I was with the Tzu Chi Foundation, they invited some ophthalmologists to do free cataract surgery para sa mga pobre ug uyamot nato nga mga ka-igsuonan sa lungsod sa Argao. Kuyog nako sila Drs. Jeffery Lim and Janice Lim from the Chong Eye Center, Dr. Milanel Fuentebella , Chief Resident of CEbu Doctor's University Hospital, Dr. Andrew Uy of Cebu City Medical Center Eye Clinic ug uban pa nga mga miyembro sa Foundation. Kuyug pud namo ang mga nurses sa Cebu Doc.
Nagsugod na sila ug opera pag abot nako, medyo na late ko ug abot gikan sa dakbayan. Naka- opera na sila ug 15 ka pasyente sugod pa sa buntag. Naka-ambit na sila sa ilang mga powers sa 15 ka pasyente. 15 patients na ang nabalikan na ug kahayag ang ilang mga panan-aw. 15 patients na ang naka-pasalamat na sila sa Ginoo sa pagbalik sa ilang kahayag. Kaming mga doctor, instrumento lang sa Ginoo. Dili kami ang nag-balik sa ilang panan-aw, ang Kahitas-an ang nagbuot sa tanan.
Ang operasyon sa mata, dili kani ka-tiaw-tiawan. Sayon nga tan-awon, pero lisud buhaton. Lalim ba nimo ug dungan ang imong mata ug kamot samtang nag-lili lang ka sa microscope. Kinahanglan ug daghang powers. Kinahanglan ug daghang pangaliya.
A lot of pressures, a lot of stress. But im sure that if you're given the proper training and guidance, young doctors (young pa pud ko!) who wants to go into training, you should go into ophthalmology. Muta ray imo kontra!
Of course, human sa trabaho, pahayahayay na sa baga ug sa mga gi-pangkapoy nga bukton. Ambak dayon sa dagat, swimming dayon sa pool. Ang uban nag-shina-okay sa videoke, pero ang tanan dili na hait nga instrumento ang dala kun dili brown na nga botelya. Kalimtan ang ka-alimout sa operating room, kalimtan ang kasakit sa buko-buko, kalimtan ang ka-poypoy sa kamot.
Pero way juy mo-reklamo, kay wa ra ba mo sugu-a nga pangopera. Way nag-nagpugos sa pag-kuyog. It is our choice, it is our heaven.
25 ka pasyente ang nabalikan ug kahayag kadtong adlawa. Hinaut nga ilang galmon ang ilang ika-duhang higayon sa pagka-kita sa kahayag sa adlaw, sa ka-berde sa dahon ug sa pahiyum sa ilang mga apo ug anak.
10 ka pasyente ang na-kiskisan sa ptyregium. Nahiluwas na sila sa mga tutuk sa mga tao tungod sa unod sa ilang mga mata. Dili na sila ma-uwaw mu tutuk og balik.
”In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst.
In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title.
Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads.
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle.
The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.”
If there's one guy who taught us to be lazy, its going to be ROBIN HOOD. Robin Hood steals from the rich and gives it to the poor, right?
But have you ever thought that these rich people may have been working all their life so that they can have this amount of wealth on them? And that they work their butt off and then this Robin Hood guy just took their wealth simply without any thought of the sweat, blood and tears that they put into obtaining this riches. We must not be mislead into the premise that if you're rich, you must have gotten it so easy.Its usually that they work 5x more than ordinary wage earners and work 10x more in maintaining this wealth.
Robin Hood must be the Grandfather of DOLE-OUTS. He gave away to so many people without telling people that you should work for your own up keep too. This breeds reliance and laziness. They will just wait for share of the loot, not worrying about anything as they have dole-outs.
Sometimes, i wonder if the Prince of thieves still lingers in our midst. When will learn to earn our keep?
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