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Once more the sun has risen to welcome a new day. But this was not just any day. This was the day which some happily welcomed while some horribly dreaded. This was the first day for Cebu Velez College.
And so the first day came. A lot of us from the higher years felt that the summer was too short and we needed an extension (ahem, calling AH1N1...), while the freshmen were excited for the first day of school.


New friends.
New faces.
New environment.
New chix(tsk tsk tsk...)
New teachers
and new chance to prove yourself.

Those are the new things one experiences as a freshmen.

I was once a freshmen myself and I totally understand how it feels. Correct me if I am wrong but these are the common few that one can observe amongst freshmen.

1.The Casual attire that everyone puts so much effort to give a good first impression
(I saw one wearing a suit, and another wearing a dress)
2.People will crowd in one spot as if they were playing "the boat is sinking"
3.You can identify different schools according to what group you are in.
(this year I see a lot of hearters)
4.There are some who wear uniform in the first day and realize that you don't have to so they change the next day.
5.Freshmen are so eager to greet their friends from the higher years and they feel good that they see familiar faces.
6.Freshmen are still afraid to move around for fear of being noticed in a bad way
7.Freshmen are always too early for class (LOL)
8.The Freshmen Classes are always whole. They move together in one giant wave
9.Freshmen eat in expensive places like Orange Brutus, McDo, Jollibee, and the like, while fearing the small canteens not knowing what ever microorganism inhabits these places.
10.Freshmen are quick to buy all the notes and textbooks provided.
Aside from the Top 10 things we noticed about freshies, we also have first week of school lines. These are things we hear from different students when we pass by them:

"Excuse me, aha na ang room TBA?"-Freshie

"Muskwela pa ko diri? Mura man ni ug ambot."-Freshie

"Hala, oiz, kita ka ato niya, wafu siya!"-old student stalking a new one

"Unsa man ni si Mr. ___, Lisod ni siya?"

"Sus, kakapoy ba gud, walay teacher mutungha."

And those are but a few things we hear around the campus.

Once again, I would personally like to welcome all the Feshmen into Cebu Velez College. I tell you, if you are looking forward to be top of the line medical professionals then you've come to the right college. Velez College offers only the best in education and it does not keep with them students only mediocre performance.

Freshmen, watch out. Get ready for something challenging and new.
Fellow Velezians of the higher years; We've survived the past year, and surviving this year we shall do once more.

To all Velezians, good luck.

And also to the faculty that will be handling the massive 10 sections for the Department of Medical Technology (first year only).... well, uhmm, hope you survive too ;)

One of the requirements for our PE4 subject, we were told to have a fine dining as a final activity and was regarded as a final exam. Of course we were informed to dress up in Sunday's best.. Well, as expected, not everyone had a unified idea of what is Sunday's best.

The program was expected to start at 6pm, but knowing the Velezians, we all have busy lives and always put studies first. So most of the students arrived around 7:30 pm and the program started around 7:50pm.

There was still a talk from a teacher from USC, and she "educated" us on the ways of "fine dining". But personally, I observed that the set up wasn't really what you can call fine dining... Only two tables actually had a decent set of utensils and flatware. All the rest we merely had this:






Anyway, the talk started around 8pm and the students were mad hungry.. I pity the teacher since no one was listening to her. Everyone just wanted to eat. I wanted to eat! I was freaking hungry! I didn't even have lunch.

They started serving the food and we had the following:










If you notice I no longer placed the soup picture.. I was so hungry that I just digged in and forgot to take a shot.

I was quite disappointed with the Coke, I mean how can Coke be bad right? Well, they diluted it and made it lose its carbonated feel to the point that I felt like I was drinking some kind of weird juice.

But enough about the bad part, what I enjoyed was the whole letting lose for awhile, and enjoying the presence of friends and of course dressing up. You don't get to dress up everyday now do you? I actually wore gel that day!

So basically, I did enjoy the night (just not the food and location). It was a great way for us to have a feel of what seemed like "prom". Well, maybe 1/4 of what prom would have been. But then again. It was an experience, and like all experience whether good or bad, should be embraced and something should be learned from it....

(seriously now, I am ranting... I have a Bead stitch project for tomorrow, a scrapbook not even started, and a Chem Lab Moving exam, so please bear with my pathetic content for this blog post.)

Our speaker, Atty. Michael Joseph Kotarski, is a lawyer from Michigan. He came to talk to us of the legal issues involved when working in the US. He started his talk by telling us of the major advantages of Filipino Health workers. He mentioned that Filipinos were pretty experienced when it came to hands on training. However, there is one thing that we needed to know that we may not neccesarily be informed about already. That is the concept of Patient Needs.

Patient Needs is the major destination for Health care in the US. This generally talks about the decisions revolving around ethics. He also discussed another important matter involving the need for documenting and recording our services rendered to the patient.
It made me proud that he informed the audience that the Roman Catholic Church has the highest ethical standard in the US. This means that the final decisions of what is right in terms of ethics, is done by the Church.


Atty. Michael made mention of three important powers of attorney when it came to the decision making part of the patient.
1.DPOA (durable power of Attorney) on Money Matters
2.DPOA on Medical Matters
3.PAD (Patient advocate Designation)




The first two powers are rather self explanatory, while the third power focused on the medical designation of the patient (especially comatose patients) which will include the termination of a medical treatment. (pulling the plug)


If there is no DPOA and etc. have two options as assigned by the court.
a.Conservatorship- someone aside from the court as requested by the hospital to make credible decisions for the patient who is unable to make a decision.
b.Guardianship- a legal guardian of the patient

Apart from all those things, I also learned a new word.
We all know what a hospital is, and what hospitalize, hospitable, or hospitalization are.
What's Hospitalist?

According to Atty. Michael, they are the ones assigned for the PAD in the three powers of attorney.

Another noteworthy mention of the speaker was that Filipinos have a way of handling life and death(mostly death) matters that patients in the US feel more understood when Filipinos announce their situations.

Oh, and for the curious ones, Atty. Michael share that the average income for the nurses abroad is 25$ an hour, meaning for every hour that you are working, you get 1200 php. Wow!
While private nurses earn $6000 per month which is equivalent to 288000 php. Double wow.

The last thing I was able to hear from Atty. Michael was him mentioning Filipinos being too submissive.




Anyway, that's all for this post. I had to run for another event somewhere else.

BTW, sooooo sorry for the uber late post.

For the first time in my life, I am able to shoot for the Sinulog Opening and of course, the Sinulog 2009 College Street Dancing.


Despite the low budget for Velez College, our Dance Troupe was able to come up with some presentable costumes, and I may say, our Festival Queen has the sexiest outfit. We would like to thank SSC for donating a couple of thousands for the Troupe. And of course, we fortunately were able to have our own ride going there with the top of the line: Kao Shiung Bus.

I know some of you may be laughing at our form of transportation, but mind you, the bus wasn't that hot and there was lots of space for everyone.

We arrived just in time for the mass to finish. And everyone was feeling quite nervous because the costumes of the other schools looked like they cost millions!

And here are the daring participants for the Velez College Sinulog Street Dancing group:
Girls:
Dumpa, Shiena May
Salazar, Beryl
De Leon, Marie Angela
Tan, Stephanie Anne
Talle, Claire
Rabina, Rebecca
Rizarri, Dana
Rebusit, Rollie
Booc, Fritzie
Quiza, Casey
Gaanan, Nicai
de Leaon, Jackie
Alferez, Fances


Guys:
Caracena, John
Madarang, Gian
Go, Nile
Opeg, George
Estella, Ralph
Alatraca, Gabriel
Garnica, Jordan
Narte, Karlo

















































For other pictures please visit: http://vanjhnn.multiply.com







Velez College Street Dance 2009 from Vanjohnn Tiu on Vimeo.

And for the closing of our series of Ms. Velez 2008 blog posts we have:

• Evening Gown Round
• Awarding

Click on Image to enlarge


Awards:

Best in Resort Wear: #1
Ms. Photogenic:#1
Best Festival Costume:#1
Best in Production number: #!
Best in Uniform:#2
Ms. Congeniality:#2
Best in Evening Gown: #7

Top 3 finalists:
#5-2nd runner up
#2-1st runner up
Ms. Velez College 2008- Ms. Arianna Gajudo