Last Full Show

It's our last week of stay here in Cavite and one word is on my mindset - CHERISH. Yeah, I'm trying to enjoy my last week here and I will share it to the world with dozen of pictures and videos that I will post here soon.

The Last Assignment: Ma'am Noverro

I blogged last early monday about a professor of mine who gave us a paper work which I still haven't submitted until today. That professor, who is suffering as what we know with asthma since she arrived in our class as a partner of our other professor Dra. Lopez, has been really having a hard time coping with us while she's teaching.

Ma'am Noverro, as we usually call her by her last name, passed away hours after I've blogged about her in this blog.

Ma'am Noverro, has recently peacefully joined her creator in heaven.

We were all shocked here in Cavite right after we heard of the news. It was a sad news obviously for the whole PWU nursing community especially that PWU is depleted again of a hardworking teacher. Imagine, she is suffering from an illness and still she continued to teach 44 hard-headed students like us.

She has been our teacher for our major subject about two months already. Typically, she's been absent most of the time and news is that during those times, she's been hospitalized because of her illness.

The last time I saw her was before we have our halloween vacation. I was one of the last NG3-04 student to talked to her because she asked me to collect pictures of my classmates for a seat plan she is requiring us. That was the last time. Since then, I never heard her voice again. I never heard again that seemed to be a shouting voice which really culminates pain and her difficulty in speaking. Until now, I still have the pictures which I failed to complete. My lastassignment was not the paper work I failed to submit to Dra. Lopez but the seat plan which she is hoping to remember us for the rest of her life.

I have joked many times about her and now is the time I asker her forgiveness.

The lighter side is that she has been suffering many times in her life with her illness and the only thing I could say right now is that Lord grant her the rest she deserves with all the angels of heaven. She must be happy wherever she is right now.

To Ma'am Noverro, may you Rest in Peace.

Indolence

I should be sleeping by now but here I am again in front of the computer. I've been busy these past weekend because I've finally got the chance to play EA SPORTS latest addition to basketball gaming which is NBA LIVE 08. I've been playing the NBA LIVE series since NBA LIVE 2003 and I've been addicted to the DYNASTY MODE the year after.

I should be at McDonald's Pedro Gil by 5 am later for our duty again in Dasma and Trece Martirez, Cavite but I don't have any plans yet of getting to my bed. I'm still enjoying life at this moment.

I should be sleeping by now. I've been lazy this past week. My teacher in my major subject texted me earlier this evening giving me one last chance to submit my requirement which is a paper works requiring me to write a heck of notes from the book. I thank her for giving me that last chance. We have two professors in that subject. The first one is Dra. Lopez (I don't know her first name), a very kind professors who likes to give chances for students, I mean failing students like me who doesn't care of the world. I really admire her for doing that. She gives high grades also. She is not the one who gave us the assignment. It's actually my other professor, her partner, an asthmatic who would totally fall off a cliff with one silent whisper who until now is I think in the hospital because of her asthma attacks. She was the brave person to gave us the stupid paper work.

I mean why do professors like her would require us to read a thousand page book in nursing and all of a sudden they would require us to write the whole thing which is already in the damn book. I mean grow up. Things such as those are tolerable back in the elementary days where in teachers are busy selling the "tocino's" and "longganisa" especially in public schools where in some of your teacher come to school without even having a prepared lesson plan. Of course, add the idea that those were the days where in INTERNET is not yet as widely used as today.

Why would they require us to submit paper works that are handwritten in this modern technological age? Where is justice?

Still, I thank Dra. Lopez for the kind attitude of giving chances and that is the only consolation I got in this trimester so far when it comes to "dealing" subjects.

I don't see myself enrolling for the next trimester. I think I have to stop. Not hopeless or anything but I think there is always a time for cessation.

Things to Ponder: For PWU Students

This post has something to do with my duty here in Trece Martirez, Cavite.

From our dormitory in Dasma, Cavite, we arrived at Summerfield Subd. Brgy Osorio, Trece Martires at around 8:30 in the morning. It was just another ordinary day because we've been doing this for two weeks already. Yesterday, we did not finish looking for a family for our typology next week so we loiter around the place to look for a should be "depressed family". The usual "tambay" moments happened so we stop over a small sari-sari store and my classmate found out that the owner has a breast cancer and needs blood donor for her supposed operation. Honestly, I do not have any idea about what operation would be done(I don't know the medical term). With "gift of charity" in mind, four of us decided to volunteer to donate our blood so we asked permission to out clinical instructor and he allow us to go the hospital where the operation would be performed. We ride a tricycle on our way to Bonifacio Medical Center in the capital city of Cavite but the hospital was a public government-owned hospital so we were not able to make reservations during that day and they told us that due to the hundred of early reservations, obviously they can't accomodate us. We again loiter in the hospital while waiting for our "ale" when suddenly, a former CI/Professor of PWU was also in there as a CI for another school.

Due to some private matters and sensitivity of his(or her??) identity, I decided not to name the person here in my blog.

WE were shocked to see him in the hospital. Rumors says that he is working as a call center agent in which he confirmed but of course everybody's question is what happened before he decided to resign as PWU nursing professor. I have heard the story from different gossip personalities of PWU and from our current CI but of course, I believe that there are two sides for every stories so I think it is the right time if he tell us his side. He jokingly asked us what "paninira" were made by PWU Nursing professors about him. Of course, we actually avoided the issue but it came and he confessed to us that yes, some stories were partly true and correct but also others were sensationalized. That is his story. That is his summary.

It's just a pity because that professor was really one of the best PWU have over the years. But in reality, those best doesn't come out to be good the way we see them in later parts.

I know that our country has been suffering from so much fiscal and financial crisis which unfairly affects the masses and the professionals that is why some real professionals are leaving the country in search for greener pastures abroad but do some things like what happened to him really should be done to alleviate poverty or caprices?

I mean why does it have to resort on this things? I remember back in high school when I was taught about one great quotation by one great author:

"The end justifies the means"

Some people we know may be very best at their skills but none of them are perfect. Like Robin Hood, he help the poor by stealing. Is it the same to this professor I/we knew, to bestow knowledge to hundreds by stealing hundreds also?

Unfairly, we ostracize people by the little mistakes they commit. But we give pardon to people even if it is thousands and millions of pesos they steal.

Yes of course, wisdom in line with honesty must start in every small institution we are involved in order to promote to the macroscopic level. But who knows the extremes to such things as this? Do we really care?

Sneaking

I find a way to sneaked out of my dormitory here in Cavite to try out the Internet Cafe's and I was never disappointed by its services. Yes, there were no air-conditioned rooms like what there is in Manila but the connection is at least reliable and fast.

I blogged earlier this morning about ignorance and now, I'm thinking that maybe I should have blogged about stupidity because of what happened to us earlier before we got here in Dasma for our second week of duty.

Something Personal

I'm back here in Manila after almost a week of being in Cavite for our duty. A lot of weird things really happened while we were in there. Of course, we were new to the place so we caught ourselves with some unfamiliar stories of ghosts and other spooky things that usually happened in provinces. I really don't have must time to narrate everything but all I can say is that I have a very memorable experience while in there. I have great classmates who were really great cooks. I enjoyed so much of my time except for the third day. We have a great CI with Sir Bong. It was fun and that is the best thing to describe our first week.