HAPPY BIRTHDAY

Our sis roster number 400. Clarissa A. YKUTANEN's ( docrizzie@yahoo.com ) birthday is on Thursday November 29th. Riza will be 29 years old. She is a member of VITA NOS AD FATIO Batch.



HAPPY BIRTHDAY SIS, from your brothers and sisters, may you have many more birthdays to come.



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(sorry its late got sick)

Message from a founder: MEDICUS website

It was the start of another school year. Another beginning that have brought a tinge of fears and challenge to a third year medical student's heart. He was glad to be finally there, the seemingly last year of hard school work. But as he looked back, he felt that there must have been more to it than this new white V-neck uniform and another pile of books to read.

It was a time when students bore the weight of a certain identity, looking in pride and confidence. Was it enough to have gained the status of a Medical Student or was there more to this so - called symbol of excellence? Being and purpose, these were what was in everybody's mind that first a group of young hopefuls committed themselves to a cause, we now call - MEDICI OMNES DUCIENS.

The fraternity's existence was sparkled by a need to redirect the campus student's evolving picture of Men of Medicine. The objective of his labor had to be clear to him, to comprehend his vital essence in college and his eventual responsibilities as a physician.The formula was simple and relevant - DEDICATION, SERVICE AND BROTHERHOOD: three pillars that withstood time since that night in August of 1982.

It has been said " A man realizes how tall he is, when he needs the call to stand up". Our Fraternity and Sorority - call you today in the very same spirit it had been founded on. To this day, MEDICI OMNES DUCIENS, Has grown from dreams of thirteen men to a reality of more than 400 members. And yet the formula has remained the same since that feeling of every medical student to meet the challenge of his time and the needs of his people still perpetuate to this day.

MEDICUS distinguished and elevated pride from that which evolves from confidence and impels men and women to do their best. The greatest insult foisted on any man is to be called common. No one wishes to be common or remain common. In every heart beats the desire to become remarkable. That gives us a cutting edge to achievement and self-confidence.

DEDICATION, SERVICE AND BROTHERHOOD

in our pursuit of,

MEDICI OMNES DUCIENS (MEDICINE CHANNEL FOR ALL).

Angel C. ARANETA M.D. Founding Member

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Happy Birthday

Dennil DELA PAZ of ANIMO AB INITIO (docdennil@yahoo.com) birthday is on Friday November 23rd. Dennil will be 38 years old. This is the message I got coming from my birthday alarm notices.


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOL!!! may you have many more birthdays to come. Saan tayo?


(to all brods and sis that somehow we would miss, I apologize in advance for I could not remember birthdays including the birthday's of my batchmates, thanks to birthday alarm that reminds me but not everyone is listed there, only those that I have emails and only those who answered when prompted by birthday alarm)

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FOCUS: Ghe and Avie

Francis Gerald "ghe" E. ADIAO of Unos Sanguinis and Salvie "avie" ROY-Adiao of Excellens In Omnes Actum, were friends, classmates, brod and sis, before being one as husband and wife. They now live in Nassau Bahamas, with their 3 children, all boys. Needless to say MEDICUS babies. Recently(as in within the year), Francis celebrated his 40th birthday and decided to send pictures of the event ( it is uploaded in Flickr, slide presentation soon to follow). Here it is, belated happy birthday tol from your brods and sis, and may you have many more (children, wala pang babae) birthdays to come.

Philippine Reunion October 2006

This may be old news but just to tell a story. When Archie went home in 2006, one Vincula called another and before you know it everyone available in Metro Manila agreed to meet. Vincula Concordia and Dum Spiro Spero meet and then keep on meeting 2 more times. Sometimes when you start telling stories you do not want it to end. This is one of those times. Seeing your brods and sis again after several years brings back the old, fun memories. It is nice to know that at least this time you can afford to do it in a restaurant other than Hua San. There were 2 pictures taken from 2 different times, on 2 different restaurants. Top picture: Val and Jen at the front, Bottom picture: right to left Art, Cris, Arnel, Archie, Grace, and Jen. A toast for Medicus.

Click this link for a slideshow of the pictures taken during the reunion.

Keep the fire burning.

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Requiem

message from a sis:

We are requesting family & friends to pray for my dad that his soul may rest in peace.

REYNALDO M. NAVARRO, 63 years old passed away today, November 6 close to midnight (Manila time).

He is survived by wife, Evangelina "Ine" & 3 children & their families: Lynn, JD & Patricia; Loida & Dino, Louie.

MOD 224 Lynn T. NAVARRO


Lynn, I am sorry that this note was posted a bit late, it is only now that I am reviewing some letters that I skip.

We, your brothers and sisters, sympathize with you and your family, and rest assured that your Dad is in our prayers.

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Flickr Account

Mga Utol, brods and sis,


We now have a Pro Flickr account, we do not have a limit sa upload, upload as much as you want. I ended subscribing to it, dahil it is giving me a hard time organizing pictures, at sa upload limit na 100mb we need more. One of the problems before is that the memory available on free accounts is not enough, and we end up with several free accounts on different providers. Ngayon lahat ng mga pictures natin, specially ang mga nasa baul. Pwede na ninyong hukayin at i-upload. Kung may collection kayo ng mga old pictures natin scan ninyo and upload it. Pag mag lagay kayo ng pictures lagyan nyo ng tag na Medici Omnes Duciens at Manila Central University sa group tag. Tapos name the picture (kung ano gusto nyo) then describe something about the picture. From Flickr account pwedeng I padala yan sa blog natin medyo lumalabas nga lang na putol ang isang side pero pwede, although it is still better to upload pictures individually sa Blog para maganda. Lahat tayo may access sa Flickr and we can get it, pass it on, blog it if we want using the login name at password. Look at the side bar nandyan ang login at password. It is also nicer to look at pag nag log in using the slide viewer. agp 107

Medicus SoCal gathering

On November 4, 2007 Medicus members in Southern California held an impromptu get together. The Chairman of the Internal 1984-85 (Edwin Chua) came for a visit coming from Taiwan. Our brod Ceasar also held a belated birthday for him and his kids, thus making them the host of the event. Seven members with their families were there; Ceasar Dayahan, James Centeno (who came all the way from Las Vegas, Nevada), Edwin Chua, Elvis Verso, Chi Juico, Muriel 'Peewee" Manuel and yours truly Alex Pineda. The event was really nice, specially if you met someone you have not met for more than 20 years. Like long lost brothers and sisters we get drunk until the sun came down. A new slide presentation was posted above the post but you can still watcth the old slide show by clicking on the active link. Hope you'll enjoy it like we do.
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*you can also click the active link it will take you to YouTube for the video*

Medicus Band

Medicus members have a lot of talents aside from being studious, resourceful, leaders, etc. Some members were also musically inclined. Thus, in the periods 0f 1985-87 a band was formed comprising of Medicus members. The first time I saw them performing was with Miss Medicine done at the Medical auditorium. During this performance Spike Ignacio was the vocalist and Dean Quito was so impressed with the performance, that she cannot help but talk to the band members afterward, specifically to Spike Ignacio. I remember her saying "Spike pag ginawa mo pa ulit ito ibabagsak kita". This was followed by a performance at the Miss MCU done at the MCU Caloocan Gym. The members varied from one performance to another. It includes Jorge 'Spike' Ignacio (vocals), Rhoderick 'Oknoy' Problete (vocals), Gilbert Quimosing (lead, rhythm), Elvis Verso (rhythm, backup vocals), Ricky Dela Cruz (keyboards, rhythm, vocals), Ronald 'Dollar' Fetalvero(bass), Archi Lumibao (drums, lead, rhythm), and Chi Juico (vocals) the only thorn among the roses. At the top of the page after the announcement is a video of one of their performance, wherein the vocalist was Oknoy. The quality of the video is not that good (there is no digital video then). The video came from the vault of Archie Lumibao. (Archie if there were mistakes on this post, send me an email so I can correct it).
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WELCOME: ARGENTUM DURUS

BIG APPLAUSE AND STANDING OVATION FOR ! !

Argentum Durus Batch

MOD 430 Debbie Ann Natividad

MOD 431 Gian Carlo DAROY

MOD 432 Rainel GENELSA
MOD 433 Lito Jay MACARAIG

MOD 434 Jomar HASSAN batch leader

On behalf of the Alumni and from all your brods and sis everywhere; BRODS and SIS WELCOME TO MEDICUS we were glad that you made it. We are here to help and be your brothers and sisters. Ask your questions and we will do our best to answer them. We would like to meet you, shake you hands, and hug you in person one day.

There were six individuals in this picture and I think the other one is Maria Isabel LAGRIMAS. If I am not mistaken she made the friendster account for medicus (correct me if I'm wrong). To you Sis Mabel WELCOME for I was not able to welcome you before. agp 107

Archie in the morning

I woke with a headache and it is 01:20 pm. I need to prepare myself for my duty tonight but the blog first. I am trying to load a flash program that was made by one of our Brod for Medicus a long time ago. Perhaps 5 or 6 years ago. But it would not load as a picture or as a video. After trying to load it several times it would not load as it is not supported. I think they are not using flash anymore. I will try to load another video see if it is working. This AVI was taken using a canon pro 1 camera that can take a 3 minute clip. This was taken at Art Onglao's House on December 12, 2004 when me and Archie went there to go fishing. This is an active clip and you can play it by clicking on the play button. i love medicus AGP 107

Eyeball February 25, 2007

In February 26, 2007, me and Vic met at our sis house (Peewee) and have a nice get together just like oldtimes with news and jokes about each other, and lots of food. The commute is more than we expect especially when you think that you were lost. I will add some more pictures here at our blog and the rest will be sent through email. The other pictures were already uploaded to flickr. You will see again the beauty of our sister, one of the original "crush ng bayan".

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Introduction

I have written a nice introduction for the blog, but unfortunately as luck would have it, it was lost perhaps due to my carelessness or because of the number of beer I have taken so far. I started to do this at midnight and it is now 3 o'clock in the morning. I am now upset because I have lost all the post that I just drafted, and I could not remember the password for the 1st Blog I made(and that one got the mediciomnesduciens name on it). Anyway, this is supposed to be an introduction on this blog that is about our fraternity and sorority. Our beloved Medici Omnes Duciens.

It has been 25 years since the founders started this organization. We have grown, became bigger, older and like a big family we tend to go to our own life's pursuits ending up far from each other. We were far because we grow and seek out what was meant for us, and because we follow the things that we set out to do. To make other peoples lives a little better, to make our lives better. Just like when this was started at MCU to make our lives as students a little better.

This is just a trial run and hope that we have a new media where we can express our wants and needs, to be able to connect with our brothers and sisters from all over the world. To connect again like we used to when we were students of medicine at MCU. To update our brothers and sisters regarding ourselves, including our whereabouts, our families and all the things we can think off.

i love Medicus

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