2008 California Reunion

In 2007 there was a MEDICUS gathering held at Cesar's house at Riverside, Ca. In that gathering a BLOG was started. This BLOG was seen by MEDICUS members and noticed that there were several members in the US mostly in California and in the adjoining states like Nevada and Arizona. Several suggested to have a long overdue reunion (monette, peewee, jopye). It has been years since we saw each other, face to face. The most members in one place was during James birthday in 2002 and all of these were from California. I mentioned this to Cesar and agreed to organized and held one. The suggestion was Las Vegas, for there were several members there that includes Monette, Thany & Mel, and James and there was a lot more activities to begin with. This was considered and pondered but then, we have to take into consideration that most of our brods and sis were in California. A lot of members do not have enough time for the whole weekend to spare. Some were even on duty the night before the set date for the reunion plus the commute between the states and finally the cost becomes a deciding factor. In the end it was decided that it would be held at Cesar's house at Riverside. It has a bigger space and can hold a lot of people, it has a pool and the view at sunset is stunning (i have seen this the previous year 2007). We call everyone we know to be informed of the plan 3 months before so that they can settled their schedules ahead of time.

The day starts with a call from Annie to what time I'm going to pick her up (just woke up at the call 0945) and told her after I got the "kakanin" that I ordered at 10:00 AM. Soon Art was calling me, he was already there at Riverside and no one was there except Cesar. I picked up Annie after I found my way to her apartment (sorry but i got lost in West LA, with a GPS) and then we where on our way.


At Riverside Art was the first to arrived at 10:00 AM. I arrived with Annie at 12:20 PM followed by Robin and his wife, Peewee Muriel and Terry. We were hungry and ate lunch after arrival. We started talking about how we end up being a MEDICUS and our old times at MCU.

One by one the members came Monette and family, James, Edwin and family, Mel and Thany, Vic, Cepo, Jopye, Elvis and family, Sam and Mae, Joli, and Aileen and family. We've talk of old times and how boring our medicine school days would be without MEDICUS, our activities, practical jokes and the camaraderie. We also have some guest from other batches that were MCU graduates (88 & 84). They talk of how they find MEDICUS and its members then (we all came from one school regardless of our organizational affiliation when we were students). Everyone enjoyed meeting each other and talking about old times.

The younger generation listens to the activities of the older ones, they also have their own story to tell. We reconnect and plan on networking to help each other out. We also plan of future activities. Until it was time for Robin to leave (he have another reunion to go to). We ate, drink, be merry and chat for hours. We have a lot pictures taken during sunset and through out the reunion. Then Terry and Jopye left followed by Joli. At 12:00 midnight, one by one the members said their goodbyes. A few were left to stay overnight at Cesar's house (alex, sam, mae, james) and some at Bel's house (art, me-an, vic, and monette). (Bel is our guest, a batch 88 she lives a few blocks from Cesar without knowing it.) We've agreed to meet again for breakfast at 08:00 AM the following morning at Cesar's house.

At 08:00 AM, breakfast was prepared and again we started talking about the old days and our life as it is, over breakfast. After breakfast we said our goodbyes at the breakfast table and walk outside. Outside, we started talking again and said another set of goodbyes and started walking to the gate to leave. We ended talking again at the gate. At 10:00 AM it was really time to leave as some were still on duty that night. Some had to travel back to Nevada. It seems that we have not enough time to talk and tell our stories.

We miss some of the members like Rodel, Chi, Joan, Jon, Del, Willy, Rey Daclison, Aida, Vince, Burt, Sam Bangug (New York), Manny Sunga(Chicago), Manette Bunyi (Florida), Gemma, Odette (Washington), Reyshelle, Jewelie, and Ellen. I hope that we will see them next time. Some of them wanted to come but due to unforeseeable circumstances they were not able to make it.


This is a picture of every member that was in the reunion. There were several videos made and posted to YouTube (you can watch it at the bottom of the BLOG). I hope that by now everyone saw it.

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