HOSPITAL FLASH MOB AT THE BREAST WELLNESS FAIR @ OCTOBER 2014

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October is BREAST CANCER AWARENESS Month.

This was taken during the BREAST WELLNESS FAIR spearheaded by CIUDAD MEDICAL ZAMBOANGA Breast Wellness Center and graced by no less than our ever supportive Breast Cancer Advocate, Councilor Myra Paz Valderosa Abubakar!

The Breast Wellness Fair was held at the Paseo Del Mar, the main public park of Zamboanga City, where the giant B.R.A., the Ciudad De Zamboanga B.R.E.A.S.T. (Bra to Raise Early Awareness for Screening and Treatment) Installation Art  is displayed!

ZAMBOANGA CITY BREAST WELLNESS FAIR GROUNDS
CREDITS: FO CHARM DALGUNTAS

The Emcees for this affair (and incidentally, one of the proponents) is Mr. Hannibal Angus, who is one of our own nursing staff together with Dr. Filipinas Rojo!

ZAMBOANGA CITY BREAST WELLNESS FAIR OPENING REMARKS
by DR. FILIPINAS ROJO, CMZ MD 
CREDITS: DR. NORWIN DETALLA

At 4 p.m. of October 28, 2014, there were 11 booths manned by the CMZ Breast Wellness Center and partners namely: 

    1.    Selfie Booth of CMZ

    2.    Breast Screening Booth of CMZ BWC

    3.    Health Food Booth by the CMZ Dietary

    4.    Sophie Paris Zamboanga Recruitment Booth with prizes to provide livelihood for women through Ms. Carissa Alvarez

    5.    Mindanao Breast Cancer Support and Empowerment Group headed by Maám Myra Lladones

    6.    Zamboanga Runners Club headed by Dr. Marissa Lim and inviting the participants to a Mini-Obstacle Course and with the invitation for the upcoming 21K Heroes Run.

    7.   Mary Kay Beauty Booth with prizes through Ms. Charlotte Mendoza

    8.   DSWD PWD women Livelihood Program products showcasing beautiful bags with different designs through Dr. Gracia Gacrama

    9.   Department of Health IX sharing about Mers-Cov and Ebola through RD IX Dr. Nimfa Torrizo 

  10.   City Health Office sharing about Breast Cancer Awareness through Dr. Rodel Agbulos, Dr. Juliet Ruste and Dr. Kibtiya Uddin.

  11.  "No Smoking" Campaign Booth led by Councilor Myra Paz Valderosa Abubakar

Among the Booths at the BREAST WELLNESS FAIR

ZAMBOANGA CITY BREAST WELLNESS FAIR GROUNDS
CREDITS: DR. NORWIN DETALLA

The Flash Mob opened the Main Program and was participated in by more than a hundred CMZ workforce including doctors, nurses, technologists, pharmacists, administrative, finance and maintenance staff and with their kids! This was so amazing and we would like to thank Kenneth Ivan Saclolo and Sherniaa Absari, our own CMZ nurses who conceptualized the whole Flash Mob and had to teach all of us! 

Some of the FLASH MOB Dancers
CREDITS: DR. NORWIN DETALLA

And most of all, for all the participants of the Flash Mob, our utmost gratitude for sharing your time and talent for the Advocacy! We know how you have to sacrifice our precious time for the practices as well as bear the heat without complaints.... You are part of history!! Simply dynamic... simply united...   simply FABULOUS!!!  

Special mention are our participating doctors, Dr. Josephine Gemarino, Dr. Adele Espaldon, Dr. Jenivic Romo, Dr. Kristine Bantala and our partners in the Pharma industry especially, Angie and friends!

Thanks NSO, Unit Heads and HR for somehow adjusting the schedules of the dancers, and still keeping the workflow and patient complement. 

Another highlight is the Unveiling of the B.R.A. Vinta by Hon. Myra Abubakar and CMZ Execom (Chairman Edwin To, Pres. Joven Monsanto, CEO Jhihann Natividad, FO Charm Dalguntas, MD Filipinas Rojo, AO Ruby Ruzon and HRM Juvee Calica). 

UNVEILING OF THE B.R.A. VINTA INSTALLATION ART WITH HON. MYRA ABUBAKAR AND CMZ EXECOM
CREDITS: DR. NORWIN DETALLA

The B.R.A. Vinta is made up of 186 colored and black bras! Thanks to Cristina Bolo, who coordinated for the making of this B.R.A.  together with Linen and of course, the Maintenance group, who incidentally, together with the AO Ruby Puzon and Radiology Department continue to freshen up the original Ciudad B.R.E.A.S.T. Installation Art in Paseo, which was made up of about 1600 bras!

We also displayed the giant embellished BRA all the way from Illinois, U.S.A. made by our CMZ BRA Campaign Project supporter, Ms. Nora Javonitalla Sanico which was another centerpiece for the Selfies! After the affair, this is on display at the CMZ Breast Wellness Center.

Our own CMZ beauties, the Miss NSO (Nursing Service Office) 2014, Ms. Kenjilyn Uchida and her court, Ms. Krista Ayara Cabaron, Ms. Krizzell Wee, Ms. Tessa Beth Gica and Ms Jade Silorio, and the Breast Wellness Ambassadress, Ms. Shanaine Gayle Magracia shared facts and their advocacy words for Breast Wellness and Breast Cancer Awareness. Thank you very much for adding beauty, grace, intelligence, wisdom and advocacy to the Breast Wellness Fair.

MISS NSO 2014 KENJILYN UCHIDA and her COURT
CREDITS: from the file of Tessa Beth Gica 

CMZ talents also enlivened the affair with the beautiful voice of Ms. Dorothy and the dynamic dance numbers from Ms. NSO Miss Talent, Tessa Beth Gica and from the Operating Room Team!

Awarding Ceremonies for the CMZ B.R.A. Campaign Project Online Presence Contests also took place. (to be posted separately)

Emergency Room = Most Facebook Likes, Most Facebook Shares and Most Instagram Likes

Cardio-Pulmonary Unit = Most Facebook Likes, Most Facebook Shares

Raffle of Three Digital Mammography Examinations, Dinner at Tony's Restaurant and Mary Kay Products added fun to the Fair! Plus the raffle prizes at the Mary Kay and Sophie booths. (winners to be posted separately)

Thanks to all those who joined the Fair and visited the Breast Wellness Fair booths participated in by CMZ BWC partners. We thank the many teachers who shared the afternoon with us!

Thanks to GMA 7 for sharing this video! And most of all, thanks to my good friends, Farley and Eunice Areola for helping me out!

Thanks to the City Mayor, Maria Isabelle Climaco and City Administrator, Mr. Antonio Orendain for allowing us to use Paseo Del Mar for our Advocacy and to Mr. Joselito Wee and Mr. Darren Salian, who are in-charge of Paseo Del Mar. 

Thanks to all our Media Partners especially Dante and Tita Corteza, Mila Arieta, Boy Nap Directo for Zamboanga Times and Zamboanga Today and of course, E-Media, RMN and GBPI TV 11! Thanks also to the other Media Partners who we were not able to mention.

Dr. Mary Ann To (CMZ), Juara Galang (PNB), CMZ Chairman Edwin To, CMZ MD Filipinas Rojo, Tessie Uy Sebastian (PNB), Michelle Lim (PNB) and Dante Corteza (Zamboanga Times) 

Thanks to those who documented the affair through Photography and Video especially our FO Charm Dalguntas, our nurses, Syle Alejaga and Jervis Baginda and their techie team. So proud of you! And to the City's GSO (General Service Office) for allowing us to use the Manlift for the best vantage point for our chroniclers. Our Breast Wellness Fair will live on because of your documentation!

Thanks so much to all our sponsors  especially, Siemens, Carestream, Health Solutions, Neomed, Marketlink, G-Med and the complete list will be posted separately. 

Thanks to Jobert of G-Med for the transportation together with Joko Rojo. Thanks especially for the transport of the many, many people and things... we could have done it without you!

There are still so many who have shared and helped from the Zamboanga City community and throughout the CMZ organization - - our thanks to you!

Thanks to CEO, Atty. Jhihann Hairun-Natividad for allowing us to go ahead with our Breast Wellness Fair and for taking care of the budget!

Thanks AO Ruby Puzon, HRM Juvee Calica and Cristina Bolo for being my partners!

And most of all, thanks to the CMZ Organizing Committee (Execom, Mel, Edsel, Jiji, Jace and their dynamic teams), the CMZ Radiology Department (and the Radiology Interns) and the Maintenance Department for making the Breast Wellness Fair a success!

ADMIN TEAM / ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

RADIOLOGY/ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Ciudad Medical Zamboanga hopes that as we celebrate our Eleventh Anniversary, CMZ would be instrumental in further elevating the image of Zamboanga City in an optimistic and positive light through the Healthcare Industry as we BUILD BACK BETTER ZAMBOANGA! 

DELTA MOVES TO NAIA 3 AUGUST 1, 2014

July 31, 2014 

I saw this tarpaulin at NAIA Terminal 3 on our way back home from Manila last week.

Then, in tonight's news, I also heard that the following airlines will follow suit:

KLM by August 4, 2014

Emirates by August 15, 2014

Singapore by September 1, 2014

Cathay Pacific by September 2nd week

Here is a link related to this news:

Delta Airlines moves to NAIA Terminal 3

ABS-CBNnews.com

Posted at 07/31/2014 12:02 PM | Updated as of 07/31/2014 12:59 PM

MANILA, Philippines - Two Delta Airlines flights are scheduled to arrive tonight at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3.

Delta Airlines is the first of five foreign airlines transferring their operations to NAIA 3, starting August.

"Passengers of Delta Airlines flights DL 629 and DL473 with an estimated arrival time of 21:05 and 21:45, respectively, will be deplaning from Terminal 3. We are excited to welcome these passengers as they take their first step on this new Terminal," Manila International Airport Authority General Manager Jose Angel Honrado said.

KLM Royal Dutch Airlines is set to move to NAIA 3 on August 4, followed by Emirates Airlines on August 15.

On September 1, Singapore Airlines will also begin operating flights in and out of NAIA 3.

Cathay Pacific is also expected to transfer to NAIA 3 by second week of September.

"We thank these airlines for heeding our call to use Terminal 3 for their operations. Their cooperation plays a vital role for us to achieve our desire to decongest Terminal 1 by some 3 million passengers annually," Honrado said.

Honrado reminded relatives, friends and well-wishers of passengers arriving and departing on these airlines to take note of the transfer dates to avoid confusion.

Flight information offices of Terminals 1 and 3 may be reached at 877.1109 local 2852 or 765 and 877.7888 local 8144, respectively.

They also mentioned for those taking the shuttle bus between airports (NAIA 3 to NAIA 2) to consider at least thirty minutes time between buses and also leeway for travel time between these two places.

FYI! I hope this advisory will help you!

SERENDIPITY 3, NEW YORK

My cousin Jeanne's college friend, Dr. Ingking invited me for a night out in Manhattan, and she chose a very interesting place, Serendipity 3 or Serendipity III! (I always confuse it with Serependity!)

What does Serendipity mean?

Actually, my friend Gretch also thought of inviting me to this place if in case I haven't been there.

The cozy place is located at 225 East 60th St. between Second and Third Ave. in New York City, founded by Stephen Bruce in 1954, and this is how it looks from the outside!

Dr. Ingking got an appointment for us at 6:00 p.m. because she knows the queue is quite long if one didn't have that.

Isn't the place whimsical?... and so interesting!

They had a really large menu... and here are some samples:

From Wikipedia: In 2004, Serendipity celebrated its fiftieth anniversary by introducing the record-breaking Golden Opulence Sundae, listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the most expensive dessert, at $1000. It is made with 5 scoops of the Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream,Madagascar vanilla covered in 23K edible gold leaf, drizzled with the world's most expensive chocolate, Amedei Porcelana, and covered with chunks of Chuao chocolate, which is from cocoa beans harvested by the Caribbean Sea on Venezuela's coast. It is suffused with exotic candied fruits from Paris, gold dragets, truffles and Marzipan Cherries and topped with a tiny glass bowl of Grand Passion Caviar, an exclusive dessert caviar, made of salt-free American Golden caviar, known for its sparkling golden color. It's sweetened and infused with passion fruit, orange, and Armagnac. The sundae is served in a baccarat Harcourt crystal goblet with an 18K gold spoon, a petite mother of pearl spoon, and topped with a gilded sugar flower by Ron Ben-Israel. 

We got the Lemon Sole with the Garden Salad on the side...

 And the Seafood Fettucine...

And the highlight is the dessert, which is the Hot Frozen Chocolate!

And someone offered to take our picture... the Filipino young kids who were sitting beside us!

Thanks, Dr. Ingking for a very wonderful dinner topped with the special dessert!

JICA Science 1987: MEETING OLD FRIENDS IN U.S.A. @ 2014

I happened to be in New York for Continuing Medical Education activities for two weeks and the best part was meeting up with old friends.

The first set of friends I met were fellow Philippine delegates to the Friendship Program for the 21st Century, which we participated in last May to June 1987. Our group was the Philippine Science Students and many of us were Medical students (19), Dentistry students (2) and Engineering students (4), with a total of 25 Science students.

We all agree that our participation to the Friendship Program was a surreal experience especially to us, young students then! We had the time of our life with the beautiful places all over Japan that we went to, the cultural exchange and discussions, homestays and of course, long lasting friendships we made with our Filipino co-delegates and Japanese tomodachi, who were our Japanese counterparts!

After 25 years, a few of us met in the Philippines when Dr. Ed Catibog came home and interestingly, Dr. Jon Abaquin was able to gather Dr. Monina Garduno, Dr. Jessica Mateum (from Iloilo now in Manila) and me (from Cebu now in Zamboanga)!

This year, after 27 years, I met three of them in New York, Dr. Emil Tayag (from Pampanga now in Illinois),  Dr. Gretchen Ira (From Quezon City now in D.C.) and dentist, Dr. Oliver Fernandez (from Manila now in San Francisco).

I know how difficult it is to gather us, who now happen to be in different parts of the world and many, with growing kids!

Here are some of our before and after photo collages: 

Dr. Emil is now a Neurosurgeon in Illinois!

Gretch and Emil - - - really didn't change much in appearance!

with celebrity dentist, Dr. Oliver in SF, but has a Sensodyne commercial (nangingilo) spoofed by Michael V. in Bubble Gang!

Gretch and me...we were several pounds lighter then! (LOL)

Dr. Emil looks very Japanese!

another set with Dr. Oliver, who happened to be our leader then...
also saw him in San Francisco!

Emil, Gretch, Oliver and I went around Manhattan:

***from Courtyard Marriot at 30th Street

we have the view of the Freedom Tower from the hotel window!...
the Tower has risen again after 9/11

***to Greenwich Village (Bleeker Street) 

with the Magnoilia Bakery Blueberry cheesecake!

***to Times Square

***to the Rockefeller Center

***to Macy's and Uniqlo at 34th Street and Sixth Ave.

Gretch "obsessed" with Uniqlo!...
Omiyage kudasai!!!

*** to Columbus Circle.

~~~while walking around and also riding the New York subways!

... And the rain did catch up with us!!!

Gretch must find me too weird... taking her "picucha" (picture!)
even if it was really raining hard as we walked back to the hotel! 

Oliver also got caught up in the New York traffic due to the rain with risk of "flash flooding" according to advisory! (credits: Oliver's photos)

What a fun time we had together... just seemed like yesterday!

And then, I was so glad to meet my dear friend, Dr. Karen Cruz in San Francisco, too!

We ate at a wonderful Peruvian restaurant, Puerto 27
at Pacifica, CA until the restaurant closed for the night!
... The 27 in Puerto 27 seems to be timely for the 27 years!

It is indeed fortunate to be given the chance to have a fabulous reunion with old friends you haven't seen in decades, and find out that deep inside, they really haven't change that much in terms of the attitude, zest and enthusiasm for life (no wonder we were chosen Philippine delegates!) together with the success each one has attained in their family life or in their professions!

One day I hope that there would indeed be a grand reunion for JICA Science Students 1987!