Opinion

I DON’T know if it’s going to be an advantage for me, having graduated already. But I guess it’s premature to make a generalization.

I am trying to analyze the overhauling of the nursing education curriculum. The Commission on Higher Education (CHED) has already released a memorandum making changes to the nursing education curriculum a month before the opening of classes.

Under the CHED memorandum circular no. 5, or the enhanced Four-Year Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN) program, another 33 units will be added to the present nursing curriculum’s 169 units, adding three summer classes to the present eight-semester course. The number of hours for practicum will also be increased to 2,499 from the present 2,142-hour requirement.

“They say a person needs just these things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do and something to hope for.” -Tom Bodett

GONE are the days when I would write a very long wish list two months before Christmas and tell everyone about it (hoping that they would get the hint). I have a theory. The older you get, the less materialistic you become. Though I still have my Christmas wish list, I don’t write it anymore. Though I really want a Bratz baby doll (at the age of 20), it’s unlike 10 years ago when I would be a Scrooge all the day if I didn’t get what I wanted.

I am a spoiled brat, and I am still one. The difference now is that the things that I am throwing tantrums about are no longer tangible. I am not a child anymore, although I continue to dream.

IBA TALAGA ang Pasko sa Pilipinas.

Sa kabila ng dami ng problemang dinaranas natin taun-taon, may kakaibang ngiting namumutawi sa mga labi ng bawat taong makakasalubong mo sa kalye, sa eskuwela o di kaya’y sa opisina. Sadyang kakaibang sigla ang naidudulot ng simoy ng Pasko sa ating mga Pilipino.

Hindi maikakailang malakas ang impluwensya ng Kristyanismo sa ating bansa dahil sa buong Asya, tayong mga Pilipino ang may pinakamaaga, pinakamahaba, at pinakamatagal na pagdiriwang ng Pasko. Pagpatak pa lang ng buwan ng Setyembre, nagsisimula nang makarinig ang lahat ng mga tugtuging pamasko sa radyo. Mayroon na ring mga kaakit-akit na mga ilaw, parok,at palamuti sa daan. Siksikan na rin sa mga mall at mga tiangge sa Divisoria. Halos lahat ng mga palabas sa telebisyon ay may temang tungkol sa Pasko.

I CAN still remember the fear and excitement of that fateful Sunday of September 2005, when I went to the St. Raymund’s Building to attend what was then called as the first Varsitarian Literary Workshop. Being my very first workshop, I had no idea what to expect. A friend from the Thomasian Writers Guild told me that workshops are not for the faint-hearted. I was in my sophomore year then, fresh from passing the cut-off grade in the College of Nursing and eager to explore what the whole University has in store for me. Little did I know that this would start my three-year affair with the workshop.