HOLY SATURDAY 2021

 HOLY SATURDAY 

His cross stands empty in a world grown silent

Through hours of anguish and of  dread.

IN STILLNESS EARTH AWAITS THE RESURRECTION.

While Christ goes down to wake the dead.

GOOD FRIDAY 2021

 

Good Friday

‘For God so loved the world, 

that he gave His only begotten Son,

that whosoever believe that in Him

should not perish

but have Everlasting Life.’

JOHN 3:16

MAUNDY THURSDAY 2021

 

MAUNDY THURSDAY

‘A new command I give to you: Love one another.

As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

By this all men will know you are my disciples.”

John 13:34-35

COVID 19 QUOTE 3: TOGETHER AS ONE

Paseo Del Mar
Zamboanga City, Philippines
2005

ON TRUST IN GOD 15

Muruk, Pasonanca, Zamboanga City, Philippines

ON COURAGE 2

Cabatangan, Zamboanga City

January 1, 2016 Blessing 4: CMZ BRA Christmas Tree

Blessing 4: CMZ BRA Christmas Tree

Thanks so much to ALL who took the time and effort to LIKE the CMZ B.R.A. (Bra to Raise Awareness) Christmas Tree at the Robinsons Galleria Facebook Page amidst the Christmas and new Year high!

We appreciate this so much!! And more so, for our dear friends who took the Time for their selfies with the BRA Tree! We are so touched and we pray for abundance of blessings for YOU and YOUR LOVE ONES as we journey through 2016!!! 

January 1, 2016 Blessing 3: CMZ RADIOLOGY

Blessing No. 3: CMZ RADIOLOGY

It is a blessing that even when the workforce is on duty on New Year's Day, they find ways to make their duty hours happy!

... with lots of food as shared by everyone!

... with camaraderie ... and lots of love!

... with music (or should I say noise?), too !

... AND THE SERVICE GOES ON !!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

New Year's Eve: Blessing 1 CMZ ER

Blessing No. 1: CMZ Emergency Room

The blessing of my family as we spent New Year's Eve until New Year morning at the Ciudad Medical Zamboanga Emergency Room for "service to humanity"!

Thanks to these beautiful and competent Emergency Room people who made the duty "fun" and with a little less stress!

And these are the ER guys who came the next day to continue the love!

 HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

CMZ BRA ART 4: B.R.A.LENTINE WALL @ FEBRUARY 2015

Ciudad Medical Zamboanga's fourth CMZ BRA ART created for the CMZ B.R.A. (Bra to Raise Awareness) Campaign Project is the the CMZ B.R.A. (Bra to Raise Awareness) lentine Wall and Photo Booth!

with the Ateneo De Zamboanga's Psych Students in CMZ: on Valentins's Day after distributing the goodies for all patients! 

It is now Valentine's month and Valentine's Day being a festive and happy season was an ideal time for another BRA Art Project!

Thanks to Ms. Cristina Bolo and Ms. Charlene Francisco who spearheaded the creation of the BRA Heart together with the CMZ Maintenance Team and the CMZ Radiology Team, upon the instruction of the CMZ BRA Campaign Project Head, Dr. Filipinas Rojo!
Here are scenes from the making of the BRA Heart!

January 2015: AO Ruby Puzon and Cristina segregating the pink bras

Tin and Cha gluing the bras in place

RG Antonet was there while we were making this!

And of course, the first BRAlentine selfie!

This CMZ B.R.A.lentine Wall was put up at the front parking lot of Ciudad Medical Zamboanga close to the Pharmacy from February 1 to 28, 2015. 

The CMZ B.R.A.lentine Wall and Photo Booth was a very happy scene although others were a bit shy to have their selfies there!

For Valentine's Month 2015:

Give your LOVE the gift of wellness... Give her an Annual Breast Exam! 
Love your breasts, Have them checked!!
Have a Selfie or a Groufie at this Photo Booth and win prizes by visiting the CMZ Breast Wellness Center!!!

Have you thought of these things, too?
A healthy lifestyle decreases the risk of Breast Cancer!

CMZ Breast Wellness slogan for 2012-2013:m

Have you been checked?

CMZ Breast Wellness slogan for 2014:

Love Your Breasts

Have Them Checked!

CMZ B.R.A. Campaign Project slogan:

Bra to Raise Awareness Campaign

The Awareness starts with us!

CMZ BRA ART 3: B.R.A. CHRISTMAS TREE

Ciudad Medical Zamboanga's third CMZ BRA ART created for the CMZ B.R.A. (Bra to Raise Awareness) Campaign Project is the CMZ B.R.A. CHRISTMAS TREE and requested by E-Media Broadcast Center!

This Christmas Tree is made of more than 200 brassieres!

CHRISTMAS was coming soon and the E-Media Broadcast Center had a whole line-up of Christmas activities! The E-Media Team c/o President Rey Bayona Bayoging requested the Ciudad Medical Zamboanga Breast Wellness for a Christmas Tree made of BRAs and also their way to support our Advocacy.

Interestingly, the BRA Christmas Tree had its share of exposure as the Grade School kids under the Department of Education headed by Pete Natividad presented almost every morning their Drum and Lyre presentations complete with dancing and majorettes! 

Thanks to Ms. Cristina Bolo who spearheaded the creation of the BRA Christmas Tree together with Ms. Charlene Francisco, Breast Wellness Nurse, the CMZ Maintenance Team and the CMZ Radiology Team, upon the instruction of the CMZ BRA Campaign Project Head, Dr. Filipinas Rojo!

This B.R.A. CHRISTMAS TREE installation art was lighted at the E-Media during the E-MEDIA OPEN HOUSE last November 22, 2014 together with the CMZ workforce and thousands of E-Media guests and supporters who came over for the special E-Media Event!  The BRA Christmas Tree stayed at the E-Medial from November 15, 2014 to January 6, 2015. 

Another interesting E-Media innovation was the hanging of the Christmas messages at the tree and with a raffle on christmas Day for free Mammography c/o the CMZ BRA Campaign Project and lots of other great prizes like cellphone c/o E-Media and their sponsors.

Fifty CMZ workforce joined during the lighting of the BRA Christmas Tree together with Ms. Shanaine Magracia, 2014 CMZ Breast Wellness Ambassadress and Miss NSO 2014 winners, Miss Krista Cabaron and Ms. Krizelle Wee.

Thanks E-Media for being one of our main partners and supporters for the CMZ BRAngay Project.

Have you thought of these things, too?
A healthy lifestyle decreases the risk of Breast Cancer!

CMZ Breast Wellness slogan for 2012-2013:m

Have you been checked?

CMZ Breast Wellness slogan for 2014:

Love Your Breasts

Have Them Checked!

CMZ B.R.A. Campaign Project slogan:

Bra to Raise Awareness Campaign

The Awareness starts with us!

CMZ BRA ART 1: CIUDAD B.R.E.A.S.T. INSTALLATION ART

Ciudad Medical Zamboanga's first Installation Art created for the CMZ B.R.A. (Bra to Raise Awareness) Campaign Project is the Ciudad De Zamboanga B.R.E.A.S.T. (Bra to Raise Early Awareness for Screening and Treatment) Installation Art.

CIUDAD B.R.E.A.S.T as conceptualized by Rameer Tawasil and
the individual bras are made by CMZ workforce and
partners and friends from the Zamboanga City community!

The size of the giant bra installation art was 16 feet width x 8 feet depth x 14 feet height. 

During the transfer of the Ciudad BREAST to Paseo Del Mar!

See this to appreciate the size!

On the little posts are Advocacy words on Breast Cancer Awareness!

putting up the larger posters of the CMZ B.R.A. (Bra to Raise Awareness) Campaign Project!

The Ciudad BREAST was on display at the front parking of Ciudad Medical Zamboanga from March 21, 2014 to May 13, 2014 and moved to Zamboanga City's main public park, Paseo Del Mar from May 14, 2015 to February 7, 2015!

Rameer Tawasil conceptualized the idea as we (Rameer, Dante Corteza and Dr. Filipinas Rojo) were discussing about Art in advocacy during the judging of the CMZ Art Contest on SOCIAL HEALING after the Zamboanga siege in 2013.

The use of Bra is indeed a novel idea and jokingly, I told Rameer, "The policemen might arrest us!" 

We also floated the idea to our staunch Breast Wellness supporter, Hon. Myra Paz Abubakar, Zamboanga City Councilor and she said, "We might need a consultative meeting with women's groups and religious groups."

There were skeptical comments when we started such as "Women would never give up their bras up to the time they are tattered."

But I was so excited with the idea and so decided to make a GO of this initiative, although, really wondering how we can come up with this Installation Art.
... how to gather so many bras for the artwork?
... who would give bras?

BUT, this is what the Philippine Quality Award calls INNOVATION!
I always wondered how we can ever come up with something innovative... and, if there is such a thing!
When this came up, I knew "THIS IS IT!"

So much has happened since our early discussions on how to use bras in our Advocacy for Breast Cancer Awareness and coming up with more Installation Art with the help of our own staff and contributions from the Zamboanga City community and our friends from abroad is really heartwarming!

Thank you so much to the City Government of Zamboanga for allowing us to present the Ciudad BREAST to the Zamboanga City community and the visitors for 9 months! You really helped us in our Breast Wellness and Breast Cancer Awareness advocacy! 

I remember a middle aged woman commenting, "This is such an insult to womanhood!" (Insulto ito sa kababaihan! in Filipino).
Fortunately, our maintenance guy was there fixing the Art and was brave enough to share that this Artwork represents advocacy in Breast Cancer Awareness and he showed her the little Infographics (posters) which she read... then, she asked, "Can we still give Bras?"

This is just the beginning but the campaign is growing and hopefully, very soon, we may touch more and more women in Zamboanga City!!!

NOTE: An installation art is a temporary 3D art structure and artist, Rameer Tawasil (main artist) was expecting it to stay at the Paseo Del Mar for about 2-3 months... so 9 months is really awesome!!!


Have you thought of these things, too?
A healthy lifestyle decreases the risk of Breast Cancer!

CMZ Breast Wellness slogan for 2012-2013:

Have you been checked?

CMZ Breast Wellness slogan for 2014:

Love Your Breasts

Have Them Checked!

CMZ B.R.A. Campaign Project slogan:

Bra to Raise Awareness Campaign

The Awareness starts with us!

LEVANTA ZAMBOANGA 2: LANTAKA HOTEL

Lantaka Hotel circa 2005

Day 21.

I know the War is not yet done, even if they say, the Zamboanga Crisis is over!

And I heard the Clearing Operations may still take two more weeks!!!

Yes, some flights are back... some banks are open... businesses are also now open!

Classes are supposed to resume... but apprehensive parents are not sure if it is already safe!

Last Friday, only 12 students came out of the 3,000 students in one school.

Some parents came over to check if the other students came!

Offices are also said to resume, although, many offices have also moved to safer places!

Traffic is back!

BUT, people still can't go back to the affected places!

... AND I am still "afraid" to see more injured soldiers...

It will still be a "Wait and See" situation in the next week...

Meanwhile, we still have to keep our hopes up and plan for the rebuilding of Zamboanga!

Definitely, not an easy task but we have to start somewhere!

LET US CONTINUE TO PRAY FOR ZAMBOANGA!

LEVANTA ZAMBOANGA!!!

Let us share the feeling and infect others so Zamboanga can rise higher than before!!!  

MOUNT PULONG BATO IN ZAMBOANGA CITY

Here I am again talking about Mount Pulong Bato!http://inpinaysfootsteps.blogspot.com/2011/09/cruz-mayor-of-abong-abong-pasonanca.html

This place is close to my heart and many see this as the landmark in Zamboanga City. But, there are also many who has taken for granted that this huge monolith is here in our city.

Here is what I got from Wikipedia about Mount  Pulong Bato!

Mount Pulong Bato

Mount Pulong Bato is a monolith located in Zamboanga City at the Zamboanga Peninsula, the western tip of the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. The mountain is situated in the Upper Abong-Abong Park, inBarangay Pasonanca, only a few kilometers away from the city's downtown section.

Geology

Pulong Bato became infamous because when the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology(PHIVOLCS) confirmed the mountain is a volcano which is unknown to most people. What is unusual about the mountain is, unlike the other mountains surrounding the city, only Mt. Pulong Bato is made from solid rock.^[3]

According to PHIVOLCS, the volcano is an Intrusion type of volcano meaning it was formed within earth's crust. Magma was pushed from the beneath the earth surface but did not come out through an eruption like a typical volcano (Extrusion). The magma eventually solidified while it is still enclosed by softer rocks, which was later exposed by erosion or weathering, a process that could take thousands of years.

Holy Week observance

The mountain is near the premises of the famous Abong-Abong Park, where both domestic and foreign catholic devotees pilgrimage annually during Holy Week to observe the holiday and meditate.^[3]

References

1.  ^ "Zamboanga City Map". Mapcarta. Retrieved on 2011-08-23.

2.  ^ Malpas, J. and Fletcher, C.J.N. "Aspects of the tectonic evolution of China", p.308. Geological Society of London, 2004.

3.  ^ ^a b Feliciano, Jun (2005-01-07). "City has extinct volcano". Zamboanga Sunstar.

Interestingly, our Zamboanga City has an extinct volcano! This better not erupt, with all the unusual phenomena all over the world!!!

By the way, here is Promding Chamimay's link to her back of the Pulong Bato trek!!!  http://www.promdingchamimay.com/2012/06/back-of-pulong-bato-trek.html