Good News...


I've just found out that the results for the recent Nursing Board Examinations (given in November 2009) has been released. Immediately, I googled it and checked some names. I was so happy and proud upon seeing familiar names in the list. In my experience as a teacher, it's always great to see names of your students in lists such as this. Seeing your former students successful in their fields makes you really proud and feel like you've done a pretty good job. Not that they owe you anything, but you just really feel like a proud parent. I can't imagine how happy and proud their parents are. Also, it's much greater and more wonderful if the successful ones actually are very close to you.

So, I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate our new nurses: Fatima and Khadijah Abduljalil. I know how hard this pair of sisters have worked for this. I am so proud of both of them. And, I am pretty sure that they will be successful women in their own right. Now that they've become nurses and proven that they can be such, I hope that they both devote some of their time honing their skills in writing. We don't exactly see nurse-writers everyday, do we? Hay, right now, I'm just so happy for both of them and all new nurses from MSU, especially those who, once in their lives, became my students.

On another note, I was sad that there were some names I couldn't find in the list, but, well, maybe it's just not their time yet. They probably have more things to learn and realize. I hope and pray that they don't give up. I know it can be really tough, but, as they say, "when the going gets tough, the tough get going!" And, to them I say, "keep going!"

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In other good news, an article I submitted to Philippine Daily Inquirer's Youngblood column got published on January 23rd. I wasn't expecting to be published again because I have friends who have submitted articles to such column more than once, but only got to have just one of their articles published. Some of them tell me that their articles don't even get to be published in PDI's website, where some articles that don't get published on the broadsheet get published, but they will not stop submitting until they are 30! Hehe:) I truly admire such determination.

The very first time I submitted an article for Youngblood was back in December 2003. I remember how I'd totally forgotten that I actually submitted an article because, well, it didn't appear in the broadsheet nor the website in the following days or even weeks. It was after almost two months that they contacted me to confirm some things that I remembered I'd submitted an article. Needless to say, I was overwhelmed beyond belief because I'd been such a huge fan of the column ever since I was in high school. I couldn't believe they were calling me and that they considered my article worthy to be published. And then, I guess it was after another week or two, February 5, 2004 to be exact, that it finally came out. (I can't find the url!) I was so happy. It was one item checked on my list of "Things I Want to Happen Before I'm 30!"

I did promise myself that I'd try and submit an article again. I mean, who knows, I might get published again, right? But, I never really got down to it. Until this year. I was thinking that this'd be my last chance to do so because I'd be 30 in March and Youngblood is only for people who are 29 years old or younger. I thought and thought of what to write, but all I had in mind was that if I were to submit anything to Youngblood, I'd like my article to promote reading.

I wrote and wrote on my journal, but I didn't think any of my entries was actually good enough to submit. And then, I remembered a blog entry I wrote some two years back. I wanted to read it because I felt it would provide me some ideas. I searched for it in my archives and found it. As I went through it, I felt good about it and so, I decided to just improve it, add some more to it, and submit it instead of writing a completely new one. So, I went on ahead and submitted it.

When two friends of mine sent me congratulatory Facebook messages about my article being published, at first I couldn't believe it! I checked our newspaper and, indeed, it was there. Alhamdulillah. It was amazing, too, that it was only a little more than a week after I submitted the article.

I am so happy that the two articles I actually had the courage of submitting to Youngblood both made it in print. I cannot thank God enough for such luck. And, I'd really like to thank everyone who have been congratulating me for this. I just really wish that people, especially young people, who have read the article felt, even in the slightest, how great reading is, what a great activity and, at the same time, a great help it is for anyone and everyone. So, everyone, let's read! :)


Comments

The Mentat said…
wow! good for you and your students. congratulations! you have every right to be proud of you and of them.

unfortunately for me, the only thing i'll be proud in the coming months are the birth of employees babies. to think i'm just their god, not the dads of those babies! hahahahaha...

i've had the good fortune to have an article printed once years before. pc magazine. so i know how much an accomplishment that is.

congratulations all around!
BabyPink said…
Thank you, The Mentat!

Congrats to your employees, being a mother is one of the best accomplishments for women. So, they say... :)
amiel said…
congratz to the new board passers...(i have friends among them!) =)
nessreen said…
Mabrook, mabrook!! XD Miyabatiya akn saya sa internet! :) Basta a pad-drug na maga-an sikat! More power!!
Ai said…
Congratulations to the three of you: TIM, JING and YOU! I couldn't be more proud! Let's kick some more asses! *hugs*
BabyPink said…
Amiel, thanks. Congrats to your friends, too. :)

Druggie, siyang tunay! Hahaha!:) Miyakakhailaya kami oto ki Kikay kagiya na iniiza iyan o dii ta kon diimakambityarai na tig aken a sii bo sa blog. 'Nao.

Ai, thanks. Yeah, go ASS kickers! :)
Toni said…
Oh no I missed it!!! Meron bang link online?!?! Congrats!!!
BabyPink said…
Just click on the word clickable word, article. Hehe:)

Thanks, Toni girl! :)
Anonymous said…
nice kaayo imong blog!!! :)
you've been blogging since 2003? wow!
i love also your design/wallpaper...

nkk iyak blog mo, but i can also relate,... See More
re: students. pag nag succeed sila, parang
tayo na rin ang nag succeed :)
good work! keep writing! :)

-EU (via Facebook)
Dilip and Ez said…
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Dilip Mutum said…
Just deleted the previous comment I made using my other account.

You are a great teacher who still cares for her students even when they have passed out. Congrats on your article as well. Cheers
Jing said…
Aaw. This is so sweet. Thaanks, Ma'am Diane. Kahit hindi naman talaga kita naging teacher sa klase, mas marami ka naman yatang naturo sa'kin outside the classroom eh. You're a big part of our passing the boards. Inshaallah, passing this exam is only the beginning. :)

Congrats on your article! I wish one of my own gets published. Haay.
BabyPink said…
Thanks, Adam! :)

Jinggay, thanks din. Aaaww, that's really sweet of you to say. :)
Tim said…
Ano ba yan, bakit ngayon ko lang to nakita. Hehe.

Aaww, salamat Maam Diane ami.

Pero totoo na mas marami kang matutunan sa labas ng classroom. At kayo po ang isa sa mga teachers namin sa 'labas'. Somehow you're one of reasons why I never let go of 'writing' and the love for books.ΓΌ
Tim said…
And congratulations din po. I'll try to work on my writing so I could make it too! Yay!
bing said…
good news indeed.

how lovely that you have another family to cling on to. perhaps everybody has but not as dependable as yours.

love the article, babypink. i hope one day son Daryl will decide to submit an article, too.
BabyPink said…
@ Watatims: 'Nao. Thank you. Congrats ulit! :)

@ Miss Bing, keep encouraging Daryl. I'll wait for his article. :)

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