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Valentine’s Day as a Pagan Holiday:
Isn’t Valentine’s Day a Christian day, named after a Christian saint? When we consider the matter more closely, we don’t find a strong relationship between Christian saints and romance. There is a lot of debate and disagreement among scholars about the origins of Valentine’s Day. We’ll never be able to disentangle all of the cultural and religious threads in order to reconstruct a complete and coherent story, but the pagan connections to the date are much stronger than the Christian ones.

St. Valentine, Christian Priest:
According to one story, Roman emperor Claudius II imposed a ban on marriages because too many young men were dodging the draft by getting married (only single men had to enter the army). A Christian priest named Valentinus was caught performing secret marriages and sentenced to death. While awaiting execution, young lovers visited him with notes about how much better love is than war — the first “valentines.” The execution occurred in 269 CE on February 14th.

Christianity Takes Over Valentine’s Day:
In 469, emperor Gelasius declared February 14th a holy day in honor of Valentinus instead of the pagan god Lupercus. This allowed Christianity to take over some of the celebrations of love and fertility which had perviously occurred in the context of paganism. Pagan celebrations were reworked to fit the martyr theme — Christianity did not approve of rituals that encouraged sexuality. Instead of pulling girls’ names from boxes, both boys and girls chose the names of martyred saints from a box.

Valentine’s Day as a Pagan, Commercial Holiday:
Valentine’s Day is no longer part of the official liturgical calendar of any Christian church; it was dropped from the Catholic calendar in 1969. It’s not a feast, a celebration, or a memorial of any martyrs. A return to more pagan-like celebrations of February 14th is not surprising — and neither is the overall commercialization of the day. Millions of people all over the world celebrate Valentine’s Day in one fashion or another, but it’s unlikely that even one of them celebrates it in an even remotely religious manner.

Lets celebrate everyday as a day of love by continuing to love one another.

My son Kyle loves cars so much. He has a steady supply of Top Gear and C! Magazines each month since Jan 2006 and some back issues of Top Gear from 2005 to 2004 courtesy of his parents’ allocated budget for these. He also has some American car magazines too, like automobile, NASCAR and trucks magazine. Not to mention that he also has other collectible car books which we got from book sales.

His passion for automobiles started when he saw the movie “Cars” when he was a year and a half years old. At the age of 3 he already knows all car brands from Japanese, American, European and other luxury cars through their logos. I remember every time he’d have a new magazine he would scan it and ask me what that car is, almost everyday every time we are in our bed. I also remember buying him American Car Buyer’s Guide Magazine which features almost all the cars in the world. It would take tons of patience when a very curious little kid will ask, I remind myself when I’d get irritated because I couldn’t take some nap because he would always ask me about every featured car in every page.

He was able to obtain the 2007 C! Buyer’s Guide Magazine which featured all cars in the Philippines. He has a collection of Hot Wheels Matchbox, Tomica die cast car and even Miasto. He has The Cars books, those containing Cars’ characters, Mugs, Pillow, and calendar of Lightning McQueen which her aunt Danet bought him from the States. And if you are to make him choose between going to a children’s playground or a car exhibit, he will choose to go the car exhibit. Even if we are in a bookstore he will seek the Automobiles section rather than children books.

At the age of three, Kyle was featured in the August 2007 Edition of Top Gear Philippines’ Letter of the Month.

Nurses licensure exam scandal? I think the biggest scandal nurses ever made was recorded in 2006. But I am sure it does not happen only to nurses’ exam but also to other courses like what I heard in the Civil Enginering board exam. It’s all because of the those review centers (I know not all but few of those review center), that instead on focusing in the more rigid and quality review of their review, they wanted an easy way. Just to make names. They don’t think about what will happen to those students who will be the victims of this scam. For me to pass the board exam takes not just a 2 to 3 months of review but many years of attentiveness in school, and finally answering those questions honestly during actual exam. How many years of hospital duties will count and most of all your faith and belief in yourself that you will pass because you have worked hard and studied hard for it for four years. And your faith and belief to our Almighty Heavenly Father Yahweh that He will let you pass the exam.

To the Dec 2007 examines, good luck and our prayers. If you pass we welcome you whole heartedly. We welcome you to a career in caring.

My friend Matt and I met today. My so called “twin” among the Sultans circle, friends compare sense that we look alike. It’s been 5 months since the last time we met. We talked things out. This included what happened to our other friend Jomarie’s wedding, wherein I learned it was a weeding story with comedy according to him. I missed to attend my friend’s long overdue wedding to Anna, his long overdue girlfriend. Both of them made sure they had vast availability of time and resources by the time they walk the aisle.(really) Too bad that I was not able to bring with me a digital camera that should have been posted in our Sultans website.

Sultans celebrate our yearly reunion every December 27th of the year but since most of our friends are now working abroad, we never had a chance to get together again the way we used to last December 2007. But hopefully a big reunion in a future will happen. If not here in the Philippines, then maybe in another country, as I also dream of.

Sultans have a member of 12 gentlemen who have been friends since (our first year in Nursing at the Colegio de San Agustin in Bacolod City. You can visit our temporary website(http://geocities.com/sultans91), because we will be launching our official website soon, with the financial help of our friends Maui, Arvin, and Arnel. The three of them are now working and residing in San Francisco, California USA. (still playing tong its in San Francisco). Just watch out for the launching of our official website.