Showing posts with label Volunteers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Volunteers. Show all posts

Sunday, December 10, 2017

PFAC Palawan Our Second Home!













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Palawan Our Second Home! 
Remember that day in the old days 
A sunny rainy season away from home
Below the house war 
Universal love boldly share 
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Remember the time of division 
Some lucky people had a beer 
Some people sobbing non-stop 
Life is unlucky to return home 
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Remember the warmth of love 
Embrace the memory of the pink love
Loving each other should mean husband and wife 
Together they are over the salty concentration 
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Remember the white sand beach 
Let's bath together in the afternoon 
The moon lit night 
Khanh Ly salty chorus that sang 
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Remember the melting school 
Each word rhymed, each man rhymed
Good News of the Lord Buddha near 
Let's see the feast of thousands of business 
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Remember to watch the movie
Classical seats flock of birds 
Comedy movies seek the love letter 
Hiu the sea shimmering, shimmering 
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Remember about the vibrating message 
We hope to meet waiting information near 
Waiting for the interview
Waiting for the purification 
Of the ceiling crying happy 
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Remember my rooster
Heavy dug wells to sit back and wait 
Food quota hours 
Stop singing the national anthem 
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Remember not to say much out 
Each person in each heart misses 
Fun funny crying looking forward 
Why do all the streams slow 
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Palawan, far away from home 
Bury many marks of caressing people 
To deepen the cry of laughter
Remember that one day 
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You will not be forgotten















Translated into English from Vuong Giang Pham's Vietnamese POEM


Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Rotary International Dentist Volunteer

MY BEST FRIEND DR. LUIS MEDRANO
Mexican dentist Dr. Luis Medrano is a member of the Rotary International Dentist Association. In 1985 and again in 1988, Luis came to the PFAC Refugee Center in Palawan (as a volunteer) to give free dental service to the Vietnamese refugees. Luis and I immediately became best friends. We still maintain our friendship and contact today. In Winter 2006, Luis and I were reunited when he and his family visited Canada.
My friend Dr. Luis Medrano and wife Cira with the I.C.M. volunteers (Buddhist Temple, PFAC Palawan 1988)
Luis and Benny on the way to Cowrie Island on Honda Bay (HTC-PFAC Picnic 1988)
Sister Bernadette, Luis, Bonbon, Cira, and Mona (HTC-PFAC Daycare Center 1988)
Luis and Cira Medrano with the I.C.M. volunteers (PFAC 1988)
The I.C.M. Dental Volunteers surprised Dr. Luis Medrano with a Bon Voyage Party (PFAC Palawan 1988)
Luis at our Staff House in PFAC (1985)
Luis and wife Cira visited the children's school. Sister Bernadette, 
Mona, and Bonbon are also seen in the picture.

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