A Sentimental Journey . . .

(Col Jameel RM Jaymalin (PA, Ret.) with Col. Benny A. Letrondo (PA, Ret.) meeting with Perry D. Rodriguez of Printzonuz and Net L. Velecina of I'm Press Ka)

It was almost fifty 50 years ago in June of 1962, were more than 200 of us turned into men at McKinley Post Theater in Fort Magsasay, Nueva Ecija. The journey we have been through was the most unforgettable moments in our lives. Marching on stage in military uniform to receive our pin and diploma, symbolizing the fruit of our labor and our admission into the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) as Probationary 2nd Lieutenants was our life long dream.

While we came DOUBLE CLICK HERE for more information . . .

COL MATEO LUGA & FAMILY

Col. Mateo Luga is the youngest of the eight children of the late Jose Valdez Luga (3rd child of the late Gen. Mateo Noriel Luga and Mrs. Ruperta Valdez from Molo, Iloilo) and Leonor Ledesma Hojilla of Silay City. He was born on January 4, 1941, spent his teenage years at Sagay, studied college in Dumaguete City and went to Manila after graduation. He is married to Lita Albano Alviar, from Laoag, Ilocos Norte.

Mateo entered the military service and rose from the rank until he became a Colonel in the Armed Forces of the Philippines. Mateo's eldest child is Michael Luga married to Marichu Hermida of Marikina City, they now have two children Moira Chrisina and Monique Christen. Mateo's youngest daughter is Mala Jean Luga, now employed with the PLDT.

A POEM FOR NANAY

La Cuna Que Es Mí Madre

La ve con sus ojos etornados

¡chitón! duermate mí hijito lo dijo

Un niño sentado en las rodillas

Soñoliento, bostezo , cayendo en los pechos

Una nana lo pone de dormir

Aunque el ruido rodeado

La criatura salva en la cuna

El ardor de su cuerpo lo proteja

La brisa fría y fuerte no lo frega

Como una manta lo cubra

Metido, dormido, soñando de los besos

La dulzura de su caricia

Quita las pesadillas que amenacen

Solos sueños de hadas sueña

Salvo, callado, quedando satisfechos

de Jarvis John Arias Súrriga

05/20/08

AZAÑAS by JARVIS

THE SURRIGA FAMILY

PILAR LUGA-SURRIGA --- JUSTO SURRIGA
MA. LUGA-FERRER --- PEDRO FERRER
JOSE V. LUGA --- LEONOR LEDESMA HOJILLA
EMILIO V. LUGA,SR. --- BEATRIZ VILLANUEVA SOMOSA
ANTONIO V. LUGA ( WHO DIED A FEW DAYS AFTER BIRTH)

Jarvis John Luga Arias Surriga

Jarvis graduated from University of Negros Occidental Recoletos with a BS in Medical Technology degree. He placed 15th when he took the Medical Technology Board Examination in 1992. He worked in Bacolod as a Medical Tehnologist for a few years and taught for 3 semesters in UNO-R. Subsequently, he decided to move to Manila and was accepted at the University of the Philippines, Manila for a Post Graduate Training. After the training, he was hired by University of the Philippines' - Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) as a Blood Bank Medical Technologist II, at the same time took Spanish courses at Instituto Cervantes and German at Goethe Institut. He finished Nivel Intermedio ( Intermediate Spanish ) and Deutsch Mittelstuffe ( Intermediate German ).

In June 2000, he applied for a job in the United States, left Philippines for Colorado in November of the same year, where he worked for eight years therafter as Med Tech and later as Lead Blood Bank Technologist. While in Colorado, he enrolled in an online masteral degree in Occupational and Public Health, which he almost finished pending thesis. He also finished his Spanish studies online with Instituto Cervantes New Mexico and got his Diploma de Espanol Como Lengua Extranjera Nivel Superior. During his spare time he volunteers for the Immigrant Resource Center as ESL ( English as a Second Language ) instructor. He teaches Mexican and Guatemalan immigrants English and in the process improved his Spanish language.

In June of 2008, when his green card was approved, Jarvis decided to move to Florida where the weather is like the Philippines where he works in two hospitals - as evening and night shift supervisor for Charlotte Regional Medical Center ( Punta Gorda ) during the weekends and as a part time Senior Technologist at Fawcett Memorial Hospital ( Port Charlotte ). He still do freelance translation whenever requested. The hospital often calls him to translate for patients.

THE LUGA-SURRIGA CLAN IN U.S.

FROM THE ROOTS OF PILAR LUGA – JUSTO SURRIGA

MARIPIL LUGA-BORJA

Maripil Rodrigazo Luga is the daughter of the late Atty. Rodolfo Somoza Luga from Sagay and Zenaida Rodrigazo from Murcia, Negros Occidental. She married Jaime Borja from Tinurik, Batangas. They now resides in California, U.S.A., with their children: Carlo Franco Luga Borja, a graduate of Ateneo Law School, passed the Philippine Bar and now connected with Gali Koren Law Offices and daughter Rebecca, a graduating student in college.

AILEEN LUGA - STA. ROMANA

Aileen Sta. Romana, (if or memory serves us right) is married to a Valera. She is the daughter of Ruperta Luga and Celestino Sta. Romana. Ruperta is the sister of Marina Luga-Cimafranca (from La Libertad, Neros Oriental) Legia Luga-Zita (who now resides in Cebu), Tita Raquel, Emilio and Rodolfo, who were children Emilio Valdez-Luga, Sr., whose father was Gen. Mateo Noriel Luga. Most of Aileen's sister and brothers now resides in U.S., except for her other sister Merriam, a Medical Practitioner.