A DAY AT STA. BARBARA GOLF & COUNTRY CLUB, ILOILO

Family Medicine Resident Doctors are the favorites when it comes to requesting doctors for medical mission. I guess it has to do with the versatility of our specialization (Self-praise ba? Harharhar!). We get to treat both adult and kids illnesses with a dash of counseling. We are like a moisturizer that is also a foundation and a sunblock.... 3in1! You like my analogy? hehe... Anyways, when we were asked to help out in a medical mission at Sta. Barbara Golf Club. I was raising and waving my hand...Actually I was waving both my hands. I have lived in Iloilo most of my life except for the time I studied in Saudi Arabia when I was in high school but I have never been in Sta. Barbara Golf Club. Iloilo usually boast of it as one of the places to visit when in town. So I jump on the opportunity help out in their endeavor and  also, hehe, to take a peek on one of the landmarks of Iloilo City. The medical mission is a project of the officers & members of the lloilo Golf & Country Club headed by Mr. Henry Go with the help of the our ever-dynamic consultant, Dr. Florentino Alerta. 

It was a fun and interesting medical mission. I've met and seen the colorful & very interesting people of Sta. Barbara. I was happy that they gladly oblige me to take their pics. Here are some of them:

"Master of Pain"

I love this little girl's fuchsia dress. Her mom said they bought in an ukay-ukay shop for 50pesos. Cute!!!hehe

Pretty little girl willingly waits for her pic to be taken

Beautiful mom & child tandem

I love how this family have all their right hand on a part of their faces/heads. Ang cute! hehe ...

This little girls looks like a future model from her body language & stance. Ice cream model, maybe?

They served us a very filling super-yummy pancit molo for snacks.

Still full with the yummy pancit molo, the organizers had already prepared a buffet lunch for us at the Country Club after we were done checking up patients. Mr. Go entertained us with the history of the Sta. Barbara Golf Course. It was once the place where the railway was made during 1907, linking Iloilo to other towns of Panay. While developing the said railway system, they also made a 2000 yard golf course with 9 hole lay-out. Before only British and American members are allowed to join the prestigious Sta. Barbara Golf Course & Country Club. Later, they allowed Filipinos to join namely Tomas Confessor, a hero of the Philippine Revolution and Governor of Iloilo during the American period and Fernando Lopez, who became Vice President of the Philippines. Now, the Sta. Barbara Golf & Country Club is a 40 hectare property with a 18 hole lay-out and is recognized by the National Institute of History as the "oldest existing golf course of the Philippines". Ilongga pride brimming....

After lunch, Mr. Go graciously lent us two golfcarts to allow us to tour the place. We were like kids in a big big playground, hehe...

It was the perfect mix of work and play.... I had so much fun with my co-residents! Mr. Go already told us in advance that they will hold another medical mission this August and he want us to be part of it again! Maybe the next time I visit, they would let me play a little golf? hehe

Sha-wiiinggg!!!

I'll see you soon, Sta. Barbs..... Vvvvvrrroooommmm!!!!