The revelries may have subsided right now especially in my mother school, the University of Pangasinan where this year’s topnotcher in the Nursing Board Exam graduated, Gringo de Guzman San Diego.

Well, aside from him, four other topnotchers are graduates of universities based in Dagupan. They are:

1. Russel Salvador Abalos ( top 8 ) - Lyceum Northwestern University
2. Benedict Nevado Mayo ( top 8 ) - Lyceum Northwestern University
3. Felipe Petras Sotelo Jr. ( top 8 ) - University of Pangasinan
4. Melody Aoanan Aquino ( top 9 ) - Lyceum Northwestern University

That makes five of the top 10 are from my beloved province, Pangasinan.

Kudos to all of you who passed this year’s nursing board exam. To those who were not successful, remember that failure is never final.

There’s this interesting feature in a television show about the presence of some unidentified flying objects (UFOs) called by thier catchers as “rods”.

In the feature, a group of extreme players went on a sky diving adventure in a vertical cave. In the video, there appeared some objects in the appearance of rods flying across the vicinity of the cave at a spectacular speed of up to 130 mph. Similar video captures from many amateur video footages were shown to support the idea of the UFO sighting.

The foremost believer of the “rod” phenom is Jose Escamilla who was the first man to make the “rod” sighting public. In his most daring act ever in his life, he came out of the open to show the whole world what he considered to be the single most significant discovery of life forms that we know so little about. His first encounter with the “rod” was a March 19, 1994 footage of an object flying at an incredible speed. since then, Mr. Escamilla has devoted his life to this phenomenon, building an army of catchers and believers and even devoting an Internet site to the subject.

Here are some RODS slides from roswellrods.com.

Are these RODS for real?