St. Paul University Iloilo
College of Arts and Sciences Graduates’ Batch 2008
Class Prophecy
By Francis Lloyd Sauza
Six years after graduating in college, I finally started the ball rolling with the aim of reaching my aspiration as soon as possible and to live my dreams expectantly one day at a time.
First off, I bend over backward to have another look on my existence in the course of continuous reflection by means of traveling, with the intention of witnessing further the beauty of God’s creation and with the purpose of discovering my inner peace once more and my genuine happiness.
The moment I returned home in Barcelona after a breathtaking spiritual restoration in India, I began establishing myself by writing my first techno-thriller novel.
Soon, after a year of still finishing the novel and waiting for a Publishing Company to tie-up with me so as to publish my very first novel, I went to Los Angeles to try my ultimate passion, which is singing and in order for me to get a recording deal through Hollywood Records.
Luckily, while in the interior of the Hollywood Records’ main recording center, I met Philip Edward Ginsberg, my American-Filipino classmate back in the day who is now a famous WWE Wrestler and a multitalented recording artist at the same time.
If truth be told, Philip assisted me so as to get a recording deal on the double with Hollywood Records. Fortunately, I was able to sign up a record with the label and after which I ask him to collaborate with me in one of my songs in my album.
After a year of successfully recording a total of 24 tracks for my album, I am now a breakthrough Pop Star and with sounds of Pop, R&B, Hip-Hop, Pop Rock, and Contemporary Christian Music genre. With English, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, French, Tagalog and Hiligaynon songs in a two-disc breakthrough album.
While on a road tour across America with Philip, we turn up the radio and tuned in to one of the hottest Radio Stations in the States and all of a sudden we heard the fantastic voice of the Radio DJ, it was Hazel Mae Gayatgay! Absolutely, it was Hazel Mae, our classmate in college too, who was part of the band I set-up before - the Banda de Loca or The Crazy Band! And I screamed at full volume in front of the radio.
Yeah, she was now a superstar Radio DJ in the US and was distinguished because of her extraordinary voice conquering the airwaves of the US mainland.
While in the midst of promoting my album, Philip went back to New York City to get back to his wrestling job at WWE.
I eventually pop round to the Philippines since Penshoppe; a renowned clothing brand in the Philippines offered me to endorse the brand once again.
Surprisingly, Dannuel Uy, my Chinese-Filipino classmate back in college, now owns Golden ABC, the company that owns the Penshoppe clothing brand. Wow!
As I turned on the boob tube in my hotel room, I saw a news flash from CNN that Dannuel joins the Top 10 Wealthiest People in the World. In fact, Dannuel currently owns 30 top companies in the Orient, such as in the Philippines, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan and in some parts of the world. Simply Amazing!
Oh wait! As far as I could remember, that girl… that girl… the girl in the boob tube, the news anchor in CNN who just reported the Top 10 Wealthiest People in the World was no other than, Maybelline Matavia! Yeah! Believe it or not, it was actually Madam! My Noonie back in the day now works in the leading news program in the world, CNN. She decided to be a broadcaster in exchange for her Diva music career in the Philippines as the Asia’s hummingbird.
The following day, as I am getting ready for the photo shoots for the newest campaign collection of Penshoppe, in the dressing room, I was struck by a familiar face of the current in-house model. I marvel and I speculate… Yeah! It was truly Romeo Ignacio “Roi” Javellana, my classmate in my college years too, who is as well a recognizable face in the modeling industry.
Roi is now a well-liked model of nearly all apparel companies in the Philippines and in Europe. Indeed, he is a sought-after model in this day in age. Though aside from that, he still manages to run his chain of hotels in Spain, Mexico and throughout the Latin America.
Before I went back to the States to take care of my music career, I am now a Penshoppe Model once again and at this time I tie-up with the brand so as to produce a personally designed clothing line – Lloydy from the Block, an urban-inspired garments for the edgy teens and a fragrance line – The Francis Lloyd Sauza Fragrance by Penshoppe.
After that, I went back to Los Angeles and while at home in Beverly Hills taking pleasure in the spring break, Viacom International, the franchise holder of MTV Music Television called me up whether I’m willing to host MTV TRL in Times Square at New York City and at one fell swoop giving me an exceptional advantage to be an official MTV VJ too in MTV Asia which is based in Singapore and in MTV Philippines in Global City, Taguig which in some way reunited me with my MTV Family.
At this time, I am additionally known as MTV VJ Francis Lloyd in MTV Asia and in MTV Philippines and at the same time an MTV TRL Host in Times Square, New York City.
While having my hosting stint at MTV, Warner Brothers Pictures, and Archie Comic Publications, Inc. offered me a unique opportunity to be a movie star. A budding movie star in Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress, Nicholas Sparks’ A Walk To Remember 2 and Archie and the Gang. All the films that I will be doing were originated from the various print media – novels and the popular comic book.
While filming Archie and the Gang in New Jersey, I was able to meet my co-stars for the first time, but wait, who is that bleached-blond bombshell in sexy clothing? Oh my God! Gee, it was…
Catherine Tugublimas! She is in the US at the present time and a Hollywood actress. Being too far from the country lass she has been before back in Oton. And she looks like an American now… A likeness of Miss America!
In fact, she plays Veronica in our movie Archie and the Gang! “Double Surprise.” Whoa! I’m so at ease if it is going to be like that! Hehe :o)
Plus I discovered that Jerome Austin Golipatan, my classmate in college, was the Film Editor of many Warner Bros. Pictures’ films since I saw his name on the back flap as well as in the inlay of the DVD and Blu-ray versions of the Warner Brothers' movies.
When on earth I got time, I stroll around downtown Los Angeles and sometimes I even reach San Francisco just having my leisurely walk on the block.
Being a Visual Artist and having my area of expertise in Computer Graphics Lay outing, Street Graffiti, and Painting, I truly love the outdoors.
Yet, on one occasion while walking around on the boulevard of Paris, I saw Marie Michel Sumayo!
Michel now owns a branch of her Chocolate and Coffee Café in Paris and indeed she has her own Chocolate Village company in Frankfurt, Germany and in Switzerland. Full of chocolate confectionaries in partnership with Dannuel Uy, our classmate back in the day, now one of Top 10 Wealthiest People in the World!
Michel also joined with me in my Lloydielicious! Restaurant business in Beverly Hills in Los Angeles, which has branches in Seattle, Barcelona, Shanghai, Makati and Iloilo City.
It was late in summer when I got the chance to be a sportsperson once again. To play Tennis, Football and Taekwondo.
While playing Tennis at the Atlanta Sports Center, I come across several Badminton champs and ultimately got the chance to observe their tryout in the sports hall. There I met the head and the organizer of the Badminton League, and it was my classmate in college! It was Kerry Mikhail Esteban, now a legendary Badminton and Volleyball Sports’ enthusiast.
He is now based in Boston and directs the preparation and the practices of the US National Badminton Association in Atlanta.
After spending out on the sports ground of the Atlanta Sports Center, my representative in the Philippines get in touch with me that SMART Communications is asking me to be their Telecom Spokesperson from this time forth. In addition, Andrea Trivilegio, also my classmate in college, is now the Chairperson of SMART Communications, Inc., a subsidy of Philippine Long Distance Telephone (PLDT).
While in Makati City, inside the head office of SMART Communications, Inc., I was introduced to the latest endorser of PLDT and SMART and at the same time a prominent Pepsi Icon, and believe it or not, it was Ma. Teresa de los Santos!
Teresa is also the most recent UNICEF’s Ambassador of Goodwill representing the Philippines. And I asked her to partner with me in supporting Charities such as Coalition against Domestic Violence, Defenders of Wildlife, and MaAga ang Pasko sa Jollibee.
In New York City, I launched The F To Tha L-S! Magazine, my most personal and direct undertaking up to date which recounts my daily life behind closed doors and visibly as an icon written and documented in a glossy magazine edited and formulated by yours truly and it is in print every season, certainly with the unreserved assistance of my links in various industries and Kristin Dabalus, the President of the Global Cosmopolitan Lifestyle.
Kristin is now based in London and branded as the World’s Fashion Guru and Consultant which was centered on her areas of expertise: fashion, media, culinary arts, entertaining, decorating, crafts, design, merchandising, and style.
In this stage in my existence, I realized that I need to further expand my horizons, to embrace supplementary studies in the field of communication, arts, music, geography and history. Thus, I went to Harvard University at Cambridge, Massachusetts looking forward to achieve it.
When I was walking at the access strip of the Humanities Building in Harvard, I unintentionally bumped into Rebo Salvalosa, my Cum Laude classmate back in the day!
Rebo is now the Administrator of Organic Sciences in Harvard. How exceptionally marvelous!
In fact, Rebo was recently awarded by the Time Magazine as the “Person of the Year” because of his precious input to the ground-breaking macrobiotic medications that trembles humanity in this period.
After a month, I decided to go to England, to make inquiries at the University of Oxford.
Inside the Bodleian Library, the principal library of the University of Oxford, and the second-largest library in the United Kingdom, I met Shellamie dela Cruz, my other Cum laude classmate during the college years.
Shellamie is now a superintendent at the University of Oxford and the Head of the Oxford University Press. She constantly keeps an eye on hundreds of published distinguished books of scholarly and general interest, including the renowned Oxford English Dictionary.
Before leaving Europe, I break in my journey to Italy mostly in Rome, to have some sort of a so-called pilgrimage before getting back to work in the United States.
While attending a serene traditional Latin mass at St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, I met Mailyn Reyes and Rosalie Talamor, my classmates in college. As you would have thought, Mailyn and Rosalie is now a nun at this time and wants to spend the rest of their lives serving in the Holy See.
Moreover, there are reports and debates around Southern Europe whether Mailyn or Rosalie will be the next Pope! Perhaps a Lady Pope this time. We’ll see… Hehe :o)
After reflecting in Rome and in Vatican City for a couple of months, I depart Italy for Spain so as to embark on a teaching profession. In Madrid, I was able to teach Elementary Spanish to grade school Level 1 students and at the end of the day I gained enriching and gratifying know-how.
In a sun-drenched Spanish morning, while surfing the World Wide Web to obtain complementary lessons for my adorable grade school students, I was able to read online articles about the most recent women to get to the peak of Mt. Everest. Believe it or not, it was Jean Michelle Barber and Maricris Nataño, my classmates during my college years in St. Paul.
Jean and Maricris are now dynamically advocating the significance of the environment and the surroundings. For instance, the cause of Global Warming at the earth’s highest and coldest region in that can be found in Nepal.
After almost a year of working as a teacher in the grade school, I decided to have a retreat somewhere in the tropics. A beach holiday in Bali.
While walking on the seaside in a resort in Bali, I saw Analyn.
Analyn Untang is now blissfully running her incredibly awe-inspiring health resort and spa in sultry Bali, Indonesia and at the same time, supervising her established school in Sabah for the Filipino Minorities.
After traveling around for almost a decade in search of God’s plan for me, I went home to Iloilo City recollecting all that had happened back in the day and ultimately made me attain self-actualization for my being. Plus at this point in time, Iloilo City has finally regained its label as the Queen City of the South gradually leading the cosmopolitan way of life in the Philippines.
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