My two and a half year of fellowship training in Perinatology and Ob-Gyn Ultrasound at the Perinatal Center of the Philippine Children’s Medical Center (PCMC) ended mid of 2000 only to embark on another journey. From thereon I was sent by Dr. Corazon Yabes Almirante to hone my training in Perinatology and Fetal Ultrasound at the National Cardiovascular Center (NCVC) in Osaka, Japan. Dr. Almirante had closed ties with renowned speakers all over the world and I was fortunate and humbled to be the first Filipino scholar granted by the Japan Society of Ultrasonics In Medicine to train under the tutelage of no other than the head of the Perinatal Center of NCVC Dr. Yoshihide Chiba. During my stint in Japan from July 3, 2000 to December 25, 2000 I was not only exposed to doing fetal and neonatal ultrasound, but to repeated amniocentesis and amnioinfusion procedures as well. With NCVC being a research-oriented Center I was given the opportunity to be a primary author of 2 case reports pertaining to fetal dextrocardia and fetal isomerism. The first was published in the Journal of Maternal Fetal Medicine October of 2001; the latter in a Japan Ultrasonics Journal (as I was told so). I will forever be indebted to my mentors and seniors who not only served as one of the founding members of the Philippine Society of Ultrasound in Clinical Medicine, Inc. (PSUCMI) but who also served as officers and contributors to the growth and stability of this Society. Much of what they have done has made me what I am today in the practice of my profession. More power to PSUCMI! Stay safe everyone!”