Wiron's Birthday
Thursday, June 09, 2005
Wednesday, June 08, 2005
Happy B-day Tyrone!
Happy Birthday, padi. I'm proud to have a classmate who is an overachiever. Sana, madomdoman mo man kami as you keep raking in those millions. Pabakasyonan man kami diha sa Cebu, all-expenses paid.
Tuesday, June 07, 2005
Monday, June 06, 2005
Friday, June 03, 2005
Thursday, June 02, 2005
Intrams
According to Weewee, this is Ma'm Tita Renovalles swinging the baseball bat during one intrams where the faculty also took part.
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
TODAY IS JET'S BIRTHDAY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY , JET. We have not forgotten. Sana malasing mo silang lahat dyan.
Tuesday, May 31, 2005
Fiesta sa Bulan- Karaon sa balay nira Gojie
First stop: Eric's house, around 9:15 pm. Nawara an pagka-vegetarian ni Baka sa siram san pagkaon.
Fiesta sa Bulan- Karaon kara Fr. Gerry
Next stop: Fr. Gerry's Parish House. pag nagrereunion kita, sige lang an palibre kan Fr. Gerry. Just like in the old days. Salamatonon Fr. Gerry
Dogbag
Fr. Vicboy Dollentas, a witness to the felony of requesting dogbags, threatened, "Iba-blog ko kamo. Iba-blog ko kamo"
Dogbag gihapon?
A member of the Caterer's staff recognized us as the same group that requested for dogbags at Fr. Gerry's silver ordination anniversary two months earlier. Sabi ni Fr. Gerry, " Next time, magdara na kamo Tupperware."
Nono expounding on "how to make marriage work"
At the churchyard before leaving for San Benon. Nono Dorotan [married to Dr. Aurora Luzuriaga, a sister of Deedee] giving a lecture on Marriage and How To Make It Work. Wonder what's on the mind of Dante
Monday, May 30, 2005
aetas & mangyans
This will be the first installment of my stories.
In the summer of 1988 I joined the the summer internship under the DOH Immersion Program. I was with a group of student nurses. I was assigned to a foster family in Brgy. Taugtog, Botolan, Zambales and stayed there for the whole of May. It was a small hut in the middle of a 40 hectare ricefield. The nearest neighbor was the Aeta village, Sitio Masikap. There I met the chieftain Apo Buyaw. There was something familiar about this man, standing only 4'6" and frail. It was by the end of the month that he told me he was in the film with FPJ in Los Baños. There it was, he was one of the aetas that appeared in the film Agila back in 1983.
My foster family, the Garcias, were nice. Though they could only offer the anti-room for us, they offer all they have. Supper usually ends with stories under the night sky since there were no electricity then. There was no need for electric fan or airconditioning as the night air becomes colder every hour. Unfortunately we can't stay in bed as long as we want to even on Sundays. Why? Those darn American aviators from Subic always break the sound barrier by 7:30 am, the sonic boom from their jets give a out a loud bang that I taught a war game was happening in the kitchen.
Back to the aetas, they say there were of two kinds in zambales, the true aetas that live at the slope of Mt. Pinatubo (it erupted a few years later) and the ones who opted to live in the low lands to pose for pictures. Apo Buyaw is of the latter kind. Everytime a group of tourists would come one of his wards would play the ukelele made of coconut shell and Apo Buyaw would do the monkey dance. The truth is, there's no such thing as a monkey dance as part of the Aeta culture. Buyaw invented it to make an easy buck.
The nun running the NGO center told me of a group of American doctors who tried to enter the upland aeta village with the intention to gather blood samples. They were of the thinking that HIV/AIDS was inherent among aboriginal tribes as in Africa. They were met by the chief who said that the only ones you need to look after for AIDS are your servicemen.
The second time I was in Subic was with the Medical Action Group (MAG). We were supposed to have a dialog with Admiral Riche, then commander of the naval station. He was a no show. That time I was ready to tell him that I never had a fine alarm clock than your after burners, 7:30 on the dot.
Fastforward, October 1998. I was finishing my training on artificial insemination at UPLB. the practicum site was in Naujan, Occ Mindoro. We went as far as Pinamalayan. Yes, there were mangyans. The story that they have a vestigeal tail isn't true, and no they don't copulate in public. They're just wanderers, and that's that. Before leaving mindoro I went to a souvenir shop in Calapan. I wanted a genuine artcile from this island. Of the many things i could take home i chose a framed bahag ng mangyan, five years old and good for coughs and flu, so they say. hehehehe
In the summer of 1988 I joined the the summer internship under the DOH Immersion Program. I was with a group of student nurses. I was assigned to a foster family in Brgy. Taugtog, Botolan, Zambales and stayed there for the whole of May. It was a small hut in the middle of a 40 hectare ricefield. The nearest neighbor was the Aeta village, Sitio Masikap. There I met the chieftain Apo Buyaw. There was something familiar about this man, standing only 4'6" and frail. It was by the end of the month that he told me he was in the film with FPJ in Los Baños. There it was, he was one of the aetas that appeared in the film Agila back in 1983.
My foster family, the Garcias, were nice. Though they could only offer the anti-room for us, they offer all they have. Supper usually ends with stories under the night sky since there were no electricity then. There was no need for electric fan or airconditioning as the night air becomes colder every hour. Unfortunately we can't stay in bed as long as we want to even on Sundays. Why? Those darn American aviators from Subic always break the sound barrier by 7:30 am, the sonic boom from their jets give a out a loud bang that I taught a war game was happening in the kitchen.
Back to the aetas, they say there were of two kinds in zambales, the true aetas that live at the slope of Mt. Pinatubo (it erupted a few years later) and the ones who opted to live in the low lands to pose for pictures. Apo Buyaw is of the latter kind. Everytime a group of tourists would come one of his wards would play the ukelele made of coconut shell and Apo Buyaw would do the monkey dance. The truth is, there's no such thing as a monkey dance as part of the Aeta culture. Buyaw invented it to make an easy buck.
The nun running the NGO center told me of a group of American doctors who tried to enter the upland aeta village with the intention to gather blood samples. They were of the thinking that HIV/AIDS was inherent among aboriginal tribes as in Africa. They were met by the chief who said that the only ones you need to look after for AIDS are your servicemen.
The second time I was in Subic was with the Medical Action Group (MAG). We were supposed to have a dialog with Admiral Riche, then commander of the naval station. He was a no show. That time I was ready to tell him that I never had a fine alarm clock than your after burners, 7:30 on the dot.
Fastforward, October 1998. I was finishing my training on artificial insemination at UPLB. the practicum site was in Naujan, Occ Mindoro. We went as far as Pinamalayan. Yes, there were mangyans. The story that they have a vestigeal tail isn't true, and no they don't copulate in public. They're just wanderers, and that's that. Before leaving mindoro I went to a souvenir shop in Calapan. I wanted a genuine artcile from this island. Of the many things i could take home i chose a framed bahag ng mangyan, five years old and good for coughs and flu, so they say. hehehehe
Buteos Team
Buteos Team. Bagang mga taga Africa ini. mga haralaba [no pun intended] nan mga maniwang [again, no pun intended]
Da Ospreys
another picture of the Ospreys team, kaupod an kakanam ni Eric, Ian Renovalles. [he he he]
Sunday, May 29, 2005
the pic
ooops, forgot to acknowledge that the ospreys pic came from the batch87 blog, sorry for that
Ospreys Team
this picture reminds me of the passion and drama of every intrams, year after year we put on a new team shirt and boastfully shows it off in a parade around town. here's a bit of trivia, of the many faces you see in this pic, who among them became my teammate for three years. dong bolunia told me that i'm forever doomed to suffer the agony of defeat by being cursed to be his teammate. sorry dong, though i never won a basketball championship after my first year (the sorcerers), i'm forever greatful to this guy who became a good buddy, but we did win the brain battle championship. this guy is no other than rinofel's bro, cho.
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