They did all these: celebrated Armi's golden birthday, planned for the Grand Reunion, and sent off Toots and Norms.

 we all met at "a taste of l.a." on alejandro roces
 ave., just off timog ave.  owned by armi's sister
 and brother-in-law, junet galvez.  armi was the
 gracious host, doing a delayed hosting for his
 50th birthday.
 we met to plan the grand reunion in december at
 subic bay, and to send off tootsie de
 jesus-bolnick and norma sarino, who are going back
 home in the u.s.

 enjoy the pix.
 

nice job benj!
nice pictures, appropriate wittily truthful captions
whose camera was used? was it digital?

the mix of reunion planners was also perfect.  5 girls to 10 guys.

hope we get more stories on the reunion planners meet from the others.

langhiya ang benji ito. di man lang in-acknowledge and digital camera ko.alam
nyo naman pag wala si joey, tayo lang ang medyo high tech sa grupong yan.
they got some 30 pix, kaya't marami pang ipapalabas yan. there were 17 of
us -- ray, dewes, sonny, ed u, boyet, benji, jess, armi, guilly, boo, lily,
liz, beckey, norms, toots and moi at isang waiter. marami-raming kwento at
pakulo esp. this thing to draw ernie out which we will talk about there for
as long as liz remains low tech. boo says there is now an ernie e fans club
here in the phil. including a colleague of my 81 year old biyenan who claims
she reads only ernie and she knows i,m good because i belong to ernie's
batch kaya't na-extend na naman ang rental free stay namin sa bahay ng
biyenan ko and so on.

jess and i compared our skeds. we'll both be in SF may 10-12 before we fly
back to manila. butch, here's another assign for you.

manny, can we also meet up in LA on the 23rd?

will somebody alert perry a, hindi pumapasok and e-mail ko sa kanya, mura
siguro and bayad niya.

          EQ

langhiya ka rin!  pa-high tech, high tech daw,
hindi naman marunong gumamit ng digital still
camera, kaya kami nalang palagi ang pinapakuha ng
pix.

bumili ka nalang ng kodak brownie.  at least,
magagamit mo pa.

guys, if eq can't handle a simple camera, i wonder
how he can beat you all at golf.  you must really
be awful!  i'd probably be able to play with you
using the handle of an umbrella.  mwah-ha-ha-ha!

benj

Benjie, that's a good come back... See, EQ is a good delegator, that's his
style.
About golf, good question/comment. There's only one way to find out, tee to
green, right, EQ>RAY>JESS?  But just in case, I will see my pro instructor
starting  Friday for a couple of one on one lessons.  I dont mind losing, at
least I "looked good" swinging.

Reno

 Once lang. Hows vacation. Inip ka raw kahihintay kay EQ.  We had a good
 one last tuesday.  17 attended, Armi treated everyone. Hats off to him.
 Norma and Toots was there aongst others. Wish you could have been with us.

 Ray

hats off to Armi too (Happy belated bday, ARMI!!!)
i truly missed that reunion. thats the first time we had two
out-of-towners [read:town as country] if we dont include you and joey,
who's always out of town:-)

of course Norms (who with her 4 times a year visits to the philippines)
could be more technically classified as an in-and-out-of-towner:-)

mannyfc

Dear classmates,
    17 of us met last Tuesday at Taste of LA.  We had dinner care of Armi dela
Cruz.  Briefly, we need some comments from you regarding the following tentative
program we had discussed.
Dec 15 - Friday - arrival at Subic
Dec. 16 - Saturday - AM and noontime program
    Twilight criuse and gala dinner at  Yacht Club, reservation tentatively for
50 people.
Dec 17 - Sunday - free time

We have only 6 rooms at the yacht club at 100 dollars per night for friday and
sat. nights.  This under R Dan and Joselito Aseniero's name.  Additional rooms
under member's name would be at 200 dollars per night which is too much in our
opinion. We can have more rooms at 100 dollars if we can have more members to
sponsor 3 rooms each.  Additional rooms are being arranged at forest hills by
Liz at this time. We need some indications from you who wants to take the rooms
at Subic Yacht club. We are planning also to arrange for a bus service to and
from Subic.  Please indicate who wold like to ride in the bus.

We need to arrange for the accomodations for the classmates from abroad.  Kindly
indicate who may be coming so we can arrange for your homestay.

Ed umali needs picures from us to make a video/slide presentation.  We would
burn it into a CDROM for each to take home as souvenir. Please indicate your
willingness to help in this endeavor.

Hoping to hear from you.

Ray Dan

If you need additional members from the Subic Yacht Club to sponsor guests,
please let me know, and I can ask my brother to do so.  I am almost sure
that he would not consider it too much of a bother.

All the best,

Butch

pasiensiya na kayo at nabitin kayo in the last email that i sent by
accident habang inuumpisahan ko pa lang na i-compose.  i hope you were
not bombarded by it (ditto w/ my other past emails), i kept on
committing the same mistake.

i was really glad i made it to the mini-reunion at "taste of l. a. cafe"
last apr 6.  manny -- maraming maraming salamat for your
thoughtfulness.  bilib na talaga ako sa 'yo.  you managed to announce my
trip to mla, told the group about my mom, may mga follow-up pa!  sa
totoo lang, kayang-kaya mong i-replace si erap! (this is not a joke!).

armi de la cruz was such a gracious host -- thank you so much, all the
food served were first class and masarap!  armi, salamat din sa sister
mo for allowing you to be the host at her restaurant and making the rgt
enjoyable.

to all the attendees the reunion-get-together (rgt):  it was nice seeing
all of you after all these years.  thanks for setting aside your
valuable time for meeting w/ me and norms.  na-flatter talaga ako,
because i felt important!  i also felt that we are closer now
(sectionwise, that is) than we were in high school.  there seems to be
more unity and camaraderie and, consequently, more bonding (malapit na
talaga akong maiyak!).

lily -- i appreciate your calling me at home several times about the
reunion/meeting.

becky -- ganoon din sa iyo for fetching me from our house.  kung hindi,
tiyak na maliligaw ako talaga, eh!  yung bahay nga namin, tatlong ikot
sa teachers' village bago ko nakita, gabi pa naman!

guilly -- thanks for being the tagahatid ng mga girls (kasama na ako
doon!) after the rgt.  it was also fun having your company and the
girls' in your car.

the rgt really inspired me to try to make it to the grand reunion in
subic kahit magastos.  malay niyo, it could happen! (you never know,
baka tumama ako sa lotto.  i guess i should start playing it now).
norms -- thank you for inviting me over to calif., from where we may fly
to mla for the subic reunion.

and last, but not least, thank you so much for patronizing the paintings
of my brother paeng de jesus (i'm proud to say that he is the only
two-time awardee of gold medal (first prize in painting) in the history
of the art association of the philippines) -- to becky, benjie, eq,
lily, liz and ray dan.  the earnings from the sale will go a long way
and help my brother in his medical needs (he has cancer; but not to
worry, he made a lot of progress after chemo and his doctors say that he
is on his way to being cancer-free).

hanggang dito na lamang at sa susunod na email uli.

i love you all!

susan ('toots')