Subject: Trip to Marikina

Sonny!  As per your request, this account for you to be able to match the pictures that
you received.

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Benjie and I arrived at Dencio's in Katipunan just before three pm.  Around 3:15 Boo
came in his BMW walking directly toward us but looking around for any sign of prepian
specimen.   Apparently, he didn't see me waving.  Maybe, Jerry could direct him to a
good eye doctor :-)  (Jerry! that's what you get for missing too much of our reunions
<LOL>.

Anyway, Jess in shorts came in soon after.  A few more minutes and Ray came with his
driver who brought his (driver's) own 6-cylinder Trooper and wearing a "Roots"cap to
cover for his deficiencies in the upper (hair)roots department :-) Yes, it is the same
Roots cap that he bought in Canada.  and I suspect that he hasn't taken if off yet.

While Jess was telling us that EQ had won this Trooper by getting a hole in one
somewhere.  In came, Dewes who maintains that he smokes cigarettes only and not chains.

We waited until five pm for Guilly,  who, presumably would be with Lily.  But by 5:15 we
couldn't wait any longer.  Boo had to leave for home.  Ray had a 7pm wedding to attend
to. And off we (minus Boo) went to visit Ed in Marikina.

Finally with very little miscues our convoy got to find Ed's place.  Arlette said Ed had
just been malling and then went to the barber's shop and will be back very soon.  Ed
came with his arms bent in a sling.  Apparently the doctors took the veins/arteries from
his arms rather than from his legs.  Which is so much the better for me "cause, I can't
imagine Ed with his foot bent in a sling.  Besides the doctors said that if they took
the blood vessels from his legs, there's a possibility that he'd be walking with a limp.

But Ray had to leave just before dinner.  That meant his driver, who brought his own
6-cylinder Trooper that he won with a hole-in one, had to leave and take with him the
digital camera that he brought along even if he had to rely on the technical
proficiencies of Benjie in learning how to use the camera. and now he has to rely on
your (Sonny's)  technical proficiency in getting the pictures out to our class.  Take
note, Sonny that you have to return the diskette to EQ. Apparently, EQ doesn't know that
that royal blue diskette  is not  proprietary to the camera just because it came with
the camera.

Fortunately for Guilly, who's trying to get the George Aseniero look,  arrived (ALONE!?)
at Ed's place just before Ray and  EQ, with his Roots cap and his camera, left. So he
was still included in the pictures  But not for Armi.  He arrived too late for the
picture taking but not too late for the sumptuous delicious dinner that Arlette had
served us.

For those who really prefers to know more about Ed's symptoms and his sugery.  We'll
have to wait for Ed to do his own
8 part saga on his triple bypass.  It started with a simple backache (apparently
symptomatic of an ongoing heart attack)  which has now ballooned into a major headache
(symptomatic of a purse attack).  But with God's help along with the prepian 65 and
66er's, Ed and Arlette will get thru their crisis.

As a true believer in the power of prayers,  I hope that we can always come together and
pray as one whenever one of ours is in need of prayers.

But before I proceed to my next sermon....