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From: "buddyresurreccion" <jvr5678@y...>
Date: Fri May 2, 2003 7:13 am
Subject: Food for Thought 1
Anna Quindlen's Villanova Commencement Address 1999
It's a great honor for me to be the third member of my family to receive an honorary doctorate from this great university. It's an honor to follow my great-Uncle Jim, who was a gifted physician, and my Uncle Jack, who is a remarkable businessman. Both of them could have told you something important about their professions, about medicine or commerce. I have no specialized field of interest or expertise, which puts me at a disadvantage, talking to you today. I'm a novelist. My work is human nature.
Real life is all I know.
Don't ever confuse the two, your life and your work.
The second is only part of the first. Don't ever forget what a friend once wrote Senator Paul Tsongas when the senator decided not to run for reelection because he'd been diagnosed with cancer: "No man ever said on his deathbed I wish I had spent more time in the office.
Don't ever forget the words my father sent me on a postcard last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat ".
Or what John Lennon wrote before he was gunned down in the driveway of the Dakota: "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
You walk out of here this afternoon with only one thing that no one else has. There will be hundreds of people out there with your same degree; there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you will be the only person alive who has sole custody of your life. Your particular life. Your entire life.
Not just your life at a desk, or your life on a bus, or in a car, or at the computer.
Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart.
Not just your bank account, but your soul.
People don't talk about the soul very much anymore. It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. But a resume is a cold comfort on a winter night, or when you're sad, or broke, or lonely, or when you've gotten back the test results and they're not so good.
Here is my resume. I am a good mother to three children. I have tried never to let my profession stand in the way of being a good parent. I no longer consider myself the center of the universe. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh. I am a good friend to my husband. I have tried to make marriage vows mean what they say. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
I am a good friend to my friends, and they to me. Without them, there would be nothing to say to you today, because I would be a cardboard cutout. But I call them on the phone, and I meet them for lunch. I show up. I listen. I try to laugh.
I would be rotten, or at best mediocre at my job, if those other things were not true. You cannot be really first rate at your work if your work is all you are.
So here's what I wanted to tell you today: get a life. A real life, not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Do you think you'd care so very much about those things if you blew an aneurysm one afternoon, or found a lump in your breast? Get a life in which you notice the smell of salt water pushing itself on a breeze over Seaside Heights, a life in which you stop and watch how a red tailed hawk circles over the water gap or
the way a baby scowls with concentration when she tries to pick up a cheerio with her thumb and first finger.
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you.
And remember that love is not leisure, it is work. Each time you look at your diploma, remember that you are still a student, still learning how to best treasure your connection to others. Pick up the phone. Send an e-mail. Write a letter. Kiss your Mom. Hug your Dad. Get a life in which you are generous. Look around at the azaleas in the suburban neighborhood where you grew up; look at a full moon hanging silver in a black, black sky on a cold night.
And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money you would have spent on beers and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a big brother or sister.
All of you want to do well. But if you do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the color of the azaleas, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the color of our kids eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again.
It is so easy to exist instead of live.
I learned to live many years ago. Something really, really bad happened to me, something that changed my life in ways that, if I had my druthers, it would never have been changed at all. And what I learned from it is what, today, seems to be the hardest lesson of all.
I learned to love the journey, not the destination. I learned that it is not a dress rehearsal, and that today is the only guarantee you get. I learned to look at all the good in the world and to try to give some of it back because I believed in it completely and utterly. And I tried to do that, in part, by telling others what I had learned. By telling them this:
* Consider the lilies of the field.
* Look at the fuzz on a baby's ear.
* Read in the backyard with the sun on your face.
* Learn to be happy. And think of life as a terminal illness because if you do you will live it with joy and passion as it ought to be lived.
Well, you can learn all those things, out there, if you get a real life, a full life, a professional life, yes, but another life, too, a life of love and laughs and a connection to other human beings. Just keep your eyes and ears open. Here you could learn in the classroom.
There the classroom is everywhere. The exam comes at the very end.
I found one of my best teachers on the boardwalk at Coney Island maybe 15 years ago. It was December, and I was doing a story about how the homeless survive in the winter months. He and I sat on the edge of the wooden supports, dangling our feet over the side, and he told me about his schedule, panhandling the boulevard when the summer crowds were gone, sleeping in a church when the temperature went below freezing, hiding from the police amidst the Tilt-a-Whirl and the Cyclone and some of the other seasonal rides.
But he told me that most of the time he stayed on the boardwalk, facing the water, just the way we were sitting now even when it got cold and he had to wear his newspapers after he read them. And I asked him why. Why didn't he go to one of the shelters? Why didn't he check himself into the hospital for detox? And he just stared out at the ocean and said, "Look at the view, young lady. Look at the view."
And every day, in some little way, I try to do what he said. I try to look at the view. And that's the last thing I have to tell you today, words of wisdom from a man with not a dime in his pocket, no place to go, nowhere to be.
Look at the view. You'll never be disappointed.
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From: Leticia.Pilando@p...
Date: Fri May 2, 2003 10:46 am
Subject: RE: [ubsciencehigh_class73] we need more email addresses
Dear Buddy,
I am attaching an-email from Vivien with some e-mail addresses - Chato, Evelyn, Pio and Arnel.
Thanks, Vivien for being the courier and taga follow up.
Am copying Angie using the address she gave before they left.
Angie, I hope you are now settled and on-line. Let us know if this address is current then we will update the file.
I will get in touch with Vangie.
Bon week-end....
Lettie Pilando
Quality Management Department
From: librarian@b...
Date: Wed Apr 30, 2003 1:43 pm
Subject: add'l info
To: Leticia.Pilando@p...
Hi Letty,
Been busy this week, I was not able to make more phone calls. Next week again as I hope to get Nathan's, Chat's email addresses. Regards.
Vivien
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From: "buddyresurreccion" <jvr5678@y...>
Date: Fri May 2, 2003 7:00 pm
Subject: Definitely worth the read. =)
A little girl had been shopping with her Mom in Wal-Mart. She must have been 6 years old, this beautiful red haired, freckle faced image of innocence. It was pouring outside. The kind of rain that gushes over the top of rain gutters, so much in a hurry to hit the earth it has no time to flow down the spout. We all stood there under the awning and just inside the door of the Wal-Mart.
We waited, some patiently, others irritated because Nature messed up their hurried day. I am always Mesmerized by rainfall. I got lost in the sound and sight of the heavens washing away the dirt and dust of the world. Memories of running, splashing so carefree as a child came pouring in as a welcome reprieve from the worries of my day.
The little voice was so sweet as it broke the hypnotic trance we were all caught in. "Mom, let's run through the rain," she said.
"What?" Mom asked.
"Let 's run through the rain!" She repeated.
"No, honey. We'll wait until it slows down a bit," Mom replied.
This young child waited about another minute and repeated: "Mom, let's run through the rain,"
"We'll get soaked if we do," Mom said.
"No, we won't, Mom. That's not what you said this morning," the young girl said as she tugged at her Mom's arm.
"This morning? When did I say we could run through the rain and not get wet?
"Don't you remember? When you were talking to Daddy about his cancer, you said, 'If God can get us through this, he can get us through anything!"
The entire crowd stopped dead silent. I swear you couldn't hear anything but the rain. We all stood silently. No one came or left in the next few minutes. Mom paused and thought for a moment about what she would say.
Now some would laugh it off and scold her for being silly. Some might even ignore what was said. But this was a moment of affirmation in a young child's life. A time when innocent trust can be nurtured so that it will bloom into faith.
"Honey, you are absolutely right. Let's run through the rain. If GOD let's us get wet, well maybe we just needed washing," Mom said.
Then off they ran. We all stood watching, smiling and laughing as they darted past the cars and yes, through the puddles. They held their shopping bags over their heads just in case. They got soaked. But they were followed by a few who screamed and laughed like children all the way to their cars. And yes, I did. I ran. I got wet. I needed washing.
Circumstances or people can take away your material possessions, they can take away your money, and they can take away your health. But no one can ever take away your precious memories...So, don't forget to make time and take the opportunities to make memories everyday. To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A friend sent this to me to remind me of life. Hope you enjoy it.
I HOPE YOU STILL TAKE THE TIME TO RUN THROUGH THE RAIN.
God bless...
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From: [email protected]
Date: Fri May 2, 2003 7:12 pm
Subject: New file uploaded to ubsciencehigh_class73
Hello,
This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ubsciencehigh_class73 group.
File : /CLASS 73 DIRECTORY.xls
Uploaded by : buddyresurreccion <jvr5678@y...>
Description : DATA REGARDING OUR CLASSMATES
You can access this file at the URL
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ubsciencehigh_class73/files/CLASS %2073%20DIRECTORY\.xls
To learn more about file sharing for your group, please visit
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/files
Regards,
buddyresurreccion <jvr5678@y...>
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From: "buddyresurreccion" <jvr5678@y...>
Date: Fri May 2, 2003 7:16 pm
Subject: Addresses of our classmates
Hello again everyone!!
I have uploaded a file containing information about our classmates. This is an excel file and you can just click on it an it will open.
This is all the data we have at the moment. if anyone of you has any other information, please reply to this message with the information so we can update our data.
Nows your chance to get in touch again!!!
Buddy
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From: "buddyresurreccion" <jvr5678@y...>
Date: Mon May 5, 2003 5:02 pm
Subject: Welcome Nathan!!!
Pito na tayo!!!!
Welcome Nathan!! We are sure glad to have you join us!
Hope you keep on posting too!!!
buddy
p.s.
go to this site and bookmark it so u guys can read all the past messages:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ubsciencehigh_class73/
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From: "taconsolacion" <taconsolacion@y...>
Date: Tue May 6, 2003 9:31 am
Subject: Nice to see you people gathering up
Looks like technology has finally caught up with us--or is it the other way around?
With all these computers, networks, cell phones, email and the Web to bring us together, it's great to know that we've finally come around to getting in touch with each other again after all these years.
When Buddy, Let, Brenda and I got together for dinner last month, the import of 30 years having passed since we left UBSH really came crashing down on me. Has it really been that long? 30 years!
Now we all know we're no longer the active, nubile, fresh and sunny-looking youths we used to be. At least I ain't. And you know you ain't either, guys, come on, admit it, he-he.
So here's the deal: the first one to post his or her picture here gets a kiss from His Excellency Pres. Buddy and his trusty old ex-sec, me. And no, we're not talking about *old* pictures here, mind. Recent, candid, no-more-than-two-week-old pics taken of you showing how you look now!
To start the ball rolling, I'm going to post mine at the photos section soon as I post this message. It's a picture of me enjoying the beach at Subic last May 2, 2003. (Please ignore the potbelly, dear Beth.)
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From: Leticia.Pilando@p...
Date: Tue May 6, 2003 8:08 am
Subject: RE: [ubsciencehigh_class73] Welcome Nathan!!!
E-mail address of Brenda Bandaay:
brendabandaay@y...
Dear Brenda,
Please register in the group site.
Best regards to all!
Lettie Pilando
Quality Management Department
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From: Leticia.Pilando@p...
Date: Tue May 6, 2003 9:57 am
Subject: RE: [ubsciencehigh_class73] Nice to see you people gathering up
Dearest Tom,
Just make sure that Buddy is cleared of SARS.... before the winner gets the prize... a kiss from Buddy!
Have a great day!
Lettie Pilando
Quality Management Department
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From: nathan alcantara <Nathan_bgo@y...>
Date: Tue May 6, 2003 1:04 pm
Subject: RE: [ubsciencehigh_class73] Welcome Nathan!!!
kumusta kayon kakabsat ken gagayyem!
sinu pay nga diay tallo? adik pay nakita ti nagan da; ni laeng bren, tom, budoy ken ni tets (ken siak, a) ti nakitak. padasek nga kitaen ni ebbs nee erece ken ni howard no makasurat da met. Vivs als gave me a tx SMS already.
we're coasting and coming along fine despite the pot bellies, creaking spines, aching joints and gargantuan utangs (in my case, that is).
nice to hear from all of you. ay apo, apay, talaga nga heartthrob pay latta ni buddy a!
dakke-dakkel ng agpayso ti pot bellim, tom a. agipost ak met ti photo mi ken ni GMA if I can figure out this new fangled scanner ti offis me.
if there is one thing that we can do, it would be to rpay for each other. ti kaado ti problem nga sangsanguen tayo plus our health status, we need some Divine Providence.
God Bless you all, people of UBSH '73!
Mabuhay tayong lahat!
Agbiag tayo amin!
Matago-tago tako am-in (Ask letti wat ds means.)
nate
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From: Leticia.Pilando@p...
Date: Tue May 6, 2003 1:07 pm
Subject: Survival at work
Dearest Friends,
For those who are employed just like me....some tips...
<<survival_at_work_1.pps>>
More power to all of you!
Lettie Pilando
Quality Management Department
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From: "buddyresurreccion" <jvr5678@y...>
Date: Tue May 6, 2003 7:09 pm
Subject: Gaining Momentum
HAHAHAHA!!
nakaktuwa naman that we're keeping in touch like this. hello brenda!!! and that makes us 8 in all. thank you letty for giving her the address.
nathan just texted me the cell number or ramon panaoen who goes by his maiden name now and is called ramon lee. ill try to update the files as more and more data comes in.
for the newbies, try logging in to our site: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ubsciencehigh_class73/ so you can read all the past messages and can also retrieve the file that contains the data of our classmates.
let's keep it coming guys!! specially the pictures!! all you need to do is have a pic scanned and saved as a file and then go to the home page, click on photos and upload the file.
tom, we gotta do something about the kissing thing. as letty says, there's a SARS epidemic in the air!! hehehehe
best regards to all,
buddy
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From: [email protected]
Date: Tue May 6, 2003 7:15 pm
Subject: New file uploaded to ubsciencehigh_class73
Hello,
This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ubsciencehigh_class73 group.
File : /CLASS 73 DIRECTORY.xls
Uploaded by : buddyresurreccion <jvr5678@y...>
Description :
You can access this file at the URL
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ubsciencehigh_class73/files/CLASS %2073%20DIRECTORY\.xls
To learn more about file sharing for your group, please visit
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/groups/files
Regards,
buddyresurreccion <jvr5678@y...>
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From: FerdinandAnne B Feliciano <MGF757@j...>
Date: Tue May 6, 2003 10:55 pm
Subject: Re: [ubsciencehigh_class73] New file uploaded to ubsciencehigh_class73
dearest to all,
nice to hear news from you guys, viv i email you later, tom that was not bad at all, still goodlooking. evie i email you too later. Regards and keep posting.
maane
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From: nathan alcantara <Nathan_bgo@y...>
Date: Wed May 7, 2003 5:43 pm
Subject: Re: [ubsciencehigh_class73] Gaining Momentum
Wahahahaha!
Magyayabang ako!
I have figured out the scanner here in the office and I will give you a picture I had with GMA -- one with a facsimile and the other with the real McCoy, ooops hindi pala si Macoy dahil patay na yun kaya lang di pa nililibing. Baka raw magresurrect at biglang mag golf sila ni Buddy administrator. Wahahahaha! After all that rest e baka nag-improve na ang handicap niya. Kaya lang takot daw mag-ka SARS.
anyway, here goes to all of you people of the UBSHS' 73
nathan
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From: FerdinandAnne B Feliciano <MGF757@j...>
Date: Wed May 7, 2003 11:35 pm
Subject: nathan the man
nathan and all,
talong talo mo silang lahat. a poster and a real life with gma. You too are still good looking. waiting for the rest to uptade their looks mine's coming up next month. goodday or goodnight to everybody.
maane
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From: "buddyresurreccion" <jvr5678@y...>
Date: Wed May 7, 2003 11:45 pm
Subject: Welcome Henry!!
hello there henry!!!!
that make 9 of us sana but i found out that manny unsubscribed from the forum. i think the email address we were using was his office address. baka di pwedeng gamitin yun doon. can someone get in touch with him and ask for a new email address? we wouldn't want to lose that connection.
anyway, henry has just joined us. balita naman dyan henry!!! how r u? how have u been?? do u have any contact with our other classmates?? please post naman any balita.
nates, ganda picture ah!! the last time we remember you were up in arms against the president of the philippines, now you are in the arms of the president of the philippnes! how time flies, how times change nga naman. hehehe
keep on posting guys. specially the pictures... of you and of your family. maybe we can even have a yearbook saved on cd which we can give out on the reunion in december.
me?? ill post one in due time before i lose all of my hair anyway...
take care folks!!!
buddy
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From: "taconsolacion" <taconsolacion@y...>
Date: Thu May 8, 2003 10:20 am
Subject: Nates, here goes: Ttsuuuuuuuuup!
That's the kiss I promised for the first to post his/her pic after me. The big bear hug will come later when we get to meet again in the flesh, dear old friend. As for Buddy, he owes you!
To everyone, here's to you too, tsssuuuuppppp! A virtual, online, wired equivalent for the real kiss and hug that we all deserve from each other for staying crazy and true and surviving all these years.
Looking forward to seeing the pics of the rest of you, and hoping everyone makes it to the reunion on December 27.
Maan, musta na ang aming cute na miss singkit! Hug, hug! Hope you're all fine with your family there in 9/11 land. Henry, wazzup? Where you been all these years?
Bud, when's the next dinner meet? I'm really awfully terribly busy but would drop everything as soon as you send out a notice of meet. Anytime! Anywhere! (Anything just to get out of this hectic corporate cesspool I'm in now, he-he!)
Letty, you jet-settin' cosmopolitan lass you, heard you just revisited Europe again for the umpteenth, why didn't you bring me along? I miss Paris and Vienna myself, would have treated you to a boat ride and a nice lunch in Bruge if you'd packed me up in your bags! Pasalubong naman dyan! Still under quarantine?
Nates my ol' buddy, whatcha doing having your pics taken with the enemy! On second thought, she's my boss too nga pala. So is she or isn't she gonna run next year? Don't bet against you're gonna lose, he-he.
Warm regards to everybody else, keep posting!
Tom
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From: [email protected]
Date: Thu May 8, 2003 10:59 am
Subject: New poll for ubsciencehigh_class73
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the ubsciencehigh_class73 group:
Will Buddy lose all his hair before the reunion on December 27, 2003?
o Yes, definitely
o Very likely, he's always under the sun
o Can't say, never can't pin the guy
o Maybe not, as long as he's on diet
o No, he'll have some eyebrows left
To vote, please visit the following web page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ubsciencehigh_class73/surveys?id= 697195
Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups web site listed above.
Thanks!
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From: "taconsolacion" <taconsolacion@y...>
Date: Thu May 8, 2003 11:11 am
Subject: Yo, here I go again
Hi, all!
Got some time to goof off this morning on company time. Fiddled with the UBSHS Class '73 website and came up with the following:
1) Added a class directory where each of us can enter our particulars. Just tell me if we need to add additional fields. Click on the "Database" link to your left to go to this page.
2) Added a survey for your consideration. This is a good venue to measure how deeply our class thinks about recent world events, including political, moral and theological issues of import. Click on the "Polls" link to your left to vote on the latest poll.
Enjoy!
Tom
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From: "nathan_bgo" <Nathan_bgo@y...>
Date: Thu May 8, 2003 7:12 pm
Subject: Kagulo sa database
TOMASITO! You tech-savvy you! me survey ka na may database ka pa!
kaya lang Sori, nagulo na ung database mo. Sinubukan kong i-edit at i-delete ung incomplete e wala daw akong karapatan na palitan ang entries kaya ganon na lang muna siya. Namputik oo, e di ikaw na ang bahala; napindot ko yata ung enter o something. napghahalatang d ako sanay d2 sa medium na 'to.
Hi to all you "signs-hi" netizens. Apay, only eyebrows ayan ni Budoy? agi-post ka met a ti golfing form photos mo.
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From: "taconsolacion" <taconsolacion@y...>
Date: Thu May 8, 2003 9:15 pm
Subject: Re: Kagulo sa database
No prob, kabsat, it's fixed. So we agree on the Buddy hair poll! Cheers!
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From: nathan alcantara <Nathan_bgo@y...>
Date: Fri May 9, 2003 8:45 am
Subject: Re: [ubsciencehigh_class73] hair poll
Wahahahahaha! U right der, Tom. Apay ngata! Agpadpada ta nga agpayso. Talaga nga naikeddeng nga agkadwa ta, padle. Birds of the same feather will have a good time drinking and driving, ay mali; dont drink and drive or else we'll be plucked together. Now that sounds more plausible.....
Henry andiyan ka ba? Balita ka naman! kumusta na ang puti naming classmate? U still magaspang o smooth na? U still Ruff, I know. hahahaha.
Tets, ung pasalubong ko from Switzerland, huwag kalimutan. Ebbs, komustasa na? Mary Anne, what u doin now, girl?
Yun daw susunod na magpost libre ang green fees for one round of golf courtesy of Buddy. Kung hindi marunong, kahit five buckets na lang daw ng driving free para matuto pumalo ng bola. How's that, Budoy administrator?
Cheers to you all, dear friends.
nathan
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From: nathan alcantara <Nathan_bgo@y...>
Date: Fri May 9, 2003 8:54 am
Subject: Re: [ubsciencehigh_class73] mag-post
CLARIFICATION: What I meant was mag-post ng picture; solo or with spouse or family mas maganda cguro. ALSO: ung waived green fees or five buckets, thats subject to Buddy's confirmation.
Tom n Buddy, I will ask your help to make me a web site for e-commerce. We have this coop of beekeepers and I am envisioning a site where we can possibly sell our wild sunflower honey. This is considered one of the best aromatic honeys and it could make good in the web.
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From: FerdinandAnne B Feliciano <MGF757@j...>
Date: Fri May 9, 2003 2:51 pm
Subject: Re: [ubsciencehigh_class73] New poll for ubsciencehigh_class73
hey guys
i based my vote on tom and nates photos also applying the principles of research that mrs. tiong ( remember her) shared with us, quess what i'm surprise nates and tom came up with the same thought .
they too probably applied the same principle. i hope buddy has some hair down (ha ha ha) just kidding. hey tom keep posting for polls it's fun. keeps me young again. i mean keeps me laughing. pick another subject though buddy might resign as our pres. well thanks for all of you sharing thoughts. naimbag nga aldaw o rabii yo ammin. i tried calling manny and josie but they are always out . i'll share this with them and i'll post their vote next time.
take care you all
maane
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From: "buddyresurreccion" <jvr5678@y...>
Date: Fri May 9, 2003 12:45 pm
Subject: tom's poll
hahaha!!
im sure im still gonna have some left kahit sa nosetrils man lang.
im really happy that this forum has began to have a life of its own with polls and data bases. lets try to complete the database that tom has started. all you need to do is enter the data by clicking the words underlined and clored blue.
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From: "buddyresurreccion" <jvr5678@y...>
Date: Fri May 9, 2003 1:00 pm
Subject: GETTING TOGETHER IN MANILA
hello everyone!!
this is an open invitation to all of our classmates based outside metro manila specially those in baguio.
do give us a call or text message (me 0917-5312849, tom 0917-8148464, letty 0917-8738670 or brenda 0920-6064111 so far) and set aside some time to have dinner or something while ur down in this urban jungle. it would be great to get together once more.
tom, maybe we can schedule another get-together when one of our classmates are down here.
best wishes to all!!
buddy
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From: "Tomas A. Consolacion, Jr." <taconsolacion@y...>
Date: Fri May 9, 2003 5:11 pm
Subject: Re: GETTING TOGETHER IN MANILA
Dear Buddy,
Yup, that's right, in fact I invited Nates over to join us when we had our first dinner, since he was coming down on that week's weekend. However for some reason he was unable to come down early for us.
I also got a text from Arnel, saying hi. Asked him if he was in Manila, and he said he was already in Baguio and had just come up from here the day before. I said, damn! He should've told us, we're so hungry and eager to see old friends when they're around.
So the rest of you guys, when you're around in Manila please don't be a stranger, give us a text or call so we can organize a meet even if for a short time only. In fact just to talk with you over the phone knowing you're close and we're breathing the same smog and sweating under the same sweltering sun already gives us pleasure.
So there, don't be strangers, it's us your bros and sis just around to meet wid you anywhere if you got the time!
Amen!
Tom
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From: "Tomas A. Consolacion, Jr." <taconsolacion@y...>
Date: Fri May 9, 2003 5:36 pm
Subject: Re: New poll for ubsciencehigh_class73
Dear Maane,
Mrs. Tiong! Funny you should remind us about her. Just saw someone who resembled her the other day and I stopped and thought she somehow looked familiar.
But of course now that you mention her it couldn't have been she I saw because the Mrs. Tiong I chanced upon days ago looked the same as the Mrs. Tiong who taught us 30 years ago!
Siguro parang one of my heretofore dead memory cells suddenly sprang to life to say, "Yeah, yeah, you do know her! What was her name again?" Sign of old age?
Hey, guys, remember our chant: "Tiong stop, Tiong go! Tiong stop, Tiong go! Tiong stop, Tiong go!" I recall we kept this up over and over like the crazy misfits that we are, out of her earshot of course, us laughing hilariously between ourselves.
And remember when we kept looking up her skirt by turns while she was seated in her desk and the rest of us crowding her kunyari asking damn fool questions like we were really interested about what she was teaching but really just distracting her so she wouldn't notice?
She had such nice white legs too, he-he!
Anyway, I guess you girls didn't know about that, just us growing boys wid our sex hormones shooting up like crazy during those heady days of high school!
Cheers and warm regards to your family!
Tom
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From: FerdinandAnne B Feliciano <MGF757@j...>
Date: Sat May 10, 2003 1:13 am
Subject: Re: [ubsciencehigh_class73] Re: New poll for ubsciencehigh_class73
hey tom and all,
i did not know that you crazy fools, nor do the other sis of ours i know that you sometimes crowd on henry's beetle and when girls pass you all keep looking on one direction i think you put a mirror over your shoe so it reflect something but anyway you were just boys being boys. hey buddy no wonder your into golf now remember the golf balls you and henry got at one of the stores in session road, also i still have the book you got from cid remember thesaurus, you were all little devils then. we girls were not saints either but we did cater to some of your naughty do's, I remember those escapades in burnham park. we had fun those days just enjoying rebelious time. oh by the way how is miguel p i remember josie kicking his you know at burnham park. any news of our former sis and bros. keep us posted we like to know what's up over there. well these are just spices of our lives and now we've grown being leaders and contributors to a healthy society keep it up kapatids cheers to all. my husband reads the messages and asked me if there was some sort of bonding among us and i said we really bondded in hischool, we were some group but we made our parents proud. keep it up you all and best regards
maane
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From: FerdinandAnne B Feliciano <MGF757@j...>
Date: Mon May 12, 2003 10:46 am
Subject: hello from maane
hi guys,
just spoke to josie this is her email address jojues@y..., she will be joining the group soon. regards and happy mother's day
maane
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From: "Tomas A. Consolacion, Jr." <taconsolacion@y...>
Date: Mon May 12, 2003 9:14 am
Subject: Happy mother's day
Better late than never...
To you classmates out there who are mothers, a belated happy mother's day to you all.
As for you married guys wid kids, pakisabi nga diyan sa pinaka-siga sa bahay nyo, happy mother's day sabay hug!
The same goes to the rest of you devils who have in one way or another been responsible for turning poor hapless women into mothers, he-he!
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From: nathan alcantara <Nathan_bgo@y...>
Date: Mon May 12, 2003 10:34 am
Subject: lets keep in touch
Hello, friends!
Hope u’r all feelin fine today.
Came from the wake of Mrs. Agripina Salupen K. Pilando, that’s Letty’s mother to you. Went with the wife, former Jolyna B. Calub of Baguio City and Batch 73 also of SLU Girl’s High. Chanced on doc Bren Cawis Banda-ay.
There were many people considering the stature of the Pilando's, Letty's brod is the present Congressman of Mountain Province.
At this hour, around 9:30, baka tinatabon na si Mrs. Pilando.
In the wake, we talked about our forthcoming reunion and how good it is that we have an e-mail group and a website.
Buddy n Tom, that was really nice of you to conceive of this web and group e-mail.
We could not wait to visit and surf and post especially now and with the novelty of the idea. Pero lilipas din yan. Just like when I first discovered it also and I could talk with freinds all over the world. In real time, almost like chatting, send it now then get an answer in two minutes. Then it waned to same hour, then same day, and then occasional --- we still keep in touch, though.
Still, thanks, especially u Buddy; n Tom, too. If we keep this up, we just might still be mailing and bola-bolaing each other till we are 64.
Its like anchor's or guideposts that we are, I should say I am, to speak for myself, still sane and that I could still feel and relate with friends from a not-so-distant past thorugh an electronic medium.
Remember, Tom? when we used to refer to Alex and Fake and Ruben and other classmates who stayed in Baguio as "bato" that is un-moved, stable or rooted?
But we are really getting old and there are many things that have happened in our lives .... pero sana abot pa rin natin ang isa't isa.
Like the case of the friends of Letty's mom. When she was alive, Letty says an old lady who was a relative came over to visit and because her mom was sleeping, she waited practically the whole afternoon just to say hello and kumusta. Then she went bak to the "ili" in Sabangan (I think) passing through the long dusty and bumpy Halsema Highway which we know more as "Mountain TRail" And that was the last time they ever saw each other.
We really should be keeping in touch. more often, for whatever reason. Parang the friends who sat like book ends in Simon and Garfunkel's song.... "Long ago it was you, I had a photograph, pressed in my memory, that's all that's left of me..."
And yo know, what is really weird about this? Medyo naluluha pa ako, naknamputic, oo. napaka-damdaming bukid pa rin ako kung minsan. What is weird, as I was saying, is that I am communicating not only to one but to several friends on-line. Its very personal and private yet its a group I am talking/writing to.
Anyway, if you gone this far and have read through all this, perhaps this is also one function of this e-group --- to provide an escape valve for self-expression and for unloading or unburdening. Not to say for reminiscing and joking and heckling pa cguro.
Maane, the last time I saw miguel "Fake" pedroso was about five years ago when his father died. He retired as a chemical engineer of PASAR copper smelter in Leyte and was into farming. He has four (or is it five, Tom?) daughters.
I am also considering farming. I already have 3 colonies of bees and good links with a seed company and gathering information, funds and the guts to get into it and work the land
Tama na muna ito, baka magsawa na kayo sa akin.
Best Regards and God Bless us all.
Nathan
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From: "nathan_bgo" <Nathan_bgo@y...>
Date: Mon May 12, 2003 6:22 pm
Subject: Fake's address
Hiya all people!
Called the house of Miguel "Fake" Pedroso's sister and I got his address as follows:
Miguel c/o Engineer Benedicto Advincula
Barangay Carayman, Purok 4
Calbayog City, Western Samar
I will try to write a snail-mail letter. You people do the same; why don't we all write him letters? It will surely be a pleasant surprise, di ba?
Sige let's do it,
Nathan
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From: FerdinandAnne B Feliciano <MGF757@j...>
Date: Mon May 12, 2003 10:48 pm
Subject: Re: [ubsciencehigh_class73] lets keep in touch
hi nates and all,
you're right nates i feel the same way memories of the past especially my hischool days lingers on me, i sure had great time with you all . 20 years ago i came with 11 nurses nobody knows anybody when we landed we became the best of friends, till today we keep in touch we are all
over but every 5 years we designate a place and we get together with our families, see when you come to a place far away from home everything feels strange i was fortunate i came with a group that shared the same values. i do hope we keep this going. i will drop a note for fake. letty hope you did get my email as i've said you're mom was a wonderful person. viv i got few minutes you take care and hope to talk to you if by chance you talk to joy tell her i 'll call her again our conversation was cut short their phone kept disconnecting. say hi to arlene l and s , evie,
carmen. thanks
hey brenda be email ing sometime i got questions . regards my i too haven't seen you since hischool anybody knows where danny and agosto whereabouts say hello for me if you see them
say hello to arnel. howie, ramon and the rest regards and you all take care
maane
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From: "buddyresurreccion" <jvr5678@y...>
Date: Tue May 13, 2003 7:38 pm
Subject: this is getting betterer and betterer
wow!
doesn't all of these posts bring back memories? high school for us was indeed one of the best times of our lives and we are blessed to have experienced it together.
i only wish that we could reach more of us and more of us could pitch in their own reminiscences.
maane, i just invited josie. i hope she gets online soon so she can join us. the invite expires after 1 week kasi.
nates, lets talk about your internet intentions. maybe tom and i can help you. maybe best if you can schedule a trip down here so we can have dinner or something.
letty, our condolences again for your recent loss...
tom, hahahaha!! i posted my pic na so you guys just imagine na lang how id look without hair!! hows the poll going??
all the best to you guys!!
Buddy
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From: "Tomas A. Consolacion, Jr." <taconsolacion@y...>
Date: Wed May 14, 2003 8:20 am
Subject: Yo, Nates! You ok there, old buddy?
Quite a post you made there last Monday. You expressed many of our group's---nay, generation's---misgivings, fears, dreams, as each one of us now enter middle age and try to cope or deal with it in our own unique way. Truly I was hearing a maudlin voice in the wilderness as I
read your post. It dawned on me that we now measure our time not by the years we've gone through since we were born, but by the years we expect to stay on until we too, like Let's mom, ass on. My condolences, dear Let.
Funny you should mention Bookends, Simon and Garfunkel's famous album inspired by the phenomenon of aging, about memory and loss, of youth and living. "Preserve your memories/They're all that's left you." Weren't we only in our late teens or early twenties when we first enjoyed this song? Now it's become so much more meaningful.
In our youth we thought we could do anything. Our bodies were powerful; we had great personal and professional ambitions, lofty, long-term goals. We wanted to accomplish great things, and I'm sure many of us did make giant strides during our twenties and thirties, look where some of us are now. Do you remember, we wanted to change the world! And a lot of grief that brought to some of us. Truth be told, come on, many of our goals remain far out of reach, despite our best efforts.
Somewhere in the past few years our hair have begun to thin a bit...in Bud's case, a lot, he-he. We can barely read but insist we're fine, denying the pair of glasses we keep in our pockets. We can't play soccer or run up and down the stairs like we used to. We realize we never will again. I've gained a lot of weight for no apparent reason, other than eating a lot, he-he. Now we can't drink as much beer; in fact, some of us don't even want to! Now, that's a bummer!
I realize now I'm never going to be able to climb Mount Everest (but I could still do Apo or Pulag with a little training. Did I tell you I'm into mountaineering now? At least I try, when I have the time. Since 2000 I've done Pinatubo, Banahaw, Cristobal, Buntot Palos, Daguldol, Batulao, etc.) I realize now Maui Taylor will never have the slightest bit of interest in me. I'm not going to be president of Ayala. I can never afford a Pajero unless it's company issue. It's simply not going to happen.
But on the whole I'm happy. I've a family I love and who loves me in return. I don't regret the fact that I've only one kid, who's now fourteen and thinks she's much better than me in everything but I try to beat her everytime I can. I got good friends, like you my classmates in high school who've remained close to my heart all these years.
I remember a song I used to hum, forgot the title na, but here's how
it went:
When we were children we used to dream
Of flying in spaceships to worlds unseen
But somewhere along the line we left our dreams behind
Buried beneath the daily news with its bold headlines
But down deep somewhere
Those dreams are still there
It's never too late to live out a dream
It's never too late to try something new
It's never too late to follow your heart
It's never too late to bring out the best in you.
Truly amazing medium this convergence of computers and communications in the Internet. Hope it wouldn't fade as fast as you seem to think it will in your post, truly I would like us to be in touch holding each other's hands online until we're 64 or even 94.
Fake as you said retired from PASAR many years ago, together with his wife who was I think nurse of the same company. With their retirement benefits and daughters they hied off to Carayman to start a farm, the "scientific way" according to him, somewhat like the pioneers in the wild west in the early days of America. And like these settlers, I think Fake is having some trouble making a new life after his previous work. He used to stay over in our apartment when he was in Manila. Last time he came he brought his entire family. Fake had this really long long hair that he tied up in a pony tail, the old mustache, still full of his new dreams. That was oh, two years ago and the last we've heard of him. One of these days when I can get some time off I'll try to go off and look for him in the hinterlands of Samar.
I wish there were more of us posting---or at least reading or lurking---in this group. Hello? Be good to hear a grunt from you!
Hi Bud (looks promising, your photo shows some eyebrows left, that's good to know), Maane (so you're a nurse, keep clear of this SARS thing hear dat, girl?), Let, Bren, Viv, Henry!
Now here's another poem or song for you before I conclude this really long post:
Love Lights the Flame by Steve Ducey
I looked into your eyes
Windows to your soul
That glow I recognized
From a time of old
I can't say when or where
I just know it's true
We loved a lifetime then
Now we're here again
It's true
You are the love I knew
Our fires died before
Now here we are again.
In general, that's for all of you. But if you think it's specially dedicated to some of you... (he-he) you know who you are.
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From: nathan alcantara <Nathan_bgo@y...>
Date: Wed May 14, 2003 10:34 am
Subject: [ubsciencehigh_class73]Am OK n' getting betterer
'kinnam, Tomas, makapasangit ka met!
Gista'y aganog-ogak dito'y nga maymaysaak no saanak la mabain ta adda ak d2y ofis. U ha! U know how to pull the heartstrings of friends. Nice poem, there.
Ngem ala, ket talaga nga kasta la ti Biag, kasla takiag.
Am ok, thanks for asking. Am just becoming a mutant perhaps like dem X-men drawing on-line comfort, solace, inspiration and maybe reason to go on with dis life. Its nice that we are wired together in this group. And I think it worked because I feel revived with your posting. n Maane's and Bud, too.
Agpayso, Bud, this getting betterer and beterrer. This is not just a social thing or kumusta, goodbye see you on December 27 and all that. I feel it is a life support group much like the group that Maane landed with in 9/11 land when it was still the land of milk and honey. We, at least I, can pour our heart out and shucks, I do not even have to drink to shed of my inhibitions because yu are all friends. AND, may pinagsamahan na tayo kaya huli pa rin natin ang isa't-isa.
We do not see each other but we hold on to the life that we knew about each other and we look forward to seeing each other again after 30 years has passed in our respective lives.
So what are you doing with GMA, u said, Bud? Much like perhaps the question what you doin with clubs and balls when u r supposed to be a general already, mistah (hope u dont mind me calling dat).
Truth to tell, I even have a photo wid Macoy (his arms on my back) and also with FVR smiling and all teeth proud like a puffer fish. But like I told Maane in a personal note to her, you of all people, Bud, would know that it comes with the job. As glamorized gofers or mga dakilang alalay -- taking care, nay, babysitting presidential media persons, govt functionaries and factotums (or is it factota) -- siempre yong mga alalay sa paligid puedeng magpa-kodak with the bida kung may pagkakataon, di ba?
Wala lang, ganon talaga. Look at Vic Corpuz and the General from Cebu who joined the NPA at a very late stage in his life. Who can say what's going to happen, really?
"Scientific farming." Now that's something. Like I said, I am gathering information, funds but most of all the guts to work the land. This is where life springs forth really. Ti kamayatan a pagbiagan, kadua, ket ti panagpatanor ti mula. I think I heard this in one of dem dramas in our grade school years.
Enuf said. Mamaya ulit. Have to make a short trip out to pay my debts.
Nathan
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From: FerdinandAnne B Feliciano <MGF757@j...>
Date: Wed May 14, 2003 5:20 pm
Subject: Re: [ubsciencehigh_class73] this is getting betterer and betterer
hey guys you make me cry with all those sentimenatal words my husband thinks my hormones are acting up, i just told him i just can't forget the memories specially now that i'm chating with you all. my tom I thought nates was pretty emotional there, i didnt know you're too, but that's okey we''re bros.and sis as you all said we find comfort and joy communicating because we had that past and hope we carry on . buddy where's that glasses of yours.? as i've told the other two you're too are stilllooking handsome . oh yeh as nates asks what are you doing in the golf industry? the last i've read about you was in the times magazine during macoy's coup . so tom you've got a teenager like mine , it's a challenge sometimes arguing with them . but i love both my kids dearly they keep me and my husband going and going like the commercial everready nonstop. well mga kapatid i got to sleep now it is 12 midnight just got off work and was checking my mail. buddy i'll call josie and manny today and give all update. take care
maane
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From: "nathan_bgo" <Nathan_bgo@y...>
Date: Sun May 18, 2003 9:29 am
Subject: Keep the Faith
Sometimes I feel that everything is relative and that all the causes I worked for, lived for and were willing to die for are just a passing fancy and that when we grow up I just have to plod on and on because I owe my soul to the company store.
Well folks, that ain't true.
Anyway, let me give you the lowdown on that May 17, 2003 mini- reunion at Country Waffles in Camp John Hay.
Present: Emmet, Vivienne, Dax and son Ivan, Arnel, Arlene Luna, Letty, Joy and Jessie and moi.
For all his rough and obnoxious ways, Dax was the first to leave but he showed his sensitivity because he left some amount for `tang Emmet. Lasing na kasi s'ya nang dumating daw, tapos nag beer pa ng dalawa.
Siempre kuento kuento, kalokohan, silip ng panti sa hubcap ng volks, Tiong stop atbp. (Did you know that Arnel had a fancy for Maanne pala? Bago yan ha? Nakakayanig di ba? At kilala ba ninyo daw si Johnny Cama? Tell me about it if you remember.)
Then enter two ladies. Followed by two guys, Guess who they were? On the table next to us was Greggy and Irene Marcos-Araneta and two friends, outside were their driver bodyguards. Bahagi daw yata sila ng reunion, Special Guests.
The best part of it was we were remisnicing about Martial Law, Emmet's arrest, my sudden disappearance detention which caused me not to graduate and how the whole class was interrogated and that you were all threatened daw that you will not graduate kung hindi kayo aamin. Si willy bernardo daw was saying umamin na kasi kayo. Eh, ano naman kaya ang aaminin ninyo? Wahahahahahaha.
That's when I reminded them isn't it serendipity-like the coincidence that we are talking about ML and right next to us is the daughter of the Dictator herself in the Flesh -- the girl who was able to draw $300 million from their Swiss account?
Oo nga they said. Tuloy pa rin and kuento. As we were talking about el presidente and administrator Buddy na binu-bully mo pa rin daw si Letty sa inyong mga meetings diyan sa Manila na siya ang mag secretary, sabi ni Arlene "Talagang DIKTADOR pa rin!" (hint, hint) pero Arlene was not conscious, Sub-conscious na siguro ang gumana.
Si Arnel, siyempre sutil, pinasegundahan pa rin ng "Kaya nga hindi dapat si Emmanuel ang HITLER natin, si Buddy dapat!" Wahahahahaha. Marcos Hitler diktador tuta. wahahahaha
What more if they learn na ang pinag-uusapan namin na Buddy ay yong pesteng tenyente na kumalaban sa Tatay niya na nagsabi on world wide TV and quoted even on Time Magazine "I'd rather die fighting your illegitimate regime than defending it?" Di Ba mas masaya? WaaahahahahahahA.
You should have seen daw the eyes of Irene and their fat companion! Makakasugat daw, the looks that could kill. Kumuha daw ng maraming newspapers at kunwaring nagbabasa pero nakatingin sa table namin in side glances! Eh, so what, Di BA! We left na hindi ko sila tinignan pero sabi ng mga ko-batch natin na masama daw ang tingin ni Irene sa grupo. I almost stood in front of the establishment with clenched fist to shout Marcos, Hitler ….. pero, HOY! sabi ni Arlene.
We had the laugh of our lives while goin home with Joy, Jessie and Arlene. Pero sabi nila, kung nasa poder pa sila, di na tayo makakauwi ngayon! Nakaka praning di ba? Wahahahahaha.
It was just a dream? Maybe it was a dream sequence but it was God's hands that put us together, at this time in this mini-reunion, and at the time of our glorious and rowdy high school days.
So you see my friends, high school was a time of innocence and awakening and the planting of the seeds of justice and freedom and the nurturing of friendships that will stand the test of time. And I believe the best is yet to come for all of us especially in God's hands.
KEEP THE FAITH, KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE ………. MABUHAY TAYONG LAHAT!!!
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From: "buddyresurreccion" <jvr5678@y...>
Date: Tue May 20, 2003 9:44 pm
Subject: reunion with emmett
hey nates,
thanks for the balita about your reunion with emmett. how is he? What does he do these days? can you fill us in on whats happening to him??
hehehehe. your friendly dictator is requesting info.
im glad to note that arnel has finally signed in. welcome arnel!!! now you can post to your hearts content. you can also go to the site and read the past messages.
you all take care!!!
Buddy
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From: MGF757@j...
Date: Mon May 26, 2003 10:20 pm
Subject: Re: [ubsciencehigh_class73] Keep the Faith
hello guys,
been very busy lately juggling work , kids activities and siempre sa hubby . school will be over for us soon so hopefully i can budget my time better. that was an enlighting update there nates, i envy you guys you got the oppurtunity to be around friends that care, i hope someday I could . i mailed a post card for fake and angie , if they respond i'll let you know. josie and i are still trying to contact manny mahirap siyang hulihin will keep trying though, tried calling willie pero answering machine si henry wala pa rin balita i know they keep contact with manny. you're welcome letty, i know you'll just be fine okey ngarud till next mail. you all take care
maane
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From: "Tomas A. Consolacion, Jr." <taconsolacion@y...>
Date: Tue May 27, 2003 8:29 am
Subject: Yo, am back!
Hey, wazzup? Where's everybody?
Just got back from out of town business trips, company work really could get tiresome.
So how come nobody's posting? Nates we really should be getting together one of these days and get ourselves drunk silly. Bud how're our preparations for the reunion coming? Got any nice activities planned? Keep us posted. Letty, musta na, don't see you posting, the others likewise. Maane try to get some rest sometimes, not good working your ass off if you pay the price of early obsolescence, he-he.
We snorkeled in Mactan (Plantation Bay) last weekend and the biodiversity underneath the waves was really amazing, like you dived into your own aquarium and swam along together wid your fishes! The wife and kid had fun too, now they're suffering from sunburn, I guess we didn't bring enough sunblock.
Well, that's all for now, no heavy stuff this posting Nates, got a lot of work piled up. Will get back at you when I get into reminiscing and philosophizing mode, if ever!
Cheers!
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From: Leticia.Pilando@p...
Date: Tue May 27, 2003 9:32 am
Subject: RE: [ubsciencehigh_class73] Yo, am back!
Yap. Been back last week but had some catching up to do after 2 weeks of leave.
Thanks to everybody for the kind words and the support in this difficult time. Mama is now enjoying eternal peace and happiness. We know she is UP there somewhere... guiding us. But she leaves a void so immense, we will miss her so much, as she has been central to our lives.
One advise to you all, my friends, show your love and care to your parents while they are still alive... they deserve it. There will always be a lingering feeling that you could have given more...But if you know that you have given them your all, you will be at peace...
Last week-end was my first week-end here in Manila after a few months of being in Baguio every week-end. Somehow, I miss waking up at 2:00 am Saturday for the trip up to Baguio. Watching the sun rise in Tarlac. Sometimes, we are lucky... the sun rises just when we are somewhere in Tarlac where there are still some remaining rice fields by the highway.
Unlike some big shots spending the week-end at Plantation Bay (business cum pleasure, mukhang more pleasure, Tom!), we contended ourselves with a Saturday evening in Intramuros... in the rain. Central South Mindanao is the flavor of the month.... brought back a lot of memories of my stay in that part of the country - South Cotabato.
Tom, ba't si Nates lang ang gusto mong ka-inuman. I know Nates is charming (kaya napa-ibig niya yung housemate ko sa LB), and can write well. O baka naman dahil close na sila ngayon ni GMA. Palakas ka rin ano? Hindi na nga tatakbo si GMA sa 2004, eh. Or do you know something we still don't.
Talked to Beth Frondozo Manuzon last nite. She will invite us to her house daw for good food and karaoke (their business is karaoke machines)...one of these days. Give her some time to polish her culinary skills and/or singing.
While waiting for Beth's invitation (hope it won't be very long.... baka abutan ng reunion), we would really like to meet up with those coming from Baguio (or anywhere). Call us (Buddy, Tom, Brenda or myself) and we can meet. We surely need your thoughts for the coming reunion.
Thanks to Vivien who have arranged for the mini reunion in Baguio 2 weeks back. It certainly was heart warming seeing Emmett and more of Class 73.
Have to get back to work...just like Tom, mahirap ang empleyado not like Buddy and Brenda who are their own bosses...
Lettie Pilando
Quality Management Department
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From: nathan alcantara <Nathan_bgo@y...>
Date: Wed May 28, 2003 4:39 pm
Subject: Gud ur back
Hiya People.
Good to know ur all bak.
So, Mr. Otisamot Noicalosnoc aside from mountaineering, you into snorkeling. Ganda ha. With the family pa. There is a place in Bacnotan ringed by reefs and the marine life is fantastic. The blue, yellow and red fish brush against your legs but the sea is extremely salty.
Maane, that's nice of you to have sent that postcard. I-print out ko pa my letter to Fake.
Lets, dats good advice. We really should bare our hearts out to the olds. Like what Tom posted earlier, "...we now measure our time not by the years we've gone through since we were born, but by the years we expect to stay on until we too, like Let's mom, pass on.
This was his response to an earlier posting when I was in a melancholic philosophical mode. This was when we were in a middle of a major tiff with the wife because of my past indiscretion. There at least its out now!
But I cannot afford that emotional mode now and I do not want to depress anyone. Like Maane whose hormones started acting up daw. Wahahahaha. Truth to tell, balik ako ng balik the past week but it was a little silent and cold. Now tis getting warm again. HELLO PEOPLE!
Anyway, we --the wife and I -- are still holding on for now despite all and I do hope we can pull through even through this year up to our reunion. If any of the guys are reading this, DO NOT TAKE THAT LEFT TURN! It's not worth it at all.
Tom, a climb to Mt. Pulag by March or April would be nice for the family. We might join the the third annual media climb. Isu ti planoc for the family for next year if all goes well no adda kaasi ti Apo. I've been up there twice in the late 1980's pero balikan lang, no sleep over. If you plan to join, get ready with 2,000 for the 3 of you, tents and warm clothing.
If I remember right, our batch also had a climb up you namesake, Mt. Santo Tomas, di ba? In those days, hindi kumpleto ang high school without a trek even only up to the radar station.
Sige, Tom, lets get silly drunk one time but I can get hard stuff or wine only because beer leaves my joints and my "gurong" throbbing. Too much Uric acid in my blood. I can get a max of three beers and I'm zonked then "agpiskel" my extremities. Name the day n place, pards, and we'll bargaina so we can meet.
Ken ammom, lakay, funny also how our experiences get somehow related. When we went to Tabuk last week for the Regional Dev't Council meeting, we got the chance to go white water rafting! Y@HOO! ganon pala, it was only for a short stretch and the waters of the Chico River were not that wild yet. Nevertheless, Dr. Gil Bautista went overboard in the other raft, walang nahulog sa aming raft. OK lang naman, he just got wet we all had flotation vests.
That poem Love Lights the Flame by Steve Ducey is really nice. Next time na lang ung heavy stuff
Till next posting ------ nathan
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From: "Tomas A. Consolacion, Jr." <taconsolacion@y...>
Date: Thu May 29, 2003 8:14 am
Subject: Re: Gud ur back
Yup, seems I've become more sports-minded this late in my life.
About three years back we dared each other at the office if we still had the gumption to climb a mountain, us finding it difficult to climb the stairs when the lifts were out. Then we read an article in the Bulletin about a group of yuppies having the time of their lives by trekking to the Mt. Pinatubo caldera. The next weekend those of us who ultimately had the "commitment"--just 4 of us--packed off the best way we knew and followed the trail to that defunct volcano. Turned out the experience was unique, thrilling and priceless, albeit dead tiring and truly challenging to these old bones, idle muscles and masses of fat.
We also realized we knew shit about mountaineering, but we liked it, 3 of us at least. So we took some BMC (basic mountaineering course), affiliated with hiker's clubs, lined up climbs when we could, and never looked back. And that's how I've become an outdoors person in a limited sense--despite the potbelly and being overweight, because I can do it only so often. I also got myself a bike, and most Sundays I can pedal from Cubao all the way to that road of perdition, you know, the billion-peso Macapagal Boulevard to Cavite and back, taking all of three hours.
The other day I sent a fond SMS message to old flame Beth on a number biz-carded to me by Letty. Turned out it was her 21-year old son's cell phone! Got me into trouble, but she responded and I asked if she had a land line and whether I could just call her na lang instead of scandalizing her brood. I eagerly dialled the home phone she texted back and for the next hour we did a telebabad session like we were still teens--which we probably are in our hearts, you know?
So there we were, 30 years of longing, memories and good cheer traveling through the phone lines and pouring out of our phones, two weary souls coming together again after such a long interregnum. I swear my phone set had steam rising off it when I laid it back in its cradle after the interminable so longs. My left ear ached too!
As to what we talked about, guys, that would have to be just between us. But you can be sure we talked about the old times, our love lives, sex, family, college, careers, God, children and raising them, her hubby, my wife, domestic problems, etc. Will try to write about this some other time. Let's just wait for Beth to bare her heart out to us when she gets around to it, but hey, she's still the old warrior princess and baby, she some hot mamma with a lot of fire left. For you guys, may asim pa! Beth says hello to all of you!
Nates, past indiscretion, huh? Is dat singular or plural? He-he. Why am I not surprised? Just goes to show you're as manyakis as the rest of us, mwa-ha-ha-ha! But seriously, it's only human sometimes to get side-tracked and lost when unintended relationships develop between one's self and associates, for instance. Especially during moments of vulnerability, you know when these strike. Just no way of getting around dat. But in the end you realize you exchanged promises with just one person and by God you better stick to your vows or you'll never get peace and the grace for the rest of your life.
That Pulag climb seems interesting. That's a major climb di ba? Better start working out na this early, shed off the unwanted lbs. It'll probably just be me--Neng and KC love the beach but that's all I'm afraid. Besides, the wife's heart probably can't stand the stress and the thin air up there. I'll see what I can do about KC.
Now that you bring it up, yeah, we did climb Mt. Sto. Tomas once, where instead of bottles of water we chugged Ginebra on the way up. Dumb crazy kids! But a worthwhile experience.
Getting silly drunk was just an expression, of course. The last time I did dat was, oh, years ago, when I had one too many glasses of red wine during a company social. Matindi pala ang tama nun? Couldn't remember how I got home, turns out I was ferried home by a company driver. I also puked myself out on the floor of the spanking new limo! But sure, let's do it again sometime, us and the rest of the gang too, whoever is around!
Stormy weather here in Manila this past few days. Hope the weather is fine for you out there in other parts of the world. From my little corner here then, that's all for now, I bid you adieu, sweet fellows, till next posting. Keep the flame burning, the heart beating and the soul hoping for that fine reunion day in December when we can get together as one class again.
Tom
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From: "agdel557" <agdel557@y...>
Date: Thu May 29, 2003 4:08 pm
Subject: pasingit naman...puro nalang kayo!
...huli man daw ang magaling...pagnatinik malalim...
...i've been reading all those messages from all of you guys...that I just felt like joining the kwentuhan...
...i have always been a late bloomer...i remember i was the only one who was still singing tenor at fourth year...those times to be sikat you must either play basketball...play the guitar...then ofcourse there were the anak ng diyos...like napo...who doesn't only play the guitar well...but was also the captain ball of the greyhounds...and the red robins...hanep...daming karibal ni vivs...i still don't know how to play the guitar...i'm still lousy in basketball...and i only learned to use the internet last year...
...like all of you i've been busy lately...pasukan na naman...kailangan kumayod pang tuition...my eldest son...iko is 17 years old and a second year college student at asia pacific college in makati...my youngest...elo is 15 and a third year high school at letran...they live with their mom...my ex wife...and good friend tenggay...in marina...paranaque...
...thanks to crossword puzzles and text messaging...i am now wearing reading glasses...matanda na talaga...
...that afternoon at country waffles...we got into talking about our classmates...who have separated with their wives...and i think it was joy who said...kayo naman tinatakot nyo si letty at si vivien...
...we also talked about our classmates who like brenda and nates did not graduate with us...pandagdag pa...remember araceli laron..?julius garcia..?ireneo amogan..?marlon benitez..?and why am i the only one who remembers "johnny cama"..?
...then we have our teachers...aside from the popular ones...remember saksak..? llusala...llusalae...llusalam...llusalarum...llusalis... llusalas... llusalis..?
...i am glad...parami na tayo ng parami...as the dictator himself said...getting betterer and betterer...that afternoon...i was glad to see arlene luna who looked very different from the girl we knew...letty and vivien na ganun parin...joy...and husband jesse (class 75)...nates...and dax...remember when we were all 15...and we called dax "scratch" because at 16 he was already the oldest...oh well...now that we're all 46...he's still the oldest...he...he...he...he...doc howard couldn't make it because he was on a medical mission...dinah promised to be join us during the next reunion...
...good to hear about tom...mountain climbing...snorkling...and working at pagcor...all those pusoy sessions at the think tank...didn't go to waste...and buddy still golfing...and fake...an eco farmer..? well he always hated things that were not biodegradable...remember pio's basketball..?
...and so i have to go...until the next time...see you all...soon...
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From: MGF757@j...
Date: Thu May 29, 2003 9:23 pm
Subject: Re: [ubsciencehigh_class73] pasingit naman...puro nalang kayo!
hello guys,
welcome arnel nice of you to join the crowd. you know i had always admired you're jesty and artistic ideals too bad you're ex did not see those potentials. i know you're a great dad to the kids and that's all what matters. for you guys having rocky swings in marraige pump up that power keep that knot tight but if it boils down where you really can't life goes on ika nga nila. and for those still bonded keep it up, communicate and reciprocate , be more understanding, help in the household chores, adore and praise you're better half, cause that's what keeps me and hubby solid, of course we have our share of fights and battles it comes with the marriage package . so tama na muna sa topic na to let's go to tom, you know i almost called 911 el president buddoy for search and rescue for the past week you were out in the web akala ko tuloy nahulog ka sa pag mountain climbing mo iyon pala pa snorkling snorkling ka lang but that 's okey enjoy naman ang family . got to have fun with the family. say hi to beth for me i miss that warrior empress. so nates keep that fire burning and adore her with everything you have. for viv hope to hear from you too remember those days we use to hike from the city to your place in loakan and spent the time in that quiet place at the airport say hello to arlene what's she up to now. lets i know tambak ka nang trabaho that's the price we pay for having a boss as you said but keep posting okey oh my i got to go ako din pala may trabaho, tom i'll try not to work my ass off you're right though we work and work for greener pasture sabi nila. don't worry arnel you're not alone learning the computer i myself did not bother using the web not till el presidente buddy started sending the email ,now it's my hobby to open , read and chat with you wonderful peolpe that had and is still are part of my growing years. my son when he was 5 now 13 asked me to help him open a file in the computer cause my smart hubby forgot to write the password, i told my son i'm sorry i can't help him cause i don't know how to operate the computer, he asked mom how did you finish school? back then i said we did not have computer and i still refuse to learn. but now since last month you guys opened my eyes to this new tech so you're very influential, you all are great here's hugs and kisses to you all. magandang araw sa iyong lahat
maane
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From: "Tomas A. Consolacion, Jr." <taconsolacion@y...>
Date: Fri May 30, 2003 4:06 pm
Subject: Arnel! Welcome!
Nice to see Arnel finally sign in and make a post.
Hi Maane, musta ka na?
Just read your two posts just now and it occurred to me: since yung sulat ni Maane e tipong breathless stream-of-consciousness na tuloy-tuloy without punctuation, while on the other hand yung kay Arnel naman e puro period, maybe you two can strike a deal and share Arnel's treasure lode of periods so we can read your two posts better, he-he! Just joking!
Warm regards to everyone!
Tom
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From: Leticia.Pilando@p...
Date: Fri May 30, 2003 5:16 pm
Subject: RE: [ubsciencehigh_class73] Arnel! Welcome!
It is Friday afternoon and am just getting ready to leave but not after I read all the new mails. Really good to see that Arnel is now on-line. And Maane, thanks for all the advise (even if some are not applicable to me and Vivien). Sige, pagsabihan mo pa sila...It sure takes an expert to teach...
Maane, try to encourage naman the others there to login to this homepage. You are a great example, natuto ka rin mag e-mail... madali lang naman, di ba? Magaling naman tayong lahat mag-type, pumasa nga tayo sa Typing class.
Arnel, you sure have good memory. How do we contact all the others? Do they have families still in Baguio?
Nates, make sure that in your next trip to Manila, you make it a point to have time to see us. We really need to start getting some inputs for December 27 and start organizing. Nagma-mana na ako sa Swiss, kailangan organized.
Vivien, mag post ka naman. You have been very helpful in contacting our friends there and was instrumental to the success of the mini reunion at Country Waffles. Di mo ba napansin, nangangantiyaw si Arnel. We have to support our single-blessedness.
Had lunch with Buddy last wednesday at his terrritory. We visited the Intel plant which was a few kilometers from his golf course so had a good reason to ask for a free lunch. Unfortunately, it was raining and had no chance to go around but Eagle Ridge is huge. While I was there, andun din si Fidel Ramos coordinating daw a golf tournament. Sayang, my cell phone is an old reliable model and not one of those with video and camera capabilities – I would have taken a photo of Buddy and Fidel. Nathan and GMA, Buddy and Fidel... . What about Tom and Erap... Tom, di ba palagi si Erap sa casino?
Am having dinner with Brenda tonight. We planned to go to Lupe Cafe at Guadalupe but since weather is not very good, decided to have dinner na lang at home... you are invited... kung gusto niyo ng tilapia and atsara. Marami ring left over wine and cheese...
So long....
Lettie Pilando
Quality Management Department
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From: FerdinandAnne B Feliciano <MGF757@j...>
Date: Sat May 31, 2003 1:46 am
Subject: Re: [ubsciencehigh_class73] Arnel! Welcome!
hello again,
just finish chating with joy rekindling the past what a moment gusto ko pa sanang magtelebabad kaya lang i got work to do. ikaw naman tom gusto mo pa yatang bumalik ako kay mr. bajada para pagaralin uli ang basic english tama na iyon format i'm dealing withbrainy brats maindindihan ninyo naman di ba. hayaan mo tom gagawin ko uli para may ma critique ka ha ha ha no win ka ditoi talked to josie last night her computer is nagloko kaya wa pa siyangpanahon magsign in, i shared the highlights of the emails don't worry she'll write her masterpieces soon. i called manny again wala pa rin nasa field , i'll email him and try to get his home phone kasi ang binigay ang work phone lang baka magalit ang misis pag may ibang chicks na tumatawag kaya work phone lang ang binigay. i'll let you know iyong classmates natin na nandito sa states if you have their phonenumber let me know so i can call them, balita ko si sammy, arthur andwho else sitll waiting for angie's reply. o sige na nangangalabit na si mister ( kayo naman wide eyed kaagad) lalabas lang kami kasi off kaming pareho. have a nice weekend anong say mo tom ?
maane
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From: FerdinandAnne B Feliciano <MGF757@j...>
Date: Sat May 31, 2003 2:06 am
Subject: Re: [ubsciencehigh_class73] Arnel! Welcome!
hey letty pahabol naman paki balot na lang iyong tilapia at atsara dagdagan mo na din nang manga i express mo nalang para may pang dinner kami umaga pa naman dito. o kung may tuyo at kamatis isali mo na din. salamat
maane
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