JASHS Class '70 USA Meeting

Daniel has mentioned to his Kuya Eph that our former house in Norwalk has been foreclosed, something about him seeing a sign on the yard. Yesterday morning, after dropping off Adrienne at the airport we decided to pass by the old neighborhood. It was around 5 am so there was no one on the streets. I was probably driving around 10 miles an hour and we just saw the house for less than a minute. The sign on the yard was no longer there. But my first impression was the brightness on the house. Then Donna noticed the carport roofing has been taken out. I'm not positive but it seems as if I didn't see the tangerine tree in front of the garage. Anyway..

For a couple of months now, a meeting of our high school alumni association is being planned and was finally set Nov 22 at Dan and Imelda Danganan's place in Cerritos.

I just had to take a nap from waking up so early and then we had to get ready for the meeting. Elaine and Gene were pulling in at the same time and we got into the house (a little before 3), a lot of our friends have already arrived: Ed and Odette, Roger with his son Nathan, Cora and Arnold and of course our hosts Dan and Imelda.

Here's Elaine's brief description:

"As always, we were glad to see everybody who came at our meeting yesterday- 11/22/08. We were blessed with so much food- the fried vegetable egg rolls were so good especially with the suka & garlic. With baked salmon, pad-thai, pancit malabon, grilled tilapia, sisig, plus the sinampalokang manok-wow! We were all so full. Wait there is more. For dessert we had lelot balatung, which was to die for, palitaw, fruits & a big bowl of buko drink with palm seeds & buko. Napakasarap...Thanks a lot to Dan & Imelda who were so gracious & generous to host our gathering. Bert, we missed you. Our thoughts & prayers are with you & your family. See you all at the Christmas party. "



I'd been craving for baked salmon since we got here so I had my fill of it last night.


Manny Hilario and wife Myrna arrived a little later, along with Nestor and Daisy, Rey and Josie with their brand new grand son EJ and his Mom Alice. EJ is Ryan's son.

After dinner we started the meeting and the group's projects were discussed. I reported about the four computers that we donated to the school and I showed them the pictures that I took as well as the Deed of Donation (which was read aloud for all by Ed) that Mrs. Macaspac, the current PHS principal, sent us.


When the meeting got adjourned, we ate some more and then I had Dan turn on his Karaoke machine. Myrna sang a couple of songs. She's so good that everyone fell silent while she was singing! We were hesitant to sing after that. But I found the courage to sing a few songs because Dan's song selections are really good. I sang a few new OPM songs (Sabihin Mo Na, Beer, Makita Kang Muli, Kahit Isang Saglit, etc.) which are hits right now on Philippine radio that's why very few of them recognized the songs. Only those with TFC have heard of some of them. It felt good to sing...!

Everyone was congratulating Rey and Josie for EJ. Donna was even able to put him to sleep carrying him on her "cushiony" chest.


Click here for all the pictures I took during the event.

A couple of days ago Bert called Ed and said he was on his way to the airport to go the Philippines because his Mom was really sick. Boy Dizon called me last night and he said he won't make it either. He got called in to work. Mon was recording a CD so he called and said he'll pass.