Reunion in December 2008
Christmas reunion at 18 Mars Street, BelAir Village, Makati
About 35 of the old boys gathered at the "clubhouse" of LSGH 1978, many thanks to Benjie Manzano, our host. Many thanks to president Henry Atayde for the leadership, and his speeches, despite being hooted down repeatedly by hecklers like Minggoy Padua. Does he have a voice? (That was the controversy of the evening.) We thank also Au Abad Santos for running the call center that kept the classmates well informed... of the forthcoming Dec 4 party. First thursday of December -- get your blooming a**es into 18 Mars Street. A toast to the 22nd straight year of reuniting the class of 1978.
First to arrive were Greg Formoso and Joel Tuano. Next batch were Sandy Gilles and Brian Masigan, Brian bearing gifts: Popperroo popcorn in the Crunchy Munch flavor. They were really good. Flavored like cheese, caramel, salt, and sugar. (His family used to have a bakery or factory of doughnuts and candy, people reminisced.)
Beer barrels arrived at 6pm. The CEBRERO catering team arrived at 630pm. Joey Cebrero himself arrived like a jolly Santa Claus saying, Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas, this must be the first time that i attended a class reunion... Ho Ho Ho. of course, he is very welcome. Joey is now running a brisk business, catering to corporate clients -- hundreds of people each day enjoy his tasty meals in their offices or convention centers. The range of customers is about 800 - 2000 a day. Thus, our busy chef is working 18 hours a day, six days a week. And he loves the work. He taught himself how to cook. After three years of hardship during the start-up phase, his hands are now full of "blessings from the Lord" in the form of repeat customers, who just get bigger and better (and fatter.)
Au Abad Santos broke his leg while wakeboarding in CAMSUR.... EEEEENGGGK, wrong answer... Liar. ... he twisted his ankle while falling down the stairs. Perfectly ordinary stairs, nothing glorious about them. So he walked around with crutches. Very considerate as usual, Jojo Buenaventura was shouting at AU to "please help us out to move the tables and chairs around. Au, don't think you are excused from lifting the furniture around. Halika dito." Of course, AU was totally angry and started to spear JOJO Buenaventura with his crutches, .....and he threatened to smash Jojo's camera with his crutches. Of course, tawanan kami lahat.
Ardie Najar arrived, so did Buddy de Joya, Ricky Lopez, and Joey Flaminiano. They are the athletic types, looking very fit. For the rest, we will not name names. Might be LIBEL or DEFAMATION. Maraming "healthy candidates" na 200 pounds -- very athletic as far as Japanese Sumo is concerned.
Next to arrive were Anton Peralta, Cabrera, Joey Bautista, Stevie Liao, Minggoy Padua. Minggoy is controversial. It seems he is accused of something anti-Class of 1978, and it seems he is presumed guilty without fair trial.
At 8pm somebody shouted, hey, it's time for Drugs. So therefore the senior citizens among us, brought out their MERCURY DRUGS. They took their anti-cholesterol tablets, their anti-diabetes or anti-gout pills. whew, times have changed.
Next to arrive were YULO, Inumerable, NORMAN JISON, RAYMUND SY, montenegro, .....I CAN call the classmates by their last names because our teachers used to call us by our last names. example, if your name was Speedy Gonzalez, the teacher would call you Gonzalez. You would speak with your classmate, as follows: "Hey, Gonzalez, wake up, the teacher's calling you to recite now." And if you would call their house, to speak with the classmate, you would say, "may i speak with Gonzalez." Puzzled party: "Which Gonzalez?" You reply: "I mean, the one in Grade Seven"
Also present were Bonny Dimayuga, Dino Laurena, Bobby San Bue, Figueroa, Jayson Lim, Chris Swanson Belardo, HERBOSA, Lyle Baraoidan, BARRY ORENCIANA, Ron Petterson! (first time to attend an lsgh reunion... he usually goes to the don bosco high school reunion)...he was happy to be present.
* Raymund Sy is now strategy head of the Lucio Tan group of companies. Norman Jison is president of a sugar company in Bacolod.
JI REYES arrived....said hello to the call center ladies, Kim and Haydee, who have been following us up for attendance since 2001. Ji was concerned that he got a text message ordering him to report to the LSGH reunion, and it was signed by Haydee, and the text message was accidentally READ by his wife... ("AT SINO.... naman itong Haydee na ito, ha, a ver.")
Arsenic Lacson showed up... he wore his hair long. A dozen others showed up, WITHOUT HAIR.... no names need be mentioned, or heads will roll.
WE enjoyed physically moving the "class picture photo posing session" to a different location, just to disrupt the careful planning of professional photographer JOJO BUENAVENTURA. He arrived with three large white umbrellas with remote-controlled flashbulbs behind each. He kept going around and around to check on the white flash equipment, firing them again and again until we were blind from white lightning. Inspite of all that testing, he kept muttering, "It's not working, they're not firing at the same time... they're not firing when i push the remote control, they're not firing when i click the shutter."
So Henry Atayde was just about shouting, "can you stop that, Buenaventura, because we're going blind from the painful flashes.... and besides, those flash umbrellas are never going to work. Can you please just use the ordinary flash that's attached to the blasted camera!"
Jojo B. ignored all the heckling and kept himself really busy adjusting and testing the flash umbrellas till we really felt like we were being attacked by STROBE LIGHTS from Mars. And he never stopped testing the equipment even while we were eating already -- he must have never ate anything, or drunk anything, he was all the time with his baby, the flash equipment, and when FINALLY, we all sat around for the group photo, the darn thing refused to work. It figures.
So we had photo sessions of the La Salle Greenhills high school alumni from La Salle Greenhills GRADE SCHOOL...... the Greenhills high school alumni from La Salle TAFT GRADE SCHOOL, and the high school alumni from La Salle BACOLOD GRADE SCHOOL. Kasali na rin sa photos yung mga classmate nila Henry from La Salle TAFT (College), Chilette and companion.
The food was good and tasty, with wonderful oyster sauce, and chili sauce, and coconot cream, etc..... but the old boys were watching their weight. For the first time in history, they ate their vegetables. They DID NOT OVEREAT. And by golly, they CONCENTRATED on the seafood and ignored the juicy yummy SISIG.
Times have really changed, and you know it, not because Wall Street is in crisis and the US economy is in recession, but Times have really changed because THE OLD BOYS are diet-conscious and gout-fearing men. They even watch their calorie intake, my gulay. Greg F. pointed to a plate of crispy lechon balat on one table, that was sitting untouched for an hour, and said, NOONG ARAW, UBOS KAAGAD YAN. Others piped in, "Noong Araw, pang-isang Tao lang yang bandehado ng barbecue stick, na yan." Now, that small quantity of meat was looking like it was sufficient to feed five men with shrunken appetites.
Health and Sickness
During the opening PRAYER, to formally open the Rowdy Reunion, Henry Atayde prayed fervently for HEALTH, more than WEALTH, for all the classmates and their families.
Anton Peralta was reminded of a story of how a friend of his had to spend a lot to take care of his sick wife. The wife has sick of a disease that required INTRAVENOUS IMMUNIGLOBIN. Each injection of the IV IG costs P2million ... two million pesos. and the poor lady had to have five such injections.
Henry prayed for Jun Manego, who is sick with various illnesses. (Raymund Sy managed to visit him last week. Henry Atayde was able to visit Jun and to pass on to him the well-wishes and prayers of the classmates.) He had an appendix taken out. Something went wrong, and the one hour operation stretched out to ten hours. Other internal organs started to malfunction. We still could not decide whether it was "malpractice by bungling surgeons," or whether his stomach and kidney and liver all malfunctioned on their own. Donations were collected discreetly for Jun.
We ask the other LSGH alumni to also pray for Jun Manego and to contribute to his hospital expenses, now approaching five million pesos.
Next meeting is in February 2009: GOLF tournament
LSGH ALUMNI HOMECOMING in February 2009.
BACOLOD FIELD TRIP for lsgh 1978 in November 2009.
END.
About 35 of the old boys gathered at the "clubhouse" of LSGH 1978, many thanks to Benjie Manzano, our host. Many thanks to president Henry Atayde for the leadership, and his speeches, despite being hooted down repeatedly by hecklers like Minggoy Padua. Does he have a voice? (That was the controversy of the evening.) We thank also Au Abad Santos for running the call center that kept the classmates well informed... of the forthcoming Dec 4 party. First thursday of December -- get your blooming a**es into 18 Mars Street. A toast to the 22nd straight year of reuniting the class of 1978.
First to arrive were Greg Formoso and Joel Tuano. Next batch were Sandy Gilles and Brian Masigan, Brian bearing gifts: Popperroo popcorn in the Crunchy Munch flavor. They were really good. Flavored like cheese, caramel, salt, and sugar. (His family used to have a bakery or factory of doughnuts and candy, people reminisced.)
Beer barrels arrived at 6pm. The CEBRERO catering team arrived at 630pm. Joey Cebrero himself arrived like a jolly Santa Claus saying, Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas, this must be the first time that i attended a class reunion... Ho Ho Ho. of course, he is very welcome. Joey is now running a brisk business, catering to corporate clients -- hundreds of people each day enjoy his tasty meals in their offices or convention centers. The range of customers is about 800 - 2000 a day. Thus, our busy chef is working 18 hours a day, six days a week. And he loves the work. He taught himself how to cook. After three years of hardship during the start-up phase, his hands are now full of "blessings from the Lord" in the form of repeat customers, who just get bigger and better (and fatter.)
Au Abad Santos broke his leg while wakeboarding in CAMSUR.... EEEEENGGGK, wrong answer... Liar. ... he twisted his ankle while falling down the stairs. Perfectly ordinary stairs, nothing glorious about them. So he walked around with crutches. Very considerate as usual, Jojo Buenaventura was shouting at AU to "please help us out to move the tables and chairs around. Au, don't think you are excused from lifting the furniture around. Halika dito." Of course, AU was totally angry and started to spear JOJO Buenaventura with his crutches, .....and he threatened to smash Jojo's camera with his crutches. Of course, tawanan kami lahat.
Ardie Najar arrived, so did Buddy de Joya, Ricky Lopez, and Joey Flaminiano. They are the athletic types, looking very fit. For the rest, we will not name names. Might be LIBEL or DEFAMATION. Maraming "healthy candidates" na 200 pounds -- very athletic as far as Japanese Sumo is concerned.
Next to arrive were Anton Peralta, Cabrera, Joey Bautista, Stevie Liao, Minggoy Padua. Minggoy is controversial. It seems he is accused of something anti-Class of 1978, and it seems he is presumed guilty without fair trial.
At 8pm somebody shouted, hey, it's time for Drugs. So therefore the senior citizens among us, brought out their MERCURY DRUGS. They took their anti-cholesterol tablets, their anti-diabetes or anti-gout pills. whew, times have changed.
Next to arrive were YULO, Inumerable, NORMAN JISON, RAYMUND SY, montenegro, .....I CAN call the classmates by their last names because our teachers used to call us by our last names. example, if your name was Speedy Gonzalez, the teacher would call you Gonzalez. You would speak with your classmate, as follows: "Hey, Gonzalez, wake up, the teacher's calling you to recite now." And if you would call their house, to speak with the classmate, you would say, "may i speak with Gonzalez." Puzzled party: "Which Gonzalez?" You reply: "I mean, the one in Grade Seven"
Also present were Bonny Dimayuga, Dino Laurena, Bobby San Bue, Figueroa, Jayson Lim, Chris Swanson Belardo, HERBOSA, Lyle Baraoidan, BARRY ORENCIANA, Ron Petterson! (first time to attend an lsgh reunion... he usually goes to the don bosco high school reunion)...he was happy to be present.
* Raymund Sy is now strategy head of the Lucio Tan group of companies. Norman Jison is president of a sugar company in Bacolod.
JI REYES arrived....said hello to the call center ladies, Kim and Haydee, who have been following us up for attendance since 2001. Ji was concerned that he got a text message ordering him to report to the LSGH reunion, and it was signed by Haydee, and the text message was accidentally READ by his wife... ("AT SINO.... naman itong Haydee na ito, ha, a ver.")
Arsenic Lacson showed up... he wore his hair long. A dozen others showed up, WITHOUT HAIR.... no names need be mentioned, or heads will roll.
WE enjoyed physically moving the "class picture photo posing session" to a different location, just to disrupt the careful planning of professional photographer JOJO BUENAVENTURA. He arrived with three large white umbrellas with remote-controlled flashbulbs behind each. He kept going around and around to check on the white flash equipment, firing them again and again until we were blind from white lightning. Inspite of all that testing, he kept muttering, "It's not working, they're not firing at the same time... they're not firing when i push the remote control, they're not firing when i click the shutter."
So Henry Atayde was just about shouting, "can you stop that, Buenaventura, because we're going blind from the painful flashes.... and besides, those flash umbrellas are never going to work. Can you please just use the ordinary flash that's attached to the blasted camera!"
Jojo B. ignored all the heckling and kept himself really busy adjusting and testing the flash umbrellas till we really felt like we were being attacked by STROBE LIGHTS from Mars. And he never stopped testing the equipment even while we were eating already -- he must have never ate anything, or drunk anything, he was all the time with his baby, the flash equipment, and when FINALLY, we all sat around for the group photo, the darn thing refused to work. It figures.
So we had photo sessions of the La Salle Greenhills high school alumni from La Salle Greenhills GRADE SCHOOL...... the Greenhills high school alumni from La Salle TAFT GRADE SCHOOL, and the high school alumni from La Salle BACOLOD GRADE SCHOOL. Kasali na rin sa photos yung mga classmate nila Henry from La Salle TAFT (College), Chilette and companion.
The food was good and tasty, with wonderful oyster sauce, and chili sauce, and coconot cream, etc..... but the old boys were watching their weight. For the first time in history, they ate their vegetables. They DID NOT OVEREAT. And by golly, they CONCENTRATED on the seafood and ignored the juicy yummy SISIG.
Times have really changed, and you know it, not because Wall Street is in crisis and the US economy is in recession, but Times have really changed because THE OLD BOYS are diet-conscious and gout-fearing men. They even watch their calorie intake, my gulay. Greg F. pointed to a plate of crispy lechon balat on one table, that was sitting untouched for an hour, and said, NOONG ARAW, UBOS KAAGAD YAN. Others piped in, "Noong Araw, pang-isang Tao lang yang bandehado ng barbecue stick, na yan." Now, that small quantity of meat was looking like it was sufficient to feed five men with shrunken appetites.
Health and Sickness
During the opening PRAYER, to formally open the Rowdy Reunion, Henry Atayde prayed fervently for HEALTH, more than WEALTH, for all the classmates and their families.
Anton Peralta was reminded of a story of how a friend of his had to spend a lot to take care of his sick wife. The wife has sick of a disease that required INTRAVENOUS IMMUNIGLOBIN. Each injection of the IV IG costs P2million ... two million pesos. and the poor lady had to have five such injections.
Henry prayed for Jun Manego, who is sick with various illnesses. (Raymund Sy managed to visit him last week. Henry Atayde was able to visit Jun and to pass on to him the well-wishes and prayers of the classmates.) He had an appendix taken out. Something went wrong, and the one hour operation stretched out to ten hours. Other internal organs started to malfunction. We still could not decide whether it was "malpractice by bungling surgeons," or whether his stomach and kidney and liver all malfunctioned on their own. Donations were collected discreetly for Jun.
We ask the other LSGH alumni to also pray for Jun Manego and to contribute to his hospital expenses, now approaching five million pesos.
Next meeting is in February 2009: GOLF tournament
LSGH ALUMNI HOMECOMING in February 2009.
BACOLOD FIELD TRIP for lsgh 1978 in November 2009.
END.
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