40th Anniversary

It has crept and it has crawled, it has slowly, inexorably, unremittingly made its way and now, it is upon us. The Fortieth Anniversary or, as Kuya Germs and his wards and followers call it: "40th year anniversary". Well, I'm not entertained at all. Forty years is a long time when one stops a bit and thinks about it but, living each day one day at a time, one fails to really notice the milestones as they fade into yesterday. Tomorrow never stops coming and this is just fine with me. I am sure everyone agrees and says, "I'll drink to that!".

I just received a text message from Romy Gabriel saying he just got the text message I sent him ages ago. Well, two weeks ago to be closer to the exact date. Try to Google: XUHS 1966. We are now listed in the search engines courtesy of yours truly.

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The meeting that never was

Front: Sarah Gabriel, Luchi Baltazar
Back: Romy Gabriel, Ching de la Serna, Roy Baltazar. Meetings are always fun when they happen, but as current President Romy Gabriel can attest, it requires a great deal of consultation to agree on a suitable schedule when many can attend. The magic of cell phones and text messaging makes a difficult task somewhat simpler to facilitate as I observed Romy put after his main message a tailender: "pass it on"

Roy had graciously agreed to host a meeting that saturday but one by one people who thought they had time to attend begged off due to one reason or another, not the least of which might be the worsening traffic conditions in CDO. So there we were with old time music playing on Roy's stereo, red wine and sinugbang panga. lechon manok. kinilaw atbp., discussing every topic under the sun including my favorite which is Social Inequality.

Let's keep in touch

What have you been doing? Let the others know you're still alive and kicking. Give me a holler at: yiching_kc@lycos.com and I will surely post your thoughts along with any pictures you send me. What have I been doing? Well, as they say I'm "confined to quarters" which might sound to be a lousy situation to be in but I manage and well, I have got a DSL Internet connection so I can stay online as long as I want. it is superfast and I don't bother with dialing up. Travelling is always nice and I would have wanted to come to CDO at least every two months but circumsstances have conspired to confine my meanderings to the World Wide Web which is not such a bad thing at all. I have started a thread on flowers where I intend to show pictures of different blooms I encounter especially the wild flowers which no one really cares about.

I have also started a kind of Music Diary which consists of song lyrics that I like. I cannot post the actual songs but maybe the lyrics will have to do for now and try to keep nostalgia alive. To tell the truth, I have run out of pictures and I would sure appreciate a litle help here. Send me pictures! :)

More with Enteng Rodriguez

Romy Gabriel, Ching de la Serna, Roy Baltazar and a beaming Enteng Rodriguez. Although unable to move about Enteng showed a positive attitude and gamely joked about friends and classmates, turning serious only to speak of the evils of drinking and the need for everyone to seek Divine Guidance.

Re-invention

I have not been back to CDO in quite a while. The last time I was there was in October of last year. I had great hopes for some ideas I was trying out. But things did not really work out as well as I had planned you know, Parkinson's Law: if something bad can happen, then it will or maybe I should think in terms of: Man proposes and God disposes. Either way, I was stuck with only myself and lots of plans and no way to implement them. I had bought some equipment on installment never dreaming that after a couple of installments I would be hard pressed to continue payments. Reluctantly I bid goodbye to the computer and peripherals and the 15,000 bucks I shelled out to earn the dubious distinction of having owned it for a while.

As they say Necessity is the Mother of Invention. It appears to me that God doesn't have a place for me in the afterlife yet so I was forced to reinvent myself once more. How many times have I had to do that? I have lost count and nobody really cares anyway. So, I'm not dead yet and so are you. Talk to me, let me know your mind. Let others know what you think. Email me and send pictures at: yiching_kc@lycos.com

At the residence of Enteng Rodriguez

At the sick bed of Enteng Rodriguez

More...

More people arrive for the meeting. Dr. Pat Ilogon, Dr. Louie Sabal, Dr. Archie Palacio, Jimmy Marfori, Adelo Bajao, Romy Gabriel, Ching de la Serna.Venue at Dear Manok along Tiano Bros.

It is gratifying to see friends gathering for some beer and lots of reminiscing.. Work and state of health are a common topic. Well, libak is always part of the fare.

Leave a comment, send me pictures, articles, anything, money even ha ha. Email me at yiching_kc@lycos.com.

Waiting. . . .

Dr, Louie Sabal, Adelo Bajao and Romy Gabriel enjoying a beer and some laughs at Dear Manok along Tiano Bros. St. while waiting for the other classmates to come.

It has been several months since I was in Cagayan de Oro City and I guess you could say I am out of touch with all the classmates of old (I'm not saying "the old classmates" hehehe), who might not find me agreeable at all most of the time but who I think of time and again. I do miss the times spent just hanging out and nursing a beer or two and reminiscing about the times that have gone by.

We were quite active then with our Medical and Dental Missions, the mass feeding of little children with smiling faces and tree-planting activities that we had soon after our Silver Jubilee. I wonder if the trees survived? We never came back to check on their growth. I still keep the hope alive that we can be doing somemore things that will not benefit ourselves directly but which will mean something to other people.

Dr. Soon Ming Ka

It has finally happened. The great Dr. Soon Ming Ka will be making his appearance in these pages. For those in the know and who have anxiously awaited his arrival, the Esteemed Doctor has given his go-ahead to announce that he is COMING SOON!!!!!