Belle Catajoy Eleazar is in town, and reserved last night for a night to touch base with the batch. Inday and Tony Dans were our gracious hosts and the mini-reunion was held at their home in New Manila.
Tony is into fishes (and turtles) and eels. The eel was solo in the aquarium in the formal dining room, and there was one tank in the sala, and i thought the colors were lovely. I have to get the pictures from maybe Dale who was snapping away like mad (she already has the pics posted in her facebook so you can go look now).
Alice and Manny picked me up at work and helped me with my potluck share of fresh lumpia (Ubod, actually and i would never have thought that 25 pcs would be that heavy) and the Lims brought salmon (brought frozen from Canada) and cooked by Manny (delicious), and drinks (Manny said beer). Alice said we might be the first to arrive, but i said i didnt think so. When we got to Inday's, Amihan was the first! We were shortly followed by Dale, and Vee Dulay - who i havent seen since freshman college days in UP They brought cake (from cakes2go). Peggy followed bringing a small bilao of pancit malabon. Janet was next, and she brought chicken. Mianne brought ice cream and gelato. Benita brought fish - grilled boneless bangus - abd Someone brought karekare, with bagoong.
Inday asked me if i cooked the ubod, and i said no because there was no time to cook (i had work)
then i lost track of the arrival sequence. the guys mostly brought wine - and they mostly drank it as well.. the women mostly drank water and soda and coffee.
so, a short recount of the people
of course Inday and Tony, sibs Belle and Jiben, Alice and Manny, me, Amihan, Dale and Vee, Mianne, Peggy, Benita, Janet and Chito, Lito, Albert, Dode, Doy, and i hope i did not miss anyone ....
they all thought about Kay and Maristel who celebrated their birthday yesterday.
So here's the latest from Belle. She's in IT, yes in Canada (i think it was Toronto), with Honda, handling legacy systems - an IBM mainframe so she was in DB2, etc. etc. She has 5 kids, the eldest is 25, and the youngest is 12. All single.
Inday's son just got married last weekend, and we saw the pics. The pics were lovely, documenting lovely people! Janet's youngest is now 18, just like Boboy's youngest, Juancho is now a 3rd year student in Sayans and nope, Boboy did not make it to this reunion, but he joined us at the wake of Drabacs.
So they brought up the debate again on when we had Russian literature at Sayans. I maintain we had it during our 4th year - I was Pi-Meson, and we had Brothers Karamazov, written by Fyodor Doestoevsky. They maintain it was during 2nd year, but second year i was in Champaca, and i dont remember
I never had a classmate for the entire four years. I was Neptune (Mrs. Evaline Gerochi), Champaca (ah.... who was our advisor?), Argon, then Pi-Meson.
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standing (l-r) Jiben, Albert, Dode, Mianne, Pegs, Dale, Doy, Amihan, Benits, Manny, Alice, Janet, Chito, me
sitting (l-r) Lito, Tony, Inday, Belle, Vee
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