Batch 75 - First meeting of the year

First Friday of the Year 2015, and we were at Lito Sibayan's home at La Vista

I was with Dale, Amihan, and Joey - Dale having graciously agreed to bring us over to Lito and drive us back home.  I was half afraid i couldnt manage Lito's driveway - you see, his home has a very steep incline, and thus coming in, a sharp descent - with my lumbar concerns that affect the nerves to my right leg.  I was brought down by car and brought up by Nang's (Dale's mom who passed away June 2014) wheelchair.

We found Jondy (?) Flavier - batch 78, and .... oh i forgot his name, Batch 71-A when we arrived. Alice and Manny were already there, having arrived a tad earlier than us.

Who were there ... well, there was:

     Xen and Beth, and their engineer daughter who sought advice from Lito

     Albert and Nimfa, both in black, and Nimfa looking fab, and Albert looking unchanged

     Gorbo (Kintanar), Jason (Mayordomo), and Angel (Lebanan) - were the rarities

     Jiben, Paeng, and of course, Alice and Manny - and the us  - with Dale

     making 16 batchmates all-in-all

  

missing were Rosel and his wife Tes

Dode, and Doy, Leo Peter, i missed Baba, too - i thought she might be able to make it but i guess not

Beth brought over a surprise for us, which featured Rosel doing all the dances we could think of - and doing extremely well at it.  i wish you could have him go.  Twas amazing and brought us all lots of cheery laughter.

The food?

There was siopao, siomai, seafood karekare (Gorbo brought this), chicken macaroni salad, Pixie's grilled boneless bangus (a hit after all the holiday meats), Amihan's pancit, and there was another pancit, veggie fried lumpia (bean sprouts or toge, as they say), fresh fruits, chicken skin (Jondy), pork rinds, and chestnuts!

Manny and Alice brought lechon, by a new vendor. Very nice, but then lechon always is.....

I enjoyed the talk with Jason - he talked about his life at the UN (i teased him about working for the CIA, you see....) and his stay in Canada, Europe, and Africa and his future plans.  A gentleman farmer, that is what he aims to be....

pics to follow ... am waiting for my copies