Friday 26 March 2010
Thursday 25 March 2010
GUESSING GAME 13. Further comments
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Hi!
Sad to say, our old reliable BAL's, Pantrangs, and Times have seen better times; new players with good units and services are presently lording over the north route like Partas, Genesis, Victory, Farinas, Florida.
Times trans has disbanded due to labor problems and came out with a new company - Dominion Trans ( same dog but with a new collar). Marcitas Liner has trimmed its units(buses) into mini ones but is now in its twilight years as aircon vans are keeping a tight competition in almost all routes - LU to Baguio vv, Dag-Baguio vv etc.
& the Ilocos.
For the once mighty and dominant Phil. Rabbit, its now about to turn turtle as the only remaining route it services are Baguio- Mla. and Mla-Tar/PampZamb
Remember the JD/MD trans,Halili& the Baby buses in Mla during our college days? Like life, they also had their own cycle..... -
Hi Anony...
Because of my long absence from 'Pinas, what do I take to get to Baguio as soon as I get out of the Benigno Aquino Terminal? I guess that is the major commercial airport terminal in Manila (MIA when I left 'Pinas). I hate to ask somebody to fetch me at the airport when I attend our grand reunion next year.
Can we get the 'Welcome Committee' to prepare 'guide suggestions' for transport and places to stay in Manila and Baguio.
Thank you. - Anonymous said...
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Hi Rudy,
You can always take a DOT authorized taxi and bring you to the Victory LIner in Pasay City i.e. if joeA won't be around to fetch you.
For hotels in mla, you can try Marriot hotel situated in Newport City - a newly developed city just across Ninoy Aquino Int'l Apt Terminal 3. -
I will remember - DOT taxi to Victory Liner; and if I arrive in the evening, a DOT taxi to Marriot hotel in Newport City. Thanks Anony
91st MPHS-BCHS-BCNHS Reunion
All set for 91st MPHS-BCHS-BCNHS grand alumni homecoming
BAGUIO CITY (25 Mar) – It’s all set for the 91st grand alumni homecoming next month.
Baguio City High School 1985 (CiTiHi 85), host of this year’s grand celebration, has made April 29 to May 1 as the dates of the biggest school homecoming in this part of the country.
More than 500 attendees are expected to troop to the biggest high school north of Manila, the Baguio City National High School, now home to more than 6,000 students.
April 29 is a special addition made by the host batch wherein graduates are to have a torch/lantern parade the night before the actual homecoming.
The parade is expected to start at the Baguio Convention Center, wound its way to Session Road, Harrison Road and at the BCNHS grounds where the host batch have converted the ground into one big dap-ay and where the ecumenical activities will be held before the offering prayers to the local gods with a native chicken.
There the host batch will have a pinikpikan, bonfire and concerts that are open to all BCNHS graduates in the event which has Celebrate the past, invest in the future as theme.
On April 30, the activity will include a batch amazing races as classes will try to outwit each other in a city wide competition. That will be followed with the opening program and dinner at the BCNHS auditorium.
On May 1, the grand alumni period will start at the Post Office Loop as graduates, as early as 1932, will take the route from Session Road, Harrison and at the BCNHS grounds where the president’s and treasurer’s report will take place. This will be followed with the lunch at the BCNHS auditorium. That night, activities will shift to the Baguio Country Club Multi-purpose Hall where the Wave: A Fusion of Two Generations, a School Dance will take place.
Class of 1932 include two of the most respected women in the city, museum curator Leonora Paraan-San Agustin and former acting city mayor Virginia de Guia. Noted graduates include veteran newspaper editor Cecil Afable (1936), the late former mayor Francisco Paraan (1935), the late mayor Ernesto Bueno and former senator Juan Flavier (1952), among others.
CiTiHi 85 will not only honor the class of 1960 as the golden jubilarian but also former teachers. The night will be capped with the awarding of the outstanding alumni.
Registration fee is only P700.00 but attendees must also pay the annual alumni fee of P100 which will go to the MPHS-BCHS-BCNHS Alumni Association which recently finished the second gate of the school, while also taking charge of a scholarship program that benefits several deserving but indigent students.
CiTiHi 85 has been active in various activities the past months. Recently, it held the inter-school chess and Scrabble tournament at the BCNHS library. It will be the co-host, with class of 1960, of the Silver & Gold golf tournament on April 25 at the BCC golf course. -From Pigeon Lobien's Facebook page
Tuesday 23 March 2010
Class 61
Greetings, Classmates! Hope that you are well in body and spirit: and if not, here is hoping that you will be better and better soon.
Please be reminded that the Class Reunion, our Golden, will take place on Friday 29 April up to about Sunday 2 May 2011 in Baguio.
Sapay koma nga there will be a critical mass attendance of all our classmates.
Kindly try to read/share/participate in our class blog, at
www. http://bchs61tambayan.blogspot.com
and specially the entry of 23rd November 2009, when the first planning meeting was held.
Here are some of the stuff we as a class will need to focus on:
First , please check if your contact address is correct in the BCHS class list, or please send your contact details to Rudy Lambino. (Name. married name, mailing address, landline, cell phone, fax, email, yours or your grandchild's- if any: whatever it takes to get in touch with you). Please request Rudy for a copy of the full class list, if you do not have one yet: he can send it to you by email or by airmail rtl1209@aol.com
443 Tonetta Lake Road, Brewster, NY 10609 USA .
Second, if you know anyone else in our class who is not on our list, pangaasi yo ta no mabalin nga mainayon quen maikabil iti contact address da met.
Third, Class 60 will have its Golden Jubilee in April/May this year. It will also be a good opportunity to have the second planning meeting. Please make plans to attend the BCHS reunion this year, or at least to attend the Class 61planning meeting, tentatively scheduled in the early afternoon of Saturday, May 1st 2010 at the City High auditorium. Please confirm with Joe Andaya joeandaya1006@yahoo.com with copy to myrna andaya myrandaya@yahoo.com
Salamat.
Wednesday 17 March 2010
GUESSING GAME 13 Comment
For Pesos 480, you get a one way ticket on the Manila-Baguio liner in a clean, comfortable and below freezing aircon bus. Do you recall the old BAL Station, opposite Quezon Elementary School? For a couple of years in operation, it is a sleek, wide-area bus station, and you can buy your ticket in advance. Buses normally leave on the hour, but best to check first if indeed there is a bus which meets your departure needs.
This is the bus company's website: www.victoryliner.com
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I did hang around with the shoe shine boys at 'La Patria' and 'Igloo' Cocktail lounges along Harrison Road during pre and early grade school days. The GI's feeling homesick usually invite and treat me in for an 'egg sandwich.' Hanging around with these GI's, I came to learn how to say (S*@!#$>?) expletives that I carried on in my adult life.
Along Mabini Street from the corner of Session Road to Harrison Road are stand-up bars (one of them owned by Lapid .......now I recall hanging around with the Lapid kids) and refreshment parlors which cater to travelers and after five Baguio folks who take their rum & coke, and whisky shots seriously to quench their alcoholic taste.
This street block was used as a bus depot for out-of-town buses, primarily for Dangwa and BAL. The bus depot for Pantranco and Victory Liner were located near Baden Powell Hall (was that the Gov Pack Road extension?)
Saturday 13 March 2010
GUESSING GAME 13: CORRECT ANSWER!
Anonymous said... -
"Hi! From the looks of it and its background bldgs and gradient of the road, it is Session rd cor lower mabini going down carantes/harrison. The photographer's position is probably at the sidewalk fronting the old star cafe site."
- Click on the photo to give more clarity and details. (The last photo, 2010, isn't precisely at that corner, but close to it.)
- Do you recall a shop opposite the old Star Cafe, I think it was a Chinese one because they had quite a range of dikyam, champuy, butong pakwan and other goodies and sweets.
- Thanks Anon. for playing the game correctly. A few blog response entries earlier, Rudy L. mentioned that he used to traverse Carantes St. and watch the American servicemen being given shoeshines by the shoeshine boys along that street. And I recall that in the Shop class projects, some of the boys in elementary and high school used to build these shoeshine boxes out of scrap lumber. My father kept a supply of these from older construction in our garage, and the parents of some of my classmates would come, request and collect them on their behalf, because my classmates were mabain da ("Ashaym ak kadi!") to ask me directly!
Friday 12 March 2010
GUESSING GAME 13: WHERE IS THIS STREET CORNER?
This photo has to be one of the best vintage ones of a Baguio scene that I have seen. The clothes worn then were on the formal side, the women in frocks, heeled shoes, handbags; the men in hats, well-pressed suits and uniforms. (Do click on the photo for an enlargement and more clarity for our tired and aging eyes).But let us guess just exactly where is this corner located:
A - Opposite the former Star Cafe on the road leading to Harrison Road nga agpababa
B - Near Patria
C - Felipe Calderon Street intersection
D - On that road leading to the Baguio Chinese Patriotic School
E - Opposite the old Baguio Colleges
F - Your Own Guess
Ayan na garud daytoy nga lugar, a?
Thursday 11 March 2010
Tuesday 9 March 2010
Ag-kakabsats
Siblings During our Time at City High
The first day of first year high school. Anxiety creeps in along with its cousins, Apprehension, Excited and Worried. About being in the right classes, being under teachers with reputations being STRICT, losing or gaining honors, new classmates, new subjects, yoyo grades. Stressed. Clothes okay? Not too showy, not too drab, not too baduy? Warm enough? Dry enough? School supplies the right ones? Baon enough? Anxiety levels start going up. Having classmates from our elementary grades helped: they were familiar faces in the circle of new and unknown faces.
For a number of us, these first year Angst feelings were common. But we had, for better or for worse, a curse or a blessing, siblings who were within the years we were at high school, to help absorb the shock, to help define who we are as individuals and as members of families. We perceive that some teachers look at us as younger/older siblings and assume that we have identical interests, goals, appearances, sensitivities. Hence labels are placed almost as clear as they were Post-its on our foreheads. In those developmental years, we were careful about these behavioral labels: as an over-achiever, an under-achiever or as a troublemaker. Competition becomes more complex, since it would be present both at home and at school.
Do you have any tales to tell, about your manongs, manangs, or addings while you were in high school?
This reminds me of a Diana B-C joke: If there is such a thing as an Adding Machine, is there such a thing as a Manang Machine, or Manong Machine? NCR and Burroughs, take note (where are they now?) Although we each have created our own niches, it is undeniable that we were affected with the actions of our older or younger siblings.
City High has a reputation of calling in members of families: although in some, the chemistry is different with some members who opt to go to sectarian or private schools. During my early first year, I tended to hang out and stay close to my sister Delia (Class 58), for support and to make the adjustment phase somewhat easier. Thus I came to know her friends and classmates closer than if I had not hung out with them and figure out the language of big sister high school talk: Perlita B, Bridget H, Aurora T, Susana B and the rest.
Please see below, a recollection of Siblings of Class 61 members, e.g., our M, M, and A’s who were either above or below us in high school.
Corrections will be much appreciated.
Joe A – Ruperto. ‘58
Emil A – Carmenchita ‘58
Art B – Elda ’59, Beta ‘62
Alberto C – Emmanuel ‘61
Eunice B-D – Cecilia ‘59
Ludy B-A – Ben ‘64
Diana B-C – Leo ’64, Leila '63, Perlita ‘58
Joselito C – Alice ‘63
Erlinda D – (brother) ‘60
Victoria D-E - Tedler '64
Evelyn D-B – Delia ‘58
Dom F – Vicky’58, Clarence '59, Eddie ‘64
Rudy L - Aurora ‘62
Philip L – Marilou ’60, Alma ‘59
Nap M – Anita ‘61(cousin)
Louella M – Buddy ‘63
Marlo P – Zeno ‘63
Purita deV – Terry – ‘60
Maryann Z-F - Marilyn '64
Saturday 6 March 2010
Class 61 Logo: For Your Selection
Class 61 members are kindly requested to vote for two of the above draft logos, prepared for your selection. You may also suggest other drafts. As the need for the logo is quite urgent, please select at your earliest convenience. Do contact rajadamnern1@yahoo.com for any questions.
Thanks!
Monday 1 March 2010
Baguio Photos : 2006
There are 53 photos of present-day Baguio in this set. The website includes places of interest in the Philippines, taken by a couple who were traveling extensively: looks like a farang (foreigner) and his Filipina companion.Included are 53 photos, presented in two photos per row. When I first viewed the set, I scrolled very very slowly, and searched my memory bank how these places looked like during our high school days. All I can say is "cool na cool", "awsome", and "ka-daming peeps at che-kots", to borrow from the language of the young today.
Enjoy!
http://www.batch2006.com/visit_baguio.htm.
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