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The text below is in Surigaonon. This vid is most requested and much awaited by my elementary batchmates so I specially uploaded this for them.



Ay-ay si Clarence, grabe man magpakiay-kiay. Lupos ako kay di mak gani mahibayo mag swing. Pila kaha ini kabuyan na pomraktes? Kalaong nak amo nay modaug sa Best in Talent, na ija gajud mabutang an Brgy. Embarcadero sa mapa kay tiaw mo di Venus nan outfit? Pero nalupos paman gihapon sa pakurog-kurog ni Febe pagkanta. Pero si Rodel gajud an winner bagan dinhi na parte. Intawon an toyab na walang kamalay-malay, na igo da unta mag assist sa make-up artist ni Clarence, imbira pa gajud para makig duet sa ija? Ingka bayran ba kaha ini nan talent fee?

Na hala, pipol, enjoy! Hinaut unta di ini makit-an sa ila mga bata kay basin magduda unoy tinuod na gender nan ila papa.

M.G.

CCES Class of '87 staged a "Ms. Gay" contest when we had our grand homecoming reunion in Surigao last July. It was for the sole purpose of having fun. The contestants were real men. By that I mean with wives and children-- well-- most of them. Here's a part of it captured forever for their children and future grandchildren to laugh or shudder about. :)

Grand Homecoming Reunion

Attention: CCES Batch '87 Graduates. You know who you are. :)

The committee, chaired by Floriza Estrada- Cuadrillero, is still finalizing the activities though I think the dates are definite. It will be on July 17-18, 2007.

Some activities planned are:

1. Tree Planting-- still to be approved by and coordinated with DENR.

2. Gawad Kalinga Housing Project-- if funds wont be raised to cover the expenses of one house for one family, our batch will shoulder just the labor.

3. Ukay-Ukay galore/ Feeding -- please bring home clothes that you or your kids wont use anymore. Some people will be happy to have them. Other suggestion is to have a bazaar two days before the fiesta. Clothes will be sold at a reasonable if not really cheap price. The proceeds will be used for the feeding of children (place still to be discussed and coordinated with DSWD.)

For comments, suggestions, confirmation of attendance and even violent reactions, please call/ text Sharon Roy- Arreza at 0910-6039174. I shall be posting updates about the reunion here.

Cheers!

Faces and places

My childhood friend Che now lives in Kidapawan. Two other childhood friends in these photos, Emyat and Jen, live, well I don't really know which one is what they consider home now-- in Cebu or Surigao or ferrying between both. These were taken a week ago, one in Davao, at a hot and cold spring right at the foot of Mt. Apo and the other at Che's place in Kidapawan. I heard Che sent the other two girls some dough for the round trip airfare just so they couldn't refuse to visit her there for a week or two. It's not fair, she should have summoned me that way, too.

Ah, natural mudpack and sauna in Davao, durian eating frenzy in Kidapawan while I despair almost every morning in Prague over this darn cold weather. I take my revenge to a positive level by selling these girls online to the highest bidder. Che, (who's almost entirely covered with mud) is already hitched and therefore unavailable but if the offer is right she "might reconsider." Her words not mine. The other two are free as a bird. They might (pretend to be) be unwilling participants of this bidding but what the heck, I don't think they read my blog anyway he-he.

Now I wanna digress for a while... This morning one of my co-teachers was checking his horoscope on a local newspaper with the help of another co-teacher who speaks Czech. I've always been a skeptic when it comes to horoscopes but just for fun I asked them what's in-store for Sagittarius today.

"Sagittarius: you are now having a very healthy social life, you will socialize a lot this weekend, your health is better than before and you have finally arrived at where you wanted to be..."

Hmm...let's focus on the socilizing part, shall we? I have to say that whoever concocted that entry must have guessed it right that my social life is indeed better than last year. Just one lucky guess for just one of many millions of Sagis though, the skeptic of me says. Anyway, this afternoon we had another party at Lillian's. Just this week I met two other Filipinas who are relatively new in Prague. I met Daisy last Tuesday also at Lillian's. She happens to live very near our flat and she speaks Bisaya! Hay nakakita na jud kog laing Bisayang dako diri. Then this afternoon I met Grace who is from Manila but who also speaks Bisaya fluently! Like me and Lillian, she works as an English teacher here. Aside from teaching maybe Grace should also consider working as a comedienne. She's so hilarious my stomach ached from laughing too much. Her tales of her promdi experiences in Zurich are a cure for any problem because you just can't help but laugh aloud when you listen to them.

Tales, tales of woe, laughter, are trademarks of Filipino parties. And of course, food! If the Czechs are into drinking when they party, we are into eating. Eva brought her mouth-watering leche flan, Daisy took out a pack of dried squid, and Lillian cooked her famous pancit and springrolls and baked a yummy banana cake. It was such a great, and I mean great, party.

But darn, I forgot to take photos!