May Day

Happy birthday to the May celebrants!! These are Joey Angeles, Jackie Arellano, George Cunanan, Mike Sun, Quito Moras, Ray Suplido and Polding Arnaiz. If you must know, Batch63 came in record turnout to celebrate your birthdays! Only five of the above celebrants were present at the Grand Kapihan. Joey Angeles came despite being a member of the ‘organic’ club. (This club is about internal organs and problems with them. Known members include Dendi, Ed O, others). Due to family obligations, George and Quito don’t regularly come to the Kapihan nowadays but for this Grand Kapihan, they unhesitatingly did their part!

And Jackie – how can he forget the Kapihan when he is the Master Texter who reminds everyone about the Kapihan? (He probably includes his name in his text barrage so he won't forget. It’s a good thing he understood his own mysterious Spanish.) Brother Ray and Polding are unfortunately abroad and could not be physically present. Both guys however still managed to participate by sending in their contribution to the blow-out. Thank you for you buffet breakfast blowout, May celebrants! 

The Batch63 guys at Polo today were: Joey Ingles; Gary Salcedo; Joey Estagle; Bambi Goco; Ernie Cuyegkeng; Mari Duarte; Lito Quiogue; Chito de Vera; Tony Estonina; Ed Oleta; Joe Assad; Ed Lim; Oni Mayo; Raffy Villareal; Manolo Relova; Boy Palanca; Gabby Valdez; Boy Carlos; Bert Saenz; Doug Marcaida; Francis Horn and of course, Vince Misa.

Several balikbayans are in town – Mike Sun and Manolo Relova. I don’t know whether to consider Gary Salcedo as one since he’s always here. Anyway, this is a rare visit from Mike Sun. He boasted once that he knows the Batch63 Manila guys by face more than they know him. He said it’s because he sees their photos often in the Menagerie. When put to the test, he confidently identified Raffy Villareal as “Raffy Munoz” and Bert Saenz as “Robert Sanz”. Que pas?

 It was a noisy affair as the guys presented their different advocacies to the group during the party. Visiting in from Sorsogon, Chito de Vera made a move for persuading La Salle school to recognize Batch63 as “La Sallite” rather than the new term – “La Sallian”. He said that he was known as a La Sallite then and he will die a La Sallite now. Meanwhile, Joey Estagle wanted a monumental photoplay so he can utilize his SRL to the max. He moved for everyone to go to the Manila Polo poolside for a group picture - and he was so right. The urged pose was unique and so different from our usual. Check out the pics.

Meanwhile Oni, Gabby and Bambi continue to push for the GJ projects they are promoting. The GJ projects in the forefront today are: the Taal – Tagaytay tour; the Finance committee fund raising campaign; and the Golden Friendship Video. The Taal-Tagaytay tour is scheduled for Saturday where the guys at the Kapihan joining the tour dug into their wallets and paid up. Part of the cost of the tour will be defrayed from early collections of the Finance Committee. The photos coming out of the tour activities will definitely be material being compiled for the Video project. These projects are the initial initiative of the GJ committee and which we hope to build up on all the way to March 2013 – the homecoming month.

We are thus taking this opportunity to enjoin everyone to support the GJ projects since it really makes for good bonding opportunity for Batch 63. Animo!


See slide show for more photos.