Christmas Get Together at Ray's House-Dec. 19, 2007

4D Christmas 2007 Reunion

4D's 2007 Christmas Reunion

2007 Grand Alumni Homecoming

Remember this Batchmates??

Met up with Dodgie Amoranto, Ferdie Galang and Joric Sanchez with wife Didad on a business trip to Toronto. Hopefully, next year. I get to see Art Rodrigo and Norman Sanchez

Anaheim, CA

Dear Friends,

Gatch and I met over the weekend. He had a stopover here in Anaheim CA and finally, close to 20 years after college we get to meet up again. Gatch,I hope I get a chance to visit you in CT; we won't have to worry about the kids - I'm sure they'll be immersed in their video games. Parge, include me in your prayers, hopefully God will grant me the opportunity I seek somewhere there in the east coast. Best wishes to you and your family,AMDG,edwin.

Old 4D Pic

Pictures that lied dormant in Ray Jarina's hard disk for 5 years, accidentally discovered in the course of a virus scan :-D
Taken during 1st B-day party of Ray's daughter, Kate, five years ago at the Acropolis.
Pepot still had some hair and Yeyet Estrada made his first return appearance here.
As for the kids, they have all grown up since then.

gosh, have not seen benjie ramos since i graduated from high school. we got together on my last night in san francisco. he had quite interesting stories about some classmates who were with him in the mid to late 80's in the bay area like ronnie, vic oreta, bot and joel canlas.

on the way to a pub for a beer. we caught the first game of the red sox-rockies while we were catching up on classmates, and everything else.

fr. tito caluag was in town and connie and i met up with him for dinner.
here he is trying to figure out his new blackberry

fr. tito and buddy's wife, connie at san luigi in new york's upper west side

The Honda Robot

Amazing how technology advances.
Asimo, the Honda Robot as he appeared in
the 1st Phil. International Motor Show (Aug. 2007).
Movements are now more fluent and human-like.
Interesting, isn't it?

HS 1981 IN BRITISH COLUMBIA

Normann Cabrera, Ed De Leon, Veegee Natividad, Abe Ellorin, Ray Lino, Andoy Alafriz

We held a picnic in Hume Park for Ed and his family

Vancouver Welcomes Ed De Leon and family

Ed, Dayette, Aldo, Meg and Rafael drove all the way up north from LA to Vancouver in 2 days stopping over in Eugene, Oregon.

The Thad goes Badminton

We welcome The Thad to the Wednesday Badminton Night Sessions.
His style of play (Drunken Master style) is very hard to predict and
anticipate....

Ito Feliciano

For the past two years, I have been attending the Licensing Show at the Jacob Javits center in NYC.

This year, after I got my badge, I was waiting for the show to open when I got distracted by the Disney booth outside the exhibition hall(it said Hanna Montana:-) Anyway, I was staring at it for a bit, when someone says...Hoooooy!

Of all places, I bump into our classmate Ito. Evidently, he attends this every year acquiring different licenses for his work.

We caught up on stuff (our classmates, whats keeping us busy or not, and tennis)

We met for breakfast at a diner on 55th between Lexington and 3rd avenue near where I work. Ito was on his way to buy a pair of runnings sneakers before catching his flight back to Manila.

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leave your fellow 4d classmates a message

Ray's Metro Pics & Balikbayan Distortion

Your pics of the Metro reminded me of the
remarks of my Balikbayan sisters who went
home for my Grandma's funeral last March
after having stayed put in the U.S. for over a
decade.
They said that its impossible for them to drive
a car in Metro Manila as the streets and
thoroughfares appears to have SHRUNK from
the last time they were here.
I find that to be an interesting observation
as even their memories of Manila streets seem to
have been distorted with their prolonged exposure to
wide American freeways and 6-lane suburban roads.

So did you experience the same distortion when you
went back here?

Where it all began

Looking at those AHS pics should make us feel neglected during our time.
That's because I don't even remember the HS having a fresh coat of paint
during our 4-year stay there. :-D

The changes in the quadrangle are courtesy of Class 80.

It's been said that the bad vibes imprinted in that classroom in 1977-1978
(when it was known as 1-D) still reverberates up to this day. Legend
has it that, through the years, students in that classroom inexplicably
have the urge to (1) howl and jump up & down like caged wild monkeys,
(2) blow up toilet bowls with 5-star firecracker and (3) curse the janitor
with "P@#$%a mo, Apollo!!" :-D That's probably why they made it into
a 4A Classroom, the Dorkiest of all Dork Classrooms, to exorcise the beastly
and bestial vibrations left there by 1-D in 1978.

From the Old to the New - Where it All Began

Hey Tony,

Allow me to post some pictures of the new Metro Manila which I took when I was in Manila last month. Times have indeed changed. I have included too some pictures of the HS. Our 1D class room is now 4A.