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.

Get your own at Gizmoz.com

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.

1973

I just uncovered these pics buried deep inside my hard disk
and I just thought that I should share this as I felt so
refreshed just by looking at it.

Is it me or is life getting to be more complicated as we
age? As our parents/grandparents die off, our kids grow
up and our careers get more challenging, we can't help but
long for the simpler times.

1973. We were 9-10 yrs. old. Grade 3.
I don't remember worrying about anything then.
My baon was P 1.00. I could buy 1 bottle of Choco-Vim
and one burger at the Ateneo GS Cafeteria with that.
May sukli pa enough to buy a bag of Clover chips
or a sticker or a trumpo or some pieces of "teks".

2:30 pm ang dismissal. Sakay sa school bus derecho uwi.
Pagdating sa bahay, kain ng merienda sabay nood ng TV.
"Herculoids" ang palabas...in black and white. On weekends,
pasyal sa Cubao...sa C.O.D. ..afterwhich comes a great treat
at Magnolia Dairy Bar in Aurora Blvd for "Banana Split",
"Peach Melba" or "Ernie and Bert".

Those were nice times, huh?

Magnolia Dairy Bar 1973


Cubao 1973


EDSA 1973

Ortigas Avenue 1973

Makati Automat 1973

Hooters

Hooters Girls should dump their stockings
so that customers can enjoy looking not
only at their hooters but at their other
assets as well.

Hey, Bud. There's this place in Texas
called "Bone Daddy's", much like Hooters
but the girls don't wear stockings, have
much skimpier uniforms and they
actually sit down beside you for a chat.
That place was packed with redneck
takuzas at 4:30 in the afternoon!!
Nice to know that the Takuza is a
universal brotherhood. :-D

Hooters video clip?

Nice pics and clips, Tony, Buddy and Boyet. Glad to see you're all well. However, I'm sure many of us would've enjoyed a Hooters vid clip better than a Cafe Lalo one. Cheers!

Rey G.

Video: 4d in times square

we just passed for tony at his hotel and walked amidst the lights of broadway..

Video: 4d in cafe lalo

tony, boyet and buddy having a late night snack at the famous cafe lalo.

tony was in new york city and boyet and buddy got together with him for some clean and decent fun. ha!

that's times square and broadway in the background in case you are wondering...

boyet drove all the way from east brunswick to see
our favorite classmate

bring on the famous hooter wings..

our hooter girl wanted a picture with us. so, being the
perfect gentlemen, we obliged..

boyet to tony, " don't worry man. this subway riding is easy. that's why i drive to work."