Thanks to Lenlen's thesis mate Maripaz Ortiz and Kiril Caral for providing this photo.

Ms. [yangiwei]
AB Communication 1986

Dear [yiw],

Twenty five years ago, we graduated from college, calling ourselves the EDSA Batch. This year, we celebrate our freedom as the Silver Jubilarians for the 2011 Ateneo de Manila University Alumni Homecoming, by establishing the Ateneo College 86 Freedom Fund to raise Php 3.1 million. Your batchmates invite your kind support, as a prominent, respected, and successful alumnus of our batch, to contribute to this fund that will help four beneficiaries:

1. The Ateneo Scholarship Foundation (ASF). The ASF supports the next generation of Ateneans who are less privileged and require assistance to enroll in the Ateneo and achieve their potential as future leaders and men and women for others.

2. The Mision de la Compania de Jesus for the Elderly and Infirm Jesuits. This is our way showing our gratitude and appreciation to the  selfless and tireless Jesuits who dedicated their lives to our education and development as Ateneans.

3. The Maria Lena Buhay Memorial Foundation, Inc. (MLBMF). Dedicated to the memory of our friend and batchmate, Lenlen Buhay, the MLBMF established the first oral school for hearing-impaired preschool children.

4. The Kythe Foundation. Kythe implements the Child Life Program which promotes optimum growth and development for sick children especially those with cancer and other chronic illnesses.

Attached are brief descriptions of the beneficiaries and donation mechanics. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Kiril Caral (ABEco) at +63917 820 3384, Minette Navarrete (BSME) at +63917 813 3376, or Tony Abad (ABEco-H) at +63917 521 0820.

Thank you very much for your invaluable support. Your generous contribution will go a long way towards sustaining the tradition of excellence and leadership of the Ateneo.

Yours sincerely,

Attached:  The Beneficiaries, Donation Guide, and Donation Form‘

I can email the forms to the interested parties.

From the time that our maid Kim heard a boom, the police were on the scene in about four minutes, she said.

About four months since an M. Paterno car accident, another accident happened around the same part of M. Paterno.

After the police arrived, Kim estimated that Rescue arrived about five to six minutes later.--8:30:40 pm.

Kim said that she heard that the motorcycles tried to avoid a jeep.

Rescue came from the N. Domingo direction.--8:33:10 pm.

I had heard sort of a bang.  I thought that a rickety truck had hit a pothole.

Kim said that the guy in fatigue shorts lifted the motorcycle off the rider.--8:33 pm.

Then our maid Caymen told my dad that there was an accident.

Kim said that Rescue slashed the semi-conscious man's pants, maybe to check for injuries.--8:35:06 pm.

Kim said that she did not see our neighbors call anyone.  She thinks that the passing motorcycles had gone to the police station at the corner of M. Paterno and Alfonso XIII.

The injured man moved a bit but did not seem conscious.--8:37 :46 pm

Like what our neighbor Boopsie Erana said after the last accident, there should be humps on M. Paterno.  Or those lines that slow down vehicles.  What do you call them?  Speed cushions?

As the area around the injured man was dark, I was afraid that he would get run over.--8:38:08 pm.

What about a speed limit?

Someone tried to stop Mr. Fatigue Shorts from pulling the motorcycle off the rider.--8:38:54 pm.

It doesn’t help that the street light that we lost from the last car accident has not been restored and the next street light was on and off, said our maid Meya.

Why are there so many accidents this year on M. Paterno?--8:39:10 pm.

ASUY said that the reason why there are so many accidents is that the road is now smooth asphalt unlike before, when it was dirt and pebbles.

This is the street light nearest the accident.--8:47:26 pm.

M. Paterno is the Commonwealth of San Juan.

Chips, what happened to the claim?--8:47:45 pm.

On Paterno corner Ledesma. Dapitan Volunteer, Talayan QC. 4:58:06 pm.

Note that the fire engines with the Paterno corner Ledesma street signs are in the same frame as the house that was on fire.

Volunteer Fire Department's Engine 1, Cardinal Santos Medical Center.

Meralco, San Juan fire department, then Meralco, then engineering, looked at the post, if I remember correctly. Photo taken: 1:30 pm.

Electric sparks from a post outside our house last April 5 made me think of the 187 M. Paterno fire.  Thanks to former resident DS for giving me the address.

L to R: Fire Fighter Group hotline 16016, San Juan National Capital Region Bureau of Fire Protection. 4:56 pm.

Who do you call when a fire breaks out?

The sticker says, 'Emergency dial 522-22-22. ' Photo taken at 4:57:03 pm.

Who were first to arrive?  I don’t know what time each fire department or organization was called, but I thought I’d come up with a list of fire trucks that were within the same frame as the house on fire.

Engine 1 donated by Mr. & Mrs. Daretto (?) Sy. Mandaluyong Fire Station numbers: 532-24-02 or 21-89. 4:57:09 pm.

Incidentally, painted over Engine 190 of the DILG Bureau of Fire Protection are the words, ‘If this vehicle fails to respond in 5 minutes within your AOR call or text the regional director BFP-NCR Smart: (0908)660-9247  Globe: (0927)794-5721.’

Stickers: First Fire Rescue, Fire Brigade & Communications Group Inc. 1977 367-9720 hotline.

I assume that AOR means area of responsibility?

PLDT and Globe showed up the next morning. Photo: 3:49:30 pm.

I think that Tian Di was the best part of the tour for all of us.

I’ve decided to go to Immunizers instead of Mercury Drug for my

Immunizers' 2011 flu vaccine expires on December 2011, said Hannah. Photo taken yesterday.

because EFY waited a couple of hours at a Mercury Drug then gave up when the doctor didn’t show up.  He was there before the appointed hour.

We entered through the main door and exited through the basement door.

According to Hannah of Immunizers who took my call, Immunizers is open on Mondays to Saturdays, 9 am to 5 pm and I don’t need  an appointment.  As per my pulmonologist Dr. Agra‘s advice, I asked Hannah for the expiry date of Fluarix, which she pronounced as Floo-wa-riks.

This is my second time to go to Tian Di, but only the first time to photograph it.

The Immunizers number that I used is (632) 727-2865.   It is beside Hai Kang Seafood Restaurant, which used to be Harbour City until a typhoon–was it Milenyo?–blew its sign to Wilson come.

Too bad the best room was locked up.

Incidentally, I included Immunizers and Hai Kang in my April 10 tour of San Juan which I gave to Nasi Lemak consultant HK Tan, Myke Soon and his girlfriend Nix Manalang Angeles.  HK said that I should give the tour for

P 2,000 per person.  Cool!

Anyway, I pointed out to HK that San Juan is a good place to put up a restaurant as:

1. The residents have so much dispensable income, Immunizers can afford a Piolo Pascual ad (Incidentally, I have been trying for months to take a photo of the billboard but was never caught in traffic in the area during daylight.)

2. Most residents don’t like going outside San Juan.

3. Some residents only like Asian food.

UAH 878 headlights were on at a Greenhills parking lot.

Maybe, but I also get this kind of unmindfulness from the guard at the McKinley Arcade Open Parking Area.  He would be chatting with the cashier or elsewhere, unaware of inconsiderate drivers e.g. the blockers, the counterflowers, the gasgasers.

XKZ 313 was more considerate; the driver moved seconds after I took this photo.

Now if the guard had been more omnipresent, he would have advised the driver of XAH 878 that his headlights were on.  I saw the car when I arrived and the headlights were still on when I left Greenhills around 46 minutes later.

Only when I was on the right lane that I realized that the left lane was closed.

What I’m wondering about is how the omnipresent car wash guys could have missed XAH when I’m usually in danger of hitting them when I park.  Well, maybe the driver waved them away early and drove away from them.  Fast.

I wish the left lane had been blocked before the turn.

The other awardee, Dr. John de Guzman, is from the Class of 1967.

I was Fb chatting with fmy irst Ateneo kabarkada Richard Chu today when I gave him this update:  Last March 11, I met Lawrence Dy and my Ateneo batchmates Bobby Go and Glen Ang, and Harvey and my badmintonmate Alfonso Keh and wife Dr. Ellen at Dr. Harvey Uy‘s Kuang Chi Awarding Ceremony.  I met Dr. Ellen in Harvey’s badminton group in Xavier.  She worked under Harvey at Asian Eye Institute.

Harvey said on his Fb wall that he got the award for exemplary good looks and wit.

Robert Sun introduced Harvey.

He was honored for his Boy Scouts work.

He talked about high school and said that it was the time when their batch was secretly following the Gabby-Sharon love team.

One of the best parts of the evening.

When Lawrence turned around, I told him and Bobby, who was beside me, ‘Ang baduy naman ng mga Xavierians!’  Rock Lobster naman ako noon.  To which Bobby went, ‘Si Robert lang.’

And even better.

Robert went on to say that a lot of people wanted to sit next to Harvey in the post-test room, then later said that it was a joke.  I doubt it.

I asked him why he was being given the award and he replied with a funny email.

‘mahal ! ask ka na lang sked from Mercury Drug kung kelan ang flu shots nila … P700 lang I think … I had myself, my hubby & 2 house angels immunised … mahaba nga lang ang pila at pipila ka together with maids, mga batang iyakin, yung mga taong parang pumipila din si wowowie, that is, if you don’t mind – ayan, umandar na naman ang caste system ….’

[San Juan to Makati]:

ty, Dyna. i’d rather go to Immunizers in case of side effects. feeling Brahamin kase ako, maski in real life aliping sagigilid lang ako, or as Michael O’Neill would put it, I’m the ‘pus that infects the mucus that cruds up the fungus that feeds on the pond scum.’

Dyna Padilla Hone ‘walang side effects …’

[SJM]:

‘sige, will look into this. ty. will try to look for the most sosyal, least populated Mercury nearby. can also bring stool and book. and sagigilid-grade chat companion. who administered the shot? doctor ba?’

CYdA had also suggested Mercury Drug E. Rod years ago for flu shots.

Hmm, no wonder Immunizers can afford to hire Piolo Pascual for their billboard.

‘Dear Dr. Agra,

Immunizers will only administer their own med.  Is Fluarix ok?  Dr. Chua of Immunizers said that as long as I don’t have a fever, I can get a flu shot.  Have runny nose and sore throat.
P 1,250 per dose. Glaxo Smith Kline.’

October 13, [SJM]:

So, basically, Dr. Gwen, I’ll be saving P 400 by going to my sister, but more important is the availability of Vaxigrip at Mercury Drug.’

October 13, Mercury Drug: