POST 21

10:00 P.M. Manila time
HIJRAH 1430 Ramadhan 03
Inside the Islamic Republik of Maharlika

SO long time noentry...

GATHERING IN MY AUNT'S HOUSE IN OLONGAPO CITY
ON THE OCCASION OF BIRTHDAY OF MY BROTHER MANUEL/MANNY
AROUND 1961 OR 1962
I AM THE TINY TOT CARRIED BY MY MOTHER ON THE RIGHT
THIS IS A RATHER RARE GATHERING SINCE BOTH SIDES (MATERNAL & PATERNAL) ARE REPRESENTED WITH JAVIERS FROM SAMPALOC, MANILA & BAGO-BANTAY, Q.C., GONZALVOS FROM HONDAGUA/LOPEZ, QUEZON PROVINCE, PAGSUYUINS FROM ALITAGTAG, BATANGAS ETCETC...
THE MAN KNEELING IN FRONT ON THE LEFT IS A JAVIER, A PC-METROCOM TROOPER WHO WAS SHOT DEAD IN THE 1960'S BY A CRIMINAL WHOM HE WAS CHASING IN THE GASOLINE STATION FRONTING THAT AREA CLOSE TO THE IGLESIA NI KRISTO NEAR SM NORTH-EDSA NOW...
CONSPIRATORIAL? TO BE CONTINUED...

20th POST INSERTION

Friday, May 29, 2009
At Home

While seekingsome info regarding my local job search I got linked to U.P.L.B. site ... I typed in its SEARCH field: "job" and I was linked to this article which I copy completely (not really STOLE...). Except for the bracketed comments of mine, the rest are as I copied them:

URL:
http://www.uplb.edu.ph/index.php/news/79-uplb-reacts-to-controversial-maalala-mo-kaya-episode
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UPB reacts to ABS-CBN's Maalala Mo Kaya episode
Written by the Office of Public Relations
Friday, 06 March 2009 15:10

UPLB has issued an official statement to ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation in light of a recent episode of their Maalala Mo Kaya program which inadvertently cast a bad light on the University and its constituents.

ABS-CBN Official Statement, March 10 [MY COMMENT: This was an active link.]

The complete letter is as follows:

Our attention has been called by constituents and alumni to an episode featured in Maala-ala Mo Kaya entitled "Blusa," which was aired on ABS-CBN on Feb. 28 and on TFC recently. Our constituents and alumni were concerned whether the episode was based on truth.

The story was of a woman who allegedly graduated BS AgriBusiness, summa cum laude, from the University of the Philippines Los Baños or UPLB, who could not find a job, and ended up a stripper. We tried to find out who the subject was by tracking all 27 of our summa cum laude graduates from the time the University was established in 1909. We could not find anyone matching the subject as portrayed in "Blusa."

Whether or not the subject was a UPLB graduate, we deeply sympathize with her and her family. However, in the interest of maintaining its reputation as a truthful storyteller, the MMK should have a mechanism to validate claims by letter senders especially those that require a stretch of imagination as to be believed.

While indeed touching and a perfect example of a human-interest story, "Blusa" regrettably affected the reputation of UPLB as an educational institution and its constituents and alumni. We therefore request ABS-CBN to set the record straight and correct the wrong impression that it created among its viewers. We also make an appeal to producers of similar programs to be more prudent in reporting stories with claims that would affect the reputation not only of a school but also of its alumni in the Philippines and abroad.

Thank you.
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NOTE THE TOPIC AND THE DATES. OF COURSE IN HIGH-TECH COMPUTERS & INTERNET, DATES CAN BE FIXED/MODIFIED/CHEATED AND THEREFORE NOT REALLY TRUSTWORTHY...

CHANCE OR CHOICE? I MEAN THIS ARTICLE & LETTER IN CONNECTION WITH MY MENTIONING ABOUT A SUMMA CUM LAUDE UP GRADUATE IN MY 19TH POSTING???!!! THIS IS WHY I IMMEDIATELY INPUTTED THIS THOUGH I AM IN A HURRY TO GO FOR JUM'UAH PRAYERS...

TO BE CONTINUED

19th POST

052209

"THE HOUSE ON #36 MAGSAYSAY DRIVE

OLONGAPO CITY, ZAMBALES PROVINCE"The house owned by my late aunt on the land that was given to her by Americans. The store on the right with a opening adjoining a small door is #36 Magsaysay Drive... The picture was taken sometime between 1963 and 1965. A safe date is 1964. At the second floor, the room to the left is my aunt's master bedroom. The right side window is the area shown in the picture in a past blog posting about toys and the stuffed lawin. The curtained glass window at the rightmost above the door fronts a staircase area. The door opens to a flight of stairs that turns left. The fixed ad signs read "Sally's Gift Shop" & "J's Store". The second wide opening in the middle is a BOTICA run by the cousin of my aunt..
Note the high electric post & wires... Reminds me one time very early in the morning (12:00 -2:00 A.M.) here in our house in Quezon City, Meralco linemen were so fast in setting up such similar electrical lines... Why were they in such a hurry? Also take a look at my very very first baby picture... There are already power lines in that picture... I wondered sometime in the past... Can these three electrical wires involve something more than electricity or electrical current? Can these be control devices that send waves that affect or even control humans living near these? Oh, by the way, I reached senior level in my undergraduate Electrical Engineering course before in U.P. Diliman... That was the toughest course then [Now, it's Molecular Biology or Computer Eng'g?]... I know & understand some high-level electrical engineering and even physics concepts... I am not your usual stoop... My CONSTHEO combines magick, religion & science... One must remember that before CHEMISTRY there was ALCHEMY, ASTROLOGY before ASTRONOMY... and plain water before plastic water...

This house shall be the focus/setting of the bulk of the stories I shall relate... I can call the complete collection as "The Story of My Life" or "Jamaal's Strange Story" [Just this very moment (10:20 P.M.) there seems to be some dark object/a mouse? that flitted on my right along the stairs... Hallucination?] I just remembered the 1960's song "The House of the Rising Sun" by "The Animals"? but this has no connection to our house... I just remembered the song... It does not fit... The reader should not underestimate the story behind this house... All the stories... This house picture tells a lot of stories... I can relate practically everybody & everything... Name a person, place or event & somehow I can it this to the house... Sample of words/concepts that I can link to the house: U.S.A., U.P., Iran, Osama Binladin, Mao, Marx, China, India, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Japan, Bourne Conspiracy, Libya, Homosexuality, Jews, Nazis, Malaysia, Pakistan, Lipovitan, Shabu, Abu, London, British, CIA, MI5/6, withcraft, jinn, kabbalah, CPLA, NPA, Andres Bonifacio, Jose Rizal, Spaniards, Germans, prostitutes, Vatican, Thailand, Dutch, Kennedy, Irish, demons, dogs, cats, Well-Known Philippine Political Personalities, mind-control, Crusades, Terrorism, True Lies, Body of Lies, You Got Served, Money, Dollar, Huks, Monkees, ETCETCETCETC

One might ask: What? How? What are you talking about? Nonsense! Crazy! Psycho!...

Question: Is a summa cum laude graduate of the U.P. Diliman necessarily a successful person?
My answer shall connect the house to someone in the past... a certain blank that blank is the who surprisingly turned blah blah blah...

I don't know but my narration follows a certain style or pattern? stream of consciousness? stream of craziness (HAR!)?... Again that dark thing suddenly... Mouse or Hallucination?

To be continued

18TH POST

050609

Human beings normally take things for granted and "accept" many events, happenings, incidents as natural or part of the usual course of Life. But even as a child, I was always asking myself about the REASONS why these things happen around me. I was trying to see the RAISON D'ETRE for anything & everything about me... Why? Why? Take the case of my relationship with other HUMANS... I had friends & close relatives... But I always considered myself as ultimately ALONE, that I cannot "take control" of the lives of others... Thus, there was an unbridgeable SPACE between me & another HUMAN BEING, even my mother... As I grew older I became aware that many things around me, especially those connected with HUMAN BEINGS were essentially different from those from NATURE like stones, flora, fauna. Humans involve the idea of INTENTION/INTENTIONALITY, a very important concept that is the distinguishing feature of the HUMAN REALITY... (I'm having difficulty trying to express myself now, trying to PHILOSOPHIZE this very moment when I should just be uploading some pictures... I'll just continue this when I get the mood...

BAGUIO CITY, Crystal Cave

With my late cousin Rodolfo P. Rody was killed (knifed to death) in Bicol in the late 1970's or early 1980's allegedly due to problems with the land that his father owned. The CHISMIS was that his father was unscrupulous. But THEY should have killed his father & not him!!! He was one of my favorite companions as a child. He was also basically a loner & normally a very quiet, reserved person - yet VERY ALERT. But he had this funny unpredictable side which he showed to few individuals once in a while... One vivid memory scene: He jumped down from a high (for me) balcony & landed squarely on both his feet. His action greatly IMPRESSED me & had a very influential effect on me... Just like the effect of movie heros/heroines on young impressionable children... Have you noticed how the eyes of a young girl who falls in love with someone for the first time twinkle?... The dreamy eyes... Young children I guess are looking for someone to look up to - role-models... Maybe this is a basic human characteri/behaviour that happens & will continue to happen to people... Those who RUN THE WORLD should know these things too well & always exploit it in their MANIPULATIONs...

TO BE CONTINUED

17th POST

042209

FORD FAIRLANE 1964 Model

A 4-DOOR SEDAN, Light-BLue Color, V6 car. If I am not mistaken, this was the THIRD car of my late eldest aunt. Her first car was an old 1950's station wagon. Then this was followed by another station wagon, an orange-colored V-8 fully air-conditioned American car gas-guzzler (that's why it was sold within less than a year) that I vaguely remember from memory. They say that its former American owner committed suicide inside that car... Then followed this Fairlane... Then, a yellow DODGE?/CHRYSLER? Coronet... Some ideas/thoughts that come to my mind: There is a Fairlane street in Fairview?... In the picture, at the back of the car on the other side of the road, the rightmost door of the apartment complex behind the jeepney is the home of the man who committed suicide in JAMES GORDON's tomb in Kalaklan in the 1980's... He was surnamed "LEONG", his father was a former Philippine Constabulary... This tragedy happened just the exact time I was also meditating about suicide!!! I really felt that he "took over my case" & saved me!!! Now, April 20's 2009, CH2 ABS-CBN is featuring the suicide of the family member of one of its news workers... CH2 news is "emphasizing suicide"... CHANCE OR CHOICE???

===INSERTED MAY 16, 2009, SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY MORNING 12:00 A.M.===
In the picture, one is facing towards the EAST(?unsure-NORTHNORTHEAST!071009)... So, a neighbor at the East side had committed suicide... Now, a neighbor at the NORTH side (NORTHNORTHWEST)[to the left of the picture] is related to a relatively well-known person, a U.P. academician, whose daughter committed suicide here in Manila in the not-too-distant past... I shall NAME NAMES... This is not to "BE PERSONAL" with others but just to state FACTS & the TRUTH... What is strange is, how did I get to be close (spatially) to these personalities??? WHO AM I???
===INSERTED MAY 16, 2009, SATURDAY NIGHT/SUNDAY MORNING 12:00 A.M.===

DEATHS - NATURAL(?) OR UNNATURAL???
I SHALL POST HERE THE PICTURES OF SOME OF MY RELATIVES WHO ALL DIED IN THE PAST & THE NATURE OF THEIR DEATHS... MAKES ONE WONDER...

Pls. check & see again that picture of mine in our Olongapo school - the group of four students in one of my previous postings... If I am not mistaken the woman at the back is LUZ C. from Alitagtag, Batangas who got married to an American serviceman & lived in California. She died in a CAR ACCIDENT(?!) in the past. LUZ I believe was one of if not THE most intelligent of my aunt's sales ladies in her gift shop who all got married to Americans & moved to the U.S.A...

Be ready for more of my revealing stories...
UMNP

16th POST

040909
New set of OLD & NOT-SO-OLD PIX

AVENIDA "Liberation Time 1946-1950"

Note the sign about "6X6" trucks. Military get-up was common even among civilians...

CASABLANCA NIGHTCLUB? IN OLONGAPO?

1930's or 1950's

My late aunt travelled first to SUBIC in 1935... Years later, she would follow AMERICAN troops who landed in BATANGAS in 1944-1945 (the 11TH AIRBORNE DIVISION) to ZAMBALES & OLONGAPO where she would found her business...

BURNHAM PARK

Clear view of Baguio Cathedral

MANSION HOUSE

MINES VIEW PARK 1951-1952

Man flirting with diSASTER of my two AUNTS. My mother (single then) & an unidentified man (not my father) flirting at Baguio's MVPark... Had I been there, I would have pushed a little the man to the left & he would have become a skydiver without any parachute... HISTORY would have changed & things would be completely different... And the place most likely would have been called DEAD MAN'S FALLs... or something similar... MORBID? Actually this is an excellent introduction to the Philosophy/Metaphysics of TIME... How can I do something that will affect the future when I was not yet born then?...

TRES KOTSES

The last luxury car of my late aunt: a white FORD LTD, my father's car - a light-brown FORD TAUNUS & mu brother's small but fast cream FORD ESCORT... Of course, now we do not own even a single TIRE...

TRES MUSKITEROS

Baguio - me. my sister NeneJ, & NeneMANSOR

- TO BE CONTINUED

15th POST

040109

"APRIL FOOL'S DAY"? Song "FOOL AGAIN" that in the past I really felt was referring to me...? Just follow my picture-story-BLOG to understand that I'm simply not just over-PRANING... Who am I? Am I a being who was created like a GOLEM to serve a particular purpose? Why so many significant persons & events close to me?... Just a few hours ago, I was in the Internet in the downstairs computer & I was watching YOUTUBE... "THEY" hacked the computer so that instead of my Youtube choice a message appeared that read "Sorry or Wait?... A team of MONKEYS is blah blah... THEY are playing games with me?... THEY got INSULTED by my HARHARs??? ACTUALLY, if it's all so FUNNY why so many apparent MURDERS & DEATHS around me that from my VIEWPOINT I can tell are NOT ACCIDENTAL/CHANCE EVENTS... It's not yet a month since Tausug NM Unding died & just a few days back, a distant relation, Michael P.... To be continued in my other BLOGS...

CONTINUATION OF OLONGAPO FIESTA program:

FRONT COVER

RIZAL is a PERENNIAL FAVORITE

But it seems (2009) some people have already come up with new versions of NOLI...

Some more pix from an old album in Batangas:

BAGUIO CITY CAMP JOHN HAY COUNTRY CLUB

in the 1930's? or 1950's?

In the 1960's & 1970's this place was almost the same/identical/unchanged

FEU bldg remains basically unchanged until the present
Note the old post-war ("WW2") JEEPNEYs, NOW, it's "WW3".

[ADDED/INSERTED 12:00 A.M. FRIDAY, JULY 10, 2009]
U..S.T. 1950
Before shifting to EDUCATION, my mother started off in college as a NURSING student. I believe she enrolled in this course for just one semester. Note the garb of the priests and nuns of presumably the DOMINICAN religious order. One priest in front tries to hide his face. I am tempted to offer a cash reward for anybody who can identify my mother in the picture. That the PHILIPPINES was and is influenced/controlled by CHRISTIAN particularly CATHOLIC religious orders must always be kept in mind by anybody who wants to understand its HISTORY, POLITICS, etc etc etc

PLAYING IN THE BERMUDA GRASS

with my two older siblings in our ALITAGTAG home
Note the markings on the white U.S. NAVY SPECIAL SERVICE car
[A digital image of this was stored in the STOLEN CELLPHONE that was snatched from me in DIVISORIA in the not too distant past by some "PC"s (Not Personal Computer or Philippine Constabulary but Police Characters - "LAGLAG TUWALYA GANG"). These people operate on the principle of SECRECY/CLANDESTINITY? But what do the people in this archipelago need to hide?
WE/THEY HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE!
After 400 years of OPPRESSIVE COLONIZATION by foreign invaders - Spaniards, Americans, ETC ETC what SECRET need we hide? The POVERTY of the natives? Their LACK OF WILLPOWER as a people? Their SLAVE MENTALITY?...

A WELL-LIGHTED KAROSA
MAY 31 ALITAGTAG MAYFLOWER FESTIVAL

This celebration is based on EMPEROR CONSTANTINE & his mother HELEN'S SEARCH FOR THE CROSS OF CHRIST... Definitely a CRUSADEs remnant from the COLONIAL PAST... But I am a MUSLIM now...

Receiving my Grade 1 FIRST HONORS MEDAL & being pinned by my mother...

Am in ill-fitting AMERIKANA 1st-time tailored by the brother of my WARAY male yaya... Not visible is an UGLY GASH just below my left eye... A MESTIZO AMERICAN playmate named "ROBERT" was responsible for the accident - I was thrown off a WAGON towed by the boy & I hit my face on the concrete pavement... Real BLOOD flowed... A few days before this end-of-school ceremony... I remember that day when I was brought to the doctor for treatment of my wounds -that was the very first time I RODE A MOTORIZED TRICYCLE... Robert never showed himself near our house after the incident because he got a real spanking from one of my aunts, my mother's cousin who is now in the U.S. Now, DON'T ASK ME why the very nice, mild-mannered IRISH reverend-priest-PRINCIPAL of my OLONGAPO school is named "WILLLIAM SULLLIVAN" just like the then U.S. AMBASSADOR to the PHILIPPINES...

TO BE CONTINUED

14TH POST: MORE BATANGAS & OLONGAPO PIX

March 30, 2009
At Home

Again, isang PASAKALYE/INTRO muna...

NERVOSONG PIANISTA

Siyempre naman, PASAKALYE muna ng BIDA... Piano Recital sa Olongapo sa loob ng isang kapilya ng isang Protestanteng grupo... Masyadong kabado na nakalimutan ko tuloy ang numero unong tanda ng isang magaling na pianista: ang tamang POSTURE... MALI/BAD practice ang FLAT o sayad na mga daliri... Dapat ay naka-kurba ang mga daliri at fingertips lang ang tumatama sa mga tiklado... Mas mahalaga kasi sa akin ang tamang mga nota ng tinutugtog ko kaya nakalimutan ko. PERFECT at walang pagkakamali sa pagtugtog... Kaso mo INCORRECT POSTURE... Kahit kailan yata ay hindi nawawala ang STAGE FRIGHT sa akin... HINDI PUWEDENG LEADER ng STOOP MASSES...

INAY's DROWING

Ipina-DIAGRAM ko ang bahay na pawid ng mga matatanda noong pre-1940's... Ito ang iginuhit ng nanay ko... Mahalaga lang ang mga sumusunod nd mga salita:
-BANGGERAHAN (wrong spelling niya)
-BATALAN
-LATUK
-BANIG
-BAUL
E-2-2-LOY sa BATANGAN STUDIES ko under NUSANTARA/MALAYOLOGY...

ANG BANGA

Ito ang sisidlan ng tubig na inumin ng mga matatanda sa amin (mga LOLO at LOLA)... Matanda na raw ito... Natatandaan ko noong 1960's-1970's kapag nilalagyan ito ng tubig galing sa hose ang FILTER lang ay isang katsa na tinupi ng doble... Minsan nga eh may KITI-KITI pang kasama... Pero huwag ka dahil ang mga umiinom ng tubig mula dito eh tumagal hanggang sa edad 80's at 90's. Ikumpara sa kasalukuyan (21st century) na may BOTTLED WATER sa PLASTIC na nilinis ng katakut-takot na PROCESSES... Palagay mo tatagal ba ang mga buhay natin sa PRESYO ng mga bilihin at sa mga nakahalong POISONS/TOXINS sa mga MODERNONG kagamitan at pagkain kabilang na ng PLASTIC BOTTLES?... TALK OF Material PROGRESS...

ANG MESANG BILOG (ROUNDTABLE)

Luma na rin ang isang ito pero segunda-klase lang dahil may hati sa gitna... Ang tunay na mamahaling ANTIQUE ay yung isang buong bilog... Pero dapat mahal din ito dahil at least 1920's to 1930's pa yata ito... Hmmm... nahahalata nyo ba na parang balak kong ipagbebenta ang mga lumang items/HEIRLOOM sa bahay namin? Balak ko nga yung buong second-floor eh ipabaklas at ibenta na eh HAR! Dito nakakatalo ko lahat sa amin... ABA eh GFC na !!! Kasi para sa akin anumang luma na hindi na nagagamit eh... BASURA na! CONTRADICTORY yata sa paniniwaala ko hinggil sa KAHALAGAHAN ng KASAYSAYAN?!... [Ang RATTAN na upuan ay 1960's lang... Masdan ang DESIGN ng sahig namin... MAHALAGA ito sa mga darating ko pang ilalahad/isasalaysay...

U.S. ARMY LOCKER

Ikinuwento sa akin na iniwan daw ito noong late 1940's ng isang malaking puting sundalong Amerikanong MILITARY CHAPLAIN... Ang laman daw ay isang BIBLE na matagal ko nang ipinamigay o ibinenta... Naka-ukit sa bandang itaas ang mga salitang "T. PAINE"... Pakatandaan ninyo ito, hah! - "T-PAINE"... Very utile ang ALUMINUM LOCKER na ito na pinaglalagyan namin ng gamit-pang-kusina... Kung aku nga ay isang ALUMINUM MANUFACTURER eh kokopyahin ko ang DESIGN dahil napaka -EFFICIENT... Hindi mapapasok ng daga... May drawers pa sa loob at puwedeng ikandado... Ganito ka-HIGH-TECH ang mga AMERIKANO na itong 1940's ARTIFACT nila eh ni hindi yata magagawa ng mga taga-rito kahit ngayong taong 2009!... Kaya nga ba nag-sususpetsa aku na ET yata sila eh!!!

SELF-EXPLANATORY na ang mga sumusunod na pahina ng 1959 OLONGAPO TOWN FIESTA Souvenir Program... HOY! Hindi pa aku sumusulpot sa mundo noon, hah!

1959 PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT CARLOS P. GARCIA
(Representing the "FILIPINOS"?)

SUBIC U.S. NAVAL BASE COMMANDER REAR ADMIRAL ARTHUR F. SPRING
(Representing "AMERICA"?)

ZAMBALES GOVERNOR MANUEL BARRETTO
(Representing "SPAIN"?)

Ang AMA ni SEN. RICHARD GORDON...
Inassassinate siya noong late 1960's o 1970's...
KABITENYO talaga ang mga GORDON na mestizong AMERIKANO...

Halu-halong tribo ang mga taga-Olongapo...
May Zambali, Ilukano, Kapampangan, Tagalog, Bisaya atbp
E-2-2-LOY
TIPONG HISTORIC(al) nga, ano?...

13th POST: OLONGAPO PHOTOS

Sabado, Ika-21 ng Marso Taong 2009

"CHILD OF A GOOD FAMILY"

Ang larawan ay may petsang Dec. 25, 1962 Araw ng Pasko at karaniwang araw ng pamamasyal/

pagsasaya sa bansang ito... Ang sapatos ko ay yari sa tunay/genuine na leather at kinalakihan ko at ipinamigay na lang. Ang BELL nito ay tumutunog kapag lumalakad ang may suot. Ngayon (2009) ang sapatos ng mga bata ay high-tech na may LED flashing lights/ilaw at marahil sounds... Nakatingin aku sa kaliwa (kanan ko) dahil may umaalaska/umaasar/nagbibiro sa akin? [Am looking to my right 'coz someone's making faces at me.]

LIGHTHOUSE POINT AT KALAKLAN
Actually an automatic BEACON, another one at an island in the middle
of the bay to the right of the picture

(OLD POSTCARD sold at my aunt's souvenir shop)

Nasa gitna ang CUBI POINT at nasa kanan ang GRANDE ISLAND. Isa sa pinaka-gusto ko/pinaka-magandang/pinaka-memorable na lugar para sa akin sa Olongapo ay ang point na ito... May malalim na nadarama aku lalo na kapag sunset... Yun para bang nandidito ka lang sa mundo temporarily - isang PASSING SCENE lang ang EXISTENCE at nahiwalay sa tunay mong pinag-mulan na "ETERNAL" at "TRUE" (Feeling of Transcendence)... OP KORS wala na itong eksaktong scene na ito dahil nang pumutok ang Mt. Pinatubo eh natabunan ng napakaraming lahar ang lugar na ito at ang beachline ay siguro nasa bandang laut na... Ang larawan ay napapasukan nang isang "realidad": isang HUMAN ARTIFACT: isang malaking bakal na bapor/barko na pandigma ng U.S. na isang aircraft carrier na ginamit sa Vietnam War... Ngayong taong 2009 ang mga issue: SMITH & NICOLE, VFA, WAR IN AFGHANISTAN, etc... Nauunawaan ba ng mambabasa ang ibig kong sabihin na itinuturing kong isa akung "historical being" kahit may purely private/existential aspect/feature ang inilalahad ko hinggil sa larawan?... TANONG: Alin ang mas TUTOO: ang INSTITUTIONAL FACT ng barko at GIYERA/DIGMAAN O ang mga peaceful private feelings ko? NAKS NAMAN! WAXING PHILOSOPHICAL... Ipa-WAX ko na lang kaya ang sahig sa iyo?! HAR!

OLD BUS

Ang una daw na bus sa Zambales/Olongapo ay ang TRITRAN na pag-aari ng nakalimutan ko na... Tapus ay nabili ng mga Trinidad-Hernandez... Tapus naging VICTORY LINER... May iba pang bus noon; SAN/ST. RAFAEL bus na ang design ay parang sa lata ng sardinas, berdeng SAULOG bus na galing CAVITE... sa Pampanga may La Mallorca Pambusco... Hindi ito ang nasakyan ko noong 1960's pero kahalintulad nito ang mga bus na "UNITED" at "B-T-CO" (BLTB ng mga Potenciano?) sa Batangas. Ang bus na ito ay bukas ang kabilang bahagi kung hindi aku nagkakamali. (Pero may pintu sa harap yata?) Ang bahagi lamang sa kaliwa ng bus ang may tapalodo o takip... Ang kabila ay bukas kung saan pumapasok ang mga pasahero at pasabit na nagpapalipat-lipat ang konduktor... Ang katulad na istruktura ay yung dating jeepney na nakaparada sa harap ng Kamayan/Ihaw-Ihaw sa kanto ng Quezon Ave. at Timog Ave. dito... Malaki/Malayo na ang ipinagbago ng mga bus at sasakyan ngayon... HIGH-TECH na... Pero ang mga pasahero/taung sumasakay? Nagbago ba - ang kanilang mga buhay?, ang kanilang mga pag-uugali?

DIAMOND NIGHT CLUB/HARD ROCK CAFE?

Ito ang mismong katapat ng property ng tiya ko sa Magsaysay Drive sa Olongapo. "YEE"yata ang may-ari noon... Nasa larawan ang dalawa sa mga tiyahin ko, ang nasa kanan ay kapatid ng tiya kong may-ari. Ang batang babaeng umiinom ng softdrink ay malinaw na isang Amerikana... Masisilip sa bintana ng kotse na may dalawang "mokong" na gustong umeksena sa larawan sa likod ng kotse... Ito ang ibig kong sabihin nang mga alaskador sa una kong larawan sa itaas... Kahit "historic" ang isang larawan ay may umeeksena pa ring mga COMEDIANS/CLOWNS, ano? Mga bandang 1960's ito pero noong mga 1980's to 1990's eh naging HARD ROCK CAFE yata ito... Hindi ko na sigurado dahil hindi ko tinandaan eh...

Mga iba pang karagdagang larawan sa isang lumang PHOTO ALBUM namin sa Batangas... Wala namang specially memorable hinggil sa mga ito... Masdan lang ang TRUCK sa may bandang gitnang kanan ng barkong nakadaong... Itong truck na ito ang tinatawag na SIX-BY-SIX (6X6) noong 1950's to 1970's. Marami nito sa Pampanga kung saan ginamit itong pang-hakot ng tubo sa mga tubuhan doon...

E-2-2-LOY
Iba talaga ang ipo-post ko sana pero hindi ko pa makita ang mga larawan eh...

12TH POST

Saturday, January 17, 2009

Ito ang ika-labindalawang POST ko dito sa biographical blog ko. Matagal-tagal din akung [Hindi aku sigurado kung dapat "akong" o "akung" pero itong huli ang gagamitin ko.] hindi nag-POST dito dahil ayon sa 11TH POST ko eh Septyembre pa noong isang taon! Ang bilis talaga ng panahon o mabagal lang talaga aku?

Minsan noong Disyembre ay umuwi aku sa Batangas dala ang isang kamera para kuhaan ng litrato ang mga lumang bagay sa aming ANCESTRAL HOME na ngayon ay tila HAUNTED HOUSE na at sira-sira na...

Pero, isa munang larawang PASAKALYE hinggil sa aking sarili:

"OOHHH... THAT'S THE WAY AHA AHA I..."
Sometime 1969-1971
Of course "THEY" FOOLED me into dancing... What could I do? I had no "CHOICE"... FOLK DANCING in GRADE SCHOOL. If you don't DO IT, then you get EXPELLED! So, just do the best that you can given the bad situation not to your liking ...This was on a special occasion, a graduation maybe. We are wearing traditional Philippine male national dress: KATIPUNERO garb with white shirts, red loose pants, red neckerchiefs MINUS bolos and buri hats. Look at MY STYLE! Look at the hands and feet! They are really dancing to the tune/beat... OOOHHH... THAT'S THE WAY AHA AHA HAR HAR! I REALLY could not understand my classmates... I felt that they did not really understand or appreciate the ART of MUSIC & DANCING... Just take a look at my group: only one person is really dancing, the rest are maybe EXERCISING or WHAT?!
To my right: Eleanor, Roy (RIP) and Dan. Roy, who had a JAPANESE mestizo father (His last name is CLOSE/ALMOST IDENTICAL to that of the former Japanese socialist PM friend of BUSH called an "Idiot" by BOBBY FISCHER). Later on in Life, I learned that Roy had died tragically - he drowned in one of Olongapo's beaches allegedly while heavy on drugs. I believe that he was the only one of my classmates to fall victim to drug-use which was extensively done by American servicemen (The claim is that this was one of the reasons for America's defeat in Vietnam). TODAY, you can still make me dance. BUT you have to pay me at least ONE MILLION EUROs/DOLLARs/PESOs PER STEP!!!

ANG PINTU(AN)
May istorya ang bagay na nasa itaas ng pintu namin sa Batangas... Masdan ang kapirasong kahoy na may UKIT... Hindi ko alam ang tawag dito sa wikang Tagalog. Pero ang sabi sa akin ng mga matatanda ay may mga dekorasyong katulad nito ang mga sinaunang bahay sa lugar namin. Maraming bahay sa Alitagtag ang may kahalintulad na dekorasyong UKIT. Ito ang kusina ng bahay namin sa kasalukuyan. At ito rin ang MISMONG tapat ng BATALAN namin noon na siyempre ay giniba na at wala na. Dito aku nagsusulat noon, isang gabi, kung saan nagkaroon aku ng napakalalim na KARANASAN sa PAG-IISIP/THINKING mga alas dos ng NAPAKATAHIMIK na umaga sa liwanag ng kandila (May brownout noon)...

Detalye ng UKIT sa itaas ng PINTU.

E-TU-TU-LOY