Growing old gracefully

“We know we’re getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ”
Our friend Larry Ramos celebrated his birthday recently. Responding to the birthday greetings we sent him, he wrote:
Thanks for the greetings. Birthday lang, hindi happy. Got lot of things to think of. Getting old, missing [...]

More class pics

Remember the elementary school photos we posted earlier? The one above (click to enlarge) belongs to that series. This snapshot was taken at the Rizal Elementary School in 1970. Can you identify the cute peps featured here and the other kids who would later join us at LDHS?

Encho and family

We are updating this post to include the photo of the father of these two beautiful young ladies. These are Encho’s daughters: the older one is Kyrie Eleison and the youngest is Allyson.

Encho, or Lawrence, is Larry Ramos’ son and godson of a number of peps. Remember when we were all at that chapel in BF [...]

Larry back in Misamis Oriental

Cagayan de Oro City by night
After staying in Taiwan for a short job assignment, our friend Larry Ramos is back in his temporary base in Mindanao. Below is an email we just received from him:
Si Malu Ortiz ba ‘yang huling nakita? I am glad natagpuan na rin siya. Ang galing-galing nyo talaga. Sorry if can’t [...]

Happy birthday, Larry

Today is Larry Ramos’ birthday. Larry is in El Salvador right now for a work assignment. No, not in that tiny Latin American country but in Cagayan De Oro in Mindanao where he is staying until May 2008.
Nevertheless, he promised to provide cases and cases of San Miguel beer in July for a belated birthday [...]

Ticket to Beijing

Our generous friend Larry Ramos has an extra ticket to give away for the upcoming 2008 Summer Olympics Games in Beijing. But who among us is he going to invite to this once-in-a-lifetime chance to see the world’s greatest athletes?
Lest he be accused of favoritism, he decided to just launch a contest. It’s easy to participate: just [...]