CST-R High School Reunion Oct 31 2010

It has become an institution in itself. When the Thomasians come thumping home every year at the end of October, all the beer kegs go dry! No other school reunion in the city comes close!!!

This year, here is the program of activities:

MASS

• Time - 7:00-8:00 AM

• Venue - covered court / quadrangle

•Mass Offerings – open for everyone

PARADE

•CAT officers and cadets/cadettes will assist on the order of parade and during the parade

•Observe team colors (same color as of last year)

•Walking is required with exception for senior citizens; where vehicle is allowed

•Proposed Route of Parade:

•CST-R

•Azcona Street

•Ylagan Street

•S. Carmona Street

•Broce Street

•CST-R

•Proposed Order of Parade:

•Police Marshalls

•CSTR Band

•Batch ’86 – Silver Jubilarians

•Golden Jubilarians - 1961

•School Faculty & Administration

•Band 1 – School of the Future/RMES

•Team 1 (1965-1970, 1983, 1994) – White Color

•Team 2 (1955-1960, 1971, 1972, 1982, 1997) – Gold Color

•Band 2 – South Elementary School

•Team 3 (1962-1964, 1973, 1974, 1990, 2000) – Green Color

•Team 4 (1976, 1986, 2002, 2003) - Lavender

•Band 3 – Florentina Ledesma Elementary School

•Team 5 (1977, 1988, 1992, 1993) - Tangerine

•Team 6 (1979, 1991, 1998, 1999) – Light Pink

•Band 4 - Tandang Sora Elementary School

•Team 7 (1981, 1996, 2006, 2007) – Fuschia Pink

•Team 8 (1984, 1995, 2008, 2009) – Light Blue

•Band 5 – Bonifacio Elementary School

•Team 9 (1975, 1987, 2001, 2005) - Black

•Team 10 (1978, 1980, 1989, 2004) - Violet

REGISTRATION

• Follows after the Parade

• Registration Fee per batch is P100.00

• Simultaneous with the Election of Alumni Officers until 1pm

PROJECT TURN-OVER CEREMONY

BINGO

• Tickets sold at P50.00 each

• Present tickets to the organizers in exchange of bingo cards

• 1 bingo card entitles you to 10 games

LUNCH

• Venue for lunch is at the batch’ assigned areas

•Softdrinks and beers will be exclusively sold at Batch 86 Kiosk with exception for those with catering arrangement

•No corkage fee will be collected for imported drinks

RAFFLE DRAW FOR CONSOLATION PRIZES

THOMASIANS GOT TALENT

CONTEST GUIDELINES:

•Open to all CST-R Alumni of all ages.

•Per team presentation

•Minimum of five (5) members per team

•The presentation must not exceed 10 minutes

•Use of props and costume is encouraged

CRITERIA FOR JUDGING:

•Talent / Skills – 50%

•Stage Deportment/Choreography – 30%

•Costume – 10%

•Over-all Impact – 10%

PRIZES AT STAKE:

•First Prize – P3,000.00 •Second Prize – P2,000.00 •Third Prize – P1,000.00

2-HOUR BREAK

(In preparation for the Evening Program)

EVENING PROGRAM / LIVE BAND / DISCO

• Presentation of Officers

• Raffle Draw for the Major Prizes

San Carlos City Fiesta Celebration 2010

Limited Seats! Oct 9 Culinary tour of Pampanga

This tour will be enjoyed by HRM students of San Sebastian College-Recoletos Manila. There are still, however, a few seats left. Tour includes 3 buffet meals, AM snacks, aircon bus and entrance fees. Text or call me 09285082004 or email burgosrp2003@yahoo.com for details and final confirmation.

Red reunion

What could be more restful than, after 40 years, to reunite with one's elementary classmates? We are organizing so that we can capture as much of the fun and innocence of that bygone period. We just might recapture some of the fun but am not too sure about the innocence!

Here is our proposed agenda for the reunion which coincides with the San Carlos Fiesta and Pintaflores Festival.

Date Activity Class activity To-Dos Friday, 10/1/2010 Opening of Carnival and Trade Fair Friday, 10/15/2010 Opening of Pintaflores Garden Show Sunday, 10/24/2010 3rd Pintaflores National Invitational Football Cup Monday, 10/25/2010 Invitational Lawn Tennis Tourney Saturday, 10/30/2010 to Wednesday, 11/03/2010 Invitational Football Festival Saturday, 10/30/2010 Chess tournament Invitational Boxing Tournament Acquaintance Night Bring your own red t-shirt. And old photos of the class. Be prepared to join in some memory games! Sunday, 10/31/2010 Senior Citizens and Veterans Night Halloween costume party Come in a costume. Best costume wins a prize! Dance the night away. Monday, 11/1/2010 Vamos San Carlos Night Lunch at Whispering Palms, Sipaway Tuesday, 11/2/2010 Pintaflores Body Painting Competition Pot luck lunch and Hot scrub at Mainit Pools, Bgy. Guadalupe Wednesday, 11/3/2010 Volleyball Cup Morning Visit to School Ms. San Carlos Pageant Thursday, 11/4/2010 Men's Invitational Football Match Feast of Patron Saint Charles Borromeo Friday, 11/5/2010 Pintaflores Festival: street dancing competition, jamming, fireworks Saturday, 11/06/2010 Negros Tour Sunday, 11/07/2010 NegrosTour

Independence Day Tour 2010

Historically, the first and only anniversary celebration with Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo of the proclamation of Philippine Independence was held in 1899 in a beautiful mansion in the center of Angeles City. Today the Pamintuan mansion still stands, an awesome monument to our struggle for a national identity, thanks to the Bangko Sentral which has preserved this heritage structure. Every year, whether or not the sitting president proclaims it a national holiday, the City of Angeles and the Kuliat Foundation mount a fitting celebration on June 12, where everyone comes in Filipiniana attire, and participates in the reenactment of that historical event, complete with actors in period costumes, marching brass bands, choirs, and other performers.

Theme: “BAGONG PAGSASAMA. BAGONG BAYANIHAN. BAGONG PAGBABAGO.”

5:00 a.m. Leave Manila
7:00 Flag Raising Ceremony at Pamintuan Mansion
7:05 Entrance of Generals on Horses & Entourage
7:20 Wreath Laying on the Commemorative Marker, 21 Gun Salute by the Angeles City Police
7:30 Re-Enactment of the 1899 Independence Day Celebration held at the Pamintuan Residence with a script developed by Jose G. Paras, Jr., Director, Museo ning Angeles
8:15 Breakfast at Museo ning Angeles
9:30 Tour of heritage sites of Angeles
10:30 Visit Nayong Pilipino in Clark
12:00 Lunch
2:00 p.m. Visit the Kapampangan Studies Center
4:00 Shop for local delicacies
5:00 Return to Manila

Cost:
PHP 2,500.00 per pax prepaid covers breakfast, lunch, airconditioned transport, tour guide, tour souvenir

Book now ! Limited seats !

For more details, contact:
Richard P. Burgos, 0918-9224655, burgosrp2003@yahoo.com

Too hot to handle!

We would have been on the road to the second best-preserved heritage town in the country this Sunday, May 23, except for one thing: it's freakin' hot outside and guests are rethinking their travel and leisure plans. Well, I guess, we will have to cool off a bit and shelve that for another more propitious day. ;(

That Visita Iglesia

Rise and shine! We left Manila bathed in glorious sunshine on the road to what promised to be a memorable day of rest and renewal of our faith. There were 25 tour paticipants, some with their photo gear, others content to tag along, every single one ready to capture images that awakened us to the reality of faith in ourselves and in others.

Because I made a check drive through the suggested itinerary a week before, I was able to make changes from this



to this



This meant we were going to drop Calamba and St Mark's chapel in Makiling's National High School for the Arts, add new destinations like Sariaya, Tayabas and Kamay ni Hesus, and gain distance and time since we would end closer to Manila instead of farther!

But as it turned out, man proposes and God disposes.

Traffic was horrendous. Everyone seemed to be going to the same direction. What should have been a 2.5 hour drive to our first destination in Sariaya took us 6 hours! To top it all, our bus had irreparable trouble in Kamay ni Hesus and we had to wait for a replacement bus from Manila. By the time it arrived at 10 pm we were still 3 churches short of our plan and had only 2 hours to complete the seven churches before they close at 12 midnight. Thankfully, we were rather full, thanks to the meals at Patio Rizal courtesy of the bus company (hurray!). Given the late hour we could no longer visit Liliw, Nagcarlan and San Pablo. Instead we were gifted with other remarkable churches in Pagsanjan, dedicated to our Lady of Guadalupe, in the beautiful heritage town of Pila and in the old town of Bay from where the Laguna de Bay derives its name. We left the eerie church, covered by cloud formations half revealing a full moon, at the stroke of midnight. Nothing could have been more memorable to our group.



Some were asking, kailan muli?

Visit Iglesia 2010: Laguna & Quezon

Holy Week in the Philippines is a rubricated time. But if you haven't made plans yet, consider a slight deviation from the usual: go out and observe the traditional Visita Iglesia and visit seven lovely stone churches in mystical Laguna and Quezon provinces on Holy Thursday, April 1.

Laguna de Bay is Southeast Asia’s largest fresh water lake fed throughout the year by regular rain showers. It empties itself to the Manila Bay through the historic Pasig River. Traditionally, the lakeshore towns of Laguna and Rizal as well as the province of Quezon have provided the food and material requirements of the capital city of Manila, with the River Pasig serving as the highway of commerce and culture. Thus, the people in this area are known as “taga-ilog” or riverfolk, now accepted as Tagalog. There is much to rediscover in the region and in the small towns that have inevitably left lasting imprints in our sense of national identity. Their churches, many of them tinged with the patina of centuries, built and rebuilt and then built up again, are monuments to our undying faith and resiliency as a people.

Our tour itinerary will take us to seven churches where we will pray the Stations of the Cross:

1. St. John the Baptist Church, Calamba City, where Rizal was baptized, with a side trip to the National Arts Center in Mt. Makiling
2. the Diocesan Shrine of St. Anthony de Padua in Pila
3. St. Paul the Hermit Church, San Pablo City, with buffet lunch of local delicacies
4. St. Bartholomew Parish church, Nagcarlan, with a side visit to their famous underground cemetery
5. St. John the Baptist church, Liliw, with time to shop for slippers!
6. St. Gregory the Great Parish church, Majayjay;
7. San Isidro Labrador church, Lucban, Quezon, with a stop at Kamay ni Hesus shrine astride Mt. Banahaw

Between the two fabled mountain fastnesses of Makiling and Banahaw, it is hoped that tour participants will find communion with God, or at the very least, a greater appreciation of themselves as believing Filipinos.

Tour bus leaves Market! Market! in Taguig City at exactly 7:00 AM. Tour costs P2,000 per pax, pre-paid, and includes airconditioned transportation, AM snack, lunch buffet, PM snack, in-coach tour guide. Pls make a deposit in the account of
Richard Burgos, BDO CA # 2068010109.

Hot Air Balloon Festival and Heritage Tour of Angeles, Pampanga

It’s the Festival of Everything That Flies!
Join us on Saturday, February 13, 2010 for the 15th Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta (PIHABF). Enjoy a day of fun and flight, and feast on local culture and cuisine at the country's biggest aviation sports event today, happening at the Clark Economic Zone in Pampanga.
Bus leaves exactly at 4:00 am from Megamall in time for the 5:30 lift off. Towards midday we will escape the noontime heat by taking in some sights and culture around Angeles City, savoring local cuisine in a big Kapampangan lunch buffet and shopping for Pampanga’s best delicacies. The rest of the afternoon we will spend back in the airfield until the balloons lift off again and disappear into the sunset. Lug your cameras for some colorful and exciting photo opportunities.
All proceeds of this tour will benefit Bahay Tuluyan (www.bahaytuluyan.org), an NGO working to promote, protect and fulfill the rights of children. Cost per pax is P2,000.00 PRE-PAID inclusive of aircon bus, guide, entrance fees, museum visits, AM snacks and buffet lunch. Sign up fast. Limited seats!
Festival website for news and other details: http://www.philballoonfest.net.
To pay, please deposit in the account of Bahay Tuluyan and keep your deposit slip for reference: BPI Harrison Plaza 004943049276.
For more details contact: Richard Burgos 0928-5082004 burgosrp2003@yahoo.com, or Sarah Satira 02-3532350 or 023535320 sarah.satira@bahaytuluyan.org.
The annual Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Fiesta (PIHABF) is the country's biggest aviation sports event today. Hot air balloon and airplane pilots from all over the world fly into the Philippines to join their local counterparts in this breathtaking event. The balloon pilots pit their skills in aerial competitions such as hesitation waltz, hare and hounds, key grab race, and spectacles such as balloon sky diving, mass ascensions and night glow.

In addition to daily flights of the hot air balloons, other activities include: skydiving, daily flag jumps (a skydiver jumps with the Philippine flag while the National Anthem is played to the start of the day's activities); micro light demonstrations; small planes fly-bys and fly-ins; remote controlled airplanes exhibitions; aerobatics; light airplane balloon bursting competition; ultra-light formation flying and bomb dropping exhibitions; helicopter fly-ins and exhibitions; an air rally; rocketry demonstrations; kite flying exhibitions; and races between ultra lights and motorcycles

The Hot Air Balloon Festival commenced in 1994 when then Tourism Secretary Mina Gabor commissioned Korean businessman and hot-air balloon pilot, Mr. Sung Kee Paik, and British Airways General Manager, Mr. John Emery, to consider the staging of a balloon fiesta in the country similar to the ones mounted in countries like Japan, United States and Europe.

The tandem together with Sec. Gabor then met up with Regional Director Ronaldo Tiotuico to explore the potential of the project. After scouring the length and breadth of the region, the group decided to lay their stakes on the former US Air Force facility, Clark Special Economic Zone in Pampanga for the holding of the ballooning event. And so the first hot-air balloon fiesta was held in the same year with some 21 balloon pilots from 10 countries participating plus a lone entry from the Philippines with the Department of Tourism (DoT) , the Hot Air Balloon Club and British Airways as organizers.

The ultralight planes became part of the event. In 1995, participation grew to 27 balloons including a basketless one-man balloon and two entries from the Philippines. In 1996, the DoT requested Capt. Joy Roa of Air Ads, Inc. who is himself a licensed balloon pilot, to take over the responsibilities of organizing the fiesta.

The event was enlarged to include other aero-sport activities such as sky diving, aerobatic stunts and precision maneuvers courtesy of the Blue Diamonds and later the Red Aces of the Philippine Air Force, paragliding, motorized hang-gliding, remote controlled model aircraft (aeromodellers) and kite flying.
February 13
SATURDAY THIRD FIESTA DAY
Philippine Army Flag Jump 5:20-5:30AM
Hot Air Balloon Flights 5:30-7:00AM
Philippines/Thailand/Malaysia/Indonesia/UK Paragliding Exhibition 7:00-7:30AM
ACFC Ultralight / Microlight Aircraft Formation Flights & Flour Bombing 7:30-8:00AM
AFP / Civilian Skydiving Exhibition 8:00-8:30AM
Meynard Halili / Bill Wright Aerobatic Air Show 8:30-9:15AM
Helicopter Flight Display 9:15-9:45AM
AOPA-P Light Aircraft Balloon-Bursting Competition 9:45-10:45AM
Philippine Coast Guard Rescue Demonstration 10:45-11:45AM
Airlink/WCC/AAA/Omni/PPA/CA/Orient/Light Airplane Flyby 11:45-12:15PM
Radio-controlled Model Aircraft Demonstration 12:15-12:45PM
Winch-Launched Glider Demonstration 12:45-1:30PM
KAP/KTP Kite Flying Exhibition 1:30-2:00PM
AOPA-P Light Aircraft Balloon-Bursting Competition 2:00-2:45PM
AFP / Civilian Skydiving Exhibition 2:45-3:15PM
CIAC Fire-fighting Demonstration 3:15-3:45PM
Bill Wright / Meynard Halili Aerobatic Air Show 3:45-4:30PM
ACFC Ultralight / Microlight Aircraft Formation Flights 4:00-4:30PM
PHILSCA Rocketry Demonstration 4:30-5:00PM
RP/Thailand/Malaysia/Indonesia/UK Paragliding Exhibition 5:00-5:30PM
Hot Air Balloon Night Glow 5:30-6:00PM

A Power Session

Today was a like a lightbulb moment become reality. So surreal. Uncanny even. In a room near Ateneo de Manila, I shared a chi-gong session with a kababayan who is an anesthesiologist and an old-time friend from the PR industry and we went through some basic moves in chi-gong seated all the while on the edge of some plastic stools. Our session guide has been into meditation for years and and now runs Green Lightworks Co, providing integrated stress management programs, SATTVAH Wellness Group and its mediation and healing center. We had great synchronicity. And the rest is yet to unfold.

I am immediately encouraged to start a new blog about restful renewal, as the new channel of my life passions.

Come and rest with me.