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Good, hot summer day, buddy!  Just finished browsing over your journal. 
Looks great , not because I am part of it, but it truly is a unique venue for us to share our reflections of a place that will always remain near and dear to our hearts.  It's a lot of fun and thanks for initiating it.  Ciao!

Ben ( Soloria)

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Hi Mng Vic, my apology first of all for not responding to ur e-mails sooner and promptly, most of all. But I did read them right away as I check my email everyday. I thank you too for your patience and consideration.

Friday,   my better half and I went to Portland, Oregon to visit a family friend, maybe you know them. Teresita " Tessie " Orallo-Balan,  is the daughter of the late Placido Orallo Sr. She is married to Rudy Balan from Cavite. We stayed in their new house overnight, to catch up also with her mother-in- law, a very successful pharmacist, who is visiting them also from California. Then  back to Seattle at 1:00PM, Saturday to attend a graduation party of a second cousin's  daughter at 3:00PM cause we have to bring a Yakisoba Pancit as our promised share for the party.  At 5:00PM, we should be at a surprise birthday party in a church hall for Mng Lydia DeVera-Pacled, Angela's barriomate, and a relative. Summer weekends for us, especially this month, is unbelievable, yet I have to finish painting the exterior of the house that I started  sometimes last March or April, been that long, don't even remember anymore. I'm just waiting now to cool down a little bit, before I can go outside to get an avocado green for the upper half of the house. Hopefully, this painting job will be completed before I will fly to Newark, New Jersey to attend Armi's wedding on the 20th of August Armi is Mng Nueva Domaoan-Elma's daughter.

Great Job on the Asinganian Journal. A lot of fun, informative, and with precious, great messages from kababayans, relatives and old friends closer to heart, I believe it will  fly pretty soon if it is not already there. I  will try to get snapshots during the annual Picnic of the Asinganians Club Of the Pacific Northwest On July 30th, as my contribution to the journal.

Manong, until then, warm regards to Manang .

Dave Domaoan, Seattle

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Dave Domaoan was my former student at the RizalAcademy and we got re-acquainted thru the Internet. I received the e-mail from him today, and I am happy to share it with you because of the names, stories, etc. that I am sure would bring us Asinganians closer together.

Teresita Orallo-Balan, if I am not mistaken is one of the singers I handled before when I did some volunteer choir teaching at the Asingan High School a long time ago. There were 3 or 4 of them: one is Jenny Isaac Fernando ( who is also here in Ontario), then Milagros Ginez and one more whose name I could not quite recall. But they were high school classmates and they can sing some of the music hits during their days with gusto and style, ala Temptations.If there is a '50s group called The Four Aces, Asingan could answer them with the singing of this high school group. They had no name, but I can rightly christen them The Four Queens.As a group or individually, they can sing! Graduation came and the each one went on their separate ways.

Another group I have to mention at this point are the Delmendo Sisters. ( Julie, Mildred and Susan ) This group participated in the Binalonan Pauper's Club amateur contests ocasionally and one time, they bagged the first prize.  The sisters are all now in California and I believe the 3 of them have their photos in the Asinganian Picnic submitted to me by Fred Palma. I met Susan several times in Asingan in 2003, then she visited Toronto and the church where I play as an organist.

Now-a-days I am handling a group of 4 children two of which are my own grandaughters. We provide the liturgical music every Sunday to the 10:00 mass here at the St. John the Evangelist church, Weston Ontario. As in the 2 previous groups I mentioned, all 4 singers can sing on their own or as a group. Their names are Caitlin Untinen, Mia Gonzales, Emma Forbes and Kimberly Tran..Caitlin is the eldest who is now 13, Mia and Kim are 12, Emma is 6. About 25 years ago, my 2 daughters were doing the same job: singing liturgical music with me. I never thought that someday, I will be accompanying my own grandaughters singing in church. It is a really long way, distance wise and timewise from our town Asingan.

-the Editor.