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Somehow, this Journal is helping in unifying townmates separated when they started looking for jobs, finding their places in the sun, etc. I received so many e-mails re: this subject..I am enclosing the last one..

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Date: Sat, 6 May 2006 03:28:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: fe ramos <somare............>
Subject: Re: President Arroyo and Marcie Uson Wise in Pictures ( taken in Hanoi )
To: MABAIT42@aol.com

hi manong vic,

 

marcie uson-wise or bing was  my student in rizal academy.

 

fe

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I forwarded the e-mail to Marcie ..

 

Hi Marcie,

This was forwarded to me by one of your teachers at the Rizal Academy: Fe Ramos Esteban..She is my relative because her Mom is a close kin of my dad..You can use the e-mail somare....because that's her e-mail address..She now works in Manila but every week end she goes home to Asingan. Her Mom Mrs. Felisa Ramos is now retired, 80+ years old and living alone by herself in her house beside the house of former Elvira Ramos-Veniegas..Elvie a retiree is also working as a Principal in the Rizal Academy..

 

til next e-mail..

 

Vic

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Marcie then replied..

 

Hi Manong Vic,

 

I knew her very well. .....  She e-mailed me once when we we're living in Hanoi but at that time I was using my husband e-mail address and I lost her address when I had my own e-mail address.  I will e-mail her soon.  She was one of my good teacher so as Mrs. Veniegas.  I'm thinking all the good memories now.

 

Thanks.

 

Aloha,

Marcie

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Someone said, even if you do not have much money if you have lots of friends, then it is just as good or much better..Reminds me of another saying..

 

New Friends are Silver

Old Friends are Gold

Let us keep the Silver

But let us not forget the Gold!

 

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Name: MELVIN
Town_City: CAR NORTE/ARIZONA
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Remote Name: 207.69.137.11
Date: Sunday, May 07, 2006

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When I first found out about this website I think a month ago, I was so excited and had so much fun reading all the messages. I recognized a lot of the surnames of the people and di look forward to reading messages everyday. Well, the last few days was a bummer because there's not a lot of posted messages, the last time I checked there was a message from someone asking everyone to post a message just in Filipino? or Ilocano? Then today I opened the site and lo and behold there was a lot of messages It is sad that one person's action can cause a lot of sadness not to just one or two person but to probably thousands out there like me who like to read what's going on in their relatives' lives. It doesn't matter whether I know these people personally, but just knowing they want to communicate to friends and relatives in a much cheaper way(long distance phone calls are more expensive)and at the same time entertain someone like me na mababaw and kaligayahan) and then they were told it's boring? please mga kababayan by posting your messages in what's going on in Asingan really fires up my imagination of the town I have not seen for 15 years, keep doing it. It's fun and entertaining and it is something to look forward to. Manong Peter Paraiso, I am so sad that you are not going to post anything here anymore. I hope you still will. English is good like Manog Vic said, for us that migrated out of the Philippines we do have to talk and learn English good, but that does not mean that we don't like our own language and dialects. I am married to an American and he reads the message with me too and he understands the English ones but not the pinoy ones, my kids may be half half but they can't speak Filipino although they sing karaoke with me and sing Filipino songs with me sometimes. I only have one Filipino lady that I work with so I always take the chance to talk Pinoy with her, but it's not proper to talk in our dialect when there are other workers with us, it's not polite. And believe it or not, most Pinoys are better in English, grammar or spelling than most Americans. We should be proud that Filipinos are the first choice of foreign employers because we can communicate in English better than other countries. Keep on posting please and keep on entertaining us. NAIMBAG NGA ALDAW YO AMIN.