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Impressed by Tanjay
I was in Bais, Tanjay
and Dumaguete.
I have noticed that Tanjay is a very progressive place in contrast to
(the
other cities) which have remained
very provincial. And you
know what:
Daghang gwapa sa Tanjay.
Dr Jose M. Tiongco
via email (cc)
(Ed's note: Dr Tiongco, a neurosurgeon,
author and philantrophist,
left his practice at age 45 to organize health care cooperatives to
afford
hospital benefits to the sick among the poor in the Philippines.
He is going around the country to organize groups of doctors
there.
The above is an excerpt of his email to Carmen Miraflor
of Stanford University, who emailed him back proudly
revealing: "Did
I tell you that I too am half-Tanjayanon?")
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The Tanjayanon Directory
Myrna and I would
like to have a copy
of the Tanjayanon Directory. Is that OK or do we have to get the
members' permission? (Ed's note: Yeah, we
have to ask the members' permission.)
You see,
God willing, we shall be travelling in the next few months and
would
like to send postcards to our Tanjayanon friends. Right now,
Myrna
is in Montreal visiting with Nolping and Chita
Cornelio-Tabasa, Nancy Diamola-Seki and Pat
Quiteves-Ismael.
For a starter, I'd like
to get in
touch with my cousins Polding and Fely Culi, my former neighbors Bert
and Ven Tabaloc, Myrna's cousin Lilia
Banogon Montagnino,
Perla Labe (Brad, is she our classmate John Labe's sister?).
Best regards. Oh,
did I tell
you that my daughter Ellen gave birth to a very cute, very sweet, very
pretty (liwat sa apohan) baby girl we lovingly
named Inday Kiora?
Elpi and Myrna Culi
Richmond, BC
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Joyful Tanjayanons
Brad, thanks for the
website newsflash
on the Tanjay USA Millennium party. It must have been a BIG
bash - live band, professional entertainers, uniformed
servers,
open bar, european and filipino menus, good-looking DI's and dancing
until
the band surrendered.
Ah, inyo ming
gipa-ibgan? Okay,
okay, now we are patas. We know that you are also very ibog and
very
hidlaw of our real authentic traditional Pasko diri sa ato sa
Tanjay:
misa sa ka-adlawon where we and our friends sing the old Christmas
hymns,
then go to the pa-initan for tsokolateng lugos motulo, puto maya sa
dahon
or bubud nga molikos sa haligi, listen to panulindaw nga binisaya,
suroy-suroy
nga maglakaw ra, hapit sa mga paryente kay manga-on, estorya,
hisgot-hisgot,
katawa, and many others. What more can we ask for?
Ipion,
Pinang/Loring, Ising
and I send our love and best regards. Hope to see you
soon.
Evelyn Oracion-Ong
via email
(Ed's Note:Dr Evelyn Oracion-Ong
is among the
real beauty-and-brains personality Tanjay has always been known
for.
She and her late husband, Dr Antonio Ong, have six children, four
of whom are also doctors. If plans push thru we can expect her to
join us as we celebrate the 3-day Tanjay USA 200 Fiesta Affair here in
California.)
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Brad, I
read the Tanjayanon
Newesletter that I got from Maninay Benny (Regalado-Reyes).
I'm the youngest brother of Eden, Lorna, Marlene and
Armi. Maybe the younger
ones are in
your age group. (Ed's note: Thank you.)
And also, your Tanjay
Trivia
is great. Let's have it in the Tanjay website and share it
with Tanjayanons all over the world.
Rene Gayo
Manila
(Dr. Rene R. Gayo, youngest
of the seven
children of the late Engr Mina Gayo and Encarnacion Regalado,
is the dean of the School of Management at the University of Asia and
Pacific.
He and Elwyn Borromeo, an executive of Purefoods, and son of Engr
Godong
and Ondin Real-Borromeo, were among those responsible for the re-birth
and re-organization of the Tanjay Association of
Metro
Manila.)
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Black eye
Brad, uy,
na-unsa na man
kono nang dalan sa Tanjay karon. Guba na man kono
kaayo.
Ug gikan kono ka sa Dumaguete sakay ug trak pa-ingon sa Bais, mahimo ra
kono ka'g katulog. Dili kono ka mabalaka nga molapaw, kay siguro
gyud kang makamata pag-abut sa Opaw sa Tanjay. Guba gyud no
kaayo,
nagbugol-bugol gyud. (Makatang-tang ug IUD, moingon nang uban.)
Ngano
man na?
Mao kono nga
ang mga sakyanan
mo-detour agi sa mga residential nga kadalanan sulod sa Tanjay.
Unya
tungod kay ang mga dagkung trak mangagi pud (karga'g tubo ug troso),
nanga-buslot
na pud ang atong mga dalan sulod sa Poblacion ug Ilaya sa Tanjay.
Kanang dalan atbang sa inyong balay diha sa Plaza, basi'g pag-uli nimo,
magsakayan na ka.
Brad,
I request
that thru this newsletter we inform and complain to our Public
officials
about the
situation.
Sonny Mercado
Canoga Park, CA
(Note: Copies of the Ang Tanjayanon
Newsletter are sent
to the offices of Cong Dodo Macias, Gov George Arnaiz
and Mayor Baltazar Salma. We hope,
this
time, a clerk would
get hold of a copy, read about your concerns and laugh before she
throws it in the garbage to be burned by the janitor. Get
the
idea?)
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| Announcing . . .
Grand Reunion
celebrating the
50th Year Anniversary
of the
ENI Class of 1951
Tanjay, Negros Oriental
Contact persons:
Vicente Reyes, California
Pablito Manapol, Washington
Dodoy Cornelio, Tanjay
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