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September 29, 2007

AGUS RIVER , ITS WISE UTILIZATION

By Rudy Arizala

Note: The main purpose of this short article is to call attention for the need of careful and wise utilization of said Agus River in the light of a reported plan to construct two huge dams on said river which pose great danger to lives and properties in the area.

I menioned other major rivers of the world, to show with the exception of the Nile River, other rivers such as the Rhine, Danube, etc., no huge dams were constructed. Also, they are examples of wise, careful and proper utilization of rivers. Even in a developing country like Cambodia and Vietnam they have the so-called "Mekong River Development Authority" which supervises the wise, proper and safe use of the river. Methinks the towns of Gen. Nakar and Infanta should organize or install an "Agus River Development Authority". This could be done by adopting a joint resolution and request the assistance of the United Nations on the matter. Rudy
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AGUS RIVER , ITS WISE UTILIZATION

By Rudy A. Arizala
27 September 2007

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Most human settlements - villages, towns and cities, are located at the banks of rivers or near them. Why? Simply because since the early dawn of civilization, rivers have been sources of livelihood. They are sources of food, drinking water as well as for their sanitary needs, washing and fluvial means of transport. They are also use in irrigating dry lands for agriculture.

Thus, in the island of Luzon, Philippines, due to presence of rivers and waterways especially in its Southern part, many people settled and up to now are dwelling near rivers. Because they dwell at or near rivers, they were called "Taga-ilog" (River-dwellers) and consequently known as "Tagalog". That Southern part of Luzon is commonly referred to these days as the "Tagalog Region".

"River-settlers" or "dwellers" are not only found in the Philippines but also in other countries of the world. Most towns and cities are located at or bisected by rivers. So, if Manila has its Pasig river, London has Thames river, Paris, Seine; New York, East River & Hudson; Berlin, Havel; Moscow, Moskva; Budapest, Danube; Rome, Tiber; Vienna, Danube; Cairo, Nile; Baghdad, Tigris; Delhi, Yamuna; Jakarta, Liwung; Bnngkok, Chao Phraya; Seoul Han; Tokyo, Sumida; Shanghai, Han; Ho Chi Minh City, Saigon; Santiago, Mapocho; Buenos Aires, Rio de la Plata; Lima, Rimac; Asuncion, Parana; and Sao Paulo, Tiete.

In the Philippines, aside from Pasig river bisecting Metro Manila, we also have many towns and villages bisected or located near rivers. For example in Infanta, Quezon, we have the "Sapa - Bantilan - Sala" rivers while in nearby town of Gen. Nakar, Quezon, along its boundary line with Infanta, Quezon, we have the "Agus River."

The Agus River does not only provide means of livelihood, food, drinking water and fluvial means of transport to the people but also as means of irrigating the ricefields. Thus, Agus river has its myths and legends. For example, it is the common belief among the people living near Agus river that a form of tribute has to be paid annually to this great river in terms of human life - at least one person gets drown in said river. A tribute or fee has to be paid for the beneficial use the river gives the people and to appease it during rainy or typhoon months so as not to cause a deluge. So, during inclement weather people near the Agus river are cautious and remind themselves to be very careful because somebody among them might be the victim of drowning - a payment of tribute to the river ("pambayad ng buwis sa Agus.")

But such danger to life and property would, henceforth, not only arise from natural causes but also from "man-made ones, for according to reports, the Philippine national government has a grandmaster plan to construct two big dams - the "Laiban Dam" at "Agius river Kaliwa" (left tributary) and another big dam at "Agus river Kanan" (right tributary). The "Laiban dam" is designed to divert the water of Agus river (kaliwa) to supplement fresh water needs of Metro Manila, while the dam at Agus river (kanan) located between the towns of Gen. Nakar and Infanta,Quezon, is designed to generate hydro-electric power.

The construction of these two dams while it may have beneficial effects to the people, according to experts, pose also great possible danger to lives and properties in Infanta, Gen. Nakar and Real towns. The risk arise from the fact that both the Laiban Dam (at Agus Kaliwa) and Gen. Nakar dam (at Agus Kanan) would lie approximately 20 and 10 kilometers away respectively from the "Infanta fault lines" So, in case of earthquake, any breakage to any of the two dam structures would cause a deluge and submerge the whole town of Infanta, Quezon and surrounding areas under water.

The peaceful, safe ferry-boat ride and other beneficial uses being enjoyed at present by the people of Infanta and Gen. Nakar from the Agus river as shown in the pictures, would become a thing of the past or exist in pictures and in our memories only if the construction of the Laiban and Gen. Nakar dam projects at Agus Kaliwa and Kanan respectively, would push through. Because of the existence of the "Infanta fault line", as pointed out by experts, there would be a constant clear and present danger of a deluge hanging like a "Sword of Damocles" over the heads of the people in the Infanta-Gen. Nakar-Real towns of Quezon province.

There is an urgent need, therefore, for vigilance, conservation, careful and wise utilization of the Agus River as done in other major rivers of the world.

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September 20, 2007

School kids chip in for anti-dam campaign

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Inquirer Southern Luzon : School kids chip in for anti-dam campaign


By Delfin Mallari Jr.
Inquirer

Posted date: September 19, 2007

LUCENA CITY – Schoolchildren in northern Quezon towns are contributing a few pesos of their daily cash allowance to help fund a campaign against government dam projects in the Sierra Madre mountain rivers and avert a possible environmental disaster.
“Grade school children have all been made aware of the importance of their signatures in the petition,” Pol Derillo, board chair of the Metro Infanta Foundation (MIF), said in a report posted in the group’s website over the weekend. “Some of them even made a vow to contribute a portion of their ‘baon’ just to show commitment.”

Chyrralenin Suapero, a Grade 2 pupil of the Disciple Christian School in Infanta, said she was aware of the danger posed by the dams once these are completed. “I’m afraid that it will again bring floods to our town. I don’t want that to happen,” she said in Filipino.

Aside from signing the petition, Suapero said she contributed P5 from her P20 daily school allowance to support the anti-dam campaign. “My schoolmates have also affixed their signatures. Some of them also gave portions of their allowance. And we’re all willing to contribute more to stop the dams,” she said.

Her aunt, Shirley Valenzuela, said the girl had been extremely afraid of the prospect of their town being flooded again. “Their house was fully submerged during the 2004 flash floods. Only the roof was left visible in the flood,” she said.

Campaign

In November 2004, landslides and rampaging floods from the Sierra Madre submerged most parts of Infanta and General Nakar towns, killing hundreds of people and destroying millions of pesos worth of property.

Since last month, the environmental group Task Force Sierra Madre (TFSM) has been conducting a signature drive among the residents of Real, Infanta and General Nakar (RIN) to stop the government’s plan to resurrect the Laiban dam project and construct the Kanan B-1 dam for a proposed hydroelectric plant.

Derillo said the signatures would be submitted to President Macapagal-Arroyo and other concerned government officials.

“Before we asked the people, especially the schoolchildren, to sign the petition, we fully explained to them the contents of the document. The teachers painstakingly clarified and translated every word of the petition to their students for their full understanding,” he said.

The Laiban dam, a project of the national government and the Manila Waterworks and Sewerage System, is designed to divert water from the Kaliwa River in the Sierra Madre and augment supply to Metro Manila.

It was supposedly part of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos’ plan of building an industrial complex in northeastern Luzon, but due to strong opposition from indigenous peoples, it was shelved. Only two diversion tunnels are left and serve as reminders of the aborted project.

Hydroelectric plant

The Kanan B-1 dam is intended to harness the resources of the Kanan River for a hydroelectric plant.

The Kaliwa and Kanan rivers are major tributaries of the Agos River that runs along General Nakar and Infanta.

One of the main arguments against the projects is that these lie between the Marikina and Real-Infanta fault lines.

Derillo warned that the dams could bring floods to the RIN area, particularly Infanta, considering the size of the Laiban dam and its water-holding capacity.

The Laiban dam will be 113 meters high and 500 meters wide, and its vast water reservoir can cover seven villages in Tanay, Rizal and Barangay Lumutan in General Nakar. The Kanan B-1 dam is smaller but with a diagonal tunnel that will run towards the northern area of Sierra Madre where the turbine to generate electricity will be constructed.

The risk arises from the fact that both the Laiban and Kanan B-1 structures will be 20 and 10 kilometers away, respectively, from the Infanta fault line, according to Derillo.

During an Intensity 7 earthquake, the dams might crack and submerge the whole of Infanta, he said.

Studies

Citing studies conducted by three Chinese scientists sent by the United Nations to Infanta in 1996, as well as data from the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Derillo said the cracks in the fault line are active and might have a direct link to the Intensity 8 earthquake in 1880.

He noted that the whole RIN area suffered an unprecedented destruction to as far as Mauban town in the south and Intramuros, Manila, in the west.

The bell towers of the San Agustin Church and the Manila Cathedral were broken during that earthquake, Derillo said. The first churches in Infanta and in Mauban were also destroyed, he added.

“Given the risk of losing human lives, destruction of property and the continued disintegration of the environment, every resident should weigh these consequences with the so-called progress and/or even with the highest proof of structural integrity of the projects,” he said.

“Why gamble human lives in the name of progress when the safety standards are highly vulnerable to compromise, oversight and corruption?”

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September 16, 2007

INDIA INTERLUDE: Jade stone, Snake.-charmer & Taj Majal

By Rudy A. Arizala

Below is a piece of long ago. When New Delhi and India are not yet as developed and progressive as they are today. When semi-precious stones are sold Tibetan refugess on sidewalks of city streets near hotels. There were no shopping malls except the stores and bazaars around Connaught Place or Circle. When there were no 5-star hotels yet in the Capital City of New Delhi except the "Imperial Hotel" along Janpath Road near the Philippine Embassy at Thapar House. When I was just starting my diplomatic career, the lowest ranking Filipino officer as Asst. Attache of the Embassy. When only rich Filipinos, scholars, Filipino musicians on contract and public officials could travel abroad, there being no Overseas Filipinos Workers yet during those days. When means of air travel are not yet on fast, high flying "Jumbo" jet planes, but on twin-engine propeller -driven planes.

You may consider it the "romantic side" of a young, budding, bachelor inexperienced Pinoy diplomat.

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INDIA INTERLUDE
Jade stone, Snake.-charmer and Taj Majal)

16 September 2007

I. Old Notebooks

The other day while rummaging over the files on my bookshelves, I chanced upon an old notebook of mine. It was the first notebook I brought with me from Manila during my first travel abroad in connection with my foreign assignment.-in New Delhi.

Leafing over its pages now yellow with age and the letters are now somewhat blurred with age but still readable, ( I wrote said notes in 1959), the following memories returned like haunting ghosts of the past.

I was then a budding young lawyer-diplomat at the Philippine Embassy in New Delhi. Being the youngest and unmarried Filipino staff member, aside from my duties on legal matters and as private secretary to the Ambassador, whenever there are visitors or tourists from the Philippines, I was the one made by the Ambassador to meet and see them off at the airport. Also, to act as tourist guide for them in New Delhi as well as in travel to places outside the capital city of India such as Agra where the world-famous temple of love "Taj Majal" is located and Benares City where the sacred waters of the Ganges river pass through. Benares City is a place for religious pilgrimage among Hindus where they bathe themselves at least once a year to cleanse themselves of sins. Benares is also noted for its beautiful silk shawls or veils which women love to wear or cover their head and face.

My old notebooks also recall to mind when I accompanied a Filipina mother and her two young pretty daughters from a prominent family in Manila visited the touristic spots in New Delhi as well as in Old Delhi (some 4 kms. Away) where the "Red Fort", an old Muslim palace, is located along the banks of the Yamuna river. So, I wrote home in the Phiippines that members of a prominent family from Manila on their way to London recently made a stopover in India and I was their tourist guide. The mother was accompanying her two pretty young daughters to London where they were going to study further. They graduated from an exclusive convent school for girls in Manila.

My horizon is starting to widen by meeting prominent and important people from the Philippines. After touring New Delhi, our Embassy Administrative Officer invited them to have lunch at Imperial Hotel restaurant near the Philippine Embassy. They invited me to join them also.

At the Imperial Hotel restaurant, there is a Filipino Band or Orchestra which provides music during lunch time. The same Filipino Orchestra provides music at the Tavern Inn, a restaurant of Imperial Hotel which is open at night from Monday to Saturday where one could not only have dinner but also dance and witness a "floor show." When the band leader learned that our guests for lunch were from the Philippines, they started playing Filipino music, much to the delight of our guests. They also played some old English songs among them "Over the Rainbow," with the haunting lyrics sung by the Filipina vocalist part of it goes like this: "Somewhere over the rainbow skies are blue / And the dreams that you dare to dream / Really do come true. . ." The youngest daughter commented "That´s a lovely old sweet song."

During lunch the mother asked me some personal questions such as where I came from in the Philippines; what college degree I finished and whether I am married, Because of the answers given her I earned from her a new designation - "the boy Embassy lawyer." She then started addressing me "hijo" and asked the Embassy Administrative Officer if I could be excused from my job at the Office the next day so that I could accompany them in their trip to Agra City, a six-hour drive from New Delhi to see the world famous Taj Majal.

After lunch, the mother and her elder daughter said they would go upstairs to their hotel room to rest. However, the younger daughter, told her mother she would like to go out for a walk at a side street near the hotel where sidewalk vendors hawk their wares, mostly souvenir items for tourists. The mother agreed and requested me to accompany her daughter but to return on time for the late afternoon tea.

So, off we went for our after lunch souvenir shopping. The semi-precious stones being sold by a Tibetan woman with a small baby in her arms caught her fancy. She picked out a semi-polished jade stone and examined it meticulously. I told the Tibetan woman I would buy the jade stone as a good luck charm for my girl companion. She insisted on paying for it, but the Tibetan woman said to her in halting or broken English; "Miss, accept gift, give you good luck." And so with hesitation but gratefully she accepted the jade stone uttering almost in whispers: "Thank You."

Then we went window shopping at nearby Connaught Circle two or three blocks away from the hotel stopping at Gaylord Coffee Shop for a cup of tea and some Indian sweets wrapped in tinfoils. Gaylord is the favorite meeting place of Delhi University male students and girls from Lady Harding College. Like any other young teenagers or students, they love to have refreshments and dance to the music provided by an Anglo-Indian band which plays modern pieces. We danced a few steps of "Cha-cha" and "Rock N´ Roll" then we went back to the hotel and found her mother and elder sister already taking their "merienda" (cup of tea "English style" and some cookies) at a verandah of the hotel overlooking a flowering garden. The mother greeted us with a question: "Where did the two of you go?" And like an excited child who discovered something new, she narrated to her mother our experience with the Tibetan woman selling semi-precious stones and our sampling of the Indian sweets wrapped in tinfoils at Gaylord Coffee Shop in Connaught Place where an Anglo Indian Orchestra provides music to the late afternoon "happy hours" of Delhi University students.

The next morning, I accompanied them to Agra City. As in New Delhi, I became their tourist guide in Agra City as well as while visiting the Taj Majal. On our way back to New Delhi, we stopped at a small village along the trunk road where a snake charmer displayed his ability to make a bunch of cobra come out of his bamboo basket with their heads swaying as if in unison with the musical notes coming from his bamboo flute. When they left New Delhi to continue their trip to London, I was requested by the Ambassador to see them off at the airport. We bade goodbyes at each other. Nothing is left except memories.

II. Playful Memories

Memories are sometimes like playful ghosts of the past which come unexpectedly and suddenly reminding you of events beautiful and sad. All what you could do is either smile or sigh, trying to vanish those ghosts of the past, but the more you try, the more it becomes clearer like the first golden light of dawn streaking against the eastern sky, refusing to disappear behind the inner darkness of your soul.

Judith B. Evans wrote in her poem "Comes the Dawn," the inevitable truth that "After a while, you learn the subtle difference between holding a hand and claiming a soul, And loving does´nt mean leaning and company is not security.. . . After a while you begin to accept your defeats with your head up and your eyes open, with the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child."

And finally, as the ghosts of the past memories vanish, "You learn that with every good-bye comes the dawn."

Wonder, what became of her. I remember her sad melancholy eyes but lits up like that of a child whenever I crack jokes with her while we were visiting the Red Fort in Old Delhi, or I narrate to her while at Taj Majal that such magnificient temple was built by a young lover prince for beauteous Mumtaz Majal. And I could see still the horror on her face when I told her that along the sacred holy Ganges river in Benares near Agra City, are funeral pyres where the dead Hindus are cremated while other believers bathe in the river to cleanse themselves of their sins. And I could still feel her arms when she innocently cling on me as if for protection while we stopped along the way from Agra Ctiy back to New Delhi at a small village where there was a snake-charmer making a bunch of cobras come out from his bamboo basket seemingly fascinated by the music coming out from his bamboo flute.

I hope she has a very happy and blessed life which she richly deserved. What happened to the unmounted dark green jade stone as a good luck charm from an old Tibetan woman in New Delhi? I hope it really gave her good luck and made her dreams come true as in the old song "Over the Rainbow" which says: "Somewhere over the rainbow / Skies are blue / And the dreams that you dream to dream / Really do come true. . ."

September 11, 2007

Indeed, "WHY ACCEPT THE RISK?"

By Rudy A. Arizala

Kuya Poling Derilo´s recent article in the MIF website "Why Accept the Risk?" is not only timely but a serious food for thought. We should make serious studies and compare it with other dam projects such as those constructed in Paraguay.

In 1988, after my visit to Paraguay, Brazil and Argentina, I sent the following reports to Manila on the two dams being constructed in Paraguay:

"After lunch, we continued our trip stopping at the Yacreta hydro-electric project where a big dam is being jointly constructed by Paraguay and Argentina over the Parana river. "Yacreta" is an Indian word which means "Valley of the Moon". When completed, the Yacreta dam will be 8 kilomeers in length; 200 meters wide and 70 meters high. The surface of the lake created when finished will have an area of 1,800 square kilometers capable of holding 81,000 GWH, which is 65% of the present electric energy needs of Paraguay and Argentina. The Yacreta dam, when finished, would be capable also of irrigating some 140,000 hectares of agricultural lands. The project could involve the transfer or relocation of a town with 25,000 inhabitants, their houses, schools, churches, commercial buildings, hospitals, etc. A part of the city of Encarnacion would also be under water. The project will see to it that the fauna and flora of the locality and the various species of fish in the river are preserved.

"The other huge hydro-electric power dam in Paraguay is the Itaupu Dam. It is 100 meters in height; 8 kilometers in length; and 200 meters wide on top of the dam. The artificial lake created is 1,460 square kilometers in size. It also involve the transfer of thousands of inhabitants, fauna and flora."

Comments

These two dams in Paraguay are not located ar or near earthquake fault lines. However, in the case of the construction of the Laiban and Kanan B-1 dams in Gen. Nakar, harnessing the waters of the Agus River, the risk, according to experts and scientists, arise from the fact that both Laiban and Kanan B-1 structures lies approximately 20 and 10 kilometers away respectively from the Infanta fault lines. Thus, the two Agus river dams pose a great possible risk of deluge in the towns of Real, Infanta, and General Nakar. Furthermore, the height and size of the dam to be constructed in Laiban will be 113 meters high, 500 meters wide and with a reservoir that covers 7 barangays. In other words, the Laiban dam would be much higher and bigger than that of Itaupu and Yacreta dams in Paraguay aside from being at or near the Infanta fault lines.

Indeed, "WHY ACCEPT THE RISK?"


September 10, 2007

Why Accept The Risk?

By Pol Derilo

In its regular session last Monday, September 10, the Municipal Council of Infanta unanimously passed a resolution opposing the construction of Laiban and Kanan B-1 dams in Gen. Nakar. A project of the national government and Manila Waterworks and Sewerage System, Laiban Dam is designed to divert water of Kaliwa River to supplement the needs of Metro Manila. The Kanan B-1 dam is intended to harness the resources of Kanan River for generating a hydroelectric plant. Both rivers are major tributaries of Agos River that runs along the towns of Gen. Nakar and Infanta.

One of the highlights of Task Force Sierra Madre’s signature drive in opposing the construction of these two dam projects is the argument that their sites pose a great possible risk of deluge in RIN most particularly the municipality of Infanta.

This is possible considering the size of Laiban dam and the volume of water stored in it once it becomes operational. Towering over the eastern side of Sierra Madre mountains and facing the plains of RIN, Laiban dam will be 113 meters high, 500 meters wide and with a resevoir that covers 7 barangays in Tanay, Rizal and barangay Lumutan in Gen. Nakar totalling 5 kilomters long. On a smaller scale, Kanan B-1 also faces Gen. Nakar & Infanta but with a diagonal tunnel towards the northern area of Pagsangahan called by another name Mahabang Lalim. Supposedly, that is where the turbine generates electricity.

The risk arise from the fact that both Laiban and Kanan B-1 structures lies approximately 20 & 10 kilometers away respectively from the Infanta fault lines. Running northward from the eastern shores of Capalong, the fault runs northward across several barangays of the three towns up to the seaside corner boundary of San Marcelino and Sablang, Gen. Nakar. With an intensity VII earthquake, any breakage to any of the dam structures will aggravate the earthquake along the fault lines that is perceived to be the submersion of the whole town of Infanta.

According to three Chinese scientists sent by the UN to Infanta in 1996 as well as data secured from Phivolcs, these cracks are active and might have direct link to the intensity VIII earthquake in 1880. With Its epicenter between barangays Sablang and Tamala both located on eastern seaboard of Gen. Nakar, the whole RIN area suffered an unprecedented destruction to as far as Mauban in the south and to as far as Intramuros, Manila in the west. The bell towers of San Agustin church and the Manila Cathedral both broke during that earthquake. The first church in Infanta and Mauban were devastated with the recorded magnitude of IX scale.

In the signature campaign, every available information are given to enlighten everyone in making their choices. Given the risks of losing human lives, destruction of properties and the continuos disintegration of the environment, every resident should weight these consequences with the so called “progress” and/or even with the highest proof of structural integrity of the projects. Prudence is crucially important in preserving the present and future generations. Man-made risks should never be equated with attainable assurance of self preservation by not constructing any dam close to any fault line. Why gamble human lives in the name of progress when the safety standards are highly vulnerable to compromise, oversight and corruption.

Task Force Sierra Madre is still steps behind in their goal of stopping these projects. Targeted numbers are still deficient but possibly attainable with Real and Gen. Nakar campaign also progressing. With the great number of RIN’s population, TFSM is confident that the President will not ignore humane consideration in this segment of the country. The petition includes age brackets who can acknowledge and understand the value of human lives, thus, from elementary school children to adults. Grade school children were all made aware of the importance of their signature in the petition. Some of them even made vows to contribute a portion of their “baon” just to show commitment to this effort.

With our stride coming along steady and assured, we will come up with the document full of hope, appeal and humility from the living people of RIN. It will embody their assertions that they are freely and responsibly answering the call of their Creator, i.e., loving their God and loving His creations.

September 07, 2007

Remembering Alfon

My prayers for Dr. Merana and his family. As one of my classmates in high school in Infanta I am deeply saddened by his passing away. I remember him and Luisito Ello trying to get the attention of my beautiful friend Monica Evardome. For that reason they were ever ready to helping us with our difficult assignments.

Lily Garcia

ODE TO LUCIANO PAVAROTTI

By Rudy A. Arizala
06 September 2007

P - eople of the world over
A - ll mourn at your demise
V - oice with sweet golden tenor
A - ngel-like, soothing voice
R - everberating their midst
O - h! no longer be heard
T - oday and in the future
T - ears of regret, sadness
I - n eyes as prayers uttered.

September 06, 2007

Dr. Merana, you're in our prayers

It has been more than 25 years since we last saw each other. Dr. Alfonso Merana was a good surgeon, professor, colleague and most of all, a good friend.

Dr. Merana, you are in our thoughts and prayers.

Emil and Grace

September 03, 2007

Ode to Alfon

In connection with the passing away of Dr. Alfon Meraña of Infanta, Quezon, hereunder is my tribute to him.

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ODE TO DR.ALFON MERAÑA
By Rudy A. Arizala
03 September 2007

"Alfon passed away", said the news
Like weight of the whole universe
Fell on me, when it reached my ears
On the other hand, I feel light
No longer burden with sadness
Remembering bright memories
Memories bring me to the past
Events when we were students
Residing in Paco District
And pursuing our careers
Now after your Hippocratic oath
And my laywer-diplomat oath.
Eternity´s door you enter
After years of healing the sick
I pray that may flights of angels
Carry thee to the Lord´s bosom
There, you rest in peace forever!

September 01, 2007

September

Sept. 5 - Junjun Juntereal-Salvana
Sept. 6 - Romulo Juntereal
Sept. 6 - Tessie Leodones Pagalilauan
Sept. 7 - Josefina Juntereal
Sept. 8 - Sansan Arizala
Sept. 9 - Liza P. Villeno
Sept. 9 - Rino Crisostomo
Sept. 11 - Ed Arizala
Sept. 12 - Rodnard Crisostomo
Sept. 12 - Joel E. Resplandor
Sept. 15 - Femy P. Juntereal
Sept. 18 - Ava Crisostomo
Sept. 19 - Conching Fornilda-Jaug
Sept. 21 - Emerita C. Fornilda
Sept. 24 - Rex Crisostomo
Sept. 25 - Rudy Arizala
Sept. 27 - Tiso Arnisto