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Hello Mila!
I'll be looking forward to those articles on your parents. Did I get it right that you celebrated your father's 50th death anniversary? Then, you were orphaned at an early age. My LNS memories of you are those with your doting mother by your side. I even recall visiting Mr. Balagapo and Amy in Tanauan with my older sister and seeing her there.
Here's to a fruitful work week!!! |
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hi! thanks for visiting Q-Time Online Watch Shop. keep smiling! |
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Wow - you do have a very healthy diet! Colin needs one like that as part of his lifestyle (not just 'kung ganahan, at kung kailangan lang' mag-vegetarian. But he's into a lot of food supplements and fresh fruits) As for me, I don't have a problem in that department....maski ano - can do na.
Thanks for the invite to visit...I'll make it a 'dream' for the time being.....
My postal address is - Imelda Agustin-Ruiz
293-2 Tres de Abril, Punta Princesa
Cebu City, Philippines 6000
I don't lose mails, even with incomplete address 'cause the postman's already my friend.
Have fun with your family tomorrow!
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Thanks Bella and Imelda! What a wonderful surprise from both of you! It's still May 18 here, but our eldest son Norman and his girlfriend Elaina dropped by with a birthday cake and a present, and we had tea and grape-skin bread (it's actually 80% rye and 20% grape skin flour) with jam -- a favorite in the family.
Our daughter Lala, husband Derek and family are in New York for a long-weekend holiday; our son Lawrence and wife Liise and daughter Naeema are attending a family convention. We will be seeing each other tomorrow.
Hermie and I are enjoying our long weekend (it's Victoria Day weekend here -- the nation celebrates with fireworks at night in various places. We prefer to stay in our empty nest -- a coy little piece of heaven in the City. ( Hermie prepares breakfast -- an organic power jiuce of apples, carrots, beets, and celery); I cook lunch -- kale and lettuce greens, with carrots and cranberries, topped with home made dressing (olive oil, balsamic vinegar, maple syrup) -creamy tomato soup; organic brown basmati rice; and baked salmon fillet; then tanglad tea with chocolate and peanut butter soya ice cream (we've been semi vegetarians -- only vegetables, fruits, nuts and grains with a little bit of fish -- for around 20 years now.)
Come and visit us and we'll feed you and we'll take you up the CN tower, and visit the beautiful NIagara-on-the-Lake -- Canada's prettiest town -- only 15 minutes from the falls.
Nice to have friends like you.
Mila
Hope you're both well and enjoying the rest of the weekend.
Again, thanks for the pleasant greetings (the sparkly card says it all, Bella; and the newspaper items repeatedly herald my 2 minutes of fame. Imelda). Gosh, I envy your creative high tech savvy. I'll make up with snail mail pieces.
Imelda, could you please give me your postal mail address? I now have Bellas.
Warm regards to your families.
Mila |
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Happy Mothers Day to you my good friends!
Mila |
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Happy Mothers (and Grandmothers) day to all of you.
Warm regards,
Mila |
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My e-mail address:
milaagarcia@gmail.com
regards! |
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Hi Mila,
Can you give me your e-mail address? Just post it in the Personal Message page if you don't want it published for everyone.
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I will then, Bella. Thanks.
It's been a hectic week here, with our coverage of the visit of three opposition congressmen, who had an audience with Canadian parliamentarians in Ottawa. We just got word they had a very good reception, as they felt their concerns were heard.
Sayang, our new issue already came out before we received this news from Ottawa. But have a look at the latest issue, which would have already been uploaded by 6 pm Toronto time, in my estimate.
Regards,
Mila |
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I'm very sure that Leonardo or Jun Caintic will be extremely pleased if you dropped some lines at his guestbook. Please do. |
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Yes, Bella, I saw it in your link box. The last name is familiar. Perhaps we've somehow known each other, just don't know where. Before I saw this note from you I thought of asking you if we were schoolmates in LNS. Anyway, it was great of them to respond with such an encouraging feedback -- I shared it with Hermie and our sons. Thanks Bella.
IN your link, I checked out the Caintic's link to find out more about them. WAs tempted to reply, but could not be sure about multiply protocol. Is this acceptable? Just to say to them, thank you for your kind words about our paper. And to ask if we've met in the past.
Anyway, thanks again.
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Mila, there's an immediate warm reaction to the link I just made to your paper, from my recent contacts - Leonardo & Virgie Caintic, originally from Tacloban ( Leonardo or Jun was our neighbor on Real st.), now residents of Princeton, New Jersey. See this at my link box. Do you happen to know them? |
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Thanks a lot for the link, and the generous plug.
I'll inform Hermie and our staff about this. They will surely be pleased.
Warm regards,
Mila
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Dear Bella,
Thanks for your note. You didn't have to sound so apologetic, for perhaps the idea that you were initiating this project was purely mine, arising out of my excitement of knowing you were already involved in such a project -- and for me, it doesn't really matter who starts, or who started it. But you wrote a lovely piece; you seem so adept at doing this kind of writing, that even a non-family member found that account so fascinating.
So, dear cousin, keep on with the project with whoever had started it, and with whoever else is involved. Remember, you're a valuable asset/ resource in this field.
As for me, regarding the De Veyra family tree,whether it is a book project or whatever, who knows, it may have already been completed by someone else in the family, moi having stalled on this for so long that I don't even have the complete set of data my aunt wanted me to take with me here in Canada way back in 1995. Why? Because I felt the document was safer with her then, that I only got the portion where four generations of my own family were recorded with all the latest details at that time. And also because I wasn't really ready to do anything about it then, except to keep it pencilled as one of my "to do in the not so near future list."
I would just be as happy to contribute writing part of the family history, as I would be thrilled to start it. Who knows, this huge task may not even be completed to satisfaction in my lifetime. There will always be the future generations of perhaps even better writers to keep it going -- right? The important thing is to be an enthusiastic part of its making. To be credited as part of it is not an ego-trip exercise. It is essential in establishing the credibility, authenticity, and accountability of a written document. This is what responsible authorship means.
So cheers to you!
Mila |
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I’ve just created the link to your Phil Reporter website in my Multiply homepage. Dumb of me to think I needed Katrina’s help; only now it dawned on me that all I had to do was use the link box in my frontpage the same way I did when I linked some sites before. I was needlessly thinking of another complicated procedure! So there it is. I hope it works.
By the way, my cousin Jan ( the one in whose website you posted comments 2 or 3 days back) got a big shock yesterday when he opened his site and saw all of his guestbook gone! I had actually noticed it ahead of him ( it was morning here in Bangkok while Ontario was asleep), so I emailed him about it, asking whether he had deliberately deleted the whole guestbook with its already kilometric blogs or comments. He emailed back to say he did not and that he was so shocked and was looking for a way to retrieve the ‘disappeared’ blogs. All he remembers, he said, was that he kept tinkering with some of his entries because some days or time did not appear in them, or something like that. And to think, he said, that he was just about getting the hang of it…blogging. Oh well…
I hope you get the chance to meet up with Jan and his wife Evelyn and the rest of my Yu Asensi relatives there. Ciao for now! |
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Dear Mila,
First of all, let me correct your impression that I’m the chief initiator in the creation of the Yu Asensi family tree. I’m not. In fact, I have only been tasked to fill up the template for our branch of the family – the Yu Asensi-Libarios family – that was sent to me thru email. Had I not received the email from cousin Jorge Yu Asensi thru my hotmail address after helloing me in my Multiply website, I wouldn’t have gotten wind of the family tree goings-on. And I wouldn’t have known further that there were already lively exchanges of emails among some Yu Asensis, exultantly keen on the idea of tracking down all the other unheard of and unseen Yu Asensis so that our family tree could be erected. Apparently the family tree idea came up during the wake ( and the burial thereafter ) for our uncle, Tiyo Tany Yu Asensi, in Manila last month, which saw the gathering of several of our relatives. The idea gathered steam on the Internet with the eager 'stewardship' of our Asensi guys – Jorge, Uncle Bob, Jan.
I posted my ‘Lola Paula’ blog in my website in consonance with our collective efforts towards putting up our family tree as well as my tribute to a grandmother I never saw but only heard about. I never meant the blog as a prelude to my immersion as the key player in the building of our Yu Asensi family tree. I have to admit I’m not up to the task, mainly because I lack the patience and tenacity needed for such an undertaking, and especially so since I hate getting stalled by the slowness and indifference of some people from whom I will be asking needed info data. My tolerance level in this regard is very low.
I have sounded this off to you because I don’t want to grab credit from others. I am just one of the contributors to the completion of our family tree; in no way can I claim to be the one who thought of the idea first. I might have wanted a long time ago to write a book with a story plot centered on the Yu Asensi, but I never meant to task myself with arduous research work.
Just the same, I am into this family project 100%.
Hey, I'll write you on another note later. Bye for now. Goodnight from where I am.
Bella
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