from the Asingan Bulletin Board
Some postings from this Board are worth reprinting in the AJ since the readership of each is quite different from the other. Not many Asinganians know re: Pang.Org's Asingan Bulletin board, so here goes...
From: sonny espejo,
dupac/dubai
Saturday, July 21, 2007
I know you didn’t really mean what you posted about your aprehensions of domanpot pero mukhang matagal-tagal ka na rin yatang di nauwi sa atin, mr. president. sa dami kasi ng magagandang alternative route ngayon di mo na kailangan pang dumaan sa domanpot. if you’re taking a private car from manila, you can take the villasis to asingan road via carusucan; or from carmen, turn right towards rosales then to santa maria and cross that long magnificent asingan-sta maria bridge over the river to asingan. both routes offer excellent road conditions and lighter traffic – milage is a bit more but the travel time is usually less. but even if you miss those two exits, you could still proceed to urdaneta and use the recently paved (relatively) palaris road towards toboy. if you are from the northern part of dupac, this could even be your shortest route because of the new diversion road that runs through the northern tips of macalong and dupac and eastward towards the asingan-sta maria bridge. even if you take the public transport, you may end up stepping down the bus right into your doorstep because provincial buses like partas and viron trans usually re-route their trip via asingan-binalonan to avoid those atrocious traffic jams in downtown urdaneta during daytime. kahit papano umuusad naman ang bayan natin – reason enough for us to be proud of our town instead of completely giving up on it…
Siyanga pala bago ko makalimutan - avoid taking the villasis-asingan route at night, especially on rainy ones. sometime in 2001, i had a near-miss between carusucan and cabalitian because of a "parked carabao" (outrageous but true)right on the road. some unthinking folks, not wanting their herds to soak all night in their flooded corals, hitch them by the paved road! Its not easy to detect this dark beasts during a rainy night until you are just a few meters away. Me, I braked and slalomed my pick-up truck down to a ditch as soon as i noticed two shining eyes reflecting the headlight!
Sonny, from my photo files
Sonny, with his wheels...
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One Asinganian I visited on my LA trip was Johnny Pascua who lives in a seemingly isolated part of San Diego. One needs a map to find his bungalow. But it is worth the drive just seeing him again. He was my first friend in Grade 1 at the Asingan Elementary School. We never saw each other for 40 years until that happy meeting in his "ranch". Yep, the dude looks like a real "cowboy " all right with his house perched on a rolling hill. Very quiet at night. We shared jokes and laughs together inside a couple of hours..But his most rib tickling question was:
"Who is the bravest woman in Asingan?"
It was my first time to hear the joke. When I heard the answer, I almost rolled on the aisle, laughing my ass off..
I still smile, even up to now, remembering the answer..
Hey Rudy (Dumapias), buddy!! You should know the answer to this one!!
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1 comment:
Hey Sonny, I have those same shoes, hahaha. I've never been anywhere near the Persian Gulf, so is that "tallest tower in the world" done yet? Are you involve in that project? You know what would be nice is if you can take pictures of the locale and send it to Mang Vic. I'd love to see pictures of Dubai, that is, kung wala ka lang magawa.
Speaking of animals on the road, I once had to maneuver around a dead cow in the middle of the road. This poor thing was belly up with all fours in the air. Three hours later, I passed by the scene as they used a pulley system to move the carcass onto a flatbed tow truck. And one summer, there was a beached whale on our shore, and the locals (including me) went to see this gigantic beast. We were all speculating on how they were going to move this carcass before our town became a ghost town from the stench. I woke up the following morning, went to the beach and it was gone! No one seems to have noticed anything. Our local paper even had to speculate that it was airlifted out to the ocean, but no one confirmed it. Strange stories, I know. Wala ring magawa.
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