GO JOHNNY, GO!
Sonny, thanks for the compliments ....I"m proud to say that for the 21 yrs of public service as a teacher I was able to impart in the minds of my students the knowledge of wisdom and the 3 R's of learning. Most of them are now professionals in their respective careers. They are now living with all the comforts of life. They are more successful than their former teachers. Congratulations and don't forget to give back whatever you can to the community where you came from. If ever you can help your relatives back home please do so.
Sonny , you're one of the most brilliant pupils in the NCS.I also remember Sammy Antonio,...when he was an instructor in the PSU , he usually made me my labels for all my reports when I was still a head teacher and a principal.
By August 31, 2007 , I'm retiring from my job in UCSD (University of California San Diego) after 20 yrs. of dedicated service. If someday you and your family be here in San Diego please don't hesitate to call me or send me a line or two. Regards to all my pupils.
Your former teacher,
Johnny
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I WAS NOT LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE ONE OF YOUR STUDENT. HOWEVER, YOU WERE MY MENTOR IN THE SCOUTING MOVEMENT.I AM FORTUNATE TO BE A MEMBER OF THE PROUD TROUP 497 OF NORTH CENTRAL.I HAVE LEARNED NEW THINGS AND IDEAS MORE THAN THE BOOKS HAS TO OFFER. THE LEARNING PROCESS GOES BEYOND THE FOUR WALLS OF LEARNING.IT EXTENDS IN THE OPEN FIELDS AND LONG WINDING RIVERS.I REMEMBER, IN THE PROVINCIAL JAMBOREE HELD IN BINALONAN WHEREIN WITH SOME SCOUT FRIENDS HAD TO TRAVERSED THE DENSE SUGAR CANE PLANTATION. YOUR GUESS IS GOOD AS MINE. (CALL OF NATURE). DONT KNOW IF SONNY E. WAS WITH US. MAYBE NOT. NOT DARING ENOUGH. HE'S JUST RIGHTEOUS).I REMEMBER BRENDO PASCUAL, EDGARDO SALES, RAMON DELMENDO, ELMER PISO, ALEX SOLORIA, ROBERT AGUNIAS AND OTHERS. YOU SCOLDED US WHEN WE WENT SWIMMING IN THE BINALONAN RIVER. SIR, THANK YOU FOR ALL THE EXPERIENCES AND YOUR GUIDANCE AND OF COURSE THE ONE RECIPE I NEVER FORGET, "TABUNGAW WITH SARDINES". OUR JANITOR ( FORGOT HIS NAME, SONNY E. CAN YOUR RECALL HIS NAME. HE IS FROM DUPAC) HELP US PREPARES THIS MENU ALWAYS. UP TO NOW, THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES DISHES.
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Are you referring to Mng. Kulas? The tall muscular guy. He is from Dupac, so I'm sure Sonny knows his last name. I'm proud to say that I'm also one of the students of the respected Scout Master - Sir Johnny Pascua.
--ARMANDO
Yes, of course. Who can forget the gentle and kid-friendly Manong Kulas (Mr Orpiano) from Dupac. From him and sir johnny, we learned how to survive the outdoors, make and tend fire, cook rice and various dishes. Aside from the tabungaw con sardines which you have already mentioned, other staples are balatong (alternately pinablad and buridibod), pinakbet and sinigang na bangus. We were thrilled not by the novelty of these dishes but by the fact that we were doing it by ourselves for the first time. You were considered extremely lucky if by chance you get a tiny bit of pork (sagpaw) from the balatong or the pinakbet. But with the appetite of about twenty tired and ravenous boy scouts, all jockeying to get to the kaldero first, who cares about the pork - anything is absolutely delicious. For snacks, kamote, sinkamas, green mangoes are always plentiful. In binalonan, it was cane fields. In natividad, we have to make do with onion and garlic farmlands. It is of course not easy to disappear among the sibuyas, unlike in cane fields. So we have to go further from the campsite to answer the call of nature – it helped a lot if you were wearing the green gala uniform instead of the white shirt. ha ha ha. Those farmlands must have become twice richer with all the organic fertilizers…
SONNY ESPEJO
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FROM ARSENIO MACANAS
Yes, APPLE CIDER VINEGAR IS A CURE for any kind of ailment but only if you follow the instructions of each particular ailment. Once you start taking it, it should be done religiously.
But remember this, don’t ever say anything in front of FDA or some doctors with connivance from FDA that ACV can cure because you will face off the consequences. They’ll sue you (Just kidding).
For those in the Philippines don’t worry they have also Apple cider vinegar in the big grocery stores like the ones in Urdaneta. They are imported from US of A. I bought one when I was there last year. It is just a little bit more expensive than our local vinegar.
Beware of the Philippines' local vinegar… any kind that can buy at local store or grocery stores like datu puti, sukang paombong etc. Those are not organic or made from natural… these made with acetic acid and water only. If you remember Nana Minang Marcos from cabingcolan the vinegar she was selling then those are the organic or natural, that could be observed by looking the very tiny worms floating on top.
Manong Vic, I am happy to hear that Manang Meg regained her sense of smell after more than 20 years of suffering allergies. Neither I, I am not saying Manag Meg ailment has been cured by AC Vinegar. I think it is time for her to be cured from above and the ACV is only the instrument.
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By the very essence of his job, a teacher can never measure success in terms of material gain. In teaching, one has to give more than what one ever hopes to take and that is why it is so ennobling. Teachers are never fairly compensated but they are far from bitter about it. Ask anyone who ever wanted to teach. They don’t feel threatened by the success of those whom they nurtured for they were not meant to compete with them – they were meant to be stepping stones for the others to reach new heights.
A teacher is the tree limb who could never hope to rise higher than the branches and the twigs – his students. But that does not make the limb inferior to the branches, on the contrary, the higher the twigs go above the limb, the better it has performed. If on the other hand the branches dipped lower, then we have a disaster. For nothing is more tragic and heartbreaking for a teacher than to see his students go to waste. And nothing is more gratifying than to know that his basic 3Rs had been usefully extended to loftier endeavors.
But the analogy does not stop there. Often, the giving and the taking is also one-way. Most oftenly, we fail to acknowledge them, which is the sad part. As the branch is to the limb, so as the pupil is to his teacher.
Teachers make only the littlest money but they make an enormously large difference which way we have went on with our lives. By extension, teachers should be given the most credit for what we have achieved.
For that, sir Johnny and for the rest of our old teachers – let me break the analogy – we owe what we are to you and we shall always be in perpetual gratitude.
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