6 May 01. Sunny Escareal-Velasco's Home, Tierra Nueva Village, Muntinlupa City.

In attendance: Zamby Arnaiz, Evelyn Angeles, Corby Balda, Sunny Escareal, Yeyet Hernandez, Lia Jovellanos, Erika Miranda, Marisa Martinez, Winifred Medina, Florian Nuval, Beth Reyes, Malu Santos, Janette San Juan, Dettie & Dolly Tesoro, Joyce Tioseco, Yambi Yambao plus husbands, Bani Arit, Tom Carunungan, Tony Diestro, Dave Froelich and Kiko Velasco, kids, Louie Diestro and Alexa J. Ramos and siyempre, Mikey and Enzo Velasco.

Total of 16 classmates , 5 hubbies and 4 kids. Plus of course my mom, sis Chiqui and kids plus several nephews.

Front row (seated): Joyce TF, Sunny EV and Evelyn A

Back (seated): Dolly T, Erika MD, Zamby A, Dettie TC, Florian NN and Lia JR

Standing: Malu S., Yamby Y, Winifred MA, Marisa M. and Beth RL 

Not really sure how we all fit into my living and dining room but we did squeeze in. First time for Joyce and Dave to attend a reunion in my house so it was a good thing they had the good sense of humor to survive Yeyet and Erika.

Anyway, ball started rolling with a long discussion about breast-feeding, mammography, and such. We thoroughly enjoyed Erika's narrative. It ended with a wish that mammography be used to check for prostate cancer in men Aray!!!!

Lunch was served and we had lumpiang bangus shanghai, barbecue, fried pancit canton, embotido made by my ever-faithful, ever-true Yaya Alma. Bina could not come but she sent over (or rather Malu picked it up) chicken curry. Zamby brought her signature dilis and (nag-doble) buko-pandan. We had a total of 5 cakes - 2 chocolate cakes (one was baked specially by Cecilia Revilla-Schulz), one carrot cake, one pine-apple upside-down cake (again by Cecilia) one refrigerator cake (prepared by Yeyet's daughter) and one mango creme pie. On top of that we also had my buko pandan with sago (which Ta-da!!!! I made), sapin-sapin and my yaya's guinataan. Malu S brought turon while Marisa brought pastries from Dulcinea.

Eto na! Yeyet's refrigerator cake was right smack in the middle of our table. Louie wanted to taste it but Mother Erika warned him that Yeyet brought the cake. Despite Yeyet's protest that her daughter made it, Erika said "Louie! Remember the stories about your Tita Yeyet! Remember!!!!" So we said "Oo nga, baka may laway yan ni Yeyet." We didn't know that Alexa, Lia's daughter, was already eating it. And when she heard us talking about it, she froze and just looked at all of us cuz we were all staring at her. Anyway, Louie knew we were just teasing Yeyet so he decided na tapusin ang kaniyang inumpisahan. So he got a "small" piece. Ewan ko nga lang if he ate it.:o)

Front (seated); Yeyette and daughter, Kate.

Back (seated): Dolly, Malu, Yamby, Erika, Joyce, Winifred, Florian and Alexa (Lia's daughter)

Standing: Corby, Sunny, Dettie, Marisa, Zamby and Lia

Yambi arrived and talks shifted to the EDSA TRES rally. FYI, Yambi was right smack in the middle of the crowd at EDSA. So she gave us a narrative of the "surrender" or was it an "arrest"? She also told us that what you saw on TV was not precise cuz when the soldiers came to "arrest" ERAP, that was just the tip of the iceberg. The whole Ortigas Aveue was filled with troops. Di daw natin nakita iyon. She was in EDSA until someone told her that they were marching to Malacanang. She doesn't know who gave the order but everyone just followed. And you guys already know the rest of the story. I left them for a while to make coffee and when I came back, Yambi was appealing to me cuz "Sunny!!! Pinagtutulungan ako dito!" Well, I did warn her before she came over. Siyepre may die-hard anti-Erap dito no. So I said "OK, no more discussions about politics. Tama na." Sabi ni Dolly, "Di pwede! She has to answer my question first." Never found out what that question was cuz I really didn't want a continuation of the rallies in my house. :o)

To top it all, guess what Yeyet did as a grand exit? She had to leave early cuz she had some guests coming over. So as she was standing up from her chair, she yelled then slammed her hand on top of the tray of turon. Eh di sigawan lahat "Yeyet!!!!!" She didn't do it only once, she did it three times! Ayun, as punishment, binigay namin lahat ng turon na nasa top ng tray cuz no one wanted to eat them na. And when she kissed us goodbye.... may matching bubbles pa. Her daughter just had to stand up and take it all in stride. Must be thinking "Nanay ko ba iyan????" Even the husbands were laughing at her antics.

Before Joyce and Dave left, we had another picture-taking and this time, Erika wanted an "ugly-face" picture. So some of us did as requested but bungisngis Joyce just couldn't do it and she said "I don't know how!!!" Erika shouted "Don't worry, Joyce! Just don't do anything, OK ka na." Buti na lang Dave didn't hear it. Well, Joyce was taking too long to say her good byes and Dave was already waiting for her outside. So told Dave he had to go back in, pull Joyce out and leave. Then we remembered we didn't have a single picture with Dave so we all "ganged up" on him. But he ended up with Joyce on his lap....

Front (seated): Joyce, Sunny (winner) and Evelyn

Back (seated): Erika (2nd runner up), Zamby, Dettie, Florian (3rd runner up)

Standing: Malu, Yamby, Beth (1st runner up kahit pareho pa rin ang face :o)), Marisa and Lia

Mas tame itong reunion compared to the others. For one thing, they all left at 10 pm. Then I remembered, the only time they stay until 2 am is when Alice Dizon is in town. Ikaw pala, Alice ang may kasalanan!!! Anyway before the party broke up, Janet, Lia, Florian and Malu were up in my room waiting for sina Christine and Kitkat Bonnevie and Lui Galvez (batch 76) dance on Channel 5's Eeezy Dancing. Eh ang tagal wala pa sila so I decided to go down first and fix the food. When I got down, sina Erika naman were watching "Survivor." Mga addicts pala sila diyan. Would you believe, lumabas na pala sina Christine, they didn't even call me to watch. Eh nasa kwarto ko sila. Mga bastus na mga babae. Can't tell Lui tuloy that I watched her on TV. :o(

So the party ended at 10 pm. Nagsisigawan na naman sa kalsada. You know, I am still eating the left-over dessert until now. Must have gained back all the weight I lost last month. Oh well.....

Lastly, Dave mentioned to the guys that he has never seen a group come together after so many years and still have as much fun as we do.

Couldn't have said it any better!

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