Update: Farewell Party
http://jasms70.blogspot.com/2007/12/farewell-party-for-pantz.html
Reunion 4 Photos Partially uploaded:
http://jasms70.blogspot.com/2007/12/reunion-4.html
http://jasms70.blogspot.com/2007/12/farewell-party-for-pantz.html
Reunion 4 Photos Partially uploaded:
http://jasms70.blogspot.com/2007/12/reunion-4.html
Jan 18 2008
To the greatest bunch of people I know
To the greatest bunch of people I know
(translation: Pinaka-pangit na mga tao sa mundo*),
That was certainly an incredible ride. I had to wait a little bit to get settled back down and let everything sink in. Everything was happening so quickly and realizing too that it might be the last time I see some if not most of you, so you could probably understand all the mixed emotions I had. And looking back, it was grand. Seeing you guys again and the warm reception you gave me and my family was just overwhelmingly pleasing. It is probably why I never got to have close friends here in the States. You guys set the bar so high, and I'm so proud of that. Not only did we go ablaze as a group, but one-on-one had their stories as well. To think. back then we had this everyday, 7 days a week. Pardon a cliche, but how true it is that you don't realize what you have until you lose it. But for 2 weeks I had it back, and I felt so rich with friends, even royalty in the way you guys treated my family.
To some of you whom I spent most all of my nights in the city, I enjoyed them a lot and appreciate you making them happen. Ngaws, I heard a disco sound and guess what came to mind, a big guy holding his fedora hat while making his moves, remember? To some of you who since then were lost and were never heard from, you don't know how much I appreciate your coming. To all of you, even my brother Froi who is the only 'Brad Pitt' in a gathering of Pongs* (runs in the family, the Pitt not the Pongs), who obviously likes our group having chosen some of you to be part of his wedding entourage way back, I am enormously grateful for all your generosity and effort and totally exalted by how you received us after all these years. I'm so glad we went back when we did to see us all in fairly good condition and situations. It is good to remember you all in the way I saw you, happy and vibrant, for we are all getting old much too quickly. I love you all and hope to see you again soon.
Pantz
* Exceptions: Wives and children
That was certainly an incredible ride. I had to wait a little bit to get settled back down and let everything sink in. Everything was happening so quickly and realizing too that it might be the last time I see some if not most of you, so you could probably understand all the mixed emotions I had. And looking back, it was grand. Seeing you guys again and the warm reception you gave me and my family was just overwhelmingly pleasing. It is probably why I never got to have close friends here in the States. You guys set the bar so high, and I'm so proud of that. Not only did we go ablaze as a group, but one-on-one had their stories as well. To think. back then we had this everyday, 7 days a week. Pardon a cliche, but how true it is that you don't realize what you have until you lose it. But for 2 weeks I had it back, and I felt so rich with friends, even royalty in the way you guys treated my family.To some of you whom I spent most all of my nights in the city, I enjoyed them a lot and appreciate you making them happen. Ngaws, I heard a disco sound and guess what came to mind, a big guy holding his fedora hat while making his moves, remember? To some of you who since then were lost and were never heard from, you don't know how much I appreciate your coming. To all of you, even my brother Froi who is the only 'Brad Pitt' in a gathering of Pongs* (runs in the family, the Pitt not the Pongs), who obviously likes our group having chosen some of you to be part of his wedding entourage way back, I am enormously grateful for all your generosity and effort and totally exalted by how you received us after all these years. I'm so glad we went back when we did to see us all in fairly good condition and situations. It is good to remember you all in the way I saw you, happy and vibrant, for we are all getting old much too quickly. I love you all and hope to see you again soon.
Pantz
* Exceptions: Wives and children
