Meet...MS JUANA CHANGE

Have u Heard About JUANA CHANGE???????

I was on the road visiting Northern Luzon and It’s famous Heritage sites last month. Laoag, Vigan, Baguio, Pangasinan and Pampanga together with Koronadal City LGU headed by Mayor Fernando Q. Miguel, together with his top caliber Cabinets. Towards the end of the trip, and after the culmination night of WOW PHILIPPINES in Intramuros. I came across few old friends back in the 90’s who are now base in Manila now husband and wife, 2 LA base, and 1 in Melbourne. As we get along, and doing some tete-ta-tete trying to update each one of us in a restaurant in Malate, where they served the world famous Kebab. It’s a must visit restaurant and with such affordable prices. There was this lady, named MS JUANA CHANGE, known to my friends as Little May. She was introduced to us, “Masaya syang kausap”, and we did get along and had some fun. Though, I was able to read in the daily paper about her satire in the present issues in the goverment. Her advocacy for CHANGE is really amazing. Come to think of this beautiful lady, campaigning for change, presenting with issues, realities that had been happening to our country. You think it’s now time for CHANGE???? Attached is her YOU TUBE LINK....view it.....and rationalize....if you think it is RIGHT....then what are we doing for????? COME JOIN HER ADVOCAY.....

THE ExCIteMenT that SuMmEr BrInGs....

THE EXCITEMENT THAT SUMMER BRINGS.....

When I was still a high school student at ILOILO CENTRAL COMMERCIAL HIGH SCHOOL. Wow! that was 2 decades ago. Hehehehehehe, I used to mark a big RED X on each day that passes by starting from March 1st til the closing day. As the day drew nearer, I was so excited to our last final exam day not minding the review and study, without having considering if passing the exam was the first priority. Everybody were very much excited to finish the exams. Meaning, packing our big bags and trolleys, keeping old books, old uniforms in our lockers, and awaiting for the flight next day home. Forgetting about laundries, exams, the feeling excitement of going home and spending time summer vacation with your family and friends was OVERWHELMING. Our lives in HWASIONG was just like living in an formative school with more than 300 students as one big family in a dormitory. Coming from LUZON,VISAYAS, MINDANAO, and from a few previlege chinese-filipino families that can provide a little extra money, with a purpose of sending their children to this school. And for them to be trained, disciplined, nutured, educated in a 2nd oldest chinese school in the Philipines, with history that dates back from its founding day Feb 25, 1912. Now on it’s 97th year of existence.

Every child sent to this boarding school was very excited of coming home, I myself was very excited of seeing old classmates who studied from different schools, friends, of course my family. Being away for 10 long months, with Christmas time and Summer is the only time that you could bond with your family and friends. Some of our classmates and dormates would laugh out loud....it’s once again FREE DAY for us. Living in our homes again for 2 months without chores to do, with out time to follow, and without food cycle to watch were our luxury. Everything was with time allocated, time of going out on Saturdays and Sundays was limited to buy your weekly toiletries. Hahahahaha we were like in a semi prisoned state condition. When that day came, a huge crowd assembled at the ground. The chaotic queueing from our dormitory grounds to old Iloilo Airport, where in all dormitorians coming from Mindanao would take the first flight out that would connect from Iloilo to Cebu and to Other Philippine Airlines to Mindanao, Davao, Dipolog, Zamboanga, Butuan, Cotabato, General Santos Students. From my Generation to our next higher genertion, I should say, we were like 100 coming from Iloilo to Cebu, with BAC-11 PLANE that has a capacity of 108 passengers including the flight crew, and the HS 748- PLANE from Cebu to General Santos with 48 passengers coming full packed. Practically, we chartered the whole flight just for us students. OHHHH....we jumped one seat to another, and we would roam around the aircraft....hahahahaha very chaotic, our flight crew were like referees holding us to just seat back and buckled up. Hahahahahaha Very Exciting experience. As we landed in Old Rajah Buayan Airport, the old old airport, with a trimmed grass runway, with dilapidated building, with no conveyor, were megaphones were used to announced the boarding and the arrival, we have to pull our own luggages as our parents were waiting in the arrival parking area. The excitement of reaching home, and feeling again the warmth of our parents, our brothers and sisters, the yayas, our grand parents, which we never felt during our school days, was hardly MISSED. As we spent the days, my sisters and I, were excited about my dad and mom scheduled for the summer. Here goes the summer outing at the Kawas beach, or the spring swimming, the trip to Davao, or if there’s extra, a trip abroad.

Today, in my 39th year of existence, I still look forward for that official day of summer. The plan of treating the kids, my nephews and nieces, to a summer vacation for domestic or international travel. Bonding with my brother and sisters in a vacation abroad. My late dad when he was still alive, he would always prefer a day in a beach, Boracay, Pearl Farm, Gumasa, London beach. Treating the company staff for a day swim break especially during holyweek. I had applied the disciplined what I had learned in that formative dormitory school, the hard work of 10 months, and the relaxation one month. Now if you can feel the heat on day time, and the cloudy weather in the after noon. It only signify onething......IT’S NOW OFFICIALLY SUMMER TIME.....so let’s grab our summer clothes, slippers, bathing suites, travel bags or anything, portable pool for the kids, and let’s enjoy it friends and family......until now....I AM STILL EXCITED WHAT SUMMER COULD BRING ME.....