apologies for the blurry shot of the 2nd most important equipment/equipment in the seminary. the much loved study table we call "pupitre".
i learned during 3rd year that the best way to get the best pupitre is to come a day ahead of the seminary school year opening and scope out the best and drag it over to my assigned spot.
we also had fun covering and decorating the pupitres with pictures (cars, sports, women, saints, hehehe) and stickers 
the bell pretty much governed seminary life. it was probably the most powerful object in the whole of seminary :D in that it dictates what you do at a certain time period hehehe. but now in olps they use a big electric buzzer. dekorasyon na lang yata itong bell.
i remember that being the timekeeper was one of the most envied work assignment back then
and on the bishop page, its weird coz it says "The Diocese of Sorsogon has two bishops. . ." ???
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fr. gerry del prado commented:
PADS is a boyband, sort of, hehe. it is actually composed of 6 priests (fr treb futol, alex jerus, jun elegado, edu fulay, totoy alcantara and ramil enteria).
It has already presented 2 concerts: PRIESTYLE - at the colegio de la milagrosa, several parishes in sorsogon, imus cathedral and a catholic school in paranaque.and PADS IN LOVE - a valentine concert presented ta the sorsogon gymnasium to raise funds for the diocese of sorsogon home for the clergy. We (i count myself in, as i have been drawm to the group to act as coordinator-manager, glorified alalay actually) have actually been featured in the philippine inquirer after pads in love.
PADS has come out with its eponymous CD, a collection of original compositions by alex j, treb and jun e. musical arrangement by sanni gargallo, at whose g cliff production studios in casiguran the recording was done. (hint: get a copy and help us market it. fr treb still has a lot of copies in sorsogon). PADS actually means Priest-Artists, Diocese of Sorsogon. We hope it's not a very ambitious name, building on a term of endearment (?) that sorsogon uses for priests.
About the two bishops, I suppose that was posted before Bishop Varela retired and the Nuncio appointed Bishop Bastes as auxiliary bishop with right of succession (upon Bp Varela's request in preparation for his retirement). Now, Bishop Varela is retired, and is Bishop Emeritus (with ministry outside the diocese, as he claims in the Corcuera article) and Bishop Bastes is the local ordinary. Incidentally, Bishop Varela is celebrating his Golden Priestly Anniversary this March.
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thanks padre gerry!
Fr. Treb, can u email me updates about the pads? also i'll ask my brod jay to buy a CD from you and mail it to me so that i can feature it here. dont worry coz i wont make mp3s :-P
with all these rules, its no wonder that seminarians are oftentimes wary of the rector's presence.
the different fonts though kinda takes away the "seriousness" of the rules although it may be intentional on the rector's part hehehe (subterfuge baga), the better to mete out those "kneel down" punishments to the unlucky seminarista
sano ronny who maintains the batch 82 blog has some nice pictures posted. as in the old ones pa so head on there now!
here is shown a skit presented during the intrams awards night 1978 (!)
mga sano email us pictures during your time in olps so we can post them here and enjoy (or cringe at) the memories
I also got this about Fr. Corcuera - celebrating his 35th year of priesthood.
news article here
i'm turning to google to post stuff here. and i found out the fr. jureck fernandez is now a priest with the Easter Rite. seems like he went out and now is based in nebraska.
read the news article here abhout the movement to establish the jury system in the philippines
click here for the news article
this is a pic of their seminary. cool ano
this is completely OT, but since i've got nothing interesting to post this will do for the meantime ;D
i accidentally found this while googling about seminaries in the philippines. i never knew that there is an association for married priests. interesting ano?
visit their website here http://www.marriedpriests.com.ph/ . there's an interesting article there entitled "Towards A Clergy-Less Non-Church"
sa olps kaya how many priests na ba went out and got married? hmm
First photo, me and my wife Pauline. This was taken when we attended a function (Exclusive Models' Graduation Night) where my youngest daughter Kym performed a song for the crowd. 2nd photo, the proud dad with the bunso (Kym). Kym is in primary school (Wynn Vale Primary). 3rd photo, kids at home (Xmas Eve '05), first from left is Krishelle, my eldest. She's in 2nd Year of Nursing at the University Of South Australia, middle one is my daughter Kitchie (third in the family) and right side is my son Miko. Miko and Kitchie are both in high school (Golden Grove High). By the way, I got four kids. 4th photo, Kitchie and Kym with a friend when we visited Carrick Hill (a Manor House) here in Adelaide for a day outing.
Me and my wife and four kids (3 daughters and a son) have been here in Adelaide since 1991 as permanent residents. My youngest was born here in 1995. I'm currently employed with RLA (Research Laboratories Of Australia) here in Adelaide.
(sano bong, my apologies for posting this late, nalimutan ko baya :-(u got a nice family there, cute wife and kids. nagulat ako me college ka na palan na aki)
Our heartfelt condolences to the family of Atty. Alwyn Talde ('83) whose mother passed away last friday, January 13, 2006.
Batch 87 reconnected again with some of their long lost batchmates. deets and pix here
our heartfelt condolences to Atty. Wowo Fortes and Family, whose father passed away last December 2005. Apparently, the car he was driving was struck by a speeding CUL bus somewhere in Irosin.
silence in the study hall...
i'll be posting a series of rules posters i found scattered throughout olps last homecoming 2005 just to bring back memories of the time when you had to live by them :D
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Greetings from Hitler's Nazi Concentration Camp. Spending the holidays with the souls of victims of Holocaust during World War II.
its been a slow week or so here. heheh wala nagpost ng bago. anyways since you all probably took a lot of pictures during christmas why not share them? if you cant post here, send them to our email olpseminarista@yahoo.com and i'll post them ok?
so to start, here's me with my officemates visiting Hongkong Disneyland. this is our xmas party and r&r [finally after 4 years :-) ]
if you go to HK, dont ever forget to buy digital camera or videocam, well anything electronic. its so cheap. its about 50% off philippine price! and u get more savings if u buy the older model (pero brand new pa sa pinas)
btw, cinderella says hi to all sano :P
hope you all have a great time during the holidays and wishing you a peaceful and bountiful year ahead :-)
a view of the library from the garden. i remember the windows used to be big frosted things
a view of the classroom garden from the senior classroom. note the nipa hut
famous for the numerous bayawak living in the septic tank and the junk that used to be piled here.
looks more civilized now doesnt it? perfect place to while away boring math classes, sneak a quick smoke. also notorious venue of umentionable "contests" ;-)
how i dreaded ms. sy's math class! especially solving math problems in front of the class.
the steel windows always remind me of latin class with fr. lorilla who made us climb up the grilles for every mistake in latin grammar. does fr. lorilla still smoke marlboro with snowbear mint candy? :-)
here are some of our gubatnon sano during their cute days. click for bigger pix size
pix courtesy of sano ronny yrurreta
i forgot how this place is called, garden something yata. its the space between the classrooms and the study hall
inside the chapel. under renovation for quite some time now.
still, i like the old chapel. more spacious and more peaceful. hopefully this one looks ok after the renovation
