BATANGBALER

Well, better late than…..later.

Congratulations to these two outstanding Balerians:

Kristina Correa - Magna Cum Laude, AB Communication, Ateneo De Manila University
Anna Jamaica M. Huertazuela - Magna Cum Laude, BS Business Administration, University of the Philippines Diliman.

Congratulations to the new lawyers from Aurora Province:

Atty. Sharon R. Teh-Ylanan (Baler)
Atty. Phanie Rose S. Aragon (Baler)
Atty. Robert James G. Ronquillo (Ma. Aurora)
Atty. Archimedes Angara Aldaba

The complete list of the 2006 Bar Exam Results is here. Please comment if there are other passers from Aurora so that I can add their name on the list.

Season’s Greetings to all the readers and visitors of Batangbaler. You can send greetings to anyone using the comments link on this post.

We interrupt our regular programming to give way to this very special greetings - HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Ms. Nympha L. Poblete from Chicago. Greeting from Batangbaler and Ymay.

Happy Birthday to Aurora Province Governor Bellaflor Angara Castillo.

Congrats to pareng Rommel “Metong” Espinosa and Lotus Yusi on their wedding last May 5. Wedding of the Year

Congratulations to Arvin Gomez Amatorio for passing the New York State Bar Exam held on February 21-22, 2006. We’re proud of you!

Here’s the link to the news and the list.

More info in the BB messageboard. 

Batangbaler congratulates Atty. Evalor Paulo aka “Balot” for passing the 2005 bar exam. Evalor hails from Sabang, Baler, Aurora.

Batangbaler congratulates our two kababayans who will graduate from the Philippine Military Academy (PMA) on Saturday, March 25, 2006:

2LT Ron Michael Soriao and
2LT Tala Nool

Both of them are from Buhangin, Baler, Aurora and graduates of Aurora National Science High School.

BB is open for graduation greetings. Just email me at batangbaler at gmail dot com.

Howdy! I went out of Baler for a while. I just returned yesterday. The only passable road to Aurora is in a really bad condition. The road is in a comma and about to die. Going home is not a trip…it’s a torture. I hope that the planned construction project will push through this year. There was a buzz at the Cabanatuan central terminal yesterday that a D’ Liner bus fell off a cliff in the Canili-Pantabangan road and more than 30 people were killed. I later learned that it was even reported on local radio. It turned out to be a chismis. Whatever happened to fact-checking? Last December 29, Mike Enriquez reported on Channel 7’s 24 Oras that Baler is “lubog sa baha”. I wonder if they’re source is the same person who reported the bus accident.

Casiguran is still not accessible by land. The only way there is via sea. A “pump boat” was reported missing the other day but it was later found by Navy helicopters. All passengers were safe (from Channel 7).

Here’s the inq7.net’s news about the recent flooding in Casiguran.

Wassup with BB this year?

I’m currently rewiewing all of last year’s BB posts. I’m planning to come up with a Batangbaler’s Best of 2005. I’m also in the process of migrating BB to Wordpress and hosting the posts in it’s own server instead of piggybacking on blogspot. Target date is before 2010 :-).

I will also revive the Batangbaler Videos. Hopefully BB can come up with original videos or short clips to be hosted on Google Videos. I tried posting a sample video last week and it’s now live. Check out a low-fi 4-minute vid of Villa Aurora a month after the 2004 disaster.

Thanks

Thanks to Banot and Donna Costa and to Ate Gay Avellano for my Christmas gifts/pasalubong.

Congrats!

On the wedding of BB regular Connie Bayudan last December 27 and for the upcoming wedding of Enod Buen. Spread the Balerian genes!

Ma. Nympha Leander Poblete from Chicago is celebrating her birthday today (Philippine time) and Ymay Lady is sending her this greetings: Happy Birthday Nympha! She misses her Baler home so much so we’re posting this pix for her. I hope this will excite her enough and send me this or this for Christmas.

This is a bonus picture, Nympha’s pamangkins posing with John Arcilla, Baler’s one and only celebrity.