Oslobanons lost church

At around 3 a.m. last Wednesday, I was awaken by a text message saying a blaze had hit our parish church. To verify the news, I sent the information to a radio station and asked them to call Oslob Police Station. Few minutes later, they placed on air the police station desk officer confirming the information.

The news shocked me and all Oslobanons that morning. Its so sad to hear a valuable landmark, a piece of history in our town, a manifestation of how religious Oslobanons are, gone. Of course, Oslobanons can rebuild the church anytime but it would be different. I mean, it will not be the same 160 year old church.. the memories can never be restored.

When I was a kid, my grandmother who was a catechist always brought me to their meetings on Sundays held at the second floor of the convent. I used to play and run around every corner of the convent while their weekly meeting is going on. Oh well, I was a kid then. When I was in high school, me and my classmates used to stay under the shades ot the kalachuchi trees at the church’s facade to read our notes. Somehow, those gave me attachment with the church.

I took this picture last August 2007.

 

These are now what remained of our church.

 

An angry fellow Oslobanon and neighbor asked me yesterday who to blame on what had happened. My answer is, I dont know.

It was an unfortunate fire which could have been put off at its earlier stage if not because of the..

..incompetence of the Oslob fire station.

..inaction of the Bureau of Fire Protection and Oslob LGU on the fire station’s request to fix the firetruck.

..deception by the Provincial Government who donated the firetruck as “brandnew” kuno and eventually become unusable in barely two years time.

Monsignor Dakay nailed it right on the head;

“Mao na ilang suroy-suroyon, ang kahimtang sa lungsod, dili kanang idalit nga lechon og pagkaon. Dako ni nga tamparos sa mga opisyales (That’s what they should visit and explore, the situation in the towns, not the lechon and other food offered to them. This is a slap on the officials’ faces),” the monsignor said, alluding to a tourism promotion program of the Provincial Government.

http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ceb/2008/03/27/news/fire.destroys.oslob.church.convent.html

 

 

 

Movie turned real life story

i thought some things were only results of a movie writer’s exaggerated imagination, or maybe.. uhmm shall i say the protagonists in the following story were watching too much movie of this kind.

Bride sues runaway groom

A CIVIL case for damages and attorneys fees was filed yesterday against a man who left his bride-to-be waiting in the altar right before they were supposed to exchange their “I dos”.

Lilibeth Gaviola wants the Regional Trial Court (RTC) to compel her would-be husband, Ryan Sesante, to pay close to P500,000 in actual damages, including the expenses incurred for the wedding, moral damages and attorney’s fees.

She said the incident (their scheduled wedding last Dec. 22) left her feeling downgraded. Her “shameful story” appeared in the newspapers and became the subject of a few commentaries.

“Plaintiff has no more choice except to go to court and seek therein relief for the injustice and pain that she had suffered from the hands of defendant,” Gaviola said.

In her complaint, Gaviola narrated how she met Sesante back in college when they were classmates taking up accounting at the Southwestern University.

She said they graduated together and found work separately, meeting again accidentally only in December 2005 at the Saint Vincent Church in Barangay Sambag II.

Sesante, she said, courted her sometime after that and, by February 2006, they were sweethearts.

After a year of being steady, they then decided to get married, with Sesante asking Gaviola’s hand from her parents last June 17.

“The parties arranged for their wedding, starting with getting of the marriage license and church requirements, then arranging for the principal and secondary sponsors, place of reception, invitations and other details for the wedding. The reception was booked at Royal Concourse, with 100 persons reserved for the occasion. Invitations to relatives and close friends were made (as well as) video coverage of the wedding and reception,” she said.

In the morning of the wedding, Gaviola said she was at the Golden Peak Hotel together with her make-up artist, getting ready for the big day.

She, on board the bridal car, was already at the Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Parish on Escario St. Cebu City 15 minutes before the schedule.

Sesante arrived half an hour late.

“Upon defendant’s arrival, his mother immediately wore the barong over him with his eyes seemed teary. Then, the wedding ceremony started with the priest harping on the delay as it commenced,” Gaviola said.

The ceremony, albeit a bit behind schedule, progressed without a hitch until the part where vows are exchanged.

She alleged that when the priest asked him if if he was willing to take Gaviola as her lawfully wedded wife, a girl wearing a skirt and eyeglasses shouted to the priest to stop the wedding and called out Sesante’s name twice.

Sesante, in turn, “without any hesitation or saying something or anything, turned his back and walked very fast toward the lady. They then hugged each other and went outside the church together.”

Gaviola said the priest even called out to Sesante, asking him to come back. And when he did not, the priest even went after him. But, to no avail.

In the end, the crowd proceeded to the restaurant for the banquet. She, on the other hand, went home with her parents, depressed.

i personally know the guy because we went to the same university and we were both members of a certain school organization. i must had met the girl too then, although i have not been in contact with them for a long time now.

i heard the story few days after it happened from former colleagues who were actually present during the ceremony. i was surprised this made the headlines yesterday in the local dailies.

well, good luck to both of them.

oh my God!

..that was actually my reaction when i first saw the thread of the pictures and video links at Pacland about Arnel Pinedas’ first baptism of fire as new frontman of the band, Journey! woooot!!!!

..despite all the shameless political bickering and scandals hounding our country today, there are still things we should be proud of being a Filipino! wohoo!

Filipino rocking the world!!

another Garcia showing his muscles.. tsk. tsk.

 im not sure but is it normal for a complainant to storm into the fiscal’s office when the charges he filed was dismissed? odd! aint it? much more if that complainant is known to be trigger happy, son of a congressman, brother of a governor and another congressman, in short, family member of a known political dynasty.

i can imagine how scared the people were at the fiscal’s office yesterday. hahaha!

he said his congressman father told him the dismissal was irregular! duh! he should have told you too, Mr. Byron Garcia that you could file a motion for reconsideration instead of storming the fiscal’s office.

of course like any government office, the porsecutor’s office is not an irregularity-free office (you could even ask your sister, Gwen). i support your call for a congressional inquiry! haha! youre a big joke sir! i suggest you stick teaching the inmates at CPDRC some new dance lessons. LOL

Ma-lies-cañang

That should be the new name of the official residence of our president. It is not to dishonor our past presidents but the one currently sitting there is one big shame to that dignified office! She made the office like a big factory of lies where she is the CEO!

Yesterday, the Senate’s inspection at NAIA revealed more of this adminstration’s blatant never ending cover ups on the attempt of kidnapping NBN scandal star witness Jun Lozada.

They are making it further funnier by issuing up justifying statements, by the GMA cahoots, which some are contrary to what they were saying at the Senate inquiry last week.