A tour and pilgrimage to Quemoy has been organized by three chapters of Philippine-based Quemoy Association.

The trip, set on Oct. 1-6, 1997, is under the auspices of the Quemoy Associations of Metro Manila, Cebu and Iligan. The pilgrimage will bring overseas Quemoyanons on a socio-cultural tour of their ancestral home of Quemoy, Fukien, where most LCHS alumni have their roots.

Alumni interested to join the trip may get in touch with Willy Sy (in Cebu) or Henry Ang (in Iligan) for more information.

Alumna's Son Comes to Spectrum's Rescue

The Spectrum was in doldrums last week and, consequently, failed to produce any issue. The cause: the editor's computer went haywire after a system upgrade. It also lost its Internet program and remained off-line for several days until a computer whiz came to its rescue.

The USC Internet server sent over a technician to fix Spectrum's Internet connection. The savior turned out to be a son of an LCHS alumna. He's Brendon V. Co, son of Vy Siok Eng and Vicente Co of Cotabato City. Brendon, who is a third year Computer Engineering student at the University of San Carlos. He works with the Web Page Design section of the USC Center for Network Management Service (CNMS). Brendon spent two hours bringing the Spectrum's computer system back to life and into cyberspace.

Learning the Art of Tai Chi with Fernando Khu

What's Tai-Chi? Interested alumni can learn this unique form of Chinese exercise from Fernando "Lando" Khu (Batch '65).

"Tai Chi" is an ancient Chinese form of exercise that combines meditation, aerobics, body stretching, and deep breathing exercise. Lando, who has spent two years mastering the technique, now shares his expertise with a group of Tai Chi aficionados in regular sessions every Saturday, at eight in the evening at the Masonic Lodge along Quezon Avenue, Iligan City.

Alumni and friends who wish to join the exercise may get in touch with Lando at FK Mart, where he holds office daily.

Correction on Last Issue's Wedding News:

Our report on the two Chu's nuptials last issue had a little mix-up.

The wedding of Judith Chu (Batch '84) and Teodoro Bualat Jr. on June 19, 1997 was held at the St. Michael's Cathedral and reception was held at the Elena Tower Inn, Tibanga, Iligan City.

The wedding of James Chu (Batch '78) and Jan Montesclaros on July 5, 1997 was held at the Corpurs Christi and reception was held at Sheker's Residence at Tibanga, Iligan City. 

Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone;
and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come.
Live in the present, and make it so beautiful that it will be worth
remembering. --Ida Scott Taylor.

Remember when you were a teenager? And the fashion that went with it?

Yo! Whether one is born a "baby boomer" (between 1946-1964) or not, we all pass that stage in life called transition. Life, after all, is a cycle. A baby is born after a normal nine-month gestation, goes to school, earns a degree, graduates and works, gets married, raises a family, becomes a parent, grows old, and...well, the inevitable happens.

In my case, the '60s was indeed an era worth remembering mainly because those were the years of vivid transitions - from a lad of 8 (in 1960) to a 17-year-old high school graduate (in 1969). So, what transpired from 1960 to 1969? Many many things in terms of songs, dances, and of course, the fashions of the era - from the wearables to the edibles: pomade, shoes, toys, foodstuffs, etc.

Once upon a decade (as in once upon a time), the guys wore loose pants with folded bottom and jacket-type shirt; gals were in puffed sleeves blouse matched with shearing skirts and petticoats. I was then 11 years old and in grade V. But already I was aware of those trendy wearables so much so that I was no exception to the gaya-gaya puto maya thing. In short, like kids of my age, I was a great imitator of whatever was fashionable during that time. I do remember the Junior and Senior Prom of my elder sister (Mila) in 1963; likewise the JS Prom of my brother Ernesto's batch in 1965; and my very own in 1968 when wearing tight-fitting pants was the trend, in fact so tight that we had a hard time putting it on or taking it off, but it was fun just the same because it was the vogue then for all we care. The ladies wore miniskirts with matching fishnet stockings.

And what about the hair styles of that era? I'm sure we all remember the brands like Tancho Tique, Dixie Peach, Staycomb, Lord Nelson, and Three Flowers Pomade. The Elvis Presley cut was the in-thing, while ladies donned the fly-away hair with headband or the "Kisme" hairdo of the early 60s.

Other fashionables of the era included straps to bind our notebooks, shirt pins with song titles, pale lipstick, false eyelashes, thick eye-shadows, Mennen Skin Bracer, Old Spice, Brillantin, Fanbo, Kokuryu, Vonnel (remember the "yeah, yeah Vonnel" spiel?), banlon (remember Montagut and Corsican?) t-shirts, the lace barong for men, the eyelet dresses of women, Gold Toe socks, Ang Tibay and Elpo shoes, Camay, Lifebouy, Perla, Star margarine, Flying Kiss caramel, Senorita lemon candy, orange kisses, Horlicks, "Fat and Thin" Chinese "di-kiam", United American Tiki-tiki, Darigold milk and its "Darigold Jamboree" (remember the song, "Gusto ko ang gatas na Darigold..."?). I can go on and on without end as I remember the simpler yet remarkable era of the 1960s...but life has to move on...if ever, only the memories remain. How I wish a new invention would come up soon that will enable whatever our brain imagines or recalls about the past to be registered in images on the TV screen. Is that possible? Who knows... 

A flat-chested woman was delighted when her Fairy Godmother said her breasts would increase in size each time a man said "Pardon" to her.

She walked down the sidewalk, accidentally bumped into a man and he said, "Pardon me." Her breasts instantly grew an inch and she was ecstatic.

The next day she bumped into a man in the grocery store, he begged her pardon and another inch was added to her breasts. She was in seventh heaven! She next walked into a Chinese restaurant, collided with a waiter who bowed repeatedly and said, "A thousand pardons for my clumsy behavior."

The next day the headline in the local newspaper said, "Chinese Waiter Crushed by Two Torpedoes!" 

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