Manolo Juntura - RIP

lifted from Manny Tria's email to the egroup dated 6/21/08


Another One Bites The Dust

One of our batchmates passed away yesterday morning due to cancer - Manolo Juntura. He's currently interred at Arlington Pasig and shall be buried on Tuesday 24-June-2008. Your prayers will be of great help for his soul.

7 Things You Most Probably Didn’t Know About Joey

1.) Bugoy’s
Joey’s first experience in entering a beerhouse was way back during our college years in a God-forsaken place in Junction, Cainta called - for lack of a more enticing name for a beerhouse - Bugoy’s. And Joey had a “girlfriend” in that place, a girl who said she wanted to change "cotchum" (costume).

2.) Santolan Beerhouse
Another beerhouse story, this one proved to be a more exciting and adrenaline-pumping experience. Together with Rey Carlo and Gary D, Joey asks for the bill as they have already decided to leave. Rey Carlo got fed up waiting for their bill to arrive and chooses to leave without paying. Gary D follows him outside. Not wanting to be the one left to pay the bill by himself, Joey follows the two outside who were already running away by the time he got out.

3.) Bangga Victim
Last day of school when we were in 3rd Year HS, Joey was together with Rey Carlo on their jeepney ride going home. As Joey got off the jeepney by the entrance to Dona Juana, he didn’t see the approaching jeepney from the other side about to hit him. With Joey’s white polo soiled and ripped from his pavement-rolling accident, Rey Carlo brings Joey to the hospital. We never knew about this accident until the start of classes in our 4th Year.

4.) Transformers
We all know Joey to be very dependable on many things. But sports isn’t exactly one of his specialties. We can still recall the horrific images of Joey doing the forward roll and backward roll during our gymnastics lessons in PE. Joey is John Michael Cruz’s rival for the Optimus Prime title in gymnastics. You can almost hear the Transformers sound effects whenever they roll. And please, never ask Joey to do a lay-up in basketball.

5.) Flawless
Before Osang was nicknamed as the Flawless Queen, Joey was our original "Wow Legs!" title-holder. FYI, Joey has no "balahibo" on his legs. Too bad, he’s also got a very big "balakang" to be a sexy star.

6.) Stink Bomb
Now it can be told. It was Joey who "detonated" the stink bomb during our Social Studies class with Miss Aguilar during our 2nd Year in HS. Joey can never deny it since we were even able to smell remnants of the stink emanating from the sole of his leather shoes during our Practical Arts classes afterwards.

7.) Tight-Fit Shirt
On the eve of our Feb 08 Reunion, the batch shirts to be distributed the following day arrived. Members of the organizing committee started fitting the different sizes to see which size fits them best. Joey gets a size Large, saying that XL might be too big for his frame. The following day, he realizes the futility of his denial and accepts the fact that Large is too small for him. He replaces it with an XL, but never heard the end of it from Jeff Sulit.

Despedida Pics

Below is a link to the album for some pictures taken from last Saturday's despedida for Joey.

Joey's Despedida

Joey's Despedida Video

For those who missed the premier showing of this video we especially prepared for our President Joey Manalad last Saturday at Ravalos, here's your chance to view and enjoy it.

An Invitation

Everyone is invited to join us as we bid farewell "for now" to our K88 President Joey Manalad this Saturday, 7 June 2008.

Venue is at Ravalos Food and Music located at Mercedes corner Sandoval Ave. in San Miguel, Pasig. Party starts at 8PM but doors open at exactly 6PM for the early birds who would want to make the most out of this celebration. K88 Rigmarolers Team A shall also be having a game at the PCC gym on Saturday. So everyone who's playing or watching the game is expected to celebrate with us at Ravalos later that night.

There shall be food, drinks, music, games and the usual K88 funfare. After all, this is our "Kuwentuhan! Kantahan! Kampayan! Part 2". If you thought our celebration last February was "bitin", then complain no more. This party is the extension of that merry-making celebration.

Join us as we thank Joey for all of his efforts in keeping K88 strongly united after 20 years. And let us bid him and his family good luck as they take on a new journey in the Land Down Undah.

That's already this Saturday, guys. Be there!

Rigmarolers B Suffers 1st Defeat

It was a game of two of the undefeated teams in the 2nd Season of the KBBL. And the game started out slowly for the K88 Rigmarolers Team B. With the team’s starting center Jun “Chunky” Ramos and starting forward Randy “Buffalo” Javier both arriving late for the game, the opponents from Batch 99 raced off to an early 8-0 lead at the start of the ballgame.

With the Rigmarolers eventually warming up themselves into the ballgame, they immediately caught up with their opponents after a momentum-breaking time out. Thanks to the timely shooting of the team’s resident 3-point sniper Jay “The Mouse” Cruz. When the halftime buzzer sounded, the ballgame was already tied.

With Bimbo “The Answer” Bersalona applying his magic lotion on his legs at the start of the second half, he leads the charge, together with Javier in building up a ten-point lead midway into the 3rd Quarter.

But the opponents were not to give up that easily. Not with the help of the game referees who had a lot of questionable and inconsistent calls and non-calls during the whole of the second half of the ballgame. But the Rigmarolers also had their share of blunders with their lack of focus on some crucial stretches of the game, including missing 4 out of 5 freethrows with barely two minutes remaining in regulation, which could have practically sealed the game’s outcome in favor of the Rigmarolers. Regulation ended with the score again tied, thus requiring the 5-minute extension period.

The start of the overtime period saw the Rigmarolers race to an early 4-6 point cushion which they were able to protect up until the last two minutes.

Then the unthinkable happened.

With the Rimgarolers still ahead by 2 points with barely one minute remaining, Batch 99 got ready to take two freethrows on a foul given up by the Rigmarolers. One of the referees called a technical foul on Ramos for a delay-of-game infraction when the latter kicked the ball out of frustration. Batch 99 sinks 3 out of the 4 freethrows given them. And then they score another 2 points on another possession. Thus, the Rigmarolers’ 2-point lead became a 3-point deficit within the blink of an eye.

But the defending champions would not give up that easily on this ballgame. In the ensuing play, the team sets up Bersalona for a 3-point shot which swooshes the bottom of the net. With the ballgame again tied, Batch 99 tries to score in their next offensive play in vain as the Rigmarolers’ defense held itself up steadily. Collaring the rebound, the Rigmarolers pitch a fastbreak pass to Bersalona who races up against two defenders. Using his body as a shield, Bersalona executes a body-contact-inviting layup which, unfortunately, bounces out of the ring paving the Batch 99’s last attempt to win the ballgame. With the Rigmarolers’ team defense still in disarray as a result of the previous fastbreak attempt, Batch 99 scores on a running jumper by one of their players as the final buzzer sounded. Thus, Batch 99 steals the game from the Rigmarolers with a 2-point winning margin.