Congrats to Tanay Water District on their Upcoming 3oth Anniversary

Advance congratulations to the Officers, Management and Staff of the Tanay Water district, many of whom are Ildefonsians, and or whose children are Ildefonsians, who will celebrate their Pearl or 30th Anniversary in 2009. May the Lord give you the strength and guidance to continue the productivity and optimization measures that has enabled you to maintain the same water rates for the last two years and into 2009, and further extend the Gravity Spring Water Development Systems in the Mountain Barangays as was completed in Brgy. Laiban in 2007, now ongoing in Brgy. Daraitan and Brgy. Cuyambay, succeed in applyind new VFD technology to reduce power costs and have a jump start in the modular rehabilitation of distributions systems to diminish unaccounted water and elevate the water quality monitoring parallel to source protection through cooperative watershed protection with the national and local governments ! May God bless and help us us as Stewards of the Beauty that He has created as in the Fist Book of Genesis !

The Final Countdown to the SICAA World Diamond Annivesary Celebration

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With the above shown Tarpaulin Streamer at the "Glorietta", the distribution of Flyer Invitations after Masses at the Patio, the creative crunch time countdown has begun for the SICAA Diamond Homecoming. With the difficulty of getting the SICAA Officers together due to conflicting schedules, the SICAA Secretariat has come up with a "healthy" solution. Starting this morning, the weekly meetings are to be continued to be held at 6:00 a.m. with an hour of group aerobics along with a group named "Movers" coreogaphed by Noel, ang D.I. ng Bayan. The fresh air at the Tanay Park after an exhilarating hour of work-out lends to a fresh exchange of ideas. The consensus of this morning's meeting was to focus the affair on the 3oth of December on honoring the Teachers at San Ildefonso College. The brainstorming led to a noble realization that S.I.C. through the training of teachers, has been the source of mentors for the different schools in Rizal, both private and Public. Th Guest Speaker was decided also to be an Honoree from the SIC Graduates in Education. SIC's traditional niche is in the development of teachers and in turn provided many other schools of the expertise to establish themselves and even now compete with our Alma Mater. But as one Chinese Philosopher said..."no spring can be higher than its source"...

Another consensus was the approval of the Membership Committee's recommendation to quickly set up arrangements to obtain a wireless internet link at the Tanay Park site on December 30, for a live link to all Ildefonsians overseas who wish to greet their batcmates via a bigscreen projected web cam.

Another precedence setting decision to allow the 4th Year HS Batch of 2009 to participate in the event as auxiliary members of the Membership Committee. The SIC HS Seniors are excited about it as communicated in sicaa_friendster.

More updates to come.

Mc_Sicaa

SICAA Greater Toronto Area First Christmas Party

To Emil "Bong" Geneta SICAA-GTA SIC HS 1980,

I have browsed trough the 25 photos you sent and the 7 photos Elsie Inarda uploaded, and I found the photo below to be the most complete group picture of SICAA - GTA for the above event. In order for us to know you better, I would like request you to kindly identify those in the photo based on "letters" (to avoid numerologic cliches). Also in the new SICAA-GTA youtube video to be made, annotations (a new feature of youtube) will be used to identify the Alumni shown it it. This way, the objective of allowing Alumni to know each other better will be enhanced.

I am making this request to you because I will not forget that after I opened the sicaa_communications@yahoogroups.com in the evening of January 2, 2008 after being elected as one of the SICAA Officers on December 30, 2008, my firt challenge was to look for email addresses including those from abroad, including the U.S. and Canada. The first site I browsed was the Haneh Website of Tanay Geograpic and it was there that I found your post dated January 13, 2008 which stated

"San Ildefonso College Alumni - 2008/01/13 19:25 Calling All SIC alumni living in the greater Toronto(Canada) Area,

In behalf of our Alma Mater, San Ildofonso College, im planning our first get together of all graduates of SIC, (whether you graduated from Elem., H.S. and College ) this summer, for all of you who are interested please let me know as early as possible so together we can all plan a memorable events...................

My email address: byg0316@hotmail.com b)

So I was able to invite you to join and you eventually did. I state this because somehow, we have a common beginning in getting involved with the SICAA.

The exact location of Bong's posts (8 of them) and the various replies to it may be found in this link

http://haneh.tanaygeographic.info/index.php?option=com_joomlaboard&Itemid=70&func=view&id=893&catid=4

Historically, therefore, in my humble opinion, you are the Founder of SICAA - GTA. In all sincerity, I congratulate you in the fruitful results of your "posts in the wilderness" that met my own surfing of the same. The next site I discovered was http://tanaypost.tk/ allowing me to invite Betsog Jugo of the Association of Southern California, then Laarni Garcia Omingo..and so on and so forth.

I have stated this to Father Carlos Santos OFM HS 72 in reply to one of his posts that the Art experts regard the Viacruciz at out Church of San Ildefonso de Toledo as the most significant element of the highest order of Filpino original Art, yet no one can trace who was the Artist who did it. But all I know is that He is smiling from above, not because he is flattered, but maybe just amused why the question had to be asked.

Best wishes and congratulation to you all Ildefonsians in Canada from A to ZZ... ad infinitum. Special thanks too, to Ellen Mariano, and Elsie Inarda for your continuing share in strengthening this site aimed to link all Ildefonsians wherever they are....... For God Above All !

Mc_Sicaa