Stag Party for Bing

Party was at Lovely May Resort, Pansol, Los Banos. At the left is a collage of pics taken at the place. We started at 6:30pm Friday and ended at 3:30am (at least for me!) of Saturday. I was in the pool roughly 6 hours! The rest of the time was eating, resting, singing, and watching the girls perform. Something I noticed is that it is better to lead with the crown of the head when pushing off from a start or turn. That means really dive the head down. This prevents water from entering the nose. Lightly exhale with the nose when diving the head. Bing's style on turn is to hold to gutter, no flip turns

To do the backstreamline: Outscull, inscull down, parallel palms and then assume the arms behind. This is a graceful and "cool" move. Immediately take a big breath. This gulp of air is for slowly and lightly exhaling air through the nose just before the head drops/ sinks into the water. Breath freely through the mouth when good streamline is achieved.

I felt my backbone aligning straight when doing the breaststroke. I guess this is a good "two-thumbs up" sign for alleviating my scoliosis. With breaststroke, I noticed that with a narrow kick and clashing of feet together makes it faster. A nice drill is the front and back streamline combo in the width of the pool. Start with backstreamline. After touching wall with arms behind, lower arms and kick the wall at the back to do the front streamline.

Comments: "slow"-Mar, "smooth at tahimik"-Tony, "long/ distance"-Bing. Steve was surprised I had swim lessons late in age. Nice to hear that guys, but after I've seen some pics and videos of me swimming, I thought I still looked atrocious. I breath on the right and it appears that I slam down on my right arm when it begins to stroke so that I could raise the head. And the head raising appears too much.

The longer I stayed in the water, the more heightened the tactile sense becomes. Catching and pulling is felt better and becomes efficient. The importance of a balanced stroke is very much emphasized. There is no more "panic" as was felt before where loping was the result. Just focus on rolling/ snapping the hips, press the buoy, breath relaxed, try to look sideways and feel the water with the fingers. Avoid shoulder injury and follow the sequence:
  1. Hip snap first.
  2. Reach further while other arm drops.
  3. Pull.

Pool according to caretaker is 6m x 13m. This is the first time that I used the Arena Sports Towel and it is nice!

25 Years Later

The pic at the left shows the back side of the villa where we stayed. The villas at Fontana are nice and our reservation were courtesy of Rency Carlos and Atty. Boyet Andin. At this point, we're about to leave Fontana on the way to the new site of the school (Don Bosco Pampanga) which is just nearby at Mabalacat. Twenty-five years ago, when we graduated, the school was still at Bacolor. After the lahar disaster in 1995, it was finally transferred to Mabalacat.

At the new site, there was lots of food. The pic at the right wast taken inside the gym where we had the activities. The food was mostly Kapampangan dishes. It was good! I remember the burong-nasi though was not as presentable and enticing as what Mommy prepares. I don't know. It was rather grey-colored and was not as tasty. It smelled like buro but it certainly didn't look it (at least not the one I'm familiar with).

The attendance at the reunion was great! There was a lot of picture-taking, chatting (where have you been all these years kind of a chat). We actually started off with the Holy Mass and then proceeded to the gym. In the pic at the left (click image to enlarge), we're actually sitting on the same bleachers that were "rescued" from the lahar debris in Bacolor! Yup, these are the same benches we used when we were still students more than 25 years ago.

The pic at the right (click image to enlarge) was taken at the stage. The guy in the orange shirt was our Drafting teacher (Mr.Liangco); the elderly guy in glasses was our principal (Fr.Carmona); the lady was our Algebra teacher(Miss Zita-Kabigting); the other guy in polo was our Workshop teacher (Mr.DelaRosa); the other guy was our English teacher (Fr.Inocencio). The guy at the extreme right is the present principal (Fr.Joey Paras)

It's been 25 years since we last saw each other. The pic at the left (click image to enlarge) is the entire High School Graduating Class taken in 1979. There were 81 who graduated. Among those, more than half (45) showed up at the reunion with their families. It was such a happy and nostalgic affair.



Until we meet again !


Lower Back Sprain Treatment

It's been almost a month now since I've started the rehabilitation therapy for my back sprain (lumbosacral, L4-L5). The therapy I'm undergoing includes the Williams flexion exercises for the lower back.

Most of the exercises are performed in a lying position and are preceded by 20 minutes of warm compress and ultrasound.

These exercises are progressive from one session to another. I assume these were instructed by the rehab doctor to the physical therapists who attended me.

Fontana Leisure Park

This journal starts with my High School Reunion Weekend Affair. It was a weekend long celebration that for us, started with an outing/ swimming at the Fontana Water Park. The pic at the left is the the park's wave pool. That's Irene with the kids: Che (yellow goggles), Sandra (blue goggles), Karen (pink goggles) and Renz doing the "peace" sign. I did my swimming here coz it's the only attraction that is deep and wide enough were you could actually swim.

The park has so many attractions like this galleon insipired water playground called "The Admiral". There's Che in the black trunks and blue swimsuit leading Karen and Sandra to the slides. Tita Gay and Renz are probably there somewhere too at the other side of the boat.

And then there's the Water Factory on the left pic with Che and Karen. Renz had a blast turning the steering wheels. You basically turn the wheel to hit the other kids with the water. This park has so many stuff for the kids.

There's the picture of the "Marina" girls and Renz, the Syokoy. I don't know, they just HAD to do this pose pretending to be mermaids. I took so many pictures that I just can't post them all here. When I have time , I'll put them in an online album somewhere.

Finally it's time to go home. Home here will be one of Fontana's very nice villas. Courtesy of one of my Fontana member batchmates, we were able to get a 2-room villa for an overnight stay at half the price! The pic on the left shows one of the entrances to the water park. In all honesty, I couldn't figure what the water park's theme was! They had bull elephants, lions, monkeys, snakes and then there's a "factory", a galleon. Well, I guess it must have been an Adventure theme of some sort. The kids thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon. We stayed until closing time! Renz was too pooped to even pose for the camera. Poor little guy.


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