Sunday, Dec. 2, 2007
Today was Baby Boy Poblador’s birthday. I had breakfast with Baby Boy and Elo, during which I gave Baby Boy his birthday gift (a watch which also serves as an electronic counter for all eighteen holes of your golf game) since we were going our separate ways for the day.
Around noontime, Johnny Nanagas picked me up from the condo and his driver drove us to Alabang, Rizal, where Ernie Diokno was staying with his brother Marlon and Marlon’s wife Pinky. Ernie had flown in for the Ateneo reunion from Rome, Italy.
Charter members of the Ateneo de Manila High School Judo Club
pose for a reunion picture at the 1st Vic Vargas Memorial Judo
Training Camp held in Alabang, Rizal on Dec. 2007. From left to
right, the aging judokas are Dr. Juan Pablo Nanagas of the Phil.,
Ernesto Diokno of Canada, and Jay de Leon of the USA.
While we would see each other on other occasions during this trip, we decided to hold a reunion just for the three of us. We decided to call our reunion the 1st Vic Vargas Memorial Judo Training Camp in honor of our first judo instructor Jose “Pinggoy” Asuncion who went on to fame and fortune as the actor Vic Vargas.
Ernie treated us to a sumptuous dinner. In a couple of days, Johnny would fly to Bangkok, Thailand for the SouthEast Asian Games as the manager of the women’s archery Philippine Olympic team, and would miss most of the Ateneo reunion activities.
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