Posts Tagged ‘linggo ng wika

31
Aug
10

3 YEARS IN A ROW

Looking at photographs of annual events makes me more reflective on how time flies so fast.  On my son’s photos taken from their preschool’s celebration of Linggo Ng Wika every August, it’s so apparent how he has grown from a cute and chubby boy to a charming little man now.

On August 2008, Gabby who was then a Nursery pupil, was a little Katipunero in their parade.

A year later in his Kindergarten, he appeared like a very young statesman, so dapper in his Barong Tagalog; charming, isn’t he?

And just last week, Tina emailed me the photo that showed how she became resourceful and creatively made used of our old table runners from Baguio City and bought some rooster feathers just to transform Gabby to look like someone from the Northern Philippines. :)

Our son was assigned by his preschool teacher to be the “apo” or looked like a “mumbaki” to me, as the entire Preparatory level was dressed to represent the northern tribes…  Gabby led his group in dancing the lullaby chant of the natives, Salidumay.

For 3 years since he started schooling, this was my very first time to be absent in his activities.  :(

There goes the  little sacrifice of an OFW dad.

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28
Aug
09

MACHO GUWAPITO

The month of August in the Philippines is never complete without celebrating Quezon City and Quezon province day on the 21st and Linggo ng Wika in honor of one of our presidents, the late Pres. Manuel L. Quezon and the Filipino language.  And most schools nationwide do have annual activities to propagate the use of our own language. (Isn’t it ironic that I’m posting about these festivities when in fact I’m blogging using the universal language? lol)   The preschool of my son, Gabby is no exception. 

Last year, Gabby looked like a Katipunero when he wore this…

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This year, he was in his fighting form again for the parade and a performance on stage wearing this…

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Their school opted to finish their quarterly exams first before having the event so it was delayed for a week and was scheduled this morning.  My wife and I made sure that we attend this year’s together since she wasn’t able to fix her work schedule last year. My dad was ever present since his apo had started joining such extracurriculars.

The parade that was escorted by a mini band of drums started at around 8AM; it was a short walk  from their preschool to the next street where the baranggay hall covered court is.  

Look how parents prepared their kids for this…

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I don’t have a sister, I grew up with 3 brothers.  I am happy having a son now but of course my wife and I would like to have cute little chubby girl/s of our own  soon someday :D   Aren’t they too cute for their Filipiniana costumes?

My wife and I and Gabby’s lolo were all there to watch our son’s sing-and-dance performance on stage with his schoolmates.  They danced in pairs to the tune of Ang Pipit.  

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They also sang the song Kay Ganda ng Ating Musika in chorus… Some of the groups of grade school students recited nationalistic poems in Filipino but the performance that was applauded the most was a dance number from older grade schoolers to the tune of Rico J. Puno’s Macho Guwapito…. 

Gabby could have been perfect for that song, don’t you think ? :D

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Good job, Gabby! :D

After that morning activity, we trooped to Tomas Morato to munch on something that I’ll post next…




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