2009 Christmas Holiday Greetings

A

Christmas Greetings

from

NARAPHIL family

and

Friends

Two All Time Greats - Both world champions!




California, USA







Ms. Marianne Rivera & Alex Dela Cruz






Sugar Land, Texas




Bacoor, Cavite
Philippines

Mississauga, Ontario

Canada



Merry Christmas

and

Happy New Year to all!

My travel continues .......... San Anonio, Texas

San Antonio visit

(Texas)

Ryan's Apartment Complex

(My newly wed nephew)

Stroll to a nearby mall!

Ryan's Blow-out by his Big Bosses!
San Antonio, Texas

The newly wed couple

(Ryan & Tin)

Enjoying his big boss house hospitality!

Good luck and God bless to this new couple!

A visit to Missisauga Bros!

A visit to Ka Andoy's Home

Missisauga, Ontario
Canada

Tres Amigos!
(Friends 4ever)

Arnis brothers and their spouses

(Leo & Mely, Lyn & Andy, Claire & Noel)

Andy and Noel's children

Enjoying the hospitality & Karaoke @ Andoy's Inn

A visit to Bro. Noel's Home

Missisauga, Ontario
Canada

The Estepa Siblings
(Odette, Noel & Leo)

Ka Noel, Ka Andoy and Manong Leo

And so my tour goes on ...... see you next time!

My first travel vacation around

Alas! A good break from my hectic working schedule! I'm so excited about traveling around to visit good old friends and relatives whom I haven't seen for quite sometime. This is my first vacation since migrating here in States and this is probably the time I've been waiting to happen. Seeing them is really giving us joy and reminisce the hurdles that we made in our lives in reaching this point in time. But most of all ........... arnis has paved a way for my migration here and convincing my wife and children that opportunities here is vast for them to build their dreams and possibly their entire future here.

For me, this is the start of a new chapter in my life of what I can provide and share to NARAPHIL's future! This is our beginning ...........

The following pictures will show you of what you can achieve if you strive harder to build your future and follow my footsteps! Come Bros. and Sis. let's enjoy my travel ............

A Visit to Rochester

(Cousin Paz Toledo)

Working too much can be sometimes stressful and burdensome like in my field but the fruits of it is something that you will cherish and would say .............. its worth it!

The Thousand Island Trip
Gananoque, Canada

Traveling with your family and see them enjoy is worth a lasting bonding ......... like the good old days that we were together with the "Tropa" traveling around the Philippines from Aparri to Jolo for our arnis promotion and performances, that bonded us together and created that lasting camaraderie! Its a treasure that we cannot exchange for anything else and the experience that comes with it made us more matured and broad-minded in the way we see the future of NARAPHIL. Some perceived it the other way around but ............. we, the generation of today proved it otherwise!

A Visit to the Falls

Niagara, Canada

The Chicago Travel

Chicago, Illinois

Chicago skyline

Lincoln Park Zoo of Chicago

This is where it began ...........

The "Moonlight Serenade"

"Moonlight Serenade"

(Maiden Voyage)

28 December 2008

Houston, Texas

People who are adept with music, this is one beautiful classical sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven, my favorite actually .............. but sorry to say it's not!


It was composed in Japan and not in Vienna, and this is her first "maiden voyage"! Zaldie was the conductor together with his Pearl Grace crew! They stayed for sixteen days in Japan before sailing her to the seas! Yes, when he toured us around the ship with Mely, you can still smell the raw paint to all its cabin and hallways.

The crew were all Filipinos and had a real good times with them! But as usual, they are bored and have no friends or relatives around to tour them, unlike Zaldie! Unfortunately I can not also accommodate them and that they have to spend their Christmas in their ship.


Zaldie was able to do a good shopping spree, because all the stores were on for the post-Christmas sale. So he was frantic to buy things and keeps computing the prices from dollars to pesos - and says it was really a big, big discount. He started paying his items with the green bucks and the cashiers were all astonished for all the money coming out of his wallet, crispy, unblemished and most of all smells like a dollar!!! He! he! he!


Lahat ng kanyang $100 bills ay inaaninag and looking for it - counterfeit ba ito o hindi!!! We were both laughing because we looked liked hoodlums laundering the monies! Everyone is paying their bills with plastic money while Zaldie is paying it with a hard cash, and everyone is looking. Kasi naman nakadamit lang kami ng akala mong very poor baga!???


Sabi nga niya eh, "Don't worry about it, galing pa yan sa Japan, pero printed pa rin dito sa States at hindi sa Japan!". He! he! he!

Bro. Zaldie, while we were board on your ship, I keep on wondering how you manage to stay without getting sea-sick with its continous waving motion. That brief stay with you, I can really say I'm not well good probably in travelling with ships. No matter how good a swimmer I am! He! he! he!

The weather was perfect, not too hot, not too cold and even not sunny for your brief visit! It only implies that everything was in place for your visit! Ho! ho! ho!


I hope all our Bros. back there could have a chance to visit me here and enjoy my simple hospitality, ika nga ......... Pinoy pa rin!

And so the tour goes on ..............

Welcome to Texas

I hope you can always have the chance to visit us again here in Texas and also hoping that you enjoyed your brief visit and stay here! Godspeed on your voyage! 'Til next visit!

"Don't mess with Texas"

That's his T-shirt logo ..........

Thanks for your visit Bro!