Last March 3, 2007, the Mangaldan Residents' Group in Vancouver celebrated the hometown fiesta by coming together for a 'lauriat'-style luncheon held at Flamingo Restaurant in Vancouver. Aliguas Mangaldan co-editor Marie Aquino-Junio had posted an article on this in her site, Vancouver with Love. I took a video of the event and just only recently got the chance to edit it. So here are clips of the fiesta celebration in 3 parts. Each clip had to be at least less than 10MB or around 2 minutes long. This is the limitation of our site services. So bear with us to click each video one at a time. They are of course arranged consecutively. Enjoy! And see your kabaleyans in Vancouver rejoice in seeing each other again! (Djoma)
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Part Two:
Part Three
To my pinsan Cecelia de Vera Townsend,my best regards to all of you and also to all my kabaleyan. I keep on looking in the Aliguas your pictures almost every day just in case there might be new ones.
How come the kids do'nt go with you anymore in the Filipino gatherings. I don't know that there is a lot of Kababayan there. Well,keep on posting some pictures. We miss ya ..... This is Ernie from San Francisco...Mabuhay kayon amin ditan. Maong so bilay yon amin.....
Posted by: ernie de vera | January 24, 2008 at 10:53 AM
To our "wantoks" (kabaleyan)in Vancouver.
Great to see you are all having a good time.
Indeed, fiestas bring us all together to unwind and find ourselves with our dear friends and wantoks.
Djoma - thanks for sharing the first "uncut" cinema of the celebration.
Cheers ,, Mon Orap
Posted by: Ramon Orap | April 19, 2007 at 05:30 AM
Thanks to Djoma , the " still " pictures I posted in VWL on the Mangaldan Residents of Vancouver ( MaReVa ) group's small fiesta luncheon became "live" with his expertise .We are lucky indeed , Djoma , that our group in Vancouver is the first "recipient" of your latest audio-visual technology ..Thanks ..
MARIE
Posted by: Marie Aquino Junio | April 18, 2007 at 05:51 PM
Pec,
Kuya Jhun Jimenez was comparing the 'top gone' of Briggy Miraflor, husband of Rusty Cervas-Miraflor. As you may sense in the din of the noise, almost everybody had a story to share about the year passed. The fiesta brings the townmates to enjoy a respite from work.
Posted by: Djoma | April 17, 2007 at 09:20 PM
Nice videos! is that kuya jun scratching another shiny head? who is he? haha very funny!
Posted by: pec visperas | April 17, 2007 at 03:26 PM