A Representative

January 30,2012.Banning, California.

Since I started to write on this blog,I keep reminding myself
to feature no political figures or make at least a hint
related to politics.This blog is solely intended for small
ideas on my experiences related to universal themes such as;
leisure and places I had visited or environmental issues
that I love to advocate and something that will cater to all
irrespective of place in society or range of ages who would
wander to my web.

But today, kindly allow me to tell you something out of my
original genre to honor someone who is a friend to me since
my childhood.This guy happens to be my former classmate in
grade II. In my recollection of him, oftentimes in that era
in late Sixties,I can still remember a schoolmate,classmate
and a seatmate who was kind and generous.
Being a son of a city engineer at that time one could tell
that he was way ahead of us who were not so blessed with
a family having a good resources like money.

But still,he kept his manners and like most of us in his
class he acted as if he was just an ordinary kid like us.

While his mom was working at the same school that we attended
as a librarian, I can still recall today how grateful we are
that at that times when we were eating our snacks during recess
she would tell us to read books at a time.

For grade II elementary students like we were it was
really a big break to tinker,hold and read large books like
World Atlas,Encyclopaedia,Almanacs and so forth that
were available in our school aided by the USAID.

Forty two years later to be exact,we were at (Rick Torrijas)
a common friend's house in San Diego,California eating
and recollecting our journeys in life that made him to
represent our Ist district in Samar that made possible his
current U.S.A. visit in his capacity as a member of the
Philippine Congress' Defense,Disaster and Rehabilitation
and lastly in the most powerful Appropriations
Committee of the Lower house.

Good for you I told him and please continue to work for our
city of Calbayog and for Samar and the Philippines as a whole.

He advocated the implementation of Clean Air Act in Calbayog.
I felt elated to learn that my hometown is now upholding the
Global law that most of my former co-workers at Haribon
advocated so long a time in the early 1990's who collaborated
for the drafting,advocating,lobbying in the halls of the
United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP) under the
leadership of our former Environmental Lawyers (ELAW).
For which in 1992 A World Treaty on Environmental Protection
was signed into law by no less than Twenty One heads of state
in Rio de Janeiro,Brazil's "World Summit for the Environment
Protection" on April 22,1992.

Lastly, I am hoping that Congressman Mel Sarmiento will deliver
his part of the Bacon for what he is now attending in his
current official visit to the United States as a Representative
of our Ist district in Samar or Calbayog in particular.
Kudos to you.