Sweet moments with Ms. B

Yeah! it was a surprise really when there was a schedule to go to Tacloban, Leyte for PHNS annual conference. What surprises me most was i've been dying to go to Leyte, particularly Tacloban for more than a decade now and finally there was this chance.

So i grabbed the upportunity right there and then and it turned out to be a great experience ! I got to go to the best tour sites of the region and whallah!.. the next thing i knew I was mesmerized by the entire trip, not to mention i visited the very site where a gruesome incident took place during the American regime in the country, which was part of the very conference i was attending. But it was in Balangiga, Samar, the province next to Leyte, but it was on that place where my surprise took my breath away! Here is the rest of that story... (pls click here)

But one very important moment in my Tacloban trip was the book launching and i was the first one to get hold of a copy, which was signed 'mismo' by the author himself , Prof. Rolly Borrinaga, Phd. ( The Balangiga Conflict Revisited). Here are some pictorials we did:


Prof. Rolando O. Borrinaga

Father Tax and Sir Rolly Borrinaga @ dinner


@ Basey Visita (chapel)

@ Leyte Normal University (LNU) site of the conference

@ the actual site of the Balangiga Incident. @ the back is the replica of the American soldiers and Filipino guerillas as they (Filipinos ) made their attack.

Sir Rolly, Mayor of Balangiga, Madam Churchill, Father Tax

@ the Mac Arthur landing site in Palo, Leyte.

with some of the participants coming from different regions in the Philippines

with Father Tax and the Balangiga Church in the background

the ever famous San Juanico Bridge connecting Leyte and Samar

The Professor and the M.A. Hist. gang

@ Sto. Niño Shrine, Tacloban, Leyte

Thank you Tacloban, and thanks to Prof. Rolly Borrinaga and family. My gratitude won't stop here.

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