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Migz Zubiri and JDB? Congressmen reunited??? Jojo dela Cruz aka Migz Zubiri and JDB definitely not Jose de Benecia but Jung del Barrio reunited after 23 years…
It was March of 1985 when I parted with this guy, not that his name is Guy coz that’s actually his brother’s name. That fateful day when my Class adviser took three times to actually read my name correctly after 10 months of painstakingly checking my quizzes, test papers in mathematics. The only time that my adviser took notice of me was when he read in class my reflection about a question he asked us to answer during our homeroom period. I admire this person, not that I love mathematics but because he has a way of making sure that you don’t get to forget him during special occasions like your high school graduation. Sir Elmer Orbita, thanks for the mathematical equations!
March 1985 to January 1, 2008 – that’s about 23 years ago since I last saw Leoncio “Jojo” dela Cruz, now a Congressman Migz Zubiri look alike (see attached picture). I used to ask him a lot about my problems in mathematics when we were in high school (mind you, even during exams). A few months ago I chanced upon Jojo on the net via yahoo messenger and from time to time we would exchange jokes about our high school life, in fact almost every time that we get to chat we would use the vernacular and it was like we would challenge each other to who would get to say the most uncommon Bicol term. At one time, he asked about the political situation in the country because he said he has a doctor friend who is planning to come to the Philippines and run for senator, so it was again, in jest, a discussion about politics. Jojo, a registered nurse who is married to a pediatrician and blessed with a 19 month old cute son texted me and asked me if we could meet at the lobby of the Shangri-La Makati, I consented and there we met and it was like whew! 23 long years! He showed me their room and the reason why he had the room reserved six months before. The view was just perfect for the New Year celebration at Ayala. Jojo looked healthy albeit he has to go to the bathroom from time to time to blow his nose, he said his son also had fever and that they didn’t have to have the kid confined since his wife is a practicing Pediatrician in the US and he himself is a nurse. He invited me to the 24th floor were we had a sumptuous meal, being ignorant that I was of living a good life, not to mention eating in a posh hotel like Shangri-La I would ask him what those food on the table were and he would ask me, what would you like to have, “sinanglag”? After the meal we went back to their room and he introduced me to his doctor wife and the bouncing cute kid who had a temperature of 41% the day before. We had our picture taken and then we went off to check out the bars in Makati. We decided to stay at Hardrock café, had a couple of beers then he suggested that we just have red wine because as he said it’s good for the heart. Ignorant as I may have been of red wines I took the opportunity to bond more by having a taste of Jojo’s usual imported red wine. After emptying the red wine he said he would want to bar hop, I readily said ok am not paying anyway, and so we headed to Strumms to take a breather from the eardrum shattering rnb band at Hardrock’s. It was New Year’s Day so Strumm’s unfortunately was closed so we just decided to do videoke at music 21. After a couple of more beers and singing the last song, my way, we decided to call it a day, he took 50 dollars from his wallet and handed it to me telling me that it was a present for my son. A plastic bag of Godiva chocolates in tow and 50 dollars, not bad for a high school reunion…
Before the Christmas break I decided to buy my first ever laptop. Being techy as I have been, I had my RAM maxed so I'd get to play games on my laptop. The Christmas break gave me more than enough time to play games on my laptop and download movies. I get to download at least one movie a day so I can watch the movie with my wife and my son before we go to bed. Two years as a smartbro subscriber, I can say I am satisfied with their service. A download speed of about 50-60 kbps is good enough. I can say our combined family income would put us to below average if not average, so I also get to have a taste of Starbucks coffee from time to time. And in the few visits I had at Starbucks, I see the "well off" tinkering with their laptops, many of whom are surfing the net taking advantage of the free wifi connection the cafe provides. "Well off" or not, that gave me an idea, and I presumed that, since the cafe is catering to the "well off" then maybe, just maybe the connection would be super fast. Laptop in tow, I headed to Starbucks market market branch at Fort Bonifacio, making sure that I have just enough money to buy one tall size cafe mocha and chocolate belgian waffle for my son. After a few tries, like maybe around thirty minutes of trying to connect to the cafe's wifi I decided to ask the crew coz whenever I try to connect, I would be directed to a site(globe broadband) and the site is asking for a user name and a password. I learned from the crew that the provider did not the deliver the card which they have to enter into the site for the internet to be connected. Good thing I am techy, I would not want to leave starbucks without having to surf the net so I did not have any choice but connect to the internet using my cellphone. Then I remembered that there is another Starbucks just nearby, I was trying to recall whether It is on the second or third floor of a four storey bookstore named fully booked. So off we went to Serendra and my memory served me right, indeed there it was, on the third floor of fully booked, Starbucks. The store is packed with the well to do intellectuals or may be "wanna be intellectuals", good thing am neither of the two, since I am there for the "super fast" internet connection. When we reached the third floor, all hopes went astray since the cafe is also fully booked, so we decided just to idle around the bookstore, checked out the bookshelves for anything interesting. And since we were just in front of the cafe I decided to sit on one of the comfortable couch provided for the "readers" and checked if I can get a wifi signal, and voila! I actually got two wireless connections. I checked on the globe connection since I know now that Starbucks probably had a contract with globe so they are using globe broadband. I was able to connect but noticed that the connection is quite slow. far slower than a dial up connection so i went back to the connection menu and tried out the other wireless connection, and there it was, the super fast connection I have always thought of, which I know for sure is not from the cafe. I tried checking the download speed and boom! it reached up to 2345 kbps. That was fast! My smartbro connection at home maxed to only about 520 kbps so that is about 4 times faster. Then I told myself, I am definitely coming back to do my movie/game downloads. A few days later I went back and since all laptops only have a maximum battery life of about 3 hours with of course minimum application usage, I always have with me the laptop's DC plug. I positioned myself just beside the counter and leaned on the wall where an electric socket is located. I started downloading and there I was about half way of the downloads I noticed the laptop's battery sounding off an alarm so I readily took the DC plug and connected it to the electric socket. A couple of minutes gone by and here comes the bookstore personnel telling me politely that plugging in laptops are a no no, as polite as he was, I replied and apologized and immediately unplugged the laptop. Downloads lost, so I decided to go back to Starbucks since there are still available seats and that of course, cafe patrons are allowed to plug in their laptops. But since previously I knew that the connection is erratic and at the same time too slow we decided to check out Krispy Kreme since we saw an ad on the establishment's door saying free wifi. Down at Krispy Kreme we had our taste of the free donuts that the crews were serving every time we fall in line and then I checked out the connection, it is a security enabled connection so I had to ask a crew to help me out and connected I was. I checked out the speed and it was almost as fast as that of fully booked so I decided to download but then again the batteries did its familiar beeps. Lucky enough I was able to download 3 out of 4 parts of the movie before the battery totally ran out. Lessons learned??? First, have an extra battery handy specially if you will be using the wifi connection at Krispy Kreme since they do not have electric sockets. Second, thou shall not go to Starbucks if you are expecting a fast internet connection. Third??? If you want to have a taste of the good life or just to be in the place were the rich people converge, check out Serendra, just in front of market market.
PS: password for wireless connection at Krispy Kreme is candycane.
