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PASKO SA ATIN

masayang-masaya mga batang paslit
kapag ang pasko ay sumasapit
edsa, avenida ay sobrang traffic
sa ayala nama'y mga ilaw'y kay rikit

mga magulang natin ay di magkamayaw
pagka't christmas bonus ay abot tanaw
tiyak ang mega mall sa tao ay umaapaw
henry sy at gokongwei eto't tubong lugaw

pakileño'y iniintay pagdating ng bisperas
lahat ay uuwi sa bayang kay aliwalas
ang iba'y magpapa gas at iba'y magba bus
huwag lamang sanang kampana'y dudublas

pag dating ng hatinggabi kabataan ay tabi-tabi
suut-suot ang damit na kanilang nabili
paboritong sapatos na adidas at nike
ang siyang kanilang ipinagmamalaki

kay sarap isipin ang nakagisnang kultura
huwag sanang mabahiran at maging banyaga
kung saan ang christmas ay naging holiday na
upang mapagbigyan lang ang opinion ng iba.

dito sa kanluran mo lang makikita
kung saan si sta claus ay persona non grata
pati ang pobreng rudolph ay ipagbabawal pa
pasensya mga bata walang ride ngayon si santa.

by: Roy Hidalgo
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MGA ALAALA

Noong ako'y musmos aking napagtuos,
Kaming munting bata'y nilalang ng Diyos,
Sa aming magulang ay nagbibigay lugod,
Sa maghapong gawa'y pang-alis ng pagod.

Nilikom kong lahat ang mga alaala,
Mga gintong araw noong buhay pa si Ina,
Ang bawat sandali'y mandin ay kay saya,
Sa kanyang kandili at sikap ni Ama.

Natatandaan ko pag gising sa umaga,
Ako'y bibihisan sa Estaca ang punta,
Doo'y hihintayin ang lunday ni Ama,
Na galing sa laot ng lawang masagana.

Pagdating ni Ama ako ay yayakapin,
Na may pananabik puno ng paglalambing,
Malalaking isdang huli, kanyang pipiliin,
Sa hapag kaina'y pagsasaluhan namin.

Pagkatapos mag agahan sya ay tutukpa,
Sa luntiang bukid na kanyang sinasaka,
Ang matinding init hindi nya alintana,
Dinidilig nya ng pawis upang palay ay magbunga.

by: Deo V. Yerro
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Ang Pakil . . . (bow)

Kung ikaw ay pupunta ng Pakil;
Sa dulo ng walang hanggan ang
iyong tigil;
Upuan mo'y tiyak na mag iinit,
Kung galing kang USTE hanggang
bus ay di' na umabante;

Pero, pero, pero hindi maiinip,
Sa ganda ng tanawin
at sarap ng ihip ng hangin;

Si Joyce, Joybe, Kikay, Au at Ako,
Patungo sa mga Regalado,
Taun-taon bakasyon ay areglado;

Masarap na tsibog twing pista ay sasapit;
Akyat ng bundok sa mahal na araw
kami'y kapit-kapit;
Sa Turumba kami din ay sadyang naakit;
Sa Mahal na Birhen kami'y
sumayaw at umawit;
Pati sagala kami ay napasabit;
Buti na lang kahit paano'y
kami ay kaakit-akit; (he…he…he)

Tuloy ang kaligayahan,
Lalo na kung matitikman
ang Paliguan ng Bayan;
Napakalinaw ng katubigan,
Libag at alat nami'y tiyak na nagtanggalan;

O Pakil, sadyang kami'y binihag mo;
Lalo na ng makilala ang malalambing
at simpatikong ginoo;
Sana'y dito na kaming totoong-totoo

Pagkalipas ng maraming taon;
Kanya-kanyang buhay kami'y nagkaroon

Kailan kaya muling mapaparoon?

Buong barkada muling pupunta;
Sa Bayang sadyang pinagpala…

Pakil, hanggang sa muling pagkikita!!!

bow….

By: Cathy Paras
(California, USA)
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Christmas Greetings (Flash)

Here are some Christmas greetings in flash format. May everyone have a meaningful celebration of the season.

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Pakil Online Community History

On November 13, 2000 the first Pakil Intranet was created. It lasted for a couple of years with a total of almost 100 plus registered members. The Pakil Intranet served as a file sharing and discussion board site for Pakilenos globally. The Intranet provider started to charge for fee that is why we decided to moved to another intranet provider that is free.(we keep it for sometime by sharing on the monthly fee)

Now comes the Smartgroups/Pakil.com The Pakileno group online grew a little bit in numbers and little bit in participations. Smartgroup/Pakil.com became the virtual meeting place of Pakilenos in Pakil, from Asia, N. America, Middle East and Europe. Some projects were conceptualized in the discussion board. Some local issues were supported thru the forum. The intranet/discussion board was the merging point of Pakilenos getting involved in Pakil virtually. It lasted online from 3rd quarter of 2003 to last quarter of 2005 until the provider decided to close shop.

Pakil World Wide/Officezilla.com was created last quarter of 2006 when Smartgroup closed shop. The Intranet was another free service providing forum and file sharing with a much better forum interface. The Pakil Forum went offline last week of October 2007.

In all of these Pakil Online activity, the virtual experienced brought Pakilenos living in different places around the globe together. Some Pakilenos rediscovered their roots, their relatives and Pakil itself.

On the other hand while these intranet was in existence there are also other Pakileno website who became a good source of information about Pakil, it's people and culture. You can check out the Lava Family website and Buddy Valero's Pakil Page.

Note: If I missed some important dates feel free to leave comments under comment section. Thanks.

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One Afternoon in Pakil- Musiko Rehearsal

Manuel (Maning) Rarela on solo Sax and the 2 PMP students, one on sax the other student on trumpet sitting by ka Fide Abayari. Coming together of old and new-students and teachers playing together with other veteran Pakil musiko.

Ka Maning is a world class, well traveled musician around the globe. He was a band leader when he was based in Hong Kong. While Ka Fide is now retired and used to be a band leader/conductor for the Philippine Military Band. Both are now actively involved in Pakil Music Program as Local Coordinators and teachers together with Greg R. Kaharian(on trombone).
Also in the video: Monching Pasang(Sax), Boy Silvestre(guitar), Ato Aclan(trombone), Marcel Asinas (veteran/retired bassist from Hong Kong circuit-natawag din- he keeps complaining about his athritis, at wala daw siyang practice for a long time, but he did great. Watch the other video. They played Thrilller), Eric Salem (It was an impromtu performance for him too. Natawag lang din siya coz the original drummer was not available. It was really impressive.That's the advantage if you know how to read music notes. Pagkabigay ng piyesa tugtugan na! :-)



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