Happy Birthday Maam Mercy

Mercy, loving wife to Ping, caring mother to Jerome, Katrina, Anton and Miguel, understanding mother-in-law to Micmic, doting grandmother to Mikay, and mother hen of the Libikers celebrated her golden birthday last Dec 18.

Happy birthday Maam Mercy! May you have at least another 50 more!

Christmas Party 2007

The Agilas held this year's Christmas Party at Netfront last Dec 19. Everybody had a grand time especially Tatay Gigi who was irresistibly drawn to this particular venue. Sam Milby twirled around a square post and did splits to the obvious delight of the women. Too, the Libikers were elated to discover that Doc John’s wife (also a physician and was attending an Agila party for the first time) was Libiker material.

But the women nagged the husbands to go home early so that they could attend the first Misa de Gallo of the year. Timid attempts at persuading them otherwise were quickly dismissed. For the women could not be detracted from the single-minded pursuit of waking up very early in the morning, tired and half drunk, and then to stand up and sit down several times for an hour, in unison with the husband and a thousand other people in similar states, and listen to a man wearing women’s clothes tell an improbable story. And to replicate this for next eight days.

But the women were adamant and so we meekly obeyed. Merry Christmas.

The Ideal Life

Mark Twain wrote that good friends, good books – and a sleepy conscience – made for the ideal life. I completely agree, but would add a few more items to the list.

Motorcyle Deaths USA 2002

Motorcycle Riders constituted 2,989 of the 44,065 vehicular deaths in the US in 2002. Nonmotorists/Pedestrians accounted for 4,774.

My guess is that the percentage is higher in the Philippines given the explosion in use of relatively cheap scooters. That a lot of folks riding these bikes are young, without protection, inebriated and stupid certainly would contribute to the increase in motorcycle deaths here.

P.S. During the same year, 98,000 died because of medical errors. http://www.riskometer.org/pages/riskometerExposures.html. Motorcycles deaths can be found under Unintentional Injury (Print breakout). Deaths due to medical errors can be seen under Exposures.

New Agilas Inducted Nov 24

Ronald, Doc John, Jimmy, and Basti formally joined arguably Davao's best biker club last November 24 at a bar at Damosa Gateway.

A full report to follow soon. Let's see the pictures first.