Last May 02, 2006, I posted in this blog a fire that happened in the Administration Building of UNEP. This year, we had another fire in the family.
Last May 18, 2008, a Sunday, at about 12 o'clock noon, our ancestral home located inside the UNEP campus was gutted once again. Once again because this is the 2nd time that the house had been gutted by fire. The whole family of my Uncle Awel lives in the house except for my cousin Wella and her family who already has their own house near that old one.
The fire started in the kitchen because allegedly a fire used for cooking burst up into a large flame that fired up a live wire where the light of the kitchen was attached. The flame from the cooking stove lighted up the wire where fire travelled on the ceiling and engulfed the whole house. It was a good thing that the firemen arrived promptly. Well, they should since they are practically just about a block away from the house.
The good thing though is that my Grandmother's house which was just beside that gutted house was saved. Also, my cousin M-M's room was saved with everything in tact. They all live now at Jun and Wella's house. I heard that my cousin Nonokoy and his family has already moved out from Jun and Wella's to move in next door in their house which is almost done now. Uncle Awel lives with them now.
I really do not know what to make of it. I just hope all of us learn something from this even once again.
5 comments:
Glad nobody's hurt.
Hi Peach! This is a nice blog. Can I add you in my blog roll?
By the way I'm one of your classmates in Management in BU Grad School under Prof. Boy Lanuzo. I am not sure if you still remember coz we just met a few times and I dropped the course. In 2002, I also enrolled in UNEP College of Law but you were busy then as a Prov'l Board Member.
Hi Peachy,
My name is Al Ramirez Dizon, formerly of Guinobatan, Albay but now residing in and a citizen of Singapore. It was with delight and a certain sense of pungaw that I stimbled across your blog. I'd like to know whether somehow you are related to my stepgrandmother, Antonia Alfelor Ramirez. She married my grandpa Jose B Ramirez, former dean of graduate studies at UNEP during its early days, no doubt before you were born. Everythging about the family is hazy to me, except that she used to stay at a house beside a DZKI transmission tower. Last time I saw her was in 1979 when as a 17 year-old, i bid goodbye when I accepted an Asean Scholarship to study economics in Singapore. If you are her relation, please let me know if she is she still around. I enjoyed visiting them at Iriga and playing around the UNEP campus. And please let her know too that both my mother Eva and father Bonifacio have gone. As for me, I am a regional journalist, and I am happy married with 3 kids who are now in college (all girls). And I would like to get in touch.
My email address is al.dizon@gmail.com
Yes BIKLISH, you can add me in your blog roll.
Yes, I studied MPA in BU but was not able to finish it.
But, you might have confused me with Mayor Madel Alfelor Gazmen who was a Provl. Board Member. I was never in politics.
But, still it was great to see you drop by and comment.
Thanks.
Hi Peach,
Yeah, I got confused. Kala ko ikaw ang naging Prov'l Board. It was only later that I realized. Sorry po. Ako, thesis na rin lang ang kulang ko.
Thanks for visiting Biklish and dropping a comment. Recommending my site to your students is a great honor. More power to you and to UNEP. :)
hi bay,
musta?
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