Happy 50th Birthday IPP Bro Bubot Santos!

Brother Manny "Bubot" Santos celebrated his 50th birthday yesterday, 25 November at their home at Woodcroft with Sis Odeng, their family and friends.

It is a veritable meeting and fellowship of FilMasons. FilMasons present were: WBro Abe & Sis Tess Amores, WBro Leo & Sis Josie Bautista, Bro Mar & Sis Irene Baylon, WBro Bobby & Sis Nanette Briones, Bro Bert Dooma, WBro Vince Flores, VWBro Manny & Sis Remy Maniago, WBro Romy & Sis Ellen Nieto, WBro President Fidel & First Lady Sis Pen Pamplona, Bro Manny & Sis Dodo Placido, WBro Manny Reyes, Bro Louie & Sis Marilyn Reyes, Bro Ted & Sis Evy Robiso, WBro Rudy & Sis Mila Romerosa, and WBro Jack & Sis Elvie Sta Maria.

Other brothers and sister present were Bros EA Tom Baena and Carl Samboy; Bro Rudy & Sis Sen Olaco, and Bro Dick Palenzuela; who just got back from his trip to the Philippines.

As always, there's plenty of food and drinks and the obligatory karaoke singing and dancing. Yep, Sis Sen, Sis Evy and Sis Marilyn burned some calories as well, while the brethren are trading stories and jokes while partaking beers and Chivas. We would have love to finish off the Black Johnnie Walker, except that WBro Manoy Reyes "hijacked" it and requested the host for him to take it away in his bush hide-away.

Congratulations to Joe & Emy on their Engagement

The happy couple, Joe & Emy, with Emy's parents.

Also congratulations to the Placido's for the recent engagement of their son, Joseph or Joe to Emy, last Saturday, 24 November. A veritable garden engagement party at their home at Castle Hill complete with marquee and spit barbeque. This was a grand occasion that necessitated a hired porta-loo and refrigerated mini-container to hold the food! But the center of attention obviously goes to the engaged couple; Joe and Emy, who from the looks of it are madly in love and so lucky to have the full support of both their parents and families.

Journey to the East - A FilMason Masonic Education Blog

Brethren and friends, just announcing the creation of this blogsite for your Masonic education. Click the title above to access the link.

Bro Louie and myself have been discussing whether to publish Masonic education articles here in our FilMason's BloGazine or not. Due to the more "serious" nature of the articles, we decided to create another blog site just for Masonic Education.

This would make our BloGazine more "friendly" in terms of light-hearted articles, which is more on the side of social activities and fellowship of the association.

While we would like to publish more original articles, we have collated and gathered (in our humble opinion and knowledge of the craft) articles from other blog and web sites and printed articles.

Your interest and comments on the articles are most welcome as always. Any contributions for publication are also most welcome, especially original ones.

We hope all of you will enjoy and learn something from the articles, whether you are new to Freemasonry or an old hand. There is always something new to learn about Freemasonry with which we might be able to apply in our daily lives.