Vol 37 Issue 4
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE ALPHA PHI OMEGA GREATER LOS ANGELES ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
May 2017
Pec hang a Busca pade: ANO THER BLAST! echang hanga Buscapade: ANOTHER By Bro. Ferdie Yambot
With all 53 participants’ jubilance in our Pechanga Buscapade, we had another experience to brag about! Brothers, Sisters, Families and Friends gathered up early at the two pick-up points (Panorama City and West Covina) and with the bus coming on time, the fun started even before boarding (drinks, and munchies being shared especially at West Covina, where we waiting was about 45 long minutes). When the 2nd group boarded the bus, it was plain chaotic as even the drop of a crow-bar (as against a pin drop) can’t be heard. HAIST! The exotics (hors-d’vours), baluts, empanadas, corn-on-the-cub, puto, chicharon, fruits(even tamarind malasebo), veggies… and of course, the Back-seat BOYZ knew all the tricks, as usual. What a LIFE! . . . to the FULLEST! For the traditional $20 per share pool with 35 risk takers, the $700 total was split for Paigow ($400 played by DanN) and Hold Em($300, 50% chop played by TonyA and FerdieMY), but most card-flips did not end up our way, hence, our hope for big money kinda fizzled, though we had a remaining $280 in the end… all in $20 bills. $280 divided by 35 computes to $8, which for all practical purposes is tough to apportion amongst 35 people, hence, with everyone concurring, the decision was to donate the amount to GLA/Sis Prez Betta.
The drive way home was a little gloomier, not just because not many people won but that the operating condition of the bus was uncomfortable; with no aircondition (inside temperature reaching 90 degrees F), the toilet is not useable and to make it even worse, its smell was somewhat punishing. We brought it to Pechanga charters attention verbally, then officially through FerdieMY’s email message. For that, I got an apologetic phone call from Pechanga’s Ms. Estanque (our coordinator) committing to not ever deploying that bus company and driver, if ever APOGLA has a next time. I also requested for an expedite of our points summary, and a most positive feedback came….” We surpassed 15K points way over at . . . TADAH . . . 31,000 points, hence our $600 deposit refund is on its way back. By the way, our total net proceeds is not too lousy either at $1,785.00 and that is not even counting the $25 donation committed by Bro BeeboyM. The raffle, the Bingo, the pool left-over and donations from three people namely, Bro JimmyB, Bro BodgieG and BongY (FerdieMY’s nephew) augmented the basic $25 per participant, minus some minor expenses lead the tally to the above net amount. Not bad for an easy full day’s work! Continued on page 3