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Part of Uel Ongwico's email dated Feb. 20, 2000 currently deployed to Western Pacific onboard USS John J. Stennis (CVN-74)

greetings, my fellow cocobucos!

after a cool respite, i'm pumped and energized to do battle. so, LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE!!! Rosie, i read your note. from now on, i'll forward every piece of story i write (when my psychotic curiosity to nibble and pick send a contagion from my cerebral itch to my scratchy fingers) to you and the other members of the editorial board (wow! hebing-behi ang tunog, a! true meadow (parang tutoo). naks!, korni bra?) one thing, tho', i'm shut out of the 'net (ship's policy since we're entering the Gulf, i think!) so, i'll put off whatever comment i have for the graphics (i still want to see Ray's Mr. Coco without the 'Class Batch' tattooed on its face). mukhang mas pogi kung wala, 'di ba? (does everybody agree with me?) what do you think, guys?

SUGGESTION: can we create a column/page titled "ANG PERGOLA" (remember the patio in front of the cafeteria?) for all the anecdotes, tidbits and 'tsismis' that we can gather from time immemorial to
the present? (anything that happened under the sun during our circa) just an idea. like, a 'k'wentong barbero' section.  maybe Ray could create a cartoon story like the ones in the 'dailies'.

Here's an excerpt from Rosie Amat Veluya suggesting layouts, inputs to our website. 

Pls have yours heard and implemented!!

I. Events Page- since we don't have too many happenings among ourselves,
may be we can feature events that will include our whole family, i.e.,
babies being born (at our age? apo siguro), weddings, graduations,
anniversaries. We should have a caretaker of this page from the
Philippines (I'm thinking of Ding Briones and Carol Davila).
Wait...Banny Quinto has a barber shop. You know that barber shops are a
good place to know the latest event. Uel, can we get Banny on this? As
for us who are here we can just send whatever events you want to publish
to JJ. Our main concern of course are happenings amongst '69ers (if
any). I'll do the initial articles on this page until we can get others
to participate.

II. Photo Gallery - As we already know this will have photos of kami
noon and kami ngayon. Is it possible not to confine "kami noon" photos
to high school days only? We didn't see each other during college days
and even after. It would be nice to see bell bottoms, long hair, flower
power T-shirts. Photos should be captioned to include the year (very
important) they were taken and what they were all about. Your baby
pictures? Puede rin. Let's make it as a contest of "Guess Who This Baby
Is?" Winner gets a kiss via the internet.

III. Taglish - Ahh... this one is fun, it's freedom page. For a start
may be we should have permanent column writers on this page. Uel, you
are one good Taglish writer. Your travelogues are not only humorous but
informative as well. Mey, ilabas natin ang hidden talent on jokes on
this page. As you already know I've asked Ding to look for some of the
COCO staffers OR ANY '69er who will be very interested to contribute
articles. It might take a while before we can get the Philipine front
moving, so let's give them a sample of our product first.  

Here are Mil's suggestions:

entries for events? siguro naman there are 69ers who gather at family
get-togethers: children's (apos') birthday parties, anniversaries, etc. and
i'm sure there would have been photos taken then. so encourage everyone to send these photos and maybe put them under "mini-reunions." will comment more next time.

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