Batangas and its Reputation for Fine Horses
Image source: Allfreedownload.com . Back in 1969, when I was a Grade 5 student at De la Salle in Lipa, the Principal, one Brother Rafael ...Read More
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Showing posts with label DLSL. Show all posts
To All Graduates of DLSL… From Your Former Teachers
DLSL teachers during commencement exercises late 70s or early 80s. During a lively conversation with a few of my former colleagues a fe...Read More
DLSL Alumna Richie Tumambing: Destined to be an Architect despite the Twists of Life that came her way
Image from Richie Tumambing. Sometimes, God just finds ways to nudge you back in the direction you are meant to take. Or so thinks De la...Read More
The Great 1993 DLSL Palarong Pambansa-Winning Girls’ Volleyball Team
The 1993 DLSL-led STRAA team posing in front of quarters. February 1988 in Calapan, Oriental Mindoro. DLSL’s girls’ volleyball players s...Read More
2 DLSL Alumni Doing Well in Top Philippine Ceramic Company
Ma. Lizette Marajas and Ramses Mabilangan, both DLSL graduates working at Mariwasa Siam Ceramics, Inc. Through the efforts of two DLSL gr...Read More
The Story of How De la Salle Came to Open a School in Lipa City Back in 1962
The facade of La Salle High School in Lipa City back in 1963. Back in 1987, then-DLSL Principal Brother Jaime Dalumpines asked me to writ...Read More
The Untold Story of the Gasoline Station in front of DLSL
Image credit: Google Street View. I was surprised last week when I passed by the Caltex gasoline station beside De La Salle in Lipa City...Read More
Sonny Lozano and the Little-Known Story of Jose Mari Chan’s First-ever Single “Afterglow”
Left, Sonny Lozano with his beauteous wife Beth. Right, Jose Mari Chan while on vacation in Bohol in 2010. After dinner last night, I li...Read More
DLSL Sports, Breaking New Ground in the Late Eighties
DLSL teams in the eighties. The other week, while discussing the formation of a local league with the football coach of UB-Lipa Campus, I...Read More
The DLSL Academic Glory Years in the Eighties Capped by an NCEE Grand Slam
Foreground in white robe: DLSL Principal Brother Jaime Dalumpines during a school activity in the eighties. When I first joined the DLSL...Read More
Bleed Green
I sometimes jokingly say that if you cut me up, I bleed green. This is the story of almost an entire life spent with De la Salle, both in ...Read More
In the Late 90s, a Multisector Dialogue with Batelec Began with This
The dialogue with Batelec was held at the Yellow Conference Room of DLSL. I am not sure if the image above was of the actual dialogue be...Read More
World War II Vintage Bombs Found at DLSL and Elsewhere in Batangas
Image credit: Hindustan Times . It has been all but forgotten now, but when the late De La Salle Lipa President Br. Rafael Donato bega...Read More
When a Cop Was Accidentally Shot during a Gary V Concert at the SENTRUM
Gary Valenciano in concert at the SENTRUM. Back in the mid-nineties, for DLSL to undertake an ambitious campus development project under...Read More
The Year when the Top and Second of the CPA Board Exams were from DLSL
Monday, the 19 th of October in the year 2009, was supposed to be another mundane day at the administrative suite of offices at the second...Read More
The Evolution of the DLSL Emblem
The first emblem used the coconut tree as a prominent symbol. The picture above shows the first De La Salle Lipa emblem worn by students...Read More
The Ball Pen Spinning Skill DLSL Students Used to Have
When I first started teaching high school at La Salle here in Lipa back in 1982, there was something that students did that fascinated me n...Read More
More Classic DLSL Pictures Colourised (Foundation Week Edition)
ORIGINAL 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 I am releasing this second group of colourised classic DLSL pictures to coincide with ...Read More
The Evolution of DLSL's Frontage, 1962-Present
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 The picture above was from the 1963 yearbook called the ‘Sabre,’ which I colourised to give it a bit more life. At the ...Read More
Classic B&W DLSL Pictures Colorised with Graphic Software
There’s nothing to it, really, if you understand colours and pixels. All that is really needed is software and gazillions of patience, as ...Read More
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