The Daily Gazette # 4
by GNN, the Gaz News Network. Please link to this page; do not copy and paste.
At 1030 am yesterday Gaz Holgate visited Amado T. Reyes Elementary School in Buayang Bato, Mandaluyong to assist in National Book Store Foundation’s Project Aral.
Gaz gave a short talk to the 133 pupils of the school, which is located right beside the Pasig River. The school buildings will soon undergo renovation in order to accommodate more students. National Book Store will build the school’s new library.
Kids are a tough audience, but they perked up when Gaz gave a demonstration of basic rugby skills.
Afterwards Gaz distributed Project Aral kits containing notebooks and pencils to the children from the 1st to the 6th grades. National Book Store Foundation has donated school supplies and books to public schools from Saranggani to the Babuyan Islands.
The next hour was spent posing for pictures, then signing the kids’ new notebooks, shirts, and arms (Lagot kayo sa mga nanay ninyo). Bubbles noted Gaz’s excellent swarm algorithm—he could not turn without being covered in children. (As Noel observed: Para siyang bata na tinubuan ng katawan.)
Afterwards we had lunch at the head office of National Bookstore on Pioneer Street. Gaz met Nanay Socorro Ramos, the woman who founded the country’s largest bookstore chain 70 years ago.
“Okay ah, hinahalikan lahat ng nakikilala,” (Okay, he kisses everyone he’s introduced to) Nanay noted.
“Pagsabihan po namin na tigilan niya yan?” (Should we tell him to stop?)
“Huwag, pero baka mahawa siya kung may sakit. (No, but he could catch germs.) How old are you, 18?”
“23, ma’am.”
“I’m 88,” Nanay announced. We can only hope to be as energetic as she is when we’re 60.
Special thanks to Bea and Chad of National Book Store Foundation for making the school visit happen. (It was scheduled for last week but typhoon Pedring cancelled it.)
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Gaz factoids.
1. For the school visit he wore a white T-shirt by Sisley, Levi’s cutoffs, white Fred Perry sneakers and Wayfarers.
2. Gaz is a moviegoer. Today he mentioned Before Sunrise and Before Sunset.
3. Naturally he is rooting for Wales in the Rugby World Cup. (In tomorrow’s match we’re pro-Ireland!)
Answers to questions you might be asking, unless you wandered onto this site purely by accident >>>
October 7th, 2011 at 09:36
Awwww, I like that pic of Nanay Socorro and Gaz.
“Okay ah, hinahalikan lahat ng nakikilala,” (Okay, he kisses everyone he’s introduced to) Nanay noted” – Ah, panahon na para makilala si Gaz sa personal…
October 7th, 2011 at 10:09
Henyo wrote: “Okay ah, hinahalikan lahat ng nakikilala,” (Okay, he kisses everyone he’s introduced to) Nanay noted” – Ah, panahon na para makilala si Gaz sa personal…
TOMOOOOH!
Oh, Gaz, gorgeous with a heart of gold. Looks like I may start replacing my Terence Carol poster with something more Gaz-eous.
October 7th, 2011 at 10:18
I love it when Gaz reaches out and does things for the kids. The best part is that he truly enjoys doing so, too. Game na game!
That conversation with Gaz and Nanay Socorro is also really sweet. And that boy trying to grab the rugby ball from the girl standing next to Gaz in one of the pictures looks like he’s trying out for a remake of the “Walang Bola” video.
October 7th, 2011 at 10:33
Henyo, allancarreon, stellalehua: Could you do us a massive favor and post a message on the fanpage administrator’s wall reminding them that the Gaz reports comes from JessicaRulestheUniverse.com and that they should link here instead of cutting and pasting? We’re not on facebook and cannot give netiquette lectures ourselves. Thanks!
October 7th, 2011 at 11:22
Hi, Jessica, done! :)
PS I saw this comment there on one of the copy/pasted Gaz articles, and I nearly choked on my soda:
“What’s a ‘factoid’?”
Parang gusto kong hiritan na isa itong sakit na dulot ng matagal na pagkakaupo.
October 7th, 2011 at 11:23
Nanay Socorro is so endearing. Nay, mabango po ba si Gaz? :)
Hey Jessica, There’s also a Gaz twitter fanpage (@gazzians). Their tweets are linked to that FB fanpage. It even says “official” twitter fanpage on their bio. They’ve also been tweeting material from your site, sadly… without credit.
October 7th, 2011 at 11:49
allancarreon: Nakita ko din iyon. Kung hindi lang ako nagko-correct ng papeles eh sana napitik ko na din siya.
In that same entry, I posted the direct link to the blog with this comment: “Please link DIRECTLY to the blog entry instead of cutting and pasting without proper attribution. Thanks.”
Ewan ko kung ide-delete din nila ako, pero mahiya naman sila.
tara: Twitter is crawling all over with those, too. Recently, somebody was caught impersonating Jake Letts with a fake account. Tacky. Celebrity impersonation on social media is soooooo five years ago.
October 7th, 2011 at 11:49
tara: Not to worry, we’ve alerted the boss of Team Gaz and all will be well. These glitches are inevitable since we are bringing Duckface to the general audience, a vast public we ourselves are alien to. It’s educational.
October 7th, 2011 at 11:55
stellalehua: Thanks. Jake does not have a twitter account. Also, we’re breaking Gaz to a wide market so we’re keeping the Jake-Gaz bromance under wraps until they get used to the humor at work.
October 7th, 2011 at 12:07
“What’s a ‘factoid’?” – himatay!
We shall make sure these FB pages, etc. give credit where it is due, tsk, tsk.
October 7th, 2011 at 12:09
stellalehua: Hindi ako nakatiis. Nagcomment ako sa comment na about the “factoid” na ito nga ay isang sakit na dulot ng matagal na pagkakaupo. And yes, creating fake celebrity accounts is so yesterday.
tara: Just looking at him, mukha namang mabango. It will of course not hurt if we all have a first-hand experience to validate. Hopefully, no restraining order comes of this thought.
jessicazafra: anybody else from the team in that bromance? Oooh.
October 7th, 2011 at 12:42
Op op op, huwag ninyong aawayin. We are united in promoting Gaz. We just require attribution because we are professional writers.
October 7th, 2011 at 12:52
Ay di naman po inaway. The post on the wall that I did was professional (but with matching smiley fehz).
‘Yun namang comment sa comment on factoid, kalerks lang and humorous approach naman. :) True though – at the end of the day, it’s a United World of Gaz.
October 7th, 2011 at 13:45
Team Jareth all the way! But the world may not be ready for that…yet.
Oh gawd. On twitter? A fake Jake? Yikes. Kawawa naman si cheesecake.
So, back to regular programming…ano kaya ang pabango ni Gaz? Haha.
October 7th, 2011 at 15:27
tara: Wala siyang pabango dahil hindi niya kailangan. Hindi tulad ni Colin na laging amoy sigarilyo pero okay pa rin kasi si Colin siya.
October 8th, 2011 at 00:53
I would welcome the chance to be part of National Bookstore’s goodwill shipment of vowels to needy children in Wales.
October 8th, 2011 at 01:02
Ejia: What a great idea! Tagalog does have a surplus of vowels, and Welsh a pressing shortage.
October 10th, 2011 at 22:39
Duckface! I love that face!!