The only Valla’s I’v ever met in the Philippines are my own family and relatives. I wasn’t born yet when my grandfather left earth, he looked very Hispanic, who married my very Filipina grandmother Trinidad. I look more like my Lola, very Filipina

With the power of the internet to provide information, I came across some Valla’s of the World. Like…

Lorenzo Valla, an Italian Humanist, 1407-1457. He knew Latin and Greek, http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/V/Valla-Lo.

http://libros.ciberanika.com/arti19.htm

Daniel Valla, an award winning photographer in U.K. http://www.danielvalla.co.uk

Valla Family who operates a Crane Business in Italy http://valla.com

Tonica Valla, a Physicist. http://infrared.phy.bnl.gov/valla.html

Antonio Valla, an Italian Lawyer, based in San Francisco http://www.gvd-law.com/vallabio.htm

Gabriel Valla, a Musician, in the U.S. http://www.vallaturnerwilliamson.com/news.html

Tito Valla, an Italian Mathemathecian and name sake of my father

http://www.commalg.org/photos/Luminy2003/ (the one in the middle on pic)

I am sure there are a lot more… If you are a Valla, we hope to hear from you.

Parking whole day in most Ortigas Parking Lots usually costs P 30 for first 2 hours and P15 for every succeeding hours. A whole day parking of 9 hours can cost one P135.00/day x 26 days = P 3,510 per month. Wow, that’s P42,120.00 a year! Hmm, enough to gift your self a new Cellphone.

I realized that Robinsons Galleria Parking rates is flat at P40.00 whole day from 6am to mall closing hours, isn’t that cool? If you are having a whole day meeting in Ortigas within walking distance to Galleria Mall, then you save some bucks parking there. If you hold office inearby then that would only be P40 x 26 days = P 1040 a month. Save more than P2K in parking fees added to your Gas allowance, or maybe use that for a Gym membership!

I had the pleasure of meeting a very warm group of people in Sept. 8, from http://thegrf.org headed by no less than Mrs. Gerry Roxas herself, also the Executive Director Ms. Agnes Villaruz, Lani, Nap, Oliver, Mike and their other key people. Of course, also present were Nicon and Angie from the office of Sen. Mar Roxas (http:.//marroxas.com) who are doing a great job helping out in the website development.

I probably had less than an hour speaking to them, and you can tell how intelligent and kind hearted they are.

When I got home tonight, I told my mom about my day as I normally do, and mentioned, I just came from a meeting and met Sen. Mar’s mom, and she quips, “really, you met Judy Roxas?” i said “oh you know her name?”, (coz i didnt know her first name) then mom said “she is very famous in Roxas City” (my mom taught in a school in Capiz for a while). And the next thing i do is check her name on the internet http://iloilocityboy.blogspot.com/2006/07/judy-roxas-grand-doyen-of-ilonggo.html and http://www.thegrf.org/cms/news.php It’s really cool meeting her, she asks great questions and says the right things, and communicates it really nicely. Well, what can one expect from the woman behind powerful men! She’s a Sparkling woman really.

The Gerry Roxas Foundation has helped a great deal of people and its just awesome to be in the midst of a group whos hearts are all out into creating a positive impact in the lives of our countrymen specifically in the ARMM region in Mindanao.

More power to the Gerry Roxas Foundation.

Its been a very stressful week and I’ve been meaning to get a massage since the last three days. Finally, i got to go at the Lifestyle Spa in Timog Ave. Q.C.

How nice it was to evidently feel my blood circulating in my veins, and to get my heart beating fast again and relax my muscles like never before. I guess when you are most tired that you appreciate the finer things in life most too.

Well, all the showering, the hot dip in the jacuzzi, sessions at the sauna & steam, topped by a relaxing combination of shiatsu and swedish massage did wonders. I feel totally revitalized…

My former school Trinity College of Quezon City has recently been granted a University status and is now called Trinity University of Asia http://www.tua.edu.ph/. A great deal of my life growing up was spent in this school.

My favorite teachers were Mrs. Castigador in science because I wasn’t really fond of this topic but she explained things in a way that made the subject seem easy , and she has style too, i find her very classy…And also, Mrs. Sarao, my English teacher, she presented topics in a very lively way and in a quite unconventional manner, I recall her being very refined, not that the others were not, our teachers were all very good, she just sort of stand out. It was cool studying the Greek Mythology in her class and the speeches.

And in Nov. 10, 2006, I met the wife of our retired School President Dr. Rafael Rodriguez, Mrs. Gloria F. Rodriguez, their house is very near ours. She is a very nice lady, with whom I learned a lot from talking to her for just a little over an hour. She is now 78 years old and look younger than that, and you can tell how much she loves her family coz she spoke so well about each one of them, her husband and three daughters. I can say that the Family is very important, it makes one happier and succesful, and live longer graciously.
The best teacher I ever had though is my own Mom, she is a retired grade (1) school teacher. It’s in that level where a kid progress from “no reading” to being able to read. That’s a tough feat i believe, and she does it well. I remember she took a leave in school just to teach me English, I was down poor at it, and she said it would be a shame if her own child can’t understand lol… I didn’t knew English because after i was born in Manila, i was flew in to the province where I lived for 5 years till it was time to start school and came back to Manila. You can imagine i didnt know even tagalog, but only Visaya hehe..There you go. I am “promdi”…

Congratulations to Trinity!!! I believe they’re making waves in Nursing…My cousin Michael Valla goes there. Go Mike!