Hello! Hello! Hello! Nganong wa may motubag anang inyong telefono? Hastang hapit na lang ko mahilo! (ha, ha, ha,) Enclosed is a check for $20 for membership fee. I hope this is right cay bisa’g unsa-on ni Lita Mercado-Quintos ug hangyo, wa man gyud i-tugot sa atong Treasurer. Pagkapa-it nga palandungon! Maayo ngani kay wala’y bayad ning atong Newsletter, kay ug may bayad pa, asa kaha intawon ako mangutang! Komedya ra bitaw na, Brad. The truth is my family and I wouldn’t want to miss the Ang Tanjayanon Newsletter for all the "budbud sa Tanjay" ay-yay-yay-ya-yay! We love and read every page of it. May you, Danny and Perla always be "in the mood"!

    Here’s $50 for our memberhsip fee. Keep the change. Baling katalana, sa!

(Of course, Chuck and Eda are joking - Tanjay style! But the $50 was real! Badingding and Alice agreed to credit them with membership fees for 5 years. So, Dr and Mrs Gotardo, you are now paid up to the year 2001! Thanks.)

    When you are in the publication business, you should be aware that when you say quarterly, you should put out the issue quarterly. Unfortunately, there is such a thing as commitment. Moreover, abiding by the principles of journalism, it is not only the substance and form but the timeliness that make a copy worth our time reading. Your choice of subjects and substance, if ever yours has one, could certinly stand a little more improvement and professionalism. Perhaps your Editorial Board should allot some more time in planning and editing your newsletter and do away with a lot of garbage. Here’s my $10 for my subscription fee. No hard feelings.

(Please know that the Ang Tanjayanon Newsletter is free. It is a labor of love for members and their friends who appreciate reading this carefree style of writing - be it in the guise of news, jokes, witticisms, anecdotes, whatever - about our town and its unique people who affectionately laugh at themselves. When members write it is doubly fun as Tanjayanons, wherever they are, always love to see a familiar name while having a good laugh.     The $10 a year per family assessment is not subscription, repeat, not subscription, but is a membership fee for the Tanjay Association, USA. The Newsletter is just trying to help the Association collect its members’ fees. In your case, Al Moranas, inspite of the pain you cause us, (ayaw mo’g katawa!), we are therefore returning your "subscription fee". Expect your check in the mail. It’s OK. We shall send you fee". Expect your check in the mail. It’s OK. We shall send you every issue of the newsletter. We hope you’re happy, kang nyawa-a ka!) (‘King, na-a gyuy mga tawong makalagot, sa?)

(I met Nilo Tam during the Balik-Tanjay and had some time talking with him. In that brief encounter, he struck me as somebody who is sincerely concerned with the welfare of the Tanjayanons. He is a young successful businessman with international connections but, he says, Tanjay will always be his home. Talking about corrupt politicians whose promises don’t mean anything, the above anecdote was recounted.)