Email Journals

Matess Salviejo (yup, the famous sister of Beverly Salviejo) arrived at our Greenhome around noon for the second part of the “Mel & Joey” shoot at our Greenhome. She and her crew had lunch at Don Bosco’s Amici. (Although, now, not really managed by Bosconians).

Immediately, Monch exclaimed, “Bob, kailan mo ako dadalhin sa Amici.” Then, Marivic furthered Monch’s agony by saying that pasta at Amici was really good. Photo shows Cesar and Marivic looking at old photos from....

Matess asked us to sit around the dining table, like a barkada enjoying red wine or coffee and good old kuwentuhan. While Matess would have wanted more friends around, our 55 sqm condo couldn’t accommodate the extra heads. Earlier, Chito, Guy and Meldy had sent their “regrets.”

I brought out the old photo albums and “email journals.” Yes, probably, one treasure of our relationship is our “email journals.” There are now 7 books (or editions) of these journals, which are simply print copies of our email exchange from late 2000 up to our first weeks in Vietnam. Photo shows Bob Novales looking at old photos from Marivic's birthday back in the mid 80s.

We had it “soft-bound” in Saigon. And the little creative effort of my part was to put “chapter” breaks… which were simple print ads from foreign magazines.

Last Friday night, as Chief and I were preparing our Greenhome, I had uncovered more hard copies of our “email exchanges” from 2000 which have yet to be compiled, labeled and hard-bound.