Mu Gamma Chi: AUP Music Alumni in Thailand

Visiting With Music Alumni, Friends and Family - 1

• Soli Deo Gloria Musical Offering at the Philippine International Church
• Lunch after church with Music Students, Alumni, Current and Former Faculty Colleagues at the Music Center 
• Voice Master Class by Catherine Elaine Alcorin Ellacer at the Pilar Recital Hall
• Angklung Ensemble, Mu Gamma Chi Ladies' Ensemble/Mixed Choir, Bangkok Adventist Hospital Church
• Mu Gamma Chi Reunion, Adventist University of the Philippines Music Alumni, at Sir James Resort and Country Club, Thailand
• Alwyn and Kathleen Yonathan, Music Department, Asia-Pacific International University 
• De La Paz Seventh-day Adventist Church - Biñan, Laguna

13 July 2018, Friday P.M., Boarding Gate at Narita International Airport bound for Manila
 "Ohayō gozaimasu!"

13 July 2018, Arrival at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport, Manila, Philippines, Terminal 2

14 July 2018, Philippine International Church Sabbath Morning Service musical offering by Soli Deo Gloria Ensemble with retired music faculty Maestro Ramon Lijauco, Sr.

Sabbath, 14 July 2018, after Church Service at the Philippine International Church

Sabbath, July 14, 2018, with Music Department Alumni, Current and Former Music Faculty Colleagues

After Church Lunch with Music Majors

After Church Lunch with Family of  Music Faculty Neri Roque Beratio

Voice Master Class by Catherine Elaine Alcorin Ellacer
16 July 2018, Pilar Recital Hall

Suvarnabhumi International Airport
Bangkok, Thailand

21 July 2018 Sabbath School, Bangkok Adventist Hospital Church Angklung Ensemble

Ramon M. Lijauco, Jr.

Musical Selection by Children of Music Alumni

Mu Gamma Chi Ladies' Ensemble
AUP Music Alumni 

Mu Gamma Chi Mixed Chorus
AUP Music Alumni

Bangkok Adventist Hospital Church

 With Dr Siriporn Tantipoonwinai, center, Philippine Union College School of Nursing alumna, Supplemental; former Dean and President of Mission College (now Asia Pacific International University) in front of the Ralph Waddell Wing, Mission (Bangkok Adventist) Hospital, Dr Elvie Theresa Villanueva

Sir James Resort and Country Club
195 หมู่ที่ 3 Tambon Mittaphap, Amphoe Muak Lek, Chang Wat Saraburi 18180, Thailand

With all three musical children of Hussien and Joy Domocmat

Aylwin Yonathan, Lecturer
Music Department, Asia Pacific International University
Doctor of Music piano performance student, Mahidol University

Faculty home at Asia Pacific International University
 Aylwin and Kathleen Yonathan
with Hussien and Joy Domocmat

Mission Health Promotion Center
195/5 Thanon Mittraphap, Tambon Muak Lek, Amphoe Muak Lek, Chang Wat Saraburi 18180, Thailand

25 July 2018 Post Birthday Dinner Party Shopping Tour of CentralWorld (Thai: เซ็นทรัลเวิลด์) 

25 July 2018 
Birthday Dinner Party for Cora hosted by Staff General Surgeon, Mission (Bangkok Adventist) Hospital, and longtime Thailand permanent resident Dr Elvie Theresa Villanueva

Friday morning of 27 July 2018 after having spent the previous evening in a hotel in Cambodia when Thai border authorities prevented our return by land to Thailand on the same day. Photo taken with a friendly Thai border police officer and niece Fa-Ye Alvarez who arranged for our return trip with the same rented Toyota Coaster that took us to the border. 

No same day return restriction for first time visitors?

27 July 2018, luncheon date at a Polo Club hosted by longtime Bangkok resident Lucia Menchavez T., a University of the Philippines-Diliman, Conservatory of Music 1955 alumna and post-graduate music performance graduate of the University of Texas.

28 July 2018, Church Service, Bangkok Adventist Hospital Church

28 July 2018, Saturday evening dinner at a restaurant close to the Bangkok Chinese Adventist Church hosted by Dr Kittiporn Tantrarungroj, general surgeon/music aficionado and his sister Mary, a retired professor of pharmacy at Mahidol University
On the left is Dr Heidi Cerna of Central Philippine Adventist College who was in Bangkok for an upcoming Adventist Laymen's Services and Industries (ASI) Convention

Return to Manila from Bangkok, 29 July 2018

4 August 2018, Sabbath Morning Service
De La Paz Seventh-day Adventist Church in Biñan, Laguna

Manila Central University College of Medicine, Class '52: (L-R) Jaime Arcilla, Prospero Miranda, Celedonio Fernando, Julita Abordo, Ulysses Carbajal, Epifanio Catalon, David Roda.

Surprise visit  by Dr Prospero Miranda, age 92,
from the San Vicente mother church situated on the other side of town.

Reunion of Alora first and second cousins, descendants of brothers Pablo and Gabriel of Biñan, Laguna.  The two brothers' only sister, Celedonia Alora Vda. de Pascual, had two children, deceased, a son (Isagani) and a daughter (Ladie). both of whom converted to Adventism as mature adults.