lacson.net

This site finally gets a facelift after 7 years! The original site was done using Front Page and for some reason I could not get all the parts working and it was a disaster. I was hoping a tech-savy relative would step up and volunteer to fix the site but alas, it seems everyone was too busy so the site remained in its sorry state all these years.

It used to look like this. Not that this new design is going to win any awards but it is certainly a big improvement. The great  thing is it only took a couple of hours to spruce up the site. My secret? I stumbled on a free product called WordPress. I highly recommend it for aesthetically-challenged folks like myself.

It has only been a day so I am still learning it. If you come back often in the next several days you will probably see a bunch of changes as I experiment with the various skins.

Clare Lacson Rivera posted the announcement below on the message board. There are no details at this time but I will post them here as soon as they become available.

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UPCOMING 2nd LACSON GRAND REUNION!!! OCTOBER, 2007

Please email us at familialacson@hotmail.com or call us at office:+632 522-4149 look for REX or CLARE for more information.

Organizer: Cipriano J. Lacson # 525-3833.
Ret. Gen. Regino J. Lacson # 525-2012/523-7680

This page was originally set up for the Lacsons who are direct descendants of Jose Maria & Otilia (Montinola) Lacson. If you are from another branch of the Lacson family, visit our message board, we’d love to hear from you! After all, we’re all related. This site is meant to be the clan’s bulletin board and a way for family members keep in touch. Contributions are encouraged. If you want to help maintain this site please drop me a note.

Tell everyone what you think, get on our message board!

We are looking for family stories, anecdotes, etc. that may one day be part of Lacson lore. I imagine the clan elders have troves of this stuff. Who can forget Tito Manny’s story about the family coat-of-arms that might “prove” we were of Irish descent?!? Or the ancestor who sired 20+ kids (Trojans, anyone)? It would be interesting, I think, to compile all these stories and share them with everyone.

I don’t know about you guys, but I always looked forward to the Sunday lunch fare at Urdaneta (now Greenhills). Remember Duray’s lamb, lengua, prawns, steak, and killer sans-rival? Not exactly health food, but it was great!

I still remember the smell of Duray’s cooking wafting from the kitchen as we entered the house for Christmas lunch. That, and the smell of Lifebuoy soap in the bathroom beside the dining room that Abuelito made sure everyone washed their hands with prior to sitting down.

Anyway, I was hoping someone would record these recipes down for posterity. Maybe we can convince Duray to conduct a cooking class for our cooks or whomever is interested to learn.

I believe Tita Menchu knew some, if not all of those recipes; although I don’t think she had them written down. Ahh, those meals in Canoga Park bring back great memories too.

If anyone happens to have these recipes written down somewhere please email them to lacsonclan@lacson.net.

Those of you that weren’t there missed quite a bash. I didn’t realize that you could fit that many people in a church. Nevertheless, Mitch and Bea were gracious hosts. Bea was a gorgeous bride and Mitch looked pretty good for someone who just signed away his life. Welcome to the club Mitch! Now we can sit in one corner during one of those Lacson reunions and swap marriage stories and lick our wounds.

Back to the wedding, no less than the president was there. Boy, I would have loved to do a couple of tequila shots with Erap and discuss his options vis-a-vis the Chinese naval force in Palawan. Unfortunately, he didn’t make it to the reception.

The highlight of the evening, at least from our table’s perspective was when cousin Maricris tapped one of the sponsors on the shoulder as he was walking by and said “Waiter…waiter.. where’s my coke?”