I'm married to Donnabelle,
who's a big Steelers and Detroit Red Wings
fan, and have a beautiful 8 month old daughter,
Danielle Louise, who apparently is the world's youngest Green
Bay Packers fan (no kidding!). She seemed
visibly upset during that big Tackle Football game in San Diego, but I
just keep telling her, wait 'til next year... I'm always saying that to
myself it seems, whether I'm thinking about the Pens, Steelers, Boston
Celtics, or San
Diego Padres...
"What do Mario Lemieux
and I have in common?", here's the answer: We both retired from pro hockey
last year. No kidding! You probably all know or heard about Mario's retirement,
mines was very (no, make that totally!!!) obscure in comparison but nevertheless,
l was classified as a pro player when I was given invitation to attend
the Sacramento River Rats' free agent camp (of Roller Hockey International).
My parents really hedged about their civil engineer going to bust his head
open at some pro hockey camp, so they conditionally gave me support, moral
and financial, to go for my dreams. Unfortunately, that condition was,
I had to be done and over with at SLU for my degree. And SLU's Civil Engineering
dept told me I'd have to wait a year to get the class needed for
completing my major. I'm still bitter, but I have forgiven. Time to move
on in my life. Sometimes I still think about what kind of RHI player I'd
be if I actually got to tryout camp and made it? 6'1", 180 lbs... sound
like any NHL player you know? How about Don Sweeney? Stu Barnes? Actually,
in my own humble opinion, I'd probably be somewhat like a Sergei Zubov.
And actually TRY to play defense : ) I've pretty muc given up on the possibility
of a pro hockey (ice,roller, whatever!) league to materialize here in the
Philippines. They will never get it (Never Gonna Get It!). To speculate,
though, from what I've seen/heard about the future of hockey in this country,
I'd tower over everyone like Francois Leroux! Heck, maybe even like Steve
McKenna! Well, I did announce to the world (or whomever happened to be
listening :) ) that I was over and done with dreaming about making it to
RHI. Me and Mario, we left the game not because we wanted to but because
we got sick and tired of the "situation". Hey, we do have some things in
common, don't we??? :^)
Well, thanks for reading about this "humble" author.(yeah, right!?!?) Hope you love my web site, and I'll just use the below space here to give thanks to those who made this page possible in different ways:
Mrs.
Donnabelle Baquilar, for being there for me
when times were high 'n' low
Weezie
Baquilar, for making your Dad smile and
laugh when he felt bad and for giving me reason to look hard for new hope.
Let's go Pack! :^)
My
parents, Leticia
and Isidro Baquilar, your son is trying, but
it's so hard! I'm not gonna give up...and thanks for being my tutors in
life
Allen
Baquilar, bro, you really helped me learn
this technology junk, thanks for that.
Terry
Harper, GM of the River Rats, you at least gave me an opportunity when
others didn't . Thank you...I won't ever forget that
Thanks
to AMPTech for a great deal
on this pentium system which has possibly helped light the way to
another path in my life, as well as Mozcom
(Axon Communications) for
a somewhat affordable means of accessing the i-net. Couldn't ya make it
less expensive though???
Donn
Patton, recently resigned president of the Pittsburgh Penguins, thanks
for being cool to me and all, and thanks for the Bud Ice Sign.
Mario
Lemieux, we never met or even exchanged mail, but wow, you're the
MAN!
Well,
I don't have a lot of close friends, but I'll try to give all you guys
and gals some mention here for being part of this "twisted" person's life:
Kevin, Nelly, Roldan, Pat, James, Raymond,
Joseph, Todd, Trixy, Debbie, Tina, Annabelle, Janice, Vilma, Michelle,
Dana, Jean, Bernadette, Marjorie, Vanessa, Ray, Paul, Jamil, Jimil,
Rachelle, Winnie, Leilani, Jason, Arvi, Andre, Kaye, Allan, Fro, Jon, Leigh,
Roselle,
Greg, and anyone else I might've unintentionally omitted due to massive
head wounds, I mean, head cramps : )