Chance meeting in South East Asia.

I was in Quezon City in the Philippines and on a quite Sunday evening standing at the house gate watching the world go by. A young Filipino couple not known to me stopped and asked me where I was from. I answered, from the UK. They said that they had a close school friend that now lived in London and perhaps I knew him. I replied that I lived in Leicester some 120 miles from London and that it was unlikely that I knew their friend, they looked so disappointed I said " but may be I do what is your friend's name? They replied "Emmanuel" before they had chance to say his surname I said " not Tagulinao by any chance" to which they replied yes our Mother taught us in the same primary school class. I had known Emmanuel some ten years earlier when he studied in Leicester for a few years prior to moving to London. I took the name and address of the couple and gave it to Emmanuel when I was next in London. Needless to say he was very surprised indeed.