Why should one be surprised that when table chatter turns to Ruby Tuason these days, it’s not so much the pork barrel issue that Manila gossip dwells on, but another interesting detail of the socialite’s life?
I never experienced a Baguio that cold and that crowded as I did last weekend. It was as if people, suddenly scared of storms and seas, flocked to this mountain resort instead, in the days after Christmas and right before the new year.
Old habits don’t stop. Once in a while, I still catch myself asking, what would Mommy say, she might not approve—only to remind myself in mid-thought that Mommy had died early this year, that her okay or non-okay would not be forthcoming, ever. And that, in truth, we buried Mommy and Daddy this year, within six months of each other.
What a pity that after the storm surge came the sabong (cockfight) between Interior Secretary Mar Roxas and Tacloban City Mayor Alfred Romualdez.
The community truly banded together, but this effort is not unique–it’s happening everywhere in the Philippines.
It’s been three weeks since “Yolanda” swept away his parents, and Aaron is now talking like a reporter—narrating facts in an almost clinical manner, his description so detailed that it brings you to the scenes of devastation in Palo where his family is from, and in Tacloban where his parents died.
Our household has one story from a devastated DaanBantayan in northern Cebu, the hometown of our kasambahay. Last month, she went home there to be with her five-year-old son and elderly mother.
It took a major earthquake to make us realize that other than people’s lives, we also value our heritage structures, our centuries-old churches.
I was impressed with this young man as I listened to him deliver his remarks before a prominent crowd at the lobby of the Cultural Center of the Philippines last week. I was sure many in the audience were, as well.
‘Why don’t you write about Napoles’ lifestyle friends?” our managing editor’s (ME) voice boomed from across the divider all the way to me.
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