Warrior Pilgrimage

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on December 1, 2008

“TOK-TOK-TOK, TOK-TOK-TOK, TOK-...”



My Nokia 2350 delivered its pre-set challenge at 4:30 AM. Grudgingly, I accepted the dare despite a swollen and stiff right knee and rustled myself up from my bed to the bathroom downstairs. It was the end of the Ramadan season, and an official holiday was declared which fell on October 1, 2008. I don't have to go to work today and Boy Toledo made sure of ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on November 26, 2008

My first Sony® experience is with my younger sister's Walkman®. Whenever I would travel in the countryside I would borrow it from her. If she refused I would sneak it out without her knowing. In time, her Walkman would be my constant companion on the road.


Riding in buses in rural Philippines during the early '80s is not your idea of an ordinary and comfortable ride like we used to enjoy today. The ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on November 17, 2008

I HAVE A NEW FRIEND. He may be about 12 or 13 years old and a sixth grader of Napo Elementary School, located in Sapangdaku, a mountain barangay of Cebu City. Everyday he wakes up at four of dawn to help his mother prepare breakfast and packed lunch for him and his younger sister. At half-light of 5:00 AM, he and his sister starts to go down the trail for Napo and reaches their school several minutes past six. Then they ...

Featured in www.pinoyapaceh.blogspot.com on March 22, 2010.

I WILL AGAIN exercise my right of suffrage come May 10, 2010. This is the first time that the Commission on Elections will implement an automated counting system. This is my first time to make public my choices and THIS IS NOT a template for which to base your votes ad verbatim. Mind your own list.



This early (or at this late date), I have finally made up my mind after a long and thorough ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on November 8, 2008

ON AUGUST 23, 2008, Cebu Mountaineering Society or CeMS celebrated its 19th anniversary by climbing Mt. Manunggal from its traditional starting point – in Tagba-o. There were fifteen of us that tackled her trails: Lilibeth Initan, Andrew Flores, Boy Toledo, Joy Tongco, Dennis Legaspi, Glenn Lao, Jon Consunji, Sam Lim and me plus member-applicants Canqui Potamio, Ernie Salomon, guests Nathan Cannen, Myla Ipil and Harold Alcontin ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on November 1, 2008

OLANGO ISLAND HAD been humming in my consciousness for so many years. I have read and listened to so many tales about her and it gave me some misgivings why I haven't yet ventured beyond the back side of Mactan Island before the year 2008. That honor went to my “old” colleagues in Cebu Mountaineering Society or CeMS and they crossed the Olango Channel to and fro with such regularity as if the island itself sits on dry land. ...

Featured in www.pinoyapache.blogspot.com on September 22, 2008.

A copy of my letter addressed to Mr. Karlon Rama, Sun*Star sports columnist where a part of this letter was featured in his column, STAGE FIVE, on May 21, 2008.


Sir:


I am a regular reader of your column, STAGE FIVE, and I find it very informative, interesting and a perfect medicine to my ignorance of other things and events that are somewhat close to my heart yet quite invisible ...