It was back to work for me even before most of us are hesitantly going back to work Monday after a very long Christmas break.  I got a call from Tito Ces Aldaba, fellow character actor who is also a Talent Supplier. He booked me for a taping last Saturday, 03 January 2009. My calltime was at 5:00 p.m. at the Sugar Regulatory Administration building on North Avenue, Quezon City.  Fresh from my role as a board member in the just...

           One of the famous jokes during the time of President Ferdinand E. Marcos who was born in Batac, Ilocos Norte was that almost all kinds of infrastructures that can be funded by the government were already built in Ilocos region. The region has the Don Mariano Marcos State University, the Fort Ilocandia, the (Balay Ti Amianan) Malacanang of the North to name a...

We were already travelling for seven hours but we were still in Candon, Ilocos Sur.  I grossly underestimated the distance and the travel time from Lucap, Alaminos City in Pangasinan province to Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte. I thought  that the 450 kilometer distance can be reached in seven hours. We left Lucap at 7:00 a.m. there were times when I was stepping the gas of my Ford Lynx at a speed of 80 km per hour while my eldest daughter...