Everyday, I drive between home and office passing by the green watershed of La Mesa Dam. The stretch from Pangarap Village/Ciudad Real in San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan along Quirino Highway up to the gate Fatima University in Lagro, Quezon City is an awesome view of vast forest secured with concrete perimeter fence in order to protect the watershed of La Mesa Dam Reservation from entry of poachers and lumberjacks. La Mesa Dam to the...

 Two more months, I will have a new son! A born positive thinker, I always look at the brighter side of a coming event. Rather than a loser’s statement of losing a a daughter, I would rather entertain the thoughts of seeing a happy couple’s beginning of their married life!  I am talking about the coming wedding of my bunso Purita Angela to Lester Parayno this December. Although they are in the process of planning a Tagaytay...

 Last year, during the 2010 Philippine Fashion Week, I watched the fashion show featuring the works of filipina Germany-based designer JOYCE PENAS PILARSKY. It was courtesy of an invite from my namesake and journalist Edgar Cruz (entertainment editor of The Tribune and owner of www.todoentertainment.com). As a ramp model during my younger years, the fashion show attracted me like a wave to the beach! Last year, I came straight from my...

The four-day vacation almost passed with me having no good “raket”! You see, I got a call from Nino Valencia who I had worked with in an indie film titled “KOLORETE” for the Cinema One Originals in 2009. Nino called me up last friday for a shooting last saturday to play a role of a priest in an episode of Regal’s latest “Shake, Rattle and Roll”. However, last saturday, as usual, I was commissioned as the family driver for...

The first and the last taping days are the most memorable events for every  project that  I am working on where I have support roles. Perhaps because these days would determine two things: once the camera starts to grind on the first taping day, I am assured that I already have a new project on hand (although other artists would counter that until our first scene is aired, we are not assured of the new project) and on  the last day once...