This one is from a Daily Tri­bune arti­cle by Armida Siguion-Reyna. Love the JPE anec­dote of his first ele­va­tor ride!

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I was not a vic­tim of the lat­est tragedies that hit the coun­try. I was in Cebu when Ondoy hit Metro­Manila. And today, I am in Jakarta, Indone­sia. But it doesn’t mean that I was not affected. My FB page would attest to the fact that I was part of all this.

We know that clothes do not make a per­son; but it does help. And it’s always great to know how to take care of clothes so they last longer. Hav­ing said that, let us remem­ber what Albert Ein­stein once said, “If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy fur­ni­ture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philoso­phies.… It would be a sad sit­u­a­tion if the wrap­per were bet­ter than the meat wrapped inside it.”

I was born at the tail-end of Mar­tial Law. I have very vague mem­o­ries of it. I would have to say that i did not have a first hand infor­ma­tion of it. I heard sto­ries from my dad, but that was about it. I dis­tinctly remem­ber see­ing the images of Ninoy Aquino being shot on the tar­mac of the air­port that will even­tu­ally bear his name (poetic jus­tice!). Oh, as an aside, I am writ­ing this while I’m in Ninoy Aquino Inter­na­tional Air­port! How appro­pri­ate!