Archives for 2026

We bought the Pandacan house after Bing was born in 1946 and relocated there from Kamuning. The place being damp, as the house was surrounded by water planted with Kangkong and “aba,” affected the delicate body of Bing and caused her to become sick from colds and whooping cough. No amount of medicine could cure […]

Pat and I decided to enroll Betty at the required age of 7 when we were in Crame. At ages 4 and 3, Tony and Betty had been going to a kindergarten school in Pandacan. That is why Tony could easily handle Grade I in Guipit at age 5. When Betty was enrolled in Grade […]

I bought Tony a bike, which he used to ride every day to the Murphy Market to buy food because we had no refrigerator. He also bought items for cooking “TORON,” a native delicacy made of fried banana wrapped with paper-like rice wrapper. Across the street was Camp Crame, where he took his TORON for […]

The house we moved into near Camp Crame was a two-story building with a Chinese restaurant in the first floor. We occupied the second floor. “Tabo,” the Chinaman, used to send us Chinese food, like pancit, as “REGALO” (gift) for my help in quieting boisterous soldiers who used to get drunk in his restaurant. The […]

As Battalion S-2, 1st BCT, I was sent to the Intelligence School in Ft. McKinley for three months’ training. Many of my co-students were newly graduated PMA cadets with the rank of 2nd Lieutenant. They were all bright, but my experience plus my reading intelligence books gave me some advantage over them. Our top-notcher was […]

After the birth of Bobby, I was designated as Intelligence Officer, or Bn. S-2, 1st BCT, stationed in Muñoz, Nueva Ecija. I had soldiers trained as Scout Rangers dressed in civilian clothes and armed with Thompson Submachine Guns carried in “bayon” or buri, who began operating in groups of six. Instead of riding Army convoys […]