Pat’s mother and older sister, Aning, with her two children, Rudy and Ruth, spent their weekend with us from their apartment in Rizal Avenue, Manila. I left them for my work on Monday morning, December 8, 1941, not knowing that Pearl Harbor had been attacked by the Japs. Upon arrival in the Army Headquarters, the […]
1994 Memoir – 76. Life As a Newly Married Couple
Before we got married, I made arrangements with a co-soldier, Pedro Tameray, who was a Corporal like me, for us to live with him and his wife in a small house on Loreto Street, Sampaloc, Manila. The house consisted of two elevated rooms and a kitchen. Pedring and Remy, his wife, occupied the dining room, […]
1994 Memoir – 68. As A Student In F.E.U. (Far Eastern University)
After one year as a student of Stenotype and Bookkeeping, I was undecided about what course I would take in college. I wanted to take medicine, but there was no school for medicine at night then, and only professional students were taking medicine. Because of my experience in the Bureau of Public Works, I wanted […]
1994 Memoir – 67. Birthday In Antipolo
During my stay in Manila, I always celebrated my birthdays in Antipolo, Rizal, where a lot of people went on pilgrimage in the month of May. Scores of buses, cars, jeepneys, and trucks traveled slowly, bumper-to-bumper, up and down the hills to Antipolo on weekends. (1937-1971) On my birthday celebration in May, 1939, I invited […]
1994 Memoir – 66. As A Working Student
As soon as I got settled in Manila, I did not waste much time before going back to school. With my little savings, I enrolled in the Phil. School of Business in Santa Cruz, Manila, near the Santa Cruz Bridge. After office hours in the afternoon I biked from Binondo to Santa Cruz for my […]
1994 Memoir – 65. Transformation To A New Life
The abrupt change in my life from the jungles and primitive life of Kiañgan to a modern civilized life in Manila was just like me reaching heaven. It was indeed a MIRACLE. Only God can do that. Praise the Lord! Thank you, my God — . Compared to my experiences and training as a laborer […]
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