A short message to my children, grandchildren, and to my whole clan:

Long before Kassie my apo asked me to share with them the family history I have already started with my sort of auto biography purposely to acquaint my grandchildren about their ancestry - but I did it in spurts. With the coming of the internet it is easy to post in my blog snippets in a story telling style moments in my life that can be gleaned and pieced together to form a picture of their "familyhood".

I do not aspire to write in a sophisticated and elegant manner for the purpose of impressing my readers in correct english writing and other blah-blahs. My blog is simply for my clan and of course to the other "unique visitors" who wish to share in my war years experience and some dots of history in Donsol in my light writing style. [I forgot that 74 year olds are already licensed not to be apologetic in these things and be "free thinkers " instead].
Very good!

In Parenthesis:

But do you know that writers with zing and spark and bark and bite are my choicest columnists from the Philippine Daily Inquirer [my favorite newspaper] the likes of Conrado de Quiros, There's The Rub; Randy David, Public Lives; and Manuel L Quezon 111, The Long View. Why, because nakakamot ang hindi mo maarticulate na views. Napaka profound ang kanilang mga pananaw and commentaries na nakakahiya tuloy ang pa english english pa, di ba?


Do you know that I labored hard to type the above piece ? What an accomplishment! My apo who types for me is already in school, and I have to make kapa with the keys and call Ember how to punch the capital letters. Many times the keys got stuck because I punched the shift in a prolonged manner.