After I have settled down at the hotel, I noticed that I have left one of my bags at the airport. I went back and guess who was the head of customs; Aristotle Yalung. Actually, he’s the Chief of Customs. He’s just there and it was my lucky day. He invited me for lunch and I accepted. It’s been 16 years and I still don’t pass on a free meal. Some things never change.
We had a chat while having lunch, of course. It’s been years since I last saw him. Then suddenly, some stupid question popped in my head. I asked him what ever happened between the rivalry of GMA and ABS-CBN. I was surprised with his answer. He said that there is neither a GMA nor an ABS-CBN, there’s just WTV. He told me that Reginald Wong bought both of the stations and made the most successful TV station in all of Asia. That was a real accomplishment as far as I was concerned. And to think Reg was just an engineer for ABS-CBN when I left nine years ago. Amazing.
The time to part with Aris had to come once again. We said ‘good luck’ to each other and went our ways.
I went to a nearby mall to go on a window-shopping just before I go to Baguio the next day. I was nosing around when I saw this toy. It wasn’t a kid’s toy. It looked like a calculator or laptop in about the size of a tamagochi. A saleslady came to me and said that Paul Ryan Ballesteros invented that toy. Wow! It’s another one of those surprises. When I looked at the saleslady, it was Ate Donna. I almost didn’t recognize her because she was slim. She told me she owned the place so she wasn’t a saleslady, no doubt about that.
To be continued...
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