Not Yet Sikat

He probably wouldn’t take photos of his meals and post them online. He’d write things like this:

(Sep 25, 1972)

…The public reaction throughout the Philippines is a welcome to martial law because of the smooth, peaceful reestablishment of peace and order and the hope of a reformed society. In fact most everyone now says, this should have been done earlier…

…It is indeed gratifying that everyone now finds or discovers I am some kind of a hero!

There is nothing as successful as success!

Manuel L Quezon III shares with us “The Philippine Diary Project“. He takes unpublished (or limited edition) “diaries of prominent individuals from Philippine history” and makes them available for all of us to read.

Stop reading Brian Gorrell and try a little history from Antonio de las alas, Francis Burton Harrison, Philip Buencamino III, Teodoro M Locsin and Gen Basilio Valdes:

(March 8, 1942) Suddenly we heard a small explosion followed by a noise of exhaust vapor and the interior of the torpedo boat became impregnated with the smell of burning gun powder. There was a commotion among the crew. Suddenly, the Captain rushed to the place where the noise came from and in a few minutes he had the trouble under control. During the commotion Soriano told the President to come out and breathe fresh air and he refused saying: “No, I want to die next to my wife and children.” When the captain came up to the command tower he told us that the connection to the torpedo had been detached due to the rough sea and it had set the torpedo for explosion. What he did was to shoot the torpedo out, loose, at a cost of $10,000.00. That was a narrow escape. Had the torpedo exploded we would have been blown to pieces.