great political come backs

he is responsible for allied defeat at karakale.. Winston Churchill is a below average student, his father Randolf has so much expectation in him, in the British military his father expected him to be a member of a cavalry regiment, a very prestigious regiment then, but instead his academic performance placed him in the dragoons.... this are infantry who rides to battle in horses but dismounts in battle, a cavalry rides and fight mounted on their horses....
king Simeon after 40 years an elected prime minister
from Elba to Helena
the greatest come back for me is Simeon II of Bulgaria, abdicated as king in 1950's and return to his country after the fall of Soviet Unions iron curtain and run for parliament.... after winning he was elected as Prime minister by parliament....
he is destine to rule and reign Bulgaria....

Napoleon Bonaparte, who was exiled at Elba after loosing the battle of Ligny, return to mainland France and was cheered by the soldiers who were sent to arrest him..
he return as emperor for 100 days......

Winston Churchill after losing in parliamentary election during Potsdam conference return 5 years after again as PM

i notice all political come backs are short term stay the second time around

in the Philippines we have also a great comeback ... jovito Salonga...
and another Jovito who is my father

i always beat jeopardy in history....geography

you bet..... in history and geography in doble jeopardy
i will win.
just won 300,000 usd in a computer simulation in double jeopardy

my interest, my thoughts......... foreign affairs ...

robert mugabe, president of zimbabwe, since rhodesia had thiewr unilateral proclamaton of independence by ian smith, i have followed the development of that country, untl latley when mugabe lost in the first round of the election to transvarai
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books i read....

hitler, henry kissinger, shah of iran, mossadegh, watergate, gore, clinton white house, bio of r reagan, deng, mandela

when i was in grade one at La Salle Taft, I use to rent my classmates dinosaur book for 1 peso per day...... 1968, i read it for 1 whole school year... at the end of the school year he gave the book to me and i was so grateful i gave him a toy for it.... when i went home i told my tutor about it and she discovered that the book cost 2.50 at alemars then.

in my childhood, i was not allowed to read any comics books , except the classical brands by my father. comic books are no no, i dont know details about seven dwafs, snow white, little mermaids , and etc, i was told stories about alexander the great, alfred the great, napoleon bonaparte, , tsar nikolas, TDR, FDR, i remember vividly a lazy afternoon in our house while my dad had his hair cut with his barber "encio" he was reading me a book about Alexander the great, in detail...... i remember his horse name "BOSEPALUS" who was wounded in battle in India and did not die yet while his Master was in the battlefield.

my wife always tease me that i have no childhood while growing up, no cartoons, no fairy tales...... well that may be true, now i read and watch cartoons for my kids

my favorite book was a pocket book i bought at national book store in QUAD when i was in grade 7 titled rise to globalism..... since then i was facinated with cold wars, warsaw pact, NATO, FULDA gap, NORAD , DEW line, MAD (mutual assured destruction) MIRV (multiple independent re entry vehicle), SLBM, SSN, CVAN CVA, BB, DD, DE DLG DLGN) that means... submarine launched balistic missle, ssn ,means submanine nuclear propulsion, cvan- carrier attack nuclear powered, cva- carrier, fossil powered, bb- battleship, dd destroyer. de- destroyer escort, dlgn- destroyer large giuded missle, nuclear power.....
I know in my heart the ship classes, kittyhawk class, forresal class, belknap
In new york City aside from Macys at 23rd street, my favrite shop is barnes and noble book store near downtown manhattan, that is the place i bought my"janes ships of the US anavy"

in high school all i want for my car is these stuffs

headlight washer, irmsher rear spoilers, sun roof , recaro seats and P zero tire

in 1979 i have abrand new Ford Cortina, i wanted to cut open the roof and install sunroof, i was disuaded by my elders..

i bought a twin weber for ford cortina..... its so fast on gas... and it needs tuninig once more often..... i was really so sorry to manipulate the engine of my
after that car, i never modify the internals of the car.......
one time i was really into puting turbo charger inmy car..

at that young age... i was so serious about cars.... i like to put anything german in my car and i was so happy when i was bought by my parents my first german car, a 2 liter opel record

"i use to playfully dream about and treat my nissan sentra as a volvo, my opel record as a big bmw, and my ford crtina ESS as a jaguar, my Lancer el 1976 as a nissan fairlady" later i realized the dream cars of mercedes, volvo, bmw has been a reality now

lucern, CH

i bought this iwc double chronograph in luzern CH, i feel unlucky wearing this swiss watch, it cost 9,000 usd...... sickness and near death in our family when i acquired this watch...... i just gave this iwc to arlene uncle Dr Johnny Manubay, who after several months had colon cancer and past away

switzerland, my family's favorite

arlene namimili ng mga wooden clocks. naka bili kami ng coo coo clock at pina mail namin sa store na eto, kasi after switzerlanf mag tour pa kami ng germany, at france, ang gaganda ng mga wooden clocks nila
justin and joanne some where in Zurich, s Joanne, may usapan kami sya mag carry ng isang Camera ko, pero when she felt na sobra na lamig may hindi nya na nilabas ang kamay nya sa damit nya, i ended up carry in my neck isang leica, Isang Nikon at isang Sony video
Ganito ang itsura ko pag nag lalakad kami sa Europe dati, pati flash metermy dala ako, minsan may portable weather forecaster pa ako dala , na very accurate
arlene and I saWack Wack bago kami nag punta NAIA, via LH 744Manila to Frankfurtnon stop
nag reant kami ng van and a swiss driver named Hans, masyado manigarilyo, after 2 hors may cigarette stop kami, dito sa picture na eto ay isang cigarette stop sa mountains


Rosti- the cadillac of hash browns swiss style




At the HauftBahnhaupt or main railway station in Zurich, CH is where you would find the best Rosti in Switzerland, in some country it is called hashbrown potato.... in switzerland it is caled Rosti....
i never knew hey have such thing as Rosti then.

i was this close in buying this car with my son

this is a Porsche 911 series, my son justin i grade 7 then in OB montesori we always go to car show rooms in brand new and pre owned cars, we inspect Range Rovers, mercs, Bimmers ang Audis
we are so serious in buying a porsch then but some intervening eents prevented us from owning one,
this porshe 911 is sold at tropical motors infront of mantrade along pasong tamo makati

The 911 was again revised in 1993 under the internal name Type 993. This car was significant as it was the final incarnation of the air-cooled 911, introduced in 1964.

The exterior featured an all new front and rear end. The revised bodywork was smoother, having a noticeably more aerodynamic front end somewhat reminiscent of the 959. Styling was by Englishman Tony Hatter under the supervision of design chief Harm Lagaay.

Along with the revised bodywork, mechanically the 993 also featured an all-new multilink rear suspension that improved the car's ride and handling. This rear suspension was largely derived from the stillborn Porsche 989's rear multilink design, and served to rectify the problems with earlier models' tendency to oversteer if the throttle or brakes were applied mid-corner. These modifications also reduced previous 911's lift-off oversteer problems to a much more moderate degree.

The new suspension, along with chassis refinements, enabled the car to keep up dynamically with the competition. Engine capacity remained at 3.6 L, but power rose to 272 PS (200 kW) thanks to better engine management and exhaust design, and beginning with model year 1996 to 286 PS (210 kW). The 993 was the first Porsche to debut variable-length intake runners with the "Varioram" system on 1996 models. This addressed the inherent compromise between high-RPM power production and low-RPM torque production, and was one of the first of its kind to be employed on production vehicles. A new four-wheel-drive made a return as an option in the form of the Carrera 4, the rear wheel drive versions simply being called Carrera. A lightweight RS version saw capacity rise to 3.8 L, with power reaching 300 PS (221 kW). The RS version had rear-wheel drive only.

Non-turbo models appeared that used the Turbo's wide bodyshell and some other components (the Carrera 4S and later the Carrera S).

The rare Targa open-topped model also made a return, this time with a large glass roof that slid under the rear window. The expensive air-cooled 993 Targa had a limited release between 1996–1998

world events that i follow in detail

these are the world events that affect by political thinking in one way or the other

of the recent history these following events,from tsar nikolai, ti teddy roosevelt, sadat assasination , the goverance of shah reza to his down fall and the falklands war... i closely watched, read and analyse theses event.

tsar nikolas of russia was a classical example of a fall from the top, the higher you climb , the harder you fall, i read detailed books of his life, even went to his palace in st petersburg, to see the grandeur of his life, and his resting place in peter and paul cathedral

1960's travel to san francisco and hong kong

my first foreign trip was Hong Kong 1965, Ricksaw was the mode of transportation
we stayed at merlin hotel, i still remember the toys i bought then... a F111 fighter bomber and an DC 7 american airlines pro jet battery operated.

my first long distance flight was san francisco in Nov 1967, just after my fathers victory then. we were accompanied by bobby and chedeng galvez in the flight, i was very funny then because our flight has been moved back 3 days just to avoid sharing the 8 seats first class cabin with our just defeated political oponent then.. it was moved from nov 25 , 1967 to nov 30, 1967.
Mr. Bobby Galvez is a political supporter of my father, he helped us alot in the campaign, lend us 2 cars and drivers, and he made reservations at PAL and os pertaining to our flights as well. later i learned that he was lobbying something from my father and was trned down because of some matter qualifications

we stayed at st francis drake hotel across union square

1960's in my life

this is the araneta colliseum, I had my first experience of medical emergency here in 1968 december, where we were watching Holiday on Ice, my father slip and broke his right foot, he was rushed to makati medical to have hs foot cast for 2 years

this is hiway 54 then in 1960's


this is pines hotel , in Baguio city, everytime my parents go to this city, we go there in a very large group. we rent a house that will serve as kitchen and sleeping rooms for some, and at least 5 bedrooms at Pines hotel, one time i even brought along 5 classmates of mine and slip them in the room , everyday the room boy and the management are fighting wnd arguing when we are there, this happen during lent retreat at the vice presidents house....



rizal theater- this is where i first saw a movie .... it is Batman movie
this is the streets then
and the famous VW, my father bought a 1200 cc white tinted vw in 1960's after loosing in 1971, to be incognito where ever he goes in the city

life was very new to me then in the 60's i remember taxi drivers in the street of manila using merceces benz pontoon cars aka 190D, some uses toyopet, corona sedans, most of the say cilia or mano means right turn and left turns...... now you only hear those spanish language in school.

In makati commercial center then , only mercury, shoemart, polex, rustams, automat caffee shop, sulo restaurant, coronado lanes and barbershop, makati supermarket, maranaw department store are there. EDSA is hiway 54 then. at the makati supermart, there use to ba a contest where in one could win a piper plane if you could guess how many candies fit in the plane.