As Usual in This Blog, It's the reactions that matter
August 23, 2009 at 3:18 pm (2000s Philippines, Angst, Current Events, Random memories, The Global Crowd, The Manilenos, Tristesse)
It has been a very bad year for an uberrich branch of one of the country’s wealthiest clans.
The octogenarian mother had surgery in the upper spine and it caused her great pain. One of their daughters passed away of thyroid complications in June. The mother underwent another surgery in the lower spine earlier this month; she had two strokes while in the operating room. And just this morning, the son was found dead after the swimming competition of a Triathlon in the Lake of the CamSur Water Sports Complex in Camarines Sur.
Our deepest condolences…
For all the vaunted wealth of the family…
Truly, What is the Meaning of Life???
23 Comments
posted by Unknown at 6:04 PM
zippo said,
August 23, 2009 at 5:58 pm
Sad news about Juan Miguel Vazquez. He was my fraternity brother, albeit older, at the Order of Utopia of the Ateneo Law School which he joined in 1981 as part of Batch Lakas Loob.
Condolences to the Madrigal-Vazquezes especially to Tita Ising. Losing 2 children in less than a year…
Z
Mangaranon said,
August 23, 2009 at 8:50 pm
Sad — very, very sad.
fatima153 said,
August 24, 2009 at 1:21 am
Generally bad news comes before good and very bad news comes before very big good news, all within a 12-month period. In this case, all steps cleared to a big inheritance?
l*ding said,
August 24, 2009 at 2:10 am
condolence to judith. she is indeed a young widow…
The EQualizer said,
August 24, 2009 at 2:11 am
“For all the vaunted wealth of the family…
Truly, What is the Meaning of Life???”
http://www.biblesociety.ca/free_scriptures/escriptures/ecclesiastes3/ecclesiastes3.html
Cousin Paz said,
August 24, 2009 at 2:42 am
A friend of mine who is an expert in triathlons said that a man of his age should not have joined the Ironman. I guess he did because he was a friend of the organizer. Really sad….
jeremiah said,
August 24, 2009 at 6:58 am
this is truly a sad time for the clan. my lola would have grieved with them if she were still around.
Leader said,
August 26, 2009 at 7:16 am
i just hope with their great wealth they pay those poor people who trusted their name in investing for their future in perma insurance…
Thundernut said,
August 26, 2009 at 6:27 pm
A few days ago Eunice, now Ted.
larry leviste said,
August 28, 2009 at 2:03 am
The Meaning of Life, let me speak from experience….
Eternal life is OUR TRUE life, this passage on earth is a temporary way of LEARNING to LOVE God and ourselves as we love OTHERS in equal measure.
Death is only a PORTAL, a veil we part and ENTER into FOREVER.
Diego Jurado said,
August 30, 2009 at 4:59 pm
My mother told me the attending mourners were yelled at by the widow: “you wanna see him one last time, there he is, take a good look, and get out!!!”
larry leviste said,
September 1, 2009 at 2:47 am
She has really lost it, DAW.
There were many witnesses at the wake.
tambo said,
September 2, 2009 at 5:37 am
strictly family only interment, well, it was respected, no one went..
they had to change the barong three times, it was getting soiled by mysterious fluid.
the embalsamador was baffled until some probincianos said that in their place it meant something was awry with the deceased.
Jules said,
September 2, 2009 at 8:01 am
Maybe the embalming process
was done the improper way -
’twas said that prior to embalming,
if the cadaver was stored in the freezer
for a period of time
it should be thawed properly
otherwise, remaining body water
will come out
^_^
Garganta Inflamada said,
September 2, 2009 at 2:56 pm
what
the is
posting of manner
now in form haiku?
poetic getting we
all are?
Jules said,
September 3, 2009 at 6:56 am
Hihihi G.I.
^_^
xOxO
gshaw said,
September 4, 2009 at 11:20 am
is it true that they were not happily married but they just had to stay that way
the widow bring an only daughter was very spoiled and got away with it.
and family feud is a normal thing in his family, the father causing trouble in his wife’s family ?
talagang tsismoso said,
September 7, 2009 at 6:47 am
Coktales by Victor C.Agustin
Ashes to asses
A RECENTLY widowed socialite did a most unusual, selfless act.
The grieving widow not only sought a face-to-face meeting with her late husband’s mistress and, instead of the feared violent confrontation, even gave the other woman an urn containing the ashes of the man they had both shared.
According to the grapevine, the mestiza wife only came to know of her husband’s secret passion after the man, who, like her, came from another de buena familia, suddenly passed away, leaving a number of incriminating text messages in his Blackberry unread and un-erased.
After recovering from the initial shock, the wife, still a looker even in her early 50s, worked up enough courage to check out the mistress, a fading sex bomb, right in her Salcedo Village condominium.
The sickening discovery of her husband’s double life was what apparently triggered a bizarre eulogy given by the wife during the necrological services, where one memorable line, as quoted by a banker, was “Don’t ask me if I am okay. That is an insensitive question.”
AnonyMiss said,
September 8, 2009 at 6:08 am
From http://cocktales.ph/ today:
Ashes to asses
September 08, 2009
A RECENTLY widowed socialite did a most unusual, selfless act.
The grieving widow not only sought a face-to-face meeting with her late husband’s mistress and, instead of the feared violent confrontation, even gave the other woman an urn containing the ashes of the man they had both shared.
According to the grapevine, the mestiza wife only came to know of her husband’s secret passion after the man, who, like her, came from another de buena familia, suddenly passed away, leaving a number of incriminating text messages in his Blackberry unread and un-erased.
After recovering from the initial shock, the wife, still a looker even in her early 50s, worked up enough courage to check out the mistress, a fading sex bomb, right in her Salcedo Village condominium.
The sickening discovery of her husband’s double life was what apparently triggered a bizarre eulogy given by the wife during the necrological services, where one memorable line, as quoted by a banker, was “Don’t ask me if I am okay. That is an insensitive question.”
fatima153 said,
September 17, 2009 at 10:56 am
Why do today’s women want to live the fantasy that any kind of love can beat testosterone’s need for younger flesh? In ancient Chinese custom when a wife turned 40 she had to bring a young girl into the household for her husband’s use, and replace her with others as the need arose. Painful, but that was facing the music and having a firm hand on damage control, the flow of any cash/goods to the mistresses and their own families, claims on the husband’s estate by kids out of wedlock, etc. Some of our own female forebears were known to ‘adopt’ their husbands’ ’street children’.
Among the upper class a prenup gives some protection and consuelo. But a wife must pretend shock/pain at hubby’s affairs to play down her own flings. People would wonder otherwise.
larry leviste said,
September 18, 2009 at 3:24 am
A line from the musical ” OLIVER “.
” Please sir, may I have SOME MORE ? “
isabella said,
September 18, 2009 at 2:29 pm
may I have a clue as to who is the aging sex bomb?
larry leviste said,
September 21, 2009 at 1:42 am
An update on Ruffa May and MIKEY please !
I have a scathingly sharp feeling THIS is truth to be told !