Baguio Insider

One of the opinion columns that I seek out every week is Baguio Ko, Mahal Ko written by Virginia Oteyza de Guia, a fiesty little old lady who commands so much admiration and respect in Baguio City.

I first met Mrs. de Guia in 1999 when we held a series of negotiations for my possibly leasing a 300 square meter area on the 4th floor of their family-owned La Azotea building on Session Road for a business I wanted to put up. The business was eventually erected on Legarda Road, but what I remember from that time was that I so badly wanted to be their lessee because I fell in love with Mrs. de Guia herself. (more…)

When I pinged this blog at Technorati a few days ago, I was shocked to see that the No. 1 search term was Anna Nicole Smith (after all, she was no “hot young item” like Paris Hilton or Britney Spears) and was even more shocked to find out that it was because she had died unexpectedly at the age of 39. After a cursory reading of the news articles, what bothered me so much is that it seemed too coincidental that:

> mother and son (Daniel) would die under the same mysterious circumstances
> and ostensibly of the same cause (prescription drug overdose),
> within 5 months of each other,
> both dying at a relatively young age,
> both deaths still under investigation.

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