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Before I Forget

How Mommy said goodbye to Daddy
Before I Forget
October 31, 2021

How Mommy said goodbye to Daddy

By Thelma Sioson San Juan
This was first published in Philippine Daily Inquirer Lifestyle section in May 2013. 2013 IT DIDN’T happen like in the movies or the way…
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My sadder ‘Undas’ this year
Before I Forget
October 29, 2021

My sadder ‘Undas’ this year

By Alma Cruz Miclat
Maningning poems posted in the Miclat mausoleum With the coming of All Saints’ Day, Todos Los Santos, Day of the Dead, El Dia de los…
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Being with Pavarotti in Manila—and the toughest performance of his life
Before I Forget
October 4, 2021

Being with Pavarotti in Manila—and the toughest performance of his life

By Pablo A. Tariman
My front page story in the Sunday Chronicle announcing cancellation of Manila engagement of Pavarotti.(Pablo Tariman file photo) It’s been…
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20 years later: 9-11 still on my mind
Before I Forget
September 10, 2021

20 years later: 9-11 still on my mind

By Nen Ira
The Monday evening before 9-11 in 2001, I was in my north Jersey office, ready to take the reverse commute home to New York City.  In my…
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Philamlife Theater: A quiet death
Before I Forget
July 29, 2021

Philamlife Theater: A quiet death

By Pablo A. Tariman
Philamlife building, a mid-20th century masterpiece by architect Carlos Arguelles, its theater acoustic design done by the same firm that…
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Death of a prodigy: Filipino musicians amid the horrors of war
Before I Forget
June 11, 2021

Death of a prodigy: Filipino musicians amid the horrors of war

By Pablo A. Tariman
It was 1970, and I had yet to hear live classical music. At the Manuel L. Quezon University along Hidalgo St. where I took up journalism, I…
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Gilda Cordero Fernando: <br> I miss you, Lola Mad
Before I Forget
June 7, 2021

Gilda Cordero Fernando:
I miss you, Lola Mad

By Io Regalado
The author malling with his Lola (From Io Regalado’s FB) (A grandson writes what he considers a long overdue recollection of his…
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My chance encounters <br> with Filipino Misses Universe
Before I Forget
May 17, 2021

My chance encounters
with Filipino Misses Universe

By Pablo A. Tariman
2018 Miss Universe Catriona Grey with Cecile Licad at Washington D.C. during the Independence Day concert of the pianist. (Pablo Tariman…
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PascualLab marks 75th year<br>—on the same core family value
Before I Forget
April 28, 2021

PascualLab marks 75th year
—on the same core family value

By TheDiarist.Ph
Seventy-five years ago, right after World War II, chemists Isosceles and Leonora Pascual started a small laboratory in their home in Tondo…
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Why I can never forget <br> <em>Tita</em> Conching and the Met
Before I Forget
April 19, 2021

Why I can never forget
Tita Conching and the Met

By Pablo A. Tariman
News is out that the Manila Metropolitan Theater (Met) will re-open April 27, 2021 as part of the celebration of 500 years of Christianity…
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