Blogs from Jupiter

I haven’t blogged for quite awhile. A lot of things have been happening lately both at home and at the office. We celebrated Dad’s first death anniversary a few days ago, and I just flew in here at Nanning, China for some official stuff.

Next month, we’re ready to inter Papa’s ashes at the Mount Carmel Church in New Manila. The construction of Dad’s crypt area is almost done and we’re now planning for his remains’ final rites. We want it simple, private and solemn. This is what Papa wanted: his ashes to be with us for a year at home, and finally interred in a crypt in a church named after the Blessed Mother. Papa is one devout Marian devotee.

Yes. We are ready to let go of Papa, and for us to finally… finally move on.

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At the office, things are getting exciting. The last, first and second quarters of the year are our busiest: preparations and activities for the holiday season, golf tournaments we have to organize, and preparations for the annual stockholders meeting. And we’ve been in the news so much lately, which added to the excitement.

I am now in China, not for some shady deal, but to represent ICTSI and our Subic operations at the China-ASEAN expo. I am scheduled to deliver a presentation on our company, specifically on our Subic operations.

There was one time when I went to Malaysia, a shipping reporter texted me requesting for information on an overseas port project. I texted back that I could only help him when I’m back in Manila. The following day, a news article on our company’s international expansion written by the same reporter came out. It was a good write-up, problem was, there was a sentence in the article, which gave the impression that ICTSI officials were in Malaysia for some port projects. We were in KL not for a port project but for an international conference and exhibit.

So to our friends in media, I am not in China because of because. Don’t be like that comedian in the Senate hearing who has been, to quote our boss, "hallucinating" and “imagining” things.

Anyways, I am getting back into the groove of blogging. Let’ see if there’s something worth sharing here in Nanning.