Mushroom Moments

MOD September 2012
On the cover: Sarah Geronimo

This article, “Mushroom Moments” (pp. 44-47), I enjoyed writing. Well, because I like mushrooms. And because I dedicate this to someone I knew and got intimate with, believe it or not, just through texting. I gave her the pet name “Mushroom” for the simple reason that just like mushrooms she just popped up suddenly in my life; would suddenly vanished and popped up again, in my cellphone, that is.

Mushrooms

It neither came from a plant nor an animal;

Some are poisonous and others are medicinal;

Some may cause asthma attack, quite dangerous,

But others are edible and very delicious.

You may see one in a rotten tree bark,

Or in a forest ground glowing in the dark.

Those who fear them have fungaphobia,

But modern man wants them topping a pizza.

Buttons, toadstools, rat’s ears, fairy’s brooms.

What am I talking about? What else – mushrooms!



 

(This was written as an introduction poem, but was not included in the published article.)



Also in this MOD September 2012 issue is a short article about the “Sunset by the (Manila) Bay.”

 

The following last paragraph was part of the submitted article but was edited out:

An Interesting Note to Ponder

          When our national hero Dr. Jose Rizal was executed by the Spaniards at Bagumbayan (which was near the shoreline of Manila Bay), he turned around from facing Manila Bay and look up to the east, to the rising sun. Yes, indeed, to the rising sun. Today, would it not be better to look at the Rizal Monument, in that same place, and see the sunrise at dawn rather than sitting on the baywalk and waiting to see the sunset at dusk?


 

 

“The GOD of gods, the LORD, speaks. He calls the earth from the rising to the setting sun..... Call to me in times of trouble. I will save you, and you will honor Me.” – Psalms 50:1 & 15, The Everyday Bible, New Century Version.

 

 

Hollywood Celebrity Tops and Flops

MOD Vol. 37 No. 1812, July 31, 2006

On the cover: Sarah Geronimo

In MOD “Starliner” section, read about Hollywood “Celebrity Tops and Flops” (pp. 50-51).

“On this account I say to you, every sort of sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.” – According to Matthew 12:31, New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures.

July 25




JULY 25

Pilipino Komiks Blg. 317, Hulyo 25, 1959
Tampok sa taklob-pahina ang obrang “Apat na Anino” ni Clodualdo del Mundo
na iginuhit ni Fred Carillo

 

GLIMPSE FROM THE PAST

Edwin Eugene Aldrin Jr, the other “Man on the Moon,”
on the cover of Time Vol. 94 No. 4, July 25, 1969

 

Events that happened on July 25:

1882 – The Carriedo Waterwork was inaugurated, for which water supply for the greater Manila area came from the Marikina River and stored at a reservoir (known as El Deposito) in San Juan (then part of Morong Province).

1898 – General Wesley Merritt arrived in Manila. He is to become the first military American governor of the Philippines.

Personalities and celebrities born on July 25:

1872 – Santiago Alvarez, revolutionary general (“Hero of Dalahican, Cavite”), and one of the founder and honorary president of the Nationalista Party – in Imus, Cavite (d. October 30, 1930).

1915 – Enrique M. Fernando, constitutionalist, law professor and 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court (July 2, 1979 – July 24, 1985) – in Malate, Manila (d. October 13, 2004).

1928 – Dolphy (real name Rodolfo Vera Quizon Sr), award-winning actor (in stage, radio, movie and television) and “King of Philippine Comedy” – in Padre Herrera, Tondo, Manila (d. July 10. 2012). 

Dolphy
on the covers of Philippine Panorama (June 23, 1985) and Seniors Monthly (April 2009).

A picture of Mario Montenegro (c. 1950s, courtesy

of “Stars of Philippine Silver Screen” website,

www.reocities.com/ggervacio/silverscreen1.html)

1928 – Mario Montenegro (real name Roger Collin Macalalag), actor – Pagsanjan, Laguna (d. August 27, 1988).

1988 – Sarah Asher Tua Geronimo, singer, actress, model, television host and the Philippines’ “Pop Princess” – in Sta. Cruz, Manila.

Sarah Geronimo
on the covers of MOD (July 31, 2006),
Cosmopolitan Philippines (November 2008) and Yes! (March 2011).

 

1990 – Andi Eigenmann (full name Andrea Nicole Guck Eigenmann), actress and model – in Marikina, Metro Manila.

Andi Eigenmann
on the covers of Speed (October 2010) and MOD (August 2011).

 

Clint Eastwood on the cover of
Films Illustrated (July 1980).

Picture Trivia

          In 1980, Clint Eastwood produced and starred in the film Bronco Billy where his children Kyle and Alison also played a small part. Although the film was considered a “commercial failure,” many movie critics liked it. It is said to be one of Eastwood’s humorous portrayal.
 

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