Tuesday, January 11, 2005

short requiem

mark sent me an IM (instant message) yesterday. in it, a grim news.

orly punzalan passed away last friday. to us, he was simply "tata orly" or "sir orly". he was our radio broadcasting subject professor back in my letran days. he was known as a veteran radio broadcast journalist, father to actress princess, and former husband to the late helen vela. he perfected the craft of being a broadcast journalist- - -he taught us to become one.

i didn't heed the call to have my voice on radio. i'd rather be in the rear end.

nyway, humility is tata orly's greatest virtue. the one thing i remember of such is his babylos (coined by someone working at letran)- - -a 1979 mitsubishi galant, proudly wearing a rusting green paint and a plastic cover for the rear window. he has this distinct modulated voice that only someone in the broadcasting business could produce. he never pushed us to become someone like him, we all have our place in the sun, he would say. yeah.

a good man. a good professor.

farewell, tata orly.

latest musing of Etchie at 13:36