My brief history
April 17, 1975, I was born in one of the remote town in Camarines Norte called Mambulao now Jose Panganiban, named after a hero who was a native of that place who died in Spain. I was wondering on where my father has taken my name while he does not read book because he has not even finished elementary school, and I am pretty much sure that he does not know anything about Heinrich Hertz who discovered the radio wave, Heinrich Heinz who was a writer, Karl Heinrich Marx who made the Communist Manifesto and even Heinrich Kaiser of Germany. When I asked him where did he get my name he told me that probably he just saw it in one comic, my mother told me that they have nothing when she was giving birth to me, coz even the diaper that she used to wrap me was an old cloth..
I spent my childhood days in this place at Osmeņa, our home was only 15 meters away from the sea and almost 15 meters also from the foot of the hill. It is made of bamboo and some native coconut wall called pawid, I am the 4th son of my parents next to John, the eldest is Glenda second is Richard then John next to me are the following, Jennifer, Analiza, Jake, and then Rachel almost all of them are a singer and telent in music. we are three in the family who has not gotten my mothers talent in music. Our lifestyle was so simple, we were happy in simple things since we can enjoy life in a penny I spent much of time in playing in a seashore or in a hill with my elder brother John
. In 1977 my father went abroad and our life standard gradually changed, we stay in this town until I was 9 years old and we moved to Daet in 1984, this is 30 kilometers away and much progressive from my former home place.
We have constructed our new home here and after a month of our stay it was burned on June 6,1986. We lost our home and up to this time we have not restored it like the way it was, our life have been completely ruined