Who was / is Vicente-Ignacio?
The last we heard about him,
Vicente-Ignacio retired from corporate life after a short stint as a
concert project manager for a special events arm of a small ad agency
and -- just before this -- as a consultant for a month for a lucky
Mandaluyong City startup called Catalytx
Advertising as it bidded for a large
account. All this happening in 2006. He is now a quiet househusband
based in Bulacan, taking care of home chores for his two
grade-schoolers while the wife hies off to Makati each day for her
more lucrative assistant editor's job. Vicente-Ignacio, meanwhile,
continues to do all sorts of freelance work, including editing a
poetry anthology in Filipino, writing correspondence for an arts and
culture organization, et cetera.
Catalytx, by the
way, was the firm he left in 2003 after four months
there, leaving it for Leyte Island, his parents' home province, to do
farm work while he wrote for Diwa Publishing's Bato Balani and
formed the band Groupies' Panciteria (click
here to see the band's online album).
When he joined Catalytx in 2003 he was still fresh from selling his shares as a partner
in a then smallish and today still-struggling
Ortigas Center shop called Masterminds
Asia Communications. This was the same
shop he was called back to last year (2006), to manage that concert
event project we mentioned above for the Department of Tourism.
Who was / is Vicente-Ignacio
again?
"Jojo" was a late '50s
to early '60s Tagalog slang for
"junior", and we think he has that nickname because he is,
like his father and grandfather,
Vicente-Ignacio -- making
him a "the Third" (III). Contact (0916) 755-0658 [his mobile number] to get your access key to more juicy
information. Or get an essay on his person by contacting his e-mail
address at warphoto@yahoo.com.
For now we can only tell you that he's already 45, been married
thirteen years, siring two
beautiful young sons.
Who again?
NBI records confirm he stands at 174.5 cms (5' 8½"), weighing 59.9
kgs (134 lbs). He's indubitably male,
officially Roman Catholic (sprinkled here and there
though with bastardizations of the philosophical Taoist approach to urban
living care of Lao Tzu, hehe),
and speaks the languages English, Filipino/Pilipino,
Waray (Samar-Leyte), and a bit of the proud Bisaya (Cebuano) language.