It is said that you are what you eat. In this case, anything you put in your mouth becomes you. I cannot help but marvel at this truth with the thought that regular intake of fine dimsum or "siomai" would become me. But kidding aside, this is one of the best contributions of the Chinese in the country with all their delicious cuisine found in the homes of Filipino families including our culture. The Chinese have long been with us even before the arrival of the Spanish conquistadores. So before the paella, there was already the pancit and the dimsum.
Those of us who partied in the 80s until the 90s know that the disco scene inflicted us big time what with our Nik-Nik shirts, Bang-Bang jeans and Nicholas Stoodley pants.
But here I caught a big fish. The man himself and so huge that my net almost broke. He is none other than Louie Ysmael aka "Louie Y" of the famed Louie Y's disco at the Silahis International Hotel and Euphoria at the Intercon Hotel.
I have kept for the longest time this Olympia typewriter which belonged to my father who was, for the longest time a newspaperman from the old school. He certainly wrote serious stuff from this piece and, as fate would have it, literally wrote his very last opinion column from this Typesosaur. How much do you think something like this would cost given its battle-scarred condition? But hey, this one's for keeps.
