Dino’s First Original Composition

I’m so proud of him!!

Thank You

Agot Isidro – Back to Basics

Imagine my surprise when I got a text from my sister inviting us to watch her show. Come and join us for an evening of good music with Agot’s Back to Basics concert on Feb. 7 and 8 at the Music Museum. Show starts at 8:30p.m. Tickets are available at UMPI office. Just call Ronald at 412-3403 or 415-8085. Tickets priced at P1,200.00 orchestra center, P1,000.00 orchestra side and P800.00 balcony. Thanks so much for your support!!! See you there!!!! So there…..Des and I are gonna watch the Feb 7 show along with a couple of other friends, do let us know if you want to join us. You know where to reach me....

A Passing

As 2007 was eagerly anticipated and happily entered into our lives this week, a very close and dear Uncle and friend passed on too. Gilbert Isidro, or Tito Ato to us nephews and nieces or Ninong to Des and I, passed away yesterday from cancer. He has not been well the past couple of years due to a massive stroke he suffered. It was painful to see him then, frail and almost helpless. Specially for us who knew him. He was a very energetic and funny man. A real joker whose pastime was to tell funny stories of his youth, and there where many of those. He would regularly drop by Luigi’s Restaurant along Tomas Morato, where I worked for a good part of my early professional life, to have his favorite Sheperd’s Pie and share a cup of coffee plus a stick of his ever presen Champion cigarettes with me. He would offer me advise, mostly good, about life and living. He had lived the life, and it was he who I first heard say “We’ve lived our live, your Dad and I, anything after where we are now is overtime”. So Bon Voyage, Tito Ato. I am sure your entire family, Tita Cherry, Yvonne, Monique, Isko and Louie will be missing you as much as I will. Rest yourself, because we’re gonna see each other again, and the next time we do, I’m pretty sure you’ll have more stories ready for me. Better have the Sheperd’s Pie, Brewed Coffee and Champion Cigarettes ready, this time it’s your...

Dino at LSM Musicfest 2006

A chip off the old block hehe.