Blog History

This is my mother blog named after the town I was born in, Pilar, Capiz.

I started with an overview of the town in “Introduction” (now “overview”). It is a very long piece for an introduction but I believe no one has ever written about Pilar, Capiz quite like this.

When I started Pilar, Capiz, I was already in Manila. As much as I wanted to write about every baranggay, and the natural wonders each possesses, I could not. Instead, I wrote about other things: political commentaries, reflections and oration pieces. The last is responsible for an average of 100 hits a day as students from around the country arrive here for their oration pieces needs. Until it dawned on me that I should also earn from what I write. So, I put up sites for topics I often write about. Now, I have my site for my boxing commentaries, for my comedy skits, for my foreign affairs commentaries, and why not showbiz opinion also?

I spent only my elementary years in Pilar, Capiz. Since then, I was only in Pilar during Christmas and summer vacations. I was in and out Pilar and could not yet recognize the curious feeling inside me every time I am in it; until I visited Cantilan, Surigao del Sur.

Cantilan is the home town of my beautiful scientist-ex-girl friend. From Surigao City, I had to endure a three hour van ride. To get to Cantilan, the van had to pass through dry river beds, and over them through wooden planks with no side railings; and beside mountains that could not fit the van window and hills with the panoramic view of the long and winding roads I had been through. But when I reached the town proper, it was really something special. The roads were paved, the houses neat, and there was just this general aura of optimism among its people.

Imagine a town three hours away from its City yet was even more beautiful than my own town which is only an hour away from its own city, Roxas City!

From then on, I felt sorry for myself and for the town I came from every time I remember this trips (I made two). I hated the officials from the Senator down to the town mayors. How can a town situated between mountains that produce sugar, rice, corn, fruits and other agricultural products, and the sea that bears fish of all kinds have an eerie feeling of dryness, loneliness, and hunger?

Maybe because no body paid enough attention.

So, this blog I dedicate to the people of Pilar. May this also serve as my humble contribution to the development of the town that has one of the longest shorelines in the country, my beloved, Pilar, Capiz.