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”. 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 I do not know where arrive at my site 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?

My town is a failure so are all the public officials who led it.

Here comes Mar Roxas who coined himself the name Mr. Palengke to win a Senate seat in 2004 elections, and from whose father, the Capital of Capiz, Roxas City was named after. Mar Roxas is posing to run as President of the Republic of the Philippines for the 2010 elections. He proudly advertises in his website:

“Do i want change for our country? The answer is yes. Do I think I can do a better job? The answer is yes. Do I think that our country could be in a much better place? The answer is yes, ” SENATOR MAR ROXAS , in an hour long interview on ANC.

I have nothing against Mar Roxas except that, for more than a decade now he has been in politics as a member of the House of Representatives representing the province of Capiz, then as a Senator, why has my town, Pilar, Capiz, whose welfare he should look after, remains in a dismal state? And now he dreams of changing the country, advertising that he does a better job, and claiming that the country could be in a much better place were he to become its president.

Mar Roxas may convince the whole country and may even become the next president, but I wonder how he can convince and get my vote, and the votes of those who are as aware as I am but do not have the gift of words?

Pilar, Capiz, with all its grand dreams and limitations, is my humble contribution to the development of my beloved town.