To the eyes of the uninitiated, they were surprised to see us during the 60th Anniversary of the Bohol Chronicle at the Bohol Tropics last Friday while we are running a column with this paper. In the first place, do they also wonder why BGLante also anchors with the morning radio program “Inyong Alagad” of Station DYRD, a sister-enterprise of the Bohol Chronicle? Many of the self-confessed media men nowadays do not even know why. To our dear readers who may also want to know why? Please read on.

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As what Loy Palapos, re-elected president of the Bohol Chamber of Commerce here, who emceed the anniversary program describe that it was a gathering of the eagles in the province. So can you imagine rubbing elbows with the who’s who in Bohol in terms of business, religion, media and politics? Try to use your mind in greeting the guests of the Bohol Chronicle led by Sen. Grace Poe, Gov. Edgar M. Chatto, Cong. Art Yap (3rd District) and Mayor Baba Yap, some board members, city councilors and media practitioners we consider to belong to the opposite fence? But even the video presentation of the Bohol Chronicle’s 60th Anniversary can attest to the fact that we indeed is a part of the celebration even sans the formal invitation sent to us and Merly.

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There is no argument against the fact that the late Atty. Zoilo Dejaresco Jr., Bohol Chronicle founder, is our wedding’s godfather. Why would the Boholano mass media icon cared to stand as a godfather in our wedding? For all legal intents and purposes, he might have seen in us our contribution to the Bohol Chronicle and Station DYRD as a news hunter, radio reporter and a staff to his twin media enterprise. It was be like the case of BGLante who ate his dinner being personally served by the Bohol Chronicle founder and Station Manager of DYRD then after BGLante make a field report on the robbery in Policarpo’s. If you don’t know that store, you better stop reading. Hehehe.

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Peter Dejaresco, chairman of the Bohol Chronicle Radio Corp. (BCRC), who personally guided us in our broadcast career, knows this backdrop aside from the fact that Peter still maintains a hands-on in the operation of the Bohol Chronicle and Station DYRD. Unfortunately, we have not seen BGLante in the gathering last Friday noon at the Bohol Tropics. We have seen our face as an announcer in the anniversary’s video presentation. Before BGLante came out with this paper, he is the original anchorman of “Inyong Alagad” together with my billiard buddy, Fred Araneta. It was still the time that there were no paid hacks yet. Of course, there were already those involved in the so-called “attack and collect-defend and collect” (AC-DCs) trade.

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Going back to the NBA conference finals, our fearless forecast indeed came true: the Miami Heat and the Indiana Pacers will be facing the Eastern Conference finals while the San Antonio Spurs will be confronting the Oklahoma City Thunders in the Western Conference finals. These “fantastic four” will surely make the NBA conference finals very exciting. A mole at the NBA revealed that revenues generated out of a game 7 play will go to the NBA players union. So expect a Game 7 in both the Eastern and Western Conference finals.

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POSTSCRIPT: Readers of this column relayed to us how they follow this corner every Sunday which is a shot in our arm. It is a pat in the back. It now dawned to us that firing in a different location may no longer differ as long as we continue to hit the target. In our maiden column in this paper, we paraphrased singer Jimmy Dean that if we can’t change the wind, we can always adjust our sails to always reach the destination.…We were at the municipal hall of Panglao town yesterday afternoon upon the invitation of Leadership Communities (Leadcom)-Bohol of the Holy Name University (HNU) chapter, which is part of the corporate social responsibility of Ayala Foundation, to speak on parliamentary procedure, a topic we consider to be our home court, before the barangay officials there. Earlier, Board Member Tomas D. Abapo Jr., dean of the HNU College of Law, lectured on local laws and legislation. Thanks to Anna Veronica I. Galendez, project chairman and its project advisers, Karina Mae Uy and Nanelyn D. Wate …There’s more when we come back.