Ang Panday


I always know him as the sword wielding local hero who roamed the dessert and the jungles of the northern lands in order to vanquish evil and along the way, vampires, zombies and goblins would fall by the wayside often bloodied and trampled. He was the "Panday" and as a kid in the days of old, it is not a few moments that I have dreamed that I was the one holding those powerful blitzing swords.

Last night, or rather this morning, a few minutes after midnight, the King of Philippine Cinema has gone to the other phase of existence and may he be in the company of the angels right at this moment. Bless be his soul.

In my eyes, he is the real hero of many of our countrymen who longed for the one savior that would come and lead this nation out of its quagmires despite that fate was not in his favor when he tried his one and sole attempt at politics. He had fought his own battle, where in some battles that he had waged he may have retreated, but I am sure he had never surrendered even once.


This day is a time of bereavement for the entire nation for a son has passed away. My condolences to the family and friends of the "Panday".

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