- is a public school tutor (University of the Philippines)

 of a masteral subject in Development Communications

 - chairs Kaalagad, an interfaith ecumenical community

 - is a board member of Conspiracy, FILSCAP and FPE

 - was born in 1960 in Maco Davao (Compostela Valley)

 - mother Cristina is a dressmaker; father Ireneo fished,

 organized unions; sister Gilda is teacher, was an OFW

 - shined shoes, peddled sweepstakes, newspapers and

 komiks, boiled and sold bananas, tended sarisari store

 - grumbled and learned ukelele upon father's insistence

 - did fairly well in elementary and high school (finished

 valedictorian in Maco Heights and Maryknoll) and went

 to college (Metallurgical Engineering, University of the

 Philippines) on government stipend (NSDB, now DOST)

 but was kicked out of U.P. and has no college diploma

 - played varsity softball in high school, twisted a finger

 - was on the 49'ers Engineering champions chess team

 - worked as a photographer for the Department of Labor

 - was a social action department coordinator for ISACC

 - got a KBP broadcaster's license and worked in FEBC

 - moonlights as voice and on-cam talent for PCIJ, DED,

 ABS-CBN, PROCESS, GMA Network and Ad Agencies

 - is a frustrated mathematician, could not solve Fermat

 - very briefly taught College Algebra at U.P. Los Baños

 (eldest daughter, Kiel, is a Math major in U.P.Diliman)

 - is very critical of the hierarchical institutional church,

 but drinks religiously with priests, sisters and pastors

 - likes sea urchin sashimi, green mango shake, durian

 and motorcycles, gadgets and pretty intelligent people

 - writes and records advertising music for a quick buck

 - sings his own compositions and plays the guitar well

 - got up to Grade One in piano, still cannot read music

 - is the amateur website designer of the quite plain but

 very charming garygranada.com and bagongkanta.com

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