We woke up at about 9:00 AM. When I had taken breakfast, I was told that we were off Dao and had passed San Jose. I ordered the ship back so we could visit San Jose. Kokoy [Benjamin Romualdez] rounded up the government officials in his usual energetic manner. Gov....

I write this at 4:00 PM on board the 777 on the way to Iligan off Dao after a visit at San Jose 11:30-3:00 PM. Advance Party led by Kokoy returned with the governor at 1:00 PM. We were at the market place for a meeting at 2:00 PM We reached Sablayan at about 11:00 AM....

After the Media Noche we left the Palace for this ship. But with the waiting for the others like Kokoy [Benjamin Romualdez] and Juliette [Romualdez], we finally left at about 2:00 AM. The morning I devoted to golf, preparing gifts and seeing the sugar people on the...

We have all done our Christmas gift choosing. I asked Kokoy [Benjamin Romualdez] to buy some warm clothes in the United States for Bongbong: fur-lined boots, gloves and jackets—including a Coleman pressure heater, the latest shirts, trousers and belts (I have ordered...

Today was my family day. Spent the afternoon trying out our guns for the hunting trip to Sablayan, Mindoro Oriental on Christmas Day while the three girls of the family were spectators in the [Bahay] Pangarap side. Good-natured bantering all around like the...

We are still recovering from the shock of my eldest daughter deciding she will not have anymore of Assumption School but wishes to continue schooling in Tacloban. She finds she is in a rut and will end up ether a bitter activist motivated merely by hate or a part of...

We are in the President No. 777, to sleep in it and return to Manila to reach it at 8:00 AM Monday morning (this morning). Sunday morning I woke up at 8:00 AM and was water-skiing at about 9:00 to finish at 9:45 AM. Was at Balanga after a pleasant helicopter ride at...

We cast off from Pier 5 at 3:00 PM and rounded Cochinos Pt. into Talaga Bay at 5:00 PM. The low pressure area west of Mindoro has dissipated and the weather is good although the sky is overcast. The sea is calm and I took a nap after starting the book of [Albert...

Proctoscopy and systoscopy (that is nothing but an examination of the lower bowels [in my case up to 23 centimeters] with an instrument inserted through the anus to check ulceration from chronic amoebiasis or growth which may be benign or malignant) was [sic]...

Imelda and I went to Bicolandia by plane. I took the Fokker, she took Silverio’s Cessna-4. Distributed the first cement credit cards as well as the excess income tax credit advise [sic], the first to capitanes del barrio and the second to municipal mayors. GI...