Jigsaw Murder 1967

The year is 1967 and the most gruesome news today has just come in.

Her case was highly sensationalized, and hers was abnormally scary. Lucila Lalu, 28, came to Manila from Candaba, Pampanga to seek fortune in 1961 (some say 1957). She actually did find fortune. She had two flourishing businesses: the Pagoda Soda Fountain, a cocktail lounge along Rizal Avenue, and Lucy's House of Beauty, a beauty parlor along Mayhaligue Street, Sta. Cruz, Manila. At the same time, she became a common-law wife of a married policeman, Aniano Vera, whom she had a son as reported. However, she also had a lover, Florante Relos, a 19-year old waiter of the Pagoda Soda Fountain.

They found her legs first, chopped expertly into four pieces and wrapped in a newspaper, in a garbage can on Malabon St., Sta. Cruz. A day later, her body, headless and legless, was found on a vacant lot along Epifanio de los Santos Avenue.

The suspects of the case included her 19-year-old lover, Florante Relos, Patrolman Aniano de Vera, and Jose Luis Santiano, a 28-year-old dental student.

On the 15th of June 1967, Santiano, the 28-year old dental student surfaced and confessed to the crime. He recounted and detailed the events that led to the brutal killing. However, a few days later, he retracted and repudiated his confession and insisted on his innocence. But the authorities were firmed on their decision to pursue the case against the new suspect.

Monyeka

As life continues to feed us with its struggles, hardships and success; there are things that life can never take away from us. 

Even though we go through the small opening of a needle, even though we almost feel alone. There is something life gave us that turns everything around. Family. 

It may be small, it may be big, it can be broken and apart or whole and contented. Family is family, it is what makes us whole; but in some cases family can be our reason to hold on. 

In Monyeka by Alice Tan the story revolves around an old maiden living in a destitute mansion Cita, She is often inside the mansion even though it is no longer fit to live in. Cita is the youngest of five, the only person among the siblings to live in the mansion after the fall of their sugarcane plantation. 

Cita would find herself in the company of her dolls, old, dusty and ragged dolls. Others may say it is odd for a woman of such age to play with childish toys but, these dolls mean more to her than what they see. Living alone in the mansion made Cita lonely but, she saw a doll and a middle that loneliness she saw herself in that doll. She kept the doll and started to collect some to bring company to her dolls, Cita is happy. 

Inside the destitute mansion where all her memories of their past flow, where the good and bad times hover in the four corners of the place, Cita finds peace and tranquility. Family, it may be by blood or by friendship. It may not be that you are connected but, family is family. It is what makes us whole, it is what keeps us moving forward and to look back at the past. these dolls mean more to her than what they see. 

Living alone in the mansion made Cita lonely but, she saw a doll and a middle that loneliness she saw herself in that doll. She kept the doll and started to collect some to bring company to her dolls, Cita is happy. Inside the destitute mansion where all her memories of their past flow, where the good and bad times hover in the four corners of the place, Cita finds peace and tranquility. Family, it may be by blood or by friendship. It may not be that you are connected but, family is family. It is what makes us whole, it is what keeps us moving forward and to look back at the past. these dolls mean more to her than what they see.Living alone in the mansion made Cita lonely but, she saw a doll and a middle that loneliness she saw herself in that doll. 

She kept the doll and started to collect some to bring company to her dolls, Cita is happy. Inside the destitute mansion where all her memories of their past flow, where the good and bad times hover in the four corners of the place, Cita finds peace and tranquility. Family, it may be by blood or by friendship. It may not be that you are connected but, family is family. It is what makes us whole, it is what keeps us moving forward and to look back at the past.


Family is what keeps us together, it is a part of us that can never be taken away. The world may turn it's back on us but, our family will always be there.

Love Unexplained

Whenever the period, wherever the place is, there’s one thing that I see hasn’t changed until today.

LOVE.

Centuries pass and still this hamartia still remains in our living earth. Love has been the most evident and longest feeling we have and cherish, it has been here since the start of man.

And what beauty it is to see some people fall in love, be in love, and what sorrow it brings us when we fall out of love. But, one question remains now today.

What is love?

Some may say it’s a feeling, others say that love is the beginning of the end. Some may say love is an emotion, and to others love is a reaction.

So, what it is? Love is unexplainable.

Even I don’t know the answer to that question because, love is something that we can’t explain. Science may say that Love is a reaction from stimuli, we act on this stimuli and love is born.

Love is not just a feeling, not just a sensation, not just a reaction. Love is unexplainable, it something that when you realize that’s it is sometimes at the end. Love is the most beautiful thing that life gives us, the simple things that life is awarding us.

That simple electricity as your fingers brush each other, the sensation when your foreheads touch. That moment when everything just stops moving and becomes blurry, just like a scene from a movie.

Love is rare, love is something we can’t explain because of the joy we receive from it. Love is what keeps us living, love makes our world colorful. Love is the most precious thing I can think of that is as important as life.

It’s what makes us humans believe and protect, someone once told me that a man is powerful when he is protecting someone. Love is born out of trust and experience, it’s the best thing that happened and will happen to anyone.

Love doesn’t make the world go around.

It’s what makes the ride worthwhile.

Life's a bitch. Not being rude but, that's just how it is. We come across things we can't even explain nor answer and Life just laughs at us.

But Life gives us the most beautiful things we can ever receive. In one way you can say Life's a tad bit sarcastic but, that's how it is. You can't always get what you want.

And what we want sometimes is something we can't get, something out of our league. That's why we struggle, most of the things that are given to us? We don't even see them because we focus on the ones we want, the ones we can't get.

Life isn't all milk and honey, Life is a mixture of chaos, beauty and authenticity.

Of all the things life gave us we should learn to appreciate even the problems we encounter. These challenges we face are proof of how successful and strong you are as a person but, don't lower your standards to fit in.

What other people think doesn't matter as long as you are you. We're not born in the world to please people, to fit in. We're born to be ourselves and be accepted by as such, we are who we are.

Life is a bitch. And when life tries to bring you down?

Stand up.

Dust Yourself.

Give her a smile and continue living.

Beauty, Looks, Charms, Critiques? They all fade and grow old, embrace yourself and live how you want to live.

Because one day we'll be a memory, so try your best to be the damn best one.