Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:51:27
Hello Friends, You are our extended family ~ did you know that a man's happiness is found with his friends? Thank you for making my brother happy! A few days after he passed on, Public Broadcasting Service ran a film on that exact notion. Too late! Mario left us na! He would have understood, and still done his own thing: Mario was a private fellow. We all loved him for that. But, and, he was also funny!!
Please post your thoughts, funny stories and love for my Big brother here.
We cannot come to Bacolod to hold a wake, but, we can show our gratitude to you in this website Wall.
I invite you to participate and help us cope with our loss. Salamat gidya.
Diding and Manang Gela
Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:29:07
Mario, Maryo, Yo,
Wasssuuuuup !!!!!!
Your sister Manang Gela has been sharing a lot of stories of your visits to her in Sarasota every year around Christmas/New Year time. She's understandably broken up. She's missing you a lot. She remembers knocking on your door and you would pop your head out and say that you're almost ready. She told me that she would bring you, her baby brother, wherever she went. To parties, to Bell practice at church and to her tennis matches. She was waiting for you this past September. She said you were packing up your stuff and leaving Manila for good. She told me that she was preparing one of her condos for you to live and hang out for awhile. You wanted to try your hands on eBay.
Mario, am getting to know her now. She calls me by my nickname "Lily" and she embellishes my name to "Lily-pad", and "Lily-gaw". I would add "Lily-to" "Lily-mos" and "lily-mos". The game you and I used to play I now play with your Manang Gels. If you don't mind I might post again later. Later dude, Mario, Maryo, Yo. Miss you man. Georgia/Lily
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:49:47
I called mario prussie...whenever he visited our old apartment (which we shared during our student days)..he would ring the doorbell, I would answer and the ritual was: I would do a diva bow, then he would immediately, without a word said between us, do runway.....which he was excellent at...shades of dayang dayang or better yet, Minnie Cagatao...it was silly but comforting...a ritual of sorts...all 6' 3" of him....and that would be my best memory of the gentle giant erstwhile karilagan model...and then there was the time he showed up in a kilt...but that's another story... ed sicangco
(no email)
Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:02:56
Ay Pare, you left me high-and-dry again! It took me forever to catch up with you or glimpse your shadow and now you've left me and all of your classmates again! For such a big man you are always remembered by your classmates as Taynee...Thank you for all those fast and furious exchanges of emails about our reminiscings during our high school days at La Salle Bacolod leading to our Ruby Reunion. I was hoping to make it back this year so I could be with you to share all these memories in person, 40 long years and now, staring at such time when we can join you when we leave this temporary place we call home! Just don't forget to look back and help your friends in need please. May you rest in the peace and care of the Lord Taynee! Junior. Sergio Valderrama
Tue, 04 Jan 2011
Only fond memories of Mario, no crazy memories, wish I had some of those, but my (and Mars')memories were few but truly fond: Gela bringing him to our Morristown house to critique it because he was an architect; designing and fitting Gela for her beautiful peach (salmon?) suit(dress?)for her wedding to Bim at the Jongco garden; a few visits to NYC; meeting him towards the end at the wedding of Claire Lim in Makati... Mario lived life with his good looks, with charm, creativity and a gentleness of spirit. He will be missed, not just by Gela who loved him dearly but by all of us who got to know him. May God bless his soul and may he rest in peace. Cora Custodio
Hello Friends, You are our extended family ~ did you know that a man's happiness is found with his friends? Thank you for making my brother happy! A few days after he passed on, Public Broadcasting Service ran a film on that exact notion. Too late! Mario left us na! He would have understood, and still done his own thing: Mario was a private fellow. We all loved him for that. But, and, he was also funny!!
Please post your thoughts, funny stories and love for my Big brother here.
We cannot come to Bacolod to hold a wake, but, we can show our gratitude to you in this website Wall.
I invite you to participate and help us cope with our loss. Salamat gidya.
Diding and Manang Gela
Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:29:07
Mario, Maryo, Yo,
Wasssuuuuup !!!!!!
Your sister Manang Gela has been sharing a lot of stories of your visits to her in Sarasota every year around Christmas/New Year time. She's understandably broken up. She's missing you a lot. She remembers knocking on your door and you would pop your head out and say that you're almost ready. She told me that she would bring you, her baby brother, wherever she went. To parties, to Bell practice at church and to her tennis matches. She was waiting for you this past September. She said you were packing up your stuff and leaving Manila for good. She told me that she was preparing one of her condos for you to live and hang out for awhile. You wanted to try your hands on eBay.
Mario, am getting to know her now. She calls me by my nickname "Lily" and she embellishes my name to "Lily-pad", and "Lily-gaw". I would add "Lily-to" "Lily-mos" and "lily-mos". The game you and I used to play I now play with your Manang Gels. If you don't mind I might post again later. Later dude, Mario, Maryo, Yo. Miss you man. Georgia/Lily
Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:49:47
I called mario prussie...whenever he visited our old apartment (which we shared during our student days)..he would ring the doorbell, I would answer and the ritual was: I would do a diva bow, then he would immediately, without a word said between us, do runway.....which he was excellent at...shades of dayang dayang or better yet, Minnie Cagatao...it was silly but comforting...a ritual of sorts...all 6' 3" of him....and that would be my best memory of the gentle giant erstwhile karilagan model...and then there was the time he showed up in a kilt...but that's another story... ed sicangco
(no email)
Tue, 04 Jan 2011 18:02:56
Ay Pare, you left me high-and-dry again! It took me forever to catch up with you or glimpse your shadow and now you've left me and all of your classmates again! For such a big man you are always remembered by your classmates as Taynee...Thank you for all those fast and furious exchanges of emails about our reminiscings during our high school days at La Salle Bacolod leading to our Ruby Reunion. I was hoping to make it back this year so I could be with you to share all these memories in person, 40 long years and now, staring at such time when we can join you when we leave this temporary place we call home! Just don't forget to look back and help your friends in need please. May you rest in the peace and care of the Lord Taynee! Junior. Sergio Valderrama
Tue, 04 Jan 2011
Only fond memories of Mario, no crazy memories, wish I had some of those, but my (and Mars')memories were few but truly fond: Gela bringing him to our Morristown house to critique it because he was an architect; designing and fitting Gela for her beautiful peach (salmon?) suit(dress?)for her wedding to Bim at the Jongco garden; a few visits to NYC; meeting him towards the end at the wedding of Claire Lim in Makati... Mario lived life with his good looks, with charm, creativity and a gentleness of spirit. He will be missed, not just by Gela who loved him dearly but by all of us who got to know him. May God bless his soul and may he rest in peace. Cora Custodio
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