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Money Summit 2011: Passion and Vince Golangco

Make A Splash

Make A Splash

The really successful people are the ones who follow their passion.

Take Vince Golangco, for one.

He loved to travel and would go into the craziest places and do the craziest things – true to his adage – living life to the fullest.  But then WhenInManila.com happened, which was a documentary of his personal experiences through videos and the written word, and people started offering him money so he can travel and experience the cool stuff more, which is, more or less, mind blowing to the once big dork who did not know what he wanted to do in life (still a dork, but now with a slightly better clue).

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Passion, Schonberg and Miss Saigon

By D: Hanging By CMS' Bedroom

By D: Hanging By CMS' Bedroom

He was captivated by a single photo where the mother, with pain palpable on her face, was saying her last goodbyes to her bui-doi. It was but a single picture, of emotions caught on a flash, that immortalized her and fired-up the imagination of one French and the world of musical theatre. His name is Claude Michel Schonberg.

My first memory of Schonberg was of him playing the piano. He was with Lea Salonga, while she tried out the strains, in her melodious voice, of Sun and Moon. They were on TV as Saigon specials were aired every day. Every little girl at that time wanted to be Lea Salonga. From obscurity (in the global sense), Schonberg brought the Philippines and Lea to the forefront of musical history.

My last memory of him was of one Sunday afternoon, four years ago. He was sitting across from me, while strings were playing and the Sofitel dessert tempted us from the distance.

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