By Ramon Tulfo
Inquirer
Last updated 03:12am (Mla time) 11/02/2006
Published on Page A18 of the November 2, 2006 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer
ADEL Domencil, a manicurist at Bruno?s Barbers on Julia Vargas St., Ortigas Complex, Pasig City, received a missed call from retired Gen. Cesar Nazareno at 11 a.m. on Tuesday.
Nazareno was a regular customer at Bruno?s and Domencil used to give the former chief of the Philippine National Police (PNP) a manicure while he was having a haircut.
When Domencil called Nazareno?s number, there was no answer. She was expecting her regular customer that day as he had made a prior appointment with her.
In fact, Domencil said, the retired general, a very jolly man in retirement but who was a strict disciplinarian when he was still in the service, had called from Zamboanga City two days before to make the appointment.
Nazareno was still every inch a general even when he was already a civilian.
He didn?t want to wait while his barber and manicurist were attending to other customers. That?s why he would call days in advance to say that he was coming.
I was at Bruno?s Tuesday early afternoon for my haircut. Domencil was doing my nails.
She said she was surprised Nazareno didn?t show up for his appointment. He always came on time for his appointment, she added.
When I told her that Nazareno couldn?t come as he had died the previous day, Monday, Oct. 30, she was dumbfounded.
?Sir, huwag kayong magbiro dahil nakatanggap lang ako kanina ng dalawang missed call sa kanya (Don?t kid me because I got two missed calls from him a while ago),? Domencil said.
She then showed me two missed calls registered on her cell phone from Gen. Nazareno.
Nazareno died of an aneurysm at the Medical City on Monday.
The ?missed calls? that Domencil received on Tuesday was a way of telling her that he couldn?t make it to his appointment.
To paraphrase Shakespeare: Yes, Adel Domencil, there are many things in this world that cannot be explained.
How can you explain the piano playing by itself at the National Press Club bar many years ago in full view of astonished newsmen, who were hanging out there at that time?
Minda (I forget her family name) was the regular pianist at the NPC bar and restaurant.
She performed every night almost without fail for many years to journalists who drank beer or sipped gin tonic before going home.
One day, we found out that Minda had died.
A few days after she was buried, the piano she had used for many years played all by itself.
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Several years ago, I sent my cameraman for ?Isumbong mo kay Tulfo? TV show to take shots of tombs in the South Cemetery for our Halloween presentation that fell on a Saturday. Saturday was the showing of the defunct ?Isumbong.?
While the cameraman was taking shots of the tombs of children, several figures that appeared to be that of youngsters passed in front of the camera.
The figures were transparent, meaning the camera could see through them. The camera caught them romping around.
The cameraman got scared and ran away.
?Isumbong? was able to show the moving figures of children in that Halloween presentation.
If those figures were not ghosts, then what were they?
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