My dad was telling all sorts of crazy stories at the breakfast table
earlier. It’s a good thing my mom reminded me to run and grab a
recorder. I caught some of the stories on video! =) He’s an awesome
storyteller, and he has such adventures.

He started by talking about the photography school my sister is
thinking of attending next year. The school is expensive, and they
don’t really teach anything my dad doesn’t already do. Then again,
he’s done everything—from aerial to underwater, from cars to fashion,
and even sports and photojournalism as well. He refuses to be niched,
and he loves breaking ground.

He regaled us with stories of his adventures, like the time that he
was shooting a ship. They gave him coordinates, and he looked them up
on Google Maps. He realized that he wouldn’t be able to get a good
shot because his fixed-wing plane would interfere with the flight path
at the nearby airport. He called the ship on his cellphone and gave
them new coordinates, spelling out a plan that would ensure the kind
of shot the client wanted. At 1000H they would be at the coordinates
he gave. They would keep their bearing for five minutes, then turn
toward the sun. They would execute a wide circle and then continue on
their journey. Impressed, the captain agreed, and everything went
exactly according to plan. Result? A head-on shot of the ship that was
so well lined up that it seemed to have been taken from a helicopter
and not from a fixed-wing plane.

My dad’s the kind of person who can move things to fit his vision, and
for whom things also just fall into place. He told us about
hitchhiking in Albay and how things kept happening for him. I managed
to record that, so I might put it up on YouTube soon. =)

He can do anything he wants to, because he wants to. The strength and
clarity of that desire could be part of the reason why people help him
make things happen. My mom wrote to airport managers and mayors,
arranged accommodation and fuel, organized exhibits—all because my
dad had a dream.

My dad can make things happen, and things happen for him. I have that
nature of my dad’s. I haven’t developed something more like my mom’s,
though. She’s more methodical and pays more attention to detail. In
the MBTI personality inventory thing, I think she would be an S-type
(Sensing), and my dad and I are firmly Ns (Intuitive). It would be
good for me to develop a little of that, but I don’t have to do
everything on my own, just as my dad works with others to make things
happen. =)

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