Six Saturdays of Beyblade and Other Essays

Quinabuangan and the glorious marching band.. Cembo Makati and the burning Ship.. Baclaran Manila at night for the lost and homeless.. In these ten personal essays a father confesses in gripping narratives his coming of age without a father of working at an early age of finding love in hopeless places of losing a son to leukemia and of accepting the language of pain. In Six Saturdays of Beyblade and Other Essays bestselling author Ferdinand Pisigan Jarin brings us back to memories of being a tennis ball picker in a lavish country club of achieving his dreams as the smallest member of a countryside marching band and of drinking Michael Jordan and Olajuwon as breakfast juice inside a walk-in freezer with fellow service crew members. He also introduces us to his exes and lost first loves. He lends us a list of his fist fights those he knocked down during drinking sessions or brawls his antics in the field of love and the truth behind escaping the convent. Sometimes he is a son sometimes a father and sometimes a friend who vividly shares without beating around the bush. Written with a cinematic eye Jarin bares it all fair and square no more or less. Most of all no entrance fee.