Ikinuwento ni Luis ang buong detalye kung paano niya nadiskubre at ipinaalam sa kanyang pamilya ang natatanging talento na mayroon siya.
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00:00 Luis, how old were you when you were diagnosed with cancer?
00:03 I was still young, I can't remember.
00:06 But what Dr. Meses told me when he looked into my eyes,
00:13 his inner part was already damaged.
00:18 His eyeball was already damaged.
00:21 He was no longer functioning.
00:24 But, wait a minute.
00:27 Is this congenital? Were you born blind?
00:30 Yes, since birth.
00:32 That's why you were born blind.
00:34 So, you don't remember seeing anything when you were young.
00:40 Do you remember any images in your memory?
00:45 The cancer didn't come out anymore.
00:47 The doctor said that it was impossible.
00:50 There was a second chance that it was impossible.
00:54 But you had a vision. You had a vision when you were young.
00:59 I was just a little boy. I couldn't see.
01:04 You couldn't develop your eyesight.
01:07 I couldn't see. I couldn't see.
01:12 Is it true that you grew up without knowing who your real mother was?
01:17 Yes, it's true.
01:18 But, wait a minute.
01:19 How did it happen that you were with your real mother at home,
01:24 but you didn't know that she was your real mother?
01:28 Is there such a thing?
01:29 There is such a thing.
01:31 My mother told me that she was my real mother.
01:44 Wait, you have a mother. Your mother is Sean.
01:47 She's the one who adopted me.
01:51 And there's another one?
01:53 My mother, Paula, she told me that she was my real mother.
02:00 So, you grew up with your mother, Sean.
02:03 Yes.
02:04 And she told you that she was your real mother.
02:07 Yes.
02:08 But, in reality, Paula is your real mother.
02:12 She was with you at home.
02:14 Yes.
02:15 But, how was it?
02:17 How old were you when you found out that Paula was your real mother?
02:22 I was a bit older then.
02:25 You were a bit older.
02:26 A bit.
02:27 Because that's where my mother, Paula, worked.
02:31 My mother, Paula, worked at our house.
02:34 Yes.
02:35 My mother and father had a business back then.
02:38 Yes.
02:39 They were in the rubber industry.
02:42 Yes.
02:43 They were in the rubber products.
02:45 Yes.
02:46 And they hired Paula as their manager.
02:48 Yes.
02:49 You were actually her real mother.
02:51 Yes.
02:52 But, you don't remember that when you grew up, you had a hunch that Paula was your real mother.
02:58 No, I didn't.
02:59 I just introduced her as my real mother.
03:02 Really?
03:03 Yes.
03:04 How was it when you were treated as your real mother?
03:07 Yes.
03:08 And you have children, right?
03:11 Yes, I have.
03:12 How many children do you have?
03:14 How many?
03:15 I have a son.
03:17 How many children do you have?
03:19 Seven.
03:20 You have a lot of children, right?
03:22 Yes.
03:23 I have eight children.
03:24 You have eight children?
03:25 You're the only son.
03:26 Yes.
03:27 Did they accept you?
03:28 Even your siblings?
03:29 They accepted me.
03:30 When I first came here, I was still in a car.
03:37 You were still in Hatid Sundo.
03:39 Yes, Hatid Sundo.
03:40 And you have a grandmother.
03:42 Yes, I have a grandmother.
03:43 But, did they accept you as their real mother?
03:47 Yes, they accepted me.
03:49 But, you're a burden to your family if you're a real mother.
03:53 No, I'm not.
03:54 No?
03:55 You weren't raised like that?
03:56 No.
03:57 Your mother is really good.
03:58 Yes.
03:59 You were a real mother since you were a child.
04:02 Yes.
04:03 How did it happen, Luis?
04:05 You were only five years old when you started playing the piano for whole pieces.
04:12 I don't know how it happened.
04:14 I just did it.
04:15 Yes, you were only five years old when you started playing the piano.
04:20 You just sat down on the piano and you started playing "Raindrops Keep Falling On Your Head."
04:27 Yes.
04:28 For whole pieces?
04:29 Yes.
04:30 You didn't have anyone to teach you?
04:31 No, I didn't.
04:32 Oh, my! How did it happen?
04:36 What happened was, my melody was played by my right hand.
04:44 Okay.
04:45 My left hand was playing the accompaniment.
04:51 Yes.
04:52 What do you mean by that?
04:54 It's easy to do that.
04:56 I don't know how I did it.
04:59 I just did it.
05:01 Yes, even your mother was wondering how you did it.
05:05 It was at night.
05:06 Do you remember?
05:07 Yes.
05:08 What happened next?
05:09 If you remember, Auntie Mil, the day's cursillo.
05:12 Yes, I remember that.
05:14 I also did the cursillo.
05:15 I heard the "De Colores" from our fathers.
05:22 "De Colores."
05:23 Yes.
05:24 I said, "Mother, can I play it?"
05:29 She said, "Go to sleep.
05:31 You can play it tomorrow."
05:33 It was already night.
05:34 I insisted on going downstairs.
05:36 I said, "I'll just try."
05:38 I was able to play it.
05:40 My mother told me, my siblings told me,
05:43 "Maybe you need to be taught in your private tutor first."
05:49 So that's what made your mother believe that you needed to be taught by a very good tutor.
05:57 In my private tutor.
06:00 Yes, in your private tutor.
06:01 So that means you went to your house.
06:04 Yes, to my house.
06:05 Okay.
06:06 And you, you know, when I was little, my parents also taught me.
06:11 But when the teacher came, I would run away.
06:14 I didn't want to.
06:15 Were you like that when you were a child?
06:19 Or were you really open to the fact that you would learn to play the piano and you would be taught?
06:25 I was open to it.
06:26 You really wanted to learn?
06:28 Yes.
06:29 Oh, I see.
06:30 Because when I was little, we were just outside the house.
06:34 Just me.
06:35 I was just playing there and the kids were knocking on my door.
06:39 My father told me, "Come in."
06:43 I said, "Dad, what's this? Piano?"
06:49 "I'll just try it. I'll just see if it makes a sound."
06:54 He said, "You don't know how to play it."
06:57 My father told me, "Let's just try it."
07:00 They heard it and my father said, "Okay, we'll teach you."
07:06 So, your father knew that you were really interested.
07:12 Yes.
07:13 How did you meet Mabel, your first wife?
07:19 I was teaching back then.
07:21 Teaching?
07:22 Piano.
07:23 You were teaching piano?
07:25 I was around 10 or 11 years old.
07:30 You were teaching?
07:31 Yes, to the kids and to my peers.
07:37 Oh, okay.
07:38 To the PWDs as well.
07:40 Yes.
07:41 Where is Mabel now?
07:42 How did you meet Mabel back then?
07:45 She was also a secretary there.
07:48 She was a secretary in my teaching.
07:52 Oh, a secretary in your teaching.
07:54 How can you describe Mabel as a lover?
07:59 She was okay at first.
08:02 Okay at first?
08:03 Yes.
08:04 What does "okay" mean?
08:05 She was kind?
08:06 She was kind and fat.
08:09 Fat?
08:10 No, she was fat.
08:13 Okay, fat.
08:14 She was okay.
08:15 She was a bit of a flirt.
08:21 Then, when I started to see her, that's when I started to get to know her.
08:29 Oh, what do you mean by that?
08:33 Why did her attitude change?
08:34 Did her true attitude come out?
08:36 Yes, her true attitude came out.
08:38 She was a mother to her siblings.
08:40 So?
08:41 Her true attitude came out.
08:46 What? What did her true attitude come out?
08:48 She asked me how much I earn.
08:53 I said, "It's okay."
08:58 So, she was interested in your earnings.
09:02 In simple words, yes.
09:05 Because she had four siblings.
09:07 She was the eldest.
09:10 I told her, "You're the eldest, you should be the one to support your three siblings, not me."
09:27 So, what she did to you was she lied to you?
09:30 Yes, she lied to me.
09:31 She took your earnings?
09:32 Yes.
09:34 Why did you give it to her?
09:36 I didn't know about it. It was in my wallet.
09:40 I didn't have any money in my wallet.
09:41 Oh, you're being stingy.
09:43 Yes.
09:44 You're being stingy with your wallet.
09:46 Yes.
09:47 What if you confront her?
09:50 She gets angry.
09:53 She gets angry?
09:54 Yes.
09:55 Mrs. Marie Josef.
09:56 But why did you think of giving it to Mabel and leave what you gave to your parents?
10:02 Maybe it was out of love.
10:07 Oh, so you were really fooled.
10:10 Yes.
10:11 You were really fooled.
10:12 Yes.
10:13 It was just a joke.
10:15 It's okay.
10:16 What was their reaction?
10:20 I confronted them.
10:23 Who? Your siblings?
10:24 My siblings.
10:25 I said, "Kuya, why don't we just bring this to the best lawyer so that we can bargain."
10:39 We bargained first, not to bribe.
10:42 Who? Mabel?
10:43 We bargained.
10:44 We bargained.
10:45 With who?
10:46 Yes.
10:47 Then, Kuya said, "I don't think we'll bribe."
10:50 I said, "Let's bring it to the best lawyer so that we can bargain."
10:55 Ah.
10:56 So, in other words, you went legal.
11:00 Yes.
11:01 You didn't go to court.
11:02 Because if not, nothing would have happened.
11:06 Oh, really?
11:07 Yes.
11:08 Wait a minute.
11:09 Did you marry Mabel?
11:11 We were together for 15 years.
11:13 You were together for 15 years, but did you get married?
11:17 No.
11:18 I didn't see our marriage contract.
11:20 You didn't see it?
11:21 I think it was invalid.
11:24 At what point in your relationship with Mabel did you really give up?
11:31 I was left on the street.
11:32 Huh?
11:33 I was left on the street.
11:34 I came from work.
11:35 Seriously?
11:36 You were left on the street?
11:38 It was around 12 or 1 in the evening.
11:41 Oh, my.
11:42 Why were you left on the street?
11:44 Well, she couldn't get anything.
11:49 She said, "I don't want to do this anymore."
11:51 Oh.
11:52 I said, "Let's talk about this tomorrow."
11:57 I said, "Don't leave me here on the street.
11:59 What if there are big buses?"
12:02 Yes.
12:03 I walked there.
12:04 I was walking on the street.
12:07 Oh.
12:08 Then she saw me and said, "You rest here first.
12:15 You sleep here first.
12:16 Tomorrow, we'll talk here with the owner of the bar.
12:20 We'll do what you want to do."
12:25 That's what she said to me.
12:27 Why did you come from the bar?
12:29 You came from the bar?
12:30 Yes, I came from the bar.
12:31 She was asking you to come from the bar.
12:33 Yes, she was asking me to come home.
12:34 You came from the bar.
12:35 You came home.
12:36 You left your wife on the street.
12:39 Yes, on the street.
12:40 How did you come back from the bar?
12:42 She's gone.
12:43 No one will ask you anymore.
12:44 I'm alone.
12:45 You're still a child.
12:46 You're still a child.
12:47 I have a duty.
12:49 Yes, you have a duty.
12:50 Yes.
12:51 Oh, my God, Joseph.
12:52 What was the cause of the death of your mother, Sion?
12:57 My mother had pneumonia.
12:59 Pneumonia.
13:00 Her father had the same disease.
13:04 They had the same disease.
13:06 Didn't you regret leaving your wife?
13:09 No, I didn't.
13:10 You didn't leave your wife.
13:11 No, I didn't.
13:12 Even if that happened to your mother?
13:15 No, because I had a good life with my mother.
13:18 Yes.
13:19 Actually, it was her birthday next month, December 8.
13:24 It was her birthday?
13:25 Yes.
13:26 So, until now, you still remember your mother's birthday.
13:30 I remember that, Auntie Mel.
13:34 When I was playing, I had a tip box.
13:40 I put some tips in the tip box.
13:43 Yes, tip box.
13:45 I was holding it like that.
13:47 I was holding it, and it suddenly broke.
13:51 Oh.
13:52 I said, "Mom, is that you?"
13:59 It didn't break.
14:02 The next day, I played again.
14:05 It broke again.
14:06 I said, "Mom, stop joking.
14:09 I'll play what you want."
14:12 When I brought another tip box, it didn't break.
14:18 It didn't.
14:19 You played her favorite.
14:21 It didn't break.
14:22 Do you remember what her favorite was?
14:24 The one you played.
14:26 Yes.
14:27 What was it?
14:28 Classical music.
14:30 She liked classical music and contemporary music.
14:35 She liked them.
14:36 Ah.
14:38 Classical music is different from operatic music.
14:40 Yes.
14:41 Classical music is different.
14:42 Yes.
14:43 What are the examples of classical music that you play?
14:46 "Dream of Love" by Liberstrom by Beethoven.
14:49 Oh.
14:50 [Laughs]
14:52 It's so heavy.
14:54 She wanted it.
14:56 It's heavy.
14:57 She's requesting.
14:58 Your mother is also good at music.
15:01 Maybe that's why you're so good at it.
15:04 Wait, Luis.
15:05 What is the most important lesson you would share to those who are watching your life story?
15:14 Don't give up.
15:17 Don't lose hope.
15:22 Fight for what talent you were given.
15:27 Use it.
15:28 Ah.
15:30 But you, are you ready to fall in love again?
15:34 If it's possible, Auntie Mel.
15:36 If it's possible.
15:37 Do you want to have a family?
15:40 I won't deceive myself.
15:42 You won't deceive yourself.
15:43 You will love yourself.
15:44 Yes.
15:45 Whatever she saw in me, I want her to be the same when the day comes.
15:51 Ah.
15:52 At this point, Luis, thank you so much for sharing your beautiful life story with us.
16:02 And of course, you will always be blessed with a beautiful life.
16:09 And you will find the real woman to love.
16:15 Thank you for inviting me, Auntie Mel.
16:17 Thank you.
16:18 You're welcome.
16:19 Thank you very much, Luis.
16:20 Thank you.
16:22 Ami Salamat.