Marietta sabong biography books

by Augusto M R Gonzalez III (Toto Gonzalez)

They make an interesting study, the families of Old Binan, Laguna.  In most places, “old family” connotes an attenuated, if not completely dissipated, fortune.  True, the Old Binan families have had their economic vicissitudes like all the other old Filipino families, but as a whole, they are amazing because their old agricultural fortunes luckily, gradually, and smoothly transformed to urban real estate fortunes and other consistently lucrative holdings.  In other words, they are “still up there”… One actually wonders if the “feng shui” of Binan, for hundreds of years traditionally a Chinese enclave, has anything to do with it.

From the Spanish era all the way to the present, Binan, Laguna has always been the center of economic activity south of Manila.  It has only been in recent years that neighboring Santa Rosa, with all its fortuitous new developments, has come to challenge Binan’s l