His passion for automobiles started when he saw the movie “Car” when he was a year and a half years old. At the age of 3 he already knows all car brands from Japanese, American, European and other luxury cars through their logos. I remember every time he’d have a new magazine he would scan it and ask me what that car is, almost everyday every time we are in our bed. I also remember buying him American Car Buyer’s Guide Magazine which features almost all the cars in the world. It would take tons of patience when a very curious little kid will ask, I remind myself when I’d get irritated because I couldn’t take some nap because he will always ask me about every featured car in every pages.

He was able to obtain the 2007 C! Buyer’s Guide Magazine which featured all cars in the Philippines. He has a collection of Hot Wheels Matchbox, Tomica die cast car and even Miasto. He has The Cars books, those containing Cars’ characters, Mugs, Pillow, and calendar of Lightning McQueen which her aunt Danet bought him from the States. And if you are to make him choose between going to a children’s playground or a car exhibit, he will choose to go the car exhibit. Even if we are in a bookstore he will seek the Automobiles section rather that children books.

At the age of three, Kyle was featured in the August 2007 Edition of Top Gear Philippines’ Letter of the Month.

I am one of the creatures who have lived the era of “turntables” and “cassettes” (but only because I got indoctrinated to Music at 3 years of age, ha!). I remember the inconvenience of having my favorite hard-to-fine songs recorded from the FM radio playing “oldies but goodies” stuff. This crude way enabled me to be lucky enough to catch them via my cassette recorder (knowing when the DJ would stop talking was a must wayback then!)

One of the great innovations I’m super thankful for today is YouTube. I surprisingly am able to listen to my long lost favorite songs that I otherwise wouldn’t be able to find in offline music stores in this day and age. Although the performers/versions available in YouTube are not necessarily who or what I prefer, to me something is better than nothing. You will also note that a lot of these were compositions of those I consider best writers and composers of all time.

For those who take curiosity in what hard-to-find songs I’d really, really love to listen to over and over again, here’s a rundown in alphabetical order:

A Day in a Life of a Fool (Best version by Frank Sinatra)
Moment by Moment (Sung by Yvonne Elliman)
Nice to be around (Composed and Sung by Paul Williams)
Solitary Moon (Sung by Shirley Horn)
The World We Knew (Best version by Frank Sinatra)
Theme from Cinema Paradiso (Composed by Ennio Morricone)
Times of Your Life (Composed and Sung by Paul Anka)
Wanting Things (Composed by Burt Bacharach)
You and Me We Wanted It All (Best version by Frank Sinatra)

More to come…..