HE WAS practically an overnight sensation. One week he’s being interviewed for two different publication at the same time that he’s being groomed for pictorials to promote the M.R collection and the Manila Peninsula Hotel.
A couple of days later, he’s on late night TV, where they arrange a date for him with a popular actress right on the air.
The week after, he’s walking the ramp with some of the best professional male models in the country, the centre of attention at the end of the fashion show and sent launch as he lofts overhead a foot-high bottle of Wings by Giorgio, with the same reverence as ahard-earned trophy (a portrent pf thins to come?).
It might be easy to dismiss David Bunevacz, 26, as one big promotional package, but those who know him well (or think that they do) say that there is a side that truly cares about the progress of athletics in the Philippines,
The entire point of my interview with him was to write the definitive article on the man behind the much talked-about muscle. And I did my darndest.
Oh sure, I listened closely and wrote down everything he said, word for word. I went out of my way to notice expressions and nuances in the conversation and wondered if I should interpret them as meaningful and telling of the character within. I became suspicious about topics that were emphasized and issues that remained vague and unanswered.
Instead of going through.
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two together and come up with generalizations and conclusions that could have been racked up to “journalistic license”, and intriguing as that would have been to readers, it probably would have been complete fiction
First things that came to mind when I first heard about the Bunevacz brouhaha were whole lot of questions on who he was, where he came from and mainly, what was he doing before the momentous decisions to renounce his US citizenship to represent the Philippines in international competition.
As I piece together the data I’ve gathered on David’s history, bear with me a bit because though I tried very
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focusing on who David is now, right this minute, today. For me, though, the entire issue is: who he was and why he’s here. Let’s start with the who.
In a nutshell: David’s birthplace was Torrance, California. His parents are Joseph Bunevacz, a Hungarian-American and Filomena Ismaela, a Filipina from La Union.
Born on December 20, 1968, he is a Sagittarian, right on the cusp before Capricorn. He thinks pretty typical of his sign independence optimism, and love for travel being among the main attributes of Centaur.
He describes himself as always being a leader, even as a kid while he “never tolerated bullies pushing around smaller kids.” He probably picked up this habit from when he used to play practical jokes on his kid sister and she would “tell grandma, and grandma would beat me up.”
His father is a track and field coach under whom David trained when he was younger. But he says that though his Dad was a strict coach, he was not as strict as the couches he had when he trained at UCLA.
David says that it’s not difficult for him to transplant his loyalties and think of the Philippines as his new home because he never stay long enough in any one place in the US to become attached.
At one time he was living in Hawaii, where he gained six inches in height; another time he was in Reno, Nevada, where he learned to love snow-skiing and wanted to become a professional skier; in 1987, he was
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