Regaining my Philippine Citizenship

Me, pledging to Consulate General, Noel Servigon, at the Philippine Embassy, in Abu Dhabi (February 2008)

Ahead of my trip to the Philippines in March 2008, I officially regained my Philippine citizenship.

Throughout most of my life in the US, I hardly thought about it.  My family and I arrived in Chicago in 1968, and became US citizens at the earliest possible opportunity in 1973.  I remember, albeit vaguely, studying (acing) the constitution and gaining our citizenship.  

I had my old Philippine passport as a boy, but had no notion whatsoever that it had expired. So when I regained it, I was thrilled.