The first painting Manny Pangilinan ever bought for himself was a harvest scene. It was in the early 80s and he was based in Hong Kong at the time, but he purchased it on a visit to Manila. “It attracted me because harvesting is supposed to bring luck, and it was a very nice painting. I think it was by an artist named Rodriguez. I bought it for 15 thousand pesos and brought it back with me to Hong Kong where it hung in my room at First Pacific for a very long time,” says Pangilinan, chief executive of Hong Kong-listed First Pacific, as well as chairman and president of Metro Pacific Investments, among others. Pangilinan says he brought the painting with him when he moved back to the Philippines in 1999, and now it hangs in the waiting area of his PLDT office. “It’s one of my more treasured..
