 When asked in a "Manila Bulletin" interview in 2009, he shared that he had spent most of his education in Batangas, and since DLSU had no uniforms, he "wore all the "badúy" [unfashionable] type of shirts", as he put it, using the Tagalog word for "unfashionable", while most of his classmates were from elite high schools.Thus he says "I supposed [they] laughed at me.