Semana Santa 2011

"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)

"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" (Matthew 27:46) 

 As we remember Christ's passion, may we be touched by His heart full of forgiveness, love for mankind and God.

The Ghost from the Past

All these years I've been trying to protect myself from the only thing that scares me the most, YOU.

For the first time...

I ignored my doubts hoping you were the one for me.

For the first time...

I cared.

For the first time...

I took the risk to fall completely for you.

 For the first time...

I felt the pain I was trying to avoid for years.

For the first time,

I thanked a guy who broke my heart.


You are now a ghost from the past. 

An Early Morning Reflection

It's a sad truth that here in the Philippines only a few have access to e-learning resources. What's worse is that not everybody knows what e-learning is. 

Good thing someone heard and felt the need and actually came up with this wonderful website where teachers, students and even parents can learn together! CE-Learning is the online portal to C&E’s pool of e-learning resources. Learn more about the site through this link. 

Another online project hosted by C&E is the Philippine E-Journals (PEJ), an expanding collection of academic journals that are made accessible globally through a single Web-based platform. PEJ serves as an avenue for local journal publishers to get noticed by both local and foreign researchers, students and researchers. 

The ever-growing need for quality education has now reached the World Wide Web. At this point, all we need is access to these online resources. I bet the government can provide this kind of service to schools around the Philippines, especially to those in the rural areas.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon's "The Shadow of the Wind"

It has been my tradition to list quotable quotes from a book I recently finished. Last time, it was Amy Tan's "Saving Fish from Drowning." Now, allow me to share to you some words of wisdom from one of the brilliant writers I know. Get to know him more here.


"In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice."


"That sorry specimen is nothing but a corrupt pedant. A fascist buttock-polisher."


"Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true."


"She used to say she wanted to be an author and write encyclopaedias and treatises on history and philosophy. Her mother said it was all my fault. She said that Nuria adored me and because she thought her father loved only books, she wanted to write books to make her father love her."


"There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse."


"'Making money isn't hard in itself,' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting you life to.'"


"Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war, Daniel. We all remain silent and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and others, is an illusion, a nightmare that will pass. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what really happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour everything they left behind."


"Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either. Hope is cruel, and has no conscience."


"...the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day."


"Television, my dear Daniel, is the Antichrist, and I can assure you that after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own. Humans will return to living in caves, to medieval savagery, and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say- it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that."

Making History on a Saturday

 

We all made history with Hyundai on Saturday as they celebrated their 10th anniversary in the Philippines. 

• Running for a cause felt a lot better than just running for fitness
• Getting to the the finish line was merely a bonus
• Running with friends = Splendid!

The Chris Sharma Fans Club

To be honest, it was just when we started wall climbing last Sunday when we came across the name Chris Sharma.According to articles I read online, Chris Sharma is the world's best climber. Curiosity got me and I watched his videos. I was speechless. Climbing, swinging from one rock to another, falling and climbing back up. Chris Sharma is, undoubtedly, one of the greatest climbers. 

I personally don't wish to become like him. I have just learned to like wall climbing and I still have too many walls and rocks to climb. What matters is I get to experience this adventure-filled part of my life with friends. 

Windsor's Voice

Realization: A struggle between the monarchy and speech defect; how a king faced embarrassment and met a friend he'd be forever grateful for can be worthy of an Oscar. Heart breaking at the beginning yet ended with so much grace. There was absolutely no room for shame. 


It was truly remarkable for a man of great stature, possessed such great power, faced his own flaws with dignity still intact. Embarrassed as expected but was persuasive. Like a valiant soldier who fears no guns, canyons, bombs, and even death, King George VI, afraid to hear his own voice continued to search within and victoriously ended what was like a war within his own soul. Inspiring. 


A must-see movie. I heard the audiobook is a must-try as well.