Much to my own regret and inconvenience, I have gotten the bad habit of sleeping late almost every night.  I guess I don’t unwind easily.  I couldn’t go to bed without doing anything special or outside routine to end the day.  Last night wasn’t very much an exception, so I decided to call it a […]

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Update: This has been extensively forwarded via e-mail as an article supposedly written by Ateneo de Manila University Professor Eduardo Calasanz.  However, it turns out that the article is a chapter from a book, as Prof. Calasanz himself has clarified.  Let me thank our reader Czari for bringing this to my attention.  The details of […]

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We are only human after all, and we lose energy and motivation from time to time. We momentarily lose our drive to work with passion. We lose of zest for the many good things that life has to offer.
Speaking from experience, nothing beats the power of prayer — the power of faith. […]

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Yesterday marked the dedication and first birthday of my nephew, Adrian.  She’s my older sister’s son, my first immediate nephew, and the first grandchild in the family.   He was born in Michigan, where my sister and brother-in-law have been based since 2004.
 Aside from the very reason of the celebration itself, yesterday’s affair brought together many relatives […]

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I was in seventh grade when I had had the great privilege of seeing Pope John Paul II himself in person.
It was of course the World Youth Day Celebration in Manila back in 1995.  I was blessed to have been part of the Church choir, which sang for his last mass at the Quirino Grandstand […]

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Traffic and euphoria at bus stations, seaports and airports aside, it really now is turning out to be a slow, calming, Holy Week.  If there’s one mundane thing I very much look forward on Good Friday, it’s the sight of virtually empty roads in the Metropolis and that annual, simultaneous personal wish that road conditions in […]

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I’m back from my month-long vacation!  Back to reality, ika nga, which includes being a Filipino during these said to be trying times.
Still, I would again like to take this opportunity to thank many relatives and friends in the US for giving me a most memorable month:
Tito Dennis, Tita Kit, JR, Kevin, and Katrina Sadang
Lolo Senyong, […]

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