Tommorow might not come, by then it will be to late

Francis speaks on May 20, 2009 0045 Hours.

Later we are going to debate a matter of Transcendental National Importance. LIBRT Naturalized Citizens should be eligible for all elective offices. Wow this is SOOO important to the nation. Come one people as if anyone would actually elect a naturalized Filipino even if they wanted to.

This is a country where knee-jerk nationalism is the name of the game. We beat our breasts in indigations when the Greek-English dictionary defined Filipina as Domestic helper. Yet we, as a people, are responsible for creating the conditions that force our people to become overseas Filipino workers. We scoff at those who speak in English, we brand them conyo and accuse them of colonial mentality. Then we are appalled that barristers flunk becuase of poor english comprehension. We turn a blind eye on the fact that one of our fastests growing industries in Manila is the so-called "Last Minute Coaching" for Nursing board exam takers. Have we forgotten that most of those Nurse aspirants will take those exams with dreams of nursing Americans, Canadians or Europeans?

I expect that people will applaud hollow paens to Nationalism and at the same time ignore the true spirit behind it. To be Nationalistic is to advocate the fulfillment of your Nation. To be Nationalistic is the burdened right of EVERY Filipino.

I should stop before I recite the Panatang Makabayan :))

This debate will be forced communication.

This debate will be the first step in the rough road that leads to the Stars. (Ad Astra Per Aspera)In altum vola the second time around (hopefully).

Be that as it may, Hayz, Ervin and I are tasked with advocating this motion.

We can not always choose who or what we must advocate. But we can always choose how zealously we advocate.

I am appealing to the Arellano Community to please pray for us. I know you all expect much of us. Know that we will do our uttermost to fulfill ur expectations. [And hopefully win ;)]

Whatever happens later is God's Will.

All I can hope for is that my deeds tommorow will be for
His greater glory.


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Desires

A wise woman once told me that the key to contentment in life is to stoping wanting. The more you want the more you are frustrated when you can't have what you want. After all, the old adage 'You can't have everything' applies to me as much as the next guy. In other words, one of the lynchpins of happiness is to desire only what you can realisitically have.

THEN WHY THE HELL DO I STLL WANT THE IMPOSSIBLE? Why do I covet what can never be mine?

Oh I know! I can blame my family for imposing utterly unreasonable expectations on me. and believe me this particular expecation was WAY unreasonable from the start. I'm not the only one whose's heartbroken over this.

I can blame facebook for messing up a very important aspect of my life (that I can keep my different worlds seperate). Today two parts of my life came crashing together in a most undesirable way. After today my life will never be the same again. I hope the one who caused it is very, very, very happy. But I forgive her, she does not yet realize the harm she caused.

I can also blame myself, because of late I've been very, very frustrated...

But It's alright, It's OK. I'm so much better _______ ___ :D

The last few days

Over the last few days, I've met the people who have defined the last ten years of my life. Its almost amazing how different those stages of my life had been. Maybe I really am a doppelganger like I always claimed.

For starters, my first trip of the day was to visit my old haunts in Katipunan. A couple of old friends were invited to my sister's birthday party. Well that was interesting, Facebook makes connecting to people easier than ever. Since they haven't been to my place in years I was dragooned into shepherding them to La Loma. Regrettably prior appointments got in the way and I wound up being a delivery guy instead of a shepherd. Still seeing them is always good a remind of my Loyola School days.

As a result I was running around Greenhills with a pink balloon and more bags than I had arms. April, who I met for the first time, must have gotten a very weird impression of me. In my defense I was totally stressed out in um, hostile territory, plus I was having an insane time since that was the first time that my old High School barkada had been infiltrated by a foreign element. Well... as of press time my friends are in their respective happy places. Lance is showing his true grit and Chinese smarts being all bussinessdude-like back in his home province. Paolo is doing well too. Heck I'm not doing so bad either. Even Mia has a nice cushy job. Is it just me or did we all actually improve with age?

We definitely have gone a long way from our geeky HS pursuits. We still have fond memories of those days and frankly we'd love to dive back into our old lives but reality dictates that we had to move on. Still we managed to set a boys night out. Daym, do I have to wear my glasses to complete my look?

On Monday I'm meeting someone to discuss a matter of transcendental national importance, a matter that for better or worse will begin to resolve itself on May 20. I hope she had a lot of rest where she came from because she's in for a firestorm. That's right people, Hayz is back and she's on the ANC team :) . Plus we have a couple of 'lesser' competitions coming up in the next couple of months.

SCeeing - (v.) hanging out in the SC office pretty much the whole day. I've been doing that a lot lately. Well things are moving at the SC about as well as can be expected. We are becoming regular fixtures in that little room but then that's to be expected because ahem, you already know why. Our little Starbucks club has really gone a long way... in more ways that one. However, political success apparently comes at the exclusion of other forms of fulfillment. Although I'm just speaking for myself.

At the end of this day I go to bed and wonder how I should feel. Co'z, the last ten years of my life just flashed in front of me and I can't believe those years were lived by the same person. Plus I’ve got something on my plate that is altogether overwhelming…