January 2010
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“God long ago drew a circle in the sand exactly around the spot where you are...”
– Sufi poem (as relayed by Liz Gilbert, “Eat Pray Love”)
“Not all who wander are lost.”
“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in...”
– Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides (via thechocolatebrigade) (via iampoetry) (via badingangbato)
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History of Doctors Without Borders in Haiti →
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Though its own facilities were severely damaged by the massive earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) field staff is establishing temporary clinics in order to treat injured men, women, and children. MSF was able to respond immediately because international and national staff had already been running several...
Excerpt from "Trust," by Lito Banayo
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(Trust, by Lito Bayano, Malaya, January 14, 2010)
But something worse has happened in the almost ten years that Gloria’s misrule and excessive betrayal of the public trust has been suffered. The institutions of governance and democracy have been damaged, and it would take purposive, decisive, concerted and even revolutionary steps by the next leadership to repair these institutions back...
“It’s wasted effort to steep the young in virtue and morality only to let them...”
– Diosdado Macapagal, first State of the Nation Address, 1962 (quoted in Time Magazine) (via mlq3)
“Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were...”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (via littlemiss) (via badingangbato) (via diceydreams)
“Tonight I contemplate on the effervescence of life.”
“To see the world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity...”
– William Blake, The Auguries of Innocence (via badingangbato)
“To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.”
– G. K. Chesterton
“Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are...”
– Barack Obama
Whose dream will play out--GMA's or ours?
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Posted on December 13, 2009 by jimparedes [e]
HUMMING IN MY UNIVERSE By Jim Paredes (The Philippine Star) Updated December 13, 2009 12:00 AM
It’s not only me. Many people I have known for a while, and even people I have just met seem to be suffering from the blahs. This is not the usual regular holiday blues or depression that besets many at...
“There’s that old joke, not very funny, that goes “no matter where you go, there...”
– Marc S. Lewis (via littlemiss) (via badingangbato)
“Every day, tell at least one person something you like, admire, or appreciate...”
– Richard Carlson (via littlemiss) (via badingangbato)
“With a thousand different voices ringing in your ear, listen to the whisper only...”
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“With a thousand different voices ringing in your ear, listen to the whisper only...”
– (via oceanofmind) (via milkofthesun)
“Don’t be fooled by the calendar.
There are only as many days in the year as you...”
– (via projectmanila)
Philippine holidays and long-weekend schedule for... →
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January 1 (Fri) - New Year’s Day (five-day long weekend from December 30 to January 3)
February 23 (Mon) - EDSA Revolution Anniversary (holiday for schools only, three-day long weekend from February 21 to 23)
April 1 (Thu) - Holy Thursday
April 2 (Fri) - Good Friday (four-day long weekend from April 1 to 4)
April 9 (Fri) - Araw ng Kagitingan...
Partners and Marriage
To end this series on love in the air, I unearthed this article that was forwarded to me a while back. It’s something everyone who’s falling in love and raring to commit ought to read en route to that final decision! ;)
Eduardo Calasanz was a student at the Ateneo deManila University, Philippines, where he had Father Ferriols as professor. Father Ferriols, meanwhile at that time,...
A bridesmaid's speech
In the spirit of the New Year and how it seems to have brought with it the love bug (at least 1 wedding, 2 proposals, and 1 NGSB tale of blossoming love since midnight of January 1, 2010), I am re-posting a speech that I made for a good friend Jona and her new love Randy’s wedding back in 2006. I remember that day that I said, “The rules don’t apply, only love does.” Maybe...
WatchOn a lighter note, have you noticed that love is in the air? Let’s the start the year right with some good feel-good music on the magic of love… Maki-singhot din tayo sa nakahuhumaling na manamis-namis na taghoy ng pagmamahalan… Sim-hot-sim-hot sab ta aning makabuang ug tam-is tam-is na pagka-higugma-ay… Sigh*
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“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein