Reflected thoughts about life and death, and in between

1. Identities, be they personal or national can be used conveniently as an excuse.

2. What I am doing may be trivial, but time will tell me to a certain degree of clarity what has been accomplished yesterday.

3. At this time, I seem not to connect my personal strivings to the growth of a nation.

4. I am not looking for the good life. I am simply searching for a meaningful one.

5. "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality." - Albert Einstein

6. I think life is an endless search of seeking who you really are. We will be seeking who we are even at our deathbed.

7. We despair because life offers uncertainties, and we continue to negotiate how we get to know ourselves more. Such negotiations entails difficulties.

8. In life I know I made lots of mistakes, that is why I am not perfect.

9. It looks like that what we are going to leave in this earth is more of the legacy on how we lived our lives.

10. Bringing a digital camera strapped on my belt makes my life meaningful.

11. Sometimes you have to go to a bar with live band to search for the meaning of life.

12. I am working on my success.

13. For your delectation on parties, invite a magician.

14. I always bring my digicam to make life more meaningful.

15. If we are indeed lovers of life, we are able to embrace the past, the future and present and the pains that go with it.

16. We forget the past that burdens us. But we remember the past that says "Life is good".

17. I think the concept of retirement is against the so-called "gray population".

18. I do not intend to retire. I intend to live.

19. I think we should be wearing black ribbons for ten days to remember those who perished from this tragic event (Dona Paz sinking in 1987 "Asia Titanic".)

20. Should we treat our memories as guests?

21. Now for the monitor screens circa 2009, its either, CRT or flat screen. How these things change!

22. That green cursor was the precursor of a new term called "paper white" monitor.

23. One of the moment that I was delighted with is to see a monitor with a flickering green cursor.

24. There are religion that captures the human spirit in which the human spirit wants to be freed from what captures him.

24. True religion is the one that unites us to God and one that serves others.

25. It was Rumi the mystic and poet of the Eastern world was given the honor that his image be placed on the monetary bill of Turkey.

26. A gossip is likened to a feather pillow on a windy day. Once those feathers got out of the case it is doubly difficult to bring them back again. - Inspired from the film "Doubt".

27. Even a nun will lie to achieve her ends - From the film "Doubt".

28. Airport, a terminal. When it is your time, it's your time. - Daffinition

29. Umbrella, usually is kept at summer time. - Daffinition.

30. "Live fast, Love hard, lie about your age" - from a birthday card.

31. The beauty of life is that you can't avoid it. The beauty of death is that it is necessary.

32. Louis Pasteur said "Beyond is a limitless grandeur". We can only see Pasteur's Limitless Grandeur when we are part of that Beyond.

33. Dare to dream even if it will take an impossible dream.

34. An airplane is a place where you can touch the heavens but the pilot won't allow you. - Daffinition.

35. "If you feel God has abandoned you, could it be that you have abandoned Him?" Fr. Guido Arguelles, SJ.

36. Facebook is a place where you really have to think on what you are going to say, and to say next.

37. Some people fill themselves with so many things thinking that they can find meaning in these things.

38. I pray that one day rains can wash away our loneliness.

39. The highest umbrella I can use against the sun are the clouds.

40. If you want to see evil, look for the one who delights in separation.

41. "God will not wipe away the tears we never shed. If we shed tears of compassion, it will become tears of love and of joy" - Fr. Guido Argulles SJ

42. Losing your life direction may be a way of finding it.

43. Escaping a problem may be fun for you. But with certainty, you can't escape yourself.

44. The heart of a lonely runner is the one that is nurtured by love.

45. The trip with students yesterday at Majayjay and Pila, Laguna, brought in me the majesty of the history. It is filled with a dead-weight past and an immense possibility for the future. This is a classic example of change and non-change. Humans will always have a choice.

46. I was delighted to know that "411" is the jargon for "information" It came from America. That is what you call cultural diffusion.

47. An American boy was called by the teacher and was asked "When was the United States founded"? The boy said, "9-11".

48. In the modern time we were able to create a word "hidden agenda". As if it is an esoteric word. Actually this hidden agenda, as "hidden" as it is, is always seen in the bosom of one's interests. it's like the Emperor's new clothes.

49. Leaders and their people always have a complex and bizarre, relationships. Power relationships draws the the line of difference and the safety of the gray area.

50. The political life of a nation will always affect our lives unless we pretend to be dead persons.

51. The earth does not care for us. We have to care for the earth so that it can care for us.

52. As we are experiencing underdevelopment, endless social conflict, corruption that becomes a collective nightmare, what we are seeing is a culture where we have no roots and sensitivity to others. We are creating rootless society.

53. On this info-mercials, we need to think if the end of their message is really important to us. After they have reached expiry date did it make a difference in our lives?

54. On this info-mercials, we need to think if the end of their message is really important to us. After they have reached expiry date did it make a difference in our lives?

55. I have nothing against giving the public information. But when this information is burned to our consciousness without let up, my, my, I think that is too much.

56. Digitized condemnation. In our society when a person wishes to condemn an act of one, he can go to launch a campaign via the internet and those who will join the chorus can be counted to the last detail.

57. One of the amazing realization as one ages is the knowledge that one can have more fun in achieving one rational goal.

58. One of the amazing realization as one ages is the knowledge that one can have more fun in achieving one rational goal.

59. Somebody told me that it is good to bring flowers when you visit your loved ones because they can see, touch and smell it. But when they are consigned to the earth nobody is going to tell you a sweet appreciation. Enjoy being alive. There's plenty of time to be dead.

60. Our rage, anger, cannot bring back the life of a loved one who met the creator. This is the reason why we should mourn. We should be able to say goodbye to our loved one, that is the purpose of mourning. In a way it should help up to attain peace.

61. When one has a possibility to experience the goodness of life and it is cut short by death, I think that is a tragedy.

62. A news last night that a three year old child was run over by a bus at EDSA causing her death. This makes me really sad. It makes my stomach turn upside down.

63. Eternity is life lived fully on earth.

64. Eternity cannot be thought of as bounded by space and time. It has no dimension. Eternity is the unworded experience of life lived in totality.

65. It is true when Kris Aquino lied to Cory. It is never "ok" when your loved one is finally going to bid you goodbye. There is this infinite pain that needs to be healed by love not just by time.