Life is Simple,

Lest we forget, my dear brothers, young and old alike, Tau Alpha represents The Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece, more than merely being The Adventurers seeking personal satisfaction and glory. The adventure along the way should serve only to enrich our ideals in the ultimate goal of finding The Golden Fleece and not be the ultimate objective of our life’s journey.

To be a True Blue Tau Alphan, not necessarily to be the most eminent professionally and financia...

To laugh often and much;

To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;

To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends;

To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others;

To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition;

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.

This is to have succeeded.

Ralph Wa...

I did not find the right category selection for this blog as the selection was limited, it should have been under human interest, so i ceated this category “Human Interest”.

We do go through life’s journey in what appears to be a pre-determined path we are not aware until we are about to reach the end of it all.

We all start with the stage I call “survival“, a period in our lives which differ from one person to a...

TUESDAY, APRIL 6, 2010

I’ve always told myself that when I am no longer marketable for my professional skills, I shall start a career in writing. I would write about everything that I went through my life and hope that I can share the stories to others who may find solace and comfort in the fact that I did survive my life’s journey and touched quite a number of lives along the way.

When I first told this to my closest staff in a New Zealand fa...

March 30, 2010 at 2:30pm

FIRST NOVENA PRAYER IN HONOR OF OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP

Behold at thy feet, 0 Mother of Perpetual Help, a wretched sinner who has recourse to thee and confides in thee. 0 Mother of mercy, have pity on me.

I hear thee called by all the refuge and the hope of sinners: be then, my refuge and my hope. A...

April 3, 2011 at 10:39am

'He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a ...

Hinde Pa ! College Graduate na Ako Noong 1970 Nang Magsimula ang Dagat nang Basura

March 31, 2010 at 6:24pm

One of the false claims of Agent Orange to have swam through the sea of garbarge in Pasig River in his childhood. This was again confirmed by his wife, supposed to be a honorable member of the lower house, in a television interview by Karen Davila (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pVXNowfQWo).

May 3, 2010 at 6:36pm

As a requiem to the campaign period for the Presidential Elections 2010, it would pay to look back in hindsight the reasons why Manny Villar failed to convince the Filipino voters, particularly the really marginalized sector that he hoped will catapult him into the presidency.

Error No. 1. He underestimated the campaign of Joseph 'Erap' Estrada, with whom he shares the sentiments of the poor Filipino voters and thought that he could garner all th...

25 June 2013,

Who we really are and who we should be.

In the course of our lives, we learn, we experience, we achieve, we fail, we enjoy, we endure, we look back and look forward only to find out who we really are from the very beginning. All the education, the values, the principles we gain are simply guides in finding out who we really are and what we really should be. The final years of our lives should be spent being what we really are and not what we were supp...

There are times in our lives when things happen differently from what we have either planned or expected. Sometimes, we react wrongly to the frustrations and eventually bounced off tangent from our original intened path or direction. I guess the reason for all of these is that we do not really have full control of all the things that evolve in our lives, from childhood till parenthood.

I remember having planned my life while in college, after the Diliman Commune in January 1971...

The color of God is purple, when you see a real purple sunset, God is letting you know he is still around us.

It takes a lot of courage to let go of your loved ones, if only to save them from the protracted struggle with your estranged partner. Unless you have Faith in Divine Providence, you will not be confident that in the end, God will take care of the things you have been deprived of the chance to do for your children.

There will come a point in our...

Just before the 25th Anniversary of the EDSA People Power Revolution, now senator Bongbong Marcos facetitiously said that had his father, the late Ferdinand Marcos, not been ousted in 1986, he would have turned the Philippines into the next Singapore.

Quite sad, for such brilliant minds to have such distorted views of history and social responsibilities.  Had he seen Philippine history with a very objective mind, he would have seen a golden opportunity to rise above hi...