Definitely, Yes

The human heart has hidden treasures,

In secret kept, in silence sealed;

The thoughts, the hopes,

the dreams, the pleasures,

Whose charms were broken if revealed”

- Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre

"I could promise, to hold you, and to cherish you.

I could promise, to be there in sickness and in health.

I could say, til death do us part.

But I won't.

Those vows are for optimistic couples, the ones full of hope.

And I do not stand here, on my wedding day, optimistic, or full of hope.

I am not optimistic, I am not hopeful.

I am sure.

I am steady.

And I know...

I'm a heart-man.

Take them apart, put them back together.

I hold them in my hands.

I am a heart man.

So this i am sure.

You are my partner, my lover, my very best friend.

My heart, my heart, beats for you.

and on this day, the day of our wedding, I promise you this:

I promise you, to lay my heart in the palm of your hands

I promise you, me."

- Preston Burke, Grey's Anatomy

I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not got, but there is much, very much, that, while I cannot give it, you can take.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today. Take heaven!

No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instant. Take peace!

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach is joy. There is radiance and glory in the darkness could we but see - and to see we have only to look. I beseech you to look!

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly, or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.

Welcome it, grasp it, touch the angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there, the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence. Our joys, too, be not content with them as joys. They, too, conceal diviner gifts.

Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven.

Courage, then, to claim it, that is all. But courage you have, and the knowledge that we are all pilgrims together, wending through unknown country, home.

And so, at this time, I greet you. Not quite as the world sends greetings, but with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you now and forever, the day breaks, and the shadows flee away.

- Fra Giovanni

Bohemian Rhapsody

All we hear is Radio Gaga...

all Queen hits in one spectacle

the sexy Migs Ayesa as Galileo Figaro...

loved Victoria Beckham too!

had a grand time humming

felt so old hahaha

simply Magnifico!!!

352 days

What is the meaning of life?

“taking the pain,” said the nail

“keeping cool,” said the ice

“driving hard,” said the hammer

“being up-to-date,” said the calendar

“being sharp,” said the knife

“making light around you,” said the fire

“sticking to it,” said the glue

“being bright,” said the lamp

“being on time,” said the clock

“saving a drop,” said the faucet

And best of all “learning from it,” said the mistake.

It will always see in the dark

3 generations
1946
1963
1998 and 2007

UM
SB
UP

labor arbiter
justice
the reluctant one and
the one who can change it all

congratulations are in order!

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Congratulations to Atty. Marvic Leonen! He is the new dean of the University of the Philippines College of Law. Marvic is a true blue Baguio boy. He is the first and only Baguio native to become dean of the UP College of Law. He makes all of us proud.

Marvic follows in the footsteps of the late great George Malcolm and completes a cycle.

George Malcolm, who made the Baguio Charter, was the first dean of the UP College of Law. Malcolm Square at the foot of Session Road is named after him.

Georgie Boy is also a Baguio boy, albeit an adopted one. Marvic is the real thing.


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The recent Bar topnotcher, Mercedita Ona, was a UP accounting graduate. She took the UP law entrance exam and failed. She was therefore compelled to go to the Ateneo College of Law.

We do not understand how a future bar topnotcher can fail the UP law entrance exam. It’s either there is something wrong with the UP admission process, or there is something wrong with the Bar exams. Or both.

Anyway, we hope Marvic will look into the matter. Sayang naman.

From personal experience, my son Sonnyboy was a masscom graduate from UP Diliman. He took the UP law exams and failed. He took the Ateneo law exams and passed. He is now in the fourth year and is well on his way to take the Bar next year.

Sonnyboy’s younger brother, Pablo, also took the UP law exams and failed. He went to Ateneo and passed. He will begin his first year in June, if St. Louis University will allow him to take his deficiencies this summer and finish his course.

If ever my sons would make it to the Bar and become lawyers, I will then be the minority in the family. We will be the lone UP law graduate. And with the relatively “dismal” performance of UP in recent Bar exams, we will never hear the end of the teasing and taunting from my sons.

We used to say that Ateneo was for the burgis, and UP was for the patriots. We may end up eating our words.


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Congratulations to Judge Ruben Ayson. His successor has arrived. His son Ruben Jr., from the UP College of Law, passed the recent Bar exams, which is reputed to be one of the most difficult in recent years. Ruben Jr.’s mother and grandmother must be ecstatic. They have another lawyer in the family.

First came Lakay Bening, then Judge Ruben Sr., and now comes Ruben Jr.
Who is the better Atty. Ayson? If we were to bet on it, I think we will go for the youngest. Hehehe. Graduate ti UP dayta!


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Crazy Days

my version

5 minutes

meeting

a hug

a surprised bystander (OP)

a drop off

wish fulfilled

days later

most unromantic greeting ever

your version

feeling sick

stayed at home

crappy futura email

online delivery gift

to the office

other people got it

threw away the note

told you that they didn't know

it was not theirs

because apparently your are local

huh???

one confessed

cake consumed

only satisfaction

chinese website was not fake

hahaha

HDIYL