Salamat mga Kaibigan!

Allow me to thank in advance some friends who made my project for this year’s Mother’s Day extra special. 

1. Dr. Quinciano M. Reyes of Binan Eye Clinic for providing free Eye consultation for selected Mothers.

2. Dra. Catherine Pampolina-Barreto for providing free Dental Services for selected Mothers.

3. Jojie Cerdena for providing free Haircut for selected Mothers.

4. Jommel Taytay of Pizza Hut Pavilion Mall, Binan, Laguna for the Free GC worth P300.00

5. JAM Liner, Inc., for the Free complimentary pass

6. Export & Industry Bank for the Golf Umbrella 

My group, Ushers and Collectors Ministry (UCM) of San Antonio De Padua Parish in cooperation with Parish Youth Ministry (PYM) will be spearheading the tribute for the Mothers of our Parish this Mother’s Day.

Again, from the bottom of my heart and in behalf of my members at UCM, Many thanks and God Bless!

Huwag sana kayo magsasawa na suportahan ang lahat ng aking mga proyekto! 

PRAYER FOR THE INTERCESSION OF POPE JOHN PAUL II

O Holy Trinity, we thank you for having given to the Church Pope John Paul II, and for having made him shine with your fatherly tenderness, the glory of the Cross of Christ and the splendour of the Spirit of Love. He, trusting completely in your infinite mercy and in the maternal intercession of Mary, has shown himself in the likeness of Jesus the Good Shepherd and has pointed out to us holiness as the path to reach eternal communion with You. Grant us, through his intercession, according to your will, the grace the we implore, in hope that he will soon be numbered among your saints. Amen

PRAYER FOR MOTHER’S DAY

 God of all fruitfulness,
God of all Holy Women,
of Sara, Ruth and Rebecca;
God of Elizabeth – mother of John,
of Holy Mary – mother of Jesus,
listen to our prayer
and bless the mothers and grandmothers gathered here today.

And finally, we ask you, God of all tenderness,
to descend upon us all,
in the name of the Father
and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit. Amen.

In honor of my beloved Mother–Julie De Mesa Baban

MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER: BENEDICT XVI 42nd WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DA

MESSAGE OF THE HOLY FATHER
BENEDICT XVI
42nd WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY

The Media: At the Crossroads between Self-Promotion and Service.
Searching for the Truth in order to Share it with Others.

Dear Brothers and Sisters!

1. The theme of this year’s World Communications Day – “The Media: At the Crossroads between Self-Promotion and Service. Searching for the Truth in order to Share it with Others” – sheds light on the important role of the media in the life of individuals and society. Truly, there is no area of human experience, especially given the vast phenomenon of globalization, in which the media have not become an integral part of interpersonal relations and of social, economic, political and religious development. As I said in my Message for this year’s World Day of Peace (1 January 2008): “The social communications media, in particular, because of their educational potential, have a special responsibility for promoting respect for the family, making clear its expectations and rights, and presenting all its beauty” (No. 5).

2. In view of their meteoric technological evolution, the media have acquired extraordinary potential, while raising new and hitherto unimaginable questions and problems. There is no denying the contribution they can make to the diffusion of news, to knowledge of facts and to the dissemination of information: they have played a decisive part, for example, in the spread of literacy and in socialization, as well as the development of democracy and dialogue among peoples. Without their contribution it would truly be difficult to foster and strengthen understanding between nations, to breathe life into peace dialogues around the globe, to guarantee the primary good of access to information, while at the same time ensuring the free circulation of ideas, especially those promoting the ideals of solidarity and social justice. Indeed, the media, taken overall, are not only vehicles for spreading ideas: they can and should also be instruments at the service of a world of greater justice and solidarity. Unfortunately, though, they risk being transformed into systems aimed at subjecting humanity to agendas dictated by the dominant interests of the day. This is what happens when communication is used for ideological purposes or for the aggressive advertising of consumer products. While claiming to represent reality, it can tend to legitimize or impose distorted models of personal, family or social life. Moreover, in order to attract listeners and increase the size of audiences, it does not hesitate at times to have recourse to vulgarity and violence, and to overstep the mark. The media can also present and support models of development which serve to increase rather than reduce the technological divide between rich and poor countries.

3. Humanity today is at a crossroads. One could properly apply to the media what I wrote in the Encyclical Spe Salvi concerning the ambiguity of progress, which offers new possibilities for good, but at the same time opens up appalling possibilities for evil that formerly did not exist (cf. No. 22). We must ask, therefore, whether it is wise to allow the instruments of social communication to be exploited for indiscriminate “self-promotion” or to end up in the hands of those who use them to manipulate consciences. Should it not be a priority to ensure that they remain at the service of the person and of the common good, and that they foster “man’s ethical formation … man’s inner growth” (ibid.)? Their extraordinary impact on the lives of individuals and on society is widely acknowledged, yet today it is necessary to stress the radical shift, one might even say the complete change of role, that they are currently undergoing. Today, communication seems increasingly to claim not simply to represent reality, but to determine it, owing to the power and the force of suggestion that it possesses. It is clear, for example, that in certain situations the media are used not for the proper purpose of disseminating information, but to “create” events. This dangerous change in function has been noted with concern by many Church leaders. Precisely because we are dealing with realities that have a profound effect on all those dimensions of human life (moral, intellectual, religious, relational, affective, cultural) in which the good of the person is at stake, we must stress that not everything that is technically possible is also ethically permissible. Hence, the impact of the communications media on modern life raises unavoidable questions, which require choices and solutions that can no longer be deferred.

4. The role that the means of social communication have acquired in society must now be considered an integral part of the “anthropological” question that is emerging as the key challenge of the third millennium. Just as we see happening in areas such as human life, marriage and the family, and in the great contemporary issues of peace, justice and protection of creation, so too in the sector of social communications there are essential dimensions of the human person and the truth concerning the human person coming into play. When communication loses its ethical underpinning and eludes society’s control, it ends up no longer taking into account the centrality and inviolable dignity of the human person. As a result it risks exercising a negative influence on people’s consciences and choices and definitively conditioning their freedom and their very lives. For this reason it is essential that social communications should assiduously defend the person and fully respect human dignity. Many people now think there is a need, in this sphere, for “info-ethics”, just as we have bioethics in the field of medicine and in scientific research linked to life.

5. The media must avoid becoming spokesmen for economic materialism and ethical relativism, true scourges of our time. Instead, they can and must contribute to making known the truth about humanity, and defending it against those who tend to deny or destroy it. One might even say that seeking and presenting the truth about humanity constitutes the highest vocation of social communication. Utilizing for this purpose the many refined and engaging techniques that the media have at their disposal is an exciting task, entrusted in the first place to managers and operators in the sector. Yet it is a task which to some degree concerns us all, because we are all consumers and operators of social communications in this era of globalization. The new media – telecommunications and internet in particular – are changing the very face of communication; perhaps this is a valuable opportunity to reshape it, to make more visible, as my venerable predecessor Pope John Paul II said, the essential and indispensable elements of the truth about the human person (cf. Apostolic Letter The Rapid Development, 10).

6. Man thirsts for truth, he seeks truth; this fact is illustrated by the attention and the success achieved by so many publications, programmes or quality fiction in which the truth, beauty and greatness of the person, including the religious dimension of the person, are acknowledged and favourably presented. Jesus said: “You will know the truth and the truth will make you free” (Jn 8:32). The truth which makes us free is Christ, because only he can respond fully to the thirst for life and love that is present in the human heart. Those who have encountered him and have enthusiastically welcomed his message experience the irrepressible desire to share and communicate this truth. As Saint John writes, “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life … we proclaim also to you, so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ. And we are writing this that our joy may be complete” (1 Jn 1:1-3).
Let us ask the Holy Spirit to raise up courageous communicators and authentic witnesses to the truth, faithful to Christ’s mandate and enthusiastic for the message of the faith, communicators who will “interpret modern cultural needs, committing themselves to approaching the communications age not as a time of alienation and confusion, but as a valuable time for the quest for the truth and for developing communion between persons and peoples” (John Paul II, Address to the Conference for those working in Communications and Culture, 9 November 2002).

With these wishes, I cordially impart my Blessing to all.
From the Vatican, 24 January 2008, Feast of Saint Francis de Sales.

BENEDICTUS XVI

Letter from the Prelate of Opus Dei (April 2008)

Letter from the Prelate (April 2008)

The presence of the risen Christ alongside us is an invitation to live our daily life with joy, wanting to improve our own lives and treat others mercifully. This is the Prelate’s advice in his April pastoral letter.

April 04, 2008

My dear children: may Jesus watch over my daughters and sons for me!

I am sending you this letter during Easter time, when our soul overflows with the joy of our Lord’s resurrection. The sorrowful days of his passion and death have given way to the joy of the new immortal life that Jesus receives from the Father. He humbled himself, obedient unto death, and death on the cross; therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.[1]

This is the message that the Church has proclaimed with special force right from the beginning, and that we Christians have to communicate to all peoples. As the Pope said in his Urbi et Orbi message a few days ago, Jesus’ death and resurrection "is an event of invincible love; it is the victory of the Love that has delivered us from the slavery of sin and death.  It has changed the course of history, giving to human life an indestructible and renewed meaning and value."[2]

There come to mind so many Easter celebrations that I spent alongside St. Josemaría. One could sense his joy during these days, a joy he spread to those at his side. It was a joy rooted in faith, hope and charity, virtues infused by God into our souls so that we can know him, speak with him, and love him. This entire supernatural itinerary is grounded on the historical event (and, at the same time, an event that transcends history) of our Lord’s glorious resurrection. "For Christ is alive. He is not someone who has gone, someone who existed for a time and then passed on, leaving us a wonderful example and a great memory.

"No, Christ is alive. Jesus is the Emmanuel: God with us. His resurrection shows us that God does not abandon his own. He promised he would not: Can a woman forget her baby that is still unweaned, pity no longer the son she bore in her womb? Even these may forget, yet I will not forget you (Is 49:14-15). And he has kept his promise. His delight is still to be with the sons of men (cf. Prov 8:31)."[3]

In his Easter message for this year, Benedict XVI chose as his theme a verse from Psalm 138 that in the old Vulgate version reads as follows: resurrexi et adhuc tecum sum.[4] I have risen and I am always with you. The liturgy uses it as the entrance antiphon for the Mass on Easter Sunday morning. "At the rising of the Easter sun, the Church recognizes the voice of Jesus himself who, on rising from death, turns to the Father filled with gladness and love, and exclaims:  My Father, here I am!  I have risen, I am still with you, and so I shall be for ever; your Spirit never abandoned me."[5]

Throughout this Marian Year, we are striving to "put" our Lady more into our whole day. How easy it is to do this, when we consider the glorious mysteries of the Rosary! Our Father tried to fathom our Lady’s happiness as she contemplated Jesus risen from the dead. Although the Gospels don’t tell us anything about that apparition, the conviction of Christians is unanimous. John Paul II asks: "How could the Blessed Virgin, present in the first community of disciples (cf. Acts 1:14), be excluded from those who met her divine Son after he had risen from the dead?"[6] Mary assuredly was the first one to whom the glorious Christ appeared, filling the heart that had suffered so much beside the Cross with an ineffable supernatural and human joy. How could the one who had always been so closely united to the Redeemer not be granted the joy of the triumphant Savior’s presence?

Let us pause for a moment at this scene. Our Father can serve as our guide here: "He has risen! —Jesus has risen. He is not in the sepulcher. —Life has overcome death.

"He appeared to His most Holy Mother. —He appeared to Mary of Magdala, who is carried away with love. —And to Peter and the rest of the Apostles. —And to you and me, who are His disciples and more in love than Magdalen: the things we say to Him!"[7]

Guided by these teachings, we have to seek out, find and converse with Jesus, ever alive, who walks at our side amid our daily circumstances and who in his divinity dwells, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, in the depths of our heart. This consideration should not be just a pious thought. Besides being in heaven with his Most Holy Humanity, at the right hand of the Father, as we profess in the Creed, Jesus remains in the Church and in each Christian through grace. His presence in us and at our side is real, although we don’t see him with our earthly eyes. But we experience his presence in a thousand ways: in the eagerness for personal improvement—for sanctity!—that the Holy Spirit infuses in us; in the apostolic desires that spur us to go out to seek other souls, to help them come closer to God; in the merciful way that we Christians look upon all men and women, without distinctions of race, culture, social condition or religion. All this is possible because the risen Christ acts with us, accompanies us, lives in us. Do we reject everything that could distance us from others?

In recent days we have once again made present and meditated deeply on these saving events. In addition, on renewing our baptismal promises at the Easter Vigil, we have reaffirmed our desire to walk always with Christ, who has incorporated us to himself through the spiritual regeneration of baptism and who feeds us with his Body and Blood in the Eucharist, in order to strengthen our identification with him. As St. Josemaría wrote: "The presence of the living Christ in the host is the guarantee, the source, and the culmination of his presence in the world."[8]

Thanks above all to the Eucharist, Jesus’ life "is our life, just as he promised his Apostles at the last supper: If anyone love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him (Jn 14:23). That is why a Christian should live as Christ lived, making the affections of Christ his own, so that he can exclaim with St Paul: It is now no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me (Gal 2:20)."[9]

Due to the intimate union existing between the risen Christ and the living members of his Mystical Body, each of us can make our own the words of the Psalm that I cited at the beginning of this letter. "In this perspective," the Pope points out in his Easter message, "we note that the words addressed by the risen Jesus to the Father on this day—I am still with you, forever—apply indirectly to us as well, children of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him (cf. Rom 8:17).  Through the death and resurrection of Christ, we too rise to new life today, and uniting our voice with his, we proclaim that we wish to remain forever with God, our infinitely good and merciful Father."[10]

Our new life in Christ requires on our part the effort to put to death "the old man"—that is to say, everything in us not in accord with the Divine Life. Therefore, St. Josemaría concludes his consideration of the first glorious mystery of the Rosary with these words: "May we never die through sin; may our spiritual resurrection be eternal. —And before this decade is over, you have kissed the wounds on His feet, and I, more daring—because I am more a child—have placed my lips upon His open side."[11] Do you foster in your soul a deep abhorrence for any offense, whether grave or slight, against your Lord? Do you entrust yourself to our Lady so that she obtain for you from the Blessed Trinity the purity and humility that we all need?

We can draw another resolution from our careful contemplation of the first glorious mystery of the Rosary: the determination to make resound in the ears of those around us—who perhaps don’t know Christ or behave as if they didn’t know him—the urgent need to seek and follow him. For only thus will they be filled with an imperishable joy. The feast of Easter spurs us to redouble our zeal for souls, to behave as the apostles and holy women did after meeting the risen Jesus. They were not deterred by any difficulty, but gave witness to the resurrection with courage and constancy, and drew along with them a countless multitude of people.

As Christians, children of God in the Holy Church, we have to proclaim everywhere the good news of our Lord’s resurrection, the foundation of our faith. With words of St. Josemaría, I remind you: "Our Lord wants men and women of his own in all walks of life. Some he calls away from society, asking them to give up involvement in the world, so that they remind the rest of us by their example that God exists. To others he entrusts the priestly ministry. But he wants the vast majority to stay right where they are, in all earthly occupations in which they work: the factory, the laboratory, the farm, the trades, the streets of the big cities and the trails of the mountains."[12]

During the first week of March I had the joy of praying at two shrines of our Lady that our Father often visited. On the 1st, I went to Loreto, where the authorities have dedicated a walkway leading to the Holy House to St. Josemaría. Its path is flanked by the Stations of the Cross, next to which some words of our Founder have been placed. On Saturday, March 8th, I traveled to Fatima. I arrived in Lisbon the previous evening, to spend some hours with your Portuguese sisters and brothers, as I have been trying to do through quick trips on some weekends. Many memories came to mind, specifically how in those two places, in difficult moments, St. Josemaría prayed with his daughters and sons of all times. On more than one occasion he said that he had felt the weight and the enormous joy of charity towards each and every one of us.

At both places I was accompanied by all of you, when presenting to our Lady, in this Marian Year, our thanksgiving and our firm determination to behave as faithful disciples of Jesus Christ in the Work. Both in Loreto and in Fatima, I invoked our Lady with the prayers of our Father and Don Álvaro, to thank her for her protection over us and the Marian seal on Opus Dei. I asked her, in your name, to strengthen and increase in all of us the spirit of refined Marian piety that St. Josemaría left us as an inheritance.

Let us continue praying for the apostolic expansion of the Work throughout the world, both in places where we are already present and in others where people are still awaiting us. I have mentioned to you Romania, Indonesia and Vietnam. We are also receiving pressing calls from Bulgaria. It is an exciting adventure that confronts us, each in the place where God has put us. We will carry it all out, with our Lady’s help, if we personally strive to intensify our union with the risen Christ, from whom all our strength comes. Let us ask for this through the intercession of St. Josemaría. On the 23rd we will commemorate the anniversary of his Confirmation and First Holy Communion, and his fatherly help will make us more fully Eucharistic souls.

Don’t fail to accompany me with your prayer for my intentions. I am convinced, as I heard our Father say, that with your help my petition to God takes on great strength.

 

With all my affection, I bless you,

 

Your Father

+ Javier

 

Rome, April 1, 2008

Awit ng Barkada (The Song)

Nakasimangot ka na lang palagi
Parang ikaw lang ang nag-mamay-ari
Ng lahat ng sama ng loob

Pagmumukha mo ay hindi maipinta
Nakalimutan mo na bang tumawa
Eh, sumasayad na ang nguso mo sa lupa

[refrain]
Kahit sino pa man ang may kagagawan
Ng iyong pagkabigo
Ang isipin na lang na ang buhay
Kung minsan ay nagbibiro
Nandidito kami ang barkada mong tunay aawit sa iyo
Sa lungkot at ligaya, hirap at ginhawa
Kami’y kasama mo

Kung sa pag-ibig may pinag-awayan
Kung salapi ay huwag ng pag-usapan
Tayo’y ‘di nagbibilangan

Kung ang problema mo’y nagkatambakan
At mga utang ‘di na mabayaran
Lahat ng bagay ay nadadaan sa usapan

[repeat refrain]

Kung hahanapin ay kaligayahan
Maging malalim o may kababawan
Sa iyo ay may nakalaan

Kami’y asahan at huwag kalimutan
Maging ito ay madalas o minsan
Pagkat iba na nga ang may pinagsamahan

Kasama mo
Kasama mo
Kasama mo

Awit ng Barkada

Last Saturday, nag attened ako ng binyagan ng anak ng Barkada.  As usual Ninong again! He he he he. . . di ko na nga mabilang ang mga inaanak ko.  Siguro mga more than 50 or 60? Isa lang ang sigurado ko, madami na sila. . .

That very same Saturday was indeed an important day for me. . . Hindi ako nagpakita sa mga barkada ko for almost 5 months and that was the very first time after 5 months na sumulpot ako sa kanila. . .Bakit? hindi ko din alam! He he he he. . .Naging super busy with my personal commitments din kasi ako these past few months! I knew that what I did was wrong! I also knew that I should always find time for them.  Nag txt naman ako sa kanila almost everyday thru REFLECTIONS & PRAYERS everyday!  

Back to that Saturday event, I really missed them! As usual pag nagkita, shot!!! shot!!! shot!!! shot!!!. . . . Ilan din kasi sa mga tropa ko, halos kakauwi lang from US and Europe ata (seaman). . . Yung dalawa (V.N. / S.C.) nga daw dahil sa di ako talaga nagpakita ng ilang buwan di ko na namalayan na nagpunta na pala ng Vietnam (although short stint lang daw) at Dubai! That’s life, ako din naman given the rightful opportunity I will also grab it just to earn much for my family!

We started with Bacardi Mix (the Blue one)-courtesy of C.C. from San Diego then we ended up with the famous Red Horse! He he he he. . .Ayos! Di naman ako na leseng (kailan ba ako na leleseng? wala pa hoy!) yabang! He he he he. . .

Sumakit lang naman ang ulo ko! Bad trip na Marlboro yan! I just tried the one stick di ko pa nga naubos, wala talagang ang sakit! Thanks to Biogesic (Ingat!) He he he he. . .

After the drinking spree there at M.C., my friends deciced to continue the shot in one of the bars at S.R.L., since I had a terrible headache then, I escaped and run! He he he he he. . . .In short, I went home na! pag-uwi tulog agad! He he he he. . . 

But I had fun and really enjoyed then! 

Buhay na naman ang tropa! Shot!!! Shot!!! Shot!!!

Kung Maibabalik Ko Lang

May mga pagkakataon na tayo ay may nakikilalang mga tao na sa unang pagkikita ay tila baga di-kanais nais o di katanggap tanggap dahil sa ilang mga bagay o ugaling kanilang pinamalas sa unang tagpong iyon. Totoo ang sinasabi nila, “first impression lasts”, but yes it lasts until the concerned person showed to you the real him. 

Ang totoong sya, na ibang-iba sa unang pagkakilala mo sa kanya.  Bakit nga ba ang dali para sa atin ang humusga sa ating kapwa? Malimit na ang mga tao na sa atiy’ nagpakita ng maayos na pakikitungo sa unang pagkikita ang sya lamang ating pinagbubuksan ng pintuan ng pakikipagkaibigan, Tama diba? First encounter may not be that good, but there were incidents that would make that initial bad impression transformed into an opportunity for a great friendship. . .
Aaminin ko I’m guilty of the said offense, malimit na kapag ang isang tao ay nagpakita ng kagaspangan sa unang pagkikita, asahan mo na di kita papansinin sa mga susunod na pagtatagpo . . .

Pero di sa lahat ng pagkakataon ay naging tama ang aking naging panuntunan sa pakikitungo sa aking kapwa.  Karamihan sa aking mga itinuturing na mga malalapit na kaibigan sa ngayon ay aking kinainisan, kinaasaran at binalewala sa unang pagkikita.  Minsan akala natin kapag ang isang tao ay makulit, dapat na iwasan at balewalain lang.  Sa salitang uso sa ngayon, “dedma lang” . . . . Pero come to think of it, ang mga taong ito ay nag aaksaya ng oras na mangulit, sundan ka at alaskahin o di kaya’y tuksuhin. . . biruin, asarin ng asarin. . . Pero ako sige dedma pa rin . . . Until you realized sige na nga tropa na din kita kahit nakakaasar at nakaka bwisit. . . . Tumigil ka na lang at tumahimik sa panggugulo . . . .

Ang puno di mo magagawang sukatin ng tama kapag ito ay nakatayo at buhay pa.  Ang totoo at akmang sukat nito ay makukuha mo lamang kapag ito ay nabuwal na. . .Tama diba? Di ko na alam ang eksaktong bilang ng mga araw,  nagkita tayo sa isang lamay sa patay, di ko malilimutan kung paano mo ako hinarang at kinulit, niyakap at pilit na niyayakag para mag-inuman . . . .

Andami kong excuses remember?  Aaminin ko sayo wala naman talaga akong lakad ng gabing iyon.  Although ayoko din talaga kayong makainuman that time medyo naghihingalo na ang bulsa ko dahil wala pang sweldo nun . . . Nagawa kong lampasan ang tagpong iyon, pero anong ginawa mo? Akala ko umalis ka na at iniwan ako . . . . ang tuwa ko na sana ng malaman na umalis ka na.

Sa aking lalong pagkainis, bumalik ka pala at iintayin mo daw ako? Huh?  Sobra ang inis ko talaga sayo nun!  Di ko alam kung saan ako dadaan pauwi para lang maiwasan ka . . .  Binalak ko nga na iligaw ang atensyon mo para lang makasibat ako ng gabing iyon! Halos isang oras kang nag-intay sa labas diba? Patakas na ako, ng malaman ko na nakaalis ka na pero nag sabi ka pala na babalik ka ulit . . . .  Sa aking tuwa, dali dali akong umuwi sa pamamagitan ng ibang daan para lang makaiwas ulit. Iyon ang huling pagkikita natin . . .

October 7, 2007, kanina lang, nagulat ako, sa isang balita, di ko inaasahan, parang nakakabingi . . . . ang sakit sa tainga!  Parang gusto ko magsalita pero walang lumalabas sa bibig ko . . .wala ka na daw! 

Alam mo kung ano ang unang pumasok sa isip ko?  Gustong gusto kong mag sorry sayo! Sa lahat ng mga pagkakataong di kita pinansin at binalewala. I’m sorry, sana nga lang nadidimig mo pa ako . . . di ko na mararamdaman ang inis, ang pangungulit mo, wala ka na eh! Umalis ka na, bakit ganun?  Mas masakit ngayon! alam mo ba yun? 

Malapit na ang bday natin diba?  Iinvite naman kita eh! Kahit minsan napunta ka kahit di ka invited . . . . Andami kong dapat ipag sorry sa ‘yo . . . Binuksan mo ang mga mata ko . . . sa tunay na pakikipagkapwa tao . . . sa dapat na pagpapahalaga sa isang kaibigan, makulit man o tahimik ito, mapang-asar man o mapagbigay . . .

Nasaan ka man ngayon . . .Salamat sa pagpapahalaga at pagkilala . . . .  Ang mga pang-aasar at pang-iinis mo noon . . .ay aalagaan ko ngayon bilang mga espesyal na ala-ala . . .

Ang iyong kaibigan . . .

Sir Dong

(This article was initially posted at FRIENDSTER BLOG of Lawrence Baban last October 07, 2007 / Sunday)