US Elections: A Look Back

I was browsing through a number of blogs and came across this site. The author was giving his view on the previous elections. The choice between Bush or Kerry or a 3rd party candidate. What is fun about it (and at the same time very enlightening) is how much we, as Filipinos, also have the same problems and we, as Filipino citizens, take so less of our time to actually think about the issues rather than the personality come election time.

It is something we can all learn from. Be aware, be involved. If we want to make the right choices, we must know what are the issues concerned rather than who is concerned.

I'd like to take a quote from that blog placed in our setting.

Stop. Stop. Stop hurting the Philippines. Please, please, please...

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Btw, here is the link.

Invictus

By William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.

News Flash!!

Breaking News!!!!

UP JAVACARD TEAM 2 making highs...

Manila, RP - No one could be be any prouder than to be part of one solid and perfect team. Chicco, Torya and Mike make a one of a kind team with each his and her own talent perfectly compensating the other's weaknesses. And as of today, the team is making more waves as one of its members take center stage and engage in a groundbreaking, revolutionary, and next-generation career path that would make that perfect fit to the contribution the team has already made.

Already Mike and Chicco have stable and good jobs in the industry, HP Asia Pacific and Smart Communications respectively with Chicco doing work that has been influenced by their thesis - Smart Card / Java Card development. And now Torya, embarks on a new trend of her own, joining a new multinational european company that is involved also in the development of java card applications.

The perfect team

This success has been brought about by sheer style and the distinct contribution of each team member making their own niche in their respective expertise.

Truly good things do happen to those who know to work together, achieve great things, yet still be humble and meek to acknowledge that there is still more to be learned and so much more to experience.

To Torya, we wish you the best of luck and all are prayers are with you when you leave. God speed.

Pictures

For lack of better things to do, here are some pictures. I was thinking of uploading them all into a difference blog but got tired after the first 5. Anyway, when I get to have time and feeling like fixing up my blog, I'll probably do just that. You can view the other pix in this blog.

See my "Highway" entry too. :)

At the start of our term, we all seemed so happy... 

..after our term, still happy 

Art Gallery of Toronto 

Barry Chung, Melinda Barnes, Jan San Jose, Me, Vic Endriga, Paul Garcia, Sophia Okolie, Victor Volin, and Davic Caverly (hidden) Toronto Triadd and Manila Swat: the complete team! 

The Philippines! 

 

In Casa Loma 

Highway

It is rare that i find good quotes that really touch the depths of what I feel. Those spurts of moments that you suddenly connect a line from a movie or a song to how you are feeling in that moment or instance are very much rare for me. This is the quote from the movie Highway:

"What is the feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?

...it's the too-huge-world vaulting us and it's goodbye.

But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies..."

-Jack Kerouac-On the Road

See the movie. It may be a Y Tu Mama Tambien kind of movie with almost the same story line, but it is still cool.