brucelee

1Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children 2and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
3But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God's holy people. 4Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving. 5For of this you can be sure: No immoral, ...

Teaching as many would claim is a noble profession, if not, the noblest among all professions. During my secondary education years, I would wonder what nobility in teaching means. What’s noble with my teachers who could hardly pay their debts in my family’s sari-sari store? If teaching is so noble, why is it that some of my teachers could hardly send their children to college? Is nobility supposed to be synonymous with royalty and wealth? If nobility is something to be proud of, why is it that most ...

How do we delineate what is a right and a privilege? If right is an entitlement, on what source of authority do we claim it? These are some of the queries that have baffled me on my conscious quest for an answer on how to justify the seeming extreme advocacies of some people (pardon my generalization of using a bias adjective on the quantity of people having “extreme” advocacies). While these people may claim that what they are doing is a right that each of us should claim, I am not convinced ...

written on April 2007 while doing nothing. For Filipinos only.





"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive!"
-Sir Walter Scott


Tracing back from early civilizations up to the present, history has told us that when credibility is tarnished, the authority to govern dissipates. The current demise of Gloria Arroyo is an offshoot of her long history of wanton breach of the natural ...

As my welcome message, let me share to you a piece of my thoughts....
“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.”

-Aristotle: Temptation Quotes


The current political instability in the Philippines is indubitably a manifestation of the ills of the country that has been silently mutating like a carcinoma. While these ills are not uncommon in other ...