God was in the Whisper
"After the earthquake came a fire, but the Lord was not in the fire. And after the fire came a gentle whisper." ~ Kings...
August 10, 2020
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US Congress Signaled the End of Big Tech Acquisitions
https://www.fastcompany.com/90534296/antitrust-hearing-may-make-regulators-far-more-skeptical-of-future-big-tech-acquisitions Three thoughts: 1. Honestly it's not super...
July 21, 2020
Is the Coronavirus the Earth's way of protecting itself?
What if the Earth is an organism, humans are the Earth's coronavirus, and the coronavirus are the Earth's white blood cells trying to fight its disease and bring back Earth to a healthy...
March 21, 2020
A brain hack for positive thinking
This post is the third in a series of posts. On the previous post, we reflected on Ikigai, and thought about how finding it and practicing it can lead to a deep and long lasting form of...
August 1, 2019
Ikigai
Ikigai is a Japanese concept that means "reason for being". Last post I reflected on the findings of Positive Psychology and what it thinks are the different forms of happiness....
July 18, 2019
Happiness
Happiness, according to Positive Psychology, is three things: pleasure, flow, and meaning. Of the three, pleasure is the weakest, most difficult to influence, temporary, vulnerable to...
July 2, 2019
Ad Astra, Per Aspera
Record-breaking week: - Tuesday, 18 hours worked - Wednesday, 13 hours worked - Thursday, 17 hours worked One of the things I want to be remembered by, are...
September 16, 2016
Without a Fight
There comes a time when everything is against you. When you haven't slept and you've been working for dozens of hours straight. When the cloud of a tremendous, seemingly insurmountable...
September 16, 2016
Three things I learned from the Leaders for Social Impact: Luzon Leg
The Leaders for Social Impact: Luzon leg was held on July 12-15 at the Forest Club in Laguna. According to the British Council website, it's a "bespoke Social Entrepreneurship...
July 18, 2016
10 ways to get Motivated
1. Settle your "Why" This is the first and most important thing. Your "why" is what you will look back to and what you will get your strength from. It's not enough to know the goal, or...
July 11, 2016
Three Tech Trends to look out for (after attending Google I/O Extended Roadshow)
Our web development company, MagisSolutions, attended the Google I/O Extended roadtrip held at the Ateneo de Manila University, and along with other events I've attended over the past few...
July 11, 2016
Two frogs and a bucket of milk
It was a fine summer day when two young, ambitious frogs were hopping about and exploring the world. One was named Can't and one was named Can. Both were enterprising young frogs -...
July 3, 2016
What I allow myself to give.
I have not written in a long time. I guess the amount of writing and reflection is a function of how much time you actually have - but time, normally, is just enough if you are not being...
October 7, 2013
My 2012 in review
Things to be grateful for this 2012: - Graduating from Ateneo for the second time! - Being part of failed attempts to change the world in The Spark Book Project, GreenSpace, and many...
December 31, 2012
Working on New Year's Eve: The Privilege
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” ~ Confucius On Christmas Eve, and probably on New Year's Eve, while everyone is counting down the hours...
December 31, 2012
Jar of Mayonnaise and 2 Cups of Coffee
When things in your life seem, almost too much to handle,When 24 Hours in a day is not enough,Remember the mayonnaise jar and 2 cups of coffee.A professor stood before his philosophy...
November 26, 2012
Reality of fear:
You’re not scared of the dark-You’re scared of what’s in it.You’re not afraid of heights.-You’re afraid of falling.You’re not afraid of people around you.-You’re just afraid of...
November 26, 2012
Matthew 25:35
"What do you want?" he asked calmly, holding out his hand in invitation. The dirty man's lips were shivering. He was struggling to find his voice. Who was this man in front of him? He could...
November 4, 2012
Humanity forgotten
He was outside, the smoke off his cigarette wandering upwards, as he stared at the wall in front of him. He was leaning at an opposite wall, one hand in his pocket, the other holding the...
October 27, 2012
It's not about you
I feel that some people think I am a person of pride and conceitedness. It peeves me. But maybe only because it's true. But I write something of a retort, or at least something to think...
October 19, 2012
Past, Present. Future?
things I wanted to be: (past) - poet - philosopher - fiction/short story writer - novelist - opinion writer - journalist - priest - missionary - saint things I now want to be:...
September 26, 2012
Motivation
I was scanning through my thesis adviser’s site, and saw her oldest creative publication was in 1995, in some sort of youth magazine. Youth? I couldn’t imagine her in her youth, she was...
August 26, 2012
Just a wild write-it-off before going to a meeting
It’s 6:30PM. In less than an hour I will be attending a meeting composed of three idealistic individuals foolish enough to think they can change the world. Or at least change people’s...
July 26, 2012
How to run 26 miles - Tyler Tervooren
How to run 26 miles: run 25.How to run 25 miles: run 24.How to run 24 miles: run 23.How to run 23 miles: run 22.How to run 22 miles: run 21.How to run 21 miles: run 20.How to run 20 miles:...
July 26, 2012
Achilles
where does this lead? mighty melancholy hoversas the shadowless happiness is accompaniedby the uncertainty of the unrequitedand the certainty that all experience, is but a fleeting...
June 26, 2012
AtSCA will ruin your life
It ruined mine. I’m an alumnus, so I can say this. Why? Because you wouldn’t ever be able to stand to live for yourself. If before you were happily contented spending your life away...
June 26, 2012
Writing might be therapeutic
Starting immediately, I will try to commit myself to writing a reflection every day. Or at least once in two days… or… maybe at least three times a week. Oh wait, maybe at least once a...
June 26, 2012
Ok na ako sa paglalakad
Sa mundong iyon, doon kita hinatid: sa malamig na simoy ng gabi, sa kapayapaan ng dilim, sa katahimikan ng ngiti. Iyon lang ang naaalala ko. Wala akong alaala ng mga nakaiinggit na...
May 26, 2012
Mag-chill ka lang diyan
Mag-chill ka lang diyan…Habang sa mundong mapait,may dalagang nagtatrabahohabang magula'y tulog.Binatang nagtutulak.Ng Kariton. Ng droga-Ng kahirapan. Mag-chill ka lang diyan…Habang...
May 26, 2012
AtSCA will ruin your life
It ruined mine. I’m an alumnus, so I can say this. Why? Because you wouldn’t ever be able to stand to live for yourself. If before you were happily contented spending your life away...
April 26, 2012
The devil's suffering
He felt the hard metal wholly on impact. A tooth or two might have been knocked out. He tasted blood, he was bleeding inside the mouth. His jaws felt displaced a bit. The muscled man stood...
April 15, 2012
Uninspired
Writing is a perilous journey… you never know where you will go… you never know where you will end up. You do not know if you can finish the trip, or fall of a cliff towards an oblivion...
March 26, 2012
Insanity
I hated it. I kissed the cross and tasted on my lips unendurable bitterness - it tasted like the sins of mankind. It made sense, but what didn’t make sense is why he wanted us to carry it....
February 26, 2012
God’s Greatest Gift
I have been in a lot of distress lately… so I shall write. Humanity. God’s greatest gift to human is other humans… God’s greatest gift to you is your mother and father, friends,...
February 26, 2012
Thinking About Life
This is the first time I have had a chance to think and reflect about things, after a whirlwind of all-nighters and working for 16 hours a day, seven days a week. Life hasn’t been easy –...
February 10, 2012
A story of four people
Someone asked, “what is a happy death?” On your deathbed, Is it being able to say, “Ah, look at all the fortune I have amassed in my life. I am rich beyond what I can spend. And...
December 26, 2011
Rebellion
I don’t believe in fairy tales, or destiny, prince and princesses, tragic love stories, or heroic deaths. I don’t buy in to the mushy “the universe conspires” philosophy of people...
November 26, 2011
Dmitri's Dream. Dmitri of noble birth
He dreamed he was driving somewhere in the steppes, where he had been stationed long ago. A peasant was driving him in a cart with a pair of horses, through snow and sleet. He was cold, it...
October 26, 2011
The ceiling of my room collapsed, and I have a lot to be thankful for
I was surprised how being in a higher education program for a field that requires almost no physical engagement at all in its activities (MS CS), has made physical labor a feeling terribly...
October 22, 2011
O Deus Ego Amo Te
Prayer of St Francis Xavier, early Jesuit missionarytranslated by Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. 0 GOD, I love thee, I love thee-Not out of hope of heaven for meNor fearing not to love and...
September 21, 2011
What is an Ateneo education; what is being human (reflections from Area Overnight)
It was a touching Saturday, and there was a lot to think about. (I wasn't able to attend the processing session this morning, so I'll just share my reflections here. Sayang at hindi ko...
September 18, 2011
the questions. and a thousand dreams within
Questions are dreamsof a thousand years hence,of people worrying of the practical,as the eternal questionsburn softly. Sadnessis the inability to evadethe questions. and a thousand...
August 21, 2011
How is Masters so far
Many have asked me why I attended graduate school, why I applied for MS CS. For one, entrenching yourself in the academe runs the risk of distancing yourself from the industry. There is a...
August 19, 2011
Unrest
It numbs.It c-ripples… I crumble
August 11, 2011
The Mockery
His body was a product of the public scourging. Blood and gashes were all over him. Two roman soldiers were laughing aloud on the other side of the hallway. They were coming to him holding...
July 28, 2011
Self-defense
In the notorious streets of Kalentong, where stories of hold-ups abound left and right, the Bosconian fears not to walk the street alone. Not because he is toughened by the Technical...
June 19, 2011
Building the Kingdom of God here on Earth
A world with no hate, no hurt, no jealousy, no indifference, no greed, no frustration, no betrayal, only indescribable happiness, only unconditional forgiveness, only deep, deep peace....
May 24, 2011
Poetry
A Jesuit priest gave one of the most beautiful homilies I’ve heard in a while. This note is just an attempt to capture it - it would be devoid of the beauty of his quivering voice, his...
May 7, 2011
When humans try to be like God
We wanted to be Omniscient and know everything, and invented the internet to search for anything we want to know. We wanted to be Omnipresent, and made social networks to make our presence...
April 21, 2011
Why and How
If many scientists weren’t so keen on being atheists, I think humanity would’ve gone far discovering (appreciating) the ‘why’ of reality, and not just the 'how’ which scientists...
April 1, 2011
I walked slowly, and realized I was happy
For what else could I ask for, I study to be a master of the field I love. I have time to pray, I have time to read, I have time to write, and all the while I reflect on meanings and...
March 12, 2011
Things easier said than done?
"We are to use them in so far as [tantum quantum] they lead us to our last end, and be rid of them in so far as [tantum quantum] they hinder us in the pursuit of the end for which we were...
February 4, 2011
Too Good to be False
CHRISTMAS is when we celebrate the unexpected; it is the festival of surprise. This is the night when shepherds wake to the song of angels; when the earth has a star for a satellite; when...
December 24, 2010
Reflection out of Prayer Day
Maraming nagsasabing nagbabago na ang misyon ng Simbahan. Hindi na ito upang ikalat ang salita ng Diyos sa mga hindi pa naabot ng simbahan. Mabuti na ang nagawa ng mga santo at misyonaryo...
August 9, 2010