Gloria (Acts and Potencies)

Second Week of Easter 2019

Sambuhay April 28, 2019

Sunday, April 28, 2019 - Year C, Cycle I - White Vestments
Today's Rosary: The Glorious Mysteries

Today's Mass: Second Sunday of Easter

Readings for Mass
From the Proper of the Season
First Reading: Acts 5:12-16
Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 118:2-4, 13-15, 22-24
Second Reading: Revelation 1:9-11, 12-13, 17-19
Gospel: John 20:19-31


Catholic Calendar

Our Queen of Love

OUR QUEEN OF LOVE

Intro:  D-F#m-G-A-A7

          D                 F#m          G          A

Oh how I long to sing you a song of love

             D           F#m

To describe the warmth of your smile,

            G                      A

The pureness of your heart.

       D                   D7                             G                         Gm

Oh Mary, our Queen of love, our way to the Loving  Son

                 D        Em         A7            D

Our beautiful way to the Loving  Son.

Refrain:

                D                                                      G

When I’m happy you are there to share it with me

                      E                                 A          A7

When I’m grieving I can call and you console me.

                   D         F#m          G         A                    

Oh how I long to sing you a song of love

              D             F#m                     G                        A

To express the happiness that’s deep within my heart

      D                    D7                          G                               Gm

Oh Mary, our Queen of love, our way to the Loving  Son

             D           Em            A7         D

Our beautiful way to the Loving Son.

Our Queen of Love Cato Bellas practice piece

Vocation Song

VOCATION SONG

Intro: C-G-Am-Em-F-G-G7

               C                  G

He has called me so sweetly

Am                                           Em

   He said, “Would you come follow me

F                            C               Am

   Into the thorny path you’d be

Dm               D7                  G

   With blood and tears like me.”

With the  cross of life on your shoulders

Pains and trials you will carry on
Just walk the mile after my  footprints

Dm            G                C         C7

And I’d die for you.

Refrain:

         F                   G

No matter how,  long’s the journey

C            G           Am

I’ll be there for you

F                                  G

You are mine I’ve chosen you

       C            G             Am

My love will see you through

Bb                        G          G7

So I’ll see you there.

Chorus:

                      C

Right by your side,  Oh Lord

               Am

I’ll be your servant  forever

                      Dm                   D7

And do your will, Oh Lord

           G

‘Til your kingdom come on earth

                          C

To leave the world alone

                  Am

And all it’s glory that is

                          Dm

And lead them all to you

G                       C                 (G)

And lead them all to You.

(Repeat Chorus)

CANTATE DOMINO

Silver Edition

San Pablo Major Seminary

Baguio City

Sika Laeng Ti Biag

SIKA LAENG TI BIAG

(Ikaw Lang Ang Buhay) NOEL CABANGON, Tuloy Ang Byahe

Dito’y turod ken cabanbantayan

(Dito sa mga burol at kabundukan)

Dito’y ig-igid iti carayan

(Dito sa gilid ng ilog)

Adu nga biag, nadumaduma

(Samo’t saring buhay ang nasa paligid)

Adda sabsabong ken mulmula

(May mga bulaklak at iba pang mga halaman)

No nasipnget iti dalan

(At pag madilim ang daan)

Silaw mo ket naraniag a bulan

(Ilaw ko’y maliwanag na sinag ng buwan)

No rabii ket nalam miis

(At pag gabi ay malamig)

Arakop mo iti mangdangadang

(Yakap mo ang magbibigay ng init)

CHORUS:

Basta no sika ti kadwak

(Hangga’t ikaw ang kapiling)

Dayto’y pusok ket agragsak

(Ang puso ko’y masaya)

Awan sabsabali nga ayat

(Walang ibang iniibig)

Sika ti pudno a liwliwak

(Ikaw ang tunay kong minamahal)

Gaput sika laeng, gaput sika laeng

(Dahil ikaw lamang, dahil ikaw lamang)

Iti biag

(Ang aking buhay)

Intan ngarud idiyay payo

(Kaya tayo na sa gitna ng bukirin)

Intan aglinong ‘diyay kaykayo

(Tayo nang sumilong sa malilim na mga puno)

Mangitakder ti maysa nga kubo

(At tayo’y magtatayo ng isang kubo)

Nasudi nga balay ken napudno

(Isang wagas na bahay at masagana)

Repeat II and Chorus

https://soundcloud.com/jean-melgar-1/09-sika-laeng-iti-biag

Lawas Pititingcap

LAWAS PITITINGCAP

Pirmi ca ha nacom co

Yabi tan aolo

Cayco malingwanan

Maganda mon ngalan

Chorus:

Ampaningcap bituon

Hanggan ha palbangon

Kayna macacaloc

Ikay pititingcap

Abuton man dilap

O inaro ko

Paibiat nabilbi

Apos macadani

Lupa mon maamo

Lawas pitataynop

Tagalog Translation:

Laging Hinahanap

Lagi ka sa isip ko

Gabi at araw

Di ko malimutan

Maganda mong pangalan

Chorus:

Naghahanap ng bituin

Hanggang sa medaling araw

Hindi makatulog

Ikaw ang hinahanap

Hanggang bukas

O mahal ko

Buhat ng makilala

Hangad makapiling

Mukha mong maamo

Laging napapaginipan

Quotation LOVE

1.        Love begets love.
2.    Love is blind.
3.      All mankind loves a lover.
4.      .Love is the salt of life.

• 5.      All is fair in love and in war.
• 6.      Love is like a rubber band – it stretches far before it breaks.
• 7.      It is love that makes the world go round.

• 8.      Perfect love never settled in a light head.
• 9.   The love of liberty is the love of others. The love of power is the love of ourselves.
  10.   Love is the torment of one. The felicity of two. The strife and enmity of three.

THIRD YEAR HIGH SCHOOL  NOTES

Subject: English

Teacher:  Ms.Patricia E. Marty

SURE Party

By Leonora Efleda P. Tinio

March 9, 1993

LIZA, LEA, DONNA,JOEY,JENYOZ,RHONA, ANALISA, SKI(HAZEL), EDISON,MELCHOR,GLY,REGIN,MYDA,GENALYN,FLORENCE,ROMY,RUEL,JANET

Eventhough we all are not winners…NO.1 pa rin tayo…(that’s for sure) I’ll surely miss our campaigning days especially our “OVERNIGHTS”. 

Do you still remember our “GAPS” (puro panandalian lang). And I just laugh if ever it will remind me of that. “IT’S ALL OVER” the fun, laughter, tears and mostly the excitement.

Oh how I really wish that life was just a tape so we could rewind it and start all over again. Remember pinning our campaign ads (going to school that early). The tour we had from the library to our town. The BROWN-OUTS that always make us shocked. 

The tunes of HIDEAWAY, PARAISO, ALABANG GIRLS and the WORKING SONG which made us popular. The crazy RIDES we had in riding the tricycles of Melchor, Edison, Gly and the ford and jeepney of Jenyoz and Joey.

 The so-called  places PARAISO, green jokes of TITO, VIC, JOEY and sleeping nights we had on the lodge building of AMBAY. The high, strong winds and rainy days we encountered in AMBAY when we had our practice. And ang pagwawala ni Jenyoz sa pagsasayaw and the SIBUYAS ISSUE (note: July 24, 7:00 PM) in our house which is the night before the election. 

The beach we had at SEA BREEZE, we used to play PATINTERO (boys are loser!), drowning of co-party members, FLORENCE MAYO (CRISTINA GONZALES), REGIN (ERIC BUHAIN) and the KJ friend of Analisa. The crazy canal “BUMP” OF Joey with others in front of our house and the “SAMA AKO” blues with Edison and his tricycle. The “NAKATAYO NA” blues when Mary Jane (trainor in dance) came!!! Oh my GOSH I can’t forget those treasured moment. I hope it would happen again. All these are memories of my high school life!

SURE FOREVER,

Vice-Chairman, Lea Tinio

Hindsights by Guy Kawasaki

It is one of those speeches published on broadsheets. I kept it on my ever reliable notebook, and it's nice to see the whole speech posted on this website.  http://stuff.mit.edu/people/amlau/clarity/kawasaki.htm    Palo Alto High School  
Guy Kawasaki

Baccalaureate Speech 6/11/95

Speaking to you today marks a milestone in my life. I am 40 years old. 22 years ago, when I was in your seat, I never, ever thought I would be 40 years old.

The implications of being your speaker frightens me. For one thing, when a 40 year old geeser spoke at my baccalaureate ceremony, he was about the last person I'd believe. I have no intention of giving you the boring speech that you are dreading. This speech will be short, sweet, and not boring.

I am going to talk about hindsights today. Hindsights that I've accumulated in the 20 years from where you are to where I am. Don't blindly believe me. Don't take what I say as "truth." Just listen. Perhaps my experience can help you out a tiny bit.

I will present them ala David Letterman. Yes, 40-year old people can still stay up past 11.

#10: Live off your parents as long as possible.

When I spoke at this ceremony two years ago, this was the most popular hindsight-except from the point of view of the parents. Thus, I knew I was on the right track.

I was a diligent Oriental in high school and college. I took college-level classes and earned college-level credits. I rushed through college in 3 1/2 years. I never traveled or took time off because I thought it wouldn't prepare me for work and it would delay my graduation.

Frankly, I blew it.

You are going to work the rest of your lives, so don't be in a rush to start. Stretch out your college education. Now is the time to suck life into your lungs-before you have a mortgage, kids, and car payments.

Take whole semesters off to travel overseas. Take jobs and internships that pay less money or no money. Investigate your passions on your parent's nickel. Or dime. Or quarter. Or dollar. Your goal should be to extend college to at least six years.

Delay, as long as possible, the inevitable entry into the workplace and a lifetime of servitude to bozos who know less than you do, but who make more money. Also, you shouldn't deprive your parents of the pleasure of supporting you.

#9 Pursue joy, not happiness.

This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be "happy." Oh, you may be have sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable.

Nice house. Nice car. Nice material things. Take my word for it, happiness is temporary and fleeting. Joy, by contrast, is unpredictable. It comes from pursing interests and passions that do not obviously result in happiness.

Pursuing joy, not happiness will translate into one thing over the next few years for you: Study what you love. This may also not be popular with parents. When I went to college, I was "marketing driven." It's also an Oriental thing.

I looked at what fields had the greatest job opportunities and prepared myself for them. This was brain dead. There are so many ways to make a living in the world, it doesn't matter that you've taken all the "right" courses. I don't think one person on the original Macintosh team had a classic "computer science" degree.

You parents have a responsibility in this area. Don't force your kids to follow in your footsteps or to live your dreams. My father was a senator in Hawaii. His dream was to be a lawyer, but he only had a high school education. He wanted me to be a lawyer.

For him, I went to law school. For me, I quit after two weeks. I view this a terrific validation of my inherent intelligence.

#8: Challenge the known and embrace the unknown.

One of the biggest mistakes you can make in life is to accept the known and resist the unknown. You should, in fact, do exactly the opposite: challenge the known and embrace the unknown.

Let me tell you a short story about ice. In the late 1800s there was a thriving ice industry in the Northeast. Companies would cut blocks of ice from frozen lakes and ponds and sell them around the world. The largest single shipment was 200 tons that was shipped to India. 100 tons got there unmelted, but this was enough to make a profit.

These ice harvesters, however, were put out of business by companies that invented mechanical ice makers. It was no longer necessary to cut and ship ice because companies could make it in any city during any season.

These ice makers, however, were put out of business by refrigerator companies. If it was convenient to make ice at a manufacturing plant, imagine how much better it was to make ice and create cold storage in everyone's home.

You would think that the ice harvesters would see the advantages of ice making and adopt this technology. However, all they could think about was the known: better saws, better storage, better transportation.

Then you would think that the ice makers would see the advantages of refrigerators and adopt this technology. The truth is that the ice harvesters couldn't embrace the unknown and jump their curve to the next curve.

Challenge the known and embrace the unknown, or you'll be like the ice harvester and ice makers.

#7: Learn to speak a foreign language, play a musical instrument, and play non-contact sports.

Learn a foreign language. I studied Latin in high school because I thought it would help me increase my vocabulary. It did, but trust me when I tell you it's very difficult to have a conversation in Latin today other than at the Vatican. And despite all my efforts, the Pope has yet to call for my advice. Learn to play a musical instrument. My only connection to music today is that I was named after Guy Lombardo. Trust me: it's better than being named after Guy's brother, Carmen. Playing a musical instrument could be with me now and stay with me forever. Instead, I have to buy CDs at Tower.

I played football. I loved football. Football is macho. I was a middle linebacker-arguably, one of the most macho position in a macho game. But you should also learn to play a non-contact sport like basketball or tennis. That is, a sport you can play when you're over the hill.

It will be as difficult when you're 40 to get twenty two guys together in a stadium to play football as it is to have a conversation in Latin, but all the people who wore cute, white tennis outfits can still play tennis. And all the macho football players are sitting around watching television and drinking beer.

#6: Continue to learn.

Learning is a process not an event. I thought learning would be over when I got my degree. It's not true. You should never stop learning. Indeed, it gets easier to learn once you're out of school because it's easier to see the relevance of why you need to learn.

You're learning in a structured, dedicated environment right now. On your parent's nickel. But don't confuse school and learning. You can go to school and not learn a thing. You can also learn a tremendous amount without school.

#5: Learn to like yourself or change yourself until you can like yourself.

I know a forty year old woman who was a drug addict. She is a mother of three. She traced the start of her drug addiction to smoking dope in high school.

I'm not going to lecture you about not taking drugs. Hey, I smoked dope in high school. Unlike Bill Clinton, I inhaled. Also unlike Bill Clinton, I exhaled.

This woman told me that she started taking drugs because she hated herself when she was sober. She did not like drugs so much as much as she hated herself. Drugs were not the cause though she thought they were the solution.

She turned her life around only after she realized that she was in a downward spiral. Fix your problem. Fix your life. Then you won't need to take drugs. Drugs are neither the solution nor the problem.

Frankly, smoking, drugs, alcohol-and using an IBM PC-are signs of stupidity. End of discussion.

#4: Don't get married too soon.

I got married when I was 32. That's about the right age. Until you're about that age, you may not know who you are. You also may not know who you're marrying.

I don't know one person who got married too late. I know many people who got married too young. If you do decide to get married, just keep in mind that you need to accept the person for what he or she is right now.

#3: Play to win and win to play.

Playing to win is one of the finest things you can do. It enables you to fulfill your potential. It enables you to improve the world and, conveniently, develop high expectations for everyone else too.

And what if you lose? Just make sure you lose while trying something grand. Avinash Dixit, an economics professor at Princeton, and Barry Nalebuff, an economics and management professor at the Yale School of Organization and Management, say it this way:

"If you are going to fail, you might as well fail at a difficult task. Failure causes others to downgrade their expectations of you in the future. The seriousness of this problem depends on what you attempt."

In its purest form, winning becomes a means, not an end, to improve yourself and your competition.

Winning is also a means to play again. The unexamined life may not be worth living, but the unlived life is not worth examining. The rewards of winning-money, power, satisfaction, and self-confidence-should not be squandered.

Thus, in addition to playing to win, you have a second, more important obligation: To compete again to the depth and breadth and height that your soul can reach. Ultimately, your greatest competition is yourself.

#2: Obey the absolutes.

Playing to win, however, does not mean playing dirty. As you grow older and older, you will find that things change from absolute to relative. When you were very young, it was absolutely wrong to lie, cheat, or steal.

As you get older, and particularly when you enter the workforce, you will be tempted by the "system" to think in relative terms. "I made more money." "I have a nicer car." "I went on a better vacation."

Worse, "I didn't cheat as much on my taxes as my partner." "I just have a few drinks. I don't take cocaine." "I don't pad my expense reports as much as others."

This is completely wrong. Preserve and obey the absolutes as much as you can. If you never lie, cheat, or steal, you will never have to remember who you lied to, how you cheated, and what you stole.

There absolutely are absolute rights and wrongs.

#1: Enjoy your family and friends before they are gone.

This is the most important hindsight. It doesn't need much explanation. I'll just repeat it: Enjoy your family and friends before they are gone.

Nothing-not money, power, or fame-can replace your family and friends or bring them back once they are gone. Our greatest joy has been our baby, and I predict that children will bring you the greatest joy in your lives-especially if they graduate from college in four years.

And now, I'm going to give you one extra hindsight because I've probably cost your parents thousands of dollars today. It's something that I hate to admit too.

By and large, the older you get, the more you're going to realize that your parents were right. More and more-until finally, you become your parents. I know you're all saying, "Yeah, right." Mark my words.

Remember these ten things: if just one of them helps you helps just one of you, this speech will have been a success:

#10: Live off your parents as long as possible.

#9 Pursue joy, not happiness.

#8: Challenge the known and embrace the unknown.

#7: Learn to speak a foreign language, play a musical instrument, and play non-contact sports.

#6: Continue to learn.

#5: Learn to like yourself or change yourself until you can like yourself.

#4: Don't get married too soon.

#3: Play to win and win to play.

#2: Obey the absolutes.

#1: Enjoy your family and friends before they are gone.

Congratulations on your graduation. Thank you very much.

Thanks to You

Thanks To You

by Tyler Collins

 

intro
A G#m F#m E,A G#m F#m F#m

verse
E G#m F#m B (2x),C#m G#m F#m B(2x) - E

Thank you for teaching me how to love 
Showing me what the world means 
What I've been dreamin' of 
And now I know, there is nothing that I could not do 
Thanks to You 

For teaching me how to feel 
Showing me my emotions 
Letting me know what's real 
From what is not 
What I've got is more that I'd ever hoped for 
And a lot of what I hope for is 
Thanks to you 


Chorus 
A E (3x) F#m B
No mountain, no valley 
No time, no space 
No heartache, no heartbreak 
No fall from grace 
Can't stop me from believing 
That my love will pull me through 
Thanks to You 


E G#m F#m B (2x),C#m G#m F#m B(2x) - E

Chorus
A E (3x) F#m B

No mountain, no valley 
No time, no space 
No heartache, no heartbreak 
No fall from grace 
Can't stop me from believing 
That my love will pull me through 
Thanks to You 

transpo stanza 
F#m Bbm G#m C#(2x), Ebm Bbm G#m C# (2x) F#m,

For teaching me how to live 
Putting things in perspective 
Teaching me how to give 
And how to take 
No mistake 
We were put here together 
And if I breakdown 
Forgive me but it's true 
That I'm aching with the love I feel inside 
Thanks to You 

You are my Sunrise

  

This morning I saw the birth of a sunrise like I have never seen before
The orange haze on the clouds giving away what was to come
The tip of this fiery body slowly emerging from beneath the horizon
A powerful event that marked the beginning for some and the end for others

In the midst of all of this my mind kept wandering to you
Damn, one more moment that I wish I could share with you
One more moment that I want you to feel, to have, to live with me
Far too soon it becomes too intense; I close my eyes but I can still see

My heart felt like it was on fire, just like my eyes
I felt all the love I have felt in a lifetime at this single point in time
It was as if I was overdosing on something, overdosing on love
I swallowed, desperately trying to clear my throat

I can see the glow around you, the fiery person that you are
So quietly beautify, but so intense when you want to be
So warm to my heart, so hot to my touch, so life-giving to my soul
You are my sunrise

(c) 2007 by Gerard C Johnson

http://www.everypoet.net/poetry/blogs/gcj/you_are_my_sunrise

A Birthday Greeting

The Man with the Hoe

After all these years, All you can remember are the songs and poems you memorized. Some hate repetitions.So I dare you, read this once and memorize. Can you? The key to perfection is repetition. Want to acquire a skill, and be a master, therefore do it repeatedly.

The Man with the Hoe by Edwin Markham
Third Year English subject
Santa Cruz Academy
Zambales, PHL
Year 1992
Teacher: Ms. Patricia Marty

http://www.vggallery.com/painting/p_0648.htm

The Man With The Hoe by Edwin Markham

Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans
Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground,
The emptiness of ages in his face,
And on his back the burden of the world.
Who made him dead to rapture and despair,
A thing that grieves not and that never hopes.
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ox?
Who loosened and let down this brutal jaw?
Whose was the hand that slanted back this brow?
Whose breath blew out the light within this brain?

Is this the Thing the Lord God made and gave
To have dominion over sea and land;
To trace the stars and search the heavens for power;
To feel the passion of Eternity?
Is this the Dream He dreamed who shaped the suns
And marked their ways upon the ancient deep?
Down all the stretch of Hell to its last gulf
There is no shape more terrible than this —
More tongued with censure of the world's blind greed —
More filled with signs and portents for the soul —
More fraught with menace to the universe.

What gulfs between him and the seraphim!
Slave of the wheel of labor, what to him
Are Plato and the swing of Pleiades?
What the long reaches of the peaks of song,
The rift of dawn, the reddening of the rose?
Through this dread shape the suffering ages look;
Time's tragedy is in the aching stoop;
Through this dread shape humanity betrayed,
Plundered, profaned, and disinherited,
Cries protest to the Powers that made the world.
A protest that is also a prophecy.

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands,
Is this the handiwork you give to God,
This monstrous thing distorted and soul-quenched?
How will you ever straighten up this shape;
Touch it again with immortality;
Give back the upward looking and the light;
Rebuild in it the music and the dream,
Make right the immemorial infamies,
Perfidious wrongs, immedicable woes?

O masters, lords and rulers in all lands
How will the Future reckon with this Man?
How answer his brute question in that hour
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake all shores?
How will it be with kingdoms and with kings —
With those who shaped him to the thing he is —
When this dumb Terror shall rise to judge the world.
After the silence of the centuries?



The Man with the Hoe

Life was hard, love was easy

Magdalena does not know when Julian will die, but she knows it is soon. It is a constant awareness. There is no forgetting it. Maybe it will take months. Maybe years. She does not know, but she is certain she will be left alone. She is glad she found him, glad she loved him, and when the last of his sunsets are gone, she will wait under the tarp of a tent that hunkers square across the sea, for all the other sunsets that he will miss while she misses him. - Rappler.com


Life was hard, love was easy
by Patricia Evangelista and Carlo Gabuco
Life was hard, Love was Easy

Blonde and Blue Eyes

Pinay wins it big in London

 

By Alfred Yuson

The Philippine Star 05/16/2004

 

Patricia Evangelista, a 19-year-old, Mass Communications sophomore of University of the Philippines(UP)-Diliman, did the country proud Friday night by besting 59 other student contestants from 37 countries in the 2004 International Public Speaking competition conducted by the English Speaking Union (ESU) in London.

She triumphed over a field of exactly 60 speakers from all over the English-speaking world, including the United States, United Kingdom and Australia, reported Maranan.

The board of judges‚ decision was unanimous, according to contest chairman Brian Hanharan of the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC).

 

PATRICIA'S SHORT SPEECH WORTH READING....

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BLONDE AND BLUE EYES

 

When I was little, I wanted what many Filipino¬?children all over the country wanted. I wanted to be blond, blue-eyed, and white.

I thought -- if I just wished hard enough and was good enough, I'd wake up on Christmas morning with snow outside my window and freckles across my nose!

More than four centuries under western domination does that to you. I have sixteen cousins. In a couple of years, there will just be five of us left in the Philippines, the rest will have gone abroad in search of "greener pastures." It's not just an anomaly; it's a trend;  the Filipino diaspora. Today, about eight million Filipinos are scattered around the world.

There are those who disapprove of Filipinos who choose to leave. I used to. Maybe this is a natural reaction of someone who was left behind, smiling for family pictures that get emptier with each succeeding year. Desertion, I called it. My country is a land that has perpetually fought for the freedom to be itself.Our heroes offered  their lives in the struggle against the Spanish,the Japanese, the Americans. To pack up and deny that identity is tantamount to spitting on that sacrifice.

Or is it? I don't think so, not anymore. True, there is no denying this phenomenon, aided by the fact that what was once the other side of the world is now a twelve-hour plane ride away. But this is a borderless world, where no individual can claim to be purely from where¬he is now.  My mother is of Chinese descent, my father is a quarter Spanish, and I call myself a pure Filipino-a hybrid of sorts resulting from a combination of cultures.

Each square mile anywhere in the world is made up of people of different ethnicities, with national identities and individual personalities. Because of this, each square mile is already a microcosm of the world. In as much as this blessed spot that is England is the world, so is my neighborhood back home.

Seen this way, the Filipino Diaspora, or any sort of dispersal of populations, is not as ominous as so many claim. It must be understood. I come from a Third World country, one that is still trying mightily to get back on its feet after many years of dictatorship. But we shall make it, given more time. Especially now, when we have thousands of eager young minds who graduate from college every year. They have skills. They need jobs. We cannot absorb them all.

A borderless world presents a bigger opportunity, yet one that is not so much abandonment but an extension of identity. Even as we take, we give back. We are the 40,000 skilled nurses who support the UK's National Health Service. We are the quarter-of-a-million seafarers manning most of the world's commercial ships.We are your software engineers in Ireland, your construction

workers in the Middle East, your doctors and caregivers in North America, and, your musical artists in London's West End.

 

Nationalism isn't bound by time or place. People from other nations migrate to create new nations, yet still remain essentially who they are. British society is itself an example of a multi-cultural nation, a melting pot of races, religions,arts and cultures. We are, indeed, in a borderless world!

Leaving sometimes isn't a matter of choice. It's coming back that is. The Hobbits of the shire traveled all over Middle-Earth, but they chose to come home, richer in every sense of the word. We call people like these balikbayans or the 'returnees'-- those who followed their dream, yet choose to return and share their mature talents and good fortune.

In a few years, I may take advantage of whatever opportunities come my way. But I will come home. A borderless world doesn't preclude the idea of a home. I'm a Filipino, and I'll always be one. It isn't about just geography; it isn't about boundaries. It's about giving back to the country that shaped me.

And that's going to be more important to me than seeing snow outside my windows on a bright Christmas morning.

Mabuhay. and Thank you.