Thursday, May 7, 2009

LSGH Batch 94

Fifteen years ago, a group of children who knew nothing about life graduated from arguably the best High School in our country, La Salle Greenhills.
The LSGH dome, stood proud that drizzling March day, when 417 students marched up her catwalk fearlessly. They would be tried and tested in the days and years to come, and yet they walked on stubbornly. They dared the fates to break them. Because they knew that they could not be broken.
Were it not for their teachers, they would not have learned the colors of life.
Were it not for their friends, they would not have enjoyed the miseries of life.
Their Alma Matter taught them well.

Fifteen years later, I see them transformed into adults, preaching about destiny and social responsibility in the world wide web. Boy have they grown into dependable and responsible men, a far cry from the greenhorns they were during the good old days!
Then I look at myself in the mirror and notice my weathered face, mangled countless times by the uncertainties of life and the trials of our faith.
Time is upon me.
True friendship conquers time and everything in between a straight line, and very rarely does it transcend the limits of brotherhood. Lucky for me.
In this regard, children make the best of friends even when they grow old. In some cases, though, they sadly make the worst of enemies, and yet inspite of petty differences, they get together each year to celebrate their youth. Then they realize the grand design of things.
And finally notice that the fates are upon them.
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3 comments:

  1. Nice insights Mike. Who would have thought that the skilled soccer player from Bacolod would turn out to be a very insightful blogger 15 years after. (has it been that long?) Keep it up bro! Cheers!

    saki

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  2. Saki, bro... June 4,2009 minus March 17, 1994 (Our LSGH H.S.graduation), equals an estimated 15 years. But You and I played soccer in grade 6, an estimated 6 years ealier.

    Therefore, you and I played soccer approximately 21 years ago! Geez!

    We're getting old bro...=)

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  3. I saw searching the web and saw your blog. Great work...hope you can continue sharing your thoughts.

    galen

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My wife and I decided to bring our four year old child, Rochelle Marie, to Baguio last Saturday, and as expected, she enjoyed the city, the climate, the horses, and most especially the people. We hope to teach her much about Filipino culture, especially the Ifugao and Igorot cultures, before their customs and traditions fade away into history and are replaced by television, video games, and rock and roll. These senior citizens charged us Php 130 pesos (10 pesos each) for the photo because they really needed money, as they have no other sources of income. Their ancestral lands were either sold or taken away from them many years ago and I doubt if our government is doing anything to help them out today. They really need our help. So, go to Baguio whenever you can and visit them. - Baguio City, May 2, 2009

Snippets: Sports and Children

Any sport teaches kids the values of discipline, perseverance, courage, humility, obedience, patience, and most of all, cooperation and love, values that take a longer time to develop within the four walls of a university classroom.

This is why schools and universities all over the world have already recognized Olympic Sports as more effective ways to develop a child's Bodily-Kinesthetic, Spatial, Interpersonal and Intrapersonal intelligences. (There are seven multiple intelligences known to man.)

Perhaps, this is the reason why many child athletes tend to be great leaders when they grow up. Primary Examples: 1.U.S. President Obama plays basketball; 2. Russian President Vladimir Putin plays Judo. He holds an advanced blackbelt degree in this martial art and sport; 3. England's Margaret Thatcher played hockey and swimming earlier in her life; 4. Governor Arnold Swarzenneger is a competitive bodybuilder; 5. And Saint John Paul II, the late Pope and Holy Father of the Holy Catholic Church, played skiing, swimming, cayaking, boxing and mountaineering.

So, introduce your kids to sports. It is worth it.
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