Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafaring soul. If either be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

- Kahlil Gibran

When you've reached the goal

you've chosen for yourself,

set your sights on an even higher objective.

And keep going.

When things have not worked out

the way you planned,

learn the valuable lessons

that the experience has to offer.

And keep going.

The key to meaningful achievement

is not in how clever you are

or how lucky you are

or in how much advantage you can gain over others.

The key is to keep going.

When other people give you encouragement,

insight and assistance,

thank them for their help while offering

your own special value in return.

And keep going.

When others seek to block your every effort,

raise yourself up to where you can clearly see

beyond their petty, shortsighted attempts.

And keep going.

Whatever may come or go

or happen or fail to happen,

there is always a way,

some way or another, to keep going.

You will get wherever you wish to go

when you consistently choose,

in each moment, to simply, thankfully

and gracefully keep going.

-- Ralph Marston

in life we dont need someone who'll love us so much and will give us the world. but instead, we need someone who'll be there and never leave us no matter what happens...

do you agree?

love your work

if you don't like your work,
you'll need three times the energy:
to force yourself to work,
to resist the force,
and finally to work.

if you love your work,
your desire to do it
will be like a wind
to propel your ship
with much less fuel.

if you like your work,
you work no more -
for work, when you like it,
is work no longer,
but sheer enjoyment!

if you enjoy your work,
you'll work and work
without counting the hours -
and you'll reap and enjoy
more earnings as well.

- H.L. Neri

i was early in the office of the Deputy Minister of Education (waiting for a meeting) and I saw this somewhat old poster in a glass frame... it hit me... because this has been always my principle...

i decided... that i want to try other things... i told Shaman that perhaps i reached the breakeven point...

but after UNESCO i should look for something... that i love...

then i dedicate myself to it... i sometimes think its gonna be difficult...

life is like this... there are crossroads...

and i have to go through these...

here i go again...

after a year, the feeling is here again
oh, i wish i can explain...
but i can't

even the turtle is luckier...
he chose this song
saying this is what he feels...



Crystal Ball

Who is the man I see where I'm supposed to be?
I lost my heart, I buried it too deep under the iron sea.

Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball,
Save us all, tell me life is beautiful,
Mirror, mirror on the wall.

Lines ever more unclear,
I'm not sure I'm even here,
The more I look the more I think
that I'm starting to disappear.

Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball,
Save us all, tell me life is beautiful,
Mirror, mirror on the wall.

Oh, crystal ball, hear my song,
I'm fading out, everything I know is wrong,
So put me where I belong.

I don't know where I am,
and I don't really care,
I look myself in the eye,
there's no one there.

I fall upon the earth,
I call upon the air,
but all I get is the same old vacant stare.

Oh, crystal ball, crystal ball,
Save us all, tell me life is beautiful,
Mirror, mirror on the wall.

Oh, crystal ball, hear my song,
I'm fading out, everything I know is wrong,
So put me where I belong.