To the most beautiful woman in my life!

HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA!

(this picture is taken during my college ring hop ceremony)

Frugality, simplicity and prayers are the things that I inherited from my Mama.

Home (Westlife version)

Westlife is my contemporary. I enjoy listening thier music and got emotional when they released thier version of "HOME". The music video tells the same story like mine. I wanna go home!

Be it unto me

Be it unto me – by Don Moen – Its a submission song to God. Its other way of saying “LORD THY WILL BE DONE”.

My college classmate

These are the people I cannot forget. This is the group that created and purposed the Computerized Library System in our school. The task challeged us not only our intellect but our physical and financial capabilities as well. After 10 months of sleepless nights of group study and research we come up with system that will computerized our library. This picture is taken after our oral defend. Our thesis has passed from the perfectionist jury and our proposal has been approved. One of the finalist asked us what to do after passing our proposal, I told him " O God Sir, matutulog muna ako" everybody agreed with me, and the room were filled with laughter.

The graduation picture

My graduation picture....the only black and white picture that I have....

The oldest picture that I have.

This is the most precious and oldest picture that I have. My mother (wearing a black skirt) and my father (wearing longselves) take a posed together with other couple my Tiyay Mary and Tiyoy Gingging. The dramatic black and white picture has a unique appeal to this multi colored genaration.

The people I admired most!

Mohandas Gandhi

2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence movement. He was the pioneer of satyagraha—resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience, firmly founded upon ahimsa or total non-violence—which led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. He is commonly known around the world as Mahatma Gandhi (Sanskrit: महात्मा mahātmā or "Great Soul", an honorific first applied to him by Rabindranath Tagore), and in India also as Bapu (Gujarati: બાપુ bāpu or "Father"). He is officially honoured in India as the Father of the Nation; his birthday, 2 October, is commemorated there as Gandhi Jayanti, a national holiday, and worldwide as the International Day of Non-Violence

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Helen Keller

(June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist and lecturer. She was the first deafblind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Annie Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become known worldwide through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker. A prolific author, Keller was well traveled and was outspoken in her opposition to war. She campaigned for women's suffrage, workers' rights, and socialism, as well as many other progressive causes.

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Dr. Jose Rizal

June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896, was a Filipino polymath, nationalist and the most prominent advocate for reforms in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial era. He is considered the Philippines' national hero and the anniversary of Rizal's death is commemorated as a Philippine holiday called Rizal Day. Rizal's 1896 military trial and execution made him a martyr of the Philippine Revolution.

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist and pro-Gandhian, was the first black person to be elected for the post of the President of South Africa. In his freedom struggle, he was convicted of many crimes (for good cause) and had to spend 27 years in prison. His political views and values are greatly influenced by the principles of Mahatma Gandhi. He also won the Nobel Peace prize.

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Martin Luther King

An American clergyman and one of the leading activists in the Civil Rights Movement, Martin Luther King Jr. was born on January 15, 1929. He was the frontrunner to achieve the total banishment of racial discrimination through non-violent means just like Mahatma Gandhi. He was not only one of the greatest orators in the history of United States, but also was a great humanitarian. He was the youngest African-American person to receive the Nobel Prize. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in 1968.

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Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was born Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu in Skopje*, Macedonia, on August 26**, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa taught at St. Mary's High School in Calcutta, but the suffering and poverty she glimpsed outside the convent walls made such a deep impression on her that in 1948 she received permission from her superiors to leave the convent school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Although she had no funds, she depended on Divine Providence, and started an open-air school for slum children. Soon she was joined by voluntary helpers, and financial support was also forthcoming. This made it possible for her to extend the scope of her work.

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Benigno "Ninoy" Aquino

(November 27, 1932 – August 21, 1983), popularly known as Benigno Aquino, Jr. and by his nickname Ninoy, was a former Philippine senator, governor, vice governor and mayor and a leader of the opposition to the rule of Ferdinand Marcos. He was assassinated at the Manila International Airport (now named the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in his honor) upon returning home from exile in the United States. His death catapulted his widow, Corazon Aquino, to the limelight and subsequently to the presidency, replacing the 20-year-old Marcos regime.