a message ...

Dear Students 

(who did not make it in the Licensure Exams)...

We understand that the outcome may not have been what you had hoped for,
and we share in your disappointment.
But we know that you are capable of achieving great things,
and we stand by you in this sad time. Akap. 🤗

Just take this time to reflect, to learn from this experience,
and to prepare for the journey ahead.
Failure as they say is not the end but a stepping stone towards success. 

Please know that you are not alone in this.
You have your friends and family,
you have a community,
and we stand together in times of trials.
Iyak lang ng todo at ilabas lahat ng frustration
then move on. Padayon! 💛

Just stay strong, keep believing in yourself,
prepare harder and smarter and never ever lose sight of your dreams.
Ipaglaban ang pangarap na yan, maaabot din. 

Your journey is far from over.
You will bounce back from this stronger
and more determined than ever,
claim na yan! ⭐

Laban lang always!

rhetoric is a poor substitute for action (throwback 2009)

merry month

Life is a gift
but it comes with an unknown expiry date.

Let's bring happy thoughts
and happy memories all the time.

Life is short...
choose what's good,
what's kind and what's pleasing to our Lifegiver.

Time is gold.
Life is fleeting.
Make every moment count.

In other words,
start studying for your final exams
if you haven't yet  :)

my TOP 10 favorite quotes from TALES OF THE BLACK FREIGHTER (a story within the watchmen story, all quoted from the sea captain)

1. How had I reached this appalling position with love, 

only love, as my guide? 

2.  My raft had grown increasingly grotesque, reflecting my own transformation.
Adrift, my darkest imaginings welled up unchecked,
spilling from brain to heart like ink.
Impossible to remove. 

3.  There came an understanding so large, 

it left no room for sanity. 

So I ran. 

The knowledge of my damnation chased me, 

shouting, celebrating it's awful victory. 

4. One of my crew lay ahead. Birds were eating his thoughts and memories. 

5. Whoever we are, wherever we reside, we exist on the whim of murderers. 

6. God has damned me. 

God has damned us all. 

Truly, life is hell, 

and 

death's rough hand her only deliverance.

7. Know this my friends: Hades is wet. Hades is lonely.
And in that instant, we knew each other.

8. I headed east. East, borne on the bodies of murdered men. 

Hope can be a horrible thing.

9.I was a horror; amongst horrors must I dwell...

10. Noble intentions had led me to atrocity. 

The righteous anger fueling my ingenious awful scheme 

was but delusion. 

Where was my error?