Ducky Pare­des wrote this arti­cle in Malaya. This is some­thing that we prob­a­bly sus­pect already. Now here are the numbers…

The sea­son of grad­u­a­tion and grad speeches have just ended last week. In the philip­pines, the school year begins on June and ends in March, so grad­u­a­tions are usu­ally cel­e­brated end of March. Here’s one more grad speech–this time by the “great” Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Com­puter and of Pixar Ani­ma­tion Studios.

Steve Jobs Com­mence­ment Address, Stan­ford Uni­ver­sity, 2005

I am hon­ored to be with you today at your com­mence­ment from one of the finest uni­ver­si­ties in the world. I never grad­u­ated from col­lege. Truth be told, this is the closest …

You may not know the guy, and you may not have heard of this before, but this is one great lec­ture. The one I’m post­ing here is just a sum­mary of it. If you want to watch the full lec­ture, go to YouTube and search for Randy Pausch — Last Lec­ture.
Pausch has been a co-founder, along with Don Marinelli, of Carnegie-Mellon U’s Enter­tain­ment Tech­nol­ogy Cen­ter (ETC) and he started the Build­ing Vir­tual Worlds course at CMU and taught it for ten years. He has been a National Sci­ence Foun­da­tion Presidential …

This is the Philip­pine Daily Inquirer edi­to­r­ial for last Sun­day, March 2, 2008. I’m post­ing it for my Fil­ipino friends in other coun­tries who are con­cerned about what is hap­pen­ing here in the philip­pines.
Things are com­ing to a head once again. I do not know if there’s going to be any mass action in the next cou­ple of days or what will trig­ger it; but the atmos­phere is like the one just before EDSA II. If any­thing, this whole thing is mak­ing the Fil­ipino more edu­cated about pol­i­tics, more voracious …

Seek­ing the Truth, Restor­ing Integrity(A CBCP Pas­toral State­ment)
Beloved Peo­ple of God:
Greet­ings in the peace of the Lord!
Today in the midst of rest­less­ness and con­fu­sion, we come to you as pas­tors, for that is our pre­cise role. We do not come as politi­cians whose voca­tion it is to order soci­ety towards the com­mon good. Our mes­sage con­tributes to the flour­ish­ing of a democ­racy which must not be built only on polit­i­cal for­mu­lae.
We face today a cri­sis of truth and the per­vad­ing can­cer of cor­rup­tion. We must seek the truth and we must restore …