We know that clothes do not make a per­son; but it does help. And it’s always great to know how to take care of clothes so they last longer. Hav­ing said that, let us remem­ber what Albert Ein­stein once said, “If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy fur­ni­ture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philoso­phies.… It would be a sad sit­u­a­tion if the wrap­per were bet­ter than the meat wrapped inside it.”

I was born at the tail-end of Mar­tial Law. I have very vague mem­o­ries of it. I would have to say that i did not have a first hand infor­ma­tion of it. I heard sto­ries from my dad, but that was about it. I dis­tinctly remem­ber see­ing the images of Ninoy Aquino being shot on the tar­mac of the air­port that will even­tu­ally bear his name (poetic jus­tice!). Oh, as an aside, I am writ­ing this while I’m in Ninoy Aquino Inter­na­tional Air­port! How appro­pri­ate!

It’s funny how it took a psy­chol­o­gist Her­bert Simon to give what I think is the best def­i­n­i­tion of what a designer is: ‘Every­one designs who devises courses of action aimed at chang­ing exist­ing sit­u­a­tions into pre­ferred ones.’

Chang­ing what exists into what is pre­ferred. Chang­ing what is, to some­thing beau­ti­ful. That is what a designer does. That is who he is.

For all my friends who blog, are start­ing to blog or have been blog­ging for a long time, this post is for you.

This is a beau­ti­ful ver­sion by Gary Valen­ciano, one of the pre­mier per­form­ers in the Philip­pines. I think this is one of the best ver­sions, prob­a­bly even bet­ter than the orig­i­nal. What do you think?

Oh, and please try to be patient with the cheeeeeesy video. Just lis­ten to the song. Hahaha!