In obser­vance of this Holy Week, AngPere­grino will not be post­ing any arti­cle from today, Holy Mon­day, April 6, 2009, to Easter Sun­day, April 12.

I’ll be back on April 13 for more cool things you pick up on this road called Life.

There are moments in our lives when we feel so “in the zone” that every­thing we touch seem to turn into gold, and we really feel that we have all that it takes to make us happy. Not just the giddy happy we feel when we get a new ipod or mac­book pro, but the really deep joy we feel at our wed­ding and grad­u­a­tions.
But then just when we feel that every­thing is turn­ing out right, some­thing hap­pens and we come crash­ing down to earth. It is so easy to …

This Sat­ur­day, at 9AM, at the Church of the Gesu, sev­eral of my friends will be ordained to the priest­hood. Oliver Dy, Jason Dy, Frank Savadera and Javi Alpasa were a year ahead of me when I was a Jesuit. Fran­cis Alvarez and Rob­bie Sian were two years ahead of me.
I am shar­ing with you a homily given by Javi Alpasa when he was a regent in Ate­neo de Naga. It’s in Fil­ipino so I apol­o­gize for my non-Filipino read­ers. But a lot would be lost if I trans­late it …

He met her on a party, she was so out­stand­ing, many guys were chas­ing after her, while he was so nor­mal, nobody paid atten­tion to him. At the end of the party, he invited her to have cof­fee with him.she was sur­prised, but as he was polite, she promised. They sat in a nice cof­fee shop, he was too ner­vous to say any­thing, She felt uncom­fort­able, she thought, “please, let me back home”.

Athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her pros­thetic legs — she’s got a dozen amaz­ing pairs — and the super-powers they grant her: speed, beauty, an extra 6 inches of height … Quite sim­ply, she rede­fines what the body can be.