Hi guys! I was sure glad you managed to visit me in spite of the distance. Once again, I would like to thank you for the time and the fun. It was indeed a very warm and engaging afternoon.

Now that my flight is coming near, indulge me to say a piece to all of the wonderful kids I met in 1991. Never in my dreams that someday I will witness these young kids transform to young professionals with good nice jobs, productive and happily married, at least to the majority who I knew are now blissfully married. Never mind the failures we meet along the way what is important is that we still strive to do better to become the better person that we should be. I am not aware of the struggles you had to hurdle but one thing I am sure of, that you, we, are survivors in this concrete jungle of life.

With my forthcoming departure and experience a different way of living in Canada, I can’t help but hold these mixed feelings of fear of uncertainty, excitement and loneliness. Fear of uncertainty because it will be entirely a new ball game for me and I am not sure what really lies ahead especially that I will be bringing my whole family with me. Lone because I will be leaving a life that I been used to… leave the people, places and way of life that I love but excited to the new opportunity that this new chapter in my life has to offer. Remember, failure is not a matter of falling down but being down and bot able to move on.

For this reason, I would like to share with you this most humbling thoughts that this may guide you as you take your place … your life to a new heights of certainty --- success in your chosen career……

ONE LIFE

“I have but one life and life is not but a measurement of time.

I will greet the new sun with confidence that this will be the

best day of my life. Each misfortune that I encounter will carry

in it the need of tomorrow’s good luck. I must have the night to

appreciate the day. I must fail often to succeed only once.

Each frown that I meet only prepares me for a smile to come.

I will leave each day as if it is my last; I will waste not a moment

mourning yesterday’s misfortunes, yesterday’s aches of the

heart for why should I throw good after bad?

Yesterday is buried forever and I will think of it no more.

If I waste today, I destroy the last page of my life.

Each hour of this day will I cherish for it can never return.

It can’t be banked today to be withdrawn on the morrow.

For who can trap the wind? Each minute of this day

I will fondle with love for its value is beyond price.

Yesterday’s joy will become today’s sadness.

Yet today’s sadness will grow into tomorrow’s joy.

When I am heavy with heartaches and frustrations,

I’ll console myself that these, too, shall pass.

Today is my last chance to prove my love and greatness.

Each moment of today will be more fruitful

Than hours of yesterday”

“My last must be my best”