August 18, 2008
3:35

A perfect weekend...

It was a fulfilling Saturday and Sunday...Tiring yet fully satisfied... as what the seminarian said in his message... and i quote, "lovingly struggling". I too felt this with all the good things that happened to me last weekend (Aug.16 and 17) and even until now...and i know in the days to come..

Saturday- I spent the entire dawn with some new friends with a bottle of Gilbeys mixed with C2 ice tea drink and indeed, it was a night of realization that it is a small world after all ( the famous Disney Parade song when i was in Disney TOkyo last 2004).. we are all connected... and with this, i can say i was drunk. Around 6 in the morning i need to be at Quezon Park to start doing the Amazing Race stations for the leadership training for the SK Chairmen of Negors Oriental--- and i was drunk... hehehehe...

During the entire course of the race, i realized how blessed i am to have been given the chance and opportunity to impart something to these young shakers of the land. It was fulfilling and it was also an eye opener knowing that most or i mean all of these SK chairmen who are considered as the leaders of the grassroots do not deserve to be there in that position and have the word honorable before their given names. most of them can not even communicate and were just forced by parents and peers to run for the said position and they ended up lost in that quest for change. sad but true.. it was something that struck my being as an ambitious young man who still has this hope for our dear old Filipinas...

After this event, we gave some reward to ourselves, me with ate lea, jana and jay aldecoa.Submitted ourselves to the movie- a very special love. and it was a movie that brought me in to tears and hope. another 360 degrees turn of a hopeful romantic that i know will come my way in due time- boy or girl- it does not matter at all as long as i love that soul.
And i met the night with great anticipation to have that long overdue rest; i know i truly deserve.

Sunday- Morning, was  the continuation of the leadership training and it was where we had our processing stage of the things we did last saturday. again a moment of greatness and a moment of happiness. having this sense of grattitude that i have some power to change the face of this world. i do not dream to be Oprah or Barrack Obama to start something great--- but i am Claudio Ramos, having this special and unique mission, and i guess i am starting to find and to fulfill it.

Next, believe it or not, i watched the movie a very special love again, with Naddie. hehehe you call it fanatic not to the stars or the celebrities, maybe it was also the reason but i was more particular with the magic of LOVE. this movie as i said, brings back the so- called love feeling that i thought will be elusive to my being...the hope is there and the search goes on..

then we rushed ourselves to hear the Gospel and the testimony of this graduating seminarian. it may be weird but it did pass by my mind-- and that is to join the seminary. whooaaah...we will see...

and last, the night became so elegant with the Ballet Manila performance with Prima Ballerina- Liza Macuja Elisalde.the grandeur of showcasing two masterpieces- Sonata and Pinocchio was astonishing and even until now the images of the under water scene of pinocchio and the bed scene of Sonata are still fresh and alive. The hope of being a stage performer will and is always in my heart. i may be silent today but i know there and it will come... my time when the world will smile at me as i kiss the stage of greatness--- with or with out those curtains and lights..

HOPE is what i call the support system of ambition...