MOVING ON

I'm almost in the end of reading A.J. Jacob's book, "The Know-It-All" (One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World), when I noted down the name A.J. & his wife Julie were planning to give their first child (a son)--"Jasper," which name opened up in me a flood of memories that were scant to start with. I jotted down in my things of list-to-do that I'd do a posting on my brother Jasper (which gratefully I'm able to do now). Turned out from my reading of the book that "Jasper" also is a variation of "Gaspar," one of the Wise Men from the East who showed up during the birth of Jesus. Well, that's the same name of my brother, Jasper, who died seven (7) days after he was born. His twin, Jason, however, has survived him. Had Jasper lived, he would have been over 30 years old this year. Jasper's the bigger of the twins that our Mother gave birth to, when I was already in my teens (I'm the eldest ...

I've taken the liberty of sharing here the video made by Meinard, a dear friend back in the Philippines [read: I would have not done anything like this, if I don't know personally the person taking lead]. I'm delighted to learn from an email exchange that he made a video he originally posted on YouTube, which I tried to blogged on two nights ago but failed to get posted here for some unknown technical reason (it may get posted here, sometime, but I won't worry about it). This serves then as a second article on the said video. I'd rather keep my efforts to do charitable works not blasted about here, nor even to my own network. I'd always remember some biblical entries, to wit: "Matthew 6:1-6. 16-18 1 Jesus said to his disciples: “Take care not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them; otherwise, you will have no recompense from your heavenly Father. 2 When you give alms, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the syna...