My descent from the back of a carabao Water buffalo – rice paddies – sugar cane plantation – scythe – farm bolo or machete – unleashed dogs – kerosene lamp – farmers planting or harvesting – chicken and swine roaming freely. These are some of the many images pictured vividly in my humble beginning. Images […]
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Fray Isaias “Jigs” Villaflores
Poet. Philosopher. Motivational speaker. Isaias “Jigs” Villaflores used to be a Professor of Philosophy and Theology in the University of Santo Tomas. He also taught for ten years in Chicago where he became a Branch Manager in the Financial industry field. He has been a perennial winner in Literary Contests and an Editor of 3 […]
Fray Eugenio Michael “Mike” Plana (Batch 1975)
Coming from a small town of Zarraga, Iloilo in the Philippines, and born from a simple Ilonggo family, I cannot fully appreciate when friends introduce me to others as “Mike, my friend, the businessman.” Nothing in my curriculum vitae, either in academics or in ancestry, suggested I would become a businessman. My wife and I […]
Fray Jaime “Jimmy” A. Cura (Batch 1957)
Looking Back: To reminisce one’s vocation story is like reliving it all over again. The words of our senior high school retreat master, the late Father Honorio Munoz, O.P., seem to still ring true and compelling even after 61 years since he uttered them to me. At the time, the good Father was trying to help […]