Eva Cassidy - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Alam ko na kung bakit gusto ko nang tumigil sa pagtuturo. Napapagod na akong magpanggap na matalino ako!

Still incomplete

      For my sister, Ling, who always provides me the biggest pieces in this evolving thing...

Many of us through life looking for that single, perfect person who will make us happy, make us whole. We go around looking vulnerable, showing the gaping hole in our hearts, thinking that someone special out there has the power to stop the bleeding. Maybe it will be a guru who will provide all the answers to our life questions. Or a soul-mate who will always be in sync with our thoughts and will rejoice in our shared idiosyncracies. Or the love of one's life who will feed our desires and provide the reasons for bliss and contentment. And of course, many of us, if not all, end up disappointed in this impossible quest.

In my fading years, I can say with utmost certainty that we can never rely on any one person to make us complete. Aside from holes in our heart and spirit which call for mending, parts of us were never with us to begin with.  I think that one purpose of life is to find those missing pieces in our family, our friends, and maybe that one great love. Those who love us unconditionally, those who reject us, and those who can no longer be part of our lives - all of them have given us something to make us whole. The search for completion goes on all throughout our lives. The journey ends only when we, and no one else, decide that we are done.

Heavenly music in Lucerne

The choir is singing the entrance hymn in a mass we attended in Lucerne, Switzerland.

[Yo-Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone]Gabriel's Oboe and The Falls

Sa Ugoy ng Duyan

Sung by Jonathan Badon

Music and lyrics by Philippine National Artists Lucio San Pedro & Levi Celerio

This version is faithful to the original music and lyrics.

Noel Cabangon, Cookie Chua, Bukas Palad - Paghahandog

This song is one of my favorite mass songs. This version is utterly soul-stirring!

Paris 4

Bercy Village

                                                    Charles de Gaulle airport restroom

Paris 3: Montmartre and the Sacre Coeur Basilica

The Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Paris, commonly known as Sacré-Cœur Basilica (French: Basilique du Sacré-Cœur, pronounced [sakʁe kœʁ]), is a Roman Catholic church and minor basilica, dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, in Paris, France. A popular landmark, the basilica is located at the summit of the butte Montmartre, the highest point in the city. Sacré-Cœur is a double monument, political and cultural, both a national penance for the supposed excesses of the Second Empire and socialist Paris Commune of 1871 crowning its most rebellious neighborhood, and an embodiment of conservative moral order, publicly dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which was an increasingly popular vision of a loving and sympathetic Christ.

The Sacré-Cœur Basilica was designed by Paul Abadie. Construction began in 1875 and was finished in 1914. It was consecrated after the end of World War I in 1919.