2010 is here for us to get inspired to start with a new life...

inspiring quotes from famous inspiring authors will help us live above the forthcoming circumstances of life as we welcome the year 2010!

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

Celebrate endings - for they precede new beginnings.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

Fall seven times, stand up eight.
- Japanese Proverb

Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
- Thomas Edison

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
- the movie Forest Gump

Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell

photo of the day: natural beauty

These photos will speak for themselves as they speak more than a thousand words!

in retrospect

It seems just like yesterday when I came to St. Meinrad to start with my seminary studies... Now I am at the last two weeks of the second semester of my study in St Meinrad.

In my cell while doing some physical workout in August. It was just a week after I flew from New Mexico to Indiana- from my own community to the community of St Meinrad- and I still didn't know that the monastery had a wide variety of gym equipment available for their monks and their visiting monks.


Monastic walk around the monastery and seminary complex of St Meinrad in September.


The Rector's inauguration in October.


While preparing for the Fall Outing of the seminary Formation House of St John at Monte Cassino in November.


The feast of the Immaculate Conception in December.


The historic March-For-Life at Washington, D.C, in January.


Just after the Eucharistic celebration of the feast of St Scholastica, the twin sister of St Benedict in February.


A day-break with my Filipino co-seminarians and our Filipino friends from Illinois and Missouri. Photo taken last month inside Indiana's famous tourists' favorite hideaway: West Baden Springs Hotel.


Year-end Class-in- Philosophy outing at Jasper Indiana this month.

last glimpse of my beloved alma mater, St Meinrad Seminary...

I just can't get over 'you'

pray...

fraternal bonding...

Hollywood tour!

My three-day stay in California was, for me, a chance and an opportunity to visit Los Angeles' Hollywood and other nearby places and attractions in California.

Actually, the reason for flying California was for me to attend to my Philippine passport that I needed to renew at the Phil. Consulate office in Willshire, LA.

The Phil Consulate has its new scheme being implemented in Phil. passports. This new scheme requires me to make a personal appearance and have my biometrics done at their office.

This new scheme will improve and faciliate passport check and scrutiny in entering other countries. Magnetic passport, as what they called it, will be the new face of Philippine passports.

After my passport renewal thing, I was toured by Dom Marcus and his parents, who had not yet left the US after Dom Marcus' Solemn profession. They were making a tour of LA and its neighboring places.

The chance of me getting toured and accompanied by a confrere with his parents made my visit to California an enjoyable and a pleasurable one.

I stayed with Dom Marcus and his parents for my overnights. Since Celine and her husband randy and their baby Mayumi are based in Orange County, they got a suite in one of the County's hotels nearby Celine's pad. Celine is Dom Marcus' parents' niece.

The Promenade in 3rd Street Los Angeles

me at the Promenade


Lax rounds with my confrere Marcus driving



at Tom Bradley International Airport at LA with Fr Mao, a Claretian priest who was going back to the Phils on the day I arrived at LAX

lining up for Fr Mao's luggages to be checked-in

while waiting for Fr Mao's flight to Manila, I had an early supper at a nearby restaurant inside the airport with my confrere Marcus and his friend Jojie, an LA-based Pinoy immigrant

photos of an early morning road trip from Orange County to Wilshire St for my passport renewal.





at the Philippine Consulate Office





while waiting for my number to be called

after my passport renewal application,the road trip to Hollywood: Los Angeles' tourist attractions, began



Hollwood's Trolley tours

Walt Disney's Music Center and Museum

at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels









Inside the famous Cathedral; its architecture and its artworks















at Hollywood Blvd.











later at night, back at Orange County and had dinner with Dom Marcus' parents and Celine with her husband randy and their daughter Mayumi

on the third day, Dom Marcus drove me to LAX for my 12:20PM flight back home sweet home: New Mexico





at Albuquerque Sunport, New Mexico