just passing through: Reunited with AIT Folks

23 November 2014

Reunited with AIT Folks

It took me a long while to confirm my attendance at the grand reunion of the AIT Alumni Association Philippine Chapter on November 21 at De La Salle University-Manila. I was hesitant because I would be going alone and I didn't know who would be there except for a few friends and
batchmates.

Good decision. It was my first time to get inside the campus and the moment I entered the venue and registered, I felt welcome. I belong and it was heartwarming to see old friends and acquaintances who I didn't see after my graduation in 1991.

I didn't win any prize during the game and raffle but I got to bring home fond memories of the meeting and a book that documents the history of my alma mater and the batches of Filipinos who proudly earned their graduate degrees there.

Sail On

"Life here on earth is a temporary assignment." - Rick Warren

They say that we are just like passing ships. Wherever we go and drop anchor, we learn something that makes our lives never the same again.

Life may have brought us disappointments, failures, discouragements, broken hearts and other negative thoughts and emotions but life goes on.

Along the way, we meet people who touch our lives one way or the other. Some become true friends. Most of them just acquaintances.

We are here in this world temporarily. We are not yet home.

Whatever happens, the Lord will never leave us nor forsake us. He always knows what's best for us.

Everything happens for a reason.

Quotable Quotes

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

You don't have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, and then be willing to live for them and die for them.
- John Piper

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
- Abraham Lincoln