2 Weeks Of Puu

Puu! Sit. Stay. Okay! Come here. Focus! Down. These are the commands that my two month old puppy, Puu, learned from his two weeks of living with me. I’d like to write down my two weeks of experience with Puu. It was filled with moments of trials of patience. Of love. Of kindness. Of self-control. […]

Pain Into Speech

Through a long line of connections, I discovered an Old Testament scholar and theologian who made interesting remarks about the relationship of pain and speech. One of his statements, with his deep voice marked with decades of study and reality, found its way to the depths of my mind. “What I think happens in the […]

The Christian Scorecard

I confess I’ve kept a scorecard when I started climbing the corporate ladder. I kept count of all the bugfixes and features I did, and I wrote it as my status on my company IM profile. I did it for many reasons — to put out an ever-visible object that spurs my motivation, to keep […]

Follow Me

Apparently I have a gift of rallying people under a vision. I can say this because not a year goes by that I do not start groups of people who will voluntarily work towards something futuristic and risky. This year, despite of a pandemic, is no exception. I am writing this because I feel completely […]

Plan A, Plan B, to Plan Z

Exactly just last month I did something crazy. I quit my dayjob in the middle of a global pandemic. “I could easily land another lucrative dayjob. I could go back to being a senior software developer. If I want to, I could switch careers and qualify as a project manager. Heh, I could even apply […]

The Greatest Compliment

“I see Jesus in you.” Imagine longing for something. Multiply that feeling by thirty. And then fast forward the time to twenty years from now while you’re still holding on to that ever-growing longing feeling. Then, suddenly one day, someone mentioned to you that that something you’ve been longing, which feels really out of reach, […]

Learning How To Love

What would it look like if I would love like crazy? What would it look like if I would give my all and just give all of the love I can give expecting absolutely nothing in return, and persist in it? As I sit in my chair trying to wrestle a hyperactive nocturnal brain, I […]

Breathing

It’s crazy how insane my schedule is. It’s crazy how many things are going on simultaneously. It’s crazy how many things I need to keep my mind on. It’s crazy how I am not stepping up to the responsibilities given to me. I am writing this for the only fact that I am breathing. That […]

Mission #001 Notes

Recently, Taal happened in the Philippines. If you want to know more details than what I just gave you, you would have to ask it from a much better person than me. Yet, Taal happened. Knowing I had ideas for probable solutions, knowing that my neighbors are in distress while I’m in comfort, knowing that […]

On The Pruning of Power

I was a young ambitious man. I was always at the edge of my seat, volunteering for every opportunity that I can see. I want to prove to the big bosses that I am the very best one, the very hardworking worker, the very talented person that they will ever meet in their lifetime. I […]