Nature Tripping on a Boxing Day, originally uploaded by rjmarmol.

While everyone is home eagerly anticipating the delayed telecast of the Pacquiao-Hatton fight (which Pacquiao won by TKO at round 2!), I’m here at Tagaytay Garden Hotel overlooking the beautiful Taal lake for my new godson’s christening.

I wish my new godson Hael Nikolai the best of everything. May God pour upon him countless blessings.

To my fellow Filipinos, woo hoo! Great job, Manny!

Photo by Tom Poes

A Thank You Note On My Birthday
by: RJ

Allow me to make a humble “thank you” note
For all the people who remembered me and wrote.
For those who left messages everywhere and bothered
And those wonderful friends who chatted and lingered.

You who took time out from your otherwise busy day
You who stopped awhile, left me a message and did say,
My dear friend, RJ, I wish you a very “Happy Birthday”!

You who would have otherwise thought,
“Nah, she doesn’t need a greeting
Look at her in that photo, she seems happy as a goat!”

And a goat — indeed I am, for I was born in the year of the Ram,
And being an Aries, I tell you, happiness is but a jar of jam!
I see joy in everything, even where there is none.
I find comfort in a Being, higher than all of us, bar none. Continue Reading

A retrograde planet will always urge you to look back and fix things that have been left unfinished or unresolved. In that case, the universe is trying to help you by showing you the whole picture so that you can move on with your life. – Aries horoscope, March 2009

When I was a kid, I hated hearing “no” and “not now.” To me, “no” and “not now” only meant the same thing — it meant “never”. Continue Reading