The Key to Success

Hindi po araw-araw ay Pasko. So don't mind the occasional missed targets, lost opportunities, and other road bumps that come your way. Learn from them, strategize, and avoid committing the same mistakes again. 

In all of history, success is always preceded by failures. Ergo, you are on the right track!

The X-Files: The Truth is Still Out There

And their back!

Fourteen years after the TV series ended and after two full length movies, the last of which was eight years ago, The X-Files---the much loved, longest running science fiction series---is now playing again with a 6 part TV comeback!  

While the TV comeback is a measly 25% of the last 9 seasons, as an avid fan, I'll take 6 versus none at all. 

The first episode is part of the the mythology arc and like the many episodes before it, they come into a discovery and then all proof eliminated by a shadow arm of the government bent on preventing the truth revealed to the public.  

Relationship-wise, Mulder and Scully seems to be on a different plane.  The romance side came into full bloom during the last season and peaked with the last movie (X-Files:  I Want to Believe) where both were seen living together as a couple,  Now, they have gone separate ways.  Will they get back together as a couple?  I think the audience are already passed the romance thing when it comes to these two.  Been there, done that.  The more important thing is that---THEY'RE BACK!

Jennylyn Mercado for FHM January 2016

After being voted FHM Philippines's Sexiest Filipina last year, Jennylyn Mercado opens 2016 with another spread to start off her running for this year's sexiest voting.  Personally I think her pictorial last year was better.  How about you?

The Winds of Winter...NOT!

For those of you waiting for the release of Book 6, The Winds of Winter, of the Game of Thrones series, sad to say, but we still have to wait a little bit more. 

Piece of advise: Forget about Book 6 and just let the story unfold as the TV series airs again this April. Let's be surprised for a change. Nothing like a weekly cliffhanger to forward to the next showing.

My Bathroom Epiphany

The thing about celebrating Christmas and New Year is that you get to eat a lot.  Naturally, if you do so, the more frequent your trip to the little boy's room would be.  I'm a multi-tasker and taking a dump does not prevent me from doing other productive stuff. Most of the times I read.  However, due to the urgency of the situation, I forgot to bring my trusty cellphone where I store my ebooks.  So other than just staring blankly at the tiled wall---I got to thinking...

Bill Parcells is one of the most respected coaches in the National Football League.    

I was on the part when Parcells was coaching the Air Force football team.  It was his first ever head coaching job.  He had taken the job because that was what he wanted to do---to COACH.  However, it was done in haste.  The circumstances where not right and he ended up taking Airforce to a 4-7 win-loss season.  He went on his gypsy road before finally ending up coaching the New York Giants and winning Superbowl XXIII.

Such is life’s journey---filled with pitfalls and detours.  It’s never easy.  It can be a bed of roses but can be filled with thorns.  There are two ways to go about this journey.  (1) DO based on the folly of others; or, (2) make your own path and if you should FAIL, learn from what you did wrong and aim to do better the next time.

The direction you're going to take boils down to CHOICE.    

I can’t tell you how to make the right decision but let me tell you how I do mine. 

I pray for guidance. 

I weight my options and I pray some more.

One thing about making choices is that you need to stand up to whatever it is that you decide on.  Reneging after making a choice only goes to show that you haven’t taught about it enough.  Each choice is supposed to be the best---again, not a bed of roses, but something you can live with.  Happiness after all is appreciating what you have.