January has been a great month. I started the New Year observing hundreds of kids at their playful best. This has given me tremendous impetus to move on with my life with even greater passion and purpose. February is a month of love and for those who found themselves in "delightful" relationships, hmmm, take it easy, savor the moments.

The new millennium has taken off, and if the gyrations of the US stock market are any indicator of the shape of things to come [historically, January has provided reliable indications of things to come during the year], we are in for a real roller coaster ride. Let us fasten our seatbelts, folks. Technology and innovation will further speed up the already light speed changes hitting humanity. Business success will demand ever newer approaches. This issue contains some thoughts on the subject.

LOVE MONTH

Sometimes we think that loving someone can be such a risk. How else would we win if we don’t take a chance? We don’t lose by loving, we lose by holding back.

THOPSULE - Forwarded message from a friend:

"All about LOVE"

If you find yourself in love with someone who does not love you,
Be gentle with yourself there is nothing wrong with you
Love just didn't choose to rest in other person's heart
If you find someone else in love with you and you don't love him,
Feel honored that love came and called at your door,
But gently refuse the gift you cannot return
Do not take advantage, do not cause pain
How you deal with love is how you deal with yourself
And all our hearts feel the same pains and joys
Even if our lives and ways are different
If you fall in love with another, and he falls in love with you
And then love chooses to leave,
Do not try to reclaim it or to assess blame, let it go
There is a reason and there is a meaning
You will know in time
Remember that you don't choose love,
Love chooses you
All you can really do is accept it for all its mystery
When it comes into your life
Feel the way it fills you to overflowing, then reach out and give it away
Give it back to the person who brought it alive in you
Give it to others who deem it poor in spirit
Give it to the world around you in anyway you can
There is where many lovers go wrong
Having been so long without love, they understand love only as a need
They see their hearts as empty places that will be filled by love,
And they begin to look at love as something that flows to them rather than from them

The first blush of new love is filled to overflowing, But as their love cools,
They revert to seeing their love as need
They cease to be someone who generates love
And instead become someone who seeks love
They forget that the secret of love is that it is a gift
And that it can be made to grow only by giving it away
Remember this, and keep it to your heart
Love has its own time, its own seasons, and its own reasons for coming and going.  You cannot bribe it or coerce it, or reason it into staying
You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you  But if you chooses to leave from your heart or from the heart of your lover.  There is nothing you can do and there is nothing you should do
Love always has been and always will be a mystery
Be glad that it come to live for a moment in your life

IF YOU KEEP YOUR HEART OPEN, IT WILL COME AGAIN.


DETOUR
Dynamited detour in my professional path. I will be taking my Comprehensive Exam-21st and 27th of this month, soon I will graduate MBA. Please pray for me. For those who are contemplating to follow my great leap, go for it, you are the only one who can write the complete unabridged improved version of the tale of YOU. Reinvent yourself.

PARENTING
Discipline in private, praise in public.

HOMEFRONT
Magandang gabi, Bayan. Maayo adlaw sa imo tanan, sama-sama natin alamin ang nangyayari sa ating bayan, mga kabig, dito na at maging, saksi! Philippines in crisis--- January 27 - Pres. Estrada officially announced that there is a National Crisis so the following day there’s a drop of 20% in stock market, whew! Translation: hmmm...I refuse to state my opinion.

FLOATING RESTAURANT - Jumbo Palace Restaurant
Owned by a Hong kong -Chinese tycoon Ho. The rumor has it that it will be a floating casino. I’ll check, hahaha!

"ISABELAN OF THE MONTH!"

This February, we will start featuring "Isabelan of the Month!" You'll find out the very first student of our alma mater: SANTA ISABEL COLLEGE (where I've spent my elementary to high school days) to grace your computer screens! It's her 30th birthday this month, so let's give it up for.....Hang on to your seats! So, what the heck are you waiting for? Move and click your mouse HERE!

***Arrividerci!