Thanks for the compliment on our marriage. We celebrated our 10th Year last year! And fame and wealth may be elusive, but I will never be able to say, that I have not been loved.

I just got done with the speech. I pray that it will be smooth and that the students will find it relevant.

May I put your blog on my blogroll? I just moved to my dotcom so I am still arranging the site.

take care. Will visit your blog again when my speech is done. I think I have read that poem earlier – let me see how I can fit that toward the end.

Rex

Thank you very much for dropping by my web nook and for dropping such an inspiring note.

‘Tis wonderful to know you were invited us commencement speaker, why not?

Reading your profile allowed me to take a ‘lil peek of yourself and I thought, you were invited because you are a picture of success and among the many achievements you have and the dreams you still have to fulfill, the accomplishment that stands out and is still on going is your marriage.

Perhaps you could touch that in your speech.

All that we are and we do prepares us for something, and one of them is to prepare us for that moment when we met the other half of our hearts, for that union, and ultimately to prepare us to build a family of our own to bring to this world another generation who may continue our life on and on.

Education prepares us for all these. Being fulfilled and achieving something for our self makes us whole and ready for commitments in life and that includes marriage. It is safe therefore to say that education is a new ingridient to becoming ready for a commitment and in building a family to met the challenges of the present time.

Education could be a new element in the success of marriges of the new millennium. And your marriage is concrete example for that. I really admire couples like you and your wife. It is wonderful to read such great love stories like that, a still on going happily-ever-after kind of thing, an on going happy ending. That is inspiring! With all the sad realities around us, it is a breath of fresh air to know there are still great love stories. It would help reassure this jaded generation that it is still possible.

I would like also to share with you a poem I wrote:

BE THE BEST THAT YOU COULD BE

Here’s an excerpt from the poem:

If you are a tree
Be the best tree that you could be
Allow the hands of time
To mold your body
Be a sturdy seasoned tree
That you could be.

Click this link for more of the poem . . .

http://jeques.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/be-the-best-that-you-could-be/

The poem aims to encourage and I believe it’s timely and apt for a commencement speech you are preparing.

I hope with your words, you can bring out the best in the students. We humans are maybe imperfect, but we could always choose to become the best versions of our self – and that for me is more important.

I wish you well.

~ Jeques

I will be adding your blog to my blogroll and thanks for approving! hahaha

Enjoy – nakakatuwa naman… I will read your blog tomorrow so I could get updated on what is happening in your life.

Take care and God bless!

The comment of Andoi made me laugh. Kuya Rex = middle-age?!? Anyway, you’re such a good and interesting speaker – yakang-yaka mo yan!

Haha.

But seriously, it’s about time for the graduates to hear a speech that are not so out of reach with regards to the generation gap. When old people stand on stage and say somethings, the young people will just ignore it. But when a middle-aged man is at front, they will listen to it.

You’re still in the bracket, Tito Rex. Don’t fret.

Post a video of your speech soon.

PS: Ideas: If I were the fresh grad, I want to be reminded to follow my OWN dream, and not my PARENTS’ dream.