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Three kings will see a great star in the bright blue sky, Seven men will follow it and lead them far; Nine days it shall guide them to the greatest King, One whose kingdom shall have no end. In the land of Judah, He shall lie, One King to rule the world, one who'll redeem men; One King to save the world, and from their sins release them, In the land of Judah, He shall lie. F ollowing a great star, the Three Kings of the Orient are led to Rivendell. There, the Elf-Lord Elrond explained to them The Prophecy. Together with Anakin, Harry, Neo and Aragorn, they embark on a journey to bring the Crown of Prophecy to the Lord of the Kings. But the journey turns out to be perilous, for the evil KingWraights are coming after them. THE LORD OF THE KINGS THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE KING PART I This is a script written for a 2005 highschool Christmas Movie Project.  Note that this is not written according to standard scriptwriting rules. ...

Three kings will see a great star in the bright blue sky, Seven men will follow it and lead them far; Nine days it shall guide them to the greatest King, One whose kingdom shall have no end. In the land of Judah, He shall lie, One King to rule the world, one who'll redeem men; One King to save the world, and from their sins release them, In the land of Judah, He shall lie. THE LORD OF THE KINGS THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE KING PART IV     < Go to Part III  GOLD More shots of the fellowship traveling. The fellowship is seen resting , camera focuses on Harry and Melchor. HARRY : So you mean you are also a King? MELCHOR: Yes, I am. HARRY : Wow! That means you are able to do just what you want to do? Play when you want to, have all the food and leisure that you want? You can even not follow rules from time to time! That sounds really great! MELCHOR : Harry, being a king means being a servant. A King has to th...

Three kings will see a great star in the bright blue sky, Seven men will follow it and lead them far; Nine days it shall guide them to the greatest King, One whose kingdom shall have no end. In the land of Judah, He shall lie, One King to rule the world, one who'll redeem men; One King to save the world, and from their sins release them, In the land of Judah, He shall lie. THE LORD OF THE KINGS THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE KING PART II < Go to Part I MEETING WITH ELROND The three are presented before ELROND ELROND : Hmmnn...As I have more important concerns to think about, I will go directly to the point.    (Looks at the three menacingly) Who are you and what are you doing in my realm? BALTHAZAR : I am Balthazar and this is Gaspar and Melchor. We are Kings from the Orient. GASPAR : We take delight in the study of the stars. Last night we saw an exceedingly bright star. We knew right away that it is not an ordi...

A tombstone with a Latin text that means "Life is changed, not taken away." In a few days we shall be celebrating All Souls' Day.  I was thinking that a good exercise could be to write an auto-eulogy. Many have written an autobiography, but I have yet to hear of someone having written an autoeulogy. The exercise could help us purify our motive for and manner of living. What do people remember most about us? How would we want to be best remembered? What legacy will we leave behind?  Those thoughts could be further purified by knowing that eventually and inevitably, we shall be forgotten by those whom we wish to remember us, or at least, that these people will also eventually leave this world.  It is then that we can face the stark reality of death and the afterlife.  And hopefully, from that day onward, we could live our life sub species aeternitatis - from the viewpoint of eternity.    Read more on  From Death to Life

Since August this year, I have been going to a public school in Cebu together with some volunteers from a private high school . We give Math and English tutorials to some Grade 4 & 5 students.  Every week is a good experience for me, since, by talking to these kids, I get to practice my elementary Cebuano without fear of committing mistakes. But my experience this Saturday was special. I was tutoring Math. The topic was conversion of decimals, fractions and percent.  I began by tackling the concept of percent in Bisaya to them. Then I thought of translating "percent" to Bisaya so that they can understand it more.  I translated it as "kada gatos". I was overjoyed when I noticed how they immediately got the idea of percent afterwards. Then I wanted to teach them how to convert percent, decimals and fractions. I thought of the table below then began giving them easy drills.  Of course most of them got the correct answers.  They were even racing against each...