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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...

How could we prepare for Christmas? Below are two short answers I gave to some high school students. 1. Christmas is all about the birth of Christ. As is usual in a birthday celebration you are attending, you prepare a gift. The best gift you could give to Christ is to go to confession. On the first Christmas, Christ was born in a manger. Each succeeding Christmas, you have to allow him to be born in your soul. You do that through confession. 2. When you attend a birthday celebration, you usually greet the celebrant. We have to do the same this Christmas. You have to greet- talk! with Jesus- in prayer. Then talk with the people close to Him- Mary and Joseph. Ask them how they prepared for the first Christmas. Resources How to go to Confession Contains video and downloadable guide Chesterton on Christmas Quotations from GK Chesterton from The Everlasting Man "The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon th...

It was in Areopagus that St.Paul boldly engaged the intellectuals of the known world. Taking the cue from a naive religious manifestation of the Greeks (putting up an altar to an Unknown God), he explains why this aspiration actually find its fulfillment in Christ and the Gospels.  Since then, Areopagus has been seen as the  field in which a Christian boldly engages in dialogue with the thinkers of the world, in defense of the truth and the Gospels. St.Paul's speech happened some 2000 years ago. We are now in the digital age; new media has become the new Areopagus. It was no less than John Paul II who saw modern media as the new Areopagus "where Christian ideas needed to be explained and defended anew." This is one of my motivation for putting up this blog.  And while I'm at it, I may as well try to do it as well as I could: getting new ideas, looking at things from different perspectives, learning by interacting with other bloggers.  These are th...