conversation on mentors

someone said, i want a mentor and i asked, "how would you know that somebody can be your mentor? kailangan ba tanungin mo siya kung pwede siya maging mentor mo o okay lang kahit hindi niya alam na mentor mo siya?"

what is a mentor anyway? according to my good friend Google, mentor is a wise/trusted counselor or teacher. and i've been told, basta yung pwede mong matanungan, pwede maging mentor. in a heartbeat, i know i already got a mentor but i didn't tag him as one just because. and i would borrow Oprah's words, my mentor was a mentor to me because he allowed me to see hope inside myself when  i was just starting on my path.

then i asked again, "just when you already found your mentor, why do they have to leave?". the person i was conversing with answered, "because you already learned from them; kaya mo na mag-isa." with that, i was so silent. maybe true. maybe not.

two years ago, i met my mentor but duty calls, so two years after that, the person whom i looked up to needs to go to the other side of the world. but yes, i've learned a lot from my mentor and i'd still want to learn from him, though.

weekend with best people

february 2011 is over and i know, all the weekends of the past month,  i had a blast!

2.19-2.20 2011.
this is so overdue but i'm still gonna post this, one of the best weekends ever!!! it was all laugh trip moments and really good times. i can't describe how fun this weekend was... just let these photos do the talking :)

lunch in subic

the shaolin kids

and we're ready to conquer the big wall

and we're about to leave vista venice

at the top of mount samat

this trip i had with my colleagues was all first time. first time to climb a wall, to rapel, to go to bataan, to mount samat. :)

happiness comes in many forms and sometimes it can be found in the company of best people.
thank you for this wonderful weekend! ♥