Adrian

IBC sy '87-'89, PCGS sy '88-'92, BCS sy '92-'98, HCSI sy '98-'99, USC-Main, UC-Main batch '06-'07

H.Sch. Teacher, Guitar Tutor, Part-time Musician

Church of Our King Cebu, Inc.

electric guitars, reading, poetry, writing

Bible, Tom Clancy

The Passion of Christ, End of the Spear, Fireproof, Facing the Giants, Gangs of New York, Sidways, A Beautiful Mind, The Godfather Trilogy, Saving Private Ryan, The Thin Red Line, Million Dollar Baby, American Gangster, Road to Perdition, Rambo Series, Die Hard Series, The Dreamgirls, Lost in Translation, Kill Bill Series, Crash, Knowing, The Casablanca, Life is Beautiful, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Jack, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Being Malcovich, Four Brothers, Knowing, Once, The Kite Runner, Slumdog Millionaire, The Wind Talkers, The Last Samurai, The Patriot, Braveheart, Next, Black Hawk Down, Not One Less, Martian Kid, Series of Unfortunate Events

Jazz, Blues, Classical, Hard Rock

24, Prison Break, WWE, Combat Mission, Numbers, House, CSI, Boston Legal, A Band of Brothers

Others see me as sensible, cautious, careful & practical. They see me as clever, gifted, or talented, but modest not a person who makes friends too quickly or easily, but someone who's extremely loyal to friends I make and who expect the same loyalty in return. Those who really get to know me realize it takes a lot to shake my trust in my friends, but equally that it takes me a longer time to get over if that trust is ever broken.

JIM ELLIOT QUOTES
1. God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.
2. He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.


A DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, go together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups - porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive, some exquisite - telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor said: "If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups... And then you began eyeing each other's cups.

Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of Life we live.

Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee God has provided us."

God brews the coffee, not the cups... Enjoy your coffee!


TWENTY-SIX BEAUTIFUL ONE-LINERS
1. Give God what's right; not what's left.
2. Man's way leads to a hopeless end; God's way leads to an endless hope
3. A lot of kneeling will keep you in good standing.
4. He who kneels before God can stand before anyone.
5. In the sentence of life, the devil may be a comma, but never let him be the period.
6. Don't put a question mark where God puts a period.
7. Are you wrinkled with burden? Come to the church for a face-lift.
8. When praying, don't give God instructions; just report for duty.
9. Don't wait for six strong men to take you to church.
10. We don't change God's message; His message changes us.
11. The church is prayer-conditioned.
12 When God ordains, He sustains.
13. WARNING: Exposure to the Son may prevent burning.
14. Plan ahead. It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
15. Most people want to serve God, but only in an advisory position.
16. Suffering from truth decay? Brush up on your Bible.
17. Exercise daily: walk with the Lord.
18. Never give the devil a ride, he will always want to drive.
19. Nothing else ruins the truth like stretching it.
20. Compassion is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back.
21. He who angers you controls you.
22. Worry is the darkroom in which negatives can develop.
23. Give Satan an inch & he'll be a ruler.
24. Be fishers of men; you catch them & He'll clean them.
25. God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called.
26. Read the Bible, it will scare the hell out of you.


THE VIOLIN STORY
An old violin was offered for $20 in a public auction. Nobody was giving more because it was ugly, old, & faded. When the sale was about to close because no one was showing interest in it, someone burst into the auditorium, went to the front, picked up the violin, tuned it, & began to play. The sound was so extraordinary & beautiful that the atmosphere of the auditorium changed, & the people stopped worrying about the outer appearance of the violin & began to appreciate the quality of the sound. The instrument sold at an excellent price. What made the big difference was something we could call "THE TOUCH OF THE MASTER."