Jessel Gerard Gonzales

St. Agnes Academy, Attended 1974 - 1981, Class of 1981
Aquinas University Sci. Oriented HS, Attended 1981 - 1985, Class of 1985

St. Agnes Academy, Aquinas University, Xavier University, Ateneo de Manila University

Ateneo De Manila University, Attended 1991 - 1995, Master's Degree, Philosophy, Communications
Xavier University, Attended 1985 - 1989, Class of 1989, Bachelor's Degree, Philosophy, Marine Biology

UP Chaplain, Director Jesuit Music Ministry

UP Parish, Jesuit Communications Foundation Inc, Jesuit Music Ministry, Ateneo Catechetical Instruction League

play the piano & keyboard instruments, compose songs, train choirs, direct plays, care for marine & freshwater aquarium fish, read books, watch movies, spend quiet moments over coffee with good friends

Nick Joaquin's Manila My Manila, Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Brother's Karamazov and The Idiot, Heifetz & Linsky's Leadership on the Line, Laura Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate, Leif Engers' Peace Like a River, Richard Foster's Prayer, Paulo Coelho's Alchemist and Eleven Minutes, Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere, Gabriel Garcia Marquez' One Hundred Years of Solitude, Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain

Cinema Paradiso, Babette's Feast, Krzysztof Kieslowski's Dekalog, Red White & Blue, Veronique, The Others, With Honors, The Sixth Sense, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, St. Elmo's Fire, Stand by Me, Dead Poet's Society, Sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail, The Mission, El Crimen del Padre Amaro, Tanging Yaman

The Classics (Bach Mozart Vivaldi Debussy), The songs of the 80's, Ennio Morricone, OPM esp Ryan Cayabyab, Tingstad and Rumbel, Pop/Jazz, Acoustic, Latin, Movie Themes, Broadway Musicals and Opera

CSI, Six Feet Under, One Tree Hill, National Geographic, Friends, Boston Public, The Practice, American Idol

I have always walked, worked and loved in a different beat. My relationships have been intense and dramatic, and my life has been about coming to terms with extraordinary emotional depths and sensitivity. There is something that cannot be fully grasp in me that many of my friends who spend years with me still find that there is something they don't know. Coupled with this intensity is my craving for fun, activity and conversational stimulation --- nothing is as boring as someone who cannot talk sense and content. Moreover, I do not like people with a black-hole personality --- those that suck your energy that you end up drained and depressed. My natural curiosity leads me to desire knowledge on a broad range of topics and to pursue goals that seem to be impossible. I love the eagle and the sea: the eagle of Jesuit idealism and the sea where I take off to rest. They describe my desires: to reach higher skies and to go into deeper depths than what is normally attained. They describe my energy.

Those who are at home with change and with themselves.