Across the Universe

Holy Thursday.

I'm back to blogging on a quiet day. No big announcements. Just a few updates.

The real world has been good to me. I said farewell to my students as they graduated from Transition class. I wrote each one of them a letter that they could hopefully read again years from now. The "Mommies", "Daddies", and I can now call each other on a first name basis as one of them has suggested. After one school year of teaching their kids how to read/write/add/subtract, how to differentiate right from left, how to differentiate right from wrong, how to differentiate the first right from right, how to express one's self through art, play, and language, I think we ALL did a great job. Kudos to us!

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Summer has been welcomed. I've felt truly relaxed and at home during the past days.




Summer means short breaks for me. It's mainly for focusing on my proposal. I'm back to being a student again and climbing my personal rock. This will be quite a long break from teaching kids because I want to explore other career paths I have in mind. Oh, I'm not closing doors completely. I'm just leaving it ajar for a while.


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I watched the film "Across the Universe" last night. I'm amazed how the writers patched a good number of Beatles' songs to write a story and create a musical about the Vietnam war. It touches on several issues of people and youth -- young love, death, drafting, drugs, revolution, and deeper love for humanity. The characters' names were based on the songs and their nationalities also represent different people of the world. The movie ends on a rooftop where the Beatles also held their last concert. I couldn't agree more that in this universe, all we need is love.

I recommend everyone to allot two hours of free time to watch this film because like the Beatles' lyrics and music, this film remains to be relevant even up to this day and age.