The Tiny One

Sir Ralph Cecilio We know him as the ogre who threatened our everyday English literature life. I had first seen this person when I was 6 years old, a pre-schooler at Corpus Christi School. I was with my playmates one morning and decided to go up the high school classrooms. I could still remember which classroom I saw that American looking teacher on the third floor. I could only see half of his body in front of the black board. The next time I saw this teacher was when I was in 4th grade. We were staying at the high school canteen waiting for our music class to start. We were happily staring at the floor out of boredom and doing nothing on a hot afternoon when a hug man went by and stopped in front of us and said, "you all look so quiet" and walked away. Those were his exact words and we all laughed. When I was able to reach high school in the same institution where I started studying, I was to recognized the same teacher who approached my fri...

I learned a lot of things from the Summit last Saturday. One thing that will always stay in my mind is this, as what a good speaker and friend Tope Rivera said, "..we do not use our greatness to step down on others." It was a stand up point moment where you know that there is really a possibility for change in this country. If all of us, rich or poor, great or weak think about these words and put them into action in their everyday life, then, we would be having a wonderful nation. Change is both good and bad. There are a hundred different possibilities for change to happen, but without the risk of making changes can we never know what might become of that one speck of change, what outcome could have been created, who or what could have benefited form that simple change. Some people are greatly affected by change, but we could not always just sit around and stay at the risk free side, the safe side. We must go out of our shells to prove something to the world. I myself h...