VOCATIONS & HOBBIES

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VOCATIONS & HOBBIES

Life Reading & Numerology. For over hundreds of times I have done life readings on my fellows. This often began with a numerological anaLysis of their birth numbers (birth month, day, year), and ended up with spiritual counsel or sharing of wisdom insights. Sometimes I 'downloaded' past life backgrounds of my 'clients', although I am very reluctant to examine another person's past lives. Note that just by analyzing one's numerological chart, one can see the capacity for integration--whether high or low--of the concerned person. Some others can be forewarned about possible psychological disorders through the same method. Also, the possibility of 'perfect' or 'imperfect' love matches can be concluded from out of the numerological charts of two lovers, or prospective lovers. I still am very much into this vocation, and folks out there who wish procure my services can contact me for this purpose.

Weight Training &Preventive Medicine. On the side of my physical maintenance, on the side of preventive medicine, I love doing weight training. It has been a practise since 1989 yet. In 1991 & 1992 I officially competed in powerlifting contests in the Philippines, with Zest Fitness center guru Ramon Dabuque (Bachelor's degree & MBA from the University of the Philippines)serving as my honorable instructor. Even without muscular genetics, I won national competitions, thanks to scientific training. (The top powerlifters of the Philippines--Mon Dabuque, Eddie Torres, Lt. Col. Tony Taguibao, Erlina Pecante--were my peers in the famed Zest Fitness). This time around, I have added aerobic exercises to my (unaerobic) weight training. By all means I can do programs for other people concerning the matter, which I've already done before. This physical programming is actually a part of the preventive/holistic health program that I have undertaken.

Yoga Meditation. This has been a part of my life, of my 'way of life' since I began practising it some decades back. I learned yoga breathing from the famed psychologist Prof. Alfredo Lagmay of the University of the Philippines, when he was invited by his wife Prof. Leticia Lagmay who was my professor in Social Anthropology in 1980. After that session, I did some more personal research about the subject. It is truly a perfect harmonizer, providing not only inner balance but anchorage in life. My 'third eye' had since opened during my practise in the 1990s, which allows me to communicate with transcendent beings from other planes. I was also enabled to practise pranic healing and depowering bad entities even from a distance, since my vibratory frequency had already heightened over years of practise. However, I am no enthusiast of hatha yoga, which had reduced yoga to mere physical acrobatics that do not get people to higher states of transcendent consciousness. For sure, I am very open to invitations for speeches and demonstration lectures on yoga meditation, which I have done numerous times before. [Yoga is a standard lesson in my brotherhood, the Collegium Liberum, and I was responsible for importing it into this Order.]

Theoretical Discussions & Constructions. I was one of the founding Fellows of the Ermita Circle, a peerage of academics connected with the University of the Philippines-Manila. This peerage and the grand Order of Collegium Liberum (Society of the Free) serve as my vehicles for theoretical discussions. Usually, the discussions result to my writing of recondite discourses--of theoretical constructs--on the topic at hand. Discussions were a long-time hobby since my youth days. And, constructions the material manifestations of the 'dead poet' discussions. Evidence of the discursive outcomes can be examined in my works, in my books and journal publications.

Soirees. Let us get together some day or night, whether indoors or outdoors (mountains, sea coast...), read to each other the poems we have written, sing to each other the musical pieces we have composed, that is, let us immerse in the spirit of the 'dead poets society.' This has been a long time hobby. As in the previous hobby, I enjoy doing soirees with the fellows of the Ermita Circle and the brethren of the grand Order of Collegium Liberum. [The Ermita Circle was founded around the year 1990, through rounds of soirees held in the residences of our Fellow Roland Simbulan, Dotie Abaya, and in some nice cool restaurants in the Ermita district of Manila. A concrete outcome of this was the Gamak, short for gabi ng malalayang kaluluwa, or night of the free spirits. The Gamak was launched at the Univ. of the Philippines Manila, participated in by students, faculty and non-academic personnel, serving as venue for their talents in song, dance, poetry, etc...]

Concerts & Jamming. Rock concerts, world music concerts, alternative scene concerts. Not only do I love watching them, I also love organizing some of them. And, may I say I have performed in some of them. With the grupong Pendong and the Jerks, and Asin's Carbonel concerting in the University of the Philippines-Manila in 1993, 1994. I concerted mostly with a mere accoustic guitar. I guess I need not belabor the point that I love jamming around. I still jam around with my sibs, such as my younger bro Emerald, who does water business in California. By all means I can tutor folks on the guitar, which I have quite mastered, and I've done this job in the past. I guess I need not stress that I had collected a substantial quantity of musical albums, sufficient to form a musical library.

Dinner & Coffeeshop Chats. Wouldn't I love to have chats during dinner? This used to go with some sips of wines or cocktails, or some couples of beer, but I no longer drink (as an advancing yogi). Candlelight dinner still brings a lot of exciting romantic aura in me, and I surely love dining with my love partner. Dinner chats also serve as venue for theoretical discussions with my peers. Relatedly, I do love chats inside coffee shops, and a visit of at least once a week to a coffee shop has been a practise on my part. But I never enter those transnational coffee shops that have been known to exploit the laborers in the Third World, which have earned them the ire of NGO activists. They have likewise earned my ire and irreverence.

Book Reading. I have been a consummate reader since my late childhood years. My peak of readership was reached around the years 1984-89, when I speed-read as much as four (4) books a day. The reading topics very are broadly ranged, reflecting as such my areas of interests (all sciences, all philosophies, all arts). My own library is a humble collection of around 600 books (as of end of April 2001), which I all left in the Philippines (contact the Collegium Liberum and the Department of Social Sciences-U.P.Manila if you want to read some of my collections).

Watching Movies. I have always loved the cinema. Way back in Manila, I'd always make it a point to watch at least one movie a week. I am quite confident that I can write critical reviews of movies. The themes I love most are epics/war classics, detectives, and others that would depic heroism of the highest order. However, I do not have a collection of movies. Relatedly, I also love the theatre, even as I was active in it for around 3 & 1/2 years, although I don't watch theatre a lot.

Outdoors. Camping out in the open, by boat in the middle of the sea, by the beach, beside a lake, up in the boondocks...or simply hiking, and scaling not-so-high hills. These activities have catalyzed my acclimatization to the elements and to various weather conditions, to strengthen my physique therefore, more so to battle against my allergies inherited from my old folks. Most memorable were the visits to the mystical mountain Mount Banahaw, which truly vibrates with a frequency so high that a psychic sensitive can have shis (his/her) 3rd eye opened right on the spot where s/he is standing, and be able to perceive nature spirits and devas, such as what happened to me in late 1993 when I brought students there as the culmination of our class activities in the course on social movements. I have surely seen the deva of Mount Banahaw, and on a few occasions I have perceived elementals right on the outdoor spots where my company went.