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(35754, 1, '2015-03-30 15:33:30', '2015-03-30 07:33:30', '[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][vc_column_text]This has been a dark week for Singapore.\r\n\r\nThe light that has guided us all these years has been extinguished. We have lost our founding father Mr Lee Kuan Yew, who lived and breathed Singapore all his life. He and his team led our pioneer generation to create this island nation, Singapore.\r\n\r\nMr Lee did not set out to be a politician, let alone a statesman, as a boy. In fact, his grandfather wanted him to become an English gentleman! But events left an indelible mark on him. He had been a British subject in colonial Singapore. He had survived hardship, danger and fear in the Japanese Occupation. These life experiences drove him to fight for independence.\r\n\r\nIn one of his radio talks on the Battle for Merger many years ago, in 1961, Mr Lee said: “My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined that no one – neither the Japanese nor the British – had the right to push and kick us around.”\r\n\r\nMr Lee championed independence for Singapore through merger with Malaya, to form a new Federation of Malaysia. He worked tirelessly to bring this about, and succeeded. Unfortunately the merger did not last, and before long, we were expelled from Malaysia. Separation was his greatest “moment of anguish”, but it also proved to be the turning point in Singapore’s fortunes.\r\n\r\nFrom the ashes of separation he built a nation. The easiest thing to do would have been to appeal to Chinese voters alone. After all, Singapore had to leave Malaysia because we were majority Chinese. Instead, he went for the nobler dream of a multi-racial, multi-religious nation. Singapore would not be based on race, language or religion, but on fundamental values – multi-racialism, equality, meritocracy, integrity and rule of law. Mr Lee declared: “This is not a country that belongs to any single community; it belongs to all of us.”\r\n\r\nHe checked would be racial chauvinists, and assured the minorities that their place here was secure. He insisted on keeping our mother tongues, even as English became our common working language. He encouraged each group to maintain its culture, faith and language, while gradually enlarging the common space shared by all. Together with Mr S Rajaratnam, he enshrined these ideals in the National Pledge.\r\n\r\nHe kept us safe in a dangerous and tumultuous world. With Dr Goh Keng Swee, he built the SAF from just two infantry battalions and one little, wooden ship, into a well-trained, well-equipped, well-respected fighting force.\r\n\r\nHe introduced National Service (NS), and personally persuaded parents to entrust their sons to the SAF. He succeeded, first because he led by example – his two sons did NS just like every Singaporean son, and in fact my brother and I signed up as regulars in the SAF on scholarships. Second, people trusted Mr Lee, and believed in the Singapore cause. Hence today we sleep peacefully at night, confident that we are well protected.\r\n\r\nMr Lee gave us courage to face an uncertain future. He was a straight talker, and never shied away from hard truths, either to himself or to Singa­poreans. His ministers would sometimes urge him to soften the tone of his drafts – even I would sometimes do that – to sound less unyielding to human frailties. He often took in their amendments, but he would preserve his core message. “I always tried to be correct,” he said, “not politically correct”.\r\n\r\nHe was a powerful speaker – moving, inspiring, persuasive, in English and Malay, and by dint of a lifelong hard slog in Mandarin and even Hokkien. MediaCorp has been broadcasting his old speeches this week, have reminded us that his was the original Singapore Roar – passionate, formidable and indomitable.\r\n\r\nAbove all, Lee Kuan Yew was a fighter. In crises, when all seemed hopeless, he was ferocious, endlessly resourceful, firm in his resolve, and steadfast in advancing his cause.\r\n\r\nThus he saw us through many battles: the Battle for Merger against the communists, which most people thought the non-communists would lose; the fight when we were in Malaysia against the communalists, when his own life was in danger; separation, which cast us out into a hazardous world; and then the withdrawal of British forces from Singapore, which threatened the livelihoods of 150,000 people.\r\n\r\nBecause he never wavered, we didn’t falter. Because he fought, we took courage and fought with him, and prevailed. Thus Mr Lee took Singapore and us all from Third World to First.\r\n\r\nIn many countries, anti-colonial fighters and heroes would win independence and assume power, but then fail at nation building because the challenges of building a nation and growing the economy and improving peoples’ lives are very different. But Mr Lee succeeded at nation building, together with his team of ministers.\r\n\r\nJust weeks after Separation, he boldly declared that “10 years from now, this will be a metropolis. Never fear!” And indeed he made it happen. He instilled discipline and order – ensuring that in Singapore, every problem gets fixed. He educated our young. He transformed labour relations from strikes and confrontation to tripartism and cooperation. He campaigned to upgrade skills and raise productivity, calling their effort a marathon with no finish line.\r\n\r\nHe enabled his economic team – Goh Keng Swee, Hon Sui Sen, Lim Kim San – to design and carry out their plans to attract investments, grow the economy, and create prosperity and jobs. As he said, “I settled the political conditions so that tough policies … could be executed”.\r\n\r\nHowever, Mr Lee was clear that while “the development of the economy is very important, equally important is the development of the nature of our society.” So he built an inclusive society where everyone enjoyed the fruits of progress. Education became the foundation for good jobs and better lives. HDB new towns sprung up one after another – Queenstown, Toa Payoh, Ang Mo Kio, to be followed by many more.\r\n\r\nWe had roofs over our heads, and became a nation of home owners. With Devan Nair in the NTUC, he transformed the union movement into a positive force, cooperating with employers and the Government to improve the lot of workers.\r\n\r\nMr Lee cared for the people of Singapore whom he served. When SARS struck in 2003, he worried about taxi drivers, whose livelihoods were affected because tourists had dried up, and pressed us hard to find ways to help taxi drivers. Mr Lee also cared for the people who served him. One evening, just a few years ago, he rang me up. One of my mother’s WSOs (woman security officers) was having difficulty conceiving a child, and he wanted to help her. He asked whether I knew how to help her to adopt a child. He was concerned for people not just in the abstract, but personally and individually.\r\n\r\nInternationally, he raised Singa­pore’s standing in the world. Mr Lee was not just a perceptive observer of world affairs, but a statesman who articulated Singapore’s international interests and enlarged our strategic space. At crucial turning points, from the British withdrawal “East of Suez” to the Vietnam War to the rise of China, his views and counsel influenced thinking and decisions in many capitals.\r\n\r\nIn the process, he built up a wide network of friends, in and out of power. He knew every Chinese leader from Mao Zedong and every US president from Lyndon Johnson. He established close rapport with President Suharto of Indonesia, one of our most important relationships. Others he knew included Deng Xiaoping, Margaret Thatcher, Helmut Schmidt, George Shultz, as well as President Bill Clinton and Henry Kissinger, who we are honoured to have here with us this afternoon. They valued his candour and insight. As Mrs Thatcher said, “(Mr Lee) had a way of penetrating the fog of propaganda and expressing with unique clarity the issues of our times and the way to tackle them. He was never wrong.” Hence despite being so small, Singapore’s voice is heard, and we enjoy far more influence on the world stage than we have any reason to expect.\r\n\r\nMr Lee did not blaze this path alone. He was the outstanding leader of an exceptional team – Goh Keng Swee, S Rajaratnam, Othman Wok, Hon Sui Sen, Lim Kim San, Toh Chin Chye, Ong Pang Boon, Devan Nair, and quite a number more. They were his comrades, and he never forgot them. So it is very good that Mr Ong Pang Boon is here today to speak about Mr Lee.\r\n\r\nMr Lee received many accolades and awards in his long life, but he wore them lightly. When Mr Lee received the Freedom of the City of London in 1982, he said: “I feel like a conductor at a concert bowing to applause, but unable to turn around and invite the accomplished musicians in his orchestra to rise and receive the ovation for the music they have played. For running a govern­ment is not unlike running an orchestra, and no Prime Minister ever achieves much without an able team of players.”\r\n\r\nBecause he worked with a strong team and not alone, because people knew that he cared for them and not for himself, and because he had faith that Singaporeans would work with him to achieve great things, Mr Lee won the trust and confidence of Singaporeans. The pioneer generation, who had lived through the crucial years, had a deep bond with him. I once met a lady who owned a successful fried rice restaurant. She told me: “Tell Lee Kuan Yew I will always support him. I was born in 1948, and I am 48 years old (this was 1996). I know what he has done for me and Singapore.” She and her generation knew that “跟着李光耀走不会死的” – if you follow Lee Kuan Yew, you will survive.\r\n\r\nMr Lee imbued Singapore with his personal traits. He built Singapore to be clean and corruption-free. His home was spartan. His habits were frugal. He wore the same jacket for years, and patched up worn bits instead of buying new ones. He imparted these values to the government. Even when old and frail, when MPs celebrated his 90th birthday in Parliament (in 2013), he reminded them that Singapore must remain clean and incorruptible, and that MPs and ministers had to set the example.\r\n\r\nHe pursued ideas with tremendous, infectious energy. He said of himself: “I put myself down as determined, consistent, persistent. I set out to do something, I keep on chasing it until it succeeds. That’s all.” Easy to say, very few do it. This was how he seized opportunities, seeing and realising possibilities that many others missed.\r\n\r\nSo it was he who pushed to move Paya Lebar airport to Changi. It was he who rejected the conventional wisdom then that multi-national corporations (MNCs) were rapacious and exploitative, and wooed foreign investment from MNCs to invest in Singapore, to bring us technology, overseas markets and jobs.\r\n\r\nHe was not afraid to change his mind when a policy was no longer relevant. When he saw that our birth rates were falling below replacement, he scrapped the “Stop at Two” policy and started encouraging couples to have more children. That was almost 30 years ago. Having upheld a conservative approach to supervising our financial sector for many years, he eventually decided the time had come to rethink and liberalise, but to do so in a controlled way. This was how Singapore’s financial centre took off in a new wave of growth, to become what it is today. He was always clear what strategy to follow, but never so fixed to an old strategy as to be blind to the need to change course when the world changed.\r\n\r\nNothing exemplifies this better than water security, which was a lifelong obsession of his. He entrenched the PUB’s two Water Agreements with Johor in the Separation Agreement, he personally managed all aspects of our water talks with Malaysia. He launched water saving campaigns, built reservoirs, and turned most of the island into water catchment to collect the rain to process and use. He cleaned up the Singapore River and Kallang Basin. He dreamed of the Marina Barrage until finally technology caught up and it became feasible, and it became a reality. And he lived to see it happen. When PUB invented NEWater, and when desalination became viable, he backed the new technologies enthusiastically. The result today is Singapore has moved towards self-sufficiency in water, become a leader in water technologies, and turned a vulnerability into a strength.\r\n\r\nIt is perhaps appropriate that today the heavens opened and cried for him.\r\n\r\nNo issue was too small for him. On travels when he came across trees or plants that might grow well here, he would collect saplings and seeds and hand carry them back to Singapore. He used the Istana grounds as a nursery, and would personally check on the health of the trees, not just in general but particular trees. Singa­pore’s Prime Minister was also the Chief Gardener of the City in a Garden.\r\n\r\nHe had a relentless drive to improve. He continued to learn well into old age. At 70, to write his memoirs, he started learning how to use his computer. Every so often he would call me for help – sometimes late at night – and I would give him a phone consultation, talking him through the steps to save a file, or find a document which had vanished somewhere on his hard drive. And if he could not find me, he would consult my wife.\r\n\r\nHe made a ceaseless effort to learn Mandarin over decades – listening to tapes of his teacher in the morning while shaving at home, and in the evening while exercising at Sri Temasek. He kept up his Mandarin classes all his life. Indeed, his last appointment on Feb 4, before he was became gravely ill early the next morning, was with his Mandarin tutor.\r\n\r\nHe inspired all of us to give our best.\r\n\r\nHe was constantly thinking about Singapore. He declared at one National Day Rally (in 1988) that “Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.” And he meant that. And indeed, even after he left the Cabinet, he would still occasionally raise with me issues he felt strongly about.\r\n\r\nDuring the Budget Debate two years ago, MPs hotly debated the cost of living, public transport and other matters pre-occupying Singa­poreans. Mr Lee felt that we had lost sight of the fundamentals that underpinned our survival. He emailed me a draft speech and said he wanted to speak in the Chamber, to remind Singaporeans of these unchanging hard truths – what our survival depended on. But I persuaded him to leave the task to me and my ministers. And he took my advice.\r\n\r\nHis biggest worry was that younger Singaporeans would lose the instinct for what made Singapore tick. This was why he continued writing books into his 90s – Bilingualism, Hard Truths, One Man’s View of the World, and at least one more – guided by him and still being written – on the history of the PAP. So that a new generation of Singaporeans could learn from his experience, and understand what their security, prosperity, and future depended on.\r\n\r\nOne of Mr Lee’s greatest legacies was preparing Singapore to continue beyond him. He believed that a leader’s toughest job was ensuring succession. He systematically identified and groomed a team of successors. He made way for Mr Goh Chok Tong to become Prime Minister, but stayed on in Mr Goh’s Cabinet to help the new team succeed. He provided stability and experience and quietly helped to build up Mr Goh’s authority. He knew how to guide without being obtrusive, to be watchful while letting the new team develop its own style and its own authority. He described himself as a “mascot” – everyone knew how special this mascot was, and how lucky we were to have this mascot.\r\n\r\nIt was likewise when I took over. Mr Goh became Senior Minister and Mr Lee became Minister Mentor, a title he felt reflected his new role. Increasingly he left policy issues to us, but he would share with us his reading of world affairs, and his advice on major problems that he saw over the horizon. Some other Prime Ministers told me that they could not imagine what it was like to have two former PMs in my Cabinet. But I told them it worked, both for me and for Singa­pore.\r\n\r\nFor all his public duties, Mr Lee also had his own family. My mother was a big part of his life. They were a deeply loving couple. She was his loyal spouse and confidante – going with him everywhere, fussing over him, helping with his speeches, and keeping home and hearth warm. They were a perfect team, and wonderful parents. When my mother died, he was bereft. He felt the devastating loss of a life partner, who as he said had helped him to become what he was.\r\n\r\nMy father left the upbringing of the children largely to my mother. But he was the head of the family, and cared deeply about us, both when we were small, and long after we had grown up. He was not very demonstrative, much less touchy feely, but he loved us deeply.\r\n\r\nAfter my first wife Ming Yang died, my parents suggested that I tried meditation. They gave me some books to read, but I did not make much progress. I think my father had tried it too, also not too successfully. When his teacher told him to relax, still his mind and let go, he replied: “But what will happen to Singapore if I let go?”\r\n\r\nWhen I had lymphoma, he suggested that I try meditation more seriously. He thought it would help me to fight the cancer. He found me a teacher and spoke to him personally. With a good teacher to guide me, I made better progress.\r\n\r\nIn old age, after my mother died, my father started meditating again, with help from Ng Kok Song, whom he knew from GIC. Kok Song brought a friend to see my father, a Benedictine monk who did Christian meditation. My father was not a Christian, but he was happy to learn from a Benedictine monk. He even called me to suggest that I meet the monk, which I did. He probably felt I needed to resume meditation too.\r\n\r\nAnd to give you some context, this was a few months after the 2011 General Election. I was nearing 60 by then, and he was nearly 90. But to him I was still his son to be worried over, and to me he was still a father to love and appreciate, just like when I was small.\r\n\r\nSo this morning, before the ceremony began at Parliament House, we had a few minutes. I sat beside him, and I meditated.\r\n\r\nOf course, growing up as my father’s son could not but mean being exposed to politics very early. I remember as a little boy, I knoew his constituency was Tanjong Pagar, I was proud of him becoming legal advisor to so many trade unions, and being excited by the hubbub at Oxley Road whenever elections happened, and our home became the election office.\r\n\r\nI remember when we were preparing to join Malaysia in the early 1960s, going along with my father on constituency visits – the “fang wen” tours he made to every corner of Singa­pore. For him, it was back­breaking work week after week, rallying the people’s support for a supremely important decision about Singa­pore’s future. For me, these were not just Sunday outings, but also an early political education.\r\n\r\nI remember election night in the 1960s, the crucial general election when the PAP defeated the pro-communist Barisan Sosialis. My mother sent me to bed early, but lay awake to listen to the election results until the PAP had won enough seats to form the government again. Then I fell asleep.\r\n\r\nI remember the day he told me, while we were playing golf at the Istana, that should anything happen to him, he wanted me to look after my mother and my younger brother and sister.\r\n\r\nI remember the night the children slept on the floor in my parents’ bedroom at Temasek House in Kuala Lumpur, because the house was full of ministers who had come up from Singapore. Every so often my father would get up from the bed to make a note about something, before lying down to rest again. But obviously he wasn’t asleep. The date was 7 August 1965, two days before Separation.\r\n\r\nGrowing up with my father, living through those years with him, made me what I am.\r\n\r\nThis year is the 50th anniversary of Singapore’s independence. We all hoped that Mr Lee would be present with us on August 9 to celebrate this significant milestone. More than anybody else, it was he who fought for multi­racialism, which ultimately led to independence as a sovereign republic. It was he who united our people, built a nation, and made our 50th anniversary worth celebrating. Sadly, it is not to be.\r\n\r\nBut we can feel proud and happy that Mr Lee lived to see his life’s work come to fruition. At last year’s National Day Parade, when Mr Lee appeared and waved on the big screen at the floating platform, the crowd gave him a deafening cheer. Last November, the People’s Action Party celebrated its diamond anniversary at the Victoria Concert Hall, where Mr Lee had founded the party 60 years ago. Party members were so happy to see that Mr Lee could be there, they gave him a rousing, emotional standing ovation. Those of us who were there will never forget it.\r\n\r\nSt Paul’s Cathedral in London was built by Sir Christopher Wren. He was the architect, and he is buried in the cathedral, which was his masterpiece, his life’s work. The Latin epitaph on his grave reads: si monumentum requiris, circumspice (If you seek his monument, look around you). Mr Lee Kuan Yew built Singapore. To those who seek Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s monument, Singaporeans can reply proudly: “look around you”.\r\n\r\nI said the light that has guided us all these years has been extinguished. But that is not quite so. For Mr Lee’s principles and ideals continue to invigorate this Government and to guide our people. His life will inspire Singaporeans, and others, for generations to come.\r\n\r\nMr Lee once said that “we intend to see that (Singapore) will be here a thousand years from now. And that is your duty and mine”. Mr Lee has done his duty, and more. It remains our duty to continue his life’s work, to carry the torch forward and keep the flame burning bright.\r\n\r\nOver the past month, the outpouring of good wishes, prayers and support from Singaporeans as Mr Lee lay ill has been overwhelming, and even more so since he passed away on Monday. People of all races, from all walks of life, young and old, here and abroad – hundreds of thousands queued patiently for hours, in the hot sun and through the night, to pay respects to him at the Parliament House.\r\n\r\nI visited the queue at the Padang. Many Singaporeans and not so few non-Singaporeans, came out of deep respect and compulsion…Many more penned messages and took part in tribute ceremonies at community sites all over the island. Thousands of overseas Singaporeans gathered in our embassies and consulates to remember Mr Lee. At the end of this funeral service, all of us – in this hall, across our island, and in far flung lands – will observe a minute of silence, say the National Pledge, and sing Majulah Singapura together.\r\n\r\nWe have all lost a father. Together, we have grieved as one people, one nation. We are all in grief. But in our grief, we have displayed the best of Mr Lee’s Singapore. Everyday Singaporeans, going to great lengths to share refreshments and umbrellas with the crowd, helping each other in the queue, late into the night. Citizen soldiers, Home Team, cleaners, all working tirelessly round the clock. Our shared sorrow has brought us together, and made us stronger and more resolute.\r\n\r\nWe came together not only to mourn. Together, we celebrate Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s long and full life, and what he has achieved with us, his people in Singapore.\r\n\r\nLet us continue building this exceptional country. Let us shape this island nation into a great metropolis reflecting the ideals he fought for, realising the dreams he inspired, and worthy of the people who have made Singapore our home and nation.\r\n\r\nThank you Mr Lee Kuan Yew. 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(35756, 1, '2015-04-17 21:39:49', '2015-04-17 13:39:49', '[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][vc_column_text]<b>NO TOPIC JUST FUN</b>\r\n\r\n<strong>Speech delivered by LLOYD LUNA during the 2015 convention of Europe Asia Alliance in Shangri-la’s Mactan Resort and Spa, Cebu City on April 16, 2015 at 7:00 PM</strong>\r\n\r\nThank you. Thank you to those who clapped their hands. Actually, I am expecting a louder round of applause. Thank you.\r\n\r\nDirectors, organizers, guests, people from Europe, people from Asia, people from \"The Alliance\", and people who were not invited but are here anyway:\r\n\r\nGood evening, Buenas noches, Bonsoir, Buonasera, Guten abend, Wǎnshàng hǎo, Selamat petang, Selamat Malam, Chào buổi tối, S̄wạs̄dī, Magandang gabi po.\r\n\r\nWow. Let me start by saying that I think the world is about to end. Having a small guy like me speak in this highly celebrated event with the people of your reputation is a signal that we are getting closer to the destruction of the world.\r\n\r\nSeriously, inviting a 32-year-old author such as my self means there is something terribly wrong in the this world. When I got your invitation, I immediately asked, \"Why would you invite someone like me?\" \"Why me?\"\r\n\r\nThere are many more speakers out there who are more qualified to speak. More intelligent than me. More deserving than me. More educated than me. Richer than me. Taller than me. Maybe more goodlooking than me.\r\n\r\nBut on second thought, I also asked, \"Why not me?\"\r\n\r\nReally, here’s how I feel now. I feel I don’t deserve to stand here in front of you. But I don’t think I can stand at the back while giving this speech so I guess I have to stay here in front.\r\n\r\nJust to let you know, I am also a comedian so just a fair warning: I mean no offense to anyone. Please don’t take me so seriously tonight. Because seriously, I’m kidding.\r\n\r\nBesides, on this kind of ocassion, most people including my self are guilty of remembering only one thing from the speaker in any given seminar: Thank you. So my motivational message for tonight: Thank you.\r\n\r\nTo those who would like me to continue, another round of applause please. To those who want me to go out now, round of applause please.\r\n\r\nOk then. Let’s just enjoy the night, shall we? This will be short. So please relax. This speech is only about 200 pages. It\'s brief.\r\n\r\nI was not given a particular topic to talk about. The organizers are kind and trusting enough to give me a freehand to speak on any topic I wish. So tonight, the title of my speech is \"No topic, just fun.\" So i can’t promise that you’ll learn anything from me tonight.\r\n\r\nBy the way, I am so excited to see you and share some of my thoughts with you. I thought I needed to make some deep and substantial research about your organization, EAA, which means European Athletic Association.\r\n\r\nOh, you are not an athletic association? Who is in the wrong seminar then? Is it me or you?\r\n\r\nOk, EAA, otherwise known as the great Europe Asia Alliance, formed in 2007 to offer importers and exporters the advantages of the multi-national corporations with the expertise that can be found only in a locally owned and operated business. you have a network of offices strategically positioned in virtually every angle of Europe and Asia, giving you the advantage of being able to offer your clients a comprehensive service.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t make that up. I got it from your website.\r\n\r\nSeriously I worked long and hard for this talk. On my way going here from Manila while in the airplane this morning, I prepared this speech.\r\n\r\nThis speech is especially made from 35,000 feet above sea level.\r\n\r\nToday, many industries are trying their very best to stay alive and stay relevant. For example, in the Philippines, we used to have a very active and lucrative business in textile industry. But since the entry of international brands such as Uniqlo and H&amp;M, our local brands started to struggle.\r\n\r\nThese international brands sell their goods at a local price. People have lost their appetite on local brands and found an overwhelming desire on global brands.\r\n\r\nOur once active manufacturing industry is now a sunset industry. Many are getting ready for their brands funeral.\r\n\r\nBut yours is an industry that will never die and will always be where the sun rises. It will never be a sunset industry. It will never ever go back in time. It will never rewind because your business is always forwarding.\r\n\r\nI always wonder what people in the forwarding business do and what kind of people they are. Are they cool? Are they strict? Are they disciplinarian? Are they serious? How do they do what they do?\r\n\r\nSo I opened my browser and here’s what I discovered about you.\r\n\r\n(Play the video)\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/WEvG9NSvPNU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\nI realized that you are also a human being, capable of falling when you get dizzy, going towards a wrong direction no matter how well you know where the right direction is, and getting up to finish the game you started.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of work, the Philippines’ biggest business is politics and entertainment. As a television host myself, i should know how huge these two businesses are.\r\n\r\nThe reason perhaps is because the Philippines is a family-oriented nation. We don’t leave a family member behind.\r\n\r\nThat’s why we elected a vice president whose wife was a former city mayor, their eldest daughter is a now senator, their son is a mayor, and another daughter is a congresswoman.\r\n\r\nThe Philippines is a family corporation but our bureau of customs is probably another family. No offense but I heard they have their own language there. I didn’t know their language so back in 2012, my shipment worth 1.5 million pesos never made it out.\r\n\r\nThank you for your sympathy but I have moved on.\r\n\r\nAs Filipinos, you know we are very kind people. We are hospitable. We are great entertainers. We are happy people. We are easy to get along with. We are very friendly.\r\n\r\nBut we were not as friendly as before. We killed nearly every one who tried to conquer our nation. We are friendly. But we can kill. So, friendly killers.\r\n\r\nWe are now a free nation. Back then, we were under a dictatorship. In 1986, democracy was restored. Since then, Filipinos got the freedom to do everything they like.\r\n\r\nFor example, in Singapore, you’ll feel bad and somehow ashamed of your self when you cross the street without using pedestrian lanes.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, you’ll feel bad and ashamed of your self when you use pedestrian lanes because everybody else cross anywhere they like. Pedestrian lanes are not part of the traffic system. It is an art we paint on our roads.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, we have high regards on the environment so we treat almost every place as a park. Yes, including our work places. Everyday for us is a walk in the park. That said, we don’t walk fast. We don\'t glide. We always take our time so we walk slowly.\r\n\r\nEscalators in Singapore operate four times faster than our escalators because probably Singaporeans believe that, \"It’s better never late.\" We, on the other hand, believe that, \"It’s better late than never.\"\r\n\r\nBut we are natural visionaries. When you give us a work assignment, don’t expect us to finish it on the day. Just like many other people around the world, procrastination is our specialty. We are visionaries. Our vision is always set on tomorrow. So tomorrow, we will do our work assignment.\r\n\r\nWe are too focused on the future that we forget today\'s deadline.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of time, Europeans and other people in the West are always specific and mindful of their appointments and meeting schedules. There’s no gray area. It’s just black and white.\r\n\r\nOur sense of time in this part of the world is kinda different. For example, when you ask a European, \"Where and what time are we meeting tomorrow?\" They would answer this way: I will see you at 3PM in Starbucks.\r\n\r\nYou will find it strange in the Philippines. When you ask me the same question, my answer would be, \"After lunch in a coffee shop inside the mall.\"\r\n\r\nWhat time? After lunch. Where? Somewhere out there.\r\n\r\nOnce inside the coffee shop, you probably would ask me: Have you eaten yet? I would answer this way: It’s ok. I’m still full.\r\n\r\nClearly, we don’t answer your question. Or maybe, we give you an answer that is more than what your question can take.\r\n\r\nBut going back in the old days, you will realize that we are indeed a great nation with great people situated in a greatly strategic part of the pacific, perhaps the reason why many nations express their interest a certain group of islands.\r\n\r\nIt is only in this part of the globe where you can see a group of islands called in many different names based on who is talking.\r\n\r\nSpratly is located in South China Sea which is the same as West Philippine Sea, under the economic zone of Brunei, in the state of Sabah, Malaysia, which is a municipality of the Philippines and taiwan, in the district of Vietnam.\r\n\r\nBut the disputed group of islands is so strategically positioned that whoever got it would get the best place to set up a missile system.\r\n\r\nBut we are a great nation. Two thousand years ago, we built one of the seven wonders of the world known as Banaue Rice Terraces. how do you keep the water from draining in the mountain?\r\n\r\nModesty aside, two thousand years ago, while Jesus was walking in Jerusalem, we already knew hydraulics technology.\r\n\r\nBut the same wonder of the world would give us an idea that Filipinos are natural visionary.\r\n\r\nWe built the rice terraces not only for the present generation at the time, but we built it with the future generation in mind. We build something today that our future generation would benefit from.\r\n\r\nBut back in those days, we were not huge fans of leadership by patronage. Our concept of leadership then was, leaders don’t take credit for the team’s achievement.\r\n\r\nOur leaders in the old times don’t put their name on what they have accomplished. That’s why we would never know who led the creation of the rice terraces.\r\n\r\nBack then, it was about leading without names. Today, it’s about names without leading.\r\n\r\nEvery name, every face, every mark of a politician is printed on every project they do for the people who are paying for their salary as well as the project that they build for the people.\r\n\r\nBy the way, the Banaue Rice Terraces was built by free people dedicated for the future generation unlike the pyramids in Egypt which were built by slaves for a certain leader.\r\n\r\nFilipinos build something beyond themselves.\r\n\r\nAs a nation, we have our own share of many firsts. We built the first airport and operated Philippine Airlines, the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia. It was built in 1941.\r\n\r\nWe built the first metro railway system in Southeast Asia in 1891. Thanks to King Alfonso XII of Spain, a European, for his support.\r\n\r\nSo you may be asking, despite our firsts, why is the Philippines trailing behind many other Asian nations today?\r\n\r\nWell, we got tired of being the first. So we took a rest up to this day. But we are aware that Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos are catching up and might overtake us soon. We are not alarmed.\r\n\r\nWe appreciate small joys. We love small things. We are physically small people. Maybe we think small as well.\r\n\r\nMaybe that explains why it’s only prevalent in the Philippines that we have a very small version of supermarket called sari-sari store or in your language, variety store, where you can buy anything like beer, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, bread, biscuits, chips, diaper, napkins and panty liners. One small store with everything you need.\r\n\r\nIt’s only in the Philippines that you can buy a shampoo as small as your lighter and buy a single piece of cigarette without complaint from the seller.\r\n\r\nBe that as it may, we are creative people. When you give a German a one-to-five step-by-step instruction, I think Germans would do exactly as instructed.\r\n\r\nWhen you give Filipinos the same set of instructions, we will add step 1.1 to step 1 or step 2.1.a after step number 2. We don’t really ruin the process, but sure we add more years for the project to be completed.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of projects, our politicians construct roads that can only last for three years or equivalent to their term of office so that their re-election promise is now, \"If you elect me once again, I promise to repair those roads.\"\r\n\r\nWe are dreamers. We just forgot to wake up and build the dream.\r\n\r\nFrench kiss. Well, growing up, I really didn’t know about it. I only heard it and read about it. I always wonder what French kiss means and how it is done.\r\n\r\nWhen I was in college, I thought you’ll need a French lady to have a French kiss. So I waited for many years. She didn’t come so I ended up eating French fries instead.\r\n\r\nI don’t know how sensational French kiss could be. No idea. But hey all I know is we beat the French people on the number of couples kissing on valentines day according to Guiness.\r\n\r\nWe also broke the record held by Chile and Hungary. We call it Lovapalooza, a traditional Filipino Valentine\'s Day celebration that first bid to claim the Guiness World Record for the Most Number of Simultaneously Kissing Couples for 10 seconds in 2007.\r\n\r\nIn the news this week, one city government is trying to pass a local law that prohibits a citizen from owning more than three cats and dogs. I wonder why they have to do that. are they mad about the cats and dogs?\r\n\r\nThen I realized, maybe because they can’t control human population so they settled on controlling what they can—animal population. Anyway, cats and dogs don’t vote.\r\n\r\nWe are very sweet people. Perhaps that’s why some European retirees retire in the Philippines and maybe get Filipina as a partner. We are so sweet. In fact, many Filipinos have diabetes. Mainly, it\'s unlimited rice promo\'s fault.\r\n\r\nBut another reason why many people choose the Philippines as a retiring destination is because naturally, we are caring people. We have a lot of caregivers and nurses around the world.\r\n\r\nWe are natural magicians. The Philippines has one of the highest tax rates in Asia and we collect billions of pesos from tax payers annually. But we really don’t know where the money goes after we pay.\r\n\r\nAs a magician, we can make money disappear in less than a year and elect in the following election the same set of politicians who made it disappear.\r\n\r\nOur greatest business is export business. We export our people. We export our talents. Our education system is carefully and effectively designed to prepare our citizens to work in other countries and enrich other nations. That is so sweet as well.\r\n\r\nWe have the best beaches in the world. Many white people go in Boracay for tanning. They literally stay under the sun for long hours just to look tan.\r\n\r\nBut when we Filipinos see you do that, we thouht it’s cool. We thought it’s the trend. We thought it’s new. So we also stay under the sun and our brown skin becomes dark brown. At night, you can’t see us anymore.\r\n\r\nOn a serious note, as a motivational stand up comedian and inspirational author, I always feel for the people. I guess as business leaders, while we strive to stay relevant to the market that we serve, we also must strive to reach out and genuinely help our people in their personal development.\r\n\r\nIt’s not enough that we give them jobs. Let us give them time and attention. Maybe that’s what they need more than the competitive compensation and benefit packages that we give to them.\r\n\r\nFinally, there are three important things that I learned in my life. You don’t have to believe them but at least hear them.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to be happy or to be kind, choose to be kind. Happy people are not always kind but kind people are generally happy.\r\n\r\nBe kind.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to have hope or to have faith, choose to have faith. Hope waits for a defining moment to come when faith has already defined your defining moment.\r\n\r\nKeep the faith.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to succeed or to love, choose love. For it is only in the magical expression of love that real success is made and found.\r\n\r\nAlways stay in love.\r\n\r\nLife won’t guarantee us of anything but if we would just be kind to one another, if we would just keep the faith in who we are, and if we would just fall in love on what we do best over and over again, amazing things would always come our way.\r\n\r\nWhat people always say about businessmen is it’s always business as usual for us. We make more money and we give very little to others. We are so focused on the profit. We always consider our bottome line.\r\n\r\nWell, I don’t have any joke for that. I’m just letting you know what they say.\r\n\r\nUp to this point, I still don’t know the topic I am going to speak about. But I don’t think it still matters because I think I have said everything I needed to say—enough message for me to collect my professional speaking fee.\r\n\r\nI am honored to speak to you tonight. Thank you and may God bless you all.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_35764\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"400\"]<a class=\"dt-single-image\" href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/11100808_10205629591833669_8079801672114448772_n.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"After a hit prepared motivational stand up comedy speech, buffet dinner and unlimited red wine and of course company of new-found friends, CEOs of some of the biggest forwarding companies in Europe and Asia. 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(35757, 1, '2015-04-17 21:39:49', '2015-04-17 13:39:49', '[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][vc_column_text]<b>NO TOPIC JUST FUN</b>\r\n\r\n<strong>Speech delivered by LLOYD LUNA during the 2015 convention of Europe Asia Alliance in Shangri-la’s Mactan Resort and Spa, Cebu City on April 16, 2015 at 7:00 PM</strong>\r\n\r\nThank you. Thank you to those who clapped their hands. Actually, I am expecting a louder round of applause. Thank you.\r\n\r\nDirectors, organizers, guests, people from Europe, people from Asia, people from \"The Alliance\", and people who were not invited but are here anyway:\r\n\r\nGood evening, Buenas noches, Bonsoir, Buonasera, Guten abend, Wǎnshàng hǎo, Selamat petang, Selamat Malam, Chào buổi tối, S̄wạ(s̄)dī, Magandang gabi po.\r\n\r\nWow. Let me start by saying that I think the world is about to end. Having a small guy like me speak in this highly celebrated event with the people of your reputation is a signal that we are getting closer to the destruction of the world.\r\n\r\nSeriously, inviting a 32-year-old author such as my self means there is something terribly wrong in the this world. When I got your invitation, I immediately asked, \"Why would you invite someone like me?\" \"Why me?\"\r\n\r\nThere are many more speakers out there who are more qualified to speak. More intelligent than me. More deserving than me. More educated than me. Richer than me. Taller than me. Maybe more goodlooking than me.\r\n\r\nBut on second thought, I also asked, \"Why not me?\"\r\n\r\nReally, here’s how I feel now. I feel I don’t deserve to stand here in front of you. But I don’t think I can stand at the back while giving this speech so I guess I have to stay here in front.\r\n\r\nJust to let you know, I am also a comedian so just a fair warning: I mean no offense to anyone. Please don’t take me so seriously tonight. Because seriously, I’m kidding.\r\n\r\nBesides, on this kind of ocassion, most people including my self are guilty of remembering only one thing from the speaker in any given seminar: Thank you. So my motivational message for tonight: Thank you.\r\n\r\nTo those who would like me to continue, another round of applause please. To those who want me to go out now, round of applause please.\r\n\r\nOk then. Let’s just enjoy the night, shall we? This will be short. So please relax. This speech is only about 200 pages. It\'s brief.\r\n\r\nI was not given a particular topic to talk about. The organizers are kind and trusting enough to give me a freehand to speak on any topic I wish. So tonight, the title of my speech is \"No topic, just fun.\" So i can’t promise that you’ll learn anything from me tonight.\r\n\r\nBy the way, I am so excited to see you and share some of my thoughts with you. I thought I needed to make some deep and substantial research about your organization, EAA, which means European Athletic Association.\r\n\r\nOh, you are not an athletic association? Who is in the wrong seminar then? Is it me or you?\r\n\r\nOk, EAA, otherwise known as the great Europe Asia Alliance, formed in 2007 to offer importers and exporters the advantages of the multi-national corporations with the expertise that can be found only in a locally owned and operated business. you have a network of offices strategically positioned in virtually every angle of Europe and Asia, giving you the advantage of being able to offer your clients a comprehensive service.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t make that up. I got it from your website.\r\n\r\nSeriously I worked long and hard for this talk. On my way going here from Manila while in the airplane this morning, I prepared this speech.\r\n\r\nThis speech is especially made from 35,000 feet above sea level.\r\n\r\nToday, many industries are trying their very best to stay alive and stay relevant. For example, in the Philippines, we used to have a very active and lucrative business in textile industry. But since the entry of international brands such as Uniqlo and H&amp;M, our local brands started to struggle.\r\n\r\nThese international brands sell their goods at a local price. People have lost their appetite on local brands and found an overwhelming desire on global brands.\r\n\r\nOur once active manufacturing industry is now a sunset industry. Many are getting ready for their brands funeral.\r\n\r\nBut yours is an industry that will never die and will always be where the sun rises. It will never be a sunset industry. It will never ever go back in time. It will never rewind because your business is always forwarding.\r\n\r\nI always wonder what people in the forwarding business do and what kind of people they are. Are they cool? Are they strict? Are they disciplinarian? Are they serious? How do they do what they do?\r\n\r\nSo i opened my browser and here’s what I discovered about you.\r\n\r\n(Play the video)\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/WEvG9NSvPNU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\nI realized that you are also a human being, capable of falling when you get dizzy, going towards a wrong direction no matter how well you know where the right direction is, and getting up to finish the game you started.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of work, the Philippines’ biggest business is politics and entertainment. As a television host myself, i should know how huge these two businesses are.\r\n\r\nThe reason perhaps is because the Philippines is a family-oriented nation. We don’t leave a family member behind.\r\n\r\nThat’s why we elected a vice president whose wife was a former city mayor, their eldest daughter is a now senator, their son is a mayor, and another daughter is a congresswoman.\r\n\r\nThe Philippines is a family corporation but our bureau of customs is probably another family. No offense but I heard they have their own language there. I didn’t know their language so back in 2012, my shipment worth 1.5 million pesos never made it out.\r\n\r\nThank you for your sympathy but I have moved on.\r\n\r\nAs Filipinos, you know we are very kind people. We are hospitable. We are great entertainers. We are happy people. We are easy to get along with. We are very friendly.\r\n\r\nBut we were not as friendly as before. We killed nearly every one who tried to conquer our nation. We are friendly. But we can kill. So, friendly killers.\r\n\r\nWe are now a free nation. Back then, we were under a dictatorship. In 1986, democracy was restored. Since then, Filipinos got the freedom to do everything they like.\r\n\r\nFor example, in Singapore, you’ll feel bad and somehow ashamed of your self when you cross the street without using pedestrian lanes.\r\n\r\nIn the philippines, you’ll feel bad and ashamed of your self when you use pedestrian lanes because everybody else cross anywhere they like. Pedestrian lanes are not part of the traffic system. It is an art we paint on our roads.\r\n\r\nIn the philippines, we have high regards on the environment so we treat almost every place as a park. Yes, including our work places. Everyday for us is a walk in the park. That said, we don’t walk fast. We don\'t glide. We always take our time so we walk slowly.\r\n\r\nEscalators in Singapore operate four times faster than our escalators because probably Singaporeans believe that, \"It’s better never late.\" We, on the other hand, believe that, \"It’s better late than never.\"\r\n\r\nBut we are natural visionaries. when you give us a work assignment, don’t expect us to finish it on the day. just like many other people around the world, procrastination is our specialty. we are visionaries. our vision is always set on tomorrow. so tomorrow, we will do our work assignment.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of time, Europeans and other people in the West are always specific and mindful of their appointments and meeting schedules. There’s no gray area. It’s just black and white.\r\n\r\nOur sense of time in this part of the world is kinda different. For example, when you ask a European, \"Where and what time are we meeting tomorrow?\" They would answer this way: I will see you at 3PM in Starbucks.\r\n\r\nYou will find it strange in the Philippines. When you ask me the same question, my answer would be, \"After lunch in a coffee shop inside the mall.\"\r\n\r\nWhat time? After lunch. Where? Somewhere out there.\r\n\r\nOnce inside the coffee shop, you probably would ask me: Have you eaten yet? I would answer this way: It’s ok. I’m still full.\r\n\r\nClearly, we don’t answer your question. Or maybe, we give you an answer that is more than what your question can take.\r\n\r\nBut going back in the old days, you will realize that we are indeed a great nation with great people situated in a greatly strategic part of the pacific, perhaps the reason why many nations express their interest a certain group of islands.\r\n\r\nIt is only in this part of the globe where you can see a group of islands called in many different names based on who is talking.\r\n\r\nSpratly is located in South China Sea which is the same as West Philippine Sea, under the economic zone of Brunei, in the state of Sabah, Malaysia, which is a municipality of the Philippines and taiwan, in the district of Vietnam.\r\n\r\nBut the disputed group of islands is so strategically positioned that whoever got it would get the best place to set up a missile system.\r\n\r\nBut we are a great nation. Two thousand years ago, we built one of the seven wonders of the world known as Banaue Rice Terraces. how do you keep the water from draining in the mountain?\r\n\r\nModesty aside, two thousand years ago, while Jesus was walking in Jerusalem, we already knew hydraulics technology.\r\n\r\nBut the same wonder of the world would give us an idea that Filipinos are natural visionary.\r\n\r\nWe built the rice terraces not only for the present generation at the time, but we built it with the future generation in mind. We build something today that our future generation would benefit from.\r\n\r\nBut back in those days, we were not huge fans of leadership by patronage. Our concept of leadership then was, leaders don’t take credit for the team’s achievement.\r\n\r\nOur leaders in the old times don’t put their name on what they have accomplished. That’s why we would never know who led the creation of the rice terraces.\r\n\r\nBack then, it was about leading without names. Today, it’s about names without leading.\r\n\r\nEvery name, every face, every mark of a politician is printed on every project they do for the people who are paying for their salary as well as the project that they build for the people.\r\n\r\nBy the way, the Banaue Rice Terraces was built by free people dedicated for the future generation unlike the pyramids in Egypt which were built by slaves for a certain leader.\r\n\r\nFilipinos build something beyond themselves.\r\n\r\nAs a nation, we have our own share of many firsts. We built the first airport and operated Philippine Airlines, the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia. It was built in 1941.\r\n\r\nWe built the first metro railway system in Southeast Asia in 1891. Thanks to King Alfonso XII of Spain, a European, for his support.\r\n\r\nSo you may be asking, despite our firsts, why is the Philippines trailing behind many other Asian nations today?\r\n\r\nWell, we got tired of being the first. So we took a rest up to this day. But we are aware that Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos are catching up and might overtake us soon. We are not alarmed.\r\n\r\nWe appreciate small joys. We love small things. We are physically small people. Maybe we think small as well.\r\n\r\nMaybe that explains why it’s only prevalent in the Philippines that we have a very small version of supermarket called sari-sari store or in your language, variety store, where you can buy anything like beer, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, bread, biscuits, chips, diaper, napkins and panty liners. One small store with everything you need.\r\n\r\nIt’s only in the Philippines that you can buy a shampoo as small as your lighter and buy a single piece of cigarette without complaint from the seller.\r\n\r\nBe that as it may, we are creative people. When you give a German a one-to-five step-by-step instruction, I think Germans would do exactly as instructed.\r\n\r\nWhen you give Filipinos the same set of instructions, we will add step 1.1 to step 1 or step 2.1.a after step number 2. We don’t really ruin the process, but sure we add more years for the project to be completed.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of projects, our politicians construct roads that can only last for three years or equivalent to their term of office so that their re-election promise is now, if you elect me once again, I promise to repair those roads.\r\n\r\nWe are dreamers. We just forgot to wake up and build the dream.\r\n\r\nFrench kiss. Well, growing up, I really didn’t know about it. I only heard it and read about it. I always wonder what French kiss means and how it is done.\r\n\r\nWhen I was in college, I thought you’ll need a French lady to have a French kiss. So I waited for many years. She didn’t come so I ended up eating French fries instead.\r\n\r\nI don’t know how sensational French kiss could be. No idea. But hey all I know is we beat the French people on the number of couples kissing on valentines day according to Guiness.\r\n\r\nWe also broke the record held by Chile and Hungary. We call it Lovapalooza, a traditional Filipino Valentine\'s Day celebration that first bid to claim the Guiness World Record for the Most Number of Simultaneously Kissing Couples for 10 seconds in 2007.\r\n\r\nIn the news this week, one city government is trying to pass a local law that prohibits a citizen from owning more than three cats and dogs. I wonder why they have to do that. are they mad about the cats and dogs?\r\n\r\nThen i realized, maybe because they can’t control human population so they settled on controlling what they can—animal population. Anyway, cats and dogs don’t vote.\r\n\r\nWe are very sweet people. Perhaps that’s why some European retirees retire in the Philippines and maybe get Filipina as a partner. We are so sweet. In fact, many Filipinos have diabetes. Mainly, it\'s unlimited rice promo\'s fault.\r\n\r\nBut another reason why many people choose the Philippines as a retiring destination is because naturally, we are caring people. We have a lot of caregivers and nurses around the world.\r\n\r\nWe are natural magicians. The Philippines has one of the highest tax rates in Asia and we collect billions of pesos from tax payers annually.\r\n\r\nBut we really don’t know where the money goes after we pay. As a magician, we can make money disappear in less than a year and elect in the following election the same set of politicians who made it disappear.\r\n\r\nOur greatest business is export business. We export our people. We export our talents. Our education system is carefully and effectively designed to prepare our citizens to work in other countries and enrich other nations. That is so sweet as well.\r\n\r\nWe have the best beaches in the world. Many white people go in Boracay for tanning. They literally stay under the sun for long hours just to look tan.\r\n\r\nBut when we Filipinos see you do that, we thouht it’s cool. We thought it’s the trend. We thought it’s new. So we also stay under the sun and our brown skin becomes dark brown. At night, you can’t see us anymore.\r\n\r\nOn a serious note, as a motivational stand up comedian and inspirational author, I always feel for the people. I guess as business leaders, while we strive to stay relevant to the market that we serve, we also must strive to reach out and genuinely help our people in their personal development.\r\n\r\nIt’s not enough that we give them jobs. Let us give them time and attention. Maybe that’s what they need more than the competitive compensation and benefit packages that we give to them.\r\n\r\nFinally, there are three important things that I learned in my life. You don’t have to believe them but at least hear them.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to be happy or to be kind, choose to be kind. Happy people are not always kind but kind people are generally happy.\r\n\r\nBe kind.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to have hope or to have faith, choose to have faith. Hope waits for a defining moment to come when faith has already defined your defining moment.\r\n\r\nKeep the faith.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to succeed or to love, choose love. For it is only in the magical expression of love that real success is made and found.\r\n\r\nAlways stay in love.\r\n\r\nLife won’t guarantee us of anything but if we would just be kind to one another, if we would just keep the faith in who we are, and if we would just fall in love on what we do best over and over again, amazing things would always come our way.\r\n\r\nWhat people always say about businessmen is it’s always business as usual for us. We make more money and we give very little to others. We are so focused on the profit. We always consider our bottome line.\r\n\r\nWell, I don’t have any joke for that. I’m just letting you know what they say.\r\n\r\nUp to this point, I still don’t know the topic I am going to speak about. But I don’t think it still matters because I think I have said everything I needed to say—enough message for me to collect my professional speaking fee.\r\n\r\nI am honored to speak to you tonight. Thank you and may God bless you all.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]', 'Filipino Traits and Characteristics: A Comedian\'s Perspective', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'open', '', '35756-revision-v1', '', '', '2015-04-17 21:39:49', '2015-04-17 13:39:49', '', 35756, 'http://www.lloydluna.com/35756-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(35758, 1, '2015-04-17 21:42:41', '2015-04-17 13:42:41', '[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][vc_column_text]<b>NO TOPIC JUST FUN</b>\r\n\r\n<strong>Speech delivered by LLOYD LUNA during the 2015 convention of Europe Asia Alliance in Shangri-la’s Mactan Resort and Spa, Cebu City on April 16, 2015 at 7:00 PM</strong>\r\n\r\nThank you. Thank you to those who clapped their hands. Actually, I am expecting a louder round of applause. Thank you.\r\n\r\nDirectors, organizers, guests, people from Europe, people from Asia, people from \"The Alliance\", and people who were not invited but are here anyway:\r\n\r\nGood evening, Buenas noches, Bonsoir, Buonasera, Guten abend, Wǎnshàng hǎo, Selamat petang, Selamat Malam, Chào buổi tối, S̄wạs̄dī, Magandang gabi po.\r\n\r\nWow. Let me start by saying that I think the world is about to end. Having a small guy like me speak in this highly celebrated event with the people of your reputation is a signal that we are getting closer to the destruction of the world.\r\n\r\nSeriously, inviting a 32-year-old author such as my self means there is something terribly wrong in the this world. When I got your invitation, I immediately asked, \"Why would you invite someone like me?\" \"Why me?\"\r\n\r\nThere are many more speakers out there who are more qualified to speak. More intelligent than me. More deserving than me. More educated than me. Richer than me. Taller than me. Maybe more goodlooking than me.\r\n\r\nBut on second thought, I also asked, \"Why not me?\"\r\n\r\nReally, here’s how I feel now. I feel I don’t deserve to stand here in front of you. But I don’t think I can stand at the back while giving this speech so I guess I have to stay here in front.\r\n\r\nJust to let you know, I am also a comedian so just a fair warning: I mean no offense to anyone. Please don’t take me so seriously tonight. Because seriously, I’m kidding.\r\n\r\nBesides, on this kind of ocassion, most people including my self are guilty of remembering only one thing from the speaker in any given seminar: Thank you. So my motivational message for tonight: Thank you.\r\n\r\nTo those who would like me to continue, another round of applause please. To those who want me to go out now, round of applause please.\r\n\r\nOk then. Let’s just enjoy the night, shall we? This will be short. So please relax. This speech is only about 200 pages. It\'s brief.\r\n\r\nI was not given a particular topic to talk about. The organizers are kind and trusting enough to give me a freehand to speak on any topic I wish. So tonight, the title of my speech is \"No topic, just fun.\" So i can’t promise that you’ll learn anything from me tonight.\r\n\r\nBy the way, I am so excited to see you and share some of my thoughts with you. I thought I needed to make some deep and substantial research about your organization, EAA, which means European Athletic Association.\r\n\r\nOh, you are not an athletic association? Who is in the wrong seminar then? Is it me or you?\r\n\r\nOk, EAA, otherwise known as the great Europe Asia Alliance, formed in 2007 to offer importers and exporters the advantages of the multi-national corporations with the expertise that can be found only in a locally owned and operated business. you have a network of offices strategically positioned in virtually every angle of Europe and Asia, giving you the advantage of being able to offer your clients a comprehensive service.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t make that up. I got it from your website.\r\n\r\nSeriously I worked long and hard for this talk. On my way going here from Manila while in the airplane this morning, I prepared this speech.\r\n\r\nThis speech is especially made from 35,000 feet above sea level.\r\n\r\nToday, many industries are trying their very best to stay alive and stay relevant. For example, in the Philippines, we used to have a very active and lucrative business in textile industry. But since the entry of international brands such as Uniqlo and H&amp;M, our local brands started to struggle.\r\n\r\nThese international brands sell their goods at a local price. People have lost their appetite on local brands and found an overwhelming desire on global brands.\r\n\r\nOur once active manufacturing industry is now a sunset industry. Many are getting ready for their brands funeral.\r\n\r\nBut yours is an industry that will never die and will always be where the sun rises. It will never be a sunset industry. It will never ever go back in time. It will never rewind because your business is always forwarding.\r\n\r\nI always wonder what people in the forwarding business do and what kind of people they are. Are they cool? Are they strict? Are they disciplinarian? Are they serious? How do they do what they do?\r\n\r\nSo i opened my browser and here’s what I discovered about you.\r\n\r\n(Play the video)\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/WEvG9NSvPNU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\nI realized that you are also a human being, capable of falling when you get dizzy, going towards a wrong direction no matter how well you know where the right direction is, and getting up to finish the game you started.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of work, the Philippines’ biggest business is politics and entertainment. As a television host myself, i should know how huge these two businesses are.\r\n\r\nThe reason perhaps is because the Philippines is a family-oriented nation. We don’t leave a family member behind.\r\n\r\nThat’s why we elected a vice president whose wife was a former city mayor, their eldest daughter is a now senator, their son is a mayor, and another daughter is a congresswoman.\r\n\r\nThe Philippines is a family corporation but our bureau of customs is probably another family. No offense but I heard they have their own language there. I didn’t know their language so back in 2012, my shipment worth 1.5 million pesos never made it out.\r\n\r\nThank you for your sympathy but I have moved on.\r\n\r\nAs Filipinos, you know we are very kind people. We are hospitable. We are great entertainers. We are happy people. We are easy to get along with. We are very friendly.\r\n\r\nBut we were not as friendly as before. We killed nearly every one who tried to conquer our nation. We are friendly. But we can kill. So, friendly killers.\r\n\r\nWe are now a free nation. Back then, we were under a dictatorship. In 1986, democracy was restored. Since then, Filipinos got the freedom to do everything they like.\r\n\r\nFor example, in Singapore, you’ll feel bad and somehow ashamed of your self when you cross the street without using pedestrian lanes.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, you’ll feel bad and ashamed of your self when you use pedestrian lanes because everybody else cross anywhere they like. Pedestrian lanes are not part of the traffic system. It is an art we paint on our roads.\r\n\r\nIn the philippines, we have high regards on the environment so we treat almost every place as a park. Yes, including our work places. Everyday for us is a walk in the park. That said, we don’t walk fast. We don\'t glide. We always take our time so we walk slowly.\r\n\r\nEscalators in Singapore operate four times faster than our escalators because probably Singaporeans believe that, \"It’s better never late.\" We, on the other hand, believe that, \"It’s better late than never.\"\r\n\r\nBut we are natural visionaries. when you give us a work assignment, don’t expect us to finish it on the day. just like many other people around the world, procrastination is our specialty. we are visionaries. our vision is always set on tomorrow. so tomorrow, we will do our work assignment.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of time, Europeans and other people in the West are always specific and mindful of their appointments and meeting schedules. There’s no gray area. It’s just black and white.\r\n\r\nOur sense of time in this part of the world is kinda different. For example, when you ask a European, \"Where and what time are we meeting tomorrow?\" They would answer this way: I will see you at 3PM in Starbucks.\r\n\r\nYou will find it strange in the Philippines. When you ask me the same question, my answer would be, \"After lunch in a coffee shop inside the mall.\"\r\n\r\nWhat time? After lunch. Where? Somewhere out there.\r\n\r\nOnce inside the coffee shop, you probably would ask me: Have you eaten yet? I would answer this way: It’s ok. I’m still full.\r\n\r\nClearly, we don’t answer your question. Or maybe, we give you an answer that is more than what your question can take.\r\n\r\nBut going back in the old days, you will realize that we are indeed a great nation with great people situated in a greatly strategic part of the pacific, perhaps the reason why many nations express their interest a certain group of islands.\r\n\r\nIt is only in this part of the globe where you can see a group of islands called in many different names based on who is talking.\r\n\r\nSpratly is located in South China Sea which is the same as West Philippine Sea, under the economic zone of Brunei, in the state of Sabah, Malaysia, which is a municipality of the Philippines and taiwan, in the district of Vietnam.\r\n\r\nBut the disputed group of islands is so strategically positioned that whoever got it would get the best place to set up a missile system.\r\n\r\nBut we are a great nation. Two thousand years ago, we built one of the seven wonders of the world known as Banaue Rice Terraces. how do you keep the water from draining in the mountain?\r\n\r\nModesty aside, two thousand years ago, while Jesus was walking in Jerusalem, we already knew hydraulics technology.\r\n\r\nBut the same wonder of the world would give us an idea that Filipinos are natural visionary.\r\n\r\nWe built the rice terraces not only for the present generation at the time, but we built it with the future generation in mind. We build something today that our future generation would benefit from.\r\n\r\nBut back in those days, we were not huge fans of leadership by patronage. Our concept of leadership then was, leaders don’t take credit for the team’s achievement.\r\n\r\nOur leaders in the old times don’t put their name on what they have accomplished. That’s why we would never know who led the creation of the rice terraces.\r\n\r\nBack then, it was about leading without names. Today, it’s about names without leading.\r\n\r\nEvery name, every face, every mark of a politician is printed on every project they do for the people who are paying for their salary as well as the project that they build for the people.\r\n\r\nBy the way, the Banaue Rice Terraces was built by free people dedicated for the future generation unlike the pyramids in Egypt which were built by slaves for a certain leader.\r\n\r\nFilipinos build something beyond themselves.\r\n\r\nAs a nation, we have our own share of many firsts. We built the first airport and operated Philippine Airlines, the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia. It was built in 1941.\r\n\r\nWe built the first metro railway system in Southeast Asia in 1891. Thanks to King Alfonso XII of Spain, a European, for his support.\r\n\r\nSo you may be asking, despite our firsts, why is the Philippines trailing behind many other Asian nations today?\r\n\r\nWell, we got tired of being the first. So we took a rest up to this day. But we are aware that Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos are catching up and might overtake us soon. We are not alarmed.\r\n\r\nWe appreciate small joys. We love small things. We are physically small people. Maybe we think small as well.\r\n\r\nMaybe that explains why it’s only prevalent in the Philippines that we have a very small version of supermarket called sari-sari store or in your language, variety store, where you can buy anything like beer, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, bread, biscuits, chips, diaper, napkins and panty liners. One small store with everything you need.\r\n\r\nIt’s only in the Philippines that you can buy a shampoo as small as your lighter and buy a single piece of cigarette without complaint from the seller.\r\n\r\nBe that as it may, we are creative people. When you give a German a one-to-five step-by-step instruction, I think Germans would do exactly as instructed.\r\n\r\nWhen you give Filipinos the same set of instructions, we will add step 1.1 to step 1 or step 2.1.a after step number 2. We don’t really ruin the process, but sure we add more years for the project to be completed.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of projects, our politicians construct roads that can only last for three years or equivalent to their term of office so that their re-election promise is now, if you elect me once again, I promise to repair those roads.\r\n\r\nWe are dreamers. We just forgot to wake up and build the dream.\r\n\r\nFrench kiss. Well, growing up, I really didn’t know about it. I only heard it and read about it. I always wonder what French kiss means and how it is done.\r\n\r\nWhen I was in college, I thought you’ll need a French lady to have a French kiss. So I waited for many years. She didn’t come so I ended up eating French fries instead.\r\n\r\nI don’t know how sensational French kiss could be. No idea. But hey all I know is we beat the French people on the number of couples kissing on valentines day according to Guiness.\r\n\r\nWe also broke the record held by Chile and Hungary. We call it Lovapalooza, a traditional Filipino Valentine\'s Day celebration that first bid to claim the Guiness World Record for the Most Number of Simultaneously Kissing Couples for 10 seconds in 2007.\r\n\r\nIn the news this week, one city government is trying to pass a local law that prohibits a citizen from owning more than three cats and dogs. I wonder why they have to do that. are they mad about the cats and dogs?\r\n\r\nThen i realized, maybe because they can’t control human population so they settled on controlling what they can—animal population. Anyway, cats and dogs don’t vote.\r\n\r\nWe are very sweet people. Perhaps that’s why some European retirees retire in the Philippines and maybe get Filipina as a partner. We are so sweet. In fact, many Filipinos have diabetes. Mainly, it\'s unlimited rice promo\'s fault.\r\n\r\nBut another reason why many people choose the Philippines as a retiring destination is because naturally, we are caring people. We have a lot of caregivers and nurses around the world.\r\n\r\nWe are natural magicians. The Philippines has one of the highest tax rates in Asia and we collect billions of pesos from tax payers annually.\r\n\r\nBut we really don’t know where the money goes after we pay. As a magician, we can make money disappear in less than a year and elect in the following election the same set of politicians who made it disappear.\r\n\r\nOur greatest business is export business. We export our people. We export our talents. Our education system is carefully and effectively designed to prepare our citizens to work in other countries and enrich other nations. That is so sweet as well.\r\n\r\nWe have the best beaches in the world. Many white people go in Boracay for tanning. They literally stay under the sun for long hours just to look tan.\r\n\r\nBut when we Filipinos see you do that, we thouht it’s cool. We thought it’s the trend. We thought it’s new. So we also stay under the sun and our brown skin becomes dark brown. At night, you can’t see us anymore.\r\n\r\nOn a serious note, as a motivational stand up comedian and inspirational author, I always feel for the people. I guess as business leaders, while we strive to stay relevant to the market that we serve, we also must strive to reach out and genuinely help our people in their personal development.\r\n\r\nIt’s not enough that we give them jobs. Let us give them time and attention. Maybe that’s what they need more than the competitive compensation and benefit packages that we give to them.\r\n\r\nFinally, there are three important things that I learned in my life. You don’t have to believe them but at least hear them.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to be happy or to be kind, choose to be kind. Happy people are not always kind but kind people are generally happy.\r\n\r\nBe kind.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to have hope or to have faith, choose to have faith. Hope waits for a defining moment to come when faith has already defined your defining moment.\r\n\r\nKeep the faith.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to succeed or to love, choose love. For it is only in the magical expression of love that real success is made and found.\r\n\r\nAlways stay in love.\r\n\r\nLife won’t guarantee us of anything but if we would just be kind to one another, if we would just keep the faith in who we are, and if we would just fall in love on what we do best over and over again, amazing things would always come our way.\r\n\r\nWhat people always say about businessmen is it’s always business as usual for us. We make more money and we give very little to others. We are so focused on the profit. We always consider our bottome line.\r\n\r\nWell, I don’t have any joke for that. I’m just letting you know what they say.\r\n\r\nUp to this point, I still don’t know the topic I am going to speak about. But I don’t think it still matters because I think I have said everything I needed to say—enough message for me to collect my professional speaking fee.\r\n\r\nI am honored to speak to you tonight. Thank you and may God bless you all.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]', 'Filipino Traits and Characteristics: A Comedian\'s Perspective', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'open', '', '35756-revision-v1', '', '', '2015-04-17 21:42:41', '2015-04-17 13:42:41', '', 35756, 'http://www.lloydluna.com/35756-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(35759, 1, '2015-04-17 22:02:54', '2015-04-17 14:02:54', '[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][vc_column_text]<b>NO TOPIC JUST FUN</b>\n\n<strong>Speech delivered by LLOYD LUNA during the 2015 convention of Europe Asia Alliance in Shangri-la’s Mactan Resort and Spa, Cebu City on April 16, 2015 at 7:00 PM</strong>\n\nThank you. Thank you to those who clapped their hands. Actually, I am expecting a louder round of applause. Thank you.\n\nDirectors, organizers, guests, people from Europe, people from Asia, people from \"The Alliance\", and people who were not invited but are here anyway:\n\nGood evening, Buenas noches, Bonsoir, Buonasera, Guten abend, Wǎnshàng hǎo, Selamat petang, Selamat Malam, Chào buổi tối, S̄wạs̄dī, Magandang gabi po.\n\nWow. Let me start by saying that I think the world is about to end. Having a small guy like me speak in this highly celebrated event with the people of your reputation is a signal that we are getting closer to the destruction of the world.\n\nSeriously, inviting a 32-year-old author such as my self means there is something terribly wrong in the this world. When I got your invitation, I immediately asked, \"Why would you invite someone like me?\" \"Why me?\"\n\nThere are many more speakers out there who are more qualified to speak. More intelligent than me. More deserving than me. More educated than me. Richer than me. Taller than me. Maybe more goodlooking than me.\n\nBut on second thought, I also asked, \"Why not me?\"\n\nReally, here’s how I feel now. I feel I don’t deserve to stand here in front of you. But I don’t think I can stand at the back while giving this speech so I guess I have to stay here in front.\n\nJust to let you know, I am also a comedian so just a fair warning: I mean no offense to anyone. Please don’t take me so seriously tonight. Because seriously, I’m kidding.\n\nBesides, on this kind of ocassion, most people including my self are guilty of remembering only one thing from the speaker in any given seminar: Thank you. So my motivational message for tonight: Thank you.\n\nTo those who would like me to continue, another round of applause please. To those who want me to go out now, round of applause please.\n\nOk then. Let’s just enjoy the night, shall we? This will be short. So please relax. This speech is only about 200 pages. It\'s brief.\n\nI was not given a particular topic to talk about. The organizers are kind and trusting enough to give me a freehand to speak on any topic I wish. So tonight, the title of my speech is \"No topic, just fun.\" So i can’t promise that you’ll learn anything from me tonight.\n\nBy the way, I am so excited to see you and share some of my thoughts with you. I thought I needed to make some deep and substantial research about your organization, EAA, which means European Athletic Association.\n\nOh, you are not an athletic association? Who is in the wrong seminar then? Is it me or you?\n\nOk, EAA, otherwise known as the great Europe Asia Alliance, formed in 2007 to offer importers and exporters the advantages of the multi-national corporations with the expertise that can be found only in a locally owned and operated business. you have a network of offices strategically positioned in virtually every angle of Europe and Asia, giving you the advantage of being able to offer your clients a comprehensive service.\n\nI didn\'t make that up. I got it from your website.\n\nSeriously I worked long and hard for this talk. On my way going here from Manila while in the airplane this morning, I prepared this speech.\n\nThis speech is especially made from 35,000 feet above sea level.\n\nToday, many industries are trying their very best to stay alive and stay relevant. For example, in the Philippines, we used to have a very active and lucrative business in textile industry. But since the entry of international brands such as Uniqlo and H&amp;M, our local brands started to struggle.\n\nThese international brands sell their goods at a local price. People have lost their appetite on local brands and found an overwhelming desire on global brands.\n\nOur once active manufacturing industry is now a sunset industry. Many are getting ready for their brands funeral.\n\nBut yours is an industry that will never die and will always be where the sun rises. It will never be a sunset industry. It will never ever go back in time. It will never rewind because your business is always forwarding.\n\nI always wonder what people in the forwarding business do and what kind of people they are. Are they cool? Are they strict? Are they disciplinarian? Are they serious? How do they do what they do?\n\nSo I opened my browser and here’s what I discovered about you.\n\n(Play the video)\n\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/WEvG9NSvPNU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\n\nI realized that you are also a human being, capable of falling when you get dizzy, going towards a wrong direction no matter how well you know where the right direction is, and getting up to finish the game you started.\n\nSpeaking of work, the Philippines’ biggest business is politics and entertainment. As a television host myself, i should know how huge these two businesses are.\n\nThe reason perhaps is because the Philippines is a family-oriented nation. We don’t leave a family member behind.\n\nThat’s why we elected a vice president whose wife was a former city mayor, their eldest daughter is a now senator, their son is a mayor, and another daughter is a congresswoman.\n\nThe Philippines is a family corporation but our bureau of customs is probably another family. No offense but I heard they have their own language there. I didn’t know their language so back in 2012, my shipment worth 1.5 million pesos never made it out.\n\nThank you for your sympathy but I have moved on.\n\nAs Filipinos, you know we are very kind people. We are hospitable. We are great entertainers. We are happy people. We are easy to get along with. We are very friendly.\n\nBut we were not as friendly as before. We killed nearly every one who tried to conquer our nation. We are friendly. But we can kill. So, friendly killers.\n\nWe are now a free nation. Back then, we were under a dictatorship. In 1986, democracy was restored. Since then, Filipinos got the freedom to do everything they like.\n\nFor example, in Singapore, you’ll feel bad and somehow ashamed of your self when you cross the street without using pedestrian lanes.\n\nIn the Philippines, you’ll feel bad and ashamed of your self when you use pedestrian lanes because everybody else cross anywhere they like. Pedestrian lanes are not part of the traffic system. It is an art we paint on our roads.\n\nIn the Philippines, we have high regards on the environment so we treat almost every place as a park. Yes, including our work places. Everyday for us is a walk in the park. That said, we don’t walk fast. We don\'t glide. We always take our time so we walk slowly.\n\nEscalators in Singapore operate four times faster than our escalators because probably Singaporeans believe that, \"It’s better never late.\" We, on the other hand, believe that, \"It’s better late than never.\"\n\nBut we are natural visionaries. When you give us a work assignment, don’t expect us to finish it on the day. Just like many other people around the world, procrastination is our specialty. We are visionaries. Our vision is always set on tomorrow. So tomorrow, we will do our work assignment.\n\nWe are too focused on the future that we forget today\'s deadline.\n\nSpeaking of time, Europeans and other people in the West are always specific and mindful of their appointments and meeting schedules. There’s no gray area. It’s just black and white.\n\nOur sense of time in this part of the world is kinda different. For example, when you ask a European, \"Where and what time are we meeting tomorrow?\" They would answer this way: I will see you at 3PM in Starbucks.\n\nYou will find it strange in the Philippines. When you ask me the same question, my answer would be, \"After lunch in a coffee shop inside the mall.\"\n\nWhat time? After lunch. Where? Somewhere out there.\n\nOnce inside the coffee shop, you probably would ask me: Have you eaten yet? I would answer this way: It’s ok. I’m still full.\n\nClearly, we don’t answer your question. Or maybe, we give you an answer that is more than what your question can take.\n\nBut going back in the old days, you will realize that we are indeed a great nation with great people situated in a greatly strategic part of the pacific, perhaps the reason why many nations express their interest a certain group of islands.\n\nIt is only in this part of the globe where you can see a group of islands called in many different names based on who is talking.\n\nSpratly is located in South China Sea which is the same as West Philippine Sea, under the economic zone of Brunei, in the state of Sabah, Malaysia, which is a municipality of the Philippines and taiwan, in the district of Vietnam.\n\nBut the disputed group of islands is so strategically positioned that whoever got it would get the best place to set up a missile system.\n\nBut we are a great nation. Two thousand years ago, we built one of the seven wonders of the world known as Banaue Rice Terraces. how do you keep the water from draining in the mountain?\n\nModesty aside, two thousand years ago, while Jesus was walking in Jerusalem, we already knew hydraulics technology.\n\nBut the same wonder of the world would give us an idea that Filipinos are natural visionary.\n\nWe built the rice terraces not only for the present generation at the time, but we built it with the future generation in mind. We build something today that our future generation would benefit from.\n\nBut back in those days, we were not huge fans of leadership by patronage. Our concept of leadership then was, leaders don’t take credit for the team’s achievement.\n\nOur leaders in the old times don’t put their name on what they have accomplished. That’s why we would never know who led the creation of the rice terraces.\n\nBack then, it was about leading without names. Today, it’s about names without leading.\n\nEvery name, every face, every mark of a politician is printed on every project they do for the people who are paying for their salary as well as the project that they build for the people.\n\nBy the way, the Banaue Rice Terraces was built by free people dedicated for the future generation unlike the pyramids in Egypt which were built by slaves for a certain leader.\n\nFilipinos build something beyond themselves.\n\nAs a nation, we have our own share of many firsts. We built the first airport and operated Philippine Airlines, the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia. It was built in 1941.\n\nWe built the first metro railway system in Southeast Asia in 1891. Thanks to King Alfonso XII of Spain, a European, for his support.\n\nSo you may be asking, despite our firsts, why is the Philippines trailing behind many other Asian nations today?\n\nWell, we got tired of being the first. So we took a rest up to this day. But we are aware that Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos are catching up and might overtake us soon. We are not alarmed.\n\nWe appreciate small joys. We love small things. We are physically small people. Maybe we think small as well.\n\nMaybe that explains why it’s only prevalent in the Philippines that we have a very small version of supermarket called sari-sari store or in your language, variety store, where you can buy anything like beer, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, bread, biscuits, chips, diaper, napkins and panty liners. One small store with everything you need.\n\nIt’s only in the Philippines that you can buy a shampoo as small as your lighter and buy a single piece of cigarette without complaint from the seller.\n\nBe that as it may, we are creative people. When you give a German a one-to-five step-by-step instruction, I think Germans would do exactly as instructed.\n\nWhen you give Filipinos the same set of instructions, we will add step 1.1 to step 1 or step 2.1.a after step number 2. We don’t really ruin the process, but sure we add more years for the project to be completed.\n\nSpeaking of projects, our politicians construct roads that can only last for three years or equivalent to their term of office so that their re-election promise is now, if you elect me once again, I promise to repair those roads.\n\nWe are dreamers. We just forgot to wake up and build the dream.\n\nFrench kiss. Well, growing up, I really didn’t know about it. I only heard it and read about it. I always wonder what French kiss means and how it is done.\n\nWhen I was in college, I thought you’ll need a French lady to have a French kiss. So I waited for many years. She didn’t come so I ended up eating French fries instead.\n\nI don’t know how sensational French kiss could be. No idea. But hey all I know is we beat the French people on the number of couples kissing on valentines day according to Guiness.\n\nWe also broke the record held by Chile and Hungary. We call it Lovapalooza, a traditional Filipino Valentine\'s Day celebration that first bid to claim the Guiness World Record for the Most Number of Simultaneously Kissing Couples for 10 seconds in 2007.\n\nIn the news this week, one city government is trying to pass a local law that prohibits a citizen from owning more than three cats and dogs. I wonder why they have to do that. are they mad about the cats and dogs?\n\nThen i realized, maybe because they can’t control human population so they settled on controlling what they can—animal population. Anyway, cats and dogs don’t vote.\n\nWe are very sweet people. Perhaps that’s why some European retirees retire in the Philippines and maybe get Filipina as a partner. We are so sweet. In fact, many Filipinos have diabetes. Mainly, it\'s unlimited rice promo\'s fault.\n\nBut another reason why many people choose the Philippines as a retiring destination is because naturally, we are caring people. We have a lot of caregivers and nurses around the world.\n\nWe are natural magicians. The Philippines has one of the highest tax rates in Asia and we collect billions of pesos from tax payers annually.\n\nBut we really don’t know where the money goes after we pay. As a magician, we can make money disappear in less than a year and elect in the following election the same set of politicians who made it disappear.\n\nOur greatest business is export business. We export our people. We export our talents. Our education system is carefully and effectively designed to prepare our citizens to work in other countries and enrich other nations. That is so sweet as well.\n\nWe have the best beaches in the world. Many white people go in Boracay for tanning. They literally stay under the sun for long hours just to look tan.\n\nBut when we Filipinos see you do that, we thouht it’s cool. We thought it’s the trend. We thought it’s new. So we also stay under the sun and our brown skin becomes dark brown. At night, you can’t see us anymore.\n\nOn a serious note, as a motivational stand up comedian and inspirational author, I always feel for the people. I guess as business leaders, while we strive to stay relevant to the market that we serve, we also must strive to reach out and genuinely help our people in their personal development.\n\nIt’s not enough that we give them jobs. Let us give them time and attention. Maybe that’s what they need more than the competitive compensation and benefit packages that we give to them.\n\nFinally, there are three important things that I learned in my life. You don’t have to believe them but at least hear them.\n\nWhen stuck between choosing to be happy or to be kind, choose to be kind. Happy people are not always kind but kind people are generally happy.\n\nBe kind.\n\nWhen stuck between choosing to have hope or to have faith, choose to have faith. Hope waits for a defining moment to come when faith has already defined your defining moment.\n\nKeep the faith.\n\nWhen stuck between choosing to succeed or to love, choose love. For it is only in the magical expression of love that real success is made and found.\n\nAlways stay in love.\n\nLife won’t guarantee us of anything but if we would just be kind to one another, if we would just keep the faith in who we are, and if we would just fall in love on what we do best over and over again, amazing things would always come our way.\n\nWhat people always say about businessmen is it’s always business as usual for us. We make more money and we give very little to others. We are so focused on the profit. We always consider our bottome line.\n\nWell, I don’t have any joke for that. I’m just letting you know what they say.\n\nUp to this point, I still don’t know the topic I am going to speak about. But I don’t think it still matters because I think I have said everything I needed to say—enough message for me to collect my professional speaking fee.\n\nI am honored to speak to you tonight. Thank you and may God bless you all.\n\n[caption id=\"attachment_35764\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"450\"]<a class=\"dt-single-image\" href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/11100808_10205629591833669_8079801672114448772_n.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"After a hit prepared motivational stand up comedy speech, buffet dinner and unlimited red wine and of course company of new-found friends, CEOs of some of the biggest forwarding companies in Europe and Asia. I did &quot;Good Evening&quot; in six languages to open my speech. Chinese people loved it. 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(35761, 1, '2015-04-17 21:48:53', '2015-04-17 13:48:53', '[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][vc_column_text]<b>NO TOPIC JUST FUN</b>\r\n\r\n<strong>Speech delivered by LLOYD LUNA during the 2015 convention of Europe Asia Alliance in Shangri-la’s Mactan Resort and Spa, Cebu City on April 16, 2015 at 7:00 PM</strong>\r\n\r\nThank you. Thank you to those who clapped their hands. Actually, I am expecting a louder round of applause. Thank you.\r\n\r\nDirectors, organizers, guests, people from Europe, people from Asia, people from \"The Alliance\", and people who were not invited but are here anyway:\r\n\r\nGood evening, Buenas noches, Bonsoir, Buonasera, Guten abend, Wǎnshàng hǎo, Selamat petang, Selamat Malam, Chào buổi tối, S̄wạs̄dī, Magandang gabi po.\r\n\r\nWow. Let me start by saying that I think the world is about to end. Having a small guy like me speak in this highly celebrated event with the people of your reputation is a signal that we are getting closer to the destruction of the world.\r\n\r\nSeriously, inviting a 32-year-old author such as my self means there is something terribly wrong in the this world. When I got your invitation, I immediately asked, \"Why would you invite someone like me?\" \"Why me?\"\r\n\r\nThere are many more speakers out there who are more qualified to speak. More intelligent than me. More deserving than me. More educated than me. Richer than me. Taller than me. Maybe more goodlooking than me.\r\n\r\nBut on second thought, I also asked, \"Why not me?\"\r\n\r\nReally, here’s how I feel now. I feel I don’t deserve to stand here in front of you. But I don’t think I can stand at the back while giving this speech so I guess I have to stay here in front.\r\n\r\nJust to let you know, I am also a comedian so just a fair warning: I mean no offense to anyone. Please don’t take me so seriously tonight. Because seriously, I’m kidding.\r\n\r\nBesides, on this kind of ocassion, most people including my self are guilty of remembering only one thing from the speaker in any given seminar: Thank you. So my motivational message for tonight: Thank you.\r\n\r\nTo those who would like me to continue, another round of applause please. To those who want me to go out now, round of applause please.\r\n\r\nOk then. Let’s just enjoy the night, shall we? This will be short. So please relax. This speech is only about 200 pages. It\'s brief.\r\n\r\nI was not given a particular topic to talk about. The organizers are kind and trusting enough to give me a freehand to speak on any topic I wish. So tonight, the title of my speech is \"No topic, just fun.\" So i can’t promise that you’ll learn anything from me tonight.\r\n\r\nBy the way, I am so excited to see you and share some of my thoughts with you. I thought I needed to make some deep and substantial research about your organization, EAA, which means European Athletic Association.\r\n\r\nOh, you are not an athletic association? Who is in the wrong seminar then? Is it me or you?\r\n\r\nOk, EAA, otherwise known as the great Europe Asia Alliance, formed in 2007 to offer importers and exporters the advantages of the multi-national corporations with the expertise that can be found only in a locally owned and operated business. you have a network of offices strategically positioned in virtually every angle of Europe and Asia, giving you the advantage of being able to offer your clients a comprehensive service.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t make that up. I got it from your website.\r\n\r\nSeriously I worked long and hard for this talk. On my way going here from Manila while in the airplane this morning, I prepared this speech.\r\n\r\nThis speech is especially made from 35,000 feet above sea level.\r\n\r\nToday, many industries are trying their very best to stay alive and stay relevant. For example, in the Philippines, we used to have a very active and lucrative business in textile industry. But since the entry of international brands such as Uniqlo and H&amp;M, our local brands started to struggle.\r\n\r\nThese international brands sell their goods at a local price. People have lost their appetite on local brands and found an overwhelming desire on global brands.\r\n\r\nOur once active manufacturing industry is now a sunset industry. Many are getting ready for their brands funeral.\r\n\r\nBut yours is an industry that will never die and will always be where the sun rises. It will never be a sunset industry. It will never ever go back in time. It will never rewind because your business is always forwarding.\r\n\r\nI always wonder what people in the forwarding business do and what kind of people they are. Are they cool? Are they strict? Are they disciplinarian? Are they serious? How do they do what they do?\r\n\r\nSo I opened my browser and here’s what I discovered about you.\r\n\r\n(Play the video)\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/WEvG9NSvPNU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\nI realized that you are also a human being, capable of falling when you get dizzy, going towards a wrong direction no matter how well you know where the right direction is, and getting up to finish the game you started.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of work, the Philippines’ biggest business is politics and entertainment. As a television host myself, i should know how huge these two businesses are.\r\n\r\nThe reason perhaps is because the Philippines is a family-oriented nation. We don’t leave a family member behind.\r\n\r\nThat’s why we elected a vice president whose wife was a former city mayor, their eldest daughter is a now senator, their son is a mayor, and another daughter is a congresswoman.\r\n\r\nThe Philippines is a family corporation but our bureau of customs is probably another family. No offense but I heard they have their own language there. I didn’t know their language so back in 2012, my shipment worth 1.5 million pesos never made it out.\r\n\r\nThank you for your sympathy but I have moved on.\r\n\r\nAs Filipinos, you know we are very kind people. We are hospitable. We are great entertainers. We are happy people. We are easy to get along with. We are very friendly.\r\n\r\nBut we were not as friendly as before. We killed nearly every one who tried to conquer our nation. We are friendly. But we can kill. So, friendly killers.\r\n\r\nWe are now a free nation. Back then, we were under a dictatorship. In 1986, democracy was restored. Since then, Filipinos got the freedom to do everything they like.\r\n\r\nFor example, in Singapore, you’ll feel bad and somehow ashamed of your self when you cross the street without using pedestrian lanes.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, you’ll feel bad and ashamed of your self when you use pedestrian lanes because everybody else cross anywhere they like. Pedestrian lanes are not part of the traffic system. It is an art we paint on our roads.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, we have high regards on the environment so we treat almost every place as a park. Yes, including our work places. Everyday for us is a walk in the park. That said, we don’t walk fast. We don\'t glide. We always take our time so we walk slowly.\r\n\r\nEscalators in Singapore operate four times faster than our escalators because probably Singaporeans believe that, \"It’s better never late.\" We, on the other hand, believe that, \"It’s better late than never.\"\r\n\r\nBut we are natural visionaries. when you give us a work assignment, don’t expect us to finish it on the day. just like many other people around the world, procrastination is our specialty. we are visionaries. our vision is always set on tomorrow. so tomorrow, we will do our work assignment.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of time, Europeans and other people in the West are always specific and mindful of their appointments and meeting schedules. There’s no gray area. It’s just black and white.\r\n\r\nOur sense of time in this part of the world is kinda different. For example, when you ask a European, \"Where and what time are we meeting tomorrow?\" They would answer this way: I will see you at 3PM in Starbucks.\r\n\r\nYou will find it strange in the Philippines. When you ask me the same question, my answer would be, \"After lunch in a coffee shop inside the mall.\"\r\n\r\nWhat time? After lunch. Where? Somewhere out there.\r\n\r\nOnce inside the coffee shop, you probably would ask me: Have you eaten yet? I would answer this way: It’s ok. I’m still full.\r\n\r\nClearly, we don’t answer your question. Or maybe, we give you an answer that is more than what your question can take.\r\n\r\nBut going back in the old days, you will realize that we are indeed a great nation with great people situated in a greatly strategic part of the pacific, perhaps the reason why many nations express their interest a certain group of islands.\r\n\r\nIt is only in this part of the globe where you can see a group of islands called in many different names based on who is talking.\r\n\r\nSpratly is located in South China Sea which is the same as West Philippine Sea, under the economic zone of Brunei, in the state of Sabah, Malaysia, which is a municipality of the Philippines and taiwan, in the district of Vietnam.\r\n\r\nBut the disputed group of islands is so strategically positioned that whoever got it would get the best place to set up a missile system.\r\n\r\nBut we are a great nation. Two thousand years ago, we built one of the seven wonders of the world known as Banaue Rice Terraces. how do you keep the water from draining in the mountain?\r\n\r\nModesty aside, two thousand years ago, while Jesus was walking in Jerusalem, we already knew hydraulics technology.\r\n\r\nBut the same wonder of the world would give us an idea that Filipinos are natural visionary.\r\n\r\nWe built the rice terraces not only for the present generation at the time, but we built it with the future generation in mind. We build something today that our future generation would benefit from.\r\n\r\nBut back in those days, we were not huge fans of leadership by patronage. Our concept of leadership then was, leaders don’t take credit for the team’s achievement.\r\n\r\nOur leaders in the old times don’t put their name on what they have accomplished. That’s why we would never know who led the creation of the rice terraces.\r\n\r\nBack then, it was about leading without names. Today, it’s about names without leading.\r\n\r\nEvery name, every face, every mark of a politician is printed on every project they do for the people who are paying for their salary as well as the project that they build for the people.\r\n\r\nBy the way, the Banaue Rice Terraces was built by free people dedicated for the future generation unlike the pyramids in Egypt which were built by slaves for a certain leader.\r\n\r\nFilipinos build something beyond themselves.\r\n\r\nAs a nation, we have our own share of many firsts. We built the first airport and operated Philippine Airlines, the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia. It was built in 1941.\r\n\r\nWe built the first metro railway system in Southeast Asia in 1891. Thanks to King Alfonso XII of Spain, a European, for his support.\r\n\r\nSo you may be asking, despite our firsts, why is the Philippines trailing behind many other Asian nations today?\r\n\r\nWell, we got tired of being the first. So we took a rest up to this day. But we are aware that Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos are catching up and might overtake us soon. We are not alarmed.\r\n\r\nWe appreciate small joys. We love small things. We are physically small people. Maybe we think small as well.\r\n\r\nMaybe that explains why it’s only prevalent in the Philippines that we have a very small version of supermarket called sari-sari store or in your language, variety store, where you can buy anything like beer, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, bread, biscuits, chips, diaper, napkins and panty liners. One small store with everything you need.\r\n\r\nIt’s only in the Philippines that you can buy a shampoo as small as your lighter and buy a single piece of cigarette without complaint from the seller.\r\n\r\nBe that as it may, we are creative people. When you give a German a one-to-five step-by-step instruction, I think Germans would do exactly as instructed.\r\n\r\nWhen you give Filipinos the same set of instructions, we will add step 1.1 to step 1 or step 2.1.a after step number 2. We don’t really ruin the process, but sure we add more years for the project to be completed.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of projects, our politicians construct roads that can only last for three years or equivalent to their term of office so that their re-election promise is now, if you elect me once again, I promise to repair those roads.\r\n\r\nWe are dreamers. We just forgot to wake up and build the dream.\r\n\r\nFrench kiss. Well, growing up, I really didn’t know about it. I only heard it and read about it. I always wonder what French kiss means and how it is done.\r\n\r\nWhen I was in college, I thought you’ll need a French lady to have a French kiss. So I waited for many years. She didn’t come so I ended up eating French fries instead.\r\n\r\nI don’t know how sensational French kiss could be. No idea. But hey all I know is we beat the French people on the number of couples kissing on valentines day according to Guiness.\r\n\r\nWe also broke the record held by Chile and Hungary. We call it Lovapalooza, a traditional Filipino Valentine\'s Day celebration that first bid to claim the Guiness World Record for the Most Number of Simultaneously Kissing Couples for 10 seconds in 2007.\r\n\r\nIn the news this week, one city government is trying to pass a local law that prohibits a citizen from owning more than three cats and dogs. I wonder why they have to do that. are they mad about the cats and dogs?\r\n\r\nThen i realized, maybe because they can’t control human population so they settled on controlling what they can—animal population. Anyway, cats and dogs don’t vote.\r\n\r\nWe are very sweet people. Perhaps that’s why some European retirees retire in the Philippines and maybe get Filipina as a partner. We are so sweet. In fact, many Filipinos have diabetes. Mainly, it\'s unlimited rice promo\'s fault.\r\n\r\nBut another reason why many people choose the Philippines as a retiring destination is because naturally, we are caring people. We have a lot of caregivers and nurses around the world.\r\n\r\nWe are natural magicians. The Philippines has one of the highest tax rates in Asia and we collect billions of pesos from tax payers annually.\r\n\r\nBut we really don’t know where the money goes after we pay. As a magician, we can make money disappear in less than a year and elect in the following election the same set of politicians who made it disappear.\r\n\r\nOur greatest business is export business. We export our people. We export our talents. Our education system is carefully and effectively designed to prepare our citizens to work in other countries and enrich other nations. That is so sweet as well.\r\n\r\nWe have the best beaches in the world. Many white people go in Boracay for tanning. They literally stay under the sun for long hours just to look tan.\r\n\r\nBut when we Filipinos see you do that, we thouht it’s cool. We thought it’s the trend. We thought it’s new. So we also stay under the sun and our brown skin becomes dark brown. At night, you can’t see us anymore.\r\n\r\nOn a serious note, as a motivational stand up comedian and inspirational author, I always feel for the people. I guess as business leaders, while we strive to stay relevant to the market that we serve, we also must strive to reach out and genuinely help our people in their personal development.\r\n\r\nIt’s not enough that we give them jobs. Let us give them time and attention. Maybe that’s what they need more than the competitive compensation and benefit packages that we give to them.\r\n\r\nFinally, there are three important things that I learned in my life. You don’t have to believe them but at least hear them.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to be happy or to be kind, choose to be kind. Happy people are not always kind but kind people are generally happy.\r\n\r\nBe kind.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to have hope or to have faith, choose to have faith. Hope waits for a defining moment to come when faith has already defined your defining moment.\r\n\r\nKeep the faith.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to succeed or to love, choose love. For it is only in the magical expression of love that real success is made and found.\r\n\r\nAlways stay in love.\r\n\r\nLife won’t guarantee us of anything but if we would just be kind to one another, if we would just keep the faith in who we are, and if we would just fall in love on what we do best over and over again, amazing things would always come our way.\r\n\r\nWhat people always say about businessmen is it’s always business as usual for us. We make more money and we give very little to others. We are so focused on the profit. We always consider our bottome line.\r\n\r\nWell, I don’t have any joke for that. I’m just letting you know what they say.\r\n\r\nUp to this point, I still don’t know the topic I am going to speak about. But I don’t think it still matters because I think I have said everything I needed to say—enough message for me to collect my professional speaking fee.\r\n\r\nI am honored to speak to you tonight. Thank you and may God bless you all.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]', 'Filipino Traits and Characteristics: A Comedian\'s Speech', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'open', '', '35756-revision-v1', '', '', '2015-04-17 21:48:53', '2015-04-17 13:48:53', '', 35756, 'http://www.lloydluna.com/35756-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0);
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(35760, 1, '2015-04-17 21:45:05', '2015-04-17 13:45:05', '[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][vc_column_text]<b>NO TOPIC JUST FUN</b>\r\n\r\n<strong>Speech delivered by LLOYD LUNA during the 2015 convention of Europe Asia Alliance in Shangri-la’s Mactan Resort and Spa, Cebu City on April 16, 2015 at 7:00 PM</strong>\r\n\r\nThank you. Thank you to those who clapped their hands. Actually, I am expecting a louder round of applause. Thank you.\r\n\r\nDirectors, organizers, guests, people from Europe, people from Asia, people from \"The Alliance\", and people who were not invited but are here anyway:\r\n\r\nGood evening, Buenas noches, Bonsoir, Buonasera, Guten abend, Wǎnshàng hǎo, Selamat petang, Selamat Malam, Chào buổi tối, S̄wạs̄dī, Magandang gabi po.\r\n\r\nWow. Let me start by saying that I think the world is about to end. Having a small guy like me speak in this highly celebrated event with the people of your reputation is a signal that we are getting closer to the destruction of the world.\r\n\r\nSeriously, inviting a 32-year-old author such as my self means there is something terribly wrong in the this world. When I got your invitation, I immediately asked, \"Why would you invite someone like me?\" \"Why me?\"\r\n\r\nThere are many more speakers out there who are more qualified to speak. More intelligent than me. More deserving than me. More educated than me. Richer than me. Taller than me. Maybe more goodlooking than me.\r\n\r\nBut on second thought, I also asked, \"Why not me?\"\r\n\r\nReally, here’s how I feel now. I feel I don’t deserve to stand here in front of you. But I don’t think I can stand at the back while giving this speech so I guess I have to stay here in front.\r\n\r\nJust to let you know, I am also a comedian so just a fair warning: I mean no offense to anyone. Please don’t take me so seriously tonight. Because seriously, I’m kidding.\r\n\r\nBesides, on this kind of ocassion, most people including my self are guilty of remembering only one thing from the speaker in any given seminar: Thank you. So my motivational message for tonight: Thank you.\r\n\r\nTo those who would like me to continue, another round of applause please. To those who want me to go out now, round of applause please.\r\n\r\nOk then. Let’s just enjoy the night, shall we? This will be short. So please relax. This speech is only about 200 pages. It\'s brief.\r\n\r\nI was not given a particular topic to talk about. The organizers are kind and trusting enough to give me a freehand to speak on any topic I wish. So tonight, the title of my speech is \"No topic, just fun.\" So i can’t promise that you’ll learn anything from me tonight.\r\n\r\nBy the way, I am so excited to see you and share some of my thoughts with you. I thought I needed to make some deep and substantial research about your organization, EAA, which means European Athletic Association.\r\n\r\nOh, you are not an athletic association? Who is in the wrong seminar then? Is it me or you?\r\n\r\nOk, EAA, otherwise known as the great Europe Asia Alliance, formed in 2007 to offer importers and exporters the advantages of the multi-national corporations with the expertise that can be found only in a locally owned and operated business. you have a network of offices strategically positioned in virtually every angle of Europe and Asia, giving you the advantage of being able to offer your clients a comprehensive service.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t make that up. I got it from your website.\r\n\r\nSeriously I worked long and hard for this talk. On my way going here from Manila while in the airplane this morning, I prepared this speech.\r\n\r\nThis speech is especially made from 35,000 feet above sea level.\r\n\r\nToday, many industries are trying their very best to stay alive and stay relevant. For example, in the Philippines, we used to have a very active and lucrative business in textile industry. But since the entry of international brands such as Uniqlo and H&amp;M, our local brands started to struggle.\r\n\r\nThese international brands sell their goods at a local price. People have lost their appetite on local brands and found an overwhelming desire on global brands.\r\n\r\nOur once active manufacturing industry is now a sunset industry. Many are getting ready for their brands funeral.\r\n\r\nBut yours is an industry that will never die and will always be where the sun rises. It will never be a sunset industry. It will never ever go back in time. It will never rewind because your business is always forwarding.\r\n\r\nI always wonder what people in the forwarding business do and what kind of people they are. Are they cool? Are they strict? Are they disciplinarian? Are they serious? How do they do what they do?\r\n\r\nSo I opened my browser and here’s what I discovered about you.\r\n\r\n(Play the video)\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/WEvG9NSvPNU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\nI realized that you are also a human being, capable of falling when you get dizzy, going towards a wrong direction no matter how well you know where the right direction is, and getting up to finish the game you started.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of work, the Philippines’ biggest business is politics and entertainment. As a television host myself, i should know how huge these two businesses are.\r\n\r\nThe reason perhaps is because the Philippines is a family-oriented nation. We don’t leave a family member behind.\r\n\r\nThat’s why we elected a vice president whose wife was a former city mayor, their eldest daughter is a now senator, their son is a mayor, and another daughter is a congresswoman.\r\n\r\nThe Philippines is a family corporation but our bureau of customs is probably another family. No offense but I heard they have their own language there. I didn’t know their language so back in 2012, my shipment worth 1.5 million pesos never made it out.\r\n\r\nThank you for your sympathy but I have moved on.\r\n\r\nAs Filipinos, you know we are very kind people. We are hospitable. We are great entertainers. We are happy people. We are easy to get along with. We are very friendly.\r\n\r\nBut we were not as friendly as before. We killed nearly every one who tried to conquer our nation. We are friendly. But we can kill. So, friendly killers.\r\n\r\nWe are now a free nation. Back then, we were under a dictatorship. In 1986, democracy was restored. Since then, Filipinos got the freedom to do everything they like.\r\n\r\nFor example, in Singapore, you’ll feel bad and somehow ashamed of your self when you cross the street without using pedestrian lanes.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, you’ll feel bad and ashamed of your self when you use pedestrian lanes because everybody else cross anywhere they like. Pedestrian lanes are not part of the traffic system. It is an art we paint on our roads.\r\n\r\nIn the philippines, we have high regards on the environment so we treat almost every place as a park. Yes, including our work places. Everyday for us is a walk in the park. That said, we don’t walk fast. We don\'t glide. We always take our time so we walk slowly.\r\n\r\nEscalators in Singapore operate four times faster than our escalators because probably Singaporeans believe that, \"It’s better never late.\" We, on the other hand, believe that, \"It’s better late than never.\"\r\n\r\nBut we are natural visionaries. when you give us a work assignment, don’t expect us to finish it on the day. just like many other people around the world, procrastination is our specialty. we are visionaries. our vision is always set on tomorrow. so tomorrow, we will do our work assignment.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of time, Europeans and other people in the West are always specific and mindful of their appointments and meeting schedules. There’s no gray area. It’s just black and white.\r\n\r\nOur sense of time in this part of the world is kinda different. For example, when you ask a European, \"Where and what time are we meeting tomorrow?\" They would answer this way: I will see you at 3PM in Starbucks.\r\n\r\nYou will find it strange in the Philippines. When you ask me the same question, my answer would be, \"After lunch in a coffee shop inside the mall.\"\r\n\r\nWhat time? After lunch. Where? Somewhere out there.\r\n\r\nOnce inside the coffee shop, you probably would ask me: Have you eaten yet? I would answer this way: It’s ok. I’m still full.\r\n\r\nClearly, we don’t answer your question. Or maybe, we give you an answer that is more than what your question can take.\r\n\r\nBut going back in the old days, you will realize that we are indeed a great nation with great people situated in a greatly strategic part of the pacific, perhaps the reason why many nations express their interest a certain group of islands.\r\n\r\nIt is only in this part of the globe where you can see a group of islands called in many different names based on who is talking.\r\n\r\nSpratly is located in South China Sea which is the same as West Philippine Sea, under the economic zone of Brunei, in the state of Sabah, Malaysia, which is a municipality of the Philippines and taiwan, in the district of Vietnam.\r\n\r\nBut the disputed group of islands is so strategically positioned that whoever got it would get the best place to set up a missile system.\r\n\r\nBut we are a great nation. Two thousand years ago, we built one of the seven wonders of the world known as Banaue Rice Terraces. how do you keep the water from draining in the mountain?\r\n\r\nModesty aside, two thousand years ago, while Jesus was walking in Jerusalem, we already knew hydraulics technology.\r\n\r\nBut the same wonder of the world would give us an idea that Filipinos are natural visionary.\r\n\r\nWe built the rice terraces not only for the present generation at the time, but we built it with the future generation in mind. We build something today that our future generation would benefit from.\r\n\r\nBut back in those days, we were not huge fans of leadership by patronage. Our concept of leadership then was, leaders don’t take credit for the team’s achievement.\r\n\r\nOur leaders in the old times don’t put their name on what they have accomplished. That’s why we would never know who led the creation of the rice terraces.\r\n\r\nBack then, it was about leading without names. Today, it’s about names without leading.\r\n\r\nEvery name, every face, every mark of a politician is printed on every project they do for the people who are paying for their salary as well as the project that they build for the people.\r\n\r\nBy the way, the Banaue Rice Terraces was built by free people dedicated for the future generation unlike the pyramids in Egypt which were built by slaves for a certain leader.\r\n\r\nFilipinos build something beyond themselves.\r\n\r\nAs a nation, we have our own share of many firsts. We built the first airport and operated Philippine Airlines, the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia. It was built in 1941.\r\n\r\nWe built the first metro railway system in Southeast Asia in 1891. Thanks to King Alfonso XII of Spain, a European, for his support.\r\n\r\nSo you may be asking, despite our firsts, why is the Philippines trailing behind many other Asian nations today?\r\n\r\nWell, we got tired of being the first. So we took a rest up to this day. But we are aware that Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos are catching up and might overtake us soon. We are not alarmed.\r\n\r\nWe appreciate small joys. We love small things. We are physically small people. Maybe we think small as well.\r\n\r\nMaybe that explains why it’s only prevalent in the Philippines that we have a very small version of supermarket called sari-sari store or in your language, variety store, where you can buy anything like beer, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, bread, biscuits, chips, diaper, napkins and panty liners. One small store with everything you need.\r\n\r\nIt’s only in the Philippines that you can buy a shampoo as small as your lighter and buy a single piece of cigarette without complaint from the seller.\r\n\r\nBe that as it may, we are creative people. When you give a German a one-to-five step-by-step instruction, I think Germans would do exactly as instructed.\r\n\r\nWhen you give Filipinos the same set of instructions, we will add step 1.1 to step 1 or step 2.1.a after step number 2. We don’t really ruin the process, but sure we add more years for the project to be completed.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of projects, our politicians construct roads that can only last for three years or equivalent to their term of office so that their re-election promise is now, if you elect me once again, I promise to repair those roads.\r\n\r\nWe are dreamers. We just forgot to wake up and build the dream.\r\n\r\nFrench kiss. Well, growing up, I really didn’t know about it. I only heard it and read about it. I always wonder what French kiss means and how it is done.\r\n\r\nWhen I was in college, I thought you’ll need a French lady to have a French kiss. So I waited for many years. She didn’t come so I ended up eating French fries instead.\r\n\r\nI don’t know how sensational French kiss could be. No idea. But hey all I know is we beat the French people on the number of couples kissing on valentines day according to Guiness.\r\n\r\nWe also broke the record held by Chile and Hungary. We call it Lovapalooza, a traditional Filipino Valentine\'s Day celebration that first bid to claim the Guiness World Record for the Most Number of Simultaneously Kissing Couples for 10 seconds in 2007.\r\n\r\nIn the news this week, one city government is trying to pass a local law that prohibits a citizen from owning more than three cats and dogs. I wonder why they have to do that. are they mad about the cats and dogs?\r\n\r\nThen i realized, maybe because they can’t control human population so they settled on controlling what they can—animal population. Anyway, cats and dogs don’t vote.\r\n\r\nWe are very sweet people. Perhaps that’s why some European retirees retire in the Philippines and maybe get Filipina as a partner. We are so sweet. In fact, many Filipinos have diabetes. Mainly, it\'s unlimited rice promo\'s fault.\r\n\r\nBut another reason why many people choose the Philippines as a retiring destination is because naturally, we are caring people. We have a lot of caregivers and nurses around the world.\r\n\r\nWe are natural magicians. The Philippines has one of the highest tax rates in Asia and we collect billions of pesos from tax payers annually.\r\n\r\nBut we really don’t know where the money goes after we pay. As a magician, we can make money disappear in less than a year and elect in the following election the same set of politicians who made it disappear.\r\n\r\nOur greatest business is export business. We export our people. We export our talents. Our education system is carefully and effectively designed to prepare our citizens to work in other countries and enrich other nations. That is so sweet as well.\r\n\r\nWe have the best beaches in the world. Many white people go in Boracay for tanning. They literally stay under the sun for long hours just to look tan.\r\n\r\nBut when we Filipinos see you do that, we thouht it’s cool. We thought it’s the trend. We thought it’s new. So we also stay under the sun and our brown skin becomes dark brown. At night, you can’t see us anymore.\r\n\r\nOn a serious note, as a motivational stand up comedian and inspirational author, I always feel for the people. I guess as business leaders, while we strive to stay relevant to the market that we serve, we also must strive to reach out and genuinely help our people in their personal development.\r\n\r\nIt’s not enough that we give them jobs. Let us give them time and attention. Maybe that’s what they need more than the competitive compensation and benefit packages that we give to them.\r\n\r\nFinally, there are three important things that I learned in my life. You don’t have to believe them but at least hear them.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to be happy or to be kind, choose to be kind. Happy people are not always kind but kind people are generally happy.\r\n\r\nBe kind.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to have hope or to have faith, choose to have faith. Hope waits for a defining moment to come when faith has already defined your defining moment.\r\n\r\nKeep the faith.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to succeed or to love, choose love. For it is only in the magical expression of love that real success is made and found.\r\n\r\nAlways stay in love.\r\n\r\nLife won’t guarantee us of anything but if we would just be kind to one another, if we would just keep the faith in who we are, and if we would just fall in love on what we do best over and over again, amazing things would always come our way.\r\n\r\nWhat people always say about businessmen is it’s always business as usual for us. We make more money and we give very little to others. We are so focused on the profit. We always consider our bottome line.\r\n\r\nWell, I don’t have any joke for that. I’m just letting you know what they say.\r\n\r\nUp to this point, I still don’t know the topic I am going to speak about. But I don’t think it still matters because I think I have said everything I needed to say—enough message for me to collect my professional speaking fee.\r\n\r\nI am honored to speak to you tonight. Thank you and may God bless you all.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]', 'Filipino Traits and Characteristics: A Comedian\'s Perspective', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'open', '', '35756-revision-v1', '', '', '2015-04-17 21:45:05', '2015-04-17 13:45:05', '', 35756, 'http://www.lloydluna.com/35756-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
(35762, 1, '2015-04-17 21:52:11', '2015-04-17 13:52:11', '[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][vc_column_text]<b>NO TOPIC JUST FUN</b>\r\n\r\n<strong>Speech delivered by LLOYD LUNA during the 2015 convention of Europe Asia Alliance in Shangri-la’s Mactan Resort and Spa, Cebu City on April 16, 2015 at 7:00 PM</strong>\r\n\r\nThank you. Thank you to those who clapped their hands. Actually, I am expecting a louder round of applause. Thank you.\r\n\r\nDirectors, organizers, guests, people from Europe, people from Asia, people from \"The Alliance\", and people who were not invited but are here anyway:\r\n\r\nGood evening, Buenas noches, Bonsoir, Buonasera, Guten abend, Wǎnshàng hǎo, Selamat petang, Selamat Malam, Chào buổi tối, S̄wạs̄dī, Magandang gabi po.\r\n\r\nWow. Let me start by saying that I think the world is about to end. Having a small guy like me speak in this highly celebrated event with the people of your reputation is a signal that we are getting closer to the destruction of the world.\r\n\r\nSeriously, inviting a 32-year-old author such as my self means there is something terribly wrong in the this world. When I got your invitation, I immediately asked, \"Why would you invite someone like me?\" \"Why me?\"\r\n\r\nThere are many more speakers out there who are more qualified to speak. More intelligent than me. More deserving than me. More educated than me. Richer than me. Taller than me. Maybe more goodlooking than me.\r\n\r\nBut on second thought, I also asked, \"Why not me?\"\r\n\r\nReally, here’s how I feel now. I feel I don’t deserve to stand here in front of you. But I don’t think I can stand at the back while giving this speech so I guess I have to stay here in front.\r\n\r\nJust to let you know, I am also a comedian so just a fair warning: I mean no offense to anyone. Please don’t take me so seriously tonight. Because seriously, I’m kidding.\r\n\r\nBesides, on this kind of ocassion, most people including my self are guilty of remembering only one thing from the speaker in any given seminar: Thank you. So my motivational message for tonight: Thank you.\r\n\r\nTo those who would like me to continue, another round of applause please. To those who want me to go out now, round of applause please.\r\n\r\nOk then. Let’s just enjoy the night, shall we? This will be short. So please relax. This speech is only about 200 pages. It\'s brief.\r\n\r\nI was not given a particular topic to talk about. The organizers are kind and trusting enough to give me a freehand to speak on any topic I wish. So tonight, the title of my speech is \"No topic, just fun.\" So i can’t promise that you’ll learn anything from me tonight.\r\n\r\nBy the way, I am so excited to see you and share some of my thoughts with you. I thought I needed to make some deep and substantial research about your organization, EAA, which means European Athletic Association.\r\n\r\nOh, you are not an athletic association? Who is in the wrong seminar then? Is it me or you?\r\n\r\nOk, EAA, otherwise known as the great Europe Asia Alliance, formed in 2007 to offer importers and exporters the advantages of the multi-national corporations with the expertise that can be found only in a locally owned and operated business. you have a network of offices strategically positioned in virtually every angle of Europe and Asia, giving you the advantage of being able to offer your clients a comprehensive service.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t make that up. I got it from your website.\r\n\r\nSeriously I worked long and hard for this talk. On my way going here from Manila while in the airplane this morning, I prepared this speech.\r\n\r\nThis speech is especially made from 35,000 feet above sea level.\r\n\r\nToday, many industries are trying their very best to stay alive and stay relevant. For example, in the Philippines, we used to have a very active and lucrative business in textile industry. But since the entry of international brands such as Uniqlo and H&amp;M, our local brands started to struggle.\r\n\r\nThese international brands sell their goods at a local price. People have lost their appetite on local brands and found an overwhelming desire on global brands.\r\n\r\nOur once active manufacturing industry is now a sunset industry. Many are getting ready for their brands funeral.\r\n\r\nBut yours is an industry that will never die and will always be where the sun rises. It will never be a sunset industry. It will never ever go back in time. It will never rewind because your business is always forwarding.\r\n\r\nI always wonder what people in the forwarding business do and what kind of people they are. Are they cool? Are they strict? Are they disciplinarian? Are they serious? How do they do what they do?\r\n\r\nSo I opened my browser and here’s what I discovered about you.\r\n\r\n(Play the video)\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/WEvG9NSvPNU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\nI realized that you are also a human being, capable of falling when you get dizzy, going towards a wrong direction no matter how well you know where the right direction is, and getting up to finish the game you started.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of work, the Philippines’ biggest business is politics and entertainment. As a television host myself, i should know how huge these two businesses are.\r\n\r\nThe reason perhaps is because the Philippines is a family-oriented nation. We don’t leave a family member behind.\r\n\r\nThat’s why we elected a vice president whose wife was a former city mayor, their eldest daughter is a now senator, their son is a mayor, and another daughter is a congresswoman.\r\n\r\nThe Philippines is a family corporation but our bureau of customs is probably another family. No offense but I heard they have their own language there. I didn’t know their language so back in 2012, my shipment worth 1.5 million pesos never made it out.\r\n\r\nThank you for your sympathy but I have moved on.\r\n\r\nAs Filipinos, you know we are very kind people. We are hospitable. We are great entertainers. We are happy people. We are easy to get along with. We are very friendly.\r\n\r\nBut we were not as friendly as before. We killed nearly every one who tried to conquer our nation. We are friendly. But we can kill. So, friendly killers.\r\n\r\nWe are now a free nation. Back then, we were under a dictatorship. In 1986, democracy was restored. Since then, Filipinos got the freedom to do everything they like.\r\n\r\nFor example, in Singapore, you’ll feel bad and somehow ashamed of your self when you cross the street without using pedestrian lanes.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, you’ll feel bad and ashamed of your self when you use pedestrian lanes because everybody else cross anywhere they like. Pedestrian lanes are not part of the traffic system. It is an art we paint on our roads.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, we have high regards on the environment so we treat almost every place as a park. Yes, including our work places. Everyday for us is a walk in the park. That said, we don’t walk fast. We don\'t glide. We always take our time so we walk slowly.\r\n\r\nEscalators in Singapore operate four times faster than our escalators because probably Singaporeans believe that, \"It’s better never late.\" We, on the other hand, believe that, \"It’s better late than never.\"\r\n\r\nBut we are natural visionaries. When you give us a work assignment, don’t expect us to finish it on the day. Just like many other people around the world, procrastination is our specialty. We are visionaries. Our vision is always set on tomorrow. So tomorrow, we will do our work assignment.\r\n\r\nWe are too focused on the future that we forget today\'s deadline.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of time, Europeans and other people in the West are always specific and mindful of their appointments and meeting schedules. There’s no gray area. It’s just black and white.\r\n\r\nOur sense of time in this part of the world is kinda different. For example, when you ask a European, \"Where and what time are we meeting tomorrow?\" They would answer this way: I will see you at 3PM in Starbucks.\r\n\r\nYou will find it strange in the Philippines. When you ask me the same question, my answer would be, \"After lunch in a coffee shop inside the mall.\"\r\n\r\nWhat time? After lunch. Where? Somewhere out there.\r\n\r\nOnce inside the coffee shop, you probably would ask me: Have you eaten yet? I would answer this way: It’s ok. I’m still full.\r\n\r\nClearly, we don’t answer your question. Or maybe, we give you an answer that is more than what your question can take.\r\n\r\nBut going back in the old days, you will realize that we are indeed a great nation with great people situated in a greatly strategic part of the pacific, perhaps the reason why many nations express their interest a certain group of islands.\r\n\r\nIt is only in this part of the globe where you can see a group of islands called in many different names based on who is talking.\r\n\r\nSpratly is located in South China Sea which is the same as West Philippine Sea, under the economic zone of Brunei, in the state of Sabah, Malaysia, which is a municipality of the Philippines and taiwan, in the district of Vietnam.\r\n\r\nBut the disputed group of islands is so strategically positioned that whoever got it would get the best place to set up a missile system.\r\n\r\nBut we are a great nation. Two thousand years ago, we built one of the seven wonders of the world known as Banaue Rice Terraces. how do you keep the water from draining in the mountain?\r\n\r\nModesty aside, two thousand years ago, while Jesus was walking in Jerusalem, we already knew hydraulics technology.\r\n\r\nBut the same wonder of the world would give us an idea that Filipinos are natural visionary.\r\n\r\nWe built the rice terraces not only for the present generation at the time, but we built it with the future generation in mind. We build something today that our future generation would benefit from.\r\n\r\nBut back in those days, we were not huge fans of leadership by patronage. Our concept of leadership then was, leaders don’t take credit for the team’s achievement.\r\n\r\nOur leaders in the old times don’t put their name on what they have accomplished. That’s why we would never know who led the creation of the rice terraces.\r\n\r\nBack then, it was about leading without names. Today, it’s about names without leading.\r\n\r\nEvery name, every face, every mark of a politician is printed on every project they do for the people who are paying for their salary as well as the project that they build for the people.\r\n\r\nBy the way, the Banaue Rice Terraces was built by free people dedicated for the future generation unlike the pyramids in Egypt which were built by slaves for a certain leader.\r\n\r\nFilipinos build something beyond themselves.\r\n\r\nAs a nation, we have our own share of many firsts. We built the first airport and operated Philippine Airlines, the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia. It was built in 1941.\r\n\r\nWe built the first metro railway system in Southeast Asia in 1891. Thanks to King Alfonso XII of Spain, a European, for his support.\r\n\r\nSo you may be asking, despite our firsts, why is the Philippines trailing behind many other Asian nations today?\r\n\r\nWell, we got tired of being the first. So we took a rest up to this day. But we are aware that Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos are catching up and might overtake us soon. We are not alarmed.\r\n\r\nWe appreciate small joys. We love small things. We are physically small people. Maybe we think small as well.\r\n\r\nMaybe that explains why it’s only prevalent in the Philippines that we have a very small version of supermarket called sari-sari store or in your language, variety store, where you can buy anything like beer, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, bread, biscuits, chips, diaper, napkins and panty liners. One small store with everything you need.\r\n\r\nIt’s only in the Philippines that you can buy a shampoo as small as your lighter and buy a single piece of cigarette without complaint from the seller.\r\n\r\nBe that as it may, we are creative people. When you give a German a one-to-five step-by-step instruction, I think Germans would do exactly as instructed.\r\n\r\nWhen you give Filipinos the same set of instructions, we will add step 1.1 to step 1 or step 2.1.a after step number 2. We don’t really ruin the process, but sure we add more years for the project to be completed.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of projects, our politicians construct roads that can only last for three years or equivalent to their term of office so that their re-election promise is now, if you elect me once again, I promise to repair those roads.\r\n\r\nWe are dreamers. We just forgot to wake up and build the dream.\r\n\r\nFrench kiss. Well, growing up, I really didn’t know about it. I only heard it and read about it. I always wonder what French kiss means and how it is done.\r\n\r\nWhen I was in college, I thought you’ll need a French lady to have a French kiss. So I waited for many years. She didn’t come so I ended up eating French fries instead.\r\n\r\nI don’t know how sensational French kiss could be. No idea. But hey all I know is we beat the French people on the number of couples kissing on valentines day according to Guiness.\r\n\r\nWe also broke the record held by Chile and Hungary. We call it Lovapalooza, a traditional Filipino Valentine\'s Day celebration that first bid to claim the Guiness World Record for the Most Number of Simultaneously Kissing Couples for 10 seconds in 2007.\r\n\r\nIn the news this week, one city government is trying to pass a local law that prohibits a citizen from owning more than three cats and dogs. I wonder why they have to do that. are they mad about the cats and dogs?\r\n\r\nThen i realized, maybe because they can’t control human population so they settled on controlling what they can—animal population. Anyway, cats and dogs don’t vote.\r\n\r\nWe are very sweet people. Perhaps that’s why some European retirees retire in the Philippines and maybe get Filipina as a partner. We are so sweet. In fact, many Filipinos have diabetes. Mainly, it\'s unlimited rice promo\'s fault.\r\n\r\nBut another reason why many people choose the Philippines as a retiring destination is because naturally, we are caring people. We have a lot of caregivers and nurses around the world.\r\n\r\nWe are natural magicians. The Philippines has one of the highest tax rates in Asia and we collect billions of pesos from tax payers annually.\r\n\r\nBut we really don’t know where the money goes after we pay. As a magician, we can make money disappear in less than a year and elect in the following election the same set of politicians who made it disappear.\r\n\r\nOur greatest business is export business. We export our people. We export our talents. Our education system is carefully and effectively designed to prepare our citizens to work in other countries and enrich other nations. That is so sweet as well.\r\n\r\nWe have the best beaches in the world. Many white people go in Boracay for tanning. They literally stay under the sun for long hours just to look tan.\r\n\r\nBut when we Filipinos see you do that, we thouht it’s cool. We thought it’s the trend. We thought it’s new. So we also stay under the sun and our brown skin becomes dark brown. At night, you can’t see us anymore.\r\n\r\nOn a serious note, as a motivational stand up comedian and inspirational author, I always feel for the people. I guess as business leaders, while we strive to stay relevant to the market that we serve, we also must strive to reach out and genuinely help our people in their personal development.\r\n\r\nIt’s not enough that we give them jobs. Let us give them time and attention. Maybe that’s what they need more than the competitive compensation and benefit packages that we give to them.\r\n\r\nFinally, there are three important things that I learned in my life. You don’t have to believe them but at least hear them.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to be happy or to be kind, choose to be kind. Happy people are not always kind but kind people are generally happy.\r\n\r\nBe kind.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to have hope or to have faith, choose to have faith. Hope waits for a defining moment to come when faith has already defined your defining moment.\r\n\r\nKeep the faith.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to succeed or to love, choose love. For it is only in the magical expression of love that real success is made and found.\r\n\r\nAlways stay in love.\r\n\r\nLife won’t guarantee us of anything but if we would just be kind to one another, if we would just keep the faith in who we are, and if we would just fall in love on what we do best over and over again, amazing things would always come our way.\r\n\r\nWhat people always say about businessmen is it’s always business as usual for us. 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(35765, 1, '2015-04-17 21:58:15', '2015-04-17 13:58:15', '[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][vc_column_text]<b>NO TOPIC JUST FUN</b>\r\n\r\n<strong>Speech delivered by LLOYD LUNA during the 2015 convention of Europe Asia Alliance in Shangri-la’s Mactan Resort and Spa, Cebu City on April 16, 2015 at 7:00 PM</strong>\r\n\r\nThank you. Thank you to those who clapped their hands. Actually, I am expecting a louder round of applause. Thank you.\r\n\r\nDirectors, organizers, guests, people from Europe, people from Asia, people from \"The Alliance\", and people who were not invited but are here anyway:\r\n\r\nGood evening, Buenas noches, Bonsoir, Buonasera, Guten abend, Wǎnshàng hǎo, Selamat petang, Selamat Malam, Chào buổi tối, S̄wạs̄dī, Magandang gabi po.\r\n\r\nWow. Let me start by saying that I think the world is about to end. Having a small guy like me speak in this highly celebrated event with the people of your reputation is a signal that we are getting closer to the destruction of the world.\r\n\r\nSeriously, inviting a 32-year-old author such as my self means there is something terribly wrong in the this world. When I got your invitation, I immediately asked, \"Why would you invite someone like me?\" \"Why me?\"\r\n\r\nThere are many more speakers out there who are more qualified to speak. More intelligent than me. More deserving than me. More educated than me. Richer than me. Taller than me. Maybe more goodlooking than me.\r\n\r\nBut on second thought, I also asked, \"Why not me?\"\r\n\r\nReally, here’s how I feel now. I feel I don’t deserve to stand here in front of you. But I don’t think I can stand at the back while giving this speech so I guess I have to stay here in front.\r\n\r\nJust to let you know, I am also a comedian so just a fair warning: I mean no offense to anyone. Please don’t take me so seriously tonight. Because seriously, I’m kidding.\r\n\r\nBesides, on this kind of ocassion, most people including my self are guilty of remembering only one thing from the speaker in any given seminar: Thank you. So my motivational message for tonight: Thank you.\r\n\r\nTo those who would like me to continue, another round of applause please. To those who want me to go out now, round of applause please.\r\n\r\nOk then. Let’s just enjoy the night, shall we? This will be short. So please relax. This speech is only about 200 pages. It\'s brief.\r\n\r\nI was not given a particular topic to talk about. The organizers are kind and trusting enough to give me a freehand to speak on any topic I wish. So tonight, the title of my speech is \"No topic, just fun.\" So i can’t promise that you’ll learn anything from me tonight.\r\n\r\nBy the way, I am so excited to see you and share some of my thoughts with you. I thought I needed to make some deep and substantial research about your organization, EAA, which means European Athletic Association.\r\n\r\nOh, you are not an athletic association? Who is in the wrong seminar then? Is it me or you?\r\n\r\nOk, EAA, otherwise known as the great Europe Asia Alliance, formed in 2007 to offer importers and exporters the advantages of the multi-national corporations with the expertise that can be found only in a locally owned and operated business. you have a network of offices strategically positioned in virtually every angle of Europe and Asia, giving you the advantage of being able to offer your clients a comprehensive service.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t make that up. I got it from your website.\r\n\r\nSeriously I worked long and hard for this talk. On my way going here from Manila while in the airplane this morning, I prepared this speech.\r\n\r\nThis speech is especially made from 35,000 feet above sea level.\r\n\r\nToday, many industries are trying their very best to stay alive and stay relevant. For example, in the Philippines, we used to have a very active and lucrative business in textile industry. But since the entry of international brands such as Uniqlo and H&amp;M, our local brands started to struggle.\r\n\r\nThese international brands sell their goods at a local price. People have lost their appetite on local brands and found an overwhelming desire on global brands.\r\n\r\nOur once active manufacturing industry is now a sunset industry. Many are getting ready for their brands funeral.\r\n\r\nBut yours is an industry that will never die and will always be where the sun rises. It will never be a sunset industry. It will never ever go back in time. It will never rewind because your business is always forwarding.\r\n\r\nI always wonder what people in the forwarding business do and what kind of people they are. Are they cool? Are they strict? Are they disciplinarian? Are they serious? How do they do what they do?\r\n\r\nSo I opened my browser and here’s what I discovered about you.\r\n\r\n(Play the video)\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/WEvG9NSvPNU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\nI realized that you are also a human being, capable of falling when you get dizzy, going towards a wrong direction no matter how well you know where the right direction is, and getting up to finish the game you started.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of work, the Philippines’ biggest business is politics and entertainment. As a television host myself, i should know how huge these two businesses are.\r\n\r\nThe reason perhaps is because the Philippines is a family-oriented nation. We don’t leave a family member behind.\r\n\r\nThat’s why we elected a vice president whose wife was a former city mayor, their eldest daughter is a now senator, their son is a mayor, and another daughter is a congresswoman.\r\n\r\nThe Philippines is a family corporation but our bureau of customs is probably another family. No offense but I heard they have their own language there. I didn’t know their language so back in 2012, my shipment worth 1.5 million pesos never made it out.\r\n\r\nThank you for your sympathy but I have moved on.\r\n\r\nAs Filipinos, you know we are very kind people. We are hospitable. We are great entertainers. We are happy people. We are easy to get along with. We are very friendly.\r\n\r\nBut we were not as friendly as before. We killed nearly every one who tried to conquer our nation. We are friendly. But we can kill. So, friendly killers.\r\n\r\nWe are now a free nation. Back then, we were under a dictatorship. In 1986, democracy was restored. Since then, Filipinos got the freedom to do everything they like.\r\n\r\nFor example, in Singapore, you’ll feel bad and somehow ashamed of your self when you cross the street without using pedestrian lanes.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, you’ll feel bad and ashamed of your self when you use pedestrian lanes because everybody else cross anywhere they like. Pedestrian lanes are not part of the traffic system. It is an art we paint on our roads.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, we have high regards on the environment so we treat almost every place as a park. Yes, including our work places. Everyday for us is a walk in the park. That said, we don’t walk fast. We don\'t glide. We always take our time so we walk slowly.\r\n\r\nEscalators in Singapore operate four times faster than our escalators because probably Singaporeans believe that, \"It’s better never late.\" We, on the other hand, believe that, \"It’s better late than never.\"\r\n\r\nBut we are natural visionaries. When you give us a work assignment, don’t expect us to finish it on the day. Just like many other people around the world, procrastination is our specialty. We are visionaries. Our vision is always set on tomorrow. So tomorrow, we will do our work assignment.\r\n\r\nWe are too focused on the future that we forget today\'s deadline.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of time, Europeans and other people in the West are always specific and mindful of their appointments and meeting schedules. There’s no gray area. It’s just black and white.\r\n\r\nOur sense of time in this part of the world is kinda different. For example, when you ask a European, \"Where and what time are we meeting tomorrow?\" They would answer this way: I will see you at 3PM in Starbucks.\r\n\r\nYou will find it strange in the Philippines. When you ask me the same question, my answer would be, \"After lunch in a coffee shop inside the mall.\"\r\n\r\nWhat time? After lunch. Where? Somewhere out there.\r\n\r\nOnce inside the coffee shop, you probably would ask me: Have you eaten yet? I would answer this way: It’s ok. I’m still full.\r\n\r\nClearly, we don’t answer your question. Or maybe, we give you an answer that is more than what your question can take.\r\n\r\nBut going back in the old days, you will realize that we are indeed a great nation with great people situated in a greatly strategic part of the pacific, perhaps the reason why many nations express their interest a certain group of islands.\r\n\r\nIt is only in this part of the globe where you can see a group of islands called in many different names based on who is talking.\r\n\r\nSpratly is located in South China Sea which is the same as West Philippine Sea, under the economic zone of Brunei, in the state of Sabah, Malaysia, which is a municipality of the Philippines and taiwan, in the district of Vietnam.\r\n\r\nBut the disputed group of islands is so strategically positioned that whoever got it would get the best place to set up a missile system.\r\n\r\nBut we are a great nation. Two thousand years ago, we built one of the seven wonders of the world known as Banaue Rice Terraces. how do you keep the water from draining in the mountain?\r\n\r\nModesty aside, two thousand years ago, while Jesus was walking in Jerusalem, we already knew hydraulics technology.\r\n\r\nBut the same wonder of the world would give us an idea that Filipinos are natural visionary.\r\n\r\nWe built the rice terraces not only for the present generation at the time, but we built it with the future generation in mind. We build something today that our future generation would benefit from.\r\n\r\nBut back in those days, we were not huge fans of leadership by patronage. Our concept of leadership then was, leaders don’t take credit for the team’s achievement.\r\n\r\nOur leaders in the old times don’t put their name on what they have accomplished. That’s why we would never know who led the creation of the rice terraces.\r\n\r\nBack then, it was about leading without names. Today, it’s about names without leading.\r\n\r\nEvery name, every face, every mark of a politician is printed on every project they do for the people who are paying for their salary as well as the project that they build for the people.\r\n\r\nBy the way, the Banaue Rice Terraces was built by free people dedicated for the future generation unlike the pyramids in Egypt which were built by slaves for a certain leader.\r\n\r\nFilipinos build something beyond themselves.\r\n\r\nAs a nation, we have our own share of many firsts. We built the first airport and operated Philippine Airlines, the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia. It was built in 1941.\r\n\r\nWe built the first metro railway system in Southeast Asia in 1891. Thanks to King Alfonso XII of Spain, a European, for his support.\r\n\r\nSo you may be asking, despite our firsts, why is the Philippines trailing behind many other Asian nations today?\r\n\r\nWell, we got tired of being the first. So we took a rest up to this day. But we are aware that Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos are catching up and might overtake us soon. We are not alarmed.\r\n\r\nWe appreciate small joys. We love small things. We are physically small people. Maybe we think small as well.\r\n\r\nMaybe that explains why it’s only prevalent in the Philippines that we have a very small version of supermarket called sari-sari store or in your language, variety store, where you can buy anything like beer, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, bread, biscuits, chips, diaper, napkins and panty liners. One small store with everything you need.\r\n\r\nIt’s only in the Philippines that you can buy a shampoo as small as your lighter and buy a single piece of cigarette without complaint from the seller.\r\n\r\nBe that as it may, we are creative people. When you give a German a one-to-five step-by-step instruction, I think Germans would do exactly as instructed.\r\n\r\nWhen you give Filipinos the same set of instructions, we will add step 1.1 to step 1 or step 2.1.a after step number 2. We don’t really ruin the process, but sure we add more years for the project to be completed.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of projects, our politicians construct roads that can only last for three years or equivalent to their term of office so that their re-election promise is now, if you elect me once again, I promise to repair those roads.\r\n\r\nWe are dreamers. We just forgot to wake up and build the dream.\r\n\r\nFrench kiss. Well, growing up, I really didn’t know about it. I only heard it and read about it. I always wonder what French kiss means and how it is done.\r\n\r\nWhen I was in college, I thought you’ll need a French lady to have a French kiss. So I waited for many years. She didn’t come so I ended up eating French fries instead.\r\n\r\nI don’t know how sensational French kiss could be. No idea. But hey all I know is we beat the French people on the number of couples kissing on valentines day according to Guiness.\r\n\r\nWe also broke the record held by Chile and Hungary. We call it Lovapalooza, a traditional Filipino Valentine\'s Day celebration that first bid to claim the Guiness World Record for the Most Number of Simultaneously Kissing Couples for 10 seconds in 2007.\r\n\r\nIn the news this week, one city government is trying to pass a local law that prohibits a citizen from owning more than three cats and dogs. I wonder why they have to do that. are they mad about the cats and dogs?\r\n\r\nThen i realized, maybe because they can’t control human population so they settled on controlling what they can—animal population. Anyway, cats and dogs don’t vote.\r\n\r\nWe are very sweet people. Perhaps that’s why some European retirees retire in the Philippines and maybe get Filipina as a partner. We are so sweet. In fact, many Filipinos have diabetes. Mainly, it\'s unlimited rice promo\'s fault.\r\n\r\nBut another reason why many people choose the Philippines as a retiring destination is because naturally, we are caring people. We have a lot of caregivers and nurses around the world.\r\n\r\nWe are natural magicians. The Philippines has one of the highest tax rates in Asia and we collect billions of pesos from tax payers annually.\r\n\r\nBut we really don’t know where the money goes after we pay. As a magician, we can make money disappear in less than a year and elect in the following election the same set of politicians who made it disappear.\r\n\r\nOur greatest business is export business. We export our people. We export our talents. Our education system is carefully and effectively designed to prepare our citizens to work in other countries and enrich other nations. That is so sweet as well.\r\n\r\nWe have the best beaches in the world. Many white people go in Boracay for tanning. They literally stay under the sun for long hours just to look tan.\r\n\r\nBut when we Filipinos see you do that, we thouht it’s cool. We thought it’s the trend. We thought it’s new. So we also stay under the sun and our brown skin becomes dark brown. At night, you can’t see us anymore.\r\n\r\nOn a serious note, as a motivational stand up comedian and inspirational author, I always feel for the people. I guess as business leaders, while we strive to stay relevant to the market that we serve, we also must strive to reach out and genuinely help our people in their personal development.\r\n\r\nIt’s not enough that we give them jobs. Let us give them time and attention. Maybe that’s what they need more than the competitive compensation and benefit packages that we give to them.\r\n\r\nFinally, there are three important things that I learned in my life. You don’t have to believe them but at least hear them.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to be happy or to be kind, choose to be kind. Happy people are not always kind but kind people are generally happy.\r\n\r\nBe kind.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to have hope or to have faith, choose to have faith. Hope waits for a defining moment to come when faith has already defined your defining moment.\r\n\r\nKeep the faith.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to succeed or to love, choose love. For it is only in the magical expression of love that real success is made and found.\r\n\r\nAlways stay in love.\r\n\r\nLife won’t guarantee us of anything but if we would just be kind to one another, if we would just keep the faith in who we are, and if we would just fall in love on what we do best over and over again, amazing things would always come our way.\r\n\r\nWhat people always say about businessmen is it’s always business as usual for us. We make more money and we give very little to others. We are so focused on the profit. We always consider our bottome line.\r\n\r\nWell, I don’t have any joke for that. I’m just letting you know what they say.\r\n\r\nUp to this point, I still don’t know the topic I am going to speak about. But I don’t think it still matters because I think I have said everything I needed to say—enough message for me to collect my professional speaking fee.\r\n\r\nI am honored to speak to you tonight. Thank you and may God bless you all.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_35764\" align=\"aligncenter\" width=\"300\"]<a class=\"dt-single-image\" href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/11100808_10205629591833669_8079801672114448772_n.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"After a hit prepared motivational stand up comedy speech, buffet dinner and unlimited red wine and of course company of new-found friends, CEOs of some of the biggest forwarding companies in Europe and Asia. 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(35766, 1, '2015-04-17 22:05:23', '2015-04-17 14:05:23', '[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][vc_column_text]<b>NO TOPIC JUST FUN</b>\r\n\r\n<strong>Speech delivered by LLOYD LUNA during the 2015 convention of Europe Asia Alliance in Shangri-la’s Mactan Resort and Spa, Cebu City on April 16, 2015 at 7:00 PM</strong>\r\n\r\nThank you. Thank you to those who clapped their hands. Actually, I am expecting a louder round of applause. Thank you.\r\n\r\nDirectors, organizers, guests, people from Europe, people from Asia, people from \"The Alliance\", and people who were not invited but are here anyway:\r\n\r\nGood evening, Buenas noches, Bonsoir, Buonasera, Guten abend, Wǎnshàng hǎo, Selamat petang, Selamat Malam, Chào buổi tối, S̄wạs̄dī, Magandang gabi po.\r\n\r\nWow. Let me start by saying that I think the world is about to end. Having a small guy like me speak in this highly celebrated event with the people of your reputation is a signal that we are getting closer to the destruction of the world.\r\n\r\nSeriously, inviting a 32-year-old author such as my self means there is something terribly wrong in the this world. When I got your invitation, I immediately asked, \"Why would you invite someone like me?\" \"Why me?\"\r\n\r\nThere are many more speakers out there who are more qualified to speak. More intelligent than me. More deserving than me. More educated than me. Richer than me. Taller than me. Maybe more goodlooking than me.\r\n\r\nBut on second thought, I also asked, \"Why not me?\"\r\n\r\nReally, here’s how I feel now. I feel I don’t deserve to stand here in front of you. But I don’t think I can stand at the back while giving this speech so I guess I have to stay here in front.\r\n\r\nJust to let you know, I am also a comedian so just a fair warning: I mean no offense to anyone. Please don’t take me so seriously tonight. Because seriously, I’m kidding.\r\n\r\nBesides, on this kind of ocassion, most people including my self are guilty of remembering only one thing from the speaker in any given seminar: Thank you. So my motivational message for tonight: Thank you.\r\n\r\nTo those who would like me to continue, another round of applause please. To those who want me to go out now, round of applause please.\r\n\r\nOk then. Let’s just enjoy the night, shall we? This will be short. So please relax. This speech is only about 200 pages. It\'s brief.\r\n\r\nI was not given a particular topic to talk about. The organizers are kind and trusting enough to give me a freehand to speak on any topic I wish. So tonight, the title of my speech is \"No topic, just fun.\" So i can’t promise that you’ll learn anything from me tonight.\r\n\r\nBy the way, I am so excited to see you and share some of my thoughts with you. I thought I needed to make some deep and substantial research about your organization, EAA, which means European Athletic Association.\r\n\r\nOh, you are not an athletic association? Who is in the wrong seminar then? Is it me or you?\r\n\r\nOk, EAA, otherwise known as the great Europe Asia Alliance, formed in 2007 to offer importers and exporters the advantages of the multi-national corporations with the expertise that can be found only in a locally owned and operated business. you have a network of offices strategically positioned in virtually every angle of Europe and Asia, giving you the advantage of being able to offer your clients a comprehensive service.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t make that up. I got it from your website.\r\n\r\nSeriously I worked long and hard for this talk. On my way going here from Manila while in the airplane this morning, I prepared this speech.\r\n\r\nThis speech is especially made from 35,000 feet above sea level.\r\n\r\nToday, many industries are trying their very best to stay alive and stay relevant. For example, in the Philippines, we used to have a very active and lucrative business in textile industry. But since the entry of international brands such as Uniqlo and H&amp;M, our local brands started to struggle.\r\n\r\nThese international brands sell their goods at a local price. People have lost their appetite on local brands and found an overwhelming desire on global brands.\r\n\r\nOur once active manufacturing industry is now a sunset industry. Many are getting ready for their brands funeral.\r\n\r\nBut yours is an industry that will never die and will always be where the sun rises. It will never be a sunset industry. It will never ever go back in time. It will never rewind because your business is always forwarding.\r\n\r\nI always wonder what people in the forwarding business do and what kind of people they are. Are they cool? Are they strict? Are they disciplinarian? Are they serious? How do they do what they do?\r\n\r\nSo I opened my browser and here’s what I discovered about you.\r\n\r\n(Play the video)\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/WEvG9NSvPNU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\nI realized that you are also a human being, capable of falling when you get dizzy, going towards a wrong direction no matter how well you know where the right direction is, and getting up to finish the game you started.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of work, the Philippines’ biggest business is politics and entertainment. As a television host myself, i should know how huge these two businesses are.\r\n\r\nThe reason perhaps is because the Philippines is a family-oriented nation. We don’t leave a family member behind.\r\n\r\nThat’s why we elected a vice president whose wife was a former city mayor, their eldest daughter is a now senator, their son is a mayor, and another daughter is a congresswoman.\r\n\r\nThe Philippines is a family corporation but our bureau of customs is probably another family. No offense but I heard they have their own language there. I didn’t know their language so back in 2012, my shipment worth 1.5 million pesos never made it out.\r\n\r\nThank you for your sympathy but I have moved on.\r\n\r\nAs Filipinos, you know we are very kind people. We are hospitable. We are great entertainers. We are happy people. We are easy to get along with. We are very friendly.\r\n\r\nBut we were not as friendly as before. We killed nearly every one who tried to conquer our nation. We are friendly. But we can kill. So, friendly killers.\r\n\r\nWe are now a free nation. Back then, we were under a dictatorship. In 1986, democracy was restored. Since then, Filipinos got the freedom to do everything they like.\r\n\r\nFor example, in Singapore, you’ll feel bad and somehow ashamed of your self when you cross the street without using pedestrian lanes.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, you’ll feel bad and ashamed of your self when you use pedestrian lanes because everybody else cross anywhere they like. Pedestrian lanes are not part of the traffic system. It is an art we paint on our roads.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, we have high regards on the environment so we treat almost every place as a park. Yes, including our work places. Everyday for us is a walk in the park. That said, we don’t walk fast. We don\'t glide. We always take our time so we walk slowly.\r\n\r\nEscalators in Singapore operate four times faster than our escalators because probably Singaporeans believe that, \"It’s better never late.\" We, on the other hand, believe that, \"It’s better late than never.\"\r\n\r\nBut we are natural visionaries. When you give us a work assignment, don’t expect us to finish it on the day. Just like many other people around the world, procrastination is our specialty. We are visionaries. Our vision is always set on tomorrow. So tomorrow, we will do our work assignment.\r\n\r\nWe are too focused on the future that we forget today\'s deadline.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of time, Europeans and other people in the West are always specific and mindful of their appointments and meeting schedules. There’s no gray area. It’s just black and white.\r\n\r\nOur sense of time in this part of the world is kinda different. For example, when you ask a European, \"Where and what time are we meeting tomorrow?\" They would answer this way: I will see you at 3PM in Starbucks.\r\n\r\nYou will find it strange in the Philippines. When you ask me the same question, my answer would be, \"After lunch in a coffee shop inside the mall.\"\r\n\r\nWhat time? After lunch. Where? Somewhere out there.\r\n\r\nOnce inside the coffee shop, you probably would ask me: Have you eaten yet? I would answer this way: It’s ok. I’m still full.\r\n\r\nClearly, we don’t answer your question. Or maybe, we give you an answer that is more than what your question can take.\r\n\r\nBut going back in the old days, you will realize that we are indeed a great nation with great people situated in a greatly strategic part of the pacific, perhaps the reason why many nations express their interest a certain group of islands.\r\n\r\nIt is only in this part of the globe where you can see a group of islands called in many different names based on who is talking.\r\n\r\nSpratly is located in South China Sea which is the same as West Philippine Sea, under the economic zone of Brunei, in the state of Sabah, Malaysia, which is a municipality of the Philippines and taiwan, in the district of Vietnam.\r\n\r\nBut the disputed group of islands is so strategically positioned that whoever got it would get the best place to set up a missile system.\r\n\r\nBut we are a great nation. Two thousand years ago, we built one of the seven wonders of the world known as Banaue Rice Terraces. how do you keep the water from draining in the mountain?\r\n\r\nModesty aside, two thousand years ago, while Jesus was walking in Jerusalem, we already knew hydraulics technology.\r\n\r\nBut the same wonder of the world would give us an idea that Filipinos are natural visionary.\r\n\r\nWe built the rice terraces not only for the present generation at the time, but we built it with the future generation in mind. We build something today that our future generation would benefit from.\r\n\r\nBut back in those days, we were not huge fans of leadership by patronage. Our concept of leadership then was, leaders don’t take credit for the team’s achievement.\r\n\r\nOur leaders in the old times don’t put their name on what they have accomplished. That’s why we would never know who led the creation of the rice terraces.\r\n\r\nBack then, it was about leading without names. Today, it’s about names without leading.\r\n\r\nEvery name, every face, every mark of a politician is printed on every project they do for the people who are paying for their salary as well as the project that they build for the people.\r\n\r\nBy the way, the Banaue Rice Terraces was built by free people dedicated for the future generation unlike the pyramids in Egypt which were built by slaves for a certain leader.\r\n\r\nFilipinos build something beyond themselves.\r\n\r\nAs a nation, we have our own share of many firsts. We built the first airport and operated Philippine Airlines, the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia. It was built in 1941.\r\n\r\nWe built the first metro railway system in Southeast Asia in 1891. Thanks to King Alfonso XII of Spain, a European, for his support.\r\n\r\nSo you may be asking, despite our firsts, why is the Philippines trailing behind many other Asian nations today?\r\n\r\nWell, we got tired of being the first. So we took a rest up to this day. But we are aware that Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos are catching up and might overtake us soon. We are not alarmed.\r\n\r\nWe appreciate small joys. We love small things. We are physically small people. Maybe we think small as well.\r\n\r\nMaybe that explains why it’s only prevalent in the Philippines that we have a very small version of supermarket called sari-sari store or in your language, variety store, where you can buy anything like beer, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, bread, biscuits, chips, diaper, napkins and panty liners. One small store with everything you need.\r\n\r\nIt’s only in the Philippines that you can buy a shampoo as small as your lighter and buy a single piece of cigarette without complaint from the seller.\r\n\r\nBe that as it may, we are creative people. When you give a German a one-to-five step-by-step instruction, I think Germans would do exactly as instructed.\r\n\r\nWhen you give Filipinos the same set of instructions, we will add step 1.1 to step 1 or step 2.1.a after step number 2. We don’t really ruin the process, but sure we add more years for the project to be completed.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of projects, our politicians construct roads that can only last for three years or equivalent to their term of office so that their re-election promise is now, if you elect me once again, I promise to repair those roads.\r\n\r\nWe are dreamers. We just forgot to wake up and build the dream.\r\n\r\nFrench kiss. Well, growing up, I really didn’t know about it. I only heard it and read about it. I always wonder what French kiss means and how it is done.\r\n\r\nWhen I was in college, I thought you’ll need a French lady to have a French kiss. So I waited for many years. She didn’t come so I ended up eating French fries instead.\r\n\r\nI don’t know how sensational French kiss could be. No idea. But hey all I know is we beat the French people on the number of couples kissing on valentines day according to Guiness.\r\n\r\nWe also broke the record held by Chile and Hungary. We call it Lovapalooza, a traditional Filipino Valentine\'s Day celebration that first bid to claim the Guiness World Record for the Most Number of Simultaneously Kissing Couples for 10 seconds in 2007.\r\n\r\nIn the news this week, one city government is trying to pass a local law that prohibits a citizen from owning more than three cats and dogs. I wonder why they have to do that. are they mad about the cats and dogs?\r\n\r\nThen i realized, maybe because they can’t control human population so they settled on controlling what they can—animal population. Anyway, cats and dogs don’t vote.\r\n\r\nWe are very sweet people. Perhaps that’s why some European retirees retire in the Philippines and maybe get Filipina as a partner. We are so sweet. In fact, many Filipinos have diabetes. Mainly, it\'s unlimited rice promo\'s fault.\r\n\r\nBut another reason why many people choose the Philippines as a retiring destination is because naturally, we are caring people. We have a lot of caregivers and nurses around the world.\r\n\r\nWe are natural magicians. The Philippines has one of the highest tax rates in Asia and we collect billions of pesos from tax payers annually.\r\n\r\nBut we really don’t know where the money goes after we pay. As a magician, we can make money disappear in less than a year and elect in the following election the same set of politicians who made it disappear.\r\n\r\nOur greatest business is export business. We export our people. We export our talents. Our education system is carefully and effectively designed to prepare our citizens to work in other countries and enrich other nations. That is so sweet as well.\r\n\r\nWe have the best beaches in the world. Many white people go in Boracay for tanning. They literally stay under the sun for long hours just to look tan.\r\n\r\nBut when we Filipinos see you do that, we thouht it’s cool. We thought it’s the trend. We thought it’s new. So we also stay under the sun and our brown skin becomes dark brown. At night, you can’t see us anymore.\r\n\r\nOn a serious note, as a motivational stand up comedian and inspirational author, I always feel for the people. I guess as business leaders, while we strive to stay relevant to the market that we serve, we also must strive to reach out and genuinely help our people in their personal development.\r\n\r\nIt’s not enough that we give them jobs. Let us give them time and attention. Maybe that’s what they need more than the competitive compensation and benefit packages that we give to them.\r\n\r\nFinally, there are three important things that I learned in my life. You don’t have to believe them but at least hear them.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to be happy or to be kind, choose to be kind. Happy people are not always kind but kind people are generally happy.\r\n\r\nBe kind.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to have hope or to have faith, choose to have faith. Hope waits for a defining moment to come when faith has already defined your defining moment.\r\n\r\nKeep the faith.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to succeed or to love, choose love. For it is only in the magical expression of love that real success is made and found.\r\n\r\nAlways stay in love.\r\n\r\nLife won’t guarantee us of anything but if we would just be kind to one another, if we would just keep the faith in who we are, and if we would just fall in love on what we do best over and over again, amazing things would always come our way.\r\n\r\nWhat people always say about businessmen is it’s always business as usual for us. We make more money and we give very little to others. We are so focused on the profit. We always consider our bottome line.\r\n\r\nWell, I don’t have any joke for that. I’m just letting you know what they say.\r\n\r\nUp to this point, I still don’t know the topic I am going to speak about. But I don’t think it still matters because I think I have said everything I needed to say—enough message for me to collect my professional speaking fee.\r\n\r\nI am honored to speak to you tonight. Thank you and may God bless you all.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_35764\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"450\"]<a class=\"dt-single-image\" href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/11100808_10205629591833669_8079801672114448772_n.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"After a hit prepared motivational stand up comedy speech, buffet dinner and unlimited red wine and of course company of new-found friends, CEOs of some of the biggest forwarding companies in Europe and Asia. 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(35767, 1, '2015-04-17 22:06:33', '2015-04-17 14:06:33', '[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][vc_column_text]<b>NO TOPIC JUST FUN</b>\r\n\r\n<strong>Speech delivered by LLOYD LUNA during the 2015 convention of Europe Asia Alliance in Shangri-la’s Mactan Resort and Spa, Cebu City on April 16, 2015 at 7:00 PM</strong>\r\n\r\nThank you. Thank you to those who clapped their hands. Actually, I am expecting a louder round of applause. Thank you.\r\n\r\nDirectors, organizers, guests, people from Europe, people from Asia, people from \"The Alliance\", and people who were not invited but are here anyway:\r\n\r\nGood evening, Buenas noches, Bonsoir, Buonasera, Guten abend, Wǎnshàng hǎo, Selamat petang, Selamat Malam, Chào buổi tối, S̄wạs̄dī, Magandang gabi po.\r\n\r\nWow. Let me start by saying that I think the world is about to end. Having a small guy like me speak in this highly celebrated event with the people of your reputation is a signal that we are getting closer to the destruction of the world.\r\n\r\nSeriously, inviting a 32-year-old author such as my self means there is something terribly wrong in the this world. When I got your invitation, I immediately asked, \"Why would you invite someone like me?\" \"Why me?\"\r\n\r\nThere are many more speakers out there who are more qualified to speak. More intelligent than me. More deserving than me. More educated than me. Richer than me. Taller than me. Maybe more goodlooking than me.\r\n\r\nBut on second thought, I also asked, \"Why not me?\"\r\n\r\nReally, here’s how I feel now. I feel I don’t deserve to stand here in front of you. But I don’t think I can stand at the back while giving this speech so I guess I have to stay here in front.\r\n\r\nJust to let you know, I am also a comedian so just a fair warning: I mean no offense to anyone. Please don’t take me so seriously tonight. Because seriously, I’m kidding.\r\n\r\nBesides, on this kind of ocassion, most people including my self are guilty of remembering only one thing from the speaker in any given seminar: Thank you. So my motivational message for tonight: Thank you.\r\n\r\nTo those who would like me to continue, another round of applause please. To those who want me to go out now, round of applause please.\r\n\r\nOk then. Let’s just enjoy the night, shall we? This will be short. So please relax. This speech is only about 200 pages. It\'s brief.\r\n\r\nI was not given a particular topic to talk about. The organizers are kind and trusting enough to give me a freehand to speak on any topic I wish. So tonight, the title of my speech is \"No topic, just fun.\" So i can’t promise that you’ll learn anything from me tonight.\r\n\r\nBy the way, I am so excited to see you and share some of my thoughts with you. I thought I needed to make some deep and substantial research about your organization, EAA, which means European Athletic Association.\r\n\r\nOh, you are not an athletic association? Who is in the wrong seminar then? Is it me or you?\r\n\r\nOk, EAA, otherwise known as the great Europe Asia Alliance, formed in 2007 to offer importers and exporters the advantages of the multi-national corporations with the expertise that can be found only in a locally owned and operated business. you have a network of offices strategically positioned in virtually every angle of Europe and Asia, giving you the advantage of being able to offer your clients a comprehensive service.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t make that up. I got it from your website.\r\n\r\nSeriously I worked long and hard for this talk. On my way going here from Manila while in the airplane this morning, I prepared this speech.\r\n\r\nThis speech is especially made from 35,000 feet above sea level.\r\n\r\nToday, many industries are trying their very best to stay alive and stay relevant. For example, in the Philippines, we used to have a very active and lucrative business in textile industry. But since the entry of international brands such as Uniqlo and H&amp;M, our local brands started to struggle.\r\n\r\nThese international brands sell their goods at a local price. People have lost their appetite on local brands and found an overwhelming desire on global brands.\r\n\r\nOur once active manufacturing industry is now a sunset industry. Many are getting ready for their brands funeral.\r\n\r\nBut yours is an industry that will never die and will always be where the sun rises. It will never be a sunset industry. It will never ever go back in time. It will never rewind because your business is always forwarding.\r\n\r\nI always wonder what people in the forwarding business do and what kind of people they are. Are they cool? Are they strict? Are they disciplinarian? Are they serious? How do they do what they do?\r\n\r\nSo I opened my browser and here’s what I discovered about you.\r\n\r\n(Play the video)\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/WEvG9NSvPNU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\nI realized that you are also a human being, capable of falling when you get dizzy, going towards a wrong direction no matter how well you know where the right direction is, and getting up to finish the game you started.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of work, the Philippines’ biggest business is politics and entertainment. As a television host myself, i should know how huge these two businesses are.\r\n\r\nThe reason perhaps is because the Philippines is a family-oriented nation. We don’t leave a family member behind.\r\n\r\nThat’s why we elected a vice president whose wife was a former city mayor, their eldest daughter is a now senator, their son is a mayor, and another daughter is a congresswoman.\r\n\r\nThe Philippines is a family corporation but our bureau of customs is probably another family. No offense but I heard they have their own language there. I didn’t know their language so back in 2012, my shipment worth 1.5 million pesos never made it out.\r\n\r\nThank you for your sympathy but I have moved on.\r\n\r\nAs Filipinos, you know we are very kind people. We are hospitable. We are great entertainers. We are happy people. We are easy to get along with. We are very friendly.\r\n\r\nBut we were not as friendly as before. We killed nearly every one who tried to conquer our nation. We are friendly. But we can kill. So, friendly killers.\r\n\r\nWe are now a free nation. Back then, we were under a dictatorship. In 1986, democracy was restored. Since then, Filipinos got the freedom to do everything they like.\r\n\r\nFor example, in Singapore, you’ll feel bad and somehow ashamed of your self when you cross the street without using pedestrian lanes.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, you’ll feel bad and ashamed of your self when you use pedestrian lanes because everybody else cross anywhere they like. Pedestrian lanes are not part of the traffic system. It is an art we paint on our roads.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, we have high regards on the environment so we treat almost every place as a park. Yes, including our work places. Everyday for us is a walk in the park. That said, we don’t walk fast. We don\'t glide. We always take our time so we walk slowly.\r\n\r\nEscalators in Singapore operate four times faster than our escalators because probably Singaporeans believe that, \"It’s better never late.\" We, on the other hand, believe that, \"It’s better late than never.\"\r\n\r\nBut we are natural visionaries. When you give us a work assignment, don’t expect us to finish it on the day. Just like many other people around the world, procrastination is our specialty. We are visionaries. Our vision is always set on tomorrow. So tomorrow, we will do our work assignment.\r\n\r\nWe are too focused on the future that we forget today\'s deadline.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of time, Europeans and other people in the West are always specific and mindful of their appointments and meeting schedules. There’s no gray area. It’s just black and white.\r\n\r\nOur sense of time in this part of the world is kinda different. For example, when you ask a European, \"Where and what time are we meeting tomorrow?\" They would answer this way: I will see you at 3PM in Starbucks.\r\n\r\nYou will find it strange in the Philippines. When you ask me the same question, my answer would be, \"After lunch in a coffee shop inside the mall.\"\r\n\r\nWhat time? After lunch. Where? Somewhere out there.\r\n\r\nOnce inside the coffee shop, you probably would ask me: Have you eaten yet? I would answer this way: It’s ok. I’m still full.\r\n\r\nClearly, we don’t answer your question. Or maybe, we give you an answer that is more than what your question can take.\r\n\r\nBut going back in the old days, you will realize that we are indeed a great nation with great people situated in a greatly strategic part of the pacific, perhaps the reason why many nations express their interest a certain group of islands.\r\n\r\nIt is only in this part of the globe where you can see a group of islands called in many different names based on who is talking.\r\n\r\nSpratly is located in South China Sea which is the same as West Philippine Sea, under the economic zone of Brunei, in the state of Sabah, Malaysia, which is a municipality of the Philippines and taiwan, in the district of Vietnam.\r\n\r\nBut the disputed group of islands is so strategically positioned that whoever got it would get the best place to set up a missile system.\r\n\r\nBut we are a great nation. Two thousand years ago, we built one of the seven wonders of the world known as Banaue Rice Terraces. how do you keep the water from draining in the mountain?\r\n\r\nModesty aside, two thousand years ago, while Jesus was walking in Jerusalem, we already knew hydraulics technology.\r\n\r\nBut the same wonder of the world would give us an idea that Filipinos are natural visionary.\r\n\r\nWe built the rice terraces not only for the present generation at the time, but we built it with the future generation in mind. We build something today that our future generation would benefit from.\r\n\r\nBut back in those days, we were not huge fans of leadership by patronage. Our concept of leadership then was, leaders don’t take credit for the team’s achievement.\r\n\r\nOur leaders in the old times don’t put their name on what they have accomplished. That’s why we would never know who led the creation of the rice terraces.\r\n\r\nBack then, it was about leading without names. Today, it’s about names without leading.\r\n\r\nEvery name, every face, every mark of a politician is printed on every project they do for the people who are paying for their salary as well as the project that they build for the people.\r\n\r\nBy the way, the Banaue Rice Terraces was built by free people dedicated for the future generation unlike the pyramids in Egypt which were built by slaves for a certain leader.\r\n\r\nFilipinos build something beyond themselves.\r\n\r\nAs a nation, we have our own share of many firsts. We built the first airport and operated Philippine Airlines, the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia. It was built in 1941.\r\n\r\nWe built the first metro railway system in Southeast Asia in 1891. Thanks to King Alfonso XII of Spain, a European, for his support.\r\n\r\nSo you may be asking, despite our firsts, why is the Philippines trailing behind many other Asian nations today?\r\n\r\nWell, we got tired of being the first. So we took a rest up to this day. But we are aware that Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos are catching up and might overtake us soon. We are not alarmed.\r\n\r\nWe appreciate small joys. We love small things. We are physically small people. Maybe we think small as well.\r\n\r\nMaybe that explains why it’s only prevalent in the Philippines that we have a very small version of supermarket called sari-sari store or in your language, variety store, where you can buy anything like beer, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, bread, biscuits, chips, diaper, napkins and panty liners. One small store with everything you need.\r\n\r\nIt’s only in the Philippines that you can buy a shampoo as small as your lighter and buy a single piece of cigarette without complaint from the seller.\r\n\r\nBe that as it may, we are creative people. When you give a German a one-to-five step-by-step instruction, I think Germans would do exactly as instructed.\r\n\r\nWhen you give Filipinos the same set of instructions, we will add step 1.1 to step 1 or step 2.1.a after step number 2. We don’t really ruin the process, but sure we add more years for the project to be completed.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of projects, our politicians construct roads that can only last for three years or equivalent to their term of office so that their re-election promise is now, if you elect me once again, I promise to repair those roads.\r\n\r\nWe are dreamers. We just forgot to wake up and build the dream.\r\n\r\nFrench kiss. Well, growing up, I really didn’t know about it. I only heard it and read about it. I always wonder what French kiss means and how it is done.\r\n\r\nWhen I was in college, I thought you’ll need a French lady to have a French kiss. So I waited for many years. She didn’t come so I ended up eating French fries instead.\r\n\r\nI don’t know how sensational French kiss could be. No idea. But hey all I know is we beat the French people on the number of couples kissing on valentines day according to Guiness.\r\n\r\nWe also broke the record held by Chile and Hungary. We call it Lovapalooza, a traditional Filipino Valentine\'s Day celebration that first bid to claim the Guiness World Record for the Most Number of Simultaneously Kissing Couples for 10 seconds in 2007.\r\n\r\nIn the news this week, one city government is trying to pass a local law that prohibits a citizen from owning more than three cats and dogs. I wonder why they have to do that. are they mad about the cats and dogs?\r\n\r\nThen i realized, maybe because they can’t control human population so they settled on controlling what they can—animal population. Anyway, cats and dogs don’t vote.\r\n\r\nWe are very sweet people. Perhaps that’s why some European retirees retire in the Philippines and maybe get Filipina as a partner. We are so sweet. In fact, many Filipinos have diabetes. Mainly, it\'s unlimited rice promo\'s fault.\r\n\r\nBut another reason why many people choose the Philippines as a retiring destination is because naturally, we are caring people. We have a lot of caregivers and nurses around the world.\r\n\r\nWe are natural magicians. The Philippines has one of the highest tax rates in Asia and we collect billions of pesos from tax payers annually.\r\n\r\nBut we really don’t know where the money goes after we pay. As a magician, we can make money disappear in less than a year and elect in the following election the same set of politicians who made it disappear.\r\n\r\nOur greatest business is export business. We export our people. We export our talents. Our education system is carefully and effectively designed to prepare our citizens to work in other countries and enrich other nations. That is so sweet as well.\r\n\r\nWe have the best beaches in the world. Many white people go in Boracay for tanning. They literally stay under the sun for long hours just to look tan.\r\n\r\nBut when we Filipinos see you do that, we thouht it’s cool. We thought it’s the trend. We thought it’s new. So we also stay under the sun and our brown skin becomes dark brown. At night, you can’t see us anymore.\r\n\r\nOn a serious note, as a motivational stand up comedian and inspirational author, I always feel for the people. I guess as business leaders, while we strive to stay relevant to the market that we serve, we also must strive to reach out and genuinely help our people in their personal development.\r\n\r\nIt’s not enough that we give them jobs. Let us give them time and attention. Maybe that’s what they need more than the competitive compensation and benefit packages that we give to them.\r\n\r\nFinally, there are three important things that I learned in my life. You don’t have to believe them but at least hear them.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to be happy or to be kind, choose to be kind. Happy people are not always kind but kind people are generally happy.\r\n\r\nBe kind.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to have hope or to have faith, choose to have faith. Hope waits for a defining moment to come when faith has already defined your defining moment.\r\n\r\nKeep the faith.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to succeed or to love, choose love. For it is only in the magical expression of love that real success is made and found.\r\n\r\nAlways stay in love.\r\n\r\nLife won’t guarantee us of anything but if we would just be kind to one another, if we would just keep the faith in who we are, and if we would just fall in love on what we do best over and over again, amazing things would always come our way.\r\n\r\nWhat people always say about businessmen is it’s always business as usual for us. We make more money and we give very little to others. We are so focused on the profit. We always consider our bottome line.\r\n\r\nWell, I don’t have any joke for that. I’m just letting you know what they say.\r\n\r\nUp to this point, I still don’t know the topic I am going to speak about. But I don’t think it still matters because I think I have said everything I needed to say—enough message for me to collect my professional speaking fee.\r\n\r\nI am honored to speak to you tonight. Thank you and may God bless you all.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_35764\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"400\"]<a class=\"dt-single-image\" href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/11100808_10205629591833669_8079801672114448772_n.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"After a hit prepared motivational stand up comedy speech, buffet dinner and unlimited red wine and of course company of new-found friends, CEOs of some of the biggest forwarding companies in Europe and Asia. 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(35768, 1, '2015-04-17 22:12:35', '2015-04-17 14:12:35', '[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][vc_column_text]<b>NO TOPIC JUST FUN</b>\r\n\r\n<strong>Speech delivered by LLOYD LUNA during the 2015 convention of Europe Asia Alliance in Shangri-la’s Mactan Resort and Spa, Cebu City on April 16, 2015 at 7:00 PM</strong>\r\n\r\nThank you. Thank you to those who clapped their hands. Actually, I am expecting a louder round of applause. Thank you.\r\n\r\nDirectors, organizers, guests, people from Europe, people from Asia, people from \"The Alliance\", and people who were not invited but are here anyway:\r\n\r\nGood evening, Buenas noches, Bonsoir, Buonasera, Guten abend, Wǎnshàng hǎo, Selamat petang, Selamat Malam, Chào buổi tối, S̄wạs̄dī, Magandang gabi po.\r\n\r\nWow. Let me start by saying that I think the world is about to end. Having a small guy like me speak in this highly celebrated event with the people of your reputation is a signal that we are getting closer to the destruction of the world.\r\n\r\nSeriously, inviting a 32-year-old author such as my self means there is something terribly wrong in the this world. When I got your invitation, I immediately asked, \"Why would you invite someone like me?\" \"Why me?\"\r\n\r\nThere are many more speakers out there who are more qualified to speak. More intelligent than me. More deserving than me. More educated than me. Richer than me. Taller than me. Maybe more goodlooking than me.\r\n\r\nBut on second thought, I also asked, \"Why not me?\"\r\n\r\nReally, here’s how I feel now. I feel I don’t deserve to stand here in front of you. But I don’t think I can stand at the back while giving this speech so I guess I have to stay here in front.\r\n\r\nJust to let you know, I am also a comedian so just a fair warning: I mean no offense to anyone. Please don’t take me so seriously tonight. Because seriously, I’m kidding.\r\n\r\nBesides, on this kind of ocassion, most people including my self are guilty of remembering only one thing from the speaker in any given seminar: Thank you. So my motivational message for tonight: Thank you.\r\n\r\nTo those who would like me to continue, another round of applause please. To those who want me to go out now, round of applause please.\r\n\r\nOk then. Let’s just enjoy the night, shall we? This will be short. So please relax. This speech is only about 200 pages. It\'s brief.\r\n\r\nI was not given a particular topic to talk about. The organizers are kind and trusting enough to give me a freehand to speak on any topic I wish. So tonight, the title of my speech is \"No topic, just fun.\" So i can’t promise that you’ll learn anything from me tonight.\r\n\r\nBy the way, I am so excited to see you and share some of my thoughts with you. I thought I needed to make some deep and substantial research about your organization, EAA, which means European Athletic Association.\r\n\r\nOh, you are not an athletic association? Who is in the wrong seminar then? Is it me or you?\r\n\r\nOk, EAA, otherwise known as the great Europe Asia Alliance, formed in 2007 to offer importers and exporters the advantages of the multi-national corporations with the expertise that can be found only in a locally owned and operated business. you have a network of offices strategically positioned in virtually every angle of Europe and Asia, giving you the advantage of being able to offer your clients a comprehensive service.\r\n\r\nI didn\'t make that up. I got it from your website.\r\n\r\nSeriously I worked long and hard for this talk. On my way going here from Manila while in the airplane this morning, I prepared this speech.\r\n\r\nThis speech is especially made from 35,000 feet above sea level.\r\n\r\nToday, many industries are trying their very best to stay alive and stay relevant. For example, in the Philippines, we used to have a very active and lucrative business in textile industry. But since the entry of international brands such as Uniqlo and H&amp;M, our local brands started to struggle.\r\n\r\nThese international brands sell their goods at a local price. People have lost their appetite on local brands and found an overwhelming desire on global brands.\r\n\r\nOur once active manufacturing industry is now a sunset industry. Many are getting ready for their brands funeral.\r\n\r\nBut yours is an industry that will never die and will always be where the sun rises. It will never be a sunset industry. It will never ever go back in time. It will never rewind because your business is always forwarding.\r\n\r\nI always wonder what people in the forwarding business do and what kind of people they are. Are they cool? Are they strict? Are they disciplinarian? Are they serious? How do they do what they do?\r\n\r\nSo I opened my browser and here’s what I discovered about you.\r\n\r\n(Play the video)\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/WEvG9NSvPNU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe>\r\n\r\nI realized that you are also a human being, capable of falling when you get dizzy, going towards a wrong direction no matter how well you know where the right direction is, and getting up to finish the game you started.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of work, the Philippines’ biggest business is politics and entertainment. As a television host myself, i should know how huge these two businesses are.\r\n\r\nThe reason perhaps is because the Philippines is a family-oriented nation. We don’t leave a family member behind.\r\n\r\nThat’s why we elected a vice president whose wife was a former city mayor, their eldest daughter is a now senator, their son is a mayor, and another daughter is a congresswoman.\r\n\r\nThe Philippines is a family corporation but our bureau of customs is probably another family. No offense but I heard they have their own language there. I didn’t know their language so back in 2012, my shipment worth 1.5 million pesos never made it out.\r\n\r\nThank you for your sympathy but I have moved on.\r\n\r\nAs Filipinos, you know we are very kind people. We are hospitable. We are great entertainers. We are happy people. We are easy to get along with. We are very friendly.\r\n\r\nBut we were not as friendly as before. We killed nearly every one who tried to conquer our nation. We are friendly. But we can kill. So, friendly killers.\r\n\r\nWe are now a free nation. Back then, we were under a dictatorship. In 1986, democracy was restored. Since then, Filipinos got the freedom to do everything they like.\r\n\r\nFor example, in Singapore, you’ll feel bad and somehow ashamed of your self when you cross the street without using pedestrian lanes.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, you’ll feel bad and ashamed of your self when you use pedestrian lanes because everybody else cross anywhere they like. Pedestrian lanes are not part of the traffic system. It is an art we paint on our roads.\r\n\r\nIn the Philippines, we have high regards on the environment so we treat almost every place as a park. Yes, including our work places. Everyday for us is a walk in the park. That said, we don’t walk fast. We don\'t glide. We always take our time so we walk slowly.\r\n\r\nEscalators in Singapore operate four times faster than our escalators because probably Singaporeans believe that, \"It’s better never late.\" We, on the other hand, believe that, \"It’s better late than never.\"\r\n\r\nBut we are natural visionaries. When you give us a work assignment, don’t expect us to finish it on the day. Just like many other people around the world, procrastination is our specialty. We are visionaries. Our vision is always set on tomorrow. So tomorrow, we will do our work assignment.\r\n\r\nWe are too focused on the future that we forget today\'s deadline.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of time, Europeans and other people in the West are always specific and mindful of their appointments and meeting schedules. There’s no gray area. It’s just black and white.\r\n\r\nOur sense of time in this part of the world is kinda different. For example, when you ask a European, \"Where and what time are we meeting tomorrow?\" They would answer this way: I will see you at 3PM in Starbucks.\r\n\r\nYou will find it strange in the Philippines. When you ask me the same question, my answer would be, \"After lunch in a coffee shop inside the mall.\"\r\n\r\nWhat time? After lunch. Where? Somewhere out there.\r\n\r\nOnce inside the coffee shop, you probably would ask me: Have you eaten yet? I would answer this way: It’s ok. I’m still full.\r\n\r\nClearly, we don’t answer your question. Or maybe, we give you an answer that is more than what your question can take.\r\n\r\nBut going back in the old days, you will realize that we are indeed a great nation with great people situated in a greatly strategic part of the pacific, perhaps the reason why many nations express their interest a certain group of islands.\r\n\r\nIt is only in this part of the globe where you can see a group of islands called in many different names based on who is talking.\r\n\r\nSpratly is located in South China Sea which is the same as West Philippine Sea, under the economic zone of Brunei, in the state of Sabah, Malaysia, which is a municipality of the Philippines and taiwan, in the district of Vietnam.\r\n\r\nBut the disputed group of islands is so strategically positioned that whoever got it would get the best place to set up a missile system.\r\n\r\nBut we are a great nation. Two thousand years ago, we built one of the seven wonders of the world known as Banaue Rice Terraces. how do you keep the water from draining in the mountain?\r\n\r\nModesty aside, two thousand years ago, while Jesus was walking in Jerusalem, we already knew hydraulics technology.\r\n\r\nBut the same wonder of the world would give us an idea that Filipinos are natural visionary.\r\n\r\nWe built the rice terraces not only for the present generation at the time, but we built it with the future generation in mind. We build something today that our future generation would benefit from.\r\n\r\nBut back in those days, we were not huge fans of leadership by patronage. Our concept of leadership then was, leaders don’t take credit for the team’s achievement.\r\n\r\nOur leaders in the old times don’t put their name on what they have accomplished. That’s why we would never know who led the creation of the rice terraces.\r\n\r\nBack then, it was about leading without names. Today, it’s about names without leading.\r\n\r\nEvery name, every face, every mark of a politician is printed on every project they do for the people who are paying for their salary as well as the project that they build for the people.\r\n\r\nBy the way, the Banaue Rice Terraces was built by free people dedicated for the future generation unlike the pyramids in Egypt which were built by slaves for a certain leader.\r\n\r\nFilipinos build something beyond themselves.\r\n\r\nAs a nation, we have our own share of many firsts. We built the first airport and operated Philippine Airlines, the first and oldest commercial airline in Asia. It was built in 1941.\r\n\r\nWe built the first metro railway system in Southeast Asia in 1891. Thanks to King Alfonso XII of Spain, a European, for his support.\r\n\r\nSo you may be asking, despite our firsts, why is the Philippines trailing behind many other Asian nations today?\r\n\r\nWell, we got tired of being the first. So we took a rest up to this day. But we are aware that Vietnam, Cambodia, Myanmar and Laos are catching up and might overtake us soon. We are not alarmed.\r\n\r\nWe appreciate small joys. We love small things. We are physically small people. Maybe we think small as well.\r\n\r\nMaybe that explains why it’s only prevalent in the Philippines that we have a very small version of supermarket called sari-sari store or in your language, variety store, where you can buy anything like beer, sugar, vinegar, soy sauce, bread, biscuits, chips, diaper, napkins and panty liners. One small store with everything you need.\r\n\r\nIt’s only in the Philippines that you can buy a shampoo as small as your lighter and buy a single piece of cigarette without complaint from the seller.\r\n\r\nBe that as it may, we are creative people. When you give a German a one-to-five step-by-step instruction, I think Germans would do exactly as instructed.\r\n\r\nWhen you give Filipinos the same set of instructions, we will add step 1.1 to step 1 or step 2.1.a after step number 2. We don’t really ruin the process, but sure we add more years for the project to be completed.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of projects, our politicians construct roads that can only last for three years or equivalent to their term of office so that their re-election promise is now, \"If you elect me once again, I promise to repair those roads.\"\r\n\r\nWe are dreamers. We just forgot to wake up and build the dream.\r\n\r\nFrench kiss. Well, growing up, I really didn’t know about it. I only heard it and read about it. I always wonder what French kiss means and how it is done.\r\n\r\nWhen I was in college, I thought you’ll need a French lady to have a French kiss. So I waited for many years. She didn’t come so I ended up eating French fries instead.\r\n\r\nI don’t know how sensational French kiss could be. No idea. But hey all I know is we beat the French people on the number of couples kissing on valentines day according to Guiness.\r\n\r\nWe also broke the record held by Chile and Hungary. We call it Lovapalooza, a traditional Filipino Valentine\'s Day celebration that first bid to claim the Guiness World Record for the Most Number of Simultaneously Kissing Couples for 10 seconds in 2007.\r\n\r\nIn the news this week, one city government is trying to pass a local law that prohibits a citizen from owning more than three cats and dogs. I wonder why they have to do that. are they mad about the cats and dogs?\r\n\r\nThen I realized, maybe because they can’t control human population so they settled on controlling what they can—animal population. Anyway, cats and dogs don’t vote.\r\n\r\nWe are very sweet people. Perhaps that’s why some European retirees retire in the Philippines and maybe get Filipina as a partner. We are so sweet. In fact, many Filipinos have diabetes. Mainly, it\'s unlimited rice promo\'s fault.\r\n\r\nBut another reason why many people choose the Philippines as a retiring destination is because naturally, we are caring people. We have a lot of caregivers and nurses around the world.\r\n\r\nWe are natural magicians. The Philippines has one of the highest tax rates in Asia and we collect billions of pesos from tax payers annually. But we really don’t know where the money goes after we pay.\r\n\r\nAs a magician, we can make money disappear in less than a year and elect in the following election the same set of politicians who made it disappear.\r\n\r\nOur greatest business is export business. We export our people. We export our talents. Our education system is carefully and effectively designed to prepare our citizens to work in other countries and enrich other nations. That is so sweet as well.\r\n\r\nWe have the best beaches in the world. Many white people go in Boracay for tanning. They literally stay under the sun for long hours just to look tan.\r\n\r\nBut when we Filipinos see you do that, we thouht it’s cool. We thought it’s the trend. We thought it’s new. So we also stay under the sun and our brown skin becomes dark brown. At night, you can’t see us anymore.\r\n\r\nOn a serious note, as a motivational stand up comedian and inspirational author, I always feel for the people. I guess as business leaders, while we strive to stay relevant to the market that we serve, we also must strive to reach out and genuinely help our people in their personal development.\r\n\r\nIt’s not enough that we give them jobs. Let us give them time and attention. Maybe that’s what they need more than the competitive compensation and benefit packages that we give to them.\r\n\r\nFinally, there are three important things that I learned in my life. You don’t have to believe them but at least hear them.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to be happy or to be kind, choose to be kind. Happy people are not always kind but kind people are generally happy.\r\n\r\nBe kind.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to have hope or to have faith, choose to have faith. Hope waits for a defining moment to come when faith has already defined your defining moment.\r\n\r\nKeep the faith.\r\n\r\nWhen stuck between choosing to succeed or to love, choose love. For it is only in the magical expression of love that real success is made and found.\r\n\r\nAlways stay in love.\r\n\r\nLife won’t guarantee us of anything but if we would just be kind to one another, if we would just keep the faith in who we are, and if we would just fall in love on what we do best over and over again, amazing things would always come our way.\r\n\r\nWhat people always say about businessmen is it’s always business as usual for us. We make more money and we give very little to others. We are so focused on the profit. We always consider our bottome line.\r\n\r\nWell, I don’t have any joke for that. I’m just letting you know what they say.\r\n\r\nUp to this point, I still don’t know the topic I am going to speak about. But I don’t think it still matters because I think I have said everything I needed to say—enough message for me to collect my professional speaking fee.\r\n\r\nI am honored to speak to you tonight. Thank you and may God bless you all.\r\n\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_35764\" align=\"alignleft\" width=\"400\"]<a class=\"dt-single-image\" href=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/11100808_10205629591833669_8079801672114448772_n.jpg\" data-dt-img-description=\"After a hit prepared motivational stand up comedy speech, buffet dinner and unlimited red wine and of course company of new-found friends, CEOs of some of the biggest forwarding companies in Europe and Asia. 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(35769, 1, '2015-04-28 12:13:34', '2015-04-28 04:13:34', '<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][vc_column_text]<b>DON’T FOLLOW YOUR DREAM</b></p>\r\n<p><b>SPEECH DELIVERED BY LLOYD LUNA DURING THE RECOGNITION DAY, MOVING UP CEREMONY AND COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES AT ST. LOUIS SCHOOL in VALENZUELA CITY, ROMINA’S HEAVENLY ANGEL MONTESSORI IN NUEVA ECIJA and JESUS IS LORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN SAN FERNANDO CITY, PAMPANGA.</b></p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>THANK YOU. MARAMING MARAMING SALAMAT PO SA LAHAT NG PUMALAKPAK. NAG-EEXPECT PO AKO NG MAS MALAKAS NA PALAKPAK NA MAY KASAMANG SIGAW NA PARA PO BANG TUWANG-TUWA KAYO NA NANDITO AKO NGAYON.</p>\r\n<p>MARAMING SALAMAT PO SA NAPAKAGANDANG INTRODUCTION. AKO PO ANG NAGSULAT NUN.</p>\r\n<p>(KAPAMPANGAN: SALAMAT PU. DAKAL PUNG SALAMAT KARENG SABLANG PINALAKPAK. MAG-EXPECT KU PUNG MAS MASIKAN A PALAKPAK NA ATING ABENG MASIKAN A GULISAKAN ITANG BALAMU SOBRA KAYU KASAYA NA ATIU KU KENI NGENI. DAKAL PUNG SALAMAT KING MASANTING A INTRODUCTION YU KAKU. AKU PU ING SINULAT KARIN. WALA PO AKONG NAINTINDIHAN SA SINABI KO.)</p>\r\n<p><iframe src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/VW9t67THvy0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"></iframe></p>\r\n<p>MADAM PRINCIPAL, TEACHERS, NON-TEACHING STAFF, PARENTS, GRANDPARENTS, GREAT GRAND PARENTS, SOON-TO-BE-PARENTS, KIDS, CHILDREN, SOON-TO-HAVE CHILDREN, GUESTS AT SA LAHAT PO NG HINDI NAMAN INIMBITA PERO NANDITO NGAYON. MAGANDANG UMAGA PO.</p>\r\n<p>AKO PO SI LLOYD LUNA AT KUNG HINDI PO NINYO AKO NAKIKILALA, OK LANG PO. WALA PONG DAHILAN PARA MAKILALA N’YO AKO. SIKAT PO AKO PERO BAKA AKO LANG ANG NAKAKAALAM. HINDI KO RIN PO KAYO KILALA KAYA IT’S A TIE.</p>\r\n<p>NANDITO PO AKO NGAYON SA DALAWANG DAHILAN. UNA, WALA PO AKO DOON. IKALAWA, IMBITADO PO AKO AT NAUTUSANG MAGSALITA. KUNG PAGKATAPOS PO NG SPEECH NA ITO AY WALA KAYONG NATUTUNAN, OK LANG PO YAN DAHIL HINDI NAMAN PO SINABI SA AKIN NA DAPAT MAY SENSE ANG SASABIHIN KO. BESIDES ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO, HINDI KO RIN PO PINAKINGGAN ANG GRADUATION SPEAKER NAMIN. PERO IN FAIRNESS, MAY DALAWANG BAGAY NAMAN PO AKONG NATANDAAN SA KANYANG SPEECH NA NAGAMIT KO PO SA AKING BUHAY: CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU.</p>\r\n<p>SO WAG NA PO NATIN PANG MATAGALIN ANG INYONG PAGHIHINTAY, ANG MESSAGE KO PO TODAY AY CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU.</p>\r\n<p>KUNG GUSTO NYO PONG ITULOY ANG AKING SPEECH, MALAKAS NA PALAKPAKAN PO ULI. LAHAT PO NG AYAW NA, MAS MALAKAS NA PALAKPAKAN.</p>\r\n<p>UNFORTUNATELY, SA AYAW AT SA GUSTO PO NINYO, KAILANGAN KONG TAPUSIN ITO DAHIL HANGGAT HINDI PO AKO TAPOS, HINDI KAYO MAKAKAPAGTAPOS AT HINDI KO RIN MAKUKUHA ANG BAYAD SA AKIN.</p>\r\n<p>HAWAK KO PO NGAYON ANG LATEST BOOK NA SINULAT KO. ANG TITLE PO AY PAANO MAGING SUCCESSFUL. SINO PO ANG MAY GUSTO NITO?</p>\r\n<p>(KAPAG MAY TUMAYO, UMAKYAT SA STAGE AT KINUHA ANG LIBRO): SINO PO ANG MAKAPAL ANG MUKHANG NAGNAKAW NG LIBRO KO?</p>\r\n<p>IF YOU WANT TO GET SOMETHING, STAND UP, LEAVE THE CROWD, PAY THE PRICE AND GET IT. AND TUNAY NA TAGUMPAY AY HINDI NADADAAN SA LAKAS NG SIGAW, PAGHINGI AT PAGHIHINTAY. ITO’Y KINUKUHA NG INYONG MGA KAMAY.</p>\r\n<p>SA MGA GANITONG OKASYON, HALOS LAHAT PO NG SPEAKER SASABIHIN SA INYO NA MANGARAP KAYO. DREAM. DREAM BIG. DREAM BIGGER. LIBRE LANG NAMAN ANG PANGARAP KAYA MANGARAP KA.</p>\r\n<p>I DON’T BELIEVE IN THAT DAHIL KUNG TOTOO PONG LIBRE ANG MANGARAP, BAKIT HINDI LAHAT NG NANGARAP AY NAABOT ANG KANILANG PANGARAP? BAKIT HANGGANG NGAYON MARAMING PANGARAP ANG NANANATILING PANGARAP? BAKIT MAY MGA TAONG KINAMATAYAN NA ANG KANILANG PANGARAP.</p>\r\n<p>SA GANITONG OKASYON, MALAMANG SASABIHIN NG SPEAKER: FOLLOW YOUR DREAM. I DON’T BELIEVE IN THAT DAHIL MARAMI NA PONG TAO ANG SINUNDAN ANG PANGARAP NILA PERO HINDI NAGTAGUMPAY DAHIL MALI PALA ANG PANGARAP NIYA. TAMA PO, MAY PANGARAP NA MALI.</p>\r\n<p>AT PAANO KUNG MALI ANG PANGARAP MO?</p>\r\n<p>SO DON’T FOLLOW YOUR DREAM. INSTEAD, FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER. NO. I MEAN FOLLOW YOUR PLAYFUL HEART.</p>\r\n<p>NUNG BATA PA PO AKO, SIGURO MGA TWO YEARS AGO, I MEAN TWO DECADES AGO, MY CHILDHOOD DREAM WAS TO BE A JEEPNEY DRIVER. GUESS WHAT. I FAILED.</p>\r\n<p>SO I CHANGED MY DREAM INTO SOMETHING ELSE. I DECIDED TO TAKE THE PATH TO PRIESTHOOD. THIS IS TRUE BECAUSE MAKIKITA NYO PO ITO SA PROPECY SECTION NG YEARBOOK NAMIN. BUT THEN I REALIZED NA NAPAKAHIRAP PO PALANG MAGING PARI KAPAG MAY HITSURA ANG ISANG TAO. SO I DID NOT PURSUE PRIESTHOOD AND THEREFORE I FAILED AGAIN.</p>\r\n<p>I LATER CHANGED MY DREAM AND DECIDED TO PURSUE MUSIC. PERO DAHIL PO HINDI NAMAN PALA KAYA NG PARENTS KO ANG TUITION SA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, I GAVE UP THAT DREAM AND CHANGED MY DREAM AGAIN.</p>\r\n<p>THIS TIME, I WANTED TO BE AN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER. BUT BECAUSE MATHEMATICS WAS, IS, AND WILL NEVER BE MY FORTE, GUESS WHAT. I FAILED AGAIN.</p>\r\n<p>I DIDN’T DREAM TO FAIL BUT STILL I FAILED. I DREAMED TO SUCCEED, BUT I FAILED.</p>\r\n<p>SO I REALIZED ONE IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE: EVEN IF YOU DON’T DREAM TO FAIL, CHANCES ARE YOU WILL FAIL AND FAILURE CAN STOP YOU FROM FINDING WHAT YOU SEEK.</p>\r\n<p>JUST AS HOW SUCCEED DEFINE SOME PEOPLE, FAILURE CAN ALSO DEFINE WHO WE ARE.</p>\r\n<p>WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE, I TOOK BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING. GUSTO KO PO BA ANG KURSO NA KINUHA KO? HINDI PO.</p>\r\n<p>TINANONG NAMAN PO AKO KUNG ANO’NG GUSTO KO. SABI PO NG KAPATID KO, “ANO’NG KUKUNIN MO SA COLLEGE? SABI KO PO, “MALIBAN SA ALLOWANCE?” WELL MASS COMMUNICATION.</p>\r\n<p>E SABI DAW PO NAPAKA-COMPETITIVE DAW PO NG KURSO NA YUN. MARAMI RAW KUMUKUHA NUN. WALA RAW PERO ROON. WALA RAW TRABAHO. MALIIT DAW ANG SAHOD.</p>\r\n<p>SABI PA NG ATE KO YATA YUN, “MAG-ISIP KA NGA. MAGPAPAKAHIRAP KA NA RIN LANG SA COLLEGE, BAKIT DI MO PA KUNIN YUNG PINAKAMAHIRAP?”</p>\r\n<p>SABI KO PO NUN, “WOW, WHAT A PIECE OF WISDOM!” NUNG NASA ENGINEERING NA PO AKO AT NAHIHIRAPAN SA KURSO KO, SABI KO, “LORD, ATE KO DAPAT ANG NANDITO E. DI BA IDEA NYA ‘TO?”</p>\r\n<p>KAPAG ANG PANGARAP PO PALA AY MALING PANGARAP, PARA KANG NASA IMPYERNO. SINO PO SA INYO ANG NAKARATING NA SA IMPIYERNO, I MEAN NAKARANAS NA NG BUHAY NA PARANG NASA IMPIYERNO?</p>\r\n<p>HINDI PO LAHAT NG PANGARAP AY TAMANG PANGARAP.</p>\r\n<p>PERO BUTI NA LANG PO NABABAGO ANG PANGARAP. KUNG HINDI PO NABABAGO ANG PANGARAP, MALAMANG JEEPNEY DRIVER NA PO AKO NGAYON AT DUMATING AKO RITO SA SCHOOL NYO DALA ANG JEEP KO AT PAPASADA PA AKO PAGKATAPOS KONG MAGSALITA RITO.</p>\r\n<p>PERO BUTI NA LANG PO NABABAGO ANG PANGARAP. KUNG HINDI, MALAMANG NAGING PARI AKO AT HINDI LALAGANAP ANG NAPAKAGANDANG LAHING ITO.</p>\r\n<p>PERO BUTI NA LANG PO NABABAGO ANG PANGARAP. KUNG HINDI, HINDI PO GWAPO ANG COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER NINYO NGAYON.</p>\r\n<p>SO DON’T FOLLOW YOUR DREAM. FOLLOW YOUR PLAYFUL HEART.</p>\r\n<p>MARAMI PONG SPEAKER ANG SINASABI SA MGA GANITONG OKASYON AY “DON’T GIVE UP.” WAG KANG SUSUKO. LABAN LANG NANG LABAN. WINNERS DON’T QUIT.</p>\r\n<p>TODAY, ANG ADVICE KO PO SA INYO KUNG GUSTO NYONG MAGING MADALI ANG BUHAY NYO, “GIVE UP.” PARA TAPOS NA. PERO BAKIT KAILANGANG MAG-GIVE UP?</p>\r\n<p>DAHIL KUNG GUSTO MONG MAG-LEVEL UP, YOU NEED TO GIVE UP.</p>\r\n<p>NAGTAGUMPAY PO AKO NUNG COLLEGE BECAUSE BACK IN THE DAYS, I BELIEVED IN TEAM WORK. I BELIEVED THAT TOGETHER WE PASS, DIVIDED WE FAIL. I BELIEVED IN SHARING. I BELIEVED IN WORKING TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE A COMMON OBJECTIVE WE NOW KNOW AS PASSING.</p>\r\n<p>BUT I ALSO BELIEVED IN FAITH. I BELIEVED IN PRAYER. “LORD, SHOW ME THE ANSWER.” MABAIT ANG PANGINOON. DAHIL KAPAG MAY TANONG KA SA BUHAY MO, ANG SAGOT AY NASA PALIGID MO LANG. KAILANGAN MO LANG BUKSAN ANG IYONG MGA MATA DAHIL THE ANSWER IS JUST AROUND.</p>\r\n<p>PERO HINDI LANG MABAIT ANG PANGINOON. MATALINO RIN SIYA DAHIL HINDI LAHAT NG BINIGAY NYANG SAGOT AY TAMANG SAGOT. KAPAG NASA KANAN MO LETTER B AT ANG NASA KALIWA MO LETTER A, NALINTIKAN NA. CONFUSED KA NA. DASAL KA NA NAMAN.</p>\r\n<p>SO ANO’NG ISASAGOT MO? LETTER C? BOBO. PAANO KUNG MALI YUNG LETTER C? E DI MAG-ISA KA LANG. SA PANAHON NGAYON, MAHIRAP BUMAGSAK NANG MAG-ISA KA LANG KAYA KUNG BABAGSAK KA, MAS MAGANDA KUNG MAY KASAMA KA.</p>\r\n<p>ANG PROBLEMA KO SA MARAMING TAO, KAPAG SILA AY NALILITO, ANG GINAGAWA NILA AY MANGHULA SA HALIP NA MAGTANONG. HINDI DAPAT GANUN. KAPAG MAY HINDI KA ALAM, WAG KANG MANGHULA. MAGTANONG KA.</p>\r\n<p>SABI KO SA KATABI KO SA KANAN, “PARE BAKIT B YAN?” SABI NIYA, “YAN ANG LUMABAS SA COMPUTATION KO.” SABI KO, “LETTER A YUNG SA KALIWA KO. REVIEW MO NGA YAN.”</p>\r\n<p>NIREVIEW NAMAN. AT ANG SAGOT NGA E DAPAT A. MUNTIK NA SANA AKONG PUMASA KASO MALI YUNG LETTER A. AYUN, TATLO KAMING BAGSAK. MASAYA DI BA?</p>\r\n<p>TINIGILAN KO NA PO ANG PANGONGOPYA. I GIVE UP. PWEDE NAMAN KASE TAYONG MANGOPYA AT PUMASA O BUMAGSAK AT MATUTO. PERO NA-REALIZE KO, ANG SOLUSYON SA BAWAT PROBLEMA AY PERSONAL. WALA AKONG PWEDENG KOPYAHAN.</p>\r\n<p>I GAVE UP THE THINGS THAT MAKE MY LIFE EASY BECAUSE THEY DON’T PREPARE ME, THEY DON’T STRENGTHEN ME, THEY DON’T MAKE ME A BETTER PERSON.</p>\r\n<p>I GAVE UP THE SHORTCUTS IN EXCHANGE OF LONGCUTS. I STARTED TO LOVE THE PROCESS NO MATTER HOW LONG, NO MATTER HOW DIFFICULT THEY ARE BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY LASTING WAY I KNOW.</p>\r\n<p>I GAVE UP THE FAST LANE BECAUSE THERE IS WISDOM IN SLOW-MOVING LANE.</p>\r\n<p>JUST LIKE MANY OTHERS, ALLERGIC DI AKO SA MATHEMATICS. PINAG-IISIPAN KO NGANG TUMAKBO SA 2016 BILANG SENADOR. ANG KAUNA-UNAHANG BATAS NA GUSTO KONG IPASA, ABOLISH MATHEMATICS. SA BATAS NA YUN, IKUKULONG ANG MGA TEACHERS NA MAGBIBIGAY NG MAHIHIRAP NA EXAM. HINDI SASAHOD ANG MGA TEACHERS NA MAGBABAGSAK.</p>\r\n<p>I KNOW I AM GOING TO WIN.</p>\r\n<p>BAKIT AKO ALLERGIC SA MATH? IT’S BECAUSE HINDI KO ALAM KUNG SAANG PARTE NG BUHAY KO NAGAGAMIT YANG MGA NAKAKAHILONG FORMULA NA YAN!</p>\r\n<p>HINDI KA NAMAN SASAKAY SA JEEP TAPOS MAGBABAYAD KA AT SASABIHIN MO, “MANONG, BAYAD PO. YUNG SUKLI KO PAKI-DIVIDE MO NG THREE TAPOS PAKI-MULTIPLY MO NG .20 KASE PO 20% DISCOUNT KO. IF NALILITO PO KAYO MAY DALA PO AKONG MULTIPLICATION TABLE. SA ISANG SIDE MO MULTIPLIER, SA KABILA NAMAN MULTIPLICAND. ANG SAGOT PO AT TINATAWAG NA PRODUCT. WAG MO NANG ITANONG KUNG SAAN GAWA. MADE IN CHINA.</p>\r\n<p>SA SCHOOL PO MAY ITINURO SA AMIN. GAMITIN DAW PO ANG DISPLACEMENT METHOD PARA MASUKAT ANG WEIGHT NG ISANG BAGAY BASE SA TUBIG NA NATAPON.</p>\r\n<p>NUNG MINSAN, UMULAN SA AMIN. NAG-PANIC ANG NANAY. SABI NIYA, “ANAK, TUMATAAS NA ANG TUBIG. UMALIS NA TAYO.”</p>\r\n<p>SABI KO NAMAN, “WAIT LANG PO. I AM STILL COMPUTING. AT ACCORDING TO MY COMPUTATION, ALAS-10 PA NG GABI TATAAS ANG TUBIG NG HANGGANG LEEG. ALAS-6 PA LANG OH. WE HAVE A LOT OF TIME.”</p>\r\n<p>THAT INCIDENT ALSO KILLED US. MALI PO ANG COMPUTATION KO. ALAS-8 PA LANG HANGGANG LEEG NA ANG TUBIG.</p>\r\n<p>ITO NAMAN ANG NATUTUNAN KO: WRONG SOLUTION CAN KILL YOU.</p>\r\n<p>MANY SPEAKERS AND PEOPLE AROUND YOU WILL TELL YOU TO FIND THE ANSWER IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION. WELL, I AM HERE TO TELL YOU, DON’T BELIEVE THEM.</p>\r\n<p>IF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM, DON’T LOOK FOR THE ANSWER. LOOK FOR THE SOLUTION BECAUSE IT IS ONLY THE SOLUTION THAT CAN GIVE YOU THE ANSWER.</p>\r\n<p>SO, DON’T FOLLOW YOUR HEART. INSTEAD FOLLOW YOUR PLAYFUL HEART. GIVE UP THE SHORTCUTS BECAUSE THERE’S WISDOM IN SLOW-MOVING LANE. DON’T LOOK FOR THE ANSWER. INSTEAD LOOK FOR THE SOLUTION BECAUSE THE SOLUTION WILL GIVE YOU THE ANSWER.</p>\r\n<p>FINALLY, JUST LIKE YOU PARENTS, I AM ALSO INCREDIBLY PROUD ABOUT THE ACHIEVEMENTS THAT YOU WILL TAKE HOME TODAY. I KNOW THE FEELING BECAUSE I ALSO HAD A LOT OF FAKE GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE MEDALS WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE NA NAKALIMUTAN OR SINADYANG KALIMUTANG TANGGALIN SA LEEG KO DAHIL GUSTO KO OR NG MGA MAGULANG KO NA IPAKITA SA BUONG BARANGGAY KUNG GAANO AKO KA-BIBO AT SENYALES DAW ANG MGA AWARDS NA ITO NA MAGKAKAROON AKO NG NAPAKAGANDANG BUHAY, BAHAY AT ASAWANG IBABAHAY.</p>\r\n<p>WELL, HINDI PO MASISIGURO NG MGA AWARDS NA YAN ANG MAGANDANG BUHAY NA SA INYO AY NAGHIHINTAY. MARAMI NA PONG VALEDICTORIAN AT SALUTATORIAN ANG SUMUKO NA SA LABAN. MARAMI NA PONG ACHIEVERS ANG NADISGRASYA AT DI NA NAKABAWI PA.</p>\r\n<p>KUNG IISIPIN PO NINYO, WALA NAMAN PO TALAGANG PAKIALAM ANG MUNDO KUNG ANO ANG MAA-ACHIEVE NYO. PEOPLE WILL NOT CARE ABOUT THE HONOR THAT YOU HAVE, THE CAR THAT YOU WILL EVENTUALLY DRIVE, THE HOUSE THAT YOU WILL LIVE IN OR THE MONEY YOU HAVE IN YOUR BANK BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS, LIFE IS NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU ACHIEVE. IT IS ABOUT THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE YOU TOUCH. SO TOUCH EACH OTHER. BE CAREFUL WHO YOU TOUCH!</p>\r\n<p>DON’T LET YOUR ACHIEVEMENT DEFINE YOU. DEFINE YOUR ACHIEVEMENT.</p>\r\n<p>SECOND FINALLY, I HAVE A FAIR SHARE OF HARD CHOICES THAT I HAVE TO LEARN THE HARD WAY.</p>\r\n<p>WHEN STUCK BETWEEN CHOOSING TO BE HAPPY OR TO BE KIND, CHOOSE TO BE KIND. HAPPY PEOPLE ARE NOT NECESSARILY KIND BUT KIND PEOPLE ARE GENERALLY HAPPY.</p>\r\n<p>WHEN STUCK BETWEEN CHOOSING TO HAVE HOPE OR TO HAVE FAITH, CHOOSE TO HAVE FAITH. HOPE WAITS FOR A DEFINING MOMENT TO COME WHEN FAITH HAS ALREADY DEFINED YOUR DEFINING MOMENT.</p>\r\n<p>WHEN STUCK BETWEEN CHOOSING TO SUCCEED OR TO LOVE, CHOOSE TO LOVE. FOR IT IS ONLY IN THE MAGICAL EXPRESSION OF LOVE THAT REAL SUCCESS IS MADE AND FOUND.</p>\r\n<p>PARENTS, TEACHERS AND EVERY ONE ELSE WHO IS AS CONCERNED AND COMPASSIONATE AS WE ARE TO THE UP AND COMING GENERATION, THESE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO HAVE JUST WRITTEN A CHAPTER IN THEIR LIFE, LET US TELL THEM THE TRUTH.</p>\r\n<p>AND THE TRUTH IS, LIFE WILL NOT GUARANTEE THEM OF ANYTHING. SOME OF THEM MIGHT MAKE IT. SOME OF THEM MIGHT NOT. SOME MAY STUMBLE AND GET UP. SOME MAY STUMBLE AND STAY ON THE GROUND FOREVER. BUT IF THEY CAN ONLY BE KIND TO ANOTHER, KEEP THEIR FAITH IN EACH OTHER, AND STAY IN LOVE IN WHAT THEY DO BEST, THEN AMAZING THINGS WILL COME THEIR WAY.</p>\r\n<p>IT’S AN HONOR TO BE YOUR COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER TODAY. THANK YOU. I LOVE YOU. GOD BLESS YOU. AND FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER.</p>\r\n<p>-END-</p>\r\n<p>WRITTEN ON TIGER AIR FLIGHT TR 2726 FROM SINGAPORE TO MANILA @ 36,000FT ON MARCH 23, 2015 :-)[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]</p>\r\n', 'Don\'t follow your dream: A commencement speech by a Funny Filipino Motivational Speaker', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'open', '', 'dont-follow-your-dream-a-commencement-speech-by-a-funny-filipino-motivational-speaker', '', '', '2015-04-28 12:20:24', '2015-04-28 04:20:24', '', 0, 'http://www.lloydluna.com/?p=35769', 0, 'post', '', 0),
(35771, 1, '2015-04-28 12:13:34', '2015-04-28 04:13:34', '[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][vc_column_text]<b>DON’T FOLLOW YOUR DREAM</b>\r\n\r\n<b>SPEECH DELIVERED BY LLOYD LUNA DURING THE RECOGNITION DAY, MOVING UP CEREMONY AND COMMENCEMENT EXERCISES AT ST. LOUIS SCHOOL in VALENZUELA CITY, ROMINA’S HEAVENLY ANGEL MONTESSORI IN NUEVA ECIJA and JESUS IS LORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL IN SAN FERNANDO CITY, PAMPANGA.</b>\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU. MARAMING MARAMING SALAMAT PO SA LAHAT NG PUMALAKPAK. NAG-EEXPECT PO AKO NG MAS MALAKAS NA PALAKPAK NA MAY KASAMANG SIGAW NA PARA PO BANG TUWANG-TUWA KAYO NA NANDITO AKO NGAYON.\r\n\r\nMARAMING SALAMAT PO SA NAPAKAGANDANG INTRODUCTION. AKO PO ANG NAGSULAT NUN.\r\n\r\n(KAPAMPANGAN: SALAMAT PU. DAKAL PUNG SALAMAT KARENG SABLANG PINALAKPAK. 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KUNG PAGKATAPOS PO NG SPEECH NA ITO AY WALA KAYONG NATUTUNAN, OK LANG PO YAN DAHIL HINDI NAMAN PO SINABI SA AKIN NA DAPAT MAY SENSE ANG SASABIHIN KO. BESIDES ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO, HINDI KO RIN PO PINAKINGGAN ANG GRADUATION SPEAKER NAMIN. PERO IN FAIRNESS, MAY DALAWANG BAGAY NAMAN PO AKONG NATANDAAN SA KANYANG SPEECH NA NAGAMIT KO PO SA AKING BUHAY: CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU.\r\n\r\nSO WAG NA PO NATIN PANG MATAGALIN ANG INYONG PAGHIHINTAY, ANG MESSAGE KO PO TODAY AY CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU.\r\n\r\nKUNG GUSTO NYO PONG ITULOY ANG AKING SPEECH, MALAKAS NA PALAKPAKAN PO ULI. LAHAT PO NG AYAW NA, MAS MALAKAS NA PALAKPAKAN.\r\n\r\nUNFORTUNATELY, SA AYAW AT SA GUSTO PO NINYO, KAILANGAN KONG TAPUSIN ITO DAHIL HANGGAT HINDI PO AKO TAPOS, HINDI KAYO MAKAKAPAGTAPOS AT HINDI KO RIN MAKUKUHA ANG BAYAD SA AKIN.\r\n\r\nHAWAK KO PO NGAYON ANG LATEST BOOK NA SINULAT KO. ANG TITLE PO AY PAANO MAGING SUCCESSFUL. SINO PO ANG MAY GUSTO NITO?\r\n\r\n(KAPAG MAY TUMAYO, UMAKYAT SA STAGE AT KINUHA ANG LIBRO): SINO PO ANG MAKAPAL ANG MUKHANG NAGNAKAW NG LIBRO KO?\r\n\r\nIF YOU WANT TO GET SOMETHING, STAND UP, LEAVE THE CROWD, PAY THE PRICE AND GET IT. AND TUNAY NA TAGUMPAY AY HINDI NADADAAN SA LAKAS NG SIGAW, PAGHINGI AT PAGHIHINTAY. ITO’Y KINUKUHA NG INYONG MGA KAMAY.\r\n\r\nSA MGA GANITONG OKASYON, HALOS LAHAT PO NG SPEAKER SASABIHIN SA INYO NA MANGARAP KAYO. DREAM. DREAM BIG. DREAM BIGGER. LIBRE LANG NAMAN ANG PANGARAP KAYA MANGARAP KA.\r\n\r\nI DON’T BELIEVE IN THAT DAHIL KUNG TOTOO PONG LIBRE ANG MANGARAP, BAKIT HINDI LAHAT NG NANGARAP AY NAABOT ANG KANILANG PANGARAP? BAKIT HANGGANG NGAYON MARAMING PANGARAP ANG NANANATILING PANGARAP? BAKIT MAY MGA TAONG KINAMATAYAN NA ANG KANILANG PANGARAP.\r\n\r\nSA GANITONG OKASYON, MALAMANG SASABIHIN NG SPEAKER: FOLLOW YOUR DREAM. I DON’T BELIEVE IN THAT DAHIL MARAMI NA PONG TAO ANG SINUNDAN ANG PANGARAP NILA PERO HINDI NAGTAGUMPAY DAHIL MALI PALA ANG PANGARAP NIYA. TAMA PO, MAY PANGARAP NA MALI.\r\n\r\nAT PAANO KUNG MALI ANG PANGARAP MO?\r\n\r\nSO DON’T FOLLOW YOUR DREAM. INSTEAD, FOLLOW ME ON TWITTER. NO. I MEAN FOLLOW YOUR PLAYFUL HEART.\r\n\r\nNUNG BATA PA PO AKO, SIGURO MGA TWO YEARS AGO, I MEAN TWO DECADES AGO, MY CHILDHOOD DREAM WAS TO BE A JEEPNEY DRIVER. GUESS WHAT. I FAILED.\r\n\r\nSO I CHANGED MY DREAM INTO SOMETHING ELSE. I DECIDED TO TAKE THE PATH TO PRIESTHOOD. THIS IS TRUE BECAUSE MAKIKITA NYO PO ITO SA PROPECY SECTION NG YEARBOOK NAMIN. BUT THEN I REALIZED NA NAPAKAHIRAP PO PALANG MAGING PARI KAPAG MAY HITSURA ANG ISANG TAO. SO I DID NOT PURSUE PRIESTHOOD AND THEREFORE I FAILED AGAIN.\r\n\r\nI LATER CHANGED MY DREAM AND DECIDED TO PURSUE MUSIC. PERO DAHIL PO HINDI NAMAN PALA KAYA NG PARENTS KO ANG TUITION SA CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC, I GAVE UP THAT DREAM AND CHANGED MY DREAM AGAIN.\r\n\r\nTHIS TIME, I WANTED TO BE AN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEER. BUT BECAUSE MATHEMATICS WAS, IS, AND WILL NEVER BE MY FORTE, GUESS WHAT. I FAILED AGAIN.\r\n\r\nI DIDN’T DREAM TO FAIL BUT STILL I FAILED. I DREAMED TO SUCCEED, BUT I FAILED.\r\n\r\nSO I REALIZED ONE IMPORTANT THING IN LIFE: EVEN IF YOU DON’T DREAM TO FAIL, CHANCES ARE YOU WILL FAIL AND FAILURE CAN STOP YOU FROM FINDING WHAT YOU SEEK.\r\n\r\nJUST AS HOW SUCCEED DEFINE SOME PEOPLE, FAILURE CAN ALSO DEFINE WHO WE ARE.\r\n\r\nWHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE, I TOOK BACHELOR OF SCIENCE IN ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS ENGINEERING. GUSTO KO PO BA ANG KURSO NA KINUHA KO? HINDI PO.\r\n\r\nTINANONG NAMAN PO AKO KUNG ANO’NG GUSTO KO. SABI PO NG KAPATID KO, “ANO’NG KUKUNIN MO SA COLLEGE? SABI KO PO, “MALIBAN SA ALLOWANCE?” WELL MASS COMMUNICATION.\r\n\r\nE SABI DAW PO NAPAKA-COMPETITIVE DAW PO NG KURSO NA YUN. MARAMI RAW KUMUKUHA NUN. WALA RAW PERO ROON. WALA RAW TRABAHO. MALIIT DAW ANG SAHOD.\r\n\r\nSABI PA NG ATE KO YATA YUN, “MAG-ISIP KA NGA. MAGPAPAKAHIRAP KA NA RIN LANG SA COLLEGE, BAKIT DI MO PA KUNIN YUNG PINAKAMAHIRAP?”\r\n\r\nSABI KO PO NUN, “WOW, WHAT A PIECE OF WISDOM!” NUNG NASA ENGINEERING NA PO AKO AT NAHIHIRAPAN SA KURSO KO, SABI KO, “LORD, ATE KO DAPAT ANG NANDITO E. DI BA IDEA NYA ‘TO?”\r\n\r\nKAPAG ANG PANGARAP PO PALA AY MALING PANGARAP, PARA KANG NASA IMPYERNO. SINO PO SA INYO ANG NAKARATING NA SA IMPIYERNO, I MEAN NAKARANAS NA NG BUHAY NA PARANG NASA IMPIYERNO?\r\n\r\nHINDI PO LAHAT NG PANGARAP AY TAMANG PANGARAP.\r\n\r\nPERO BUTI NA LANG PO NABABAGO ANG PANGARAP. KUNG HINDI PO NABABAGO ANG PANGARAP, MALAMANG JEEPNEY DRIVER NA PO AKO NGAYON AT DUMATING AKO RITO SA SCHOOL NYO DALA ANG JEEP KO AT PAPASADA PA AKO PAGKATAPOS KONG MAGSALITA RITO.\r\n\r\nPERO BUTI NA LANG PO NABABAGO ANG PANGARAP. KUNG HINDI, MALAMANG NAGING PARI AKO AT HINDI LALAGANAP ANG NAPAKAGANDANG LAHING ITO.\r\n\r\nPERO BUTI NA LANG PO NABABAGO ANG PANGARAP. KUNG HINDI, HINDI PO GWAPO ANG COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER NINYO NGAYON.\r\n\r\nSO DON’T FOLLOW YOUR DREAM. FOLLOW YOUR PLAYFUL HEART.\r\n\r\nMARAMI PONG SPEAKER ANG SINASABI SA MGA GANITONG OKASYON AY “DON’T GIVE UP.” WAG KANG SUSUKO. LABAN LANG NANG LABAN. WINNERS DON’T QUIT.\r\n\r\nTODAY, ANG ADVICE KO PO SA INYO KUNG GUSTO NYONG MAGING MADALI ANG BUHAY NYO, “GIVE UP.” PARA TAPOS NA. PERO BAKIT KAILANGANG MAG-GIVE UP?\r\n\r\nDAHIL KUNG GUSTO MONG MAG-LEVEL UP, YOU NEED TO GIVE UP.\r\n\r\nNAGTAGUMPAY PO AKO NUNG COLLEGE BECAUSE BACK IN THE DAYS, I BELIEVED IN TEAM WORK. I BELIEVED THAT TOGETHER WE PASS, DIVIDED WE FAIL. I BELIEVED IN SHARING. I BELIEVED IN WORKING TOGETHER TO ACHIEVE A COMMON OBJECTIVE WE NOW KNOW AS PASSING.\r\n\r\nBUT I ALSO BELIEVED IN FAITH. I BELIEVED IN PRAYER. “LORD, SHOW ME THE ANSWER.” MABAIT ANG PANGINOON. DAHIL KAPAG MAY TANONG KA SA BUHAY MO, ANG SAGOT AY NASA PALIGID MO LANG. KAILANGAN MO LANG BUKSAN ANG IYONG MGA MATA DAHIL THE ANSWER IS JUST AROUND.\r\n\r\nPERO HINDI LANG MABAIT ANG PANGINOON. MATALINO RIN SIYA DAHIL HINDI LAHAT NG BINIGAY NYANG SAGOT AY TAMANG SAGOT. KAPAG NASA KANAN MO LETTER B AT ANG NASA KALIWA MO LETTER A, NALINTIKAN NA. CONFUSED KA NA. DASAL KA NA NAMAN.\r\n\r\nSO ANO’NG ISASAGOT MO? LETTER C? BOBO. PAANO KUNG MALI YUNG LETTER C? E DI MAG-ISA KA LANG. SA PANAHON NGAYON, MAHIRAP BUMAGSAK NANG MAG-ISA KA LANG KAYA KUNG BABAGSAK KA, MAS MAGANDA KUNG MAY KASAMA KA.\r\n\r\nANG PROBLEMA KO SA MARAMING TAO, KAPAG SILA AY NALILITO, ANG GINAGAWA NILA AY MANGHULA SA HALIP NA MAGTANONG. HINDI DAPAT GANUN. KAPAG MAY HINDI KA ALAM, WAG KANG MANGHULA. MAGTANONG KA.\r\n\r\nSABI KO SA KATABI KO SA KANAN, “PARE BAKIT B YAN?” SABI NIYA, “YAN ANG LUMABAS SA COMPUTATION KO.” SABI KO, “LETTER A YUNG SA KALIWA KO. REVIEW MO NGA YAN.”\r\n\r\nNIREVIEW NAMAN. AT ANG SAGOT NGA E DAPAT A. MUNTIK NA SANA AKONG PUMASA KASO MALI YUNG LETTER A. AYUN, TATLO KAMING BAGSAK. MASAYA DI BA?\r\n\r\nTINIGILAN KO NA PO ANG PANGONGOPYA. I GIVE UP. PWEDE NAMAN KASE TAYONG MANGOPYA AT PUMASA O BUMAGSAK AT MATUTO. PERO NA-REALIZE KO, ANG SOLUSYON SA BAWAT PROBLEMA AY PERSONAL. WALA AKONG PWEDENG KOPYAHAN.\r\n\r\nI GAVE UP THE THINGS THAT MAKE MY LIFE EASY BECAUSE THEY DON’T PREPARE ME, THEY DON’T STRENGTHEN ME, THEY DON’T MAKE ME A BETTER PERSON.\r\n\r\nI GAVE UP THE SHORTCUTS IN EXCHANGE OF LONGCUTS. I STARTED TO LOVE THE PROCESS NO MATTER HOW LONG, NO MATTER HOW DIFFICULT THEY ARE BECAUSE THAT IS THE ONLY LASTING WAY I KNOW.\r\n\r\nI GAVE UP THE FAST LANE BECAUSE THERE IS WISDOM IN SLOW-MOVING LANE.\r\n\r\nJUST LIKE MANY OTHERS, ALLERGIC DI AKO SA MATHEMATICS. PINAG-IISIPAN KO NGANG TUMAKBO SA 2016 BILANG SENADOR. ANG KAUNA-UNAHANG BATAS NA GUSTO KONG IPASA, ABOLISH MATHEMATICS. SA BATAS NA YUN, IKUKULONG ANG MGA TEACHERS NA MAGBIBIGAY NG MAHIHIRAP NA EXAM. HINDI SASAHOD ANG MGA TEACHERS NA MAGBABAGSAK.\r\n\r\nI KNOW I AM GOING TO WIN.\r\n\r\nBAKIT AKO ALLERGIC SA MATH? IT’S BECAUSE HINDI KO ALAM KUNG SAANG PARTE NG BUHAY KO NAGAGAMIT YANG MGA NAKAKAHILONG FORMULA NA YAN!\r\n\r\nHINDI KA NAMAN SASAKAY SA JEEP TAPOS MAGBABAYAD KA AT SASABIHIN MO, “MANONG, BAYAD PO. YUNG SUKLI KO PAKI-DIVIDE MO NG THREE TAPOS PAKI-MULTIPLY MO NG .20 KASE PO 20% DISCOUNT KO. IF NALILITO PO KAYO MAY DALA PO AKONG MULTIPLICATION TABLE. SA ISANG SIDE MO MULTIPLIER, SA KABILA NAMAN MULTIPLICAND. ANG SAGOT PO AT TINATAWAG NA PRODUCT. WAG MO NANG ITANONG KUNG SAAN GAWA. MADE IN CHINA.\r\n\r\nSA SCHOOL PO MAY ITINURO SA AMIN. GAMITIN DAW PO ANG DISPLACEMENT METHOD PARA MASUKAT ANG WEIGHT NG ISANG BAGAY BASE SA TUBIG NA NATAPON.\r\n\r\nNUNG MINSAN, UMULAN SA AMIN. NAG-PANIC ANG NANAY. SABI NIYA, “ANAK, TUMATAAS NA ANG TUBIG. UMALIS NA TAYO.”\r\n\r\nSABI KO NAMAN, “WAIT LANG PO. I AM STILL COMPUTING. AT ACCORDING TO MY COMPUTATION, ALAS-10 PA NG GABI TATAAS ANG TUBIG NG HANGGANG LEEG. ALAS-6 PA LANG OH. WE HAVE A LOT OF TIME.”\r\n\r\nTHAT INCIDENT ALSO KILLED US. MALI PO ANG COMPUTATION KO. ALAS-8 PA LANG HANGGANG LEEG NA ANG TUBIG.\r\n\r\nITO NAMAN ANG NATUTUNAN KO: WRONG SOLUTION CAN KILL YOU.\r\n\r\nMANY SPEAKERS AND PEOPLE AROUND YOU WILL TELL YOU TO FIND THE ANSWER IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION. WELL, I AM HERE TO TELL YOU, DON’T BELIEVE THEM.\r\n\r\nIF YOU HAVE A PROBLEM, DON’T LOOK FOR THE ANSWER. LOOK FOR THE SOLUTION BECAUSE IT IS ONLY THE SOLUTION THAT CAN GIVE YOU THE ANSWER.\r\n\r\nSO, DON’T FOLLOW YOUR HEART. INSTEAD FOLLOW YOUR PLAYFUL HEART. GIVE UP THE SHORTCUTS BECAUSE THERE’S WISDOM IN SLOW-MOVING LANE. DON’T LOOK FOR THE ANSWER. INSTEAD LOOK FOR THE SOLUTION BECAUSE THE SOLUTION WILL GIVE YOU THE ANSWER.\r\n\r\nFINALLY, JUST LIKE YOU PARENTS, I AM ALSO INCREDIBLY PROUD ABOUT THE ACHIEVEMENTS THAT YOU WILL TAKE HOME TODAY. I KNOW THE FEELING BECAUSE I ALSO HAD A LOT OF FAKE GOLD, SILVER AND BRONZE MEDALS WHEN I WAS YOUR AGE NA NAKALIMUTAN OR SINADYANG KALIMUTANG TANGGALIN SA LEEG KO DAHIL GUSTO KO OR NG MGA MAGULANG KO NA IPAKITA SA BUONG BARANGGAY KUNG GAANO AKO KA-BIBO AT SENYALES DAW ANG MGA AWARDS NA ITO NA MAGKAKAROON AKO NG NAPAKAGANDANG BUHAY, BAHAY AT ASAWANG IBABAHAY.\r\n\r\nWELL, HINDI PO MASISIGURO NG MGA AWARDS NA YAN ANG MAGANDANG BUHAY NA SA INYO AY NAGHIHINTAY. MARAMI NA PONG VALEDICTORIAN AT SALUTATORIAN ANG SUMUKO NA SA LABAN. MARAMI NA PONG ACHIEVERS ANG NADISGRASYA AT DI NA NAKABAWI PA.\r\n\r\nKUNG IISIPIN PO NINYO, WALA NAMAN PO TALAGANG PAKIALAM ANG MUNDO KUNG ANO ANG MAA-ACHIEVE NYO. PEOPLE WILL NOT CARE ABOUT THE HONOR THAT YOU HAVE, THE CAR THAT YOU WILL EVENTUALLY DRIVE, THE HOUSE THAT YOU WILL LIVE IN OR THE MONEY YOU HAVE IN YOUR BANK BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS, LIFE IS NOT ABOUT WHAT YOU ACHIEVE. IT IS ABOUT THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE YOU TOUCH. SO TOUCH EACH OTHER. BE CAREFUL WHO YOU TOUCH!\r\n\r\nDON’T LET YOUR ACHIEVEMENT DEFINE YOU. DEFINE YOUR ACHIEVEMENT.\r\n\r\nSECOND FINALLY, I HAVE A FAIR SHARE OF HARD CHOICES THAT I HAVE TO LEARN THE HARD WAY.\r\n\r\nWHEN STUCK BETWEEN CHOOSING TO BE HAPPY OR TO BE KIND, CHOOSE TO BE KIND. HAPPY PEOPLE ARE NOT NECESSARILY KIND BUT KIND PEOPLE ARE GENERALLY HAPPY.\r\n\r\nWHEN STUCK BETWEEN CHOOSING TO HAVE HOPE OR TO HAVE FAITH, CHOOSE TO HAVE FAITH. 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(35798, 1, '2015-05-19 10:20:22', '2015-05-19 02:20:22', '[vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"2/3\"][vc_empty_space height=\"32px\"][vc_column_text]Yesterday, I saw the first of its kind. The No. 1 and 2 names coming out in the presidential survey just got their first exchange of statements both taking an offensive strike and defensive stance toward each other.\r\n\r\nVice President Jejomar Binay said something like this country needs an experienced leader and that we can\'t leave our country\'s future to chance. And then neophyte senator Grace Poe said something like honesty over experience.\r\n\r\nIsn\'t it interesting to know that both politicians were simply stating the obvious? Well, yes it is. It must. But the media are there to spin it off. So we have this headline.\r\n\r\nBinay, as well all know, has a long record of public service. Despite allegations of corruptions, every knows that he has been into it for a very long time, probably half his lifetime. So, why would you tell the Filipino people about something that everybody knows already?\r\n\r\nGiven his situation right now, he probably need to punch back and he\'s restating the obvious could somehow make some damage to the credibility of Senator Grace Poe who is rumoured to run in presidential elections in 2016.\r\n\r\nDoes his political jab really create any damage?\r\n\r\nFrankly, I don\'t think so. For one, Filipinos love the underdog. By taking an offensive strike, Filipinos would go love the offended party. Thus, I am almost sure he will rank even higher come the next survey.\r\n\r\nIf the Vice President would continue to restate the obvious and impose his credentials and records to the point of damaging someone, his reputation is damaged. So my unsolicited advice? Don\'t play someone else\'s game, Mr. Vice President. Answer the allegation and then tell us where you\'d like this country to be under your leadership, should we choose you to lead us.\r\n\r\nPoe, as we all know, is a newcomer in politics. We know you are honest. We also know that you are a performing senator. We know your work ethics at best. We know you are putting your best put forward and would always rise to the occasion. So why would you tell the Filipino people that you are honest when we already know that you are, indeed, honest?\r\n\r\nPerhaps, Poe is making a clear contrast against Binay. And she knows Filipinos would prefer values over achievement. This is a clever statement, a clever move for someone who is obviously an underdog. Sometimes in political arena, much like in any game or military combat, defense is the best offense.\r\n\r\nIf she continues highlighting values over achievement and unprecedented potitical experience, I guess, Poe will do just fine. But while I, for one, would prefer values over experience, I would like to know where you are taking us as well. Your narrative on the late president Cory Aquino, that Filipinos supported her because of the values, may not be enough. Where we are right now clearly testifies how bad we messed up having an honest but hardly competent leader.\r\n\r\nIn the coming months, I am expecting from our politicians more statements stating the obvious, stories that we already know and the recycled narratives of yet another promise of a brighter future.\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<em>Lloyd Luna is a Filipino political consultant. He worked as technical assistant for youth affairs in the Office of the President in Malacanang Palace. His political strategies has served and helped some politicians get elected since 2004.</em>[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]', 'For Binay and for Poe, obvious isn\'t really obvious', '', 'publish', 'closed', 'open', '', 'for-binay-and-for-poe-obvious-isnt-really-obvious', '', '', '2015-05-19 10:27:29', '2015-05-19 02:27:29', '', 0, 'http://www.lloydluna.com/?p=35798', 0, 'post', '', 0),
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international motivational speaker and comedian, author of ten self-help books, television talk show host at Global News Network, former newspaper and magazine columnist, songwriter, speechwriter, publisher, serial entrepreneur and a life mentor.\r\n\r\nHe has motivated and inspired more than half a million people across Asian region since 2005, appeared on more than 200 media interviews and featured as a motivational keynote speaker in over 1,000 conventions, conferences, seminars and workshops.\r\n\r\nHis distinctions include Collegiate Ambassador for Peace awarded in South Korea, Knights of Rizal Leadership Institute Achievement Medalist, Exemplary Citizen of Gumaca, Quezon, Philippine National Police Leadership Award, Organized Response for the Advancement of Society (ORAS) Awardee on Entrepreneurship, 2012 Most Outstanding Motivational Speaker, 2012 Most Outstanding Author, 2012 Inspiring Young Male Motivational Speaker of the Year, 2012 Most Outstanding Training Service Provider, 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doorway to life\'s fulfilment.\r\n\r\nBelieve in success,as a result that is measured by what you give to the world not by what you receive from it and that your personal achievement is the greatest form of service to God and man.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][dt_portfolio type=\"grid\" columns=\"2\" same_width=\"true\" descriptions=\"on_hover_centered\" number=\"4\" orderby=\"date\" order=\"desc\" category=\"08-design-photo\" meta_info=\"false\" padding=\"5\" target_height=\"250\" proportion=\"4:3\" column_width=\"250\" under_image_buttons=\"under_image\" hover_animation=\"fade\" hover_bg_color=\"accent\" hover_content_visibility=\"on_hover\" bg_under_projects=\"fullwidth\" content_aligment=\"left\" loading_effect=\"scale_up\" show_title=\"true\" show_details=\"true\" show_zoom=\"true\"][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1421309060571{padding-left: 10px !important;}\"]\r\n<p 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That is because I want to make them feel how grateful I am for their appreciation and love.\r\n\r\nPeople is the center of my work as they are part of my personal mission to inspire action, strengthen the faith and change lives. Without those who listen to my talks, read my books and follow my writings in the Web, it would be impossible for me to carry out what I believe to be my calling.\r\n\r\nWhen I was still a child, I dreamed of becoming a priest. But I wouldn\'t become one. So perhaps God has another way of making me a teacher. Maybe that is why I became a motivational speaker and inspirational author.\r\n\r\nThank you for dropping by to my website. Say hello to every one for me. 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ult_hide_row_tablet_small=\"off\" ult_hide_row_mobile=\"off\" ult_hide_row_mobile_large=\"off\"][vc_column width=\"1/2\" offset=\"vc_col-lg-offset-6 vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-offset-4 vc_col-md-8 vc_col-sm-offset-3 vc_col-xs-12\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1421284011900{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.82) !important;*background-color: rgb(255,255,255) !important;}\" css_animation=\"fadeInUpBig\"]\r\n<h2>About Lloyd Luna</h2>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"30px\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1421419539099{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.8) !important;*background-color: rgb(255,255,255) !important;}\" css_animation=\"fadeInUpBig\"]LLOYD ABRIA LUNA, popularly known in social media as #PambansangInspirasyon, is an international motivational speaker and comedian, author of ten self-help books, television talk show host at Global News Network, former newspaper and magazine columnist, songwriter, speechwriter, publisher, serial entrepreneur and a life mentor.\r\n\r\nHe has motivated and inspired more than half a million people across Asian region since 2005, appeared on more than 200 media interviews and featured as a motivational keynote speaker in over 1,000 conventions, conferences, seminars and workshops.\r\n\r\nHis distinctions include Collegiate Ambassador for Peace awarded in South Korea, Knights of Rizal Leadership Institute Achievement Medalist, Exemplary Citizen of Gumaca, Quezon, Philippine National Police Leadership Award, Organized Response for the Advancement of Society (ORAS) Awardee on Entrepreneurship, 2012 Most Outstanding Motivational Speaker, 2012 Most Outstanding Author, 2012 Inspiring Young Male Motivational Speaker of the Year, 2012 Most Outstanding Training Service Provider, 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News Network</h2>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"30px\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1421301439880{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.53) !important;*background-color: rgb(255,255,255) !important;}\"]Lloyd Luna hosts a weekly television talk show called Creative Business on GNN. The show has been inspiring millions of televiewers for 11 seasons now since its debut in 2011. The show airs every Sunday, 12nn, with replay on Mondays, 11am on Sky Cable Channel 213, Destiny Channel 8, and GSat Channel 1.[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][dt_portfolio type=\"grid\" columns=\"2\" same_width=\"true\" descriptions=\"on_hover_centered\" number=\"4\" orderby=\"date\" order=\"desc\" category=\"08-design-photo\" meta_info=\"false\" padding=\"5\" target_height=\"250\" proportion=\"4:3\" column_width=\"250\" under_image_buttons=\"under_image\" hover_animation=\"fade\" hover_bg_color=\"accent\" hover_content_visibility=\"on_hover\" bg_under_projects=\"fullwidth\" content_aligment=\"left\" loading_effect=\"scale_up\" show_title=\"true\" show_details=\"true\" show_zoom=\"true\"][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1421301221714{padding-left: 10px !important;}\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[dt_button size=\"medium\" animation=\"none\" icon=\"fa fa-desktop\" icon_align=\"left\" color=\"\" link=\"http://www.youtube.com/lloydluna/\" target_self=\"blank\"]Watch Past Episodes[/dt_button][dt_button size=\"medium\" animation=\"none\" icon=\"fa fa-phone-square\" icon_align=\"left\" color=\"\" link=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/contact/\" target_self=\"true\"]Propose a Guesting[/dt_button]</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/1\"][vc_empty_space height=\"70px\"][ultimate_heading main_heading=\"Inspirational Stories in Business and in Life\" heading_tag=\"h2\" alignment=\"center\" spacer=\"no_spacer\" spacer_position=\"top\" spacer_img_width=\"48\" line_style=\"solid\" line_height=\"1\" line_color=\"#333333\" icon_type=\"selector\" icon_size=\"32\" icon_style=\"none\" icon_color_border=\"#333333\" icon_border_size=\"1\" icon_border_radius=\"500\" icon_border_spacing=\"50\" img_width=\"48\" line_icon_fixer=\"10\" main_heading_style=\"font-weight:bold;\" main_heading_margin=\"margin-top:20px;margin-bottom:20px;\" sub_heading_margin=\"margin-top:10px;margin-bottom:10px;\"]Entries written by Lloyd Luna[/ultimate_heading][vc_empty_space height=\"70px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row margin_top=\"10\" margin_bottom=\"10\" padding_left=\"0\" padding_right=\"0\" bg_position=\"top\" bg_repeat=\"no-repeat\" bg_cover=\"false\" bg_attachment=\"false\" padding_top=\"0\" padding_bottom=\"0\" parallax_speed=\"0.1\" bg_type=\"image\" bg_grad=\"background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, #E3E3E3));background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: -o-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-animated\" bg_image_repeat=\"repeat\" bg_image_size=\"cover\" bg_img_attach=\"scroll\" parallax_sense=\"30\" animation_direction=\"bottom-animation\" animation_repeat=\"repeat\" bg_override=\"0\" 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number=\"6\" orderby=\"date\" order=\"desc\" category=\"motivational-speaker-philippines-manila,motivational-keynote-speaker,motivational-speaker-asia-2,personal-branding-philippines-2,sales-rally-speaker,success-stories-philippines,reflections,philippine-business,business-consultant-philippines,corporate-trainer-asia,corporate-branding-philippines,corporate-trainer-manila\" round_images=\"true\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/1\"][vc_empty_space height=\"70px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"5\" bg_color=\"#dadfe2\" bg_position=\"bottom\" bg_repeat=\"repeat-y\" bg_cover=\"true\" bg_attachment=\"true\" padding_top=\"80\" padding_bottom=\"90\" margin_top=\"0\" margin_bottom=\"-51\" parallax_speed=\"0.3\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_left=\"40\" padding_right=\"40\" bg_image=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/inspirational-speech-asia.jpg\" bg_type=\"no_bg\" bg_grad=\"background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, 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icon_border_spacing=\"50\" img_width=\"48\" ult_hide_row_large_screen=\"off\" ult_hide_row_desktop=\"off\" ult_hide_row_tablet=\"off\" ult_hide_row_tablet_small=\"off\" ult_hide_row_mobile=\"off\" ult_hide_row_mobile_large=\"off\" u_video_url=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqUhNbAJkEg\"][vc_column width=\"3/4\" offset=\"vc_col-lg-offset-6 vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-offset-4 vc_col-md-8 vc_col-sm-offset-3 vc_col-xs-12\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1421308628166{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7) !important;*background-color: rgb(255,255,255) !important;}\"]\r\n<h2>My Checklist of Belief</h2>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"30px\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1421328034567{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7) !important;*background-color: rgb(255,255,255) !important;}\"]\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 9\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\nBelieve in God, the source of everything and the end of all things.\r\n\r\nBelieve in your self, a steward of God\'s blessings, shaker of society, an epitome of goodness and progress.\r\n\r\nBelieve in your family, the inspiration for your works, the spring of values that lights your path to greatness.\r\n\r\nBelieve in your school, the cornerstone of your knowledge, the threshold of your critical thinking.\r\n\r\nBelieve in your organization, the place where you exercise your genius and creativity, the place where you contribute your value for a better world.\r\n\r\nBelieve in your country, the source of your identity, the place where your hopes and dreams for the future shine the brightest.\r\n\r\nBelieve in personal development, the key to the realization of your legitimate ambition, the doorway to life\'s fulfilment.\r\n\r\nBelieve in success,as a result that is measured by what you give to the world not by what you receive from it and that your personal achievement is the greatest form of service to God and man.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][dt_portfolio type=\"grid\" columns=\"2\" same_width=\"true\" descriptions=\"on_hover_centered\" number=\"4\" orderby=\"date\" order=\"desc\" category=\"08-design-photo\" meta_info=\"false\" padding=\"5\" target_height=\"250\" proportion=\"4:3\" column_width=\"250\" under_image_buttons=\"under_image\" hover_animation=\"fade\" hover_bg_color=\"accent\" hover_content_visibility=\"on_hover\" bg_under_projects=\"fullwidth\" content_aligment=\"left\" loading_effect=\"scale_up\" show_title=\"true\" show_details=\"true\" show_zoom=\"true\"][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1421309060571{padding-left: 10px !important;}\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[dt_button size=\"medium\" animation=\"none\" icon=\"fa fa-desktop\" icon_align=\"left\" color=\"\" link=\"http://www.facebook.com/lloydlunacircle/\" target_self=\"blank\"]Add Me on Facebook[/dt_button][dt_button size=\"medium\" animation=\"none\" icon=\"fa fa-phone-square\" icon_align=\"left\" color=\"\" link=\"http://www.twitter.com/lloydluna/\" target_self=\"true\"]Follow Me on Twitter[/dt_button]</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row margin_top=\"0\" margin_bottom=\"0\" padding_left=\"0\" padding_right=\"0\" bg_position=\"top\" bg_repeat=\"no-repeat\" bg_cover=\"false\" bg_attachment=\"false\" padding_top=\"0\" padding_bottom=\"0\" parallax_speed=\"0.1\" bg_type=\"image\" bg_grad=\"background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, #E3E3E3));background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: -o-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: 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your chance to book one of the Asia\'s finest motivational speakers in Manila, Philippines! Go ahead and fill up the form.[/ultimate_heading][/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1/2\"][vc_empty_space height=\"70px\"][contact-form-7 id=\"19682\"][vc_empty_space height=\"120px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/1\"][vc_empty_space height=\"70px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=\"5\" bg_color=\"#dadfe2\" bg_position=\"bottom\" bg_repeat=\"repeat-y\" bg_cover=\"true\" bg_attachment=\"true\" padding_top=\"80\" padding_bottom=\"90\" margin_top=\"0\" margin_bottom=\"-51\" parallax_speed=\"0.3\" enable_parallax=\"false\" padding_left=\"40\" padding_right=\"40\" bg_image=\"http://www.lloydluna.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/DSC_0736.jpg\" bg_type=\"no_bg\" bg_grad=\"background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(0%, #E3E3E3));background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: -o-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);background: linear-gradient(top,#E3E3E3 0%);\" parallax_style=\"vcpb-default\" bg_image_repeat=\"repeat\" bg_image_size=\"cover\" bg_img_attach=\"scroll\" parallax_sense=\"30\" animation_direction=\"left-animation\" animation_repeat=\"repeat\" bg_override=\"0\" parallax_content_sense=\"30\" fadeout_start_effect=\"30\" overlay_pattern_opacity=\"80\" multi_color_overlay_opacity=\"0.6\" seperator_type=\"none_seperator\" seperator_position=\"top_seperator\" seperator_shape_size=\"40\" seperator_svg_height=\"60\" seperator_shape_background=\"#ffffff\" seperator_shape_border=\"none\" seperator_shape_border_width=\"1\" icon_type=\"no_icon\" icon_size=\"32\" icon_style=\"none\" icon_color_border=\"#333333\" icon_border_size=\"1\" icon_border_radius=\"500\" icon_border_spacing=\"50\" img_width=\"48\" ult_hide_row_large_screen=\"off\" ult_hide_row_desktop=\"off\" ult_hide_row_tablet=\"off\" ult_hide_row_tablet_small=\"off\" ult_hide_row_mobile=\"off\" ult_hide_row_mobile_large=\"off\" u_video_url=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqUhNbAJkEg\"][vc_column width=\"3/4\" offset=\"vc_col-lg-offset-6 vc_col-lg-6 vc_col-md-offset-4 vc_col-md-8 vc_col-sm-offset-3 vc_col-xs-12\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1421309992376{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7) !important;*background-color: rgb(255,255,255) !important;}\"]\r\n<h2>Thank you for all the love!</h2>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"30px\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1421328808551{padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 20px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;padding-left: 20px !important;background-color: rgba(255,255,255,0.7) !important;*background-color: rgb(255,255,255) !important;}\"]\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 9\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 9\">\r\n<div class=\"section\">\r\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\r\n<div class=\"column\">\r\n\r\nI love people.\r\n\r\nAnd so after my speech, I stay in the venue for as long as I can to make some stops and shake the hands of the audience and smile for photos and selfies. That is because I want to make them feel how grateful I am for their appreciation and love.\r\n\r\nPeople is the center of my work as they are part of my personal mission to inspire action, strengthen the faith and change lives. Without those who listen to my talks, read my books and follow my writings in the Web, it would be impossible for me to carry out what I believe to be my calling.\r\n\r\nWhen I was still a child, I dreamed of becoming a priest. But I wouldn\'t become one. So perhaps God has another way of making me a teacher. Maybe that is why I became a motivational speaker and inspirational author.\r\n\r\nThank you for dropping by to my website. Say hello to every one for me. All the best.\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][dt_portfolio type=\"grid\" columns=\"2\" same_width=\"true\" descriptions=\"on_hover_centered\" number=\"4\" orderby=\"date\" order=\"desc\" category=\"08-design-photo\" meta_info=\"false\" padding=\"5\" target_height=\"250\" proportion=\"4:3\" column_width=\"250\" under_image_buttons=\"under_image\" hover_animation=\"fade\" hover_bg_color=\"accent\" hover_content_visibility=\"on_hover\" bg_under_projects=\"fullwidth\" content_aligment=\"left\" loading_effect=\"scale_up\" show_title=\"true\" show_details=\"true\" show_zoom=\"true\"][vc_empty_space height=\"40px\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1421309060571{padding-left: 10px !important;}\"]\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[dt_button size=\"medium\" animation=\"none\" icon=\"fa fa-desktop\" icon_align=\"left\" color=\"\" link=\"http://www.facebook.com/lloydlunacircle/\" target_self=\"blank\"]Add Me on Facebook[/dt_button][dt_button size=\"medium\" animation=\"none\" icon=\"fa fa-phone-square\" icon_align=\"left\" color=\"\" link=\"http://www.twitter.com/lloydluna/\" target_self=\"true\"]Follow Me on Twitter[/dt_button]</p>\r\n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1/1\"][vc_empty_space height=\"70px\"][/vc_column][/vc_row]', 'Asian Inspirational Speaker', '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'open', '', '30265-revision-v1', '', '', '2015-05-26 20:16:47', '2015-05-26 12:16:47', '', 30265, 'http://www.lloydluna.com/30265-revision-v1/', 0, 'revision', '', 0),
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