Rellenong Tabios

He turned One year Old yesterday!

2010-09-04T16:29:00.000-07:00

Rodrigo Javier Asuncion Arnedo

2009-11-07T17:48:00.000-08:00

Trisa @ 2 years old

2009-05-10T18:30:00.000-07:00

Fix the bed, para happy Mama ko

Hectic social life ko!
rest muna ang princess

Alam ko succes ako

The future is so bright...

I gotta wear shades

You must be well connected to be successful

with the All Galaxy Teacher of the Year

Dr. Josette Biyo

Who on earth sleeps this way?

2009-01-22T00:46:00.001-08:00

My pa-cute two year old daughter that's who? I don't understand how one sleeps with the weight on her head and neck.

so chut! I'll give her a thousand kisses for sleeping like this!

Valedictory-A Final Salute to the Pfizer Sales team

2009-01-07T23:39:00.000-08:00

Team , I am truly touched by this gesture. At the same time, I am also reminded of an old saying that a leader is defined by the people he leads. If your accomplishments are indeed a portrait of me, then professionally I must look as good as Sam Milby. So as I feel honored now, allow me to honor the Pfizer sales team as well.

I’d like to do so by making one more bold prediction. You will move on to bigger and greater milestones. What we have achieved in the last few years will pale in comparison to your scorecard a few years from now.

All the elements are in place.

You are well lead, No other Sales management team is as well prepared to lead you through the storms and tempests of the coming years. Joel Calleja, your ASDs and NSMs have long been primed to take you to the next plate of excellence.

You are well trained. No other team has had to comply with more exacting standards and shown more resilience during adversity. The turbulent times are the best of times for you to showcase your special gifts.

Therefore, before I take my final leave as your sales director, allow me to make three final reminders.

During this time of economic turbulence, never forget that you are the best of the best, and the best are not bothered by trivialities. The best shine through during the worst of times

Never compromise on the Pfizer standards for that is the roadmap to future success.

Never forget the Pfizer Values, for they define who you are and at times of ambiguity, these will be your guide.

You are Pfizer. You are the team for the ages, and the best is yet to come!

Allow me to offer you a fitting final toast. The immortal words of a Van Halen song in 1986 come to mind.

Team Pfizer,

Reach for the golden ring
Reach for the sky
Baby just spread your wings
We'll get higher and higher straight up we'll climb
We'll get higher and higher leave it all behind
Cheers Team Pfizer! Rock on!

Trisa @ 9 Months

2007-09-06T19:52:00.001-07:00

When you get to be as old as I am ( 9 mos. old) you tend to be more introspective

Want a better view? quarter turn to the right

But my papa says I have close to two thousand different kinds of smile ( eat your heart out Meg Ryan). Want me to show you?

Start the countdown...

The Oh-my-god, you-are-the-best-toy-in-the-world smile

Simba the Lion King smile...are you counting? that's two

Too many toys, too little time Smile

Ver Kilig for Mama only smile

The "Gee I am not so sure I should" smile

I ver Iwwesistible smile

The Chutie pie " You feel I ver pretty smile

The Oh my I tho ver surprised and pleased smile

Liz Taylor at 9 mos..,

Ava Gardner's reluctant smile

I can smile with just my eyes

Massage is hardwork but somebody's got to do it

I am leaving...not on a jet plane but in a suitcase, no money eh!

This isn't a smile you...you...you...never mind!

Over a bottle of..er milk, share with me your troubles and I'll see how I can help you

I don't weally comb my hair, but I think I still look fabulous

Wanna show me your belly button? Here is mine

nighty-nite!

The World According to my daughter Trisa

2007-06-28T21:51:00.000-07:00

Before everything else... how about a smile?

Allow me to share with you my ideas on the world

Its a happy place with lotsa flashbulbs

The world is not flat, it is upside down...

Hide and Seek is one of life's pure joys and the primary
reason why this world was created

I ver thad, Mama and Papa have to work...Again?!!

Certain portions of the earth's surface are soft and uneven
and make so-so beds

They say I smile like my Mama... I dinna know
that, I kinda thought I am 100% Owiginal

A change in position, changes the global outlook...
I coulda, shoulda, weach my toes

My Ma & Pa impwess me no end...
they are my world

I slept through it all...all nine months, plus those
nine weird hours in the delivery room

Sometimes your beginnings might not be as glamorous
as your future or even pwesent

My "twin" sister Andy Umali ( we share exactly the same birthday)

she is the round-eyed, wide-eyed, pleasantly plump beauty. I am more the slim, sultry type. We both have too much appeal though

Sigh! The world is a truly crowded place. Too many huggy-kissy,

huggy-kissy, tiresome adult types!

The world is a Paradox...

I have small parents, wearing big, big smiles

my gloves are oversized ( Muhamad Ali size, methinks)

But I'm kinda small ( what did you expect?)

I've run out of pictures, but the captions kinda keep on...sigh

This is all for now!

Rivulets of Gray

2007-06-28T18:52:00.000-07:00

By GS Arnedo
November 6, 2006

I watched upon the hilltop
amidst the evergreen of May
Bathed in the sun’s teardrop
Rolled the rivulets of gray

Beneath the sky’s azure brow
The golden pond glistened
And beckoned the rivulets to furrow,
To tarry, to frolick and to listen

As they plunged into the amber pond,
their fellowship they broke,
And roaring through tender ground
With ripples as their yoke

Dedicated to Pfizer’s 1997 PC Team 2
and to all the other workplace colleagues I have mentored

Dandelions

2007-06-28T18:50:00.000-07:00

Dandelions

-by GS Arnedo
for English 14 1983

The unfelt breeze caresses the meadows
Of Dandelions in full bloom
Sweeping up like startled swallows
A hale of tufts, a shattered moon.

Each tiny tuft, is life on its own
A promise of beauty, of unparalleled delight
A wanderer, with destination unknown
To meander far, with nothing in sight

The tuft that falls on verdant land,
Shoots up in splendor, in majesty
To grace the fields amidst old hands,
Alive, awe-inspiring, an Entity

Mourn for the tuft that falls among weeds,
Unnoticed, unrealized, a promise unfulfilled,
For indeed, what is potential without deeds?
A priceless squander, Life unlived

-dedicated to OLPS Class of ’83,

Word of Thanks-delivered on my father's funeral-Feb. 28, 2006-Sts. Peter and Paul Cathedral, Sorsogon City

2006-12-14T19:42:00.000-08:00

Most Reverend, Jesus Varela, Reverend fathers, our relatives from both the Arnedo and Salvador sides of the Family, Friends from Sorsogon, Ladies and Gentlemen, good afternoon.

The Arnedo family has asked me to convey our thanks to the many people who have touched and enriched my father’s life, those who extended their arms in prayer for the eternal repose of his soul and, to those who have brought comfort to our family during our time of grief.

First on the list is the Sorsogon clergy, my father’s kindred spirit in his service to the poor and the needy. My father took great pride not just with his close friendship with Bishop Concordio Ma. Sarte and his boyhood friend Bishop Jesus Varela, but with many priests as well, some of whom are present here today.

To him the Sorsoganon priests were either his sons or brothers, and would say to us, in rare moments of bravado that the reason for his close kinship with them is that in reality, he was a cardinal, and the only one allowed by Rome to have seven children.

In truth he loved the clergy because they reinforced his belief, that there is only one way to live one’s life on this earth, and that is to live simply, to live life with purpose and to put paramount value to serving the poor.

Most people remember my father for his brief stint as an executive of this province. Yet the most often repeated stories at our dinner table were not those about being governor. But rather those of clients unjustly accused who came to him in desperate need, unschooled, shoeless, destitute. Their cases were often difficult for these were not the most sophisticated of people, and the crimes they were accused of had the gravest of penalties. Nothing made him prouder than winning their cases and having them acquitted.

I thank you reverend fathers for your words of comfort upon my father’s death. Thanks for the prayers and counsel you gave him during the most challenging moments of his life. My father was always emboldened by the thought that the clergy always prayed for him and thus his decisions would always turn out to be for the greater good. So, from the grateful family of Nonoy “Cardinal” Arnedo, salamatunun tabi.

To our relatives, you have been a tremendous source of strength for my Mom and my siblings. To the Chacon family, especially Manoy Albert, who had saved my father’s life maybe hundreds of times over during the past many years, despite the fact that Daddy could be the most difficult of patients. Manoy Albert, thank you for your patience and devotion. No uncle on this earth could possibly be luckier.

To the dearest friends of my father, the members of the Class of 1948. Thank you for your friendship, for the care and affection you have shown him especially during the latter part of his life when Alzheimer’s disease robbed him of the joy of your company and the strength to fulfill his role as your class president.

To those who supported and believed in my father during his public life, let me say again thank you. Indeed you have chosen well, for he was a man of vision, of Christian values and of tremendous internal strength. Yet even the best among us, the most well-meaning and the most courageous of men need encouragement. Your support gave him so much more than that. You, our dear friends, were the wind beneath my father’s wings.

As we entrust his soul to God, I ask you one more time to pray for Nonoy Arnedo, that he may join the mighty company of those who, like him, dedicated their lives to the example of servant leadership. That Jesus may say to him, “Well done my good and faithful servant, come join My Father’s banquet”

Salamatunun tabi sa pag padaba niyo kan Daddy. Marahay na Hapon. Diyos Mabalos saindo Gabos.