FUN RHYME BLOGS SERIES NO. 3- ON BEING & STAYING YOUNG
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I am a litigation lawyer in the Philippines and a graduate of the UP College of Law. I also hold an AB Economics degree from the University of the Philippines. While taking up Law at UP Diliman, I was working at the Tondo Foreshore Development Project which eventually became part of the National Housing Authority (NHA), where I started out as a Research Officer and eventually rose as Estate Manager. When the EDSA REVOLUTION happened, I resigned from the NHA in May 1986 and got employed as Legal Officer with Allied Banking Corporation's Legal and Collection Department, which got merged with the Philippine National Bank. In 1998, together with my UP Law classmate, the late Jaime G. Nagrampa, we put up a private law firm which originally was named NAGRAMPA & YOUNG Law Office and now, as THE YOUNG LAW FIRM. View all posts by walteryounglawfirm
Very inspiring Wally Idol.. But I am not into sleep mania.. I retire to bed late and wake up early… As a senior, your sleep of 5-6 hours will do.. I clean up the kitchen, scrub the dirty floor and at 8:00 I have to take care of my 2 grandkids here, feed, bath and lullabied them to sleep, clean them up after every bathroom visit until their mom picks them up at 4:00 p.m. Like Daddy Max, I ate a lot of bananas, vegetables and other fruits, do the treadmill and walk up and down the 14 steps stair following 2 rambunctious toddlers. I’m online only when they are asleep and when it is my day off. On my off days I also walked to the malls from the house — but when I drove to the malls during cold days, I do a lot of walking inside the mall and a lot of “window” shopping too. Yes, work is fun when you enjoy what you were doing. They also said work ceases to be work and it becomes a pleasure when you enjoy it. I had been doing the stuff you were doing for 20 years until it had ceased to become enjoyable. I admire your tenacity and resilience in enjoying the job I used to enjoy. But that calling has ended when I ceased to enjoy it and later find my solace in simple things as “babysitting” and remote “farming.” I thanked God for giving me the capacity to reinvent myself– as if I heard Him whisper that He isn’t done with me yet.
Yes, I would love to see Daddy Max in person and see that grin in his venerable face, to remind me of that distinctive and naughty smile in yours in1974 in Prof. Ambion’s class. And I’m sure, my wife Gloria would be as ecstatic to meet the indefatigable Daddy Max and his family.
You were the inspiration Padi…an idolized friend indeed!