Personal Speeches

• Love Letters
  Remarks during my 50th birthday celebration, where I invited 50 of my closest female friends to celebrate with me, Manila, 1994, 2 pp.
• This short speech was my testimony to the value I give to love, friendships and dear relationships, and how they shaped my life, and how I was going to try to reciprocate all the love that came my way over the past 50 years.
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  Author's Comments
  Talk at the Book launching of my historical novel "With Hearts Aflame," Manila, 2002, 3 pp.
• My remarks focused on the laborious effort of developing the book, like "delivering a child", and thanking all those who helped in the delivery. I also spoke of why I wrote the book and my hope that it would be, more than just a love story, also a subliminal and memorable lesson on the greatest period in Philippine history.
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  Words of Farewell
  Intervention at Regional UNESCO Conference, two weeks before I retired from UNESCO, Almaty, Uzbekistan, 2000, 2 pp.
• I thanked all those who made my stay in UNESCO so fruitful and shared the lessons of whatever success I achieved during my ten years in the organization. As it was a period of transition for UNESCO, I tried to paint a longer range view of the prospects and noble possibilities for the organization.
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  Acceptance Speech
  On the occasion of being presented the Most Outstanding Alumnus Award by the De La Salle University Alumni Association, Manila, 2006, 3 pp.
• Besides thanking all involved, I pointed out that success was never an individual thing, but always the product of teamwork and, and of course, a good educational foundation upon which success can be built.