Jon Santos: Follow your Passion!

        On February 11, 2016 at the APC auditorium, The English Resource Center (ERC) of the School of Multimedia and Arts welcomes the Year of the Red Monkey with Jon Santos. He was invited to have a talk about how he became successful in his career entitled "Follow your passion... I did!" The program started with a video. The video shows Jon Santos impersonating different celebrities like Ate Vi” (Vilma Santos), “Basana Roces” (Rosana Roces), “Armida Sigyon-Makareyna” (Armida Siguion-Reyna), “Sherap Espada (& his wife, “Sen. Lhoy”)” (Pres. Erap And Senator Loi Estrada), “Shawie” (Sharon Cuneta), “Bro. Mike Volare” (Bro. Mike Velarde), “Tita Kory” (Cory Aquino), “Sen. Juan Flavor” (Sen. Juan Flavier), “Sen. Meeryam” (Sen. Miriam Defensor-Santiago), “Pres. Gloring” (PGMA), “Krissy Anino” (Kris Aquino) and many more. 

      He started his talk by impersonating Joseph Estrada. He also cracks some jokes which made the audience really alive and ready to listen to his talk. I always laugh every time he pointed out to some audience and ask, "Why are you looking at me in a provocative manner?!" He said that he started impersonating someone when he was in grade school. He also said that copying someone is the core of a comedian. He enumerated the 10 things that he follows in his life. The first one is to "Listen". He said that we must learn to listen and consider some other voice that might help up really understand ourselves. He also said about a Japanese term in their culture, "a floating world" that he usually considers. The second one is "All learning will enrich you." He said that, anything we learn, we must use it for us to learn more. The third up until ninth is learning what you love will make you the richest person in the world, knowledge is everything, win the war before you fight it, You must know how to Adjust, Adapt, Evolve, when the floating world sinks a little, reconvene with advisers, leave room for the divine and, you are not alone in your journey. He told at this part that building things that are high quality and valuable to you takes time. Life builds friendship, relationship or business actually takes a ton of time, energy and consistency. He said that once you realized or concluded, to use your term, that my time was being well spent and I was going to progress in the desired ways, I think I gave myself tools to chill out and be more satisfied and less frustrated with the slowness of everything. At that point you can enjoy the marrow of the process and the progress. Lastly, he said "Love yourself, and then let go of yourself". Lose yourself because that the only way to live.

       All in all, he really spread the good vibes that day. He really have been through a lot and I think he really deserves all the blessing he is accepting right now. He believes that everything is a plan of God. He said that we should always trust God because everything is just falling into place.