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On Top of the Clock Tower

Jeffrey Nepomuceno’s Autobiography

“I am who I am.”

In a solemn night of the fourth of July, when the year of the dragon was celebrated, the stillness of the night was ravaged by a newborn’s cry. Said to be, that child will make the world a better place to live. And the child was I, Jeffrey Nepomuceno.
He was blessed by two loving parents, Enrico and Josefina, to whom God entrusted me. He lived his adolescence years with his parents, other brothers, and his sister happily. And soon after he found out that “tomorrow will not be fair to him.”
As he wake up on his seventeenth year in life, he already knew how hard life is. The journey of a man, once a child who broke the silence of the night, is now beginning, and realizing all the “realities” and the “uncertainties” in his “rounded world” called LIFE.

“Life for me is everything I do not know but something I could discover.”

Life is everything to me: in every single minute to the years I have conquered; in each strand of my hair to the nails in my fingers; from the air I breathe to the water I drink and for the earth that gave life to me. This is my life… and I owe it to everything.
Life is a matter of choice. In my seventeen years stay in the cozy earth we are in, I always do consider the right things, specifically the “must things” in life. In every action or word I do or say, I always take time to consider things that are “must” choices in life.
I only have few cherished friends in my very own anthology but they are truly dramatic and interesting novels inside my treasured book. I am very thankful of having them in my life. “Life without them is a life chained in misery.”
I love LOVE and I love life. Everybody who knows me always tell people that I am a hopeless romantic. I feel incomplete amidst all the triumphs and success I have attained. Why should I feel this? Somebody dared to ask me between love and life, what would I choose? And then I whispered, “I must choose love.” Why? Love is the main ingredient that spices up life. Life without love is just like a hard-boiled egg… plain and dull.
I live my life in simplicity yet extravagantly blessed by God. Life, for me, is as simple as a native hut, built in simplicity, furnished with diamonds, and roofed by gold.

“I wish one day I could be one.”

Being an internationally renowned chef is the ultimate dream I have in mind, that’സ why ten years from now, I guess I will be leaving the Philippines to have my experience sharpened and to test my skills for my future career. And some more years will pass, I am seeing myself working as an apprentice in a restaurant in Venice, Italy. Of course, I will take advantage of that opportunity to live and work there for another twenty to twenty-five years, and eventually be a citizen of that country. After I earn the amount of $19, 000, 000, 000, I would probably try to make another life comfortable. First of all, I want to spend that money to give my family their own house and lot and a “living” they never expected they would have. I will first build my mothers house one in Tagaytay and another one in Antipolo. I will buy a ranch in Laguna for my father’s passion of breeding fighting roosters. I will give my sister her own travel agency and try to buy her own resort in Boracay or in Davao, a small plane and her own car. For my brethren, I want them to have grandeur and a very big mansion for them to share.

I think by that time I already have my own family—a very loving and caring wife with our two children, Maria Concepcion and John Tidus Gregor. I don’t want to live without them so I will go back in the Philippines and try to have my own restaurant, “Aussi Grammaire Fantaisie.”

I am a mama’s boy, so I think I will be having my rest house also in Tagaytay but our residence will reside somewhere in Makati or in EDSA. I want to have all I want in life… so many in my list I cannot name even one. But one thing is for sure; I will try all my best to have all of those. And if I feel I am already satisfied and happy, then I can say… “I am now SUCCESSFUL!”

Everybody has his or her own exceptional dreams. Aside from being internationally renowned chef, I am always daydreaming about taking a catwalk on the ramp or pausing for a billboard for a famous clothing line… in short, I want to be a model. But I think my “façade” will not satisfy the CEO of BENCH and the rest of the Sung Yin Corporation. I have passion yet not enough, and how I wish I could do something to improve it. I really want to be one of those who are gazed by many, one of those who are followed by few, and one of those who is “suffering” all the blessings of the fashion and modeling industry. I wish one day I could be one.

“The best things in life are free… in fact, you could find them at your backyard.”

I am a loner yet satisfied in every second I am with myself as my companion. Aside from the mere fact that I am a loner, I do really appreciate simple things and the silence of things around me.
I always love to hear how the trees tell stories with the rhythm from the wind and how the stream travels the world, or how splendor the rainfall and the dawn of the sun are? Why should the ants fall in line as they work everyday, or why should my pulse beat ninety times a minute?
I am easily pleased but it’s not obvious. Many say that I am “Mr. Masungit” and “G. Suplado,” but did they even wondered how I appreciate the things or the words such as hellos and take cares. But truly, I am a serious person, “life is already a game” and we shouldn’t make play anymore.

“Do not do unto others, you do not want others to do unto you.”

According to Confucius, “Without humanity a man cannot long endure adversity, nor can he long enjoy prosperity. The humane rest in humanity; the wise find it beneficial and only the humane man can love men and can hate men.” Yes, I admit it… I am a rulebook. But being one of those who sticks to their philosophy are those who were able to acquire discipline to themselves, and I as one of them is proud to say that because of these philosophies I am using as my guidelines, I learned how to be humane, to respect other as I respect myself, and to have a sense of well-being. I always go back to the things that taught special lessons to me and I have realized that life is really simple if you’ll treat it as what it is but life could be that unusual if you are going to foresee things that are really never there.

“Being unique isn’t being different… it’s a matter of being above from all.”

What makes me unique from all other peers of my age? Well, I think it’s all because of what I believe… my philosophy in life. I think that I am the line that divides goodness and foolishness. Setting the world as perfect as I could is a hard thing to do, and to do that requires too many skills or experiences to be gained, but there is something that I could do… I can start changing the world to a better place by sharing those things I have; yet I cannot give all the world needs because I cannot share what I do not have. When time comes and my vision of a better world isn’t finish, I guess I failed to complete my mission. But one thing is for sure; at least I’ve tried to do something for the betterment of the human race.

“Now, as I go on to my journey, I stop for a while to rest and to view my footsteps from the scene I was yesterday and the obstacles I have conquered from the top of the clock tower.”