ERIC EDWARD HOTUNG

Gone are the days of yesteryears, Joys and laughters be heard no more. Jade is broken, river of tears flowed, On this parting moment Of grief, lamentation. When sorrows paled 'Round the splendid bend, Serendipity is in recluse. Conrad Andres II September 20, 2023

SEPTEMBER MOURNS Weeping willows align 'Round the peach trees Abloom in ancient wisdom Brotherhood stands, Amid the ravages of time.

8th of June

The tiger roams the fastness
Leaps over gorges, rivulets
Past the blazing grassland.
Now perched atop Victoria peak
Musing over a thousand isles
Where native smiles await.

8th of June

The tiger roams the fastness
Leaps over gorges, rivulets
Past the blazing grassland.
Now perched atop Victoria peak
Musing over a thousand isles
Where native smiles await.

Twenty years ago today you gathered in a symposium a hundred scholars from various disciplines across Asia-Pacific academes - to share their thoughts on what the region would be like in the dawning of the 21st century. Focused on major challenges and prospects for resolution of regional conflicts and rapid pace of urbanization. Today, we are living witnesses for what you and they foresaw. The visionary in you Eric being in the forefront of cultivating US-China relations and amity between DPRK...

Your footprint in Amanpulo and in other Philippine islands must have been blown away by the cyclones of change, but your soul's imprint remains impregnable in the chambers of our hearts....

a chronicle of your exemplary exploits and magnanimity will always be enshrined in our hearts...there's no farewell; for sooner or later, I will be by your side, as a loyal friend, willing and ready to travel with you anywhere...