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60 IS THE NEW 40 Tom Choy Vancouver, British Columbia “ My body is going to be 62 this year,” declares Grandmaster Datu Shishir Inocalla, 9 th degree Grandmaster of Arnis Maharlika , a school and society for Filipino Martial Arts. Shishir continues, “My heart is 26 and my spirit is 266th on my next birthday.” Shishir does not look his age. There are 40 year olds who even look older than him. What is his secret? Not only is he a grandmaster martial arts practitioner and mentor, he also believes in a healthy mind and spirit in a strong and healthy body. He smiles a lot. Smiling is one of the most potent natural medicine in the world. He just does not talk about eating right, he practices what he preaches. He is 100% vegan. Grandmaster Shishir  won the light heavyweight martial arts championship held in Ontario, Canada in 1973. He was featured in the Blackbelt  Magazine in North America. Inocalla was  bestowed  grandmaster by the Grandmaster S...

Targeting 1000 FEASTS By Tom Choy Vancouver, British Columbia “Never focus on your problems. Focus on your possibilities. The problems will pull you down. The possibilities will push you up.” Bo Sanchez Bo Sanchez, a Filipino lay evangelist, author, and entrepreneur, is looking to hold simultaneously 1,000 feasts worldwide in the future.  They do over 200 now. A feast is a weekly prayer and fellowship meeting held once a month among  their members. Most of these Bo Sanchez-led and inspired feasts (called Kerygma feasts) fill up to capacity huge and small halls including the PICC in the Philippines and the Broadway Church and St. Mary’s basement hall  in Vancouver.  Sanchez was awarded Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) of the Philippines in 2006. He won the Serviam Award, the highest award a lay Catholic may receive in 2007. On his spat with the Catholic Church, Bo says in his Facebook post, “By the way, just so people don’t get me wrong, ...