Allan Codinera: Ultimately, Fighting Champion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5lQpmy4uVo

Remember those movie scenes where the action hero breaks into enemy headquarters?  He would eliminate the guard at each post, one by one, with a graceful chokehold. I often wondered if that was all possible in real life. That is until I met Allan Codinera in a party last Saturday in Toronto.

"I've been trained to kill efficiently in two seconds," he said. "I learned Brazilian Jujitsu when I joined the Canadian Army."

FW: Txt

Edith manages to open her eyes and finds herself face to face with a tiger. It is one of a pair of Tigger slippers on the floor. The sudden blare of the television knocked her off the bed. She puts on her eyeglasses and sees that it is four in the morning.  Pope Benedict in Vatican is on the screen, performing some rituals in Latin. The commentary on the bottom of the screen reads, "Canonisation de frere Andre." She fell asleep watching a French movie that night precisely because it is not her first nor second language. So she picks up the remote, surfs for English, and finds one interesting channel with the same scene, Pope Benedict in Vatican. However, this one has some reporters discussing an interesting angle about the Canonization of Brother Andre.

Shaping the World One Stroller at a Time

 

Marine biologists reported that a humpback whale broke the world record of migration by any mammal, by swimming at least 6,125 miles from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean in search of a mate. Now think about this, a typical Filipino nanny in Toronto would have traveled an average of 20,000 miles in search of a better life for her family. I know that I am comparing apples to lanzones but you get my point.

Consider Jocelyn who works as a personal assistant to a rich Canadian couple in Rosedale, Toronto. She had been pushing strollers all over the world since 1980 when she left Manila to work as a nanny, first in Italy, then to Dubai, before ending up in Canada.