FRAGRANCE OF THE SEASON

Christmas is almost over..and New Year is fast approaching. Christmas is the longest celebration in the country and the celebrations even extended to New Year's eve.
Have you sent your warm wishes to the people dear to you? to your friends? Our spirits rise as we breathe in the winter air flinging off our burdens as we step into the part covered with crispy brown leaves. When you look up into the blue sky you'll find a great big smile through the clouds.
As we are welcoming the 2009,smiles are what fill us with delight and bring us back to our good old days....in 2008.
On a crystal clear blue morning,there is a peace that only you can know...and everyone wish for that world peace in that coming 2009. Everyone is continually asking,what would be in store for us this 2009, since we are covering with tensions of that world crisis?
Looking back the 2008, it wasn't that blissful and prosperous year for me, but a sort of unfortunate and stressful life given to me.
Fear as we called it but 2009 is still an anticipating event that we need to know curiously. We need to shield ourselves whatever that adversaries would attack us somehow.
I wish everyone a blessed 2009 New Year.....

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

It's Christmas time and the whole planet is celebrating regardless of religions,culture,and spiritual beliefs.Amidst of the world crisis,it never stops the world to celebrate because of its remembrance of God's birth,though its not the exact date of his birth Biblically.
People were busily shopping in advance to avoid the rush. Some may have contented of what is being around,and what is being given by the Almighty.Some were displaying different colors of light and Christmas trees earlier just to fill the air with warm of celebrations.
Some have just preferred their houses flooded with Christmas ornaments,some were reusing and recycling the old stuff just to be frugal of sort.
Others were spending the Yuletide season at home with their families, others preferred to be at their work..just like me.
Nonetheless,no matter how we celebrate it individually and geographically,what matters most is we are celebrating it because of God's remembrance of his birth not just because of the season.
I just wish that I can spend the season with my parents....its been 14 long years and is still counting that I haven't spent it with them. The atmosphere is quiet cool which the air is breathlessly blowing here and there reminding that Christmas is just around the corner now.
Wishing the world a Merry Christmas so as to my fellow Bloggers, frequent visitors and readers.....God Bless us as we are remembering Him this seasons of hope.

MY GROWN UP CHRISTMAS LIST

Do you remember me
I sat upon your knee
I wrote to you
With childhood fantasies

Well, I'm all grown up now
And still need help somehow
I'm not a child
But my heart still can dream

So here's my lifelong wish
My grown up christmas list
Not for myself
But for a world in need

I just knew this song last year when a friend of mine shared this song by sending it thru bluetooth.The message behind the song was illuminating that soothes coldly to my heart specially this Yuletide season.
Christmas is the most Wonderful Time of the Year,according to Paul Anka's song, which is true.To be honest,I can't feel much the aura of Christmas since I'm broke and just started my class this Tuesday.We tried to convince the Koreans, to come back here to study English but they were affected of the crisis as well, that stop them to come.
The world is in deep crisis,how could you feel the essence of Christmas? Can you expect people to smile though life is tight right now? I believe people will still wear a smile amidst of the crisis,economically.Shopping malls are still filled with rat mallers and shoppers,busily buying gifts and food for Christmas.
As a grown up person,I have tried to list some of my Christmas wish list.The only thing that I wanted to have in life is a simple living with so much contentment.Herewith, are my Christmas life long wishlist this year;
1.Good stable paying job
2.Traveling/working abroad
3.gifts for my parents and hopefully see them this year.
4.reunion with my brothers and family
5.reunion with my classmates back in high school
6.to be financially stable
7.spiritually stable
8.health
9.to own a Mac laptop
10.to buy a C902 SonyEriccson mobile
11.a lifetime partner

Adults have Christmas wish as well,not just the kids.I can't wish for a world peace since it's prophesied by the Holy Scripture that in the end times world will be in chaos.Too bad,that we are in the midst of this turmoil which the competition is tough,no matter how good you are academically,yet,your diploma won't surely guarantee you of that good future monetarily.
I never have any wish for this year but that list written above..they might not be the complete lists but its just in my mind that is being processed...and considerably a lifelong wish list every Christmas.

A NOSTALGIC SONG

I'M GOING BACK TO THE PHILIPPINES
Artist: Menudo

im going back to the philippines
INTRO: FM7, F, FM7-Bb7/ pause
FM7, F, FM7-Bb7/ pause
(repeat except last chord)
BbM7 pause

F Gm7 F/A
Quietly she sat beside me
Bb C
"Hello love", was all she said,
F Gm7 F/A
"Are you also feelin' lonely?"
Bb C
With her eyes she answered, "Yes."

REFRAIN:
A7/C# Dm
In Makati when we met
Dm/C Dm/B
The moment I will never forget.
Bb Am7 Dm7
Her perfume filled the warm night air
Bb C Am7 Dm7
A yellow rose she wore in her hair,
Bb C Am7 Dm7
That's when I knew how much I cared
Bb C F-Gm7-F/A-Bb-C pause
And I took her with a kiss.

F Gm7 F/A
We walked along through the city
Bb C
And I held her by the hand,
F Gm7 F/A
"When I am gone, will you miss me?
Bb C
Think of how our love began."

REFRAIN:
A7/C# Dm
Underneath Manila sky
Dm/C Dm/B
We knew we had to say goodbye.
Bb Am7 Dm7
And for the last time we shared our dreams
Bb C Am7 Dm7
Our deepest secret and what our love means,
Bb C Am7 Dm7
I made my promise, she made a wish
Bb C F-Bb/F-F-
An I left her with a kiss

CHORUS: F, Eb
Bb F
I'm goin' back to the Philippines
C F- F,Eb
Where my love is waiting
Bb F
I'm goin' back to the Philippines
C F-
To see my love once again.
(Repeat except last word)
Bb-
...... again
C F
With you is where I belong.
(Repeat Chorus)

CODA: (Fade)
F, Eb, Bb-F-C-
Bb/F-C/F-F/Bb

Upon browsing and touring the entire world of cyberspace, I was accidentally bumped into this long forgotten song,-"I'm Going Back To The Philippines" sang by one of the famous boy bands in the 80's Menudo.
It was sang by a new member of Menudo Raymund Acevedo...freshly as it may seems...my memory bank has just started to play the song as my mouth was trying to utter some vaguely lyrics.I strongly believe that this song was a nostalgic which brought so much tears and emotions of fleetingness to the Filipino fans.
Well, just try to appreciate what this song had made a tremendous impact to the Philippines. It had kept the fondest memories alive,isn't it? it's a timeless classic that has always warmed our hearts and it brings us back to all those wonderful years with this boy band which is a yesterday once more.

LIFE IS A JOURNEY:WE ARE LIKE CASSETTE PLAYER

Life is a journey. We are like a CASSETTE PLAYER. It has Play, Rewind, Forward, Record, Eject and Pause.Most of the time we are PLAYING are life journey, Sometimes we REWIND our Past, Also we FAST FORWARD for our dreams and ambitions, We also RECORD most of our experiences. But if you have problems in life, just PAUSE..... but never ever touch the EJECT because that is withdrawal from one's happiness, or even quitting from one's life.PERSONS ARE GIFTS FROM GOD TO US...We are all gifts wrapped with different wrappers and colors. But whether you are wrapped with SPECIAL DELIVERY or ORDINARY PAPER, it's not a big deal because what is important.....you are wrapped with LOVE.You are a person, you are a gift...
(source: www.scihi1990.blogspot.com)

One of the websites that I like to visit is, a website that is being organized by my neighbor and schoolmate in OCNHS..one of the entries of their blog was about Life is a Journey..hence,we are like Cassette player being played repeatedly,aren't we?. We sometimes live the recorded things that we do everyday, or we keep on blaming ourselves about the failures that we have had in the past.
Hence, the quotation above is just a self-explanatory...its up to you on how you see things as it is or how you interpret it.

IN TIMES LIKE THESE

The world is hopeless now, as the world's getting older the more our conditions become critically worst. Our money have lost a great deal of their purchasing power.
The world is in the midst of an absolutely enormous financial crisis. Recently, four great banks in America announced its bankruptcy, with many major banks and other respected financial institutions in danger collapsing. Philippine stock exchange, seriously dying following the less job opportunity in the country with meager salaries but massive government corruptions.
Chaos in Thailand, pathetical bombing in India and in various parts of Middle East. Non stop wars from selected countries keep wreaking havoc the fear conditions of the young and innocent minds.
Natural related disasters continually damaging some parts of the world, that left emptiness to every loss of individuals. A famous American Economic analyst predicted America would suffer a great economic melt down by the year 2009 and onwards. it is the most powerful country inthe world but economically paralyzed that affects the world market.
These facts dishearten me much so as my future clearly vanish. In times like these, what will you do? what would be the first things that pops out into your mind? In times like these, where are you going?
If I'm going to ask or if I were to ask myself, I practically don't know...I,myself is a hopeless homosapiens and is trying to survive these striking analogical crisis.Truly, its an alarming to realize that I am really unable and lacking strength since I'm still jobless and has no permanent job. As I can see , my education has no used to no avails.

THE QUIET SHOUT

I just want to leave the comfort zone and make major life changes so I could be as happy as I truly deserved to be....Haaay,hirap ng buhay talaga!

In my quest to search the freedom that I have longed for, hasn't visibly come. Life has been so boring, unfair in such a way that I become eccentric. Surrounded by people whom I have just met not just long ago of years, misjudge me of being wicked, a losser, undesirable, uneasy to get along with and fastidious.

But they don't know practically the real me, that I juggle a grueling unfair life the same fate that they have. Being frank is better than being vulgar,right? That's me, a frank person who never afriads to talk straight and show sincere expression. What's wrong with being frank? I'm just trying to be honest and true, visibly showing the real me instead of acting to be pious superficially but a fake trying hard individuals.

Having a real group of friends since birth and friends whom I just met in the school and in church are the people with whom I dare to be myself, my soul is naked with them only to be who and what I am.These friends understand the contradictions the nature of me that sometimes lead others to misjudge me.Nonetheless, my doors are still open for a new room of set of friends. It's fun to have a lot of friends around you, but in the canopy of a place that I temporarily considered home aren't (a) friends as I expected to be. They don't understand the inner demons of myself, I can't really be myself around with them.

They were blinded the selfishness and egoism that they don't see everything about me and love me of being who I am, but just loving me of what I have that they enjoyed freely, devouring what I earned (heaven forbid). The worm that itches the paranoia in me sparks to a critical perspective that they are just hypocrites and nothing but a family of pharisees,damn heck.

I was in deep distressed that regrettable is the word I choose, accepting somebody and fed them plainly on my palm,yet, turn their back on me. Now I already knew their true colors that easily faded when things turn out to be badly.

They never know the beginning lives of a shadow behind me with all the struggles in-between. I am also doing my best to protect and controlling myself from the predators in life or death struggle. Surviving the harsh changing life is really hard to control which the strong foundation of friendship that you have started literality melting away in front of me.

My heart is shouting quietly which the remedial likely to knock down the pain.

As a saying goes, "No friends-hard life.Many (real good) friends-hard life, but with (real good) friends." Honestly, life is hard nowadays, so why would I worry over to an unworthy to worry of?

THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD

The Long and Winding Road
(The Beattles)

The long and winding road
That leads to your door

Will never disappear
I've seen that road before

It always leads me here Lead me to you door

The wild and windy night

That the rain washed away
Has left a pool of tear

Crying for the day Why leave me standing here
Let me know the way

Many times Ive been alone
And many times Ive cried Any way youll never know

The many ways Ive tried

But still they lead me back
To the long winding road You left me standing here

A long long time ago Dont leave me waiting here

Lead me to your door

But still they lead me back
To the long winding road

You left me standing here
A long long time ago

Dont leave me waiting here
Lead me to your door

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

According to Paul McCartney the one who composed the song, "I just sat down at my piano in Scotland, started playing and came up with that song, imagining it was going to be done by someone like Ray Charles. I have always found inspiration in the calm beauty of Scotland and again it proved the place where I found inspiration."

"It's rather a sad song. I like writing sad songs, it's a good bag to get into because you can actually acknowledge some deeper feelings of your own and put them in it. It's a good vehicle"

I'm not a fan of Beattles but this song have brought so much impact of emotions into my heart. An emotions that normally feels by individual like me who struggles in life as the long & winding road that I continually travel down the lonely memory lane is a complete unknown destinations.
The winding road is still there and I still am trying to find that road which somehow would bring me to the place of happiness and called success that only relatively few have traveled and found it literally.
Up to now, my journey to the Long and Winding Road has never ended which is truly tiring and pressed me down. Little did I know how long would I embark on this long and winding road as human being as I am, is sometimes weak enough to combat the temptations and the loneliness in life. My life has been travelling on that road since I graduated my education last 2007, wishing that a door of opportunities would just be right there in front of me awaiting for my long knocking.
I have never been succeeded in my plans, so as my heart always asking deeply to the Most High to lead me to that directions that I long wish to see. My heart is bleeding profusely due to the unfulfilled and failure plans. Just can't help myself but to cry of grieve because of the pain continue to prick the flesh of my heart.
Would there be an end to that long and winding road? how long shall I trod and endlessly walking to that road?

HEALING WONDERS OF NATURE

Nature is a gift from God to all mankind: The green lush vegetation is what keeps our planet beautiful and life-worthy. Without vegetation we would have a garden without flowers, a planet without life. To care for our planet is one of our key concerns to learn. To care for nature is to care for God. The amount of effort, time and resources we invest into maintenance, protection and safekeeping of our entire natural environment is proportional to the amount of love we have for God.

Nature is a playground for mankind - a heavenly playground made by God for us. Learn to enjoy nature and absorb nature's powerful healing for body mind and soul. The nature photos above shall be but a motivation to enjoy the beauty of this planet all on your own.

DRAMATIC SIDE OF LIFE

Sometimes life is merciless and unjust.Do you agree? Life is unfair that sometimes its cheating us all the way out. When problems in the world can offer have stumbled over us we cried out and ask,is this what we call "Life is Beautiful" when you suffer (from) pain and inadequacy?
I may sound a melodramatist but what am I saying is, the reality that you'll see around you can speak. Not only the environment that would bring attestation on that,even ourselves can speak to that.
It's unreasonable to view the four sides of life without spotting any holes of adversaries,isn't it?
Nonetheless,I have been an emotive person since the door of reality and events comes with the totality of veracity.
Describing my emotions right now is in the wry of rage and envious,prophesying how obscure my life would be. Have been falling down,dissatisfied and was defeated from my endeavors a hundred times, was a ruthless but an unfair,life.
Questioning the proportions of life is beyond what you can fully understand the true essence of life a man can have.
Looking my classmates and friends back in high school,how successfully they are abroad and happily enjoying the lives they have chosen. What about me? what I'm gonna do? Would I still have the happiness and success in life in the latter part or none at all?

SHATTERED HOPE

Faith beyond faith healing....my hopes are almost gone. I always trudge the road to a place I called dreams, and now reality awaken me to wonder what I did to deserve such a plight. "What kind of God would let me down like this?" Thats the question I'm asking the Lord right now.

A recent event that I was anticipating to come turned to be a tragic one resulting to a bleeding of my heart profusely.

You see the problems I have had and is still a problem up to now isn't a lack of faith but a vision and hopes that I wanted to have not just for my sake but for Him and for my family as well,unselfishly.

Contrary wise, it's opposite to what I think of which is so hard to accept by heart.Last September of this year,I took the LET board exam believing that I would pass the exam because of the encouragement of my fellow educators to try.

It took a while before I got pursuaded to give it a try til the examination day arrived with tension and nervous.

When the result had published both the website of PRC and at the Manila Bulletin newspaper,everybody took a peep checking the names of thier friends,loved ones,etc. Refusing as I may call it, was the feeling clouded my heart as my body shivering for the result.

Sad to say,I flunked at the board exam included my colleagues and consider friends.It was painful as if it was a fist in my stomach.

No tears had streamed down nor to water my eyes but a questions of why? I knew that I had some shortcomings and was unprepared to take the exam but my expectations was a bit 60% since I prayed it hard to the Lord to consider it.

Nonetheless,the result was already there. I never had a preparations nor enough time to review because of the demand of my job as tutor.

Not sure by now if I would take the exam again because of the fear dwellings in my heart...chances would come but the assurance of taking the risk is a big No right now. I had enough and for the second chance is too much to bear.

THE CHARMS OF NATURE

There's nothing much to update this time in my blog...same routine and usual errand.Well,life is a bit boring these weeks as in monotonous days have stricken my life that tempted me to quit my tutorial job.
Sometimes when you get bored, everything went down asking yourself while facing the mirror.Tiredness,loneliness starting to envelope your heart as if the world is already hopeless and no chances to grow and improve from the old ways of life.
I usually,spend time browsing the net and leisurely entertain my weary heart from the boredoms of life.Checking the pictures and wallpapers of nature was the best remedies I recommended for a loner type personality just like me.
The picture below removes the aches that excruciatingly hurting my heart...staring at it, cools down the heavy load that you carry everyday.

Springtime is seen as a time growth,renewal,new life being born, and the recycle of life..the picture can attest itself silently.
When you look up into the blue sky you will find a great big smile through the clouds.Smiles are what fill us with delight and bring us back to our good old days.I can feel it in the air like a new and shivering flower that is growing.
I can see a lark in the morning like saying hello to me.I can hear it in the wind like a warm and tender greeting from an old friend.
I can feel it in my heart like a pure and sparkling mountain stream cascading.The trails of God's creation speaks directly to the heart that no matter how hopeless the world is,you just look up and you won't get bored.His nature charms the boredom of life...

PROTEST BOREDOM

Working and keeping occupied is one way of escaping boredom...I've been an idle (for) nearly 3 weeks because (of) I'm getting tired of my life teaching the Koreans with a customary or regular course of procedure routinely(everyday).
I really have no options its because that's the biggest way of getting big money in the quickest time,which is in line to my course.
Because boredom kept attacking me,I decided to quit for a while and stop whinning about teaching Koreans...I refused to teach in a formal school so as they just give you a meager salary after all those enclosure or "kaltas" thing.To unwind,resting for a while and enjoying myself as jobless was the first thing that I did and watching fave movies of course.
My closefriend Jackson Daguio had sent me his downloaded movies through bluetooth which I saved (them) in my cell phone.
The movies were "Remember the Titans" and "Blood Diamond"

Starred by Denzel Washington,he is memorable in Remember the Titans because of the demeanor as a football team coach during the times of racial tension between the Black and the White.I was inspired by this movie,viewing how Denzel pushed so hard the power of acceptance regardless of the color of your skin as long as you are in the same team you are all equal.Even in the early 70's,black were having a hard time of jiving the society where the majority is white.The movie was based in a true story.


The film tells the story of Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou), a fisherman who is enslaved to mine for blood diamonds. He finds a large one, which he hides before being captured. In jail he meets Danny Archer (Leonardo DiCaprio), a mercenary who smuggles diamonds. They escape and go to the warzone to retrieve the diamond. On the way they are joined by Maddy Bowen (Jennifer Connely). The rest is an action movie with characters on the run in a conflict ridden paradise.

The movie were satisfying,specially "Remember the Titans".It reminds me of how the black Americans were being deprived of having the equal opportunity with the white.Nearly 3 weeks of being idle was enjoying after all,at least I got my body firm from a long sleeps without rushing and thinking of works.

HISTORICALLY BLACK

Was disconnected online for a quite sometimes.....hmmm..life's seems to be so hard this time,honestly.
I'm always in the eavesdrop about the election in USA....listening who's gonna win.At last the moment had just come and the winner was announced,Barack Obama as the 44th US President.
It was the first time African-American to seat in the White House leading the most powerful country in the world.My eyes was watered by tears as I watched him in the news speaking of his victory in front of his supporters.
I have been reading stories about segregation or racial discrimination since then,especially about the black slavery in the US.The story that truly touched my heart was the story of Rosa Parks who refused to give up her seat to make room for the white passenger.She was imprisoned for not obeying the bus driver order and segregation law of the Montgomery City code.
Well,that's history and another history made by an inspired man who's giving hopes to those minorities in America.If I were to chose..I'd rather cast my vote to Obama.
I think it's time for America to give chance to the black to lead out USA..it has been always the white on the White House seat since Christopher Colombus.
The world is also celebrating the victory of Obama so as the Philippines.I also admire McCain for accepting his loss in the election and even begging his supporters to support Obama as the next President.
I just wish that Filipinos would learn something from the election in US not just on killing,cheating,demonstration against the opponents,etc.Well,the black Americans and the rest of the minorities in USA are rejoicing and equally be accepted as one.
My prayer and hope that one day Obama would fulfill his promise for the sake of the Americans and the minorities.

INSPIRATIONAL MESSAGE

I love reading inspirational messages..may it be forwarded or just being send from friends.Stories that touches our hearts serve as our rod to cast away fears and discouragement in life.
Another not so close friend had sent me an inspirational story in my friendster mail...I encountered the story a year ago but I love it to post them here in my blog so as everyone would get some thing out of it.....
Extract the story and you'll find out that we need prayer as our tool to combat anything....I don't need them to explain the whole parts about prayer but just read the story and you'll find out.
Here it goes..............


A girl went to a party and she ended
up staying longer than planned, and
had to walk home alone. She wasn't
afraid because it was a small town and
she lived only a few blocks away.
As she walked along under the tall elm
trees, Diane asked God to keep her
safe from harm and danger.
When she reached the alley, which was
a short cut to her house, she decided
to take it.
However, halfway down the alley she
noticed a man standing at the end as
though he were waiting for her.
She became uneasy and began to pray,
asking for God's protection.
Instantly a comforting feeling of
quietness and security wrapped round
her, she felt as though someone was
walking with her.
When she reached the end of the alley,
she walked right past the man and
arrived home safely.
The following day, she read in the
newspaper that a young girl had been
raped in the same alley just twenty
minutes after she had been there.
Feeling overwhelmed by this tragedy
and the fact that it could have been
her, she began to weep.
Thanking the Lord for her safety and
to help this young woman, she decided
to go to the police station.
She felt she could recognize the man,
so she told them her story.
The police asked her if she would be
willing to look at a lineup to see if
she could identify him.
She agreed and immediately pointed out
the man she had seen in the alley the
night before.
When the man was told he had been
identified, he immediately broke down
and confessed.
The officer thanked Diane for her
bravery and asked if there was
anything they could do for her
She asked if they would ask the man
one question.
Diane was curious as to why he had not
attacked her.
When the policeman asked him, he
answered, "Because she wasn't alone.
She had two tall men walking on either
side of her."
Amazingly, whether you believe or not,
you're never alone. Did you know that
98% of teenagers will not stand up for
God.

NEW BLOG TEMPLATE-NEW ATMOSPHERE

Was absent for a while...money is tight so checking and updating my blog wasn't the priority first.
I have been using my old template more than a year and a half..and so I need a new face for a new atmosphere.
I thank Mommyko for the nice template she made for my blog.Just hoping that everyone who happens to drop by and the frequent visitors of my blog will love it as I do too.

RECONNECTING SOMEONE FROM THE PAST

"Without friends the world is but a wilderness...with friends,it is an abundant life."-Silang Memoirs 1990

One of the most beautiful things that happened in my life is learning about this internet thing.Ever since I started to study internet of my own in 2001,it has become a good propeller for me to connect with friends and family and reconnect with my classmates back in high school and in college but lost in contact in the process.
Not recently,I received a long distance call from the States which surprisingly unknown calls for me but formally recognized when we started to exchange of introductions thereafter.
With the cyberspace as our playground,we engraved words abundantly peppered with recalling and greetings.

Her name is Julieta Santos,she was my classmate in second year high school at Olongapo City National High School way way back in the 80's.We were seatmates and seated at the end part of the row.I can still freshly remember the usual kindness we did by "Kopyahan" our answers and sharing of snacks.She was lanky and the tallest among the girls the reason she was voted as muse of the class.
We consistently exchanging emails proving that friendship is just contained in a click of a mouse.
Our last meetings was 1998,we were both boarded on the same bus headed for Olongapo and the rest was forgotten.She's happily married now and blessed with beautiful kids.She's risiding in the States now....
No matter how vague it was,still the chord of friendship clears the dim memories remembering how simple life in High school then was.

NEVER HAD A DREAM COME TRUE

The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
Theodor Adorno

Life comes in unexpected ways,the unwavering and phenomenal time hibernates rapidly.The changes of the world sometimes awestruck us dumbfounding as if the world is racing up with the time.
From the far stretched land of this universe,it always instill in my mind that dreams do come true.
Honestly,the future is an enigmatic issue for me.Worrying much about my dreams and ambition,usually brings me in the stillness of temporary inaction,lingering the time.
I always anticipate greater adversaries as I dream that would definitely defile my spirited beings to dream.Some dreams may fall unexpectedly into depression for being jobless or ended up into a mediocre job with meager salary.
However, the depression might reach its end,but the controversy where I was sandwiched in,would still prevail.
I am certain that every step I march on that red-carpeted path would definitely mean that no matter how I struggle much and extend my effort still an impossibility of the possibility.
The future looks bleak that brought loneliness in my heart...would I still continue my star gazing and dreaming? How long would I dream? Sometimes,streamline of tears goes down to my check as I was looking up the clear blue sky.
With a frustrating government and economic crisis that really feels nostalgic about life,continually telling myself I never had a dream come true...

SIQUIJOR FEATURED IN SEAIR IN-FLIGHT MAGAZINE

When we hear the word Siquijor;black magic,witch craft,monster,etc and other evil forms would suddenly come up to our minds.You'll suddenly feel goosebumps when you hear telltales about the island.They don't know that it is one of the Philippine prides,which the island promotes among one of the finest beaches in the country.
I was born in this island,but I spent much of my teeny boopers in Olongapo city,yet,I still considered the island as home.
The island was featured not only on local TV programs but even on blogs and on an airline magazine.Once again,the island was featured in the In-Flight Magazine owned by Seairline.

Siquijor is one of the Philippines gorgeous islands. It is located in the Central Visayas Region close to the islands of Bohol, Cebu and Negros. The island is the third smallest province in the country both in terms of population and land area.
Siquijor is mostly made up of limestone materials and fringed with mangrove trees, fine and white sand beaches, and coral reefs. The highest point of the island is Mt. Bandilaan, which rises at approximately 557 meters above sea level.
Dubbed as the next Boracay, the island is known for its scenic beauty and archaic churches. It is a haven for nature lovers and adventurers because of its numerous caves, springs and rivers. The coral reefs sorrounding the island are attractions to diving enthusiasts from all over.

RP'S RICHEST MEN

Henry Ward Beecher
It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
While watching the local news on TV...GMA Channel-7 featured RP's richest men....they are eventually poor as in poor during their times,but their eagerness to reach the acme of life inspired them of what they are like now.
According to Forbes Asia....the listings of the Philippines richest men has continued to earn more and rose high amidst of the crisis in the country and globally.
Below are the riches of the richests of all:
A shopping mall mogul has become the Philippines richest man after amassing 1.4 billion dollars in past year, while his peers were hit by the global financial crisis, it was announced Thursday.
The fortune that Henry Sy made was the "biggest gain in absolute terms" of the country's wealthiest 40 families, who saw their collective wealth plunge 18 percent amid the world credit turmoil, Forbes magazine said in a statement.
In its annual list of the Philippines' richest people, Forbes said the country's stock exchange had dived 35 percent in the past year, making 25 out of 40 tycoons -- including those in banking and real estate -- were poorer.
Forbes said the Sy family was now worth 3.1 billion dollars, vaulting from second place to first.
The low-profile 83-year-old and his family control SM Investments, which owns stakes in a dozen companies including the nation's second largest bank.
Sy started off selling shoes to American GIs in the Philippines in 1958. From one store known as Shoemart, he built a multi-billion dollar empire.
Today he is Asia's biggest shopping mall operator with 30 mega malls throughout the Philippines.
Jaime Zobel de Ayala and family slipped from first to third as their wealth suffered a massive drop of 800 million dollars, to 1.2 billion dollars, Forbes said.
The stock of their conglomerate Ayala Corp. is down 46 percent since last year in part because of the economic slowdown and declining profits in banking and electronics manufacturing units, it said.
Moving up to second position is Lucio Tan and family, with a net worth of 1.5 billion dollars, although this is still down by 100 million dollars from last year.
Tan controls Philippine airlines as well as the country's largest cigarette firm, one of its largest brewers, mining operations and Hong Kong property.
Also hit hard is property tycoon Andrew Gotianun of Filinvest Land, who fell 10 places to 17th after losing 625 million dollars to give him a net worth of 235 million dollars.
Senate President Manuel Villar, the largest shareholder in high-end homebuilder Vista Land, also saw his wealth tumble 55 percent to 425 million dollars to put him in 11th, down from fifth last year.
Another property kingpin, Andrew Tan, saw his net worth plunge 400 million dollars to 700 million dollars.
The 57-year old made much of his wealth as an office developer for the outsourcing industry and is now betting on gaming and tourism.
Of the 40 richest Filipinos this year, 11 tycoons eked out gains but almost all of those increases were because of reporting on new assets or shareholdings or the combination of relatives' stakes, including Sy.
The Philippines had three billionaires this year compared with four last year as Andrew Tan lost this elite status.
Lourdes Montinola seemed to buck the trend as shares of her Far Eastern University increased 38 million dollars to vault her to number 31 with a net worth of 68 million dollars.
There was only one newcomer, Alfredo Ramos of Atlas Consolidated Mining, who debuted at number 23 with a net worth 126 million dollars.
A net worth of 30 million dollars is required to make the Philippines rich list, unchanged from last year. Fourteen tycoons had net worth of less than 100 million dollars and four of last year's members failed to make the cut.
(source:yahoo.com.ph)

JOURNEYS OF DISCOVERY

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Considering the years I have been blogging(since 2005 and counting) from my old blogsite to blogspot there's something mutually beneficial and exciting in blogging.
My relationship with the blogosphere is akin to a romance where one fuels the others growth.
Since then,new discoveries were being discovered both the writings and the bloggers itselves.I gain more friends and even exchanging links that usually became my favorite place online to visit.Checking their blogsites increases more of my ideas how to write.
Guess what? in all my time of blogging,I learned more about myself from learning from fellow bloggers.In my very own life,I found the courage to find the freedom,leave my comfort zone and make major life changes so I could be as happy as I truly deserved to be.
No one is more fun and fearless than voicing out your inner thoughts in blogging.There are times that absenting in blogging is inevitable but the journey of discovery is a new way of enjoying life just as it is.
This is my other way of discovering things from the outside world...there are so many things that you'll discover online that meltdown the boredom in life.

THE ANGELS

Just wanna share this wonderful story being passed around the net...it was forwarded to me by a friendster-friend and was truly touched by it...wishing you will feel the same thing too.

Two traveling angels stopped to spend the night in the home of a wealthy family. The family was rude and refused to let the angels stay in the mansion's guest room. Instead the angels were given a space in the cold basement. As they made their bed on the hard floor, the older angel saw a hole in the wall and repaired it. When the younger angel asked why, the older angel replied... "Things aren't always what they seem".
The next night the pair came to rest at the house of a very poor, but very hospitable farmer and his wife. After sharing what little food they had the couple let the angels sleep in their bed where they could have a good night's rest. When the sun came up the next morning the angels found the farmer and his wife in tears. Their only cow, whose milk had been their sole income, lay dead in the field. The younger angel was infuriated and asked the older angel, "how could you have let this happen!? The first man had everything, yet you helped him," "The second family had little but was willing to share everything, and you let their cow die." "Things aren't always what they seem," the older angel replied. "When we stayed in the basement of the mansion, I noticed there was gold stored in that hole in the wall. Since the owner was so obsessed with greed and unwilling to share his good fortune, I sealed the wall so he wouldn't find it. Then last night as we slept in the farmers bed, the angel of death came for his wife. I gave her the cow instead. Things aren't always what they seem."
Sometimes this is exactly what happens when things don't turn out the way they should. If you have faith, you just need to trust that every outcome is always to your advantage. You might not know it until some time later. - Unknown Author

THE 2008 PHILIPPINE BLOG AWARDS

Wow..it was a long blog absence.I was occupied with so many works...aside from Teaching,here comes the Board Exam-preparations which was truly a bit exhausted...promise I was drained during the exam.


On the lighter note,I directly checked the Blogosphere and everything has changed so fastly.The Philippine Blog Awards 2008 was over and I failed to attend the Awards Night held at One Esplanade last September 21.
My warm greetings and applause to the winners and of course the success of the Awards...below are the winners:

Here are the list of winners of the 2008 Philippine Blog Awards

SPECIAL AWARDS
Best Blog Design: OctTwelve
Best Plugin/Extension : Daily Top Ten
Best Free Custom Theme : Una WordPress Theme
Best Network Blogger : Juan Mandaraog
Best OFW Blogger : Samjuan
Bloggers’ Choice : Batang Yagit

BEST BLOG & POST

ARTS & CULTURE :
Blog : Gibbs Cadiz
Single Post : EJ: Ang Pinagdaanang Buhay nina Evelio Javier at Edgar Jopson - A Review of a Rocking Relevant Musical
by Jester in Exile

BUSINESS :
Blog : Pinoy Web Startup
Single Post : Ang Tibay Naman by Senor Enrique

COMMENTARY :
Blog : Creature Lover
Single Post : The Problem of R.A. 9439 by Tess Termulo

ENTERTAINMENT :
Blog : The Professional Heckler
Single Post : Manila’s Movie Theaters by Senor Enrique

FOOD & BEVERAGE :
Blog : No Special Effects
Single Post : Marketman Learns How to Make Tinapa from Scratch!!! by Market Man


FAMILY & LIVING :
Blog : The D Spot by Dine Racoma
Single Post : Me and Tia Inez by Senor Enrique


FASHION & LIFESTYLE :
Blog : Pinoy Guy Guide
Single Post : Camo Comes Out Of Hiding by Bearbrick Lover


HOBBY/RECREATION :
Blog : Comicology The Study of Awesome
Single Post : Limatik (Blood Leeches): An overview by Pinoy Mountaineer


NEWS & MEDIA :
Blog : tonyocruz.com
Single Post : Confessions of a “New Media” Heretic (or, the jester in exile throws yet another gauntlet before the MSM “priest caste”) by Jester in Exile

PERSONAL :
Blog : Atheista
Single Post : Out of school, part 1: Forks by Martin Perez

PHOTOBLOG :

Blog : Best Photo Blog: lostphotograph
Single Post : Urban Cave by Reginald Balanga


SPORTS :
Blog : The Bull Runner
Single Post : garmin vs nike a test of accuracy by Jaymie aka The Bull Runner

TECHNOLOGY :
Blog : PinoyBlogero.com
Single Post : The Making of Lakbayan (Part1& 2) by Vaes9

TRAVEL:
Blog : Ironwulf.net: En Route
Single Post : How I broke a ritual taboo in Batad by Estan Cabigas

VIDEOCAST & PODCAST:
Blog : CokskiBlue Pinoy Vlogs, Videos and Vodcasts
Single Post : Episode 28: We Love Trinoma! (A Video Spoof) by AJ Matela, Joe Datinguinoo, Kring Elenzano, Poyt Salazar and Coy Caballes
(Source: 2008 PBA )

Among the winners,were my Friend whom I just met through blogging: Ferdz of Ironwulf.et and Coy of CokskiBlue.
Pictures below were taken during the PBA 2008.

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SEPTEMBER COUNTDOWN FOR CHRISTMAS

Sorry for the long blog absence..been busy these weeks.Month of September is almost comes to an end.
Philippines has the longest Christmas celebration in the world.The celebration of the yuletide season started in the month of September because of the close word of "ber" to December.
Hearing radio stations partially playing the Christmas songs really makes me happy and worry too.I felt this urgency inside of me to save enough for the gifts but on the contrary my earnings isn't much on the excessive level.
Well,the exact date of Christmas is still way far from its due.....

LISTENING IN THE STILLNESS

Was there a point in your life when you felt so tired and were ready to give up on life? Or have you felt that you were a victim of frustration and fate seems to be unkind?
Have you felt at times in your life that you were just going around in the cycles ,nowhere to go?
In life's journey, we sometimes find ourselves in the middle of despair and lost in a barren wilderness of frustrations.Just last month,fears and anxiety had made me restless and caused my insomnia to attack me every night up to now.
As I look the fast changes of this world,worrying for the future brought so much trouble in mind as if tomorrow is the end of the world.Searching for a better future or stable job is the impossibility of the possible.
I always dreaming of getting out the country just to try my luck...since the grass is more greener on the other side.
My job doesn't give me satisfaction financially especially that I am getting on in years.As I always begging the good Lord to open the door of opportunities abroad,He answered my humble request unknowing that it wasn't really the perfect answer given by God but a sort of trials to test my patience.
A petition letter from USA had just arrived unexpectedly for a missionary call,but to my excitement everything went in vain because of the financial scarcity I had then.
Doubt questions popped out and asking the Lord so many Why's...
I was disappointed and spiritually drought that apathy started to grow in my heart.For a couple of days of refusing to talk to the Lord,I gave in and offered a peace offering for the Lord.
Just realized that God invites me to stop for a while and be still and silent before Him over my dreams of going to US.Indeed, sometimes God emptied my pockets so He can fill my hearts of love.
Now,I don't let the noise of my dreams drown the voice of God.

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL....AFTER ALL

Life is beautiful....the wonderful sun rises,a new day bursts with loving family,cheerful friends,don't they make life Beautiful? Amidst of the crisis,wars,corruption and chaos happening around..still life is beautiful.
What an amazing life we have,seeing mountains,hills,and seas free from sorrows and miseries,in a world full of mysteries.
Watching the kids playing and laughing around makes the world go round and merry,isn't it?
After all,we are living in the world filled with beauties,God created them for us to appreciate life....may it be good or bad we still have to appreciate life as it is.
Let me tell you about Life through the pictures posted down...let them do the talking..




















No matter how are we going to shield ourselves from the ugliness of reality,still God makes our life Beautiful.
No one knows why we were brought to life and why how it is became to be.
Its a question everyone asks One another.
Life is like a biotech as most people say as I would too.
It has its ups and downs.
You may like your life at one moment and hated it next.
You have to live life as it was given to you and Live it as he gave it to you.
Don't try and change the future or the past that's something that you can't choose.
Life is to learn how to deal with it.

THE POWER OF PRAYER

These days,I always like moving on two hyper speeds...maybe it's because of the problems that kept on coming....hyper speeds in the sense that I want everything falls rightly in place,perfectly.
That is my roundabout way of saying when I am confronted with onerous problems.I think we each have our own struggles with managing problems.
According to a certain poem " On the street of this position of God's world I feel a neighbor to a rat, so brother of a worm;Forever chasing rainbows at muddy margins."-Quemadas Poem
I don't know if life isn't worth living nor empty and meaningless,or full of challenges.There are times,I go for glitters and gold selfishly...however,God is still in controls...Prayer is the only propellers I used to heal the broken pieces in me caused by problems.
Prayer is the answer to every problem in life.It puts us in tune with divine wisdom which knows how to adjust everything perfectly.So often we do not pray in a certain situation because that from our standpoint the outlook is hopeless.But nothing is impossible with God.
Nothing is too entangled that it cannot be remedied.No human relationship is too strained for God to bring about the reconciliation and understanding.
No habit is too deep-rooted that it cannot be overcome.Noe one is so weak that it cannot be made strong.No one is so ill that He cannot be healed.No Mind is so dull that it cannot be made brilliant.
Whatever we need or desire, if we trust God, He will supply it.If anything is causing worry and anxiety let us stop rehearsing the difficulty and trust God for healing love and power.

UNSINKABLE AMERICAN POOL STAR

Source:msnSports
The world is widely looking to an American water bullet phenomenon Michael Phelps.Before he became magnificent in an Olympic history,Michael Phelps threw screaming fit terrified of putting his face in the water accordingly.From great things start from small beginnings,he swam to ties Olympic record holder Mark Spitz.
Phelps is the greatest swimmer of all time and the greatest Olympian of all time.In the sport of swimming,he's the talk of the town and the center of the Water Cube were world's media glued on him.

"At 15 he became the youngest person to hold a world record and also the youngest male in 68 years to be selected for the US Olympic Swimming team.Extraordinary in the water,Phelps has an ordinary boy-next-door persona outside the pool.He does nothing to hide his affection for his mother,Debbie who follows him all his meets.He loves hip-hop music,video games and watches DVD's endlessly while relaxing between races.He has a gigantic appetite,eating industrial quantities of food to fuel his exertions and relishes the company of friends."-Reuters

Eight gold medals in eight events and seven world swimming records made him to be a god in Olympia.


Source:YahooSports