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Sunday, May 21, 2006
The Philippines is currently dedicating this month to the ocean. Its rich and wide sugar-white sandy beaches circling around the coastal perimeter of each island boasts all the more the treasures it has stored for all of us.Particularly in Mactan Island where I am presently located at this very moment, we are proud enough to be one of the top tour destination sites for local visitors as well as foreigners. Our coastal resources, has been restored slowly but surely back to its richness in terms of underwater flora and fauna.
Thanks to the local leaders and the local community for their undying effort to give importance to our sea treasures. And may I also commend some international organizations for their support and trust in helping our country regain its dying ocean environment.
Friday, May 19, 2006
In front of the person you love, your heart beats faster
But in front of the person you like, you get happy.
In front of the person you love, winter seems like spring
But in front of the person you like, winter is just a beautiful winter.
If you look into the eyes of the one you love, you blush
But if you look into the eyes of the one you like, you smile.
In front of the person you love, you can' t say everything on your mind
But in front of the person you like, you can.
In front of the person you love, you tend to get shy
But in front of the person you like, you can show your ownself.
Then the person you love comes into your mind every 2 minutes.
You can't look straight into the eyes of the one you love
But you can always smile into the eyes of the one you like.
When the one you love is crying, you cry with them
But when the one you like is crying, you end up comforting.
The feeling of love starts from the eye
And the feeling of like starts from the ear.
So if you stop liking a person you used to like
All you need to do is cover your ears
But if you try to close your eyes
Love turns into a drop of tear and remains in your heart forever after.
Author Unknown
(puffin.com)
Sunday, April 16, 2006
2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.
3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And! the devil's name is Alzheimer's.
4. Enjoy the simple things.
5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.
6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person, who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.
7. Surround yourself with what you love! , whether it's family, pets,keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.
8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable,improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.
9 Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, even to the next county; to a foreign country but NOT to where the guilt is.
10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
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This was e-mailed to me and i'm glad to share it with you!
Once upon a time… Oh, actually, it really didn’t go like that. Instead, it can be better understood by enumerating some key points:The Festival
This celebration of Easter goes back a long time. Its origins can be traced back to the times when religion didn’t exist yet, because, it was a pagan ritual! It was their way of merry making for the return of springtime thus giving due credit to their Goddess of Spring and a festival was held in her honor as told in ancient times of the Anglo-Saxons (early culturally related inhabitants of Britain) around mid-5th century A.D.
The Period
The pagan year usually has four cardinal days (periods) for celebration, that is: fall, midwinter, spring, and midsummer. And traditionally, during the Vernal Equinox (the day or period of days in spring when the days and nights are approximately equal in length), a huge feast was held celebrating a new life or nature resurrection, in another way of saying.
The Name
So many views were told about the name/word “Easter”. First it was taken from the Anglo-Saxon Spring goddess: Eostre. Then, it evolved into “Easter” from the old English version of Spring Festival. As quoted from, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. (1994-1998 edition), it stated "…the term Easter, commemorating the Resurrection of Christ, comes from the Old English easter or eastre, a festival of spring….”
The Egg
Finally, we are now taking up the EGG. These are primitive symbols of FERTILITY. It was learned that Christians adapted it as “…symbol of the tomb from which Christ rose…”. Today, exchange of Easter-colored-eggs means new life and fertility.
There you go, I hope I have enlightened some vague minds about the Easter egg story. As for the Eastern bunny, well, it was supposedly the “…sacred companion of the Goddess of Spring (Eostre)…”.
Saturday, April 15, 2006
Personally, i don't think it needs to be done. I believe religion is a personal thing. One expresses his/her own sentiment on things and he/she doesn't need anyone else to lecture him/her on how things are. Certainly not!
If i were a man, still, i'm not apt to being nailed myself on the cross. I mean, i can do other things besides this; a million more stuffs, for self expression on belief and faith.
Oh, don't get me wrong here. i'm just being practical, at least to myself.
Religion really is huge! One just can't or can believe on this or that. He/ she needs something / someone to hold on to. Whatever belief one has, he/she is entitled to his/her own opinion. What is important is the fact that one's acts may not hinder or endanger another man's well being. As long as he/she is loyal and do it the way it should be done in line with the teachings and belief it explains, then one must abide with it truthfully and without prejudice. That way one may acquire happiness thru peace of mind and wholeness of the heart and soul; and in turn interacting joyfully with another person making it a harmonious life here on earth!
Wow! i can't believe i said that!
Anyway, life is what we make it, right? A Blessed Black Saturday to you all!
Friday, April 14, 2006
Picture -perfect image of our dear JESUS. And perfect too for today's occasion: Good Friday... He suffered on the cross for all humanity. 
One day, the father of a very wealthy family took his son on a trip to the country with the express purpose of showing him how poor people live.
They spent a couple of days and nights on the farm of what would be considered a very poor family.
On their return from their trip, the father asked his son, "How was the trip?"
"It was great, Dad."
"Did you see how poor people live?" the father asked.
"Oh yeah," said the son.
"So, tell me, what did you learn from the trip?" asked the father.
The son answered:
"I saw that we have one dog and they had four.
We have a pool that reaches to the middle of our garden and they have a creek that has no end.
We have imported lanterns in our garden and they have the stars at night.
Our patio reaches to the front yard and they have the whole horizon.
We have a small piece of land to live on and they have fields that go beyond our sight.
We have servants who serve us, but they serve others.
We buy our food, but they grow theirs.
We have walls around our property to protect us, they have friends to protect them."
The boy's father was speechless.
Then his son added, "Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are."
Isn't perspective a wonderful thing? Makes you wonder what would happen if we all gave thanks for everything we have, instead of worrying about what we don't have.
Appreciate every single thing you have, especially your friends!
"Life is too short and friends are too few."
Thursday, April 13, 2006
by Grace L. NaessensI got up early one morning and rushed right into the day;
I had so much to accomplish, I didn't have time to pray.
Problems just tumbled about me and grew heavier with each task;
Why doesn't God help me, I wondered; He answered, "You didn't ask."
I wanted to see joy and beauty, but the day toiled on, gray and bleak;
I wondered why God didn't show me - He said, "But you didn't seek."
I tried to come into God's presence; I used all my keys at the lock;
God gently and lovingly chided, "My child, you didn't knock."
I woke up early this morning and paused before entering the day;
I had so much to accomplish that I had to take time to pray.
Rudyard Kipling
(1856-1936)
If you can keep your head when all about you,
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good or talk too wise:
If you can dream and not make dreams your master;
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the words you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them:"Hold on!"
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings--nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And--which is more--you'll be a man, my son!
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
A friend does most of these:
A- ccepts you as you are
B- elieves in "you"
C- alls you just to say "HI"
D- oesn't give up on you!
E- nvisions the whole of you (even the unfinished parts)
F- orgives your mistakes
G- ives unconditionally
H- elps you
I- nvites you over
J- ust "be" with you
K- eeps you close at heart
L- oves you for who you are
M- akes a difference in your life
N- ever Judges
O- ffer support
P- icks you up
Q- uiets your fears
R- aises your spirits
S- ays nice things about you
T- ells you the truth when you need to hear it
U- nderstands you
V- alues you
W- alks beside you
X- plains thing you don't understand
Y- ells when you won't listen and
Z- aps you back to reality
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