New career!

Will you believe me if I say that I know how to draw or use the pencil as to express what is in my mind? Maybe not because I didn’t paste/post yet the example but I promise that I will post it…sometimes.

Wait and relax…

Drawing is not my passion but I know how to do it. Ahh ahh! Maybe your thinking that I only know how to, of course all of us know how to draw but there are only some who has the gift to make an “real drawing” (hahahaha)

I discover this talent during my elementary years. My teacher asked me to draw in the black board (or I prefer to call it green board because it’s green) anyway, my teacher asked me to draw our house, and without further ado I stand and draw our simple house and all people inside the classroom was pleased including my hmmm during that years. My teacher told me that I should enrich my skills and join some arts contest, but being a natural low profile I did not take her advised.

After all the years past by, I realize that the having the gift like know how to draw should used because its came from God, and I know that He has His reason why He give me such a gift.

So wait and see…

These days

This past days I’m been busy of so much preparation of the incoming events like dance practice for the Provincial Day this coming Saturday, for the Immaculate Conception Play, for the incoming caroling and so on and so forth, I tell you honesty I wanted to quit already.

Wait do I write it correct? Quit?

No, no, no, it’s a big mistake if I quit because of these pressures. For all the years past by into my life I have a lot of opportunity that I decided to quit on. One of these is in my high school years. During my high school I didn’t realize that if I will not take seriously my subjects I will find it difficult during college and yet that’s exactly what happens. I finding it difficult to coup up to my subjects but I decided to face my consequences because I choose to be like this, I didn’t mean that I’m regretting what I did during my high school, actually I’m thankful because it helps me to realize the importance of what I’m doing in my present, will affect my future and also I learn one great lesson that everything happen connected.

Now, quit? Yes I will quit…not to the pressures!

Immaculate Conception (day 1)

Virtue of the day: Purity?

Wow! Horrible, how could that be for a man is weak? But is it hard to do? Anyway at least for it is.
Purity is one of the greatest virtues that our mother Mary gave to us or shows us in order to inspire us to lived life in pure.

I mean it, that I lived the life tainted, because I just a man and as a man I also have weaknesses. I am a sinner, genuine sinner, but do I have hope to be like our mother? I think there is, if Mary the mother of our Lord Jesus Christ lived the life pure without sin, I can also. Mary is a human being and she is not goddess but she lived with virtues, so do I also?

P.S : Kindly pray for!

Connecting to the Filipino Youth

I hope we all know Don Bosco, I hope so. Don Bosco said “Loved what the young love”

In connecting with the youth Don Bosco is very precise as he said it, But the Question is, how to love what the young love? In our culture and country, how do we express our loved to our youth?

In our life, we should love what the young love. Love the young in a sense that you cannot but to see and be with the young people, especially here in our country were most of our population or the dominant are young.

Loving what the young love is not easy, so, let me share with you some hint on how to do it. Some of this is my reflection in our immersion.

First, I hope we have talents, in music, sports and anything that you think it is your talent or you can call a talent even it is not. Of course, young people have also their own talents. Now, use your talent in order to connect to the young. I remember when I was in Don Bosco Pugad, a little boy named Mike love to play Ping-Pong so what I deed is I learned how to loved Ping-Pong even I am not much good about it, but at least I try. We play and suddenly I didn’t expect or noticed that by playing with him we become close to each other. He shares to me about his life, dreams and so on.

So, that’s the first, using the talent in order to connect to the young

Second, be with the young always. Being with the young is like saying you liked to be with them, they are especial to you and you loved them. Fr. Pablo tells us, my companions in Pugad (James, Daniel and Francis), that some boys are shy, so what our group need to do is to first approach them or to be with them. In deed Fr. Pablo is right, when I observed some of the boys playing billiards they felt, I hope so, that they are important to me, that I’m giving my time to them. They ask me to play with them, but I refuse because I observed how they play and they are good as Efren “bata”, so I don’t what to be in trouble.

So again, that’s the second, be with the young always

The third and the last is to love what the young love, you must also loved first yourself. Why? because liked the Latin saying says “Nemo dat qoud non habit” meaning “you cannot give what you don’t have” is like “you cannot loved the young love if you don’t know how to love yourself.”

To conclude this simple reflection, I would like to say; let us continue to be a lover of youth. Let us not forget this learning that I share to you; you can use this whenever you go and whatever path you take. Just remember that loving the young express in sharing or using your talent, be with them always and love yourself. Let us not also disappoint our teacher and father, Don Bosco who says “loved what the young love”

you know what?

I realized this morning it has been almost a month since I last posted. It has been a little busy, so blogging took a back seat.

Much of last week and so fort was spent studying, doing requirements (a lot) and preparation for activities.

But! Because of this…I learn one of the greatest values. Time is precious and you cannot return it if you missed it.

Foresight…

Twilight Zone (The Placebo Effect)

Cast & Crew:

Writer: Brent V. Friedman
Director: Jerry Levine
Story: Rebecca Swanson

Star: Forest Whitaker (Host)
Guest Star: Sydney Tamiia Poitier (Dr. Leslie Coburn), Jeffrey Combs (Harry Raditch), Michael David Simms (Dr. Marks), Jessica Amlee (Carrie), Gina Stockdale (Dying Woman), Donna Yamamoto (Receptionist), Paul Batten (State Health Doctor), Stellina Rusich (Rhonda Harrington)

Synopsis:

A chronic hypochondriac, Harry Raditch, visits his doctor, Dr. Coburn, when he begins suffering from a real blood disorder and strange skin protrusions. When Coburn can't place the symptoms, Harry, a bookdealer, reveals that his disease is from a story in a science fiction book. Then others start coming in with the same symptoms, starting with Harry's housekeeper and then Dr. Coburn herself. The disease spreads quickly and Coburn soon believes Harry created the effect mentally so she tries to convince Harry that a meteor strike contains a rare element that can destroy the virus and give him the placebo injection. When Harry believes himself ^cured^ everyone else is cured as well. But Harry obsesses about the meteor strike, which he thinks would cause the extinction of the human race in an ice age . . . and Harry makes that come true too.

Host: (opening narration) Dr. Leslie Coburn has always treated Harry with a placebo, an imaginary cure for his imaginary illnesses. But what will this young doctor do when her patient contracts a real disease? A disease found only in The Twilight Zone.

Host: (closing narration) Dr. Leslie Coburn had a brilliant idea using an imaginary cure for an imaginary illness. But like the virus itself, Harry took her cure to heart and he made it real. A testament to the amazing powers of the mind, in The Twilight Zone.

Reflection:

Sometimes we believe that what we think is true, perhaps sometimes it's true but not all times. The episode of the twilight zone entitled “the Placebo Effect” proves to us that what we think are sometimes is in our mind only and never ever exist.

In my logic subject last semester our professor says that our mind is ordained to know the truth, but why is it that sometimes we commit mistakes in our decision? Where is the truth there?

Perhaps it is not our mind, it is our judgments that we choose to believe in.

“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgment of the intellect is only part of the truth.”

Carl Gustav Jung (Swiss psychiatrist, Psychologist and Founder of the Analytic Psychology, 1875-1961)

Super Inday

Dahil sa tindi ng kahirapan sa probinsya,
namasukan si Inday bilang katulong sa Maynila.
Habang ini-interview ng amo...

Amo: Kelangan namin ng katulong para mag ayos ng
bahay, magluto, maglaba, magplantsa, mamalengke,
at magbantay ng mga bata. Kaya mo ba ang lahat ng
ito?

Inday: I believe that my trained skills and
expertise in management with the use of standard
tools, and my discipline and experience will
contribute significantly to the value of the
work that you want, my creativity, productivity
and work-efficiency and the high quality of
outcomes I can offer will boost the work
progress.

Amo: [nosebleed]


Nakaraan ang dalawang araw, umuwi ang amo,
nakitang me bukol si junior.


Amo: Bakit me bukol si junior?

Inday: Compromising safety with useless
aesthetics, the not-so-well engineered
architectural design of our kitchen lavatory
affected the boy's cranium with a slight boil at
the left temple near the auditory organ.

Amo: [nosebleed ulit]


Kinagabihan, habang naghahapunan.

Amo: Bakit maalat ang ulam?

Inday: The consistency was fine. But you see, it
seems that the increased amount of sodium
chloride (NaCl) affected the taste drastically
and those actions are irreversible. I do
apologize.

Amo: [nosebleed na naman]

Donya: Bakit tuwing paguwi ko, nadadatnan kitang
nanunuod ng tv?!

Inday: Because I don't want you to see me doing
absolutely nothing.

Donya: [hinimatay]


Kinabukasan, sinamahan ni Inday si junior sa
principal's office dahil di makapunta ang amo at
donya.

Principal: Sinuntok ni junior ang kanyang
kaklase.

Inday: It's absurd! It was never a fact that he
will inflict a fight. I can only imagine how you
handle schizophrenic kids on this educational
institution. Revise your policies because they
suck!

Principal: [nag resign]