today.tomorrow.shake.hold.

excerpts from Father Orbos' 22June2013 Article

In today’s Gospel (Lk. 9, 18-24), Jesus gives us the way to guard against being flooded and drowning in the sea of life’s problems. “If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.” Following Jesus means denying one’s self, and taking one’s cross, one day at a time. In other words, the cross is a part of our lives, but we are not to carry the cross of yesterday, or the cross of tomorrow, with the grace provided just for today. Otherwise, we will drown in the flood of regrets for the past, and worries for the future.

Food for thought as we journey on: “We are often let down by the most trusted persons and loved by the most unexpected ones. Some make us cry for things we have not done, while some ignore our faults just to see our smile. Some leave us when we need them the most, and some stick with us even when we ask them to leave. The world is a mixture of such people. We just need to know which hand to shake and which hand to hold.”


Read more: http://opinion.inquirer.net/55101/travel-light#ixzz2X10YnBLk

CJ

CJ CORONA IMPEACHMENT

Great God, please bless our country, Philippines. May your concept of truth and justice reign in this process of law.  May your love prevail in the proceedings.  Touch the hearts of both the prosecution and defense to consider first and foremost the people, our country...and its betterment; rather than their personal agenda.
Amen.

Pray. Share. Advocate

I cannot muster enough strength to write...
I don't want to look at the pictures...nor the figures...
I simply want to pray for them.

Was touched by Kuya Kirby's article.
Pray. Share. Advocate.

Lord, please bless our country.
Bless those who have something to share to find it in their hearts the need to share.
Embrace all those who were directly hit by Sendong.
Hug them, please.

judiciary week

dahil ayaw ko'ng mag-blog ng pagkahaba-haba...
but i want to remember this day...week...as a memorable week for the judiciary...
i'll use words, instead

impunity
- exemption from punishment

complicit
- associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime

De jure (in Classical Latin de iure) is an expression that means "concerning law", as contrasted with de facto, which means "concerning fact"


may humabol pa

bonhomie
- frank and simple good-heartedness; a good-natured manner; friendliness

miffed
- put into an irritable mood, especially by an offending incident

too late - too early

11April2011



“Someday, we will forget the hurt, the reason we cried, and who caused us pain.
We will finally realize that the secret of being free is not revenge, but letting things unfold in their own way and time.
After all, what matters is not the first, but the last chapter of our lives which shows how well we ran the race.”

As we approach Holy Week may we be filled with the spirit of true conversion and expectant hope.
It is never too late to change, and it is never too early to love. (Fr. Jerry Orbos – 09April2011)






When my ‘someday’ comes…


I know it’ll come soon.


Happiness and peace ahead.


:D

deal or no deal

The Auditor Speaks
Dare 

Like a bright lamp, former state auditor Heidi Mendoza Tuesday shone light on a trail of corruption in the military her superiors and the military brass would rather leave in the dark, drawing praise from a public hungry for honest people in government.

A former auditor of the Commission on Audit was confident that she had a tight case against the former military comptroller whom she had investigated for alleged corruption and even vowed to walk naked if the case against him would be dismissed.

This was what Haydee Mendoza said Tuesday when she faced the justice committee of the House of Representatives to narrate her work in finding the money trail involving millions of pesos allegedly siphoned off by General Carlos Garcia from the military coffers.

Ilan na silang lumalabas at nagsasalita...

Minsan nakakapagod na basahin (Pwede pakibasa at pakikwento na lang sa akin)

At mas dumadami ang tanong ko...

Bakit ngayon lang, bakit hindi nung nakaupo pa kayo?

Talagang nangyari ang lahat ng ito?  Ganun kalupit nilang nasikmura yun?

Bilyon ang pinag-uusapan...at ilang taong pagpapasasa kasabay ng ilang taong pananahimik...

Deal or No Deal?

Sadness...

I'm thinking of concrete ways of helping out...

aside from praying to the God of this city....

abilities - choices

We were doing a marathon of HP Movies.  Last night we're on HP 2.
Was struck by the last few scenes with Harry and Dumbledore talking.
Dumbledore said something similar to it's not about the abilities that you have but the choices that you make...
Hmmm...nice line, I thought.

Then this morning, I was reading a Yahoo News Article about Leslie Nielsen who passed away last Sunday (may he rest in peace).

And I quote:

"...As soon as he graduated from high school at 17, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, even though he was legally deaf (he wore hearing aids most of his life.)

After the war, Nielsen worked as a disc jockey at a Calgary radio station, then studied at a Toronto radio school operated by Lorne Greene, who would go on to star on the hit TV series "Bonanza." A scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse brought him to New York, where he immersed himself in live television."

A legally deaf guy (whatever that means, he's still 'deaf) who went on to work as a disc jockey.  Cool.  He was not hindered by his in-ability...he definitely made the right choice/s.

May I have the same discernment to make the right choices and not be consumed by my abilities...

The Day Originality, Creativity, and the Desire To Excel DIED

THE DAY ORIGINALITY, CREATIVITY, and the DESIRE TO EXCEL DIED!

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I am one who would usually (often, actually) GET inspiration from various media whenever I am preparing advertisements, teasers, event concepts.

But this... coming from a Department who wants to send its message to the WORLD...

no more...no words in the dictionary fit for ...argh!

Inquirer Article 1

an attempt to deny the wrongful act only made it worse.

The Philippine tourism department swiftly denied it imitated the Polska official travel website badge, only to admit Friday it actually did, and countered: “First of all, Poland doesn’t have a copyright on the font.”

And the ART OF BLAMING OTHERS is utilized...

“We shall take this experience as a cautionary tale against giving in to the client and allowing their over-enthusiasm to override our better judgment. It was a reminder that the road to perdition is paved with good intentions,” Consunji said.

Inquirer Article 2

Now, feel the wrath of the people...

Anonymous was more harsh in his comment: “Disgrace. Total disgrace. If there is little self-respect to the designer who made this, the only option is to resign and pursue another profession.

“Design is not about good layout, cool colors and fantastic use of fonts. It is an expression of excellence and a rendition of dignity. I see none of these from this shameless work.”

Blogger Richie was, well, comical. "Maybe it’s just a coincidence... a coincidence that the fonts are the same, same waves, same started with P, both have tree. Do you think there are just too many coincidences? I think so, too.”

PACMAN

Pacquiao transcends sporting world

It’s not often that the President of the United States serves as an opening act for another politician, but to boxing promoter Bob Arum, that’s exactly what happened Sunday on “60 Minutes.”



After Steve Kroft’s interview with President Obama, a profile of Manny Pacquiao, the true star of the show in Arum’s eyes, was broadcast.


Pacquiao – Congressman Manny Pacquiao, to those in the Sarangani province of the Philippine Islands – has become not only the best boxer in the world, but also the most beloved since Muhammad Ali.


CBS correspondent Bob Simon, who traveled to the Philippines to do the “60 Minutes” profile and was twice stood up for interviews by the notoriously hard to pin down fighter, opened the segment by noting “We haven’t done many stories about boxers, but there’s good reason to do one now.”


Pacquiao, who meets Antonio Margarito on Saturday at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas, for the World Boxing Council super welterweight title for what could be, depending upon who is doing the counting, a championship in a record eighth weight class, has a global influence now that extends far beyond the borders of his beloved homeland.


At Arum’s request, Pacquiao left training in Los Angeles on Oct. 29 to fly to Las Vegas to help boost Sen. Harry Reid’s chances of re-election. Reid, the Senate majority leader and one of the most powerful politicians in the country, was in the toughest race of his career. The local newspaper, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, was gleefully reporting his demise and leading the charge against him. Reid’s negatives among would-be voters were astronomical. He trailed upstart challenger Sharron Angle in nearly every public opinion poll.


Las Vegas is home to a large Filipino population and Reid needed all the help he could get in what was a very tight race. When Pacquiao arrived for the joint appearance with Reid and Arum at Orr Middle School, the crowd looked as if it could have been in Manila. The gym was filled with Filipinos.


Reid won the election by about 40,000 votes.


Pacquiao, publicist Fred Sternburg noted, didn’t simply lend his dazzling smile to Reid’s re-election effort. Sternburg was in Los Angeles with Pacquiao, coordinating his public relations effort, and discovered Pacquiao researching the Nevada campaign and Reid’s stances on the issues.


“He didn’t just want to show up and smile and wave and then fly back (to Los Angeles),” Sternburg said. “Just in the time I’ve worked with him, he’s grown tremendously. Since the (Joshua) Clottey fight (on March 13), I’ve noticed a visible change in his temperament, in his demeanor. I think he realizes that being a public servant is his calling and that this is what he was meant to do.”


Arum has promoted boxing for nearly a half century, and for much of that time, he’s had to beg, plead and cajole the media to take an interest in his shows.


Boxing is largely a forgotten sport in the United States, particularly among the mainstream media, and only when a truly major bout come along does it get even cursory interest outside the boxing press. The Washington Post doesn’t cover the sport at all. The New York Times rarely does. The same is true of the Chicago Tribune.


Arum promoted a bout in Las Vegas on Saturday between Juan Manuel Lopez and Rafael Marquez that was legitimately touted as a potential Fight of the Year candidate. No reporter from a major newspaper outside of Las Vegas bothered to make the trip. Even the Associated Press, which has one of its national sports columnists based in Las Vegas, skipped the event, hiring a stringer to write a short piece.


But Arum wasn’t bemoaning the lack of coverage of a stellar fight on Saturday because he could barely wait for the “60 Minutes” piece on Sunday. It was the latest in a series of profiles of the one-time street urchin by major media outlets which usually shun boxing.


Media at all levels, from tiny, boxing-specific websites to monolith media outlets such as CBS, have all taken a crack at profiling the man that biographer Gary Andrew Poole says “is a much bigger character than just a boxer.”


Sternburg was hired as Pacquiao’s publicist in 2005, just before a fight with Erik Morales. By that stage, Pacquiao was already a legend among boxing insiders, but he was a virtual unknown among the wider audience in the U.S. In order to generate attention for Pacquiao and the pay-per-view fight, Sternburg resorted to gimmicks such as the mysterious “Manila Ice” punch that Pacquiao was supposedly working on in secret. Now, Sternburg has to play traffic cop and sort out the incredible list of demands for Pacquiao’s time down to a manageable few.


Pacquiao appeared on the ABC late night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live” last week and sang a duet of the John Lennon song, “Imagine” with actor Will Ferrell. He was profiled in Time Magazine and appeared on the cover of its Asian edition. CNN International did a half-hour segment on him. Magazines such as Esquire, GQ and The Atlantic, which rarely cover sports, let alone boxing, did profiles of him. The New York Times regularly sends a reporter now to cover Pacquiao. NPR’s Weekend Edition did a long segment on his plans to help his countrymen a few days before his 2009 fight with Ricky Hatton. He’s also on the cover of the November issue of American Airlines’ in-flight magazine, which has never before profiled a boxer.


Pacquiao has become one of the most recognizable athletes in the world and the most significant boxer on the world stage since Ali. He’s beloved in the Philippines, where his name recognition, as Poole says, “is probably 101 percent.”


“He is adored,” Simon said of the love his countrymen have for Pacquiao on “60 Minutes: Overtime” that aired on the Internet after the show was over on television. “I can’t think of any other person in the world who has ever been so adored by his people.”


Poole, whose recently released biography of Pacquiao, “PacMan,” is the best-selling boxing book on Amazon.com, spent two weeks in the Philippines and got a first-hand glimpse of that adoration.


He tagged along with Pacquiao as the boxer was on the campaign trail, running for a seat in the Filipino Congress representing the Sarangani province.


“I followed him out into the jungle where he was making a campaign speech and that’s when I realized the depth of the love they have for this guy,” Poole said. “We’re in the middle of a jungle – Who here could even imagine a campaign stop like that? – and there were literally thousands of people there. They were looking at him like a demigod. When he’d walk the streets, they’d just reach out and try to touch his shirt.


“We love our sports figures in the U.S., but he’s bigger than a sports figure over there. When he speaks, it transcends all class and cultural boundaries. Everyone listens. He’s a one in a 92 million story.”


Pacquiao had a sense early in his life that he was put on Earth to serve his countrymen. As his success as a boxer has increased and he’s become wealthier, Pacquiao has been able to do more for his country. The day after he was sworn into office, Pacquiao went scuba diving in order to promote tourism.


He’s worked tirelessly to build a hospital in Sarangani and took time off from training for the Margarito fight, much to the consternation of trainer Freddie Roach, to fly to Manila to discuss the project with Filipino President Benigno S. Aquino III.


“What this guy means to that country is something that you couldn’t understand in a hundred years unless you went there and saw it,” Arum said.


During the “60 Minutes” piece, Pacquiao noted that he’d reached all of his goals in boxing. He’s held world championships at flyweight, super bantamweight, super featherweight, lightweight, super lightweight and welterweight. He didn’t win a title belt at featherweight, but stopped the great Marco Antonio Barrera in 2003 to win the linear championship. And on Saturday, the man who began his career as a 106-pounder will meet Margarito for a super welterweight belt.


Pacquiao told Simon, though, that win or lose against Margarito, he’s accomplished all he’d set out to do in boxing. He’s widely regarded as the best pound-for-pound boxer in the world and is rapidly moving up the all-time rankings.


“I already achieved my goals in boxing, my dreams in boxing,” Pacquiao said to Simon. “And what I want to achieve more is in public service, you know. I want to be a champion there.”


Arum has gone on record numerous times suggesting that Pacquiao is the greatest fighter he’s even seen, including Ali. And the venerable promoter, who was once a U.S. Attorney in the Kennedy administration, believes that Pacquiao will some day be elected president of the Philippines.


It would be an extraordinary rise for a young man who came from one of the poorest families in one of the poorest countries on Earth. But after what he’s seen in the last five years, nothing Pacquiao can do will surprise Arum.


“There isn’t a shadow of doubt in my mind that he’ll be the president of the Philippines,” Arum says, resolutely. “None. He’s an incredibly bright guy. I watched him campaign for his seat in Congress and he was going up against a very established, entrenched opponent. Manny ran in 2007 and he didn’t have the right people around him and he didn’t campaign the right way and he lost.


“But he learned from that and he ran a brilliant campaign. I was out there watching him and he was speaking in all these different dialects and it was a side of him I’d never seen. It was awe-inspiring. I was so touched by what he was doing, I can only imagine what it must have been like to have been a Filipino listening to him. There’s never been anyone like this kid and there probably never will be.”


God bless sa laban, Pac-Man!

techy...

At the same time, islanders and summer residents alike regularly complain about all the people who now walk around the main streets of St. James, staring at a smart phone screen or iPad instead of their beautiful surroundings.



source

are we being too techy-savvy...that we fail to appreciate the 'real' happenings and going-ons?

NU no more...

manila bulletin

inquirer lifestyle

abs-cbn

got the word from a tumblr post...
went google-crazy...
it's true...

After 23 years, the all-rock format FM station DWNU 107.5 signed off the air for the last time at midnight, Sunday.

Station manager Chris Hermosisima was the last one to take the microphone. He thanked God, his family and station big boss Atom Henares “for the trust” and reminded everyone to “disperse quietly” amid hearty cheers and laughs before calling off for the last time the NU 107 station ID.


They then segued into the Eraserheads’ “Huling El Bimbo” as the final song for the “longest running and best rock and roll station.”

DWNU 107.5 officially went off the air at 12:05 a.m.

Not an easy path, indeed

Population Control

Praise God for Kuya Kirby's article.
A breather in the midst of all not-so-good things being hurled against the Catholic faith.

(an excerpt)
Let us not be swayed by the simplistic approach to solve poverty through artificial population control methods that hinder and destroy life. Let us go deeper and discover the real cause of our poverty, which is the decaying societal moral values that have resulted to extreme greed and embedded systemic and structural sins. The Biblical way is not an easy path to tread. It requires much love and sacrifice to solve the problem of poverty. The death of an innocent life of a baby in the womb through abortificient birth control methods nor condoms that hinder conception is not the solution to our poverty. Life is not to blame. It is sin.

Pray

06Oct Companion

There are many aspects to a successful prayer life. One of them is being too locked into a particular structure. I like to encourage people to experiment a bit with their prayer lives until they find what works best for them and when that stops working for them, find something different. This is not a license to give up on prayer but to be more committed to making sure that it is working for you.

How do you regard the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father)? Do you strive to live every word in this prayer taught by the Lord Jesus? Do you realize that the prayer is perfect as to lead us to salvation when lived fully?
 
Lord Jesus, may we take to heart daily the prayer that You taught us. Father, Thy Will be done.

Messages

Today's Didache:
Many have a little bit of Karen in them. I do, too. Even though I know that God has forgiven my sins, I sometimes feel unworthy of His love and end up thinking that the problems I face are karmic events. But they are not so.
If you feel that your past is weighing you down, remember this: God loves you no matter what you had done before. You just have to learn to forgive yourself.
-Nova Arias
 
Today's Sabbath:
Justice is the minimum of love while love is the perfection of justice.
Fr. Joel Jason

attendance

mataas ang pagtingin ko sa mga 'editorial' cartoons
and a powerful tool like this, i believe should not be used carelessly.
at sa tingin ko, sa episode na ito...it was used to send waves upon waves of wake up call
sana huwag nang ipagpatuloy ang pagiging timesheet employee.  ;(

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let us

we all had a part in it...
let us stop arguing
let us stop pointing fingers
and start acting 'properly'
let us start healing the wounds of divison
and rebuilding our trust, hope and dreams
after all, it's our country...our one and only.

Namasyal

Halo-Halo
Naaliw lang ako 'mamasyal'
Kaya inipon ko ang mga napulot ko...  ;)

From Medai's Post:
If you get there before I do
Don't give up on me
I'll meet you when my chores are through
I don't know how long I'll be
...But I'm not gonna let you down
Darling wait and see
And between now and then
Til I see you again
I'll be loving you
Love, Me."


From  Gina's Post:
from our leaders' overnight: paano ako magla-lie low, e hindi naman ako active? *winks*
Tessie Tomas to Mikee Cojuangco:
ganyan talaga kapag nagmahal ng lalaki. para kang sumakay sa roller coaster na walang preno.


From Jeanette's Post:
kailangan lang nila matutunan mahalin ung iba
hindi lang kung ano lang gusto nila gawin
hindi lng un gusto nila mahalin

Wowie: tama...
Juday: Ano? ngayon lang yata ako naging tama sa iyo
Wowie: Oo...tama ka na sa akin

my princess, my daughter

and then, my dad spoke...

God's message for His princesses
“No man can ever claim you unless he claims you from Me. I reserved a man for you who has My heart and loves Me even more than he will love you. I won’t give you unless he asks you from Me. Soon you will know him, i have the perfect time. You’re my princess, my daughter. Let no prince claim you unless he asks you from My hand for I AM your Father, the King of kings. You, my princess, are worth loving and deserves a KNIGHT.”

(credits to pamwithpixiedust@tumblr)

09-Aug Tumblring

Alam  kong hindi tayo, ang akin lang naman eh iyong-iyo ako. :)

Sos. Wag na kasi magselos. Wala namang ibang nagmamayari sa akin kundi ikaw. :)

RIP Sir Joey

Sir Joey Velasco paseed away

"Ang laging binubulong sa akin ng wife ko noon, surrender to the Lord, full surrender. Nanghingi po ako sa kanya ng lubid para makawala. Metaphorically, hindi siya nagbigay ng rope. He dangled a paintbrush and I grabbed it. Doon, liwanag. New life," he said in an interview on Probe Profiles

pic from  a tumblr post