my thanks to all of my loved ones….
first of all, thank you for the greetings! i really appreciate it, (i’m touched grabeeeeeeee) i never thought it will come earlier than we expected…
thanks for the support, prayers and encouragements…i wouldnt be here without you - my family, friends and relatives who supported me…and of course my deepest gratitude to our Father, who never left my side during the times that i need Him most…i owe everything to all of you..
THANK YOU!!!!
the list is in this link:
http://www.esnips.com/doc/bc104cb2-e0e2-416e-a2e9-996e1ee82b8f/nurse011407
Uncategorized | Comment (0)A LETTER TO A FRIEND…………..
Dear friend, I owe a debt to you today,
A debt my hand nor heart can e’er repay;
A debt not paid in gold, were gold in store,
Can but be paid in love by loving more…
Dear friend, I pray thee, if thou wouldst be proving
Thy strong regard for me,
Make me no vows. Lip-service is not loving;
Let thy faith speak for thee…
Friends bring the most joy and the most pain. But they always find a way to mend your heart back together after they break it.
So kind, and yet a little cold.
You would not take my proffered arm.
I offered it, who could withhold,
To keep you from the ice’s harm…
If we all told what we know of one another, there would not be four friends in the world.
How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose we know not, though sometimes sense it. But we know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
It is a matter to gain the affection of a cat. He is a philosophical animal, tenacious of his own habits, fond of order and neatness, and disinclined to extravagant sentiment. He will be your friend, if he finds you worthy of friendship, but not your slave.
Many a time from a bad beginning great friendships have sprung up.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.
Are we friends, or are we not?
You told me once, but I forgot
Tell me now, and tell me true
So I can say, I’m here for you.
Of all the friends I’ve ever met
You’re the one I won’t forget
And if I die before you do
I’ll go to heaven, and wait for you
I’ll give the angels, back their wings
And risk the loss, of everything.
Just to prove my friendship is true
To have a friend, a friend like you
No love, no friendship can cross the path of our destiny without leaving some mark on it forever.
Some times I wish you were here
To be my love, to be my dear
To see your smile, to see your eyes
I wish I could express the love I can’t deny…
Friends… They cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.
Too often we under estimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Silence is the true friend that never betrays.
for a stroll with a cat; he has to walk a dog. The cat leads the way, running ahead, tail high, making sure you understand the arrangement. If you should happen to get ahead, the cat will never allow you to think it is following you. It will stop and clean some hard-to-reach spot, or investigate a suspicious movement in the grass; you will find yourself waiting a fidgeting like the lackey you are. But this is not annoying to cat lovers, who understand and appreciate a good joke, even when it is on them.
I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.
If someone listens, or strectches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen.
Trust enables you to put your deepest feelings and fears in the palm of your partner’s hand, knowing they will be handled with care.
To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
United we stand, divided we fall.
Time goes by so fast, people go in and out of your life. You must never miss the opportunity to tell these people how much they mean to you.
Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself… If you don’t have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.
Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don’t share it, you don’t give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
Instead of loving your enemies — treat your friends a little better.
Don’t wait for people to be friendly, show them how.
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.
An insincere friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
Truth and tears clear the way to a deep and lasting friendship.
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
Beat me with the truth, don’t torture me with lies.
Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.
An honest answer is the sign of true friendship.
Often we have no time for our friends but all the time in the world for our enemies.
The ones who are bound to be your best friends must lose your trust just once to prove that they can win it back.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
A friendship is like sand in your hand: if held loosely in the palm of your hand, it stays there, but as soon as you close your hand tightly, it slips through your fingers.
Friends are lost by calling often and calling seldom.
If I had never met you, I wouldn’t like you;
If I didn’t like you, I wouldn’t love you;
If I didn’t love you, I wouldn’t miss you;
But I did, I do, and I will.
Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love.
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;…
To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep burning, unquenchable.
All the treasure in the world is worthless, unless you have someone to share it with.
A friend is someone who has the same enemies you have.
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
A friend means well, even when he hurts you. But when an enemy puts his hand round your shoulder… watch out!
Everyone leaves footprints in your memory, but the ones that leave footprints in your heart are the ones you will truely remember.
Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies; they are ready enough to tell them.
Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.
Though friendship is not quick to burn, it is explosive stuff.
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are your waiting?
We always thought we’d look back on our tears and laugh, but we never thought we’d look back on our laughter and cry.
Knowing what to say is not always necessary; just the presence of a caring friend can make a world of difference.
Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannot congeal in winter.
I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.
Every good friend was once a stranger.
A friend is one who believes in you when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
A friend is one who knows who you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you become, and still gently invites you to grow.
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.
The bank of friendship cannot exist for long without deposits.
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
Friends are forever, you might lose them but you’ll never forget them.
Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.
A part of you has grown in me,
together forever we shall be.
Never apart,
maybe in distance but never in heart.
To find a friend one must close one eye; To keep him, two.
Anyone can stand by you when you’re right, but a real friend will stand by you even when you’re wrong.
Too late we learn a man must hold his friend unjudged, accepted, trusted to the end.
Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache;
Do be my enemy… for friendship’s sake.
Do not save your loving speeches
For your friends till they are dead;
Do not write them on their tombstones,
Speak them rather now instead.
Leave loved ones always with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
Love is when you take away the feeling, the passion, and the romance in a relationship, and find out you still care for that person.
Life is full of people who will make you laugh, cry, smile until your face hurts, and so happy that you think you’ll burst. But the ones who leave their footprints on your soul are the ones that keep your life going.
A friend will break your heart, a friend will mend it, a friend will provide you with every feeling in the world, good and bad. A friend is emotion incarnate.
Friends are puzzle pieces. If one goes away, that special piece can never be replaced and that puzzle will never be whole again.
a friend is death without a witness.
He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
One who forgives an affront fosters friendship, but one who dwells on disputes will alienate a friend.
I have learned that no matter how good a friend is, they’re going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this?
A good friend sees your first tear, catches the second and stops the third.
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.
A good friend is hard to find, hard to lose, and hard to forget.
It takes a long time to grow an old friend.
Whishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.
To lose a friend is hardship, but to forget them is as if you died too.
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and the widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.
A true friend stabs you in the front.
People love others not for who they are, but for how they make us feel.
Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best.
We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed.
As in filling a vessel drop by drop,
There is at last a drop which makes it run over;
So in a series of kindnesses,
There is at last one which makes the heart run over.
Friends are always friends no matter how far you have to travel back in time. If you have memories together, there is always a piece of your friendship inside your heart.
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
Friendships are different from all other relationships. Unlike acquaintanceship, friendship is based on love. Unlike lovers and married couples, it is free of jealousy. Unlike children and parents, it knows neither criticism nor resentment. Friendship has no status in law. Business partnerships are based on a contract. So is marriage. Parents are bound by law. But friendships are freely entered into, freely given, and freely exercised.
True friendship is based on trust, honesty and sincere generosity of our hearts.
Do not make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
True friends are the ones who never leave your heart, even if they leave your life for awhile. Even after years apart, you pick up with them right where you left off, and even if they die, they’re never dead in your heart.
I’ve learned in my lifetime so far that you can’t help who you fall for and no matter how hard you try and how much it hurts you everyday that you just wanna be with them or just talk to them you never stop trying to make them happy by the little things you say or do because thats what makes your life worth going on for.
Sometimes in life, you find a special friend. Someone who changes your life just by being a part of it. Someone who makes you laugh until you can’t stop. Someone who makes you believe that there really is good in the world. Someone who convinces you that there really is an unlocked door just waiting for you to open it. This is forever friendship. When you’re down and the world seems dark and empty, your forever friend lifts you up in spirit and makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and full. Your forever friend gets you through the hard times, the sad times and the confused times. If you turn and walk away, your forever friend follows. If you lose your way, your forever friend guides you and cheers you on. Your forever friend holds your hand and tells you that everything is going to be okay. And if you find such a friend, you feel happy and complete because you need not worry. You have a forever friend, and forever has no end.
Best friends never tell each other that they’re best friends, they just know.
In life it is difficult to say who do you the most mischief;
enemies with worst intentions, or friends with the best.
Treat your friends as you do your pictures, put them in their best light.
A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Some of the finest friendships are between persons of different dispositions. The mind is often attracted by perfections it lacks itself.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch and swing with, never say a word, and then walk away feeling like it was the best conversation you ever had.
Often, the only way to comfort the suffering is to understand that you can’t understand and just be there.
One of the most important things in communication is to hear what is not being said.
Some friends only want to see the perfections in you. Others need to see the imperfections, and those are the true ones.
Love is not finding a perfect person, it is seeing an imperfect person perfectly.
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend forever.
If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.
The real test of friendship is: Can you literally do nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy together those moments of life that are utterly simple? They are the moments people look back on at the end of life and number as their most sacred experiences.
One who looks for a friend without faults will have none.
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another is essential to your own.
True friendship is like a star. You don’t see its light in the brightness of prosperity but in the darkness of adversity.
The best mirror is an old friend.
Friends are always worth the trouble.
When a friend is in trouble, dont annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
True friendship is felt, not said.
A friend drops their plans when you’re in trouble, shares joy in your accomplishments, feels sad when you’re in pain. A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice… but when you don’t follow it, they still respect and love you.
A friend is someone who, upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than watch their friend suffer.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.
The only love worthy of a name is unconditional.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight is said to be the only truth.
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss can never be repaired.
Friendship is inexplicable, it should not be explained if one doesn’t want to kill it.
Do not appease thy fellow in his hour of anger;
do not comfort him while the dead is still laid out before him;
do not question him in the hour of his vow;
and do not strive to see him in his hour of misfortune.
If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t follow. I’d be at the bottom to catch them when they fall.
Make new friends, but don’t forget the old ones.
No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
Friends are the most important part of your life. Treasure the tears, treasure the laughter, but most importantly, treasure the memories.
There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first. When you learn to live for others, they will live for you.
When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
Real friends require honesty, openness, and even vulnerability. They also require attention and simple acts of kindness.
I think I never passed so sad an hour,
Dear friend, as that one at the church to-night.
The edifice from basement to the tower
Was one resplendent blaze of coloured light…
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.
A true friend is someone you can disagree with and still remain friends. For if not, they weren’t true friends in the first place.
each one of you has enriched my life. You have helped to teach me, to guide me on this often turning and forking road of life. You have been with me through the good times and the bad. You have comforted me when I cried, held me when I was afraid, and laughed with me when I was happy.
The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.
My friend, if I could give you one thing in life, it would be the ability to see yourself as others see you, then you would realize what a truly special person you are.
Always remember you’re unique, just like everyone else.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.
Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.
A house is build of logs and stone,
Of Piles and post and piers;
A home is build of loving deeds,
That stand a thousand years.
Friendship is a building contract you sign with laughter and break with tears.
Friends are those who treat you kindly behind your back.
There’s something beautiful about finding one’s innermost thoughts in another.
The greatest actions of love often got unnoticed.
It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
One should go invited to a friend in good fortune, and uninvited in misfortune.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford being stupid with them.
True friends are those who, when you make a fool of yourself, don’t believe that this condition is permanent.
True friendship’s laws are by this rule express’d, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.
Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.
True friendship is never serene.
Friendship is like a golden chain, then links are friends so dear, and like a rare and precious jewel, it’s treasured each year.
O no, thy love though much, is not so great,
It is my love that keeps mine eye awake,
Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat,
To play the watchman ever for thy sake.
For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere,
From me far off, with others all too near.
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
"I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility… without the help and support of the woman I love."
I laugh just like you, I cry and feel pain.
When you touch my skin, we feel the same.
But you were born black and I was born white,
Our prejudice formed because of our sight.
But if you were blind and I couldn’t see,
Just think of how nice our Friendship could be!
Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
The richest person in the world is not the one who still has the first dollar they ever earned. It’s the person who still has their first friend.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil — but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often — just to save it from drying out completely.
My year-end confessions
As i was looking at my planner today, i realized how challenging and tiring my year is…imagine - graduation, board exams, work, and all that stuff! i can’t believe that i’d surpassed all of them! with blood and sweat of course hehehe…but behind these "stuffs," which are very important to me, are lessons in life that i will never forget as long as i live…what are they? well here are three major lessons in life that no one can find in a book……
Number 1: THE TRUE MEANING OF FRIENDSHIP
i love my friends. i will do all that i can to help them, but like everybody says, nobody is perfect. we spend our time with our TRUE friends, right? but how will we know that he/she is a TRUE friend? hmmmm in fact, that same question still runs inside my head, but based on what i had experienced with people for 22 years, i guess i found the answer to that very question : TRUE FRIENDS accept who you really are and never turns their back on you whatever or whoever you are…they never tell anyone the negative side of you behind your back, instead, he/she will tell it right in front of you - face to face, to show you that they REALLY care about you…they will never refer you as an ASSET, but a GIFT to them…they will not doubt you of anything, specially if it is against them, they will talk unclear things with you…they will always try to understand you no matter how difficult it is - your language, thoughts and everything….they will never USE you for anything, instead, they will ASK FOR YOUR HELP, to do things…AND, they never refer to their dictionaries or thesaurus just to find the TRUE meaning of FRIENDSHIP because as far as i know, FRIENDSHIP is beyond words, that even webster can’t define, ’cause i believe its in the heart of every people that no one can ever see…try to ask God for discernment, and trust me, it really works!
NUMBER 2: FAITH
When i took the board exam last june, i can’t say that i was "fully charged" - studied hard, prayed hard, but when the results came, i didn’t find my name…then i began to ask WHY…why did i fail? i start asking questions - including my faith - to tell you the truth, i wasn’t depressed - i was disappointed…all of my friends and family prayed for me, i studied hard but why did i fail? for weeks i was questioning myself why…But i realized that it’s wrong…I learned that EVERYTHING THAT IS HAPPENING INTO ONE’S LIFE HAS REASONS…when i saw the news on the TV about the leakage, i don’t know how to react about the issue, but as i was about to sleep that night, a message suddenly popped into my mind - maybe its not yet the right time for me and my friends to pass that exam…God knows everything, right? maybe He doesnt want me to pass for now because of what had happened, He doesn’t want me and my family to experience the stress and the tension, like my friends (who passed)..They say that it’s a BLESSING IN DISGUISE…my friend was right, she told me earlier before the exam day that "kung hindi pa talaga panahon natin, bakit natin pipilitin si God, dba? He knows everything and we should put all our trust and faith in Him na lng…alam Niya ang nakakabuti sa atin…" Then i smiled…oo nga naman tama siya, of course we have to do our own sacrifices for what we really need in life, but if God has better plans, why would we insist, right? He knows everything, He knows we deserve the best but He has better plans for us, all we have to do is to be receptive and faithful to him (right?) But i’m not saying that we should wait, tipong come what may…nope! its not what i mean (heheeheh) well, still i was very thankful to Him, why? Because it molded me into a better person, i was like a pencil that’s been sharpened in order to face another challenges in life…
And the last…
NUMBER 3: The Values…
During my early years in grade school, the teacher always tells us the different values that a person should possess…well as i was working in the hospital, i realized that EXPERIENCE, is indeed, the BEST TEACHER…i realized that God want me to experience the things i need, (for my growth)…i worked as a nurse assistant (because i don’t have a license yet remember?) in a hospital, and for 2 months, i learned many things - that no teacher can teach…yes, it helped me to sharpen my skills and instincts, but beyond that, i learned the values that they (the teacher and my family ) have been telling me…being Humble, Kind, Patient and Faithful, not only to my peers but to everyone that i meet as i take the road of life…i know that He has better plans for me and i trust Him…whatever happens in my life, i will try not to question or blame something or someone, but rather take it as a challenge, for i know that His purpose - is to make me a BETTER person.
Uncategorized | Comment (0)Hate Letter Against Filipinos
Hate Letter Against Filipinos
Please take time to read this, most especially the bottom part, PATRICIA EVANGELISTA’s (19 year old Filipina) speech that won in a WORLD competition in London .
This is a hate letter coming from a radio talk show host Mr. Art Bell from Nevada . I dont consider myself as patriotic but please read my reply below in BOLD LETTERS and send this to as many of your friends as possible until it reaches him.
Subject: HATE LETTER
This is a very disturbing open E-mail letter to all Filipinos around the world; specially here in North America !, from a man who has the power to reach millions of people. (he’s a radio talk host)
Please read on…………..
This is an open letter email by Art Bell, a radio talk show host in Nevada (more info in the email itself). Here is yet another person who has taken; advantage of his power and privilege to use hateful words and racial stereotypes that breed further ignorance and intolerance in our society.
Art Bell is a talk radio host who has two shows that he broadcasts from his home in Nevada , that is rebroadcast by 400 stations across the country.
He’s written 2 books. He lived in Okinawa , Japan for some years and had a radio program on the English station here. And, though it’s hard to believe after reading the following letter from him, he actually has been to the Philippines (he’s traveled fairly extensively around the world).
Check out his website listed at the end to get a glimpse at this fool who’s spreading this hateful ignorance. And check his wife as well. This letter is so degrading, I think it’s really important that everybody read this and not attack him, but respond to him in a civilized manner because otherwise his thoughts will be reaffirmed. Understand that not everyone has a viewpoint like we do, and that this is an opinion of someone who hopefully can be changed only by civil actions.
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Filipinos…..*make me puke* (Art Bell)
As we’ve all come to notice, in the past few decades, Filipinos have begun to infest the United States like some sort of disease. Their extensive involvement in the U.S. Armed Forces is proof of the trashy kind of qualities all filipinos tend to exhibit on a regular basis. You can see this clearly by studying the attitudes and cultural Icons of most Filipino Americans.
Origins of Pinoys/Pinays:
Are they really asian? Well we’ve come to accept the fact the filipinos come from a part of the world known as South East Asia . But the term " Asia " is used in the wrong way. You may notice that contemporary Filipino Americans try very hard to associate themselves with groups that we know as Asian. I cannot count the number of times I have seen a ‘ Third World ‘ Filipino try to connect themselves to the chinese or Japanese people. There is no connection and here’s why. The Philippines is a Third World country. Nothing respectable has EVER been created by Filipino people during our entire human history. Young filipino men in America have become obsessed with "import racing". They have an enormously perverted affection for Japanese cars. It’s a common phenomenon. In their minds, these Filipinos somehow believe that they are asian and that it somehow connects them to Japanese people and japanese cars. They often take credit for the ingenuity of Japanese people and say how it’s an "Asian thing". This term…"Asian thing" derived directly from African American slang "black thang". "It’s a black thang." "It’s an asian thang."
You can see the connection. It’s even funnier that, in Japan , Filipinos are heavily discriminated against. The only filipinos that can live successfully in Japan are the filipino prostitutes. But that’s the case for most Filipino people no matter where they live in th e world. Now we’ve come down to this fact…and it is a fact.
Nothing in Filipino Culture can be seen as Asian.
They have no architectural, artistic, or cultural influence which is in ANY way, asian. Thinking of the great countries in Asia such as Japan , Korea , and China there is no way you can possibly connect the Philippine Islands. This assault by filipino americans to connect themselves with the great peoples of North East Asia is foul and disgusting. Try visiting a young filipino’s web site too.
You’ll see something called the "Asian IRC Ring". It has to do with the chatrooms. The most horrible thing about this is that these TRASHY people are trying to associate themselves with Asia again!! People in Asia don’t act like this at all. What we are seeing here is the natural Filipino in its element with full access to technology and this is how they act! You will consistently see this behavior over and over again.
Another interest ing thing is that these "thirdworld" people also frequent RC chatrooms such as #chinese #japan and #asian. They must believe that they are somehow related racially or culturally to North Asians. But it’s completely WRONG! There might have been some distant contact With China and even less with Japan during World War II, but these people are actually more closely related to african americans and Mexican americans.
Do the parents of these young filipinos know what’s going on? Would they accept this? I believe that they would and do. This is the natural "Trash" element in filipinos manifesting itself. Nothing good has ever come from Philippines and I don’t believe anything good ever will.
Recognizing your Roots (A Message to Filipinos). To all filipino people:
Please recognize your ROOTS! You come from the Third World ! You country is a disgusting and filthy place. Most people there live in poverty! Your culture has MUCH MORE SPANISH influence than chinese, and absolutely no JAPANESE influence whatsoever. People in Japan and China , d o not act like you. They do not constantly talk about sex and they have a MUCH HIGHER level of RESPECT for each other. There is NO WAY that you can connect yourself to Asia other than location.
Your culture and technological advancement does no! t even come CLOSE to What Chinese, people have done in the past and what Japanese and Korean people are doing now! Everything you do is distinctly filipino. You cannot take credit for Japanese cars, video games, or Hentai! It’s not an "asian thing" it’s an "American thing". You have no concept of culture…no concept of asian ideas or asian philosophy! Can you demonstrate how you use Confucianism or Taoism in you everyday life?? You can’t. And you will NEVER be able to.
I understand that you are trying to create an identity for yourselves as young people… but it is NOT related to Asia . Your Identity is Filipino.
That’s all you are. Just Filipino. Think about what that means….
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I find this funny, he is right in some ways where we, as Filipinos don’t actually have an "Identity". I think this is due to the confusion of our mixed races from Hispanic, Chinese, American and Malay origins. I see it in malls, imagine young generations wearing ski caps and ski goggles in a tropical country, baggy low rise pants like that of African Americans living in the Bronx of New York, not to mention endless whitening products being sold at department stores and drug stores.
But his ignorance also blinds him from the other truth. That while we may glorify Anime shows and Japanese Internet gaming, he is not aware that a nameless Filipino may be responsible for some technical aspects of some Japanese software. He is not aware of our contribution to the the society in general .Technological advancements that may have aided post war navigations and landing on the moon. That the antibiot ic Erythromycin was discovered by Dr. Abelardo Aguilar from Iloilo creating the brand "Ilosone".
Thomas Edison may have discovered the electric light bulb and the fluorescent lighting was thought up by Nikola Tesla. But the fluorescent lamp we use today was invented by Agapito Flores (a Cebuano named Benigno Flores of Bantayan Island, according to the Philippine Daily inquirer), a Filipino scientist. Americans helped then-Philippine leader Ramon Magsaysay to develop it for worldwide commerce. That the personal physician of former U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton is Eleanor "Connie" Concepcion Mariano, a Filipina doctor who was the youngest captain in the US Navy. A Filipino writer Jose Rizal could read a nd write at age 2, and grew up to speak more than 20 languages, includind Latin, Greek, German, French and Chinese.
Or that a Filipino genius was responsible for the near hiatus in the PENTAGON and White House nearly infiltrationg their closely guarded secrets with the "ILOVEYOU" bug. Nuisance maybe, but still one heck of a ‘beautiful mind’…not to be underestimated.
The list goes on and on, but who cares right? Certainly not Mr. Art Bell…Boy, I’m not surprised.
Perhaps Art Bell does not know that although we consider ourselves ASIAN because we are strategically located in the Southeast asian region of which our nearest neighbors are Malays, ASIA does not mean only Chinese and Japanese race of people. Th en maybe it is his connotation that " Asia" meant only our economically successful, paler brothers and he considers Malays such as Thais, Malaysians, Indonesians, and ourselves as a " Third World " race. Then it is "his" ignonimity that would make a civilized person of whatever race puke. Imagine literally connecting Chinese, Koreans and Japanese to the Philippine Islands which is archipelagos away from the countries he has mentioned. I also wonder where he got the impression th at we aspire to be Japanese( ???) Hispanics maybe but not the Japanese. But even Hispanics today do not mind sharing their "surnames" to their Asian brothers who they have colonized for 3 centuries.
Another sad reality that although most Filipinos working overseas are domestic helpers and prostitutes, who does he think educates the toddlers of Hong Kong , Singapore , Taiwan and Tokyo ? Parents of these countries rarely have time spent with their children, leaving them to their Filipino nannies. And with regard to prostitution. Filipinos are not the only ones working as one. I HARDLY SEE FILIPINOS STARRING IN PORN MOVIES. THERE MIGHT BE A FEW FILIPINOS WE HAVEN’T SEEN , BUT MOST ARE FROM MR. ART BELL’S RACE.
He also mentioned that we have no concept of culture..no concept of asian ideas or asian philosophy. How can we demonst rate Confucianism or Taoism in a Christian nation? IS HE INFORMED THAT THE PHILIPPINES IS THE ONLY PREDOMINANTLY CHRISTIAN/CATHOLIC NATION IN ASIA ?! YOU HAVE TO USE COMMON SENSE IN A LOT OF THINGS SOMETIMES…
We do not need to create an identity for ourselves. We are who we are. Our identity stems from the anonymity we live in this world. How we contribute silently towards the progress of the world and not just one country. Although the Filipino blood may be tainted with malice, corruption, poverty and prostitution, it is not a perfect race… But so are the others. Maybe Mr. Art Bell needs to think about this.
WE MAY NOT BE PERFECT MR. BELL BUT AT LEAST WE STILL HAVE VALUES. FOR ONE THING WE DON’T PUT OUR AGING PARENTS IN NURSING HOMES BECAUSE "THEY’RE SIMPLY OLD AND WORTHLESS". WE DONT HAVE AS MUCH NUMBERS OF SINGLE MOTHERS WHO GET PREGNANT IN THEIR VERY EARLY TEENS AND EVENTUALLY BECOME PARASITES OF THE GOVERNMENT FOR YEARS AND YEARS.
YES…WE CAME TO YOUR COUNTRY TO WORK, TO EARN DECENT MONEY (HALF OF WHICH BY THE WAY GOES TO TAXES BECAUSE THERE’S SO MANY SOCIAL PARASITES FROM YOUR RACE).AND BY THE WAY, MOST EDUCATED PEOPLE THAT I WORK WITH DON’T COME FROM YOUR RACE… THEY’RE ACTUALLY IMMIGRANTS TOO. AND THOSE EDUCATED ONES DO NOT ACT LIKE YOU DO, PERHAPS BECAUSE THEY’VE REALLY BEEN WELL EDUCATED..AFTER ALL THAT’S SAID… WHO IS THE IGNORANT ONCE AGAIN?!
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Pinay wins it big in London
By Alfred Yuson
The Philippine Star 05/16/2004
Patricia Evangelista, a 19-year- old, Mass Communications sophomore of University of the Philippines (UP)-Diliman, did the country proud Friday night by besting 59 other student contestants from 37 countries in the 2004 International Public Speaking competition conducted by the English Speaking Union (ESU) in London.
She triumphed over a field of exactly 60 speakers from all over the English-speaking world, including the United States , United Kingdom and Australia , reported Maranan.
The board of judges’ decision was unanimous, according to contest chairman Brian Hanharan of the British broadcasting Corp. (BBC).
PATRICIA’S SHORT SPEECH WORTH READING….
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BLONDE AND BLUE EYES
When I was little, I wanted what many Filipino children all over the country wanted. I wanted to be blond, blue-eyed, and white.
I thought — if I just wished hard enough and was good enough, I’d wake upon Christmas morning with snow outside my window and freckles across my nose!
More than four centuries under western domination does that to you. I have sixteen cousins. In a couple of years, there will just be five of us left in the Philippines , the rest will have gone abroad in search of "greener pastures." It’s not just an anomaly; it’s a trend; the Filipino diaspora. Today, about eight million Filipinos are scattered around the world.
There are t hose who disapprove of Filipinos who choose to leave. I used to. Maybe this is a natural reaction of someone who was left behind, smiling for family pictures that get emptier with each succeeding year. Desertion, I called it. My country is a land that has perpetually fought for the freedom to be itself. Our heroes offered their lives in the struggle against the Spanish, the Japanese, the Americans. To pack up and deny that identity is tantamount to spitting on that sacrifice.
Or is it? I don’t think so, not anymore. True, there is no denying this phenomenon, aided by the fact that what was once the other side of the world is now a twelve-hour plane ride away. But this is a borderless world, where no individual can claim to be purely from where he is now. My mother is of Chinese descent, my father is a quarter Spanish, and I call myself a pure Filipino-a hybrid of sorts resulting from a combination of cultures.
Each square mile anywhere in the world is made up of peopl e of different ethnicities, with national identities and individual personalities. because of this, each square mile is already a microcosm of the world. In as much as this blessed spot that is England is the world, so is my neighborhood back home.
Seen this way! , the Filipino Diaspora, or any sort of dispersal of populations, is not as ominous as so many claim. It must be understood. I come from a Third World country, one that is still trying mightily to get back on its feet after many years of dictatorship. But we shall make it, given more time. Especially now, when we have thousands of eager young minds who graduate from college every year. They have skills. They need jobs. We cannot absorb them all.
A borderless world presents a bigger opportunity, yet one that is not so much abandonment but an extension of identity . Even as we take, we give back. We are the 40,000 skilled nurses who support the UK ’s National Health Service. We are the quarter-of-a-million seafarers manning most of the world’s commercial ships. We are your software engineers in Ireland , your construction workers in the Middle East, your doctors and caregivers in North America, and, your musical artists in London ’s West End .
Nationalism isn’t bound by time or place. People from other nations migrate to create new nations, yet still remain essentially who they are. British society is itself an example of a multi-cultural nation, a melting pot of races, religions, arts and cultures. We are, indeed, in a borderless world!
Leaving sometimes isn’t a matter of choice. It’s coming back that is. The Hobbits of the shire travelled all over Middle-Earth, but they chose to come home, richer in every sense of the word. We call people like these balikbayans or the ‘returnees’ — those who followed their dream, yet choose to return and share their mature talents and good fortune.
In a few years, I may take advantage of whatever opportunities come my way. But I will come home. A borderless world doesn’t preclude the idea of a home. I’m a Filipino, and I’ll always be one. It isn’t about just geography; it isn’t about boundaries. It’s about giving back to the country that shaped me.
And that’s going to be more important to me than seeing snow outside my windows on a bright Christmas morning.
Mabuhay and Thank you.
So, be proud, you are a Filipino,…and not like Mr. Art Bell. Please do send this to as many person as you can until it reaches him.
Uncategorized | Comment (0)Obsessive-Complusive TEST….know if you have OCD
Answer True or False for each answer.
1. Do you wash your hands after you feel you have
come to close to an animal or dirty object? True
False
2. Do you reposition tablecloths or rugs because
you think they are not exactly right? True False
3. Are there days when you have to think about
certain words or images so much that you are
unable to do anything else? True False
4. Is it often impossible for you to stop repeating (if
only to yourself) a sentence already spoken? True
False
5. During the day do you think several times about
work you have already finished? True False
6. Do you find that you cannot stop counting
during certain activities? True False
7. Do you sometimes try to distract yourself from a
thought about your partner doing something he or
she would not want you to know about? True False
8. Are there any activities you cannot finish before
having counted to a certain number? True False
9.Do you sometimes consciously distract yourself
from the thought of hurting or killing yourself? True
False
10. During the course of the day, do you often
remember a certain word, picture, or sentence?
True False
11. Do you check the cleanliness of public seats,
such as those in buses or taxis, before you sit
down? True or False
12. Do you sometimes repeat aloud what has been
already spoken, although you try to prevent
yourself from doing it? True False
13. Having left your home, do you constantly have
to think about whether everything is in order there?
True False
14. Before starting to dress, do you think about
exactly how to do it? True False
15. Did you ever find yourself counting things for no
reason? True False
16. Was there ever a day when you could not think
about anything else except hurting or killing
yourself? True False
17. Do you wash your hands after reading the
newspaper? True False
18. Did you ever notice that you touch things
several times before or after you have used them?
True False
19. Have you ever touched switches on electric
devices several times and counted despite trying
not to? True False
20. Do you check books or magazines for dog-
ears and straighten them immediately? True False
21. Do you fold newspapers back to the original
way after reading them? True False
22. Does the thought often occur to you that you
might get sick or go blind or crazy? True False
23. Are there days when you can think only about
hurting or killing someone? True False
24. After going to bed, do you get up again to
check all electrical devices? True False
25. Does counting the number of times you touch
switches of electrical devices interfere with your
everyday activities? True False
26. Do you rearrange objects on your desk, in your
cupboard, or other places repeatedly, even though
nothing’s been touched since you last arranged
them? True False
27. Do you check the return address immediately
before you mail a letter? True False
SCORING:
A. Calculate the total number of answers circled
True for questions
3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,13,14,15,16,22,23.
These are obsessions. If the total number of true
answers circled for these questions is 1 or 2: You
probably do not have clinically significant
obsessions.
3,4,5, or 6: You probably have obsessions that are
clinically significant.
7-14: You definitely have obsessions that are
clinically significant.
B. Calculate the total number of answers circled
true for questions
1,2,11,12,17,18,19,20,21,24,25,26,and 27.
These are compulsions. If the total number of true
answers circled for these questions is 1,2,or3: You
probably do not have clinically significant
compulsions.
4,5,6,or 7: You probably have clinically significant
compulsions.
8-13: You definitely have compulsions that are
clinically significant.
http://www.mental-health-
today.com/tests/ocdtest.htm
Wonderful things to think about
This is somewhat long, however it states some wonderful things to think about …
1. Faith is the ability to not panic.
2. If you worry, you didn’t pray. If you pray, don’t worry.
3. As a child of God, prayer is kind of like calling home every day.
4. Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.
5. When we get tangled up in our problems, be still. God wants us to be
still so He can untangle the knot.
6. Do the math. Count your blessings.
7. God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.
8. Dear God: I have a problem. It’s me.
9. Silence is often misinterpreted, but never misquoted.
10. Laugh every day; it’s like inner jogging.
11. The most important things in your home are the people.
12. Growing old is inevitable, growing up is optional.
13. There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.
14. A grudge is a heavy thing to carry.
15. He who dies with the most toys is still dead.
16. We do not remember days, but moments. Life moves too fast, so enjoy
your precious moments.
17. Nothing is real to you until you experience it; otherwise it’s just hearsay.
18. It’s all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are done.
19. Surviving and living your life successfully requires courage. The goals and dreams you’re seeking require courage and risk-taking. Learn from the turtle, it only makes progress when it sticks out its neck.
20. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation. Your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
~Author Unknown~
Work like you don’t need the money,
Love like you’ve never been hurt,
& Dance like nobody is watching.
Live Well,
Laugh Often,
Love Much.