A great place to live

I was wondering why I took this picture a few days ago or was it yesterday morning...... It took me about 15 minutes to remember. The dots represent the time. hehehehehe But anyway I just went out of the office for a breather and I took the picture of this electric post in front of the office. I was thinking of the Philippines as a nation then. I guess that was yesterday. Thoughts on the nation were triggered by the Trillanes stupid show of defiance? and rebellion? Heroism? in Manila Pen. What a jerk!

Anyway, I looked at the post and thought that the Philippines is just like it. It is fully functional. Like the post and the wires all over it supplying lights, communication lines, cable TV, internet connections and so on, the Philippines is functioning despite the horror of it. Confusion in politics, in peace and order, language, culture etc. seem to be like those wires, seemingly disorganized and yet fully functional. What a great place to live aye?

And folks sorry for the past two posts...they are just....ah...hmmmmm.whatever.....gave me relief though...hehehehe....thanks for the visit...

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In my 37 years of living and experiencing so much of how it is to live, last Wednesday I have received a verbal warning and then Friday I have been told to be receiving a written reprimand. This is my FIRST TIME! and I am not happy about it. It would be okay for me if this memo I will be receiving is strongly founded in very good reason.

What I hate and makes me really mad and unhappy is I am going to receive a memo which is baseless, with a petty circumstance around it. I would gladly receive a written reprimand if the reason behind it is something of worth.

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People in position are not suppose to go on a witch hunt. They should not be people who mainly look at the inadequacies and wrongs of their subordinates. Supervisory positions are suppose to be sources of encouragement to employees. These are the positions where employees get most of the support to perform better. If an employee does something wrong it shouldn't be taken as personal. Supervisors have to talk clearly and solve it at their level. Petty things shouldn't become the manager's or higher authorities' concerns. Petty means trivial, something that can be solved easily. Positions are not to be used to bring someone down. They should be used to bring out the best from people. Positions are not suppose to be forced on people. the recognition and respect that comes from it is earned not forced on anybody.

Well, I guess this is it. wheeew I am greatly relieved.

A Bad Twist

A really bad twist of events. The girl reported to have hanged herself because her family didn't have money for her school project was exhumed and discovered to have been raped. My goodness!

This a blow on media, in a sense that they have created a false issue without truly and thoroughly investigating. Sometimes the media can really be very falsely and negatively influential. Media needs to be careful because they might cause something that is detrimental not only to certain individuals, but to the nation's reputation internationally.

The raping of the poor girl still reflective of people's poverty of the heart and a reflection of how this poverty affect families. The major suspect would be the father.

Poverty of the Heart

This is really shocking and depressing. Why does this have to happen? We are not poor in terms of money. We are poor in heart. It is the poverty of the Filipino heart and community that has killed this girl.

Look at this information and See for yourself if we are poor in money or heart....

Forbes Asia's Philippine rich list is featured on its October 29 issue now available on newsstands.http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryID=96247

The top 10 richest in the Philippines:

1) Jaime Zobel de Ayala (US$2 billion)
2) Henry Sy ($1.7 billion)
3) Lucio Tan ($1.6 billion)
4) Andrew Tan ($1.1 billion)
5) Manuel Villar ($940 million)
6) George Ty ($870 million)
7) Andrew Gotianun ($860 million)
8) Enrique Razon Jr. ($820 million)
9) Tony Tan Caktiong ($790 million)
10) Oscar Lopez ($775 million)

PHILIPPINE POPULATION: 88.7 MILLION

The wealth of these ten persons is more than enough to give 1 million dollars for each Filipino. The girl should have not been dead if it were so. But no. She died because she needed Php100 = $2.25 or something and nobody lent a hand.

clipped from newsinfo.inquirer.net DAVAO CITY, Philippines -- A 12-year-old girl, who became despondent over her family’s poverty, hanged herself inside their makeshift house a day after her father told her he could not give her the P100 she needed for a school project. Using a thin nylon rope, 12-year-old Mariannet Amper hanged herself in the afternoon of November 2. She was a sixth grader at the Maa Central Elementary School. Her father, Isabelo, 49, who was out of job as a construction worker, said Mariannet asked him for P100 which she needed for school projects, on the night of November 1. He told his daughter that he did not have the money yet but he would ask his wife if she could get some money for her. The morning after, however, he was able to get a P1,000 cash advance for a construction work on a downtown chapel. By the time he got home, Mariannet already lay dead.

Help along the Way

I find this encouraging...I never ran out of people helping me along the way.

clipped from www.insight.org In the classic allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress, the main character, Christian, tumbles into the miry bog, the “slough of despond,” and struggles to get free. But the heavy burden on his back pulls him in deeper, and he begins to sink. This image pictures what it feels like when we’re sinking in difficult circumstances—when our debts outweigh our income, when past hurts won’t heal, when discontentment marks our relationships, and when the light of heaven seems distant and dim. Discouragement, despondency, pain, suffering—these miry pits along life’s journey can pull us down into our own “slough of despond.” Christian’s rescue came by the hand of a fellow traveler named Help . . . and the same is true for you today. Use these resources to find encouragement and healing for your own life . . . or to minister help to those you find along life’s journey.

Forgiving and Acceptance Takes Time

I am in one situation in the workplace wherein a person had done me wrong. We were good friends for awhile and then something happened. I believe I disagreed with some of the person's decisions and actions. The person started to do things unacceptable to me, seemingly turned the tables around and did a few unimportant things to get to my throat and to some other friends' too.

Up to this moment we never really talked. That's one thing. The best thing is to talk, but for now I think I am so disgusted with the way the person behaves that to talk is still not possible. But as time goes and as I continue to observe the person, the person's behavior is magnified and I see so many things I shouldn't and have not seen before. The person's intentions are getting clear and they aren't really good. Maybe to the person all the intentions are honorable. I can't put a blame for that and I have chosen to be in an "autistic mode". What I mean is to just do things on my own not minding what's happening beyond my space. I have chosen to be distanced because I am truly disgusted.

To forgive and accept a person again when you are done wrong is honorable and admirable. But it takes time to forgive and to accept a person back. This is real. This is what I am experiencing now. I can forgive and I can accept back a person again, but I have to give space for my own feelings and thoughts, giving me a step by step process towards it. I think to be really human this is something to struggle with. I have a long way to becoming so forgiving as religions may want me to be, but I can. Just give me time and I will forgive and accept.

Death Comes

I was once again confronted with the possibility of death, of losing someone special in my life a few days ago. My father was brought to the hospital because of an enlarge prostate. It was almost bursting. It enlarged to about 3 times its normal size and he was bleeding. It was two days after he was in the hospital that I got the chance to visit him.

You see my Father had survived 7 strokes before this. And with that his health is maintained by a regimen of medications. As a family we also live daily knowing that we can lose him anytime, any day, because of his condition. And so when he had an enlarged prostate and was rushed to the hospital, the first thought that came to me is complication and then death.

I went to the hospital and that same day he was discharged and the swelling was controlled, but his blood pressure was high. I went home with them assisting my father with a heavy heart. It is difficult to see my father having difficulty to walk and can't even change his clothes by his own already. But what relieves me is the fact that when I make jokes of his condition and try to laugh he also laughs as well. he laughs as if his condition is not difficult. With that I was greatly relieved. Some of my relatives were there and told me how shock they are for me to be joking about my Father's condition with him, but I told them that's the way we handle things. To cry and move with a face frowned is not going to help at all. My Father I believe knows that death is imminent. I believe that he has already accepted that. Again this past few days I found that death is nothing but a phase we go through. Nothing to fear about it , unless maybe our hearts and minds are not free of guilt. Death comes sweetly to people who knows that they have lived life to the fullest.