Fear lurks in every button of my keyboard

Fear enslaved us

Fear is a feeling of distress; no one escapes its grief and agony. It is the emotion that most of us don’t want to be caught into, but unfortunately it is a fact in these modern day and age. Fear grips almost everybody, fear lurks in every corner of the street, even in the most “safest” part of our home, even in my keyboard.

The movie “panic room” after the 9/11 attack talks about an average people’s dilemma on the present world condition, where fear grips everybody. But fear seize mostly those people who have a lot to lose. People who have wealth and reputation they can’t afford to leave immediately—spending almost their lifetime building fortune and fame is a pursuit they just can’t imagine leaving in a blink of an eye. But the truth remains: everything will vanish in an instant, nothing is permanent in this world—here today gone tomorrow.

Fear also is the weapon of the oppressors, Government instill fear among the citizenry to uphold the law and in the other hand terrorists uses fear to disobey orders and law, such views found at both ends of the world who uses the same technique of manipulation for the same purposes.

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In Commemoration of those who died in Glorietta 2 Bombing

Do not go gentle into that good night

by Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light. 

From The Poems of Dylan Thomas, published by New Directions. Copyright © 1952, 1953 Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1937, 1945, 1955, 1962, 1966, 1967 the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1938

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A day of Sorrow and protest

Please join the whole Filipino nation in mourning and sorrow with those who perished in the recent Glorietta2 bombing. Let’s have a minute of silence in our hearts to remember our fellow Filipinos who died in the recent senseless act of terrorism.

We light a candle in our heart in hoping to shed illumination and bring justice to the families of those innocent victims who died of bombings and other act of cowardice all over the world. We join the world in prayer and vigilance to put an end into senseless carnage happening in every corner of the world.

Let’s make a promise to unite one another irregardless of race and nationality to bring peace and justice in our own way and capacity, in hoping one day that the world will be safe again from the clutches of fear and uncertainty.

Spread along this candle of hope; copy this post and place it in your blog as a sign of protest, unity and sympathy among the victims.

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Violence and the stupid hypocrites

I can’t seem to get it. People who professed to be of know-it-all and those who have “genuine” concerns on the welfare of our children are all over the news and the World Wide Web flashing their cause oriented ideologues about the violence proliferating in our world. From a point of view of an observing amateur mind, people like this tend to over react—of course there is nothing wrong with having a genuine concern over the psychological well being of the present generations and the culture of violence among the youth, what I’m trying to understand is the way they say the things as they strut their antics around the civilized world.

Violence is inevitable it has been a part of human life since time immemorial, the bible speaks of battle in large proportion, slaughtering of innocents, women and children, the conquer of empire and kingdoms, the bloodshed of the innocents that poured in pursuit of almost endless cause for justice or otherwise is appalling. World history takes shape not without the shadow of violence from the battle that rages through the human course of existence...

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Inspirational Photos

in our busy life, we neglect small things, little that we know that in these "unimportant" things can we find solace and comfort. As we tread highly on our ambition to success--let's pause for a while
breath deeply and look around us, there's so much view around us too beautiful to neglect.

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The ubiquitous "WHY" question

If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren't people from Holland called Holes?

Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist but a person drives a race car not called a racist?

Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Why the sun lightens our hair, but darkens our skin?

Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker?

Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things?

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The Filipino Can Dream Again

Read this speech given by Tony Meloto, the founder of Gawad Kalinga, as forwarded in an email. I am moved by his speech, and would like to share this with all of you. I am really proud to be a Filipino. Let us all be united in having that sense of pride in being a Filipino so that we may be involved actively in improving the lives of all the underprivileged…

[Mr. Antonio "Tony" Meloto, founder of Gawad Kalinga, gave this speech for the Ateneo Graduate School of Business last July 27 in a Business Leadership Forum that urges, amidst the climate of rising despair and indifference which has caused the exodus of many Filipinos abroad, the imperative of involvement, the need to be a man for others, and in so doing, help bring hope to a country that is losing it.]

It is good to talk after Manny Pangilinan, an outstanding Filipino who loves this country. It is a great jump-off point for me and there is a lot to tell. No, I will not dwell on how he brought PLDT back from the dead. We have heard enough corporate Lazarus stories already. Nor will I speak about the outstanding Gawad Kalinga model communities we are building with Smart/PLDT all over the country... they speak for themselves.

Instead, I'd like to talk about the spirit of someone who has so much, and yet has great sympathy for those who have so much less... and the spirit of many of you who would like to be Manny Pangilinan yet carry in your heart the dream of so many ordinary Filipinos.

Likewise, it is good to speak before Secretary of Finance Gary Teves, another Filipino who wants to serve his country and who is here to represent government. I am exactly where I should be -- in the middle of industry and government -- and that is where the ordinary Filipino is all the time.

Today, I face a question that has been nagging me for years... How can an ordinary Filipino like myself contribute towards the realization of the dream of our people to rise out of poverty? Traditionally, everyone looks to big business and government for answers. Filipinos see them as so powerful that we have depended on them to lift our country out of poverty and then blame them when they are unable to do so. We fail to recognize that there is just so many of our countrymen we have left behind that big business and government do not have enough power to lift them all up. What can we all do? I cannot answer for big business or government. I am no businessman nor am I in government. Yet I represent the vast majority of Filipinos who also have the power to change this country.....

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Pacquiao vs. Barrera Fight can spawn world peace!

Only in the Philippines can a fight reunites a nation, and people in disagreement become close allies in one voice and share the same point of view, guns were silent, as rebels huddle around their battery-powered radios to listen to the blow by blow account of the fight--on that same day busy streets miraculously free of traffic, crime rate freezes, virtually everyone stays at home and enjoys watching TV with their families as if trying to avoid the streets during that holy hour.

That’s the Philippine scene every time Manny Pacquiao had a fight, Filipinos all over the world celebrates in unison too as the nation holds it’s breath with every blow of hits and misses, punch and counter punch, round after round of an exciting fight.

I am always amazed by how people react and take things with regards to boxing, the Filipinos in particular; the culture of boxing surpasses demographic boundaries and outstrips economic stature, well at least here in hometown.

Is it maybe how boxing represents human anguish and triumph? Anguish and triumph are the two extreme emotion every human being felt one way or the other in varying degree in their life, irregardless of race and nationality, it is the two sentiment situated both on the other side of the equilibrium that the former cannot exist without the latter—-the Yin and Yan of the human life.

The Manny Pacquiao vs. Marco Antonio Barrera fight had a whole new meaning in every spectator’s eyes as I observe it people who had so much struggle in life, the ups and down of daily living the wound and scar of life’s scuffle all are represented with every blow, straight, hook and uppercut of whichever side you’re on.

But what if the whole world is a boxing arena? Meaning all disputes is being settled by boxing gloves in a ring of a bell?...

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Desperate Housewive’s desperate slur on Philippine Medical School

There’s so much commotion going on (at least here in the Philippines) about the recent derogatory remarks of the season 4 premier of the popular show Desperate Housewives against the Philippine Medical School. People are going jumpy, some about to explode out their lungs out in anger and wanting to file protest and ensure that matters are dealt with accordingly, to date Malacanang is asking for a public apology from the producer and the ABC, and the Philippine Consulate had just filed it’s letter demanding the public apology of the said show

Pardon me for being “out of league” here if those recent ruckus doesn’t swing my kink; I just can’t imagine how those local bureaucrats makes such fuss about nothing. This is coming from an uninitiated mind but going gaga over a TV show that mention a thing or two, in fact little less than 18 seconds of Teri Hatcher’s dialogue can’t seem to change the world.

It's such a pitiful sight how people over react to such senseless remarks. Desperate Housewives may be topping the charts and enjoyed a wide viewer ship around the planet, but its remarks--true or otherwise can’t affect anybody at least if you don’t allow it to get into your senses.

"Okay, before we go any further, can I check those diplomas?’Coz I would just like to make sure they are not from some med school in the Philippines."

This is the exact words Susan (Teri Hatcher) blurted out in the season 4 episode of Desperate Housewives. The scene where she is talking to a doctor in a clinic and in very apprehensive mood about undergoing further medical examination from a doctor, utter out those lines...

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Rules of Relaxation

1 - Live to relax!

2 - Love your bed, it is your temple!

3 - Relax in the day, so that you can sleep at night!

4 - Work is holy, so don't attack it!

5 - Don't do something tomorrow, that you can do the day afterwards!

6- Work as little as possible. Let the others do what needs to be done!

7 - Don't worry, nobody died from doing nothing, but you could get hurt at work!

8- If you feel like doing work, sit down and wait until that feeling goes away!

9 - Don't forget: working is healthy! So leave it for the sick people!