Cory's Legacy

 

  Cory was one of the few if not the only Philippine President who was not driven by ambition but by a vision of restoring the freedom of Filipinos. A freedom that was taken away for some 14 years under a regime of her exact opposite: lust for power, greed beyond imagination, machinations to stay on and build a family

political dynasty.

 

 

  She was thrust upon the Philippine landscape not by design but by circumstances that many believe were Divine in nature. A Heavenly response to prayers for an end to tyranny from a people unorganized and afraid.

 

From the assassination of Ninoy to the snap election of 1986 and the protests and failed coup d'état that led to the People Power Revolt or EDSA 1, events unfolded almost as if on cue to hand over the highest executive post to Cory.

 

  

  Cory was not driven by ambition. She had a vision of restoring democratic institutions destroyed by Marcos and she did it well even in courageous defiance of many attempts by

  military officers to unseat her and re-install anon-democratic order.

 

  

  23 years later she is gone. But she leaves a legacy of a President who had a vision and

  worked for it tirelessly, courageously, and successfully. She did this not through the usual

  Machiavellian guile that most past Presidents (and most especially the present

  one) used with the argument that the ends justifies the means, but no, by her faithfulness, her steadfastness, her truthfulness, her charity.

 

  

  This , for me is Cory's

  Legacy: Vision, not Ambition!

 

  

  And as we approach the2010Presidential election will we be so guided by Cory's

  Legacy? Who are coming forward to offer themselves to the country to fill the job

  of Philippine President? From the traditional political parties we see nothing but ambition; what with their self-declared nominations as candidates. There are many on-traditional politicians and non-politicians also

  offering themselves tofill the job.

 

  

  As Cory was anon-traditional candidate without experience who proved to be the best

  President we ever had, will the Filipino People again need Divine interference to

  have another on-traditional candidate fill the post OR have we as a

  People learned from her Legacy and start the search while there is still time for a

  non-traditional candidate to end Traditional Political rule in

  2010?

 

  

  What is the Vision that a new President, hopefully a non-traditional one.

 

 Will serve aside from strengthening of greatly weakened democratic institutions? Where can we harness again real People Power not in one dramatic event of a few days, but in the next 278 days before the elections to concede to the spirit of national aspirations for the

  Country by 2020 and select a slate of non-traditional candidates to bring it to

  Fruition.

   

  The People's Primaries National Screening Council (composed of Sixto K. Roxas,Bishop Deogracias Iniguez, Bishop Rey Cristobal of the NSCPII, Nina Galang ofthe Green

  Convergence, Milwida Guevara of the Movement for GoodGovernment, Tony Roldan

  of Transparency International and Bro. Roly Dizon of De LaSalle) is one body

  of the People's Primaries system that seeks to implementa District-based

  (local) process to elicit the national aspirations and thebest team to carry

  it forward.

 

  

  We humbly submit that we can best honor Cory's Legacy by ensuring the next President

  is truly a People'sPresident.

 

God' True Love Endures

You can learn a lot about a person by what his or her T-shirt says.
Recently, one of these messages caught my attention as I walked through a
local shopping mall. A young woman who wore a bright red T-shirtthat said,
"Love is for Losers." Maybe she thought that it was clever or provocative,
even funny. Or perhaps she has been hurt by a relationship and had pulled
away from others rather than risk being hurt again. Either way, the T-shirt
got me thinking.

Is love for losers? The fact is, when we love, we take risks. People could
very well hurt us, disappoint us, or even leave us. Love can lead to loss.

The Bible though, challenges us to higher ground in loving others. In 1
Corinthians 13. Paul describes what it means to live out God's kind of love.
The person who exercises Godly love doesn't do so for personal gain or
benefit but rather "bears all things," (13:7). Why? Because godly love
endures beyond life's hurts by pulling us relentlessly toward the
never-diminishing care of the Father.

So perhaps love is for losers - for it is in times of loss and
disappointment that we need to know God the most. Even in our struggles, we
know that "love never fails" - Bill Crowder

Unfailing is God's matchless love,

so kind so pure, so true;
And those who draw upon that love
Show love in what they do.
God's love never fails
-- D. De Haan

An inspirational for everyone!

Joane Corbe

"Be careful. Strive to be happy."

12 Little Things every Filipino can do to HELP our Country"

1. Follow traffic rules. Follow the law -- The simplest of our laws. If we learn to follow them, it could be the lowest form of national discipline we can develop, totally without monetary cost, easy for us to do, it should be a good start...

2. Whenever you buy or pay for anything, always ask for an official receipt -- By simply asking for ORs for all our purchases, you and I can actually help the government in increasing our tax collections every year, in solving our nation's budget deficit, in reducing our foreign debt, in improving our international credit standing, in strengthening the value of the peso.

3. Do not buy smuggled goods. Buy local, Buy Filipino -- It may not be good economics to ask our people to buy 100% local products. Instead, what I suggest is for us to take a "50-50 buying attitude." We must develop the attitude of using at least 50% of our budget to buy locally-made products and allocating the other 50% for our favorite imported choices... it could be another big push for our economy and our people. It will retain capital in our country, build our local industries, build Filipino brands, create more employment for our people, send more Filipino children to school. it will give a brighter future to our nation.

4. When you talk to others, especially foreigners, speak positively of our race and our country -- We should make a conscious effort to stop this self-bashing and self-flagellation. We should stop telling "horror stories' about ourselves to foreigners, including business associates, friends and relatives abroad. Instead, we should start focusing on the positive aspects of our national being. ther are so many good things we can talk about ourselves as a people and as a nation.

It only requires a change in attitude...a change in the way we look at things...

5. Respect your traffic officer, policemen, soldier & other public servants -- It is the power of respect. Respect honors. It empowers. It dignifies. It makes a person proud. It makes one feel honorable. At the same time, courtesy to others is good manners. It is etiquette. It is class and elegance. It is also kindness. It is seeng the value and dignity in the other man. It is, in fact, a mark of most profound education...

They are what they are because of what we are. They are who they are because of who we are...

6. Do not Litter. Dispose your Garbage Properly. Segregate. Recycle. Conserve. -- We are part of the environment. The environment is part of us. Whichever way we look at it, the environment and we, human beings, are linked to each other in a powerful sense... Throwing our garbage properly is another simple form of national discipline for us as a people. all it needs is just a conscious effort from each one of us. Segregation allows the recycling of solid waste possible and a lot easier. Recycle and reuse instead of buying new things.

The more we buy, the more garbage we make. The more we buy, the more natural resources we consume.

7. Support your Church. -- donate 1% of our monthly net earnings. doing so will empower our churches, so our churches will have more resources to help the poor and neglected members of our society. Don't you think we will be truer to our claim of being Christians or Muslims when we support our churches or mosque?

8. During elections, do your solemn duty. -- If we have bad leaders today and in the past, it is not the fault of the many who know less, but the fault of the few who know more but who do nothing or who don't do enough... If we want to see progress in our country, we must start with the way we perform our duties as citizens. '

As a people, we must BE involved. We must GET involved.

9. Pay your employees well. -- The bounty must always be shared... Paying our employees is one such way. A good salary can go along way. It will pay for your employee's children's good education... pay for vitamins and medication to make our youth healthy... pay for the reading materials to make our youth intelligent. .. Pay for the low-cost apartment and house and lot to provide our youth a good living environment. ..

A good salary to our employees will mean a good future for their children, our youth, our nation's future...

10. Pay your taxes -- Taxes are the lifeblood of our government, of our nation... We have to pay our taxes properly, because we all live in the same country. Because this Government, whether we like it or not, it is our government. Its cost is a burden we must all share. The task of building this nation is a task that we all must share.

We all must contribute to build the kind of nation we dream for ourselves. Each one of us has a role in it. Each one of us has a responsibility to it...

11. Adopt a Scholar, or Adopt a poor child -- Imagine if 2M families in our country would adopt 2M poor children, either as scholars or as members of our families? That's 2 M young filipinos who will be given access to a better future. In return that's 2M filipinos who in the future, can give us a better nation. No doubt too, this is one of the fastest ways to close the gap between the rich and poor in this country. It is one ogf the best paths to national progress.

It is very christian, an act of people power in its purest form...

12. Be a good parent. Teach your kids to follow the law & to love our country. -- Given the present state of our nation, with so many to problems that we don't even know where to begin to solve them, our children are always a good starting point.

They are the future. Their minds and their hearts will shape and color the future...

I guess building a nation towards progress and greatness is like that too. we have to attend to the many little things on our national life, and start setting them right. And our family, our children, is the STARTING point for this. Each child is a potential good Filipino. Each child is a potential patriot of our country...

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Marriage Humour

 

 Wife: 'What are you doing?'

 Husband:   Nothing.

 Wife: 'Nothing...?  You've been reading our marriage certificate for an hour.'

 Husband:  'I was looking for the expiration date.'

 

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 Wife :    'Do you want dinner?'

 Husband:    'Sure!

 What are my choices?'

 Wife: 'Yes or No.'

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Wife:  'You always carry my photo in your wallet... Why?

  Hubby: 'When there is a problem, no matter how great, I look at  your picture and the problem disappears.'

 Wife: 'You see how miraculous and powerful I am for you?'

  Hubby: 'Yes! I see your picture and ask myself what other problem can there be greater than this one?'

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 Stress Reliever:

 Girl:  'When we get married, I want to share all your worries, troubles and lighten your burden.'

 Boy:  'It's very kind of you, darling, but I don't have any worries or troubles.'

  Girl:   'Well.. that's because we aren't married yet.'

 

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 Son:   'Mum, when I was on the bus with Dad this morning, he told me to give up my seat to a lady.'

 Mom:    'Well, you have done the right thing.'

 Son:    'But mum, I was sitting on daddy's lap.'

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 A newly married man asked his wife, 'Would you have married me if my father hadn't left me a

 fortune?'

 'Honey,' the woman replied sweetly, 'I'd

 have married you, NO MATTER WHO LEFT YOU A FORTUNE!'

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 Girl to her boyfriend: One kiss and I'll be yours

 forever.

 The guy replies: 'Thanks for the early warning.'

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 A wife asked her husband: 'What do you like most in me,  my pretty face or my sexy body?'

 He looked at her from head to toe and replied: 'I like your sense of humor!'

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 Husbands are husbands.....

 A man was sitting reading his papers when his wife hit him round the head with a frying pan.

 'What was that for?' the man asked.

 The wife replied 'That was for the piece of paper with

 the name Jenny on it that I found in your pants pocket'.

 The man then said 'When I was at the races last week

 Jenny was the name of the horse I bet on'

 The wife apologized and went on with the housework. 

 Three days later the man is watching TV when his wife bashes him on the  head with an even bigger frying pan, knocking him  unconscious.

 Upon re-gaining consciousness the man asked why she had hit again.

 Wife replied. 'Your horse phoned'

Funny Movie Quotes from "Mean Girls"

From the Movie "Mean Girls"
Janis: That one there, that's Karen Smith. She is one of the dumbest girls you will ever meet. Damien sat next to her in English last year.
Damian: She asked me how to spell orange.

Karen: If you're from Africa, why are you white?
Gretchen: Oh my God, Karen, you can't just ask people why they're white.


Cady: You're not stupid, Karen.
Karen: No, I am actually. I'm failing almost everything!
Cady: Well... there must be something you're good at.
Karen: I can stick my whole fist in my mouth! Wanna see?
Cady: No no no... Anything else?
Karen: Well... I'm kinda psychic. I have a fifth sense.
Cady: What do you mean?
Karen: It's like I have ESPN or something. My breasts can always tell when it's going to rain.
Cady: Really? That's amazing.
Karen: Well... they can tell when it's raining.

Jason: Is your muffin buttered?
Cady: What?
Jason: Would you like us to assign someone to butter your muffin?
Cady: My what?
Regina: Is he bothering you? Jason, why are you such a skeeze?
Jason: I'm just being friendly.
Gretchen: [whispers] You were supposed to call me last night!
Regina: Jason, you do not come to a party at my house with Gretchen and then scam on some poor innocent girl right in front of us three days later. She's not interested. Do you want to have sex with him?
Cady: No, thank you.
Regina: Good. So it's settled. So you can go shave your back now. Bye, Jason.
Jason: [whispers] Bitch...

Bethany Byrd: [to Mr. Duvall] Most people think I'm lying about being a virgin because I prefer jumbo tampons, but I can't help it if I have a heavy flow and a wide-set vagina!

Student: Nice wig, Janis. What's it made of?
Janis: Your mom's chest hair!

Crying Girl: [reading from paper] I wish we could all get along like we used to in middle school... I wish I could bake a cake filled with rainbows and smiles and everyone would eat and be happy...
[about to cry]
Damian: [shouting from back] She doesn't even go here!
Ms. Norbury: Do you even go to this school?
Crying Girl: No... I just have a lot of feelings...
Ms. Norbury: Ok go home...
[girl walks off stage]
Ms. Norbury: Next!


Regina: We do not have a clique problem at this school.
Gretchen: But you do have to watch out for "frenemies".
Regina: What are "frenemies"?
Gretchen: Frenemies are enemies who act like friends. We call them "frenemies".
Karen: Or "enemends".
Gretchen: Or friends who secretly hate you, we call them "fraitors".
Regina: [rolls eyes] That is so gay.
Karen: [gasps] What if we called them "mean-em-aitors"?
Regina: [scoffs]
Gretchen: No, honey, it has to have the word "friend" in it.
Karen: Oh...

For Nanay- song on her retirement

 

For Nanay

 

For the sacrifices you rendered us

For everything in us

We owe it to you

Oooh

To you

 

For the cries and laughters

For the comfort and care

We thank you

Ooohh

Thank you

 

Pre-chorus

And with every darkness

You showed us the light

When we stumble you carried

Us with your might

And with this song

We want the whole world to know

That everything we have

We owe it to you

 

Chorus:

You opened our heart

You opened our minds

Made sure that everything is worthwhile

You showed us the road

You teach us to have faith

Made sure that everything is all right

And this is for you

This is for you

And we thank you

Ooh... we thank you

 

The winds may have struggled to crumble your faith

But you stood ahead like no other

And with every tinge of hope you tried to grasp

And share it with us, with the fullest love

 

Pre Chorus

Chorus

Refrain

Blessed with the heart of mercy

Blessed with a kindred soul

Blessed are we by you

Forever this is definitely true

This is for you

 

Chorus.

 

 

 

 

TIME FLIES

March 03, 2006

 

 

 

I share your sentiments... Heck, I love this country... But every time I ponder on  things that have been happening to our nation, I couldn’t help myself but be guilty about whether I have done my best to protect the interests or the essence of being a Filipino. I never wanted to leave this country because I believe that instead of rendering my services to foreign land, I would rather give my best shot here... But instead of willfully-willing to work for our government, particularly the DSWD... my services were denied because I was too young to work for them... huh?! Of course I was disappointed, but I still have my hopes intact...

          Given these political issues, I could not help to condemn PGMA with how ill-rotten our economy has become... How defamed our country has been to the entire globe... I want her out of office... She is an incompetent leader... She is not the best to sit in that chair... She is USELESS! I have thought over assassinating her myself.. Bwahaha....

          REALITY CHECK please.... who would take over her seat?! As previously mentioned, here’s the list of options--- ERAP? LACSON? SUSAN? GUINGONA? PIMENTEL? VILLANUEVA?  HONASAN? DRILLON? KA NOLI? LEGARDA? If that happens, could we be another laughing stock of the whole world?! Hahaha... More or less... Next in line... and we all know it,  are just another batch of incompetent leaders...

Face IT! We could not just OUST our president, it is unconstitutional! Even if she will face impeachment trials... it would take LONGER than her entire term or perhaps her entire life... I have not much faith in our judicial system...  

Relating our country to my previous employment.... I could see PGMA in the icon of my ‘defunct headmistress princess’. I have suddenly become so religious that I have put my entire faith to GOD to help her realize that every one else under her are suffering deeply from emotional-verbal torture. I have wished for her to change so that we could work peacefully and productively. But perhaps I have been a bad child because my ‘cry-for-injustice’ came unnoticed... Then I said SAYONARA mesuinu coz I could no longer wait for my ‘manna from heaven’. Thus, instead of facing my own demons, I walked away from it... I could have said this and that... But I didn’t! And I choose not to...

And it had me thinking... could I help save this country? I could not even step my best feet forward.