To be contented with what we possesses is the greatest and most secure riches, Contentment is not satisfaction but it’s the grateful, fruitful use of what we have little or much. Just like having friends who are accepting you whoever you are

NEXT TIME is a SUCCESS

                               

A STORY OF MINE
 
Never say stop, just do it…

I thought being accepted in a society with a high standard will complete my personality. I thought that I know it well.
I was third Year College then, I was also an officer of an organization. As we promised to each one of us, if we won’t have any representative in a particular competition we need to place ourselves to it, even if we don’t know it much or in other words we will venture our reputation to save the organization and to achieve its goal which is to win.
On the second day of LITVIMUSDA, at 12:35 noon our adviser saw me in the cafeteria and he told me that we don’t have a representative in extemporaneous speaking Bicol. As we promised I decided to do it for the sake of our group. Sigh. I only have two hours to prepare and to familiarize myself to what really it means. Then I went to library and search the word Extemporaneous. I tried to know it, if how can I deliver my speech and what are the points that I need to remember in order for me to articulate it coherently.
 
A loud rang started the hard beat of my heart. . Even the time ended, I still don’t know if how I can have a catchy lines and striking attack. I don’t know if how I can do it. I felt like I was from nowhere trying to find the way back home. I wanted to escape but I should do it because I am on it already. I was on the side of the stage and the Emcee called my name. My knees were trembling and I couldn’t imagine myself.

Till I found myself amidst of the crowd, but the topic which was given to me was quite confusing. I started to talk and it seemed that I can’t catch my breath and I uttered the words slowly like I am starting to learn new Words. Because of the fact that I am not ready and I was just pretending, well I was too apparent to all the audience because I stammered. What a shameful scenario.

I took my exit, even I gave at least four sentences. I know already the result that I will rank as the last. As expected I am the last placer.

Then that time I promised myself that next time I will be the champion.  Then I did. This year competition I am the champion.

I learned that in every competition there is a loser and a winner but if you are determined you’ll just need to disregard the word if only and change by next time, see, because next time so just like a hope or a dawn that gives us a brighter chance.

I also learned that quitters never win and winners never quit and you have to strive and if you loss today there is always tomorrow and you can still strive for your next objective which is to win and bring home the beckon. Another thing, Never let your fear be your weaknesses, instead make it your strength.

I also remembered the saying that “there’s always a room for improvement.”

I hope you all learned from my experience.

AN AUSPICIOUS ME...

THANK YOU and GOD BLESS! :)

RIZAL in DAPITAN

                In the bucolic surroundings of Dapitan. Jose Rizal led a quiet life serving the people of the city. He assumed the role of adoctor, teacher or a mentor and an engineer, he steered the inactive country into action.

     

               Exiled to the frontier town of Dapitan in northwestern Mindanao on July 17, 1892, Jose Rizal used his time and skills productively to ease his solitude and improve the Dapitanons' lives.  For four years, Rizal busied himself with various pursuits and occupations -- as an educator, doctor, farmer, artist, architect and engineer, entrepreneur, scientist, and scholar.

                            Rizal Shrine Dapitan reflects the diligent lifestyle led by Rizal through the rebuilt structures of his nipa hut residence, hospital, and dormitory, dam and waterworks.  The Rizaliana Museum exhibits Rizal's original clothing, blackboard and desk he used in his boys' school, and reproductions of sculptures, paintings, and select manuscripts.  The Shrine affirms the hero's patriotism  through his prolific industry and selfless service to his fellowmen. 

                          He awakened the spirit of education in Dapitan and became an epitome of greatness among the youth. He establish discipline with his students and he prove that even you are poor you can be in school. He reminded the people about the Heresy existing within the church or the Catholicism in our nation. It became an avenue to all to fight for their right. Rizal became an emblem of a courage through his vision in to his countrymen. He brought back the liberty of this nation.

                        He is our Hero, we owe our freedom to him. So, to my fellow youth let's continue what Rizal stated and prove that"ang kabataan ang pag-asa ng Bayan."

I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT BOOKS!

                   Known as the fountain of Knowledge and the life of all. A book knows every history and simple story of time. Book can give you information and explain the rare things if how does it occur. Well, I guess, without books the development and progress of civilization would have been impossible. Maybe computer does not contain any info because books give life to computer. Book records our lives and experiences, it became a diary for us all. It also became an engine of change, windows on the world "light houses" as poet said" erected in the sea of time". it became the doors for our better understanding, it direct us towards the attitude we wish. It brighten and sharpen our mind and prepare us beyond reality. Book are companions for us if we are alone. A Teacher for us all who let us know things. An Engineer that build our childhood, A Magician and Bankers of treasure of the mind are humanity in print. It also lead us to be united and to more closer to God because bible. It also serves as a best Friend which can explain what you feel and like a parent who give advices.

Book is all in One!

I Love my books...

QUOTES AND INTERPRETATION I MADE FROM THE STORY OF WHAT MEN LIVE BY

                          These are some quotes that I made which came from the story WHAT MEN LIVE BY and I gave my interpretation for my readers.

-"LOVE DWELLS IN MAN"

                          Love always has a very special place in our life and in our hearts; it resides within our hearts. Even if we face many problems, love is the reason why we hold on. Even if sometimes we feel that our world will fall, love is there to catch us. It teaches us how to forgive and teach us to do the right thing.

"TO KNOW HIS FUTURE NEEDS IS NOT GIVEN TO MAN"

                             

                         Man was not given the power to know his fate. Only God knows each and everyone of us' future. The fate that we render to God will serve, as a means is the assurance that our lives will not be a misery but a life filled with love and hope. I also learned that a person who has a great faith will be incredibly in a right path of his destiny.

"ALL MEN LIVE BY LOVE" 

               All of us survive because of love. LOVE for us, our family, our fellowmen, as well as love for the things that God has created. By loving the creation of our Lord we find the most genuine love from him. And, This love has given us the courage and strength to fight and surpass all our quandaries. Living by love of God is the secure riches that I, you, we and all of us can have.

                     All men live not because of care for themselves alone, but because of the love among people and love towards God.

"ONE CAN LIVE WITHOUT FATHER OR MOTHER, BUT ONE CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT GOD"

 

                  An orphan is not necessary alone. Biological parents are significant, But they are not the sole source of love for their children. More important of this is the existence of God in our lives and our faith in Him.  By living with the will of God, in practicing what are written in the holy bible.

                In times of trials He is the one who test us and He is the one who guide us and give us the right solution, Because he want us to realize that living with Him will unite us all. We are just like moving as ONE FAMILY.

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"HE WHO HAS LOVE IS IN GOD AND GOD IS IN HIM, FOR GOD I LOVE"

                 People can see God's Love through the people around him. He can see that God loves him tthrough the love of hi fellow.  The one who love God and Believes in Him will see the invisible, experience the unexplainable miracles, ans will receive the impossible. 

I LOVE GOD...BUT always remember walk what you talk and never wear a pretentious mask and never prove it to him because HE know you and God is Looking at you all the time. :)

What MEN live by ...

            In Tolstoy’s story, Simon, a poor shoemaker, heads to town in order to collect some debts and buy sheepskins in order to make himself a decent winter coat. After his debtors let him down, leaving him with only a few cents, Simon heads home. En route, he encounters a naked man, Michael, shivering near a shrine. He brings the man home, makes an apprentice of him, and eventually experiences a measure of prosperity as the youth emerges as a skilled craftsman.
             As the story concludes, we learn that Michael is indeed an angel being punished by God for a moment of disobedience. After a series of personal revelations, which serve to restore him into God’s good graces, Michael’s angelic glory is revealed and he heads back into heavenly service, leaving Simon without an assistant.
              The Garcia-Marquez story serves as a worthy counterpoint to this one. In that story, a winged man, presumably an angel, appears after a storm. The family in that story, assuming the man to be angelic, treats him abysmally, housing him in a chicken coop and exploiting him for their own monetary gain. In Tolstoy’s story, the family does not recognize Michael’s true nature yet treats him very well. In both cases, we revisit the Homeric theme of hospitality, seen in The Odyssey.
             For my taste, Tolstoy’s story is a bit too didactic to be completely pleasing. Rather than following Poe’s idea of “Singleness of Effect” and beginning with a desired effect, Tolstoy begins with a message, rarely the route to achieving great literature. In fact, as we proceed through the stories of Eyes to See, the genius on view is that of authors capable of revealing a world view without preaching, of expressing Christianity without appearing as apologists. 

 

STORYLINE

At the fortress of San Roque, Legazpi City the most beautiful infant was born in the whole world. His mother couldn’t define if what kind of creature he is. Till one day his Dad decided to register him into registrar’s office of NSO. Then everyone knew about my existence and they joined us in my baptismal day.

A band welcomes us then that was my 1^st Birthday celebration. A phrase comes out from my mouth I said Time run so fast. My Mom thought that I’m genius ‘till I had reached kindergarten and she was so excited to attend my graduation rites then the only award I received was most behave. What a wryly thing had happened! Oh M…

Suddenly, a wink of the situation change, our happy yippee days inside our home became a sorrowful place were almost all of us were shedding tears because my Daddy had relinquished himself to the calls of heaven.

I grew with my Aunt’s place in Buhi, Camarines Sur because we became beggar like the late AJ Perez in MMK, till I had reached high school that time I really miss my mom and sisters. I felt like I’m a drama star like Mara of ABS-CBN I felt like I was abused then it was fortnight of June my mind was widely opened because I knew that my Tita from Switzerland gave my family in Legazpi Php.10,000.00 every month and it belies beyond. Then the moment I knew the secret a shadow seems to cover the whole place. I became detective Conan and an Imbestigador who looks for the truth.

Then one day, I was like a hostage, trying to escape from the haul. The rain seems to join me with my misery. But, I still remember that there is always a rainbow after the rain. I wanted to shout but I can’t, I wanted to run but I can’t. I was still hoping that someday someone can help me to be out from this darkness.

I said I need to be strong like a bamboo that swells with the wind and I found my freedom in my mother’s side.

I went back to Legazpi; subsequently I also entered a new environment with my new school, classmates’ teacher and everything. I graduated having four different schools I had entered.

I feel so bless by God because I am now graduating… I hope I can make it and thank God for giving me too much Strength, by the way I am Richard Erich S. Espinosa an AB journalism student until next time.

Every story has a lesson behind, maybe it would end but sometimes it makes a new beginning for a continuous storyline.

Mending the Works

 

I realized that almost 500,000 children every year are born or accidentally became visually impaired, with that the help of Braille was so paramount to every sightless kid. It is one way of directing them to the light and by letting them experience the reality even they are blind. Let us instill in our minds that we folks of today should guide them and continue the paced that Braille did. This could be an eye-opener to all that we are also responsible of them and we should show them that we are equal in this world. If I can do something then of course they can. Let’s give them hope and every one of us must a herald of acceptance.

I also learned that we are all family in this world, so we should take good care of each other. And I remembered that we are not forever young we will grow as a person. I can firmly say that the best thing to do is to make the simplest yet extraordinary things for them or by simple letting them, visualize the things which they could not see. Let their imagination as the key to their dreams and be in reality.

SAVIOR of the BLIND

Louis Braille

A winked of an accident had changed his life. Before he was a jolly, happy and a mischievous kid, till one day the most terrible thing to happen to a person’s eye which is to lose the sense of sight that occurred in his life, He was hopeless to see the light of God’s creation again.

Someone like him will feel sadness and regrets. But, No, he stood up bearing the word “COURAGE”. He told his parents to like him g0o to school because he felt like being imprisoned. At first his father was against his decisions, he was ten years old then, so his parents’ couldn’t imagine if how he can manage himself in the midst of darkness.

He’d reached his young manhood with his strong desire to read books and to learn more and want to be out of his shell. In spite of blindness he thought of away that could free him from being prison. He indeed wanted to experience the reality of his world where, he belongs.

There were a lot of tools and equipments which were invented precedent from his blindness. He was motivated and determined to modify the tools used before. Like the embossed letters in a book that made too heavy and costly for a poor blind. He was inspired, by his own story and the lives of others who are in his society as well. He studied in Paris, so he left Coup ray his own birth place to enroll in the school of blind.

He became a teacher and he heard a news that a French army officer invented a “Night Writing” which has a consistent series of dots punched into the paper to warn some of the armies about their enemy. He had a strong feeling that “this is it!” that this could be the doors and windows for their liberty. Till one day he had come up with a code system of writing for the blind community he calls it Braille System which came from his surname and the Man who is behind this, who saved and lighted the lives of Blind was Louis Braille.

A story of a boy give us lessons, that despite of being blind he still strive and find his right path by being determined to reach his endeavors and his vision to his community. He saved them and broke the walls of darkness, to see the greatest creation of God and it was through books.

Through imagination everything turned into reality and by books, every word has an interpretation that gives us a brighter understanding about what is reality.

ERICH

Spry of a Book....

We have our own different stories as well as a Book that is also known as our life. It records the past that we call now history. It explains the rare things which are happening to us. It could provide us scientific explanation beyond oddity. It help us to express ourselves and it brings us closer to reality and make us imagine the greatness of tales and myth. it became an avenue for us to reach our dreams. One book, One Life make something worthwhile, while you are still alive... Make sense!

LIES MY TEACHER TOLD ME

 

 

"It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many that are not so."
- Felix Okaye


Students hate history. When they list their favorite subjects, history always comes in last. They consider it the most irrelevant of twenty-one school subjects; bo-o-o-oring is the adjective most often applied.
But we people forgot the root of everything which is our History.


Every mentor, teacher, professor- a sir or a madam, should read this book even 
students or shall i say every citizen shall read this book, for it reveals startling truths about myths  and misfortune of American History.

Professor James Loewen, the author shows in this master  piece the hidden embarassing combination of blind patriotism, mindldless patriotism, sheer misfortune and outrigth lies of the several history of teachers'.

This book thought provoking set aside all the ambiguity, passion,conflict and drama from American historty.

In ten extreme and supreme chapters, Loewen reveals the following. The US dropped 

three times as many tons of explosives in Vietnam as it dropped in all threatens during World 

war II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola,

not to find the mythical fountain of youth.

Woodrow Wilson, Know as a progressive leader, was in fact a white supremacist who personally 

vetoed a clause on racial equality in the covenant of league of Nations, the first colony to legalize slavery 

was not Virginia but Massachusetts.

Lastly,In response, he has written Lies My Teacher Told Me, in part a telling critique of existing books but, more importantly, a wonderful retelling of American history as it should - and could - be taught to American students. Beginning with pre-Columbian American history and ranging over characters and events as diverse as Reconstruction, Helen Keller, the first Thanksgiving, and the My Lai massacre, Loewen supplies the conflict, suspense, unresolved drama, and connection with current-day issues so appallingly missing from textbook accounts.

As I remembered that He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.

 

A FILIPINO NOVEL ABOUT BROTHERHOOD.

In this fast changing world, nowadays you can never determine if who the right people to trust and treat as your real friends. But, your family is your greatest friends, who can stick to you forever. A family that can give back the things that you’ve given to your friends, they can understand you and are the first people who could aid your painful heart on your problems.

                A fate tested their brotherhood. In a story of Pedro and Juan, they were totally orphaned but their parents died without making a will. Then, Pedro as the elder son decided to take the whole property for himself and gave his younger brother a share of a dry barren land.

                Pedro’s field grew greener and flourishing while Juan’s lived near starvation because he got practically nothing out of his barren land. If Pedro becomes unfair and hard towards his younger brother, he was on the contrary, extremely kind, generous and obedient to his peers. He always gives everything and he even gave out his own to meet their desires and wishes. Now Pedro will be considered as a good-hearted and thoughtful to his friend, but not for his poor brother.  

                Pedro has a loving wife who is so sensible towards his behaviour, her name is Inday Badiday. She always asks his husband if why he is so kinder to his friends and she firmly stated that why Pedro le his brother suffer and she told him to stop it. But, he said that Juan is old enough so he has the right to deal with him in that way. He also said that “let him stand on his own feet. “ Inday answered back that “he is your Brother, real brother, you should be fair with him and in times of emergency he’s is the one who can help you instantly. And look at to your pals!” then, Pedro said that “My friends are excellent people who are entirely devoted to me, and I like to pay back the civility and generosity they have showed to me.”

                Pedro did not an ear to the argument of his wife, which he thought of an erroneous. Suddenly, Pedro came home from his work and he found his wife Inday at the corner in tears. She is trembling and slowly utter that a beggar came in and stole some of their clothes. Then, she ran after him with a bamboo stick and rushed him with struck. Then, he died immediately. She wrapped him up and she said that she doesn’t know what to do.

Pedro was frightened, because his wife was hallucinating. They both don’t know what to do; it came in to their minds that they might be both imprisoned so Pedro thought of remedies, who are his friends, so he decided to quickly call all of his devoted friends to ask help and solicit some advice. Yet, he was wrong the people whom he whole heartedly trusts have different alibis. His wife decided to go fetch his brother-in-law nearby their house to ask help. Juan immediately rescued them.

When they are rushing to their house, it was dawn then and they came back, but what they see all of Pedro’s friends who were there and these are the people who reported him to policemen for him to be punished. Each one of them pointed an accusing finger at Pedro and they all said that they will attest to the authority that Pedro is Guilty. The policemen thought that the friends of Pedro were honest citizens who only obey the voice of their conscience, to take justice be done. But, the policemen were shocked when they knew that Inday Badiday just made up the whole story for Pedro to know if who his Real friends are.

                It’s indeed true that you can never measure your trusted friends; you can never tell if you intrinsically know them within. Pedro’s joy couldn’t be described as he fell sobbing in the arms of his younger brother while his friends stood up dumbfounded and crestfallen. How could they look to Pedro in the face again?

BLOOD IS THICKER THAN WATER INDEED.... A Realization from the writer will be posted soon. Thank you