Difficulties

Pure, Proper and Complete.
Useless.
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It's been a long while since I was able to add an entry here. Spammers have even used this to advertise. I hate it.
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Being in the voice contact point is very challenging. I have to re-consider the wisdom of volunteering here, but I guess I have considered properly the options, factors and viewed outcomes.
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Useless. It is useless. It is proper not to look to far into the future, nor make any prophecies.
"... where there there are prophecies, they will cease..." (1 Cor 13:8b NIV).
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I have found a person that I didn't think I would see again - not because he is good in hiding, but I have almost lost my interest in finding him. But just out of the blue, out of an unlikely situation, we have met.
And I thank God I have seen him. Now, we're back in contact.
I have to develop the organizational website again. heheheh.
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Interest in learning is important so that any small number or quantity of inputs grows into a form that is so far from the small input - like a seed that becomes a tree. That's what I hope to come to. And that's what I hope to have some particular people come to so that they would learn and appreciate learning.
Learning is not easy - but no valuable thing is ever free. Except for salvation.
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When would I give up? Soon.

UP in the corporate environment

This must be challenging. I volunteered for Voice Cable, but now, I feel like I am slowing down the class. Not because I don't understand the lessons, but because I have experience which contradict the lessons.
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I know a lot because of experience. I don't understand why other people don't have such experiences. But I guess it's part of my contra-inferiority complex working.
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The people I admire are really working, just in ways not with me. But I still admire them. It's because of such character that I admire them.
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An individual in a relationship is not always happy in a relationship. But it is not because solely of happiness that a person enters into a relationship - but rather because of love and committment.
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Training is stressful if you get involved well. It's like being in love, I guess.

Monthsary

I was wondering before why people in the Philippines celebrate "monthsary" - that is, why do they celebrate a relationship for persisting for only a month. I thought, "Don't these people expect their relationship to last for at least a year?" I mean, shouldn't relationships be measured in years and not months?

The concepts of loyalty, faithfulness and patience run strong inside me. For me, if you do not want to commit to a relationship (and I mean commit) that has its responsibilities, considering the character of the person you would be going into a relationship with, then you should not get into it in the first place. It would be a waste of time and emotion, for me.

Are people so low in character, nowadays, that staying in a relationship for a month is already feat? I learned, probably. And there also other factors.

I got myself (or maybe, coerced a person to join me) into a sort of compromise agreement in relationship. I refer to it personally as a compromise agreement because, as I mentioned earlier, a relationship entails a set of responsibilities and expectations. The relationship I got into only has one rule - no committment.

I learned immediately the moment she agreed of the dilemma I got myself into - I violated my own "policies," and I saw a relationship that is bound to fall. Before, when I thought of a future relationship, I thought it would endure. My first should be my only and my last. With the relationship I got into, it was like I asked someone to have a revolver loaded with one bullet, but I am not certain if that person would really put a bullet in the gun. Everytime I pull the trigger, I don't know if I would be able to live and wait for the next pulling of the trigger.

People nowadays perhaps realize (including me) that a relationship is not as easy as two people getting into a "yes" or "I agree." They consider the other person. They consider the weaknesses of the other person, as well as their strengths. They consider what may have happened in the past that may affect the present or is currenty affecting the present. They consider the level of committment between them. They also consider what they have gone through before. Why go into a relationship that is almost bound to hurt them both?

I do not like 1 Corinthians 13 - it's so much a cliche on Biblical reference on love. But just this once, I have to use it. Because it is what I used to go through the clouds of doubt and fear that I have for my relationship with her.

But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. (1 Corinthians 13:8 NIV)

If you fear of the future, then that fear will eat you alive.

If you rely on senseless words (arguments and quarrels), love will not grow.

If you rely on expectations too much, you would eventually not love your partner but the person you want him/her to be.

Love relies on trust, hope and perseverance. With that, I hope and hold on.

And pray.

It does not matter what time now you look into the future - you just enjoy the present while preparing for tomorrow. And enjoy now with the person. For in the end, not that it does not matter, but it is the person that does matter. Time and place are fleeting, but the person, while "like a flower ofthe field," in which "the wind blows over it and it is gone," (Psalm 103:15,16 NIV), is "crowned... with glory and honor" (Psalm 8:5 NIV).

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. (Matthew 6:34 NIV)

I love her.

Love the Philippines... Hate Korea?

I received this email. I would like to just point out the idea:

 

Love the Philippines.

 

Original Message Follows:

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How much do we love the Philippines?

 

As you know, we have plenty of Koreans currently studying in the Philippines to take advantage of our cheaper tuition fees and learn English at the same time.

 

This is an essay of a Filipino...

 

My short essay about the Philippines ......and Koreans...

 

Filipinos always complain about corruption in the Philippines. I think we should also complain about Koreans. They have always taken advantage of every race in this part of Asia and now they also want to rape our country another way.

 

Let me first talk about the second world war. according to my Lolo and Lola, the Japanese were the officers and the Koreans were the enlisted men. During the liberation of Los Baños, the Koreans burned houses in Bayan. They shot and killed everyone in sight and they even burned to death a mother and her child. It was the same in Manila, they threw babies in the air and used bayonets to "catch" them. When the 2nd War ended, no Asian pitied the cruel Koreans. No one wanted to help a race that was so wicked and deceptive (they claimed to be Japanese).

 

Koreans used to talk about the Philippines. They wanted our Natural resources because they were greedy.They wanted to take others property without using their own.

 

Koreans used to talk about the Philippines, for Filipinos had a very rich culture. They envied Filipinos because their women looked like cod fish. They wanted to rape us again! They did it during the war and they are doing it again to us . They take advantage of our cheap tuition and clog up our schools thus depriving other Filipinos of the right to study in their own country.Their patriotism is so distorted that they think they have the right to bully other races because they were used by the Japanese and that the world owes them their freedom.

 

40 years ago, President Park took over the government to reform Korea. He tried to borrow (many) money from other countries, but it was not possible to get a loan because he did not want the interest rates. So, president Park sent many mine workers and nurses to Germany. They had to go through a horrible experience. The mine workers went to work in the mines and the nurses went to work in the Hospitals. Today, there are many factories in Korea and in the Philippines. In our country, they give the workers less than the minimum wage. One factory in Laguna employs 1000+ Filipinos with a P200 per day wage at 12 hours. At least they can save on the Labor cost and bring the profits to their beloved homeland.

 

In 1964, president Park visited Germany on a business class ticket. Hundreds of Koreans went on mass leave just to see him cry. Everyone shouted at the same time the same question " President. when can we be well off?". So Park borrowed money.

 

My parents always brought me to the places where the poor and physically handicapped people live.  I don't remember were that place is now but I remember Korean students doing their research work there. But I remember my hometown Los Baños were a Korean courted a lass from Bay. The Korean   courted under false pretenses (He said he was not married). The lass is now a mother and the Korean who worked in IRRI is of course missing.

 

Have you cried for the Philippines? I have not because there is really nothing to cry about. I am not filled with the conscience of my forefathers killing babies. There are many poor Filipinos but our family values are still intact. I am not like a Korean who has no culture graces, no social ethics, no table manners ...

 

I have been to the New Bilibid prison. Yes there are many prisoners there also. They don't like the Philippines and neither do they like the police who put them there... but wait, they hate their victims also. What I mean by they are the two prisoners I talked to. One is a drug pusher, the other killed someone. They said they will go to Korea once they escaped.

 

When we went to Pagsanjan , we saw many boatmen. That was their livelihood. They were thin because they were thin. My parents said they will not ride a boat anymore, even if there was water in the Pagsanjan creeks that led to the waterfall.

 

It changes the world. "Please love your neighbor" advised a Korean to my friend. "There is a god for people who are abused and abandoned and there is a devil for those who abused and raped. Teach them Taekwondo, he continued, and no one will be able to mess around with your child. Kick you foe in the groin and punch him in the nose when he is down..."

 

Please leave our country alone. Our country was separated from Asia's land so than Koreans,Chinese, Vietnamese and all meeses in the world will leave us alone.

 

That's all I really want to ask you Koreans.

Policeman

I remember a few years before. There was this policeman who almost died (I think, if not, he died really) trying to quiet a group of rallyists. The policeman, who had a gun, did not use the gun to the group - he wanted to use the non-violent method to control the crowd, but the group of uncivilized, insensitive, selfish rallyists, who say that they are of the poor and the masses, mobbed the poor guy. Aren't the policemen members of the masses? If they are not, why would they have to work in the first place?

When there is a rally, I wonder how these people say they represent the Filipino people? They only represent their selfish character. That's all.

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I did not watch the SONA. Neither is the reason for lack of interest in the state of the nation, nor lack of trust of the political leadership. No. I do not want to read about it because of the usual news of people not thinking of the greater good, nor for their own individual good, about what is really good in the long term, or such things. People who opted not to study and learn the basics of life, blame the government for not giving them the "basic services," complain about the government not working for them. Since they did not study, they might not have heard "Do not ask what the country can do for you, rather, ask what you can do for the country."

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What is the state of the nation? It does not matter about the economic status of the nation (although, if not for the political crisis created by selfish "opposition," the nation could still have been better), the political crisis, or leadership image. This is easily seen in the moral state of the people. People do not value what is really valuable and essential. They instead promote selfishness and division - what those party lists and activist groups promote as "rights". Where have the Filipinos allowed themselves to come to with such destructive "advisers"?

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Monthsary. Anniversary. What is the essence? I'll give my perspective on it next time.