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December 31, 2015

Happy New Year 2016!



Thank You God for giving me another lease of life, for all the blessings and guidance.

Thank you everyone for enriching my life this year again.

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Having the gift of faith, the blessing of hope and the peace of His love and keeping it all the years.

May God grant you the 9 Fruits of Holy Spirit : 

“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” (Galatians 5:22)

Wishing you all a year of peace, happiness, prosperity, good health, joy and love!

May God grant us all a blessed New Year !

Happy New Year !!!  Cheers!!!

December 31, 2013

Happy New Year !

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Let’s celebrate Christmas in our hearts, we have the gift of faith, the blessing of hope and the peace of His love and try to keep it all the years.

Thanks God for giving me another lease of life. Thank you everyone for enriching my life this year again.

May God grant you the 9 Fruits of Holy Spirit. “The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” (Galatians 5:22)

Wishing you all a year of peace, happiness, prosperity, good health, joy and love!

May God grant us all a blessed New Year !

Enjoy our wonderful world! Cheers!!!

June 7, 2013

Translating Greatness of Spirit into Action: Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation

Enjoying the wonderful world of RMAF! Translating Greatness of Spirit into Action!

I’m so fortunate and felt so blessed to meet the two great recipients of the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation. 
Thankful that I was invited by the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation‘s social media team, with a small group of writers and online influencers last Saturday, June 1, held at the Asian Library of the Ramon Magsaysay Center, Roxas Blvd.

As we gladly interacted with Filipino nun and surgeon Eva Fidela Maamo, 1997 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Community Leadership, and Sri Lankan pscyhologist Ananda Galappati, 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Emergent Leadership. They shared with us “Translating Greatness of Spirit into Action.”

Greatness of Spirit ‘is for everyone.’

These awardees shared their stories of their work in their respective community, their passion, their selfless services to people of all walks of life. As admirable they are, we saw how they exemplify Greatness of Spirit, the brand of selfless service and leadership that the late President Ramon Magsaysay was known for.

With us during that afternoon, Sr. Eva, shared to us that leadership can be learned through experience, by being sure of one’s identity and values, by looking at work with a sense of mission, and by being willing to work with others. (As I call her now, my special Angel Sis. Eva.) 
She’s currently busy maintaining no-fee health clinics in Manila informal settlement areas, providing meals to malnourished children, managing the Our Lady of Peace Hospital in ParaƱaque City, and going on medical missions to indigenous people.
Thru the Skype video interaction with Galappatti , he said that “working on an online portal to connect people to psychosocial and mental services” at www.mhpss.net, where psychologists from all over the world can connect with each other and find resources that will help them serve others better. 

The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation was created in 1957, the year the Philippines lost in a plane crash a President who was well-loved for his simplicity and humility, his passion for justice, particularly for the poor, and his advancement of human dignity.

Among the many friends and admirers of the late President around the world were the Rockefeller brothers. With the concurrence of the Philippine government, the trustees of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund(RBF) established the Award to honor his memory and perpetuate his example of integrity in public service and pragmatic idealism within a democratic society.
The foundation has since implemented the Magsaysay Award program, pursuing the mission of "honoring greatness of spirit in selfless service to the people of Asia". 
GOS Ambassadors with Sr. Eva Fidela Maamo, RM Awardee for Community Leadership, 1997
Let us be inspired by the Greatness of Spirit of the Ramon Magsaysay awardees. Let's make a commitment to a lifetime as we realize that we should be positive and always have goodness approach to all life situations. And let's be a positive influence to those around us, and help improve lives.
For more information and updates, 
please visit the official website/s of Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation 

December 31, 2012

Inspirational New Year Quotes 2013!


Always inspired by reading quotes - especially now,  New Year Quotes , New Year Wishes and Greetings. This activity gets a great head-start for New Year, being a time for new beginnings.  We think of what we have learn and experiences. This is the start of a new adventure with motivations, along with things to ponder upon.

Here are some  quotes I hope to leave you with a special significance in your mind to kick-start 2013 for you and your love ones.

- Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you   a better man. - Benjamin Franklin

- For last year's words belong to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. - T.S. Eliot

- Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. -Hal Borland

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. -John Burroughs

- May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early. My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall. - Aleister Crowley

- Let the new year be an entirely fresh start towards achieving all our goals. Lets kick start and era of excellence! - Pearl Aman

- It's the year of cakes and candles, new songs, celebration and decoration, laughter and love. Wishing you a lovely 2013 that brings with it great love and luck for you. Happy new year! - Pearl Aman

- No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam. -Charles Lamb

- Begin another new chapter and remember that you have 365 days to make every page of the chapter worth remembering when you finish the year. - Pearl Aman

- Let the new year be an entirely fresh start towards achieving all our goals. Lets kick start and era of excellence! - Pearl Aman

- The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for - Ankit Aggarwal

- If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people." -  Confucius 

- Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.-Oprah Winfrey


Here is my favorite New Year’s quote from one famous and inspirational person:

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller

Hope you enjoy reading these quotes . . hope these quotes to convert your dream into reality in this New Year 2013! 
Enjoy our wonderful world!
Wishing you all Blessed , Meaningul, Happy and Prosperous New Year!








December 30, 2012

Ayala Triangle Gardens Lights & Sounds Show 2012


Enjoying the wonderful world of the Ayala Triangle Gardens! 

The Ayala Triangle Gardens spectacular holiday display dancing lights and sounds from Nov. 16 - Dec. 30, 2012,  and the lights come to life every 30 minutes from 6:00 to 9:00 PM.

The Lights and Sounds Show is very enchanting and million joyous twinkling lights in 15-minute glittering dance in popular lively  Christmas tunes. Some of the Christmas songs played were Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Santa Clause is coming to Town, Joy to the World , We Wish You a Merry Christmas, Twelve Days of Christmas, Angels We Have Heard On High, The Chipmunk Song and others.

 The show is a collaboration of acclaimed lighting designer Voltaire de Jesus and Liquid Post’s Mikey Amistoso and Jazz Nicholas, according to the Make It Happen website.



We enjoyed Symphony of Lights and Sounds Show at the Ayala Triangle Gardens  last year. The lights display were giant stars. This year are spherical Christmas lanterns adorn the trees, synchronously dancing to Christmas tunes.

Ayala Triangle’s spot is the center of Makati’s business district. The place is the ideal spot for people who want to distance themselves from the everyday hustle bustle to relax, unwind and get in touch with nature. It's really a wonderful place to spend with your family every Christmas season.




I still shot this picture while leaving the place ! 

Enjoy the Holidays! May this Christmas and a New Year fill your life with happiness, peace of mind, good health and prosperity. ^_^

Ayala Triangle Gardens Lights and Sounds Show 
(Personal Videos, I uploaded at my Youtube Account)


December 15, 2012

"Eat, Pray, Love" Beautiful Quotes


I love and remember  the movie "Eat, Pray Love" as ever. When I'm looking for beautiful quotes, I think of what I love quotes from that movie. I also read the book of Elizabeth Gilbert -  Eat, Pray, Love. I love many of the quotes, anecdotes, words of wisdom from Eat, Pray, Love that always encourage us to eat well, pray and love passionately.
 Here are some quotes: 

“Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.”

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that’s what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. “

“Look for God. Look for God like a man with his head on fire looks for water.”

“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”

“The love that moves the sun and the other stars.”

“To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous.”

“In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place.”

“We’re miserable because we think that we are mere individuals, alone with our fears and flaws and resentment and mortality.”

“Your treasure – your perfection – is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart.”

“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control.”

“In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. The appreciation of pleasure can be an anchor to one’s humanity.”

“God is an experience of supreme love.”

“Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss.”

“There is a reason they call God a presence – because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.”

June 13, 2012

Life Inside: Doing The Right Thing at the BuCor

Recently I joined a bloggers’ tour of the New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City upon the invitation of Bureau of Corrections Director Gaudencio Pangilinan thru Ms. Divine Caraecle.
The New Bilibid Prison (NBP) in Muntinlupa City, is the main insular penitentiary designed to house the prison population of the Philippines. It is maintained by the Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) under the Philippine Department of Justice. The Bureau of Corrections has its headquarters in the NBP Reservation.

The Maximum Security Compound  has Its mandate  to rehabilitate the offenders. The New Bilibid Prisons have their chance to have productive and meaningful lives.

We see a big community with livelihood undertakings such as sari-sari stores, market (talipapa). Many different churches, chapels, and mosque for their different religious activities. The compound is also complete with basketball courts, tennis court, billiards, art galleries, wood carving and paintings.



Making them realize that each every individual have their own talent, enhancing them and putting them into practice to make them more productive citizens when time comes they were given another chance to come out and be a part of the human community, an important factor in the work for total human liberation, of those who are incarcerated, bringing them from the darkness to the light.



A song from Cmdr.Jaybee Sebastian, Paraiso Foundation Head
A great performance from Luis Gatchitorena, we found out that he was the Metro Pop Champion (1996)  when he was a free man.  
We see these works as rooted in the very relationship between God and His people, and the community.  We have seen things and people, with God’s help and divine intervention, working in mysterious ways to bring captive people back on the right track.
In effect, there was restoration – of personal liberty, of family and a community inside the penitentiary. The Bureau of Correction provides them an opportunity to start anew.
The Muntinlupa penitentiary is now a place not away from home, with the e-dalaw being provided for the detainees, which make them closer to their love ones. Physically they were deprived of their liberty, but not emotionally, with e-dalaw they can express their feelings, their love and concerns with their love ones especially their children in the outside world.

At the BuCor they provide peace and strength and even prosperity needed for everyone, rich detainee and poor alike, to enjoy life some of them don’t really intend to be in. Some victims of society they live in, of their weakness to commit sinful ways.

BuCor is paving the way for the detainees to have a brighter future ahead of them when time comes for them to re-join the community.

Bureau of Corrections Director Gaudencio Pangilinan, a man of vision and commitment, who is leading the way in bringing hope at the Bureau of Corrections in Muntinlupa.

Conference Room

Director Gaudencio Pangilinan, interviews and casual talks with the bloggers at the Conference Room
Inside the NBP Hospital
New facilities/ rooms for the prisons




 I read this (in a frame posted at the Gate 1), it is very meaningful and inspirational to everyone. 


A souvenir I bought from NBP wood carving man.


When I walked among the inmates at the Maximum Security Compound, I thought a bible verse...Corinthians 13. The greatest motivating force behind anyone and especially prison - is love.  Love for God.  Unconditional love for the inmate.  Love for the mission to which God has called. 

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."

Thanks to BuCor people for giving us the chance to see what's inside NBP. Thanks Bureau of Corrections Director Gaudencio Pangilinan, Ms. Divine Caraecle, Ms. Maricar Celis Villiar, Jaybee Sebastian and Major Johnson Agbayani and all staff and inmates. 

Visit  www.bucor.gov.ph for more information.























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