We dream when we fall asleep. We dream many different things. And we live as we dream. The best dreams happen when we are awake. To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream, not only dream but also believe. Wherever you go, go with all your heart. You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. However, we may have to work for it. Dreams come true when we wake up in them. As we dream, so we become. As we create our wishes, so they create us. I know God will not give us anything we can't handle. Our lives will be changed, will be better and be exactly what we dream and we wish.
I have my dreams, i believe that my dreams will come true. And my dream - is a wish my heart makes.
American singer-songwriter Jason Thomas Mraz live in Manila!
JASON MRAZ LIVE IN MANILA: A Special Acoustic Evening with Toca Rivera
at the Smart Araneta Coliseum, Quezon City , Philippines on October 30 (Sunday).
Mraz’s international breakthrough came with the release of the single 'I’m Yours' from the album We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things. The single peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100, giving Mraz his first top ten single.
Mraz’ worldwide journey will see him celebrating music’s lasting power to inspire change and help others through global citizenship.
Seats and Ticket Prices:
Patron / Lower Box (Reserved Seating) Php 3710
Upper Box A (Reserved Seating) Php 2650
Upper Box B Php 1590
General Admission Php 850
For ticket sales and inquiries, please contact Ticketnet 911-5555 or visit their website at www.ticketnet.com.ph
Jason Mraz - I'm Yours (Live On Earth Single Video)
A building-sized edifice carved with the Bible's Ten Commandments was unveiled Wednesday in the Philippines, making it the largest tablet of its kind, according to Guinness World Records.
The world's largest tablet of the ten commandments supposedly handed down by God to Moses on Mount Sinai was inaugurated by city officials on a hill overlooking the northern Philippines resort city of Baguio.
A local religious group, donated the imposing 152.90 square meter (1,650 square foot) tablet to the city as they were presented a certificate from Guinness World Records. "This beautiful and divine edifice will serve to drive away the evils of spirits that time and again emerge," said Baguio Congressman Bernardo Vergara at the inauguration.
"May it drive away evils of illegal drugs, gambling, prostitution."
The religious leader who sponsored the project, Grace Galindez-Gupana, topped her previous world record, attained in 2009 when she built a similar 65-square-metre tablet on a hill outside Manila.
This is one of the best clips I've seen in Facebook! I am moved and enjoyed watching about the Nativity, FB style.
This video is an artistic take on how the story of the nativity might have read had a social network existed at the time of Jesus's birth. Follow this historical period as it unfolds as a digital narrative. This vignette is great for highlighting the truths and circumstances of our Savior's birth in a fresh, unique way.
This project is completely relevant to the times we live and yet gives a simple yet clear version of the Christmas story. One of the best on the site. Godly creativity at it's best. One of the most creative videos in some time.
The sweet irony of this piece is that it uses the internet-context of how we share our personal lives, experiences, doubts, fears and joys today to humanize and make relevant an eternal event from 2,000 years ago. At least the Social Network Christmas focuses on the story as real, and it spends some time thinking about the social consequences for Mary and Joseph too. Surely if we’re going to do any outreach beyond the “happy make feel nice” level at Christmas, we need to be telling it as a story that actually happened?
This have the right combination of biblical text and modernisms. Great song behind it , "O Come O Come Emmanuel."
El Gamma Penumbra, the shadow theater group from Batangas City, could have been the Pilipinas Got Talent Season 3 Grand Champion. The group had a shadow theater performance based on the “Piliin Ang Pilipinas” , Choose Philippines tourism campaign.
PGT Celebrity judge Kris Aquino said about their presentation “timely,” it was different from the rest. The best part of which was when they showed an image that represented peace between Muslims and Christians.
Many people wished to have El Gamma Penumbra as the Pilipinas Got Talent Season 3 Grand Champion. El Gamma Penumbra was the crowd favorite to win during the weekend because their performance showcased not just creativity but nationalism , with Philippine events and historical scenes.
El Gamma Penumbra , a world class performance! We hope Department of Tourism appreciates how this group can promote the Philippines. Mabuhay Ang Pinoy... Truly proudly Pinoy!
The Maasinhon Trio was declared the winner during Sunday final night. The Pilipinas Got Talent (PGT) Season 3 Grand Finals winner result created controversy among fans, and El Gamma Penumbra is among the other grand finalists being favored to win.
ABS-CBN has released an official statement regarding this matter.
“The winners of “Pilipinas Got Talent” are determined by the number of text and online votes that they receive during the grand finals. All 12 grand finalists are talented and deserving to win, but in the end, it was the Maasinhon Trio, who got the most votes from the viewing public followed by Khalil Ramos and the Bringas Brothers. ‘Pilipinas Got Talent’ is a celebration of the many talents of Filipinos. The voting public has spoken and let us respect the decision of the viewers. We congratulate the winners and the other grand finalists.”
Established in 2010, the Philippine Graphic Design Awards (PGDA) is the first and only programme that awards Filipino designers for their outstanding work in the field of graphic design.
Its mission is to enrich the local graphic design landscape by empowering and inspiring Filipino designers to create cutting-edge pieces of work, and seek support from the design community to nurture and sustain professional practices in the country. Through its activities, the PGDA wants to establish a reference for Philippine graphic design among its regional counterparts.
The competition comprises 13 categories, including identity, direct print, poster, publication, packaging, retail, environmental graphics, applied graphics, outdoor graphics, print advertising, illustration, typography, digital artwork, web, and motion graphics.
Mark your choice for the adobo magazine award (People's Choice) from the 17 professional and 7 student finalists of the Philippine Graphic Design Awards 2011. Like the entry that shows off the best in Philippine graphic design. Share with your contacts. Voting closes at 6pm on October 31, 2011.
November 7, 2011 (Monday) was declared a regular holiday in the country. Eid'l Adha is an important Muslim religious holiday and celebrated on this day worldwide.
Proclamation No. 276:
MALACAÑAN PALACE
MANILA
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
PROCLAMATION NO. 276
DECLARING MONDAY, 7 NOVEMBER 2011, AS A REGULAR HOLIDAY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, IN OBSERVANCE OF EIDUL ADHA (FEAST OF SACRIFICE)
WHEREAS, Republic Act No. 9849 provides that Eidul Adha shall be celebrated as a regular holiday;
WHEREAS, Eidul Adha is one of the two greatest feasts of Islam;
WHEREAS, the date of the festival based on the declaration made by Saudi Arabia’s highest religious body is on 6 November 2011;
WHEREAS, the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) recommended that the observance of Eidul Adha be on 7 November 2011 and the Eidul Adha prayer held on 6 November 2011;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, BENIGNO S. AQUINO III, President of the Philippines, by virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby declare Monday, 7 November 2011, as a regular holiday throughout the country, in observance of Eidul Adha (Feast of Sacrifice).
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed.
Done in the City of Manila, this 20th day of October, in the year of Our Lord, Two Thousand and Eleven.
The first authorized biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs hits bookstores on Monday.
The 656-page book, titled "Steve Jobs," is based on more than 40 interviews with Jobs over two years. It also includes conversations with his family, friends, colleagues and competitors.
According to publisher Simon and Schuster, Jobs cooperated with the book, but never had the chance to read it before he passed away on Oct. 5, 2011.
Jobs biography is very interesting, because this is the first biography approved officially. This biography also contains excerpts Best Jobs.
The book is written by former CNN chairman Walter Isaacson.
The books Jobs read, particularly as a teen and college student, helped expose him to the ideas and experiences that would serve as Apple's foundation years later.
Walter Isaacson's 571-page biography of Jobs, a copy of which was purchased by The Huffington Post, provides an unprecedented look at the texts -- by writers ranging from William Shakespeare to Paramahansa Yogananda -- that influenced Jobs; "required reading" for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of the visionary.
"I like living at the intersection of the humanities and technology," Steve Jobs said once.
Clayton Christensen's
"Innovator's Dilemma," which Isaacson writes, "deeply influenced" Jobs.
Ron Rosenbaum's 1971 Esquire article "Secrets of the Little Blue Box," a profile of hackers who could tap into phone networks that later gave rise to Jobs’ first collaboration with Steve Wozniak, who went on to become Apple's co-founder.
LSD, Bauhaus and Zen Buddhism shaped Apple's pioneering products as much as anything that took place on the assembly lines, were among Jobs' greatest influences and they shaped his attitudes toward design, business and innovation.
"I started to listen to music a whole lot, and I started to read more outside of just science and technology -- Shakespeare, Plato. I loved King Lear," Jobs recalled of his teen years. Isaacson notes that "Moby-Dick" and Dylan Thomas' poetry were among Jobs' favorite works at this point in his life.
During his freshman year at Reed College, Jobs befriended Daniel Kottke, who went on to work at Apple, and together they devoured books such as Shunryu Suzuki's "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind," Chogyam Trungpa's "Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism" and Paramahansa Yogananda's "Autobiography of a Yogi," a book Jobs read and re-read many times during his life.
Throughout his life, Jobs embraced numerous extreme, even obsessive, dietary regimes. He fasted periodically and, at various points, was a vegetarian, vegan and fruitarian, though he made an exception for unagi sushi while in Japan. This attitude toward food began to take shape in college after Jobs read "Diet for a Small Planet" by Frances Moore Lappe in his first year at Reed.
"That's when I swore off meat pretty much for good," Jobs told Isaacson, who adds Jobs became "even more obsessive" about food after reading Arnold Ehret's "Mucusless Diet Healing System."
One book in particular stayed with Jobs his entire life, and Isaacson noted that it was the only book Jobs had downloaded on his iPad 2: "Autobiography of a Yogi," "the guide to meditation and spirituality that he had first read as a teenager," Isaacson writes, "then re-read in India and had read once a year ever since."
Yet no discussion of the artists who influenced Jobs is complete without mentioning the music that made the man.
Jobs called Bob Dylan "one of my heroes" and had over a dozen Dylan albums on his iPod, along with songs from seven different Beatles albums, six Rolling Stones albums and four albums by Jobs' onetime lover Joan Baez.
Jobs likened The Beatles' creative process to Apple's own. While listening to a bootleg CD from one of the band's recording sessions, Jobs remarked, "They did a bundle of work between each of these recordings. They kept sending it back to make it closer to perfect ... The way we build stuff at Apple is often this way."
He also framed his motivations and the principles that drove him forward in terms of Dylan and The Beatles.
"They kept evolving, moving, refining their art," Jobs said of the artists. "That's what I've always tried to do -- keep moving. Otherwise, as Dylan says, if you're not busy being born, you're busy dying."
Jobs found himself deeply influenced by a variety of books on spirituality and enlightenment, most notably Be Here Now, a guide to meditation and the wonders of psychedelic drugs by Baba Ram Dass, born Richard Alpert.
"It was profound," Jobs said. "It transformed me and many of my friends."
The excitement can no longer be contained with only less than a month to go before 14 year-old singer-songwriter and pianist, Greyson Chance invades Manila for a promo tour on November 18 to 22! Be further enthralled by his impeccable voice and amazing talent and catch Greyson ‘live’ during his meet & greet and... showcase on November 19 in Eastwood Mall Open Park at 7pm and on November 20 in Venice Piazza Mall in Mckinley Hill at 7pm. Enjoy sweet serenades from MCA Music’s freshest teen acoustic-pop duo, Krissy & Ericka and acoustic sweetheart Sabrina who will also perform in these series of mall shows.
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I like this song very much. I always listen to this song and hear different versions of a talented and wonderful groups and singers. I like the words , I have many dreams, I have fantasy, I believe in angels . . . and so I want to sing and cope up with many things ! :)
"I Have a Dream" was recorded before they adopted the name Libera and were using the name Angel Voices. I think it's okay because they sing just like angels. Libera, a boy's group from the UK.
"I Have a Dream" is a song by Swedish pop group ABBA. The song was written by Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus and was taken from the group's 1979 album. I always take the time to listen to these beautiful lyrics, I just love Abba and their beautiful voices, sang with love and from the heart!
Also Westlife released a cover of "I Have a Dream" in December 1999, twenty years after ABBA's original release. It is in Unbreakable - The Greatest Hits Vol I.
