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SMALL MISUNDERSTANDINGS MAY RESULT IN A LIFETIME OF REGRETS.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:27:00 +0000

"However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband." Ephesians 5:33

SMALL MISUNDERSTANDINGS MAY RESULT IN A LIFETIME OF REGRETS....

Just two years after our marriage, hubby brought up the idea of asking Mother to move from the rural hometown and spend her remaining years with us. Hubby's father passed away while he was still very young.
Mother endured much hardship and struggled all on her own to provide for him, see him through to a university degree. You could say that she suffered a great deal and did everything you could expect of a woman to bring hubby to where he is today. I immediately agreed and started packing the spare room, which has a balcony facing the South to let her enjoy the sunshine and plant greenery. Hubby stood in the bright room, and suddenly just picked me up and started spinning round and round. As I begged him to put me down, he said: "Lets go fetch mother".

Hubby is tall and big sized and I love to test on his chest and enjoy the feeling that he could pick me up at any moment put the tiny me into his pockets. Whenever we have an argument and both refuses to back down, he would pick me up and spin me over his head continuously until I surrender and beg for mercy. I became addicted to this kind of panic-joy feeling.

Mother brought along her countryside habits and lifestyle with her. For example; I am so used to buying flowers to decorate the living room, she could not stand it and would comment: "I do not know how you young people spend your money, why do you buy flowers for? You also can't eat flowers!" I smiled and said: "Mum, with flowers in the house, our mood will also become better." Mother continues to grumble away, and hubby smiled: "Mum, this is a city-people's habit; slowly you will get use to it". Mother stopped saying anything.

But every time thereafter, whenever came home with flowers, she would ask me how much it costs. I told her and she would shake her head and express displeasure. Sometimes, when I come home with lots of shopping bags, she
would ask each and every item how much they cost, I would tell her honestly and she would get even more upset about it. Hubby playfully pinched my nose and said: "You little fool, just don't tell her the full price of everything would solve it." There begins the friction to our otherwise happy lifestyle.

Mother hates it most when hubby wakes up early to prepare the breakfast. In your view, how could the man of the house cook for the wife? At the breakfast table, mother facial expression is always like the dark clouds
before a thunderstorm and I would pretend not to notice. She would use her chopsticks and make a lot of noise with it as her silent protest. As I am a dance teacher in the Children's Palace and am exhausted from along day of dancing around, I do not wish to give up the luxury of that additional few minutes in the comfort of my bed and hence I turned a deaf ear to all the protest mother makes.

From time to time, mother would help out with some housework, but soon her help created additional work for me. For example: she would keep all kinds of plastic bags accumulating them so that she sell them later on, and resulted in our house being filled with all the trash bags; she would scrimp on dish washing detergent when helping to wash the dishes and so as not to hurt her feelings, I would quietly wash them again. One day, late at night, mother saw me quietly washing the dishes, and "Bam" she slams her bedroom door and cried very loudly in her room. Hubby was placed in a difficult position, and after that, he did not speak to me for that entire night. I pretended to be a spoilt child, tried acting cute, but he totally ignored me.... I got mad and asked him: "What did I do wrong?" Hubby stared at me and said: "Can't you just give in to her once? We couldn't possibly die eating from a bowl however unclean it is, right?" After that incident, for a long period of time, mother did not speak to me and you can feel that there is a very awkward feeling hanging in the house.

During that period of cold war, hubby was caught in dilemma as to who to please. In order to stop her son from having to prepare breakfast, mother took on the "all important" task of preparing breakfast without any prompting. At the breakfast table, mother would look at hubby happily eating his breakfast and cast that reprimanding stare at me for having failed to perform my duty as a wife. To avoid the embarrassing breakfast situation, I resorted to buying my own breakfast on my way to work. That night, while in bed, hubby was a little upset and asked me: "RS, is it because you think that mum's cooking is not clean that's why you chose not to eat at home?" He then turned his back on me and left me alone in tears as feeling of unfairness overwhelmed me.. After some time, hubby sighed: "RS, just for me, can you have breakfast at home?" I am left with no choice but to return to the breakfast table.

The next morning, I was having porridge prepared by mother and I felt a sudden churn in my stomach and everything inside seem to be rushing up my throat. I tried to suppress the urge to throw up but I could not. I threw down the bowl, rushed into the washroom, and vomited everything out. Just as I was catching my breath, I saw mother crying and grumbling very loudly in her dialect, hubby was standing at the washroom doorway staring at me with fire burning in his eyes.. I opened my mouth but no words came out of it, I really did not mean it.

We had our very first big fight that day; mother took a look at us, then stood up and slowly made her way out of the house. Hubby gave me a final stare in the eye and followed mother down the stairs. For three days, hubby did not return home, not even a phone call. I was so furious, since mother arrived; I had been trying my best and putting up with her, what else do you want me to do? For no reason, I keep having the feeling to throw up and I simply have not appetite for food, coupled with all the events happening at home, I was at then low point in my life. Finally, a colleague said: "RS, you look terrible; you should go and see a doctor." The doctor confirmed that I am pregnant.

Now it became clear to me why I threw up that fateful morning, a sense of sadness floated through that otherwise happy news. Why didn't hubby, and mother who had been through this before, thought of the possibility of this being the reason that day? At the hospital entrance, I saw my hubby standing
there. It had only been three days, but he looked haggard. I had wanted to turn and leave, but one look at him and my heart soften, I couldn't resist and called out to him. He followed my voice and finally found me but he pretended that he doesn't know me; he has that disgusted look in his eyes that cut right through my heart. I told myself not to look at him anymore, and hail a cab. At that moment, I have such a strong urge inside me to shout to my hubby: "Darling, I am having your baby!" and have him lift me up and spin me around in circles of joy. What I wanted didn't happen and as I sat in the cab, my tears started rolling down. Why? Why our love couldn't even withstand the test of one fight?

Back home, I lay on the bed thinking about my hubby, and the disgusted look in his eyes. I cried and wet the corner of the blanket. That night, sound of the drawers opening woke me up. I switched on the lights and I saw hubby with tears rolling down his face. He was removing the money. I stared at him in silence; he ignored me, took the bank deposit book and some money and left the house. Maybe he really intends to leave me for good. What a rational man, so clear-cut in love and money matters. I gave a few dried laugh and tears starting streaming down again.

The next day, I did not go to work.. I wanted to clear this out and have a good talk with hubby. I reached his office and his secretary gave me a weird look and said: "Mr. S mother had a traffic accident and is now in the hospital." I stood there in shock. I rushed to the hospital and by the time
I found hubby, mother had already passed away. Hubby did not look at me, his face was expressionless. I looked at mother's pale white and thin face and I couldn't control the tears in my eyes. My god, how could this happen?

Throughout the funeral, hubby did not say a single word to me, with only the occasional disgusted stare at me. I only managed to find out brief facts about the accident from other people. That day, after mother left the house, she walked in dazed toward the bus stop, apparently intending to go back to her old house back in the countryside. As hubby ran after her, she tried to walk faster and as she tried to cross the street, a public bus came and hit her...I finally understood how much hubby must hate me, if I had not thrown up that morning, if we had not quarreled, if....In his heart, I am indirectly the killer of his mother.

Hubby moved into mother's room and came home every night with a strong liquor smell on him. And me, I am buried under the guilt and self-pity and could hardly breathe. I wanted to explain to him, tell him that we are going to have our baby soon, but each time, I saw the dead look in his eyes, all the words I have at the brink of my mouth just fell back in. I had rather he hit me real hard or give me a big and thorough scolding though none of these events happening had been my fault at all.

Many days of suffocating silence went by and as the days went by, hubby came home later and later. The deadlock between us continues, we were living together like strangers who don't know each other. I am like the dead knot in his heart. One day, I passed by a western restaurant, looking into the glass window, I saw hubby and a girl sitting facing each other and he very lightly brushed her hair for her, I understood what it meant. After recovering from that moment of shock, I entered the restaurant, stood in front of my hubby and stared hard at him, not a tear in my eyes. I have nothing to say to him, and there is no need to say anything. The girl looked at me, looks at hubby, stands up and wanted to go, hubby stretched out his hand and stopped her. He stared back at me, challenging me. I can only hear my slow heart beat, beating, one by one as if at the brink of death. I eventually backed down, if I had stood that any longer, I will collapse together with the baby inside me. That night, he did not come home; he had chosen to use that as a way to indicate to me: Following mother's death so did our love for each other.

He did not come home anymore after that. Sometimes, when I returned home from work, I can tell that the cupboard had been touched - he had returned to take some of his stuff. I no longer wish to call him; the initial desire to explain everything to him vanished. I lived alone; I go for my medical checkups alone, my heart breaks again and again every time I see a guy carefully helping his wife through the physical examination. My office colleagues hinted to me to consider aborting the baby, I told them No, I will not.. I insisted on having to this baby, perhaps it is my way of repaying mother for causing her death.

One day, I came home and I saw hubby sitting in the living room. The whole house was filled with cigarette smoke. On the coffee table, there was this piece of paper. I know what it is all about without even looking at it. In the two months plus of living alone, I have gradually learned to find peace within myself. I looked at him, removed my hat and said: "You wait a while, I will sign." He looked at me, mixed feelings in his eyes, just like mine. As I hang up my coat, I keep repeating to myself "You cannot cry, you cannot cry..." my eyes hurt terribly, but I refused to let tears come out from there. After I hung up my coat, hubby's eyes stared fixed at my bulging tummy. I smiled, walked over to the coffee table and pulled the paper towards me. Without even looking at what it says, I signed my name on it and pushed the paper to him. "RS, are you pregnant?" Since mother's accident, this is the first time he spoke to me. I could not control my tears any further and they fell like raindrops. I said: "Yes, but its ok, you can leave now." He did not go, in the dark, we sat, facing each other. Hubby slowly moved over me, his tears wet the blanket. In my heart, everything seems so far away, so far that even if I sprint, I could never reach them. I cannot remember how many times he repeated "sorry" to me. I had originally thought that I would forgive him, but now I can't. In the western restaurant, in front of that girl, that cold look in his eyes, I will never forget, ever. We have drawn such deep scars in each other's heart. For me, it's unintentional; for him, totally intentional. I had been waiting for this moment of reconciliation, but I realized now, what had gone past is gone forever and could not repeated.

Other than the thought of the baby inside me that would bring some warmth to my heart, I am totally cold towards him, I no longer eat anything he buys for me, I don't take any presents from him and I stopped talking to him. From the moment I signed on that piece of paper, marriage and love had vanished from my heart. Sometimes, hubby will try to come into the bedroom, but when he walks in, I will walk out to the living room. He had no choice but to sleep in mother's room. At night, from his room, I can hear light sounds of groaning, I kept quiet... This used to be his trick; last time, whenever I ignore him, he would fake illness and I will surrender and find out what is wrong with him, he would then grab me and laugh. He has forgotten that last time I cared for him and am concerned because there was love, but now, what is there between us? Hubby's groaning came on and off continuing but I continuously ignored him.

Almost everyday, he would buy something for the baby, infant products, children products and books that kids like to read. Bags and bags of it stacked inside his room till it is full. I know he is trying to use this to reach out to me, but I am no longer moved by his actions. He has no choice but to lock himself in his room and I can hear his typing away on his computer keyboard, maybe he is now addicted to web surfing but none of that matters to me anymore.

It was sometime towards the end of spring in the following year, one late night, I screamed because of a sudden stomach pain, hubby came rushing into the room, its like he did not change and sleep, and had been waiting for this moment. He carried me and ran down the stairs, stopped a car, holding my hand very tightly and kept wiping the sweat off my brow, throughout the journey to the hospital. Once we reached the hospital, he carried me and hurried into the delivery suite. Lying on the back of his skinny but warmth body, a thought crossed my mind: In my lifetime, who else would love me as much as he did? He held the delivery suite door opened and watch me go in; his warm eyes caused me to manage a smile at him despite my contraction pain. Coming out of the delivery room, hubby looked at our son and me, eyes tear with joy and he kept smiling. I reached out and touched his hand. Hubby
looked at me, smiling and then he slowly collapsed onto the floor. I cried out for him in pain... He smiled, but without opening that tired eyes of his... I had thought that I would never shed any tear for him, but the truth is, I have never felt a deeper pain cutting through my body at that moment. Doctor said that by the time hubby discovered he had liver cancer, it was already in terminal stage and it was a miracle that he managed to last this long. I asked the doctor when he first discovered he had ancer. Doctor said about 5 months ago and consoled me saying: "Prepare for his funeral."

I disregarded the nurse's objection and rushed home, I went into his room and checked his computer, and a suffocating pain hits me. Hubby's cancer was discovered 5 months ago, his groaning was real, and I had thought that... the computer showed over 200 thousand words he wrote for our son: "Son,
just for you, I have persisted, to be able to take a look at you before I fall, is my biggest wish now.... I know that in your life, you will have many happiness and maybe some setbacks, if only I can accompany you throughout that journey, how nice would it be. But daddy now no longer has that chance. Daddy has written inside here all the possible difficulties and problems you may encounter during your lifetime, when you meet with these problems, you can refer to daddy's suggestion .... Son, after writing these 200 thousand words, I feel as if I have accompanied you through life journey. To be
honest, daddy is very happy. Do love your mother, she has suffered, she is the one who loves you most and also the one who loves me most..." From play school to primary school, to secondary, university, to work and even in dealing with questions of love, everything big and small was written
there.

Hubby has also written a letter for me: "My dear, to marry you is my biggest happiness, forgive me for the pain I have caused you, forgive me for not telling you my illness, because I want to see you be in a joyful mood waiting for the arrival of our baby...My dear, if you cried, it means that you have forgiven me and I would smile, thank you for loving me...These presents, I'm afraid I cannot give them to our son personally, could you help me to give some of them to him every year, the dates on what to
give when are all written on the packaging... "

Going back to the hospital, hubby is still in coma. I brought our son over and place him beside him. I said: "Open your eyes and smile, I want our son to remember being in the warmth of your arms..." He struggled to open his eyes and managed a weak smile. Our son still in his arms was happily
waving his tiny hands in the air. I press the button on the camera and the sound of the shutter rang through the air as tears slowly rolled down my face.... A fatal misunderstanding and the person who loves me the most in this world is gone forever..."Cruel misunderstandings one after another disrupted the blissful footsteps to our family. Our originals intend of having Mother enjoy some quiet and peaceful moments in her remaining years with us went terribly wrong as destiny's secret is finally revealed at a price, everything became too late."........

This is a true story.
LEARNING POINT - DO NOT EVER HOLD ON TO OFFENSES!!! I am totally speechless, this story brought tears to my eyes as I read through each line eager to know what would happen next. It truly showed the devastating power of grudges and anger! Simple humility and communication would have resolved most of the problems in that story, as well as patience.... This story has really touched my heart and life as a whole and it has stimulated a paradigm shift. Though it is very sad, it is also very
refreshing to know that from today, I can consciously start to live a life free of grudge. People please let's live a life devoid of grudge. Communication is the key.

ONDOY'S HEALING OIL 6c5b

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 05:59:00 +0000

apologies for possible double posting

Ondoy PPS

ATTACHED – TYPHOON ONDOY POWERPOINT

FROM THE MINISTRY’S BLOGSITE

www.sisterraquel.com

ADVANCE COPY FOR YOU

sister raquel reodica, RVM,

cancer-healer for the Lord

of the mother ignacia healing ministry

relates this disturbing story

on sept 25, friday at 6 am

one day before typhoon ondoy

flooded 90% of metro-manila

sister discovered pools of oil on the marble floor

of the ministry’s adoration chapel

sister soaked a towel to collect the oil

that she used on sick people

on the ensuing healing days

THERE WERE MANY INSTANTLY HEALED

IS THERE PERHAPS A MESSAGE IN ALL THIS

A MESSAGE BOTH OF MERCY AND OF WRATH?

see related youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owykGkNCpIg

PLEASE SHARE WITH YOUR FRIENDS

AND WITH THE SICK TO GIVE THEM HOPE

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APPENDIX

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OTHER YOUTUBE HEALING DOCUMENTARIES/PRAYERS

The Cyber Healing Center

Sr Raquel / Fr Suarez / Fr Reuter

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1. SISTER RAQUEL REODICA, RVM

VOL-11 FIXING THE HOLE IN LYSHEL'S HEART

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYZ993h_heY

VOL-10 INTERNET HEALING PRAYER sr raquel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAZcwNimBSg

VOL-8 JESUS HEALS INCURABLE LIVER AILMENT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5u5H1sww78

VOL-6 JESUS HEALS BRAIN TUMOR

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWs9B1OWFaA

VOL-2 JESUS HEALS TERMINAL LEUKEMIA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqutE4Z-eqU

13,373 viewers as of 11/7/09

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2. FR FERNANDO SUAREZ

VOL-7A HEALING HOMILY AT MONTEMARIA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-nAWFJjfCI

VOL-7B HEALING HOMILY AT MONTEMARIA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DNluTIY67c

VOL-5 BACNOTAN CHURCH HEALINGS

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6CUWrwd5z4

37,420 viewers as of 11/7/09

VOL-4 JESUS HEALS WITH STONES terminal diabetes-cancer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rmkYtUEfog

56,830 viewers as o 11/7/09

VOL-1 INTERNET HEALING PRAYER fr suarez http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UP3LHBgtIc

280,349 viewers as of 11/7/09

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3. FR JAMES B REUTER, SJ

VOL-9B ADORATION PRAYER fr reuter

Using NASA’s fantastic hubble space photos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoGv6uQrpD8

Purpose Driven Life

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 06:39:00 +0000

TOO GOOD NOT TO SHARE. GOD BLESS - JOSIE

Rick Warren (REMEMBER HE WROTE 'PURPOSE DRIVEN LIFE')

You will enjoy the new insights that Rick Warren has, with his wife now having cancer and him having 'wealth' from the book sales. This is an absolutely incredible short interview with Rick Warren,

'Purpose Driven Life ' author and pastor of Saddleback Church in California

In the interview by Paul Bradshaw with Rick Warren, Rick said:

People ask me, What is the purpose of life? And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.

One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body-- but not the end of me.

I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal. God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity.

We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.

Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one.

The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort.

God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.

This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer.

I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore.

Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a railroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.

No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on.

And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.

You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems.

If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness,'which is my problem, my issues, my pain.' But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.

We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her.

It has been very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people.

You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life.

Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy.

It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease.

So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72

First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases.
Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church.

Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.

Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.

We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity?

Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I going to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)?

When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do.
That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.

Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.

NOW . PLEASE SHARE THIS WITH YOUR FRIENDS

READ ASAP-LET ME KNOW TOMORROW

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:24:00 +0000

Interesting picture.
Let me know what happens to you the day after you
Open this e-mail. This is an unusual one. It actually
Gives you a time tomorrow... Let's see if it works.

GUARDIAN ANGEL

Forward this message the same day you received it. It may
Sound ridiculous, but it is right on time. We believe that
Something is about to happen. Angels exist, only sometimes
They haven't got wings and we call them friends; you are one
Of them. Something wonderful is about to happen to you and
Your friends. Tomorrow at 2.15 PM somebody will address
You and tell you something you have been waiting to hear.
Please do not break this. Send it to at least 7 of your friends!

A TOUCHING STORY

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:20:00 +0000

SMALL TOUCHING STORY MAINLY FOR PROFESSIONALS...

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.

SON : 'Daddy, may I ask you a question?'

DAD : 'Yeah sure, what it is?' replied the man.

SON : 'Daddy, how much do you make an hour?'

DAD : 'That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?' the man said angrily.

SON : 'I just want to know.. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?'

DAD : 'If you must know, I make $20.00 an hour.'

SON : 'Oh,' the little boy replied, with his head down.

SON: 'Daddy, may I please borrow $10.00?'

The father was furious, 'If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I work hard everyday for such childish behavior.'

The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?

After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think:

Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $10.00 and he really didn't ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy's room and opened the door.

'Are you asleep, son?' He asked.

'No daddy, I'm awake,' replied the boy.

'I've been thinking, maybe I was too harsh on you earlier' said the man.

'It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here's the $10.00 you asked for.'

The little boy sat straight up, smiling. 'Oh, thank you daddy!' He yelled.

Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The man saw that the boy already had money, he started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father.

'Why do you want more money if you already have some?' the father grumbled.

Because I didn't have enough, but now I do,' the little boy replied.

'Daddy, I have $20.00 now. Can I buy an hour of your time?

Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you.'

The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and begged for his forgiveness.

It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts..

Remember to share that $20.00 worth of your time with someone you love.

If we die tomorrow, the company that we are working for can easily replace us in a matter of days...

But the family & friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives.

And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than into our family.

PLS READ WITH FAITH

This is an awesome prayer...

Believe it and you shall be blessed.

The problem with many of us is that we don't believe that God will open a Window and pour out blessings that we won't have room to receive them. I dare anyone to try God. He is true to His Word. God cannot lie and His Promises are certain.

Three things will happen to you this coming week:

(1) You will find favour with someone you don't expect;

(2) You will be too relevant to be ignored;

(3) You will encounter God and you will never remain the same again.

My prayer for you today:

The eyes beholding this message shall not behold evil, the hands that will send this message to others shall not labour in vain, the mouth saying Amen to this prayer shall laugh forever. Remain in God's love as you send this Prayer to everybody on your list. Have a lovely journey of life!

Trust in the Lord with all your heart and He will never fail you because He is AWESOME! If you truly need a blessing, continue reading this email:

'Heavenly Father, most Gracious and Loving God, I pray to you that you abundantly bless my family and me. I know that you recognize, that a Family is more than just a mother, father, sister, brother, husband and wife, but all who believe and trust in you. Father, I send up a prayer request for blessings for not only the person who sent this to me, but for me and all that I have forwarded this message on to. And that the power of joined prayer by those who believe and trust in you is more powerful

than anything. I thank you in advance for your blessings. Father God, deliver the person reading this right now from debt and debt's burdens. Release your Godly wisdom that I may be a good steward over all that You have given me Father, for I know how wonderful and mighty you are and how if we just obey you and walk in your word and have the faith of a mustard seed that you will pour out blessings. I thank you now Lord for the recent blessings I have received and for the blessings yet to come because I know you are not done with me yet.

In Jesus' name, I pray. Amen.'

TAKE 60 SECONDS and send this on quickly and within hours, you will have caused a multitude of people to pray to God for each other.

Then sit back and watch the power of God work in your life for doing the thing that you know He loves.

Remain Blessed!!!

Mama's Bible

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 01:27:00 +0000

Mama's Bible

Four brothers left home for college, and they became successful doctors and lawyers and prospered. Some years later, they chatted after having dinner together. They discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly mother who lived far away in another city.

The first said, "I had a big house built for Mama."

The second said, " I had a hundred thousand dollar theater built in the house."

The third said, "I had my Mercedes dealer deliver an SL600 to her."

The fourth said, "You know how Mama loved reading the Bible and you know she can't read anymore because she can't see very well.

Well, I met this preacher who told me about a parrot that can recite the entire Bible. It took twenty preachers 12 years to teach him. I had to pledge to contribute $100,000 a year for twenty years to the church, but it was worth it. Mama just has to name the chapter and verse and the parrot will recite it."

The other brothers were impressed. After the holidays Mom sent out her Thank You notes.

She wrote:

" Milton , the house you built is so huge I live in only one room,

but I have to clean the whole house. Thanks anyway."

"Marvin, I am too old to travel. I stay home, I have my groceries delivered, so never used the Mercedes. The thought was good Thanks."

"Michael, you gave me an expensive theater with Dolby sound, it could hold 50 people, but all of my friends are dead, I've lost my hearing and I'm nearly blind. I'll never use it. Thank you for the gesture just the same."

"Dearest Melvin, you were the only son to have the good sense to give a little thought to your gift. The chicken was delicious. Thank you."

Luv Ya,

MAMA

CREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPY

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 06:18:00 +0000

Okay...hold on..If my phone rings.....then I am a believer!!

Ok guys, this truly is freaky, the
Phone literally rang as soon as I read The last word of this email!!!!!

I am taking the bait -
What do I have to lose right?

Hope it works!

Supposedly The Phone Will Ring
Right After You Do This.

Just read the little stories and
Think of a wish as you scroll all
The way to the bottom. There is
A message there - then make your
Wish.

Stories

I'm 13 years old, and I wished
That my dad would come home from
The army, because he'd been having
Problems with his heart and right
Leg... It was 2:53 p m.. When I made
My wish. At 3:07 PM. (14 minutes
Later), the doorbell rang, and
There my Dad was, luggage and all!!

I'm Katie and I'm 20 and I've been
Having trouble in my job and on the
Verge of quitting. I made a simple
Wish that my boss would get a new
Job. That was at 1:35 and at 2:55
There was an announcement that he
Was promoted and was leaving for
Another city.. Believe me...this
Really works!!!

My name is Ann and I am 45 years
Of age. I had always been singl e
And had been hoping to get into a
Nice, loving relationship for many
Years. While kind of daydreaming(and right after receiving this email)
I wished that a quality person would
Finally come into my life. That was at
9:10 AM on a Tuesday. At 9:55 AM
A FedEx delivery man came into my
Office. He was cute, polite and
Could not stop smiling at me. He
Started coming back almost everyday(even without packages) and asked me
Out a week later . We married 6
Months later and now have been
Happily married for 2 years.

What a great email it was!!

Just scroll down to the end, but
While you do, think of a wish..
Make your wish when you have completed
Scrolling. Whatever age you are, is the
Number of minutes it will take for your
Wish to come true. Ex.you are 25 years<>Old , it will take 25 minutes for your wish
To come true).

However, if you don't send this to
People in 5 minutes, you will have bad
Luck for years!!

Go for it!!!
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STOP!! !
Congratulations!!! Your wish will
Now come true in your age minutes.

Now follow this carefully.....it
Can be very rewarding!!!!

If you send this to 10 more
People, other than the 5 that you
Already have to send to, something
Major that you've been wanting
Will happen.

Message: This is scary!

The phone will ring right after
You do this!

Feng Shui For All

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 06:02:00 +0000

Feng Shui
·
This is without a doubt one of the nicest good luck forwards I have received.. Hope it works for you -- and me!

Lotus Touts: You have 6 minutes

There's some mighty fine advice in these words, even if you're not superstitious. This Lotus Touts has been sent to you for good luck from the Anthony Robbins organization. It has been sent around the world ten times so far.

Do not keep this message.

The Lotus Touts must leave your hands in 6 MINUTES. Otherwise you will get a very unpleasant surprise. This is true, even if you are not superstitious, agnostic, or otherwise faith impaired.

ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

FOUR. When you say, 'I love you,' mean it.

FIVE. When you say, 'I'm sorry,' look the person in the eye.

SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight.

EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dreams. People who don't have dreams don't have much.

NINE... Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt but it's the only way to live life completely.

TEN.. In disagreements, fight fairly. No name calling.

ELEVEN. Don't judge people by their relatives.

TWELVE. Talk slowly but think quickly.

THIRTEEN. When someone asks you a question you don't want to answer, smile and ask, 'Why do you want to know?'

FOURTEEN. Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

FIFTEEN. Say 'bless you' when you hear someone sneeze.

SIXTEEN. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.

SEVENTEEN. Remember the three R's: Respect for self; Respect for others; and Responsibility for all your actions.

EIGHTEEN. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.

NINETEEN. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

TWENTY. Smile when picking up the phone. The caller will hear it in your voice

TWENTY- ONE. Spend some time alone.

Now, here's the FUN part!

Send this to at least 5 people and your life will improve.

1-4 people: Your life will improve slightly.

5-9 people: Your life will improve to your liking.

9-14 people: You will have at least 5 surprises in the next 3 weeks

15 and above: Your life will improve drastically and everything you ever dreamed of will begin to take shape.

A true friend is someone who reaches for your hand and touches your heart.Do not keep this message. ·

Optical Illusion

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:27:00 +0000

Animation vs animation

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 06:23:00 +0000

Get it here :

https://cid-18f9af067b9c062f.skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?resid=18F9AF067B9C062F!119&Bpub=SDX.Docs&Bsrc=GetSharingLink&authkey=Q9QYz5yt61Y%24

special novena

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 08:20:00 +0000

Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.

GOD WANTED ME TO TELL YOU, It shall be well with you this coming year.

No matter how much your enemies try this year, they will not succeed.

You have been destined to make it and you shall surely achieve all your goals this year.

For all of 2010, all your agonies will be diverted and victory and prosperity will be incoming in abundance. Today God has confirmed the end of your sufferings, sorrows and pain because HE that sits on the throne has remembered you. He has taken away the hardships and given you JOY. He will never let you down.

I knocked at heaven's door this morning, God asked me.. My child! What can I do for you? And I said,

Father, please protect and bless the person reading this message...

This is a Novena from Mother Theresa that started in 1952.

It has never been broken. Within 48 hours send 20 copies.....
(Or as many as you can - God does know if you don't have 20 people to send it to. It's the effort and intent that counts.) to family and friends.

This is a powerful Novena. Couldn't hurt. Can only help.

Please do not break it..

New 500 Peso Bill

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 05:05:00 +0000

MEN ARE JUST HAPPIER PEOPLE

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:56:00 +0000

NICKNAMES
If Laura , Kate and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Laura , Kate and Sarah .
If Mike , Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Godzilla and Four-eyes.
EATING OUT
When the bill arrives, Mike , Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.
When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators.
MONEY
A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs.
A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale.
BATHROOMS
A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel .
The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items.
ARGUMENTS
A woman has the last word in any argument.
Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.
FUTURE
A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
SUCCESS
A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
MARRIAGE
A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't.
A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does.
DRESSING UP
A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail.
A man will dress up for weddings and funerals.
NATURAL
Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.
Women somehow deteriorate during the night.
OFFSPRING
Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams.
A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house.
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
A married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing!

Le Cirque by Gloria Arroyo

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:50:00 +0000

Mga kababayan silipin nga natin kung ano itong pinag iinitang mga kinain daw ni Kamahal-mahalang Pangulong Gloria
sa Le Cirque New York at ang kanyang mga kampon. Since na may ambag naman tayo (as a taxpayer )
dapat lng sigurong makita natin kahit sa picture man lang ang mga pagkaing nararapat daw para sa ating mga
honorable public servants.

Ang bill ng entourage ni Gloria sa Le Cirque

Golden Osetra Caviar . Sa Tagalog, kumpol-kumpol na itlog ng isda. Rare daw ito. Malansa at lasang bagoong, sabi ng iba. Kulay itim lang to pero
ang lasa siguro nito ay kagaya din ng itlog ng galunggong, di kaya? Php13,720/order

California Osetra Caviar . Kumpol-kumpol na itlog ng isda na mula sa California . Mas mura kesa sa Golden Osetra Caviar. P4,900/order

Le Cirque Salad . Pinaghalo-halong mga gulay tulad ng lettuce (wag kayong jologs, hindi [let-us] ang pronunciation nyan, kundi [let-is] , okay?)
…sige na nga litsugas nalang… ano pa ba yan? er…sibuyas, balat ng sibuyas, sitaw, mayana, dahon ng gumamela, etc… P1,078 lang yan

Le Cirque Lobster Salad . Merong lobster meat, pipino, avocado, kamatis, okra saka dahon ng sibuyas. P2,842 isang plato nyan

Le Cirque Tuna . Syempre merong tuna dyan (na posibleng galing sa GenSan), orange, sesame seeds, wasabe ata yung green paste sa ilalim,
anim na pirasong halamang ligaw (dami dito samin nyang dahon na yan!) saka ilang patak na orange sauce. P1,029 naba yang apat na hiwang yan?

Le Cirque Soft Shell Crab Tempura . Ngayon ko lang nalaman na meron palang crab na soft ang shell nya…ahihihihi…So ang ingredients dyan ay crab
saka harina tapos may kamote at ang paborito ni Popeye na spinach P1,078 /platter

Le Cirque Spring Pea Soup . Mga pataning pinaikot at pinalamutak sa blender para maging soup. A.k.a. Etchas ng baby P1,176 isang bowl?

Le Cirque Wild Burgundy Escargot . Pronounced as [es-kahr-goh] . Tandaan nyo yan para hindi kayo magmukhang enggot pag kumain kayo sa Le Cirque in the future, okay? Ang escargot ay kuhol. Madami nyan sa palayan kapag tag-ulan. Hmmm…sarap ng ginataang escargot! Kasama ng escargot dyan ay 2 munchkin donuts, makapuno, itlog ng isda saka ferns. Ito daw ang nagustuhan ni Senator Lapid dahil favorite nya ang kuhol. P1,421 grabeng mahal naman ng kuhol na yan!

Le Cirque Torchon of Foie Gras . Ang foie gras ay atay ng bibe or gansa. Ang pagbigkas nito ay [fwah-grah] . Ang torchon naman ay isang paraan ng pagluto ng foei gras na kung saan ibinabalot ito sa isang tuwalya at niluluto sa mainit na likido tulad ng alak o tubig. P1,715 lang naman yan

Paupiette of Black Cod . Ito’y manipis na piraso ng isda (black cod) na nirolyong parang shawarma at merong mga gulay sa gitna.
Paupiette is pronounced as [poh-pyet] . P2,401.00

Le Cirque Halibut Poached in Cocunut Milk. Halibut is pronounced as [hal-uh-buht] . Ito ay isang uri ng isda. Ang price P1,960

Dover Sole . Isa rin itong uri ng isda at ito rin ang pinakamahal sa main course na inorder ng ating mga public servant P3,675 wow na wow. Ano kaya ang lasa nyan, noh?

Le Cirque Saddle of Lamb . Ano ba ang saddle sa Tagalog. Hmmm…part daw ng backbone and loins. Eh ano yung loins sa Tagalog? Tadyang o pigi? Ay basta tupa lang yan! P2,548 naman yan

Krug Champagne . Sa sobrang sarap ng Krug, umorder sina Gloria ng labing-isang bote nito. Kulang-kulang Php 249,000 lang naman iyang 11 bottles na yan. Ilang ginbulag kaya ang mabibili sa Php 235k? Teka, downpayment na yan para sa isang kotse o bahay ah! Tsk…tsk…tsk…
Sorry wala yung pix ng ibang entrees.

Just For Your Health Fitness...very helpful

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:14:00 +0000

Health - Very Very Important Tips
Answer the phone by LEFT ear.
Do not drink coffee TWICE a day.
Do not take pills with COOL water.
Do not have HUGE meals after 5pm.
Reduce the amount of OILY food you consume.
Drink more WATER in the morning, less at night.
Keep your distance from hand phone CHARGERS.
Do not use headphones/earphone for LONG period of time.
Best sleeping time is from 10pm at night to 6am in the morning.
Do not lie down immediately after taking medicine before sleeping.
When battery is down to the LAST grid/bar, do not answer the phone as the radiation is 1000 times.

Forward this to those whom you CARE about!
Here are some healthy tip for your smartness & physical fitness.

Prevention is better than cure.

HEALTHY JUICES

Carrot + Ginger + Apple - Boost and cleanse our system.

Apple + Cucumber + Celery - Prevent cancer, reduce cholesterol, and eliminate stomach upset and headache.

Tomato + Carrot + Apple - Improve skin complexion and eliminate bad breath.

Bitter gou rd + Apple + Milk - Avoid bad breath and reduce internal body heat.

Orange + Ginger + Cucumber - Improve Skin texture and moisture and reduce body heat.

Pineapple + Apple + Watermelon - To dispel excess salts, nourishes the bladder and kidney.

Apple + Cucumber + Kiwi - To improve skin complexion..

Pear & Banana - regulates sugar content.

Carrot + Apple + Pear + Mango - Clear body heat, counteracts toxicity, decreased blood pressure and fight oxidization .

Honeydew + Grape + Watermelon + Milk - Rich in vitamin C + Vitamin B2 that increase cell activity and str engthen body immunity.

Papaya + Pineapple + Milk - Rich in vitamin C, E, Iron. Improve skin complexion and metabolism.

Banana + Pineapple + Milk - Rich in vitamin with nutritious and prevent constipation

Quite interesting!
Keep Walking.....

Jus to check this out......
The Organs of your body have their sensory touches at the bottom of your foot, if you massage these points you will find relief from aches and pains as you can see the heart is on the left foot.

Typically they are shown as points and arrows to show which organ it connects to.

It is indeed correct since the nerves connected to these organs terminate here.

This is covered in great details in Acupressure studies or textbooks.

God created our body so well that he thought of even this. He made us walk so that we will always be pressing these pressure points and thus keeping these organs activated at all times.

So, keep walking...

Good one. Don't miss the attachments
Did You Know?

Blood type and Rh
How many people have it?
O +
40 %
O -
7 %
A +
34 %
A -
6 %
B +
8 %
B -
1 %
AB +
3 %
AB -
1 %

Does Your Blood Type Reveal Your Personality?

Accord ing to a Japanese institute that does research on blood types, there are certain personality traits that seem to match up with certain blood types. How do you rate?

TYPE O
You want to be a leader, and when you see something you want, you keep striving until you achieve your goal. You are a trend-setter, loyal, passionate, and self-confident. Your weaknesses include vanity and jealously and a tendency to be too competitive.
TYPE A
You like harmony, peace and organization. You work well with others, and are sensitive, patient and affectionate. Among your weaknesses are stubbornness and an inability to relax.
TYPE B
You're a rugged individualist, who's str aightforwa rd and likes to do things your own way. Creative and flexible, you adapt easily to any situation. But your insistence on being independent can sometimes go too far and become a weakness.
TYPE AB
Cool and controlled, you're generally well liked and always put people at ease. You're a natural entertainer who's tactful and fair. But you're standoffish, blunt, and have difficulty making decisions.

MOST IMPORTANT INFO NOW:

REGARDS, MANIKANDAN,
You Can Receive
If Your Type Is
O-
O+
B-
B+
A-
A+
AB-
AB+
AB+
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
YES
AB-
YES

YES

YES
YES

A+
YES
YES

YES
YES

A-
YES

YES

B+
YES
YES
YES
YES

B-
YES

YES

O+
YES
YES

O-
YES

KNOW ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF HAVING FRUITS AND VEGETABLES REGARDS, MANIKANDAN,

Fruit
Benefit
Benefit
Benefit
Benefit
Benefit

apples
Protects your heart
prevents constipation
Blocks diarrhea
Improves lung capacity
Cushions joints

apricots
Combats cancer
Controls blood pressure
Saves your eyesight
Shields against Alzheimer's
Slows aging process

artichokes
Aids digestion
Lowers cholesterol
Protects your heart
Stabilizes blood sugar
Gua rd s against liver disease

avocados
Battles diabetes
Lowers cholesterol
Helps stops str okes
Controls blood pressure
Smoothes skin

bananas
Protects your heart
Quiets a cough
Strengthens bones
Controls blood pressure
Blocks diarrhea

beans
Prevents constipation
Helps hemorrhoids
Lowers cholesterol
Combats cancer
Stabilizes blood sugar

beets
Controls blood pressure
Combats cancer
Strengthens bones
Protects your heart
Aids weight loss

blueberries
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Stabilizes blood sugar
Boosts memory
Prevents constipation

broccoli
Strengthens bones
Saves eyesight
Combats cancer
Protects your heart
Controls blood pressure

cabbage
Combats cancer
Prevents constipation
Promotes weight loss
Protects your heart
Helps hemorrhoids

cantaloupe
Saves eyesight
Controls blood pressure
Lowers cholesterol
Combats cancer
Supports immune system

... DRINK WATER ON EMPTY STOMACH
It is popular in Japan today to drink water immediately after waking up every morning. Furthermore, scientific tests have proven a its value. We publish below a description of use of water for our readers. For old and serious diseases as well as modern illnesses the water treatment had been found successful by a Japanese med ical society as a 100% cure for the following diseases:

Headache, body ache, heart system, arthritis, fast heart beat, epilepsy, excess fatness, bronchitis asthma, TB, meningitis, kidney and urine diseases, vomiting, ga str itis, diarrhea, piles, diabetes, constipation, all eye diseases, womb, cancer and ear nose and throat diseases.

METHOD OF TREATMENT

1. As you wake up in the morning before brushing teeth, drink 4 x 160ml glasses of water .....interesting

2. Brush and clean the mouth but do not eat or drink anything for 45 minutes

3. After 45 minutes you may eat and drink as normal.

4. After 15 minutes of breakfast, lunch and dinner do not eat or drink anything for 2 hours

5. Those who are old or sick and are unable to drink 4 glasses of water at the beginning may commence by taking little water and gradually increase it to 4 glasses per day.

6. The above method of treatment will cure diseases of the sick and others can enjoy a healthy life.

The following list gives the number of days of treatment required to cure/control/reduce main diseases:

1. High Blood Pressure - 30 days

2. Ga str ic - 10 days

3. Diabetes - 30 days

4. Constipation - 10 days

5. Cancer - 180 days

6. TB - 90 days

7. Arthritis patients should follow the above treatment only for 3 days in the 1st week, and from 2nd week onwa rd s - daily.

This treatment method has no side effects, however at the commencement of treatment you may have to urinate a few times.

It is better if we continue this and make this procedure as a routine work in our life.

Drink Water and Stay healthy and Active.

This makes sense .. The Chinese and Japanese drink hot tea with their meals ..not cold water. Maybe it is time we adopt their drinking habit while eating!!! Nothing to lose, everything to gain....

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you.

It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed .. It will slow down the digestion.

Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.

A serious note about heart attacks: Women should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting.

Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.

You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack.

Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms.

60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up.

Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know, the better chance we could survive...

A cardiologist says if everyone who gets this mail sends it to everyone they know, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life.

send this article to all your friends you care about......I just did!!!**

UNEMPLOYED GRADUATE

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 05:47:00 +0000

An unemployed graduate woke up one morning and checked his pocket. All he had left was $10. He decided to use it to buy food and then wait for death as he was too proud to go begging. He was frustrated as he could find no job, and nobody was ready to help him..

He bought food and as he sat down to eat, an old man and two little children came along and asked him to help them with food as they had not eaten for almost a week. He
looked at them. They were so lean that he could see their bones coming out. Their eyes had gone into the socket. With the last bit of compassion he had, he gave them the food. The old man and children prayed that God would bless and prosper him and then gave him a very old coin. The young graduate said to them 'you need the prayer more than I do'.

With no money, no job, no food, the young graduate went under the bridge to rest and wait for death. As he was about to sleep, he saw an old newspaper on the ground. He picked it up, and suddenly he saw an advertisement for people with old coins to come to a certain address.

He decided to go there with the old coin the old man gave him. On getting to the place, he gave the proprietor the coin. The proprietor screamed, brought out a big book and showed the young graduate a photograph. This same old coin was worth 3 million dollars. The young graduate was overjoyed as the proprietor gave him a bank draft for 3 million dollars within an hour. He collected the Bank Draft and went in search of the old man and little children.

By the time he got to where he left them eating, they had gone. He asked the owner of the canteen if he knew them. He said no but they left a note for you. He quickly opened the note thinking it would lead him to find them.

This is what the note said: 'You gave us your all and we have rewarded you back with the coin,' signed God the Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost. 1 Kings 17:10-16; Matthew 11:28-30

PRAYER:
Here is your financial blessing! It's a simple prayer, you've got 30 seconds. If you need a financial blessing,continue reading this e-mail.

Heavenly Father, most Gracious and Loving God,
I pray to you that you abundantly Bless m y family and me. I know that you recognize, that a family is more than just a mother, father, sister, brother husband and wife, but all Who believe and trust in you.

Father, I send up a prayer request for financial blessing for not only the person who sent this to me, but for Me and all that I have forwarded this message on to. And that the power of joined prayer by those who believe and trust in you is more powerful than anything.

I thank you in advance for your blessings.
Father God, deliver the person reading this right now and those who will read it in the near future from debt and debt burdens. Release your Godly wisdom that I may be a good steward over all that You have given me Father, for I know how wonderful and mighty You are and how if we just obey You and walk in Your word and have the faith of a Mustard seed that You will pour out blessings.
I thank You now Lord for the recent blessings I have received and for the blessings yet to come Because I know You are not done with me yet.
In Jesus name, I pray,
Amen

SEND THIS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND YOU WILL BE BLESSED ...I did.

Noynoy Aquino's Facebook fan page surpasses 1-million mark; first among presidentiables

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 09:19:00 +0000

If the number of Facebook fans is any indication, then presidential candidate Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino will definitely win the 2010 elections. His fan page now has more than a million fans. Whoa!

At press time, Noynoy Aquino's fan page has 1,002,101 fans, making it the first fan page of a presidentiable to reach and surpass the 1-million plateau.

Manny Villar, whose website has been recently hacked, is sitting comfortably in second place with 966,288 fans while Gilberto "Gibo" Teodoro rounds up the top 3 with 234,439.

Other presidentiables with significant following on Facebook include Richard "Dick" Gordon (33,000 fans) and Bro. Eddie Villanueva (47,207 fans).

Pretty impressive, Mr. Aquino. But we do know a certain someone who might be unimpressed.

UNEMPLOYED GRADUATE

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:29:00 +0000

UNEMPLOYED GRADUATE:

An unemployed graduate woke up one morning and checked his pocket. All he had left was $10. He decided to use it to buy food and then wait for death as he was too proud to go begging. He was frustrated as he could find no job, and nobody was ready to help him..

He bought food and as he sat down to eat, an old man and two little children came along and asked him to help them with food as they had not eaten for almost a week. He
looked at them. They were so lean that he could see their bones coming out. Their eyes had gone into the socket. With the last bit of compassion he had, he gave them the food. The old man and children prayed that God would bless and prosper him and then gave him a very old coin. The young graduate said to them 'you need the prayer more than I do'.

With no money, no job, no food, the young graduate went under the bridge to rest and wait for death. As he was about to sleep, he saw an old newspaper on the ground. He picked it up, and suddenly he saw an advertisement for people with old coins to come to a certain address.

He decided to go there with the old coin the old man gave him. On getting to the place, he gave the proprietor the coin. The proprietor screamed, brought out a big book and showed the young graduate a photograph. This same old coin was worth 3 million dollars. The young graduate was overjoyed as the proprietor gave him a bank draft for 3 million dollars within an hour. He collected the Bank Draft and went in search of the old man and little children.

By the time he got to where he left them eating, they had gone. He asked the owner of the canteen if he knew them. He said no but they left a note for you. He quickly opened the note thinking it would lead him to find them.

This is what the note said: 'You gave us your all and we have rewarded you back with the coin,' signed God the Father, The Son and The Holy Ghost. 1 Kings 17:10-16; Matthew 11:28-30

PRAYER:
Here is your financial blessing! It's a simple prayer, you've got 30 seconds. If you need a financial blessing,continue reading this e-mail.

Heavenly Father, most Gracious and Loving God,
I pray to you that you abundantly Bless m y family and me. I know that you recognize, that a family is more than just a mother, father, sister, brother husband and wife, but all Who believe and trust in you.

Father, I send up a prayer request for financial blessing for not only the person who sent this to me, but for Me and all that I have forwarded this message on to. And that the power of joined prayer by those who believe and trust in you is more powerful than anything.

I thank you in advance for your blessings.
Father God, deliver the person reading this right now and those who will read it in the near future from debt and debt burdens. Release your Godly wisdom that I may be a good steward over all that You have given me Father, for I know how wonderful and mighty You are and how if we just obey You and walk in Your word and have the faith of a Mustard seed that You will pour out blessings.
I thank You now Lord for the recent blessings I have received and for the blessings yet to come Because I know You are not done with me yet.
In Jesus name, I pray,
Amen

SEND THIS TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND YOU WILL BE BLESSED ...I did.

SATAN'S MEETING: (Read even if you're busy)

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:13:00 +0000

Satan called a worldwide convention of demons. In his opening address he said,

"We can't keep Christians from going to church." "We can't keep them from reading their Bibles and knowing the truth."

"We can't even keep them from forming an intimate relationship with their saviour."

"Once they gain that connection with Jesus, our power over them is broken."

"So let them go to their churches; let them have their covered dish dinners, BUT steal their time, so they don't have time to develop a relationship with Jesus Christ.."

"This is what I w ant you to do," said the devil:

"Distract them from gaining hold of their Saviour and maintaining that vital connection throughout their day!"

"How shall we do this?" his demons shouted.

"Keep them busy in the non-essentials of life and invent innumerable schemes to occupy their minds," he answered.

"Tempt them to spend, spend, spend, and borrow, borrow, borrow."

"Persuade the wives to go to work for long hours and the husbands to work 6-7 days each week, 10-12 hours a day, so they can afford their empty lifestyles."

"Keep them from spending time with their children."

"As their families fragment, soon, their homes will offer no escape from the pressures of work!"

"Over-stimulate their minds so that they cannot hear that still, small voice."

"Entice them to play the radio or cassette player w henever they drive." To keep the TV, VCR, CDs and their PCs going constantly in their home and see to it that every store and restaurant in the world plays non-biblical music constantly."

"This will jam their minds and break that union with Christ."

"Fill the coffee tables with magazines and newspapers."

"Pound their minds with the news 24 hours a day."

"Invade their driving moments with billboards."

"Flood their mailboxes with junk mail, mail order catalogs, sweepstakes, and every kind of newsletter and promotional offering fr ee products, services and false hopes.."

"Keep skinny, beautiful models on the magazines and TV so their husbands will believe that outward beauty is what's important, and they'll become dissatisfied with their wives. "

"Keep the wives too tired to love their husbands at night." "Give them headaches too! "

"If they don't give their husbands the love they need, they will begin to look elsewhere."

"That will fragment their families quickly!"

"Give them Santa Claus to distract them from teaching their children the real meaning of Christmas."

"Give them an Easter bunny so they won't talk about his resurrection and power over sin and death."

"Even in their recreation, let them be excessive."

"Have them return from their recreation exhausted."

"Keep them too busy to go out in nature and reflect on God's creation. Send them to amusement parks, sporting events, plays, concerts, and movies instead."

"Keep them busy, busy, busy!"

"And when they meet for spiritual fellowship, involve them in gossip and small talk so that they leave with troubled consciences. "

"Crowd their lives with so many good causes they have no time to seek power from Jesus."

"Soon they will be working in their own strength, sacrificing their health and family for the good of the cause."

"It will work!" "It will work!" It was quite a plan! The demons went eagerly to their assignments causing Christians everywhere to get busier and more rushed, going here and there.

Having little time for their God or their families.

Having no time to tell others about the power of Jesus to change lives.

I guess the question is, has the devil been successful in his schemes?

You be the judge!!!!!

Does "BUSY" mean: B-eing U-nder S-atan's Y-oke?

Please pass this on, if you aren't too BUSY!

I don't think I know 10 people who would admit they love Jesus.

Do You Love Him? IF YOU LOVE JESUS, PASS THIS ON!!!!!!!

Too much agreement kills a chat

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:08:00 +0000

The most efficient organizations today, government or private, depend heavily on fresh ideas. These organizations hunt for such ideas like treasure. They invest substantial amounts of time, effort, and money to be the first to get hold of them. To these organizations, it doesn’t really matter whom ideas come from so long as they can be profitable. The unscrupulous would steal them and not blink. Truly, brilliant ideas, even initially strange and unconventional ones are the lifeblood of any organization striving to survive and excel in today’s cut-throat economy. From computing, to engineering, to medicine, and definitely, to pedagogy, new ideas sustain us all. The old give way to the new. Challenging the norm is now the norm.

Sadly, however, DepEd for half a century now, has been missing much of the action, lagging behind in sloth. Our people have so dearly been paying the price for longer than anyone could remember and we cannot afford it anymore. The Asian region has been moving up for the past 60 years while the Philippines stumbles over one hurdle to another—one endless national emergency. It is not surprising that outsiders go as far as calling us a “damaged culture.” Painful to admit, but we are still “The sick man of Asia.”

But, worse than passivity are the blunders committed in all levels of the department:

Our curriculum. Ever changing, yet, ever inferior to those of our neighbors’. Perennially impoverished India now has more engineers and IT people than the entire North America. They are now selling the most cost-effective car in the world, the “Nano.” Talk to the average Indian living here and you’d be amazed at just how educated they are and how much better their values are set compared to many of ours. South Korea, destroyed by war in 1950, and with no natural resource to speak of, has now better-educated children than we have. They have phenomenal work ethic and are knowledgeable in all things that matter. They build things and we buy them. War-beaten Vietnam is now hiring our teachers for up to ten times the rate. Again, these people are disciplined as well as good natured, and therefore, advancing, fast. Malaysia is ahead of us as well, and tiny Singapore joined the big league generations ago. While other Asian children are learning how to build robots and super computers, ours are painting little potteries or embossing Xeroxed drawings with colored sand—on a national scale, for heaven’s sake!

Our books. So scandalously flawed, they make it on prime time news. Priorities other than education have apparently taken precedence over education itself.

Our teachers. Flooded with paper work they can hardly do their job of actually teaching. Outputs, outputs, and more outputs, forms, forms, and more forms, all for the heck of it, all for show. DepEd never seems to run out of new forms to fill out, surveys to respond to, and reports to write, as if, they actually boost up anything other than some people’s careers. The whole clunky machinery effectively reduces the ten-month school year to just nine months, the last week of February and the first three weeks of March being eaten up by paperwork. Students’ records are still done by hand, painfully detailed and ridiculously redundant. It seems that everything is thrown to the teachers to make someone’s job a lot easier. The result are fabricated data, useless, except for complying with requirements. Millions of man-hours, and hundreds of tons of paper wasted every year. But unquantifiable is the amount of stress this madness brings to the teachers year after year, for generations on end!

It’s 2010 and our teachers still line– inside and outside Landbank offices around the country for two hours, to cash their checks. Those in charge couldn’t care less. They must think this is all as it should be. They must think teachers got nothing better to do. When the checks are late, teachers are expected to wait and not say a word. It’s “unteacherlike” to complain. They are supposed to learn to wait. Why must DepEd checks be late in the first place? Is the pay check a new concept they at DepEd haven’t already gotten the hang of?

Those that can’t take it anymore go to Hong Kong as domestics, tearing their families apart. Licensed teachers! No wonder most of our colleagues have stopped caring long ago, numbed by the decades of neglect and abuse from an indifferent government, from pompous PhD superiors, and from street-smart principals.

But here is truly frightening: young teachers, in their 20s, already adapted to the “system.” Like clones of those before them, they quickly learn the “tricks of the trade” – without actually learning the trade. More paperwork? Bring it on. There are always the children. Deadline? It’s time for the children to copy the book into their notebooks. Look where DepEd has brought our teachers!

The National Achievement Test is one expensive yearly joke, with unspeakable repercussions: a delusional national curriculum. Bottom line, it’s an economic sabotage stunting the growth of entire generations of Filipinos. Where else in the world will one find teachers giving away answers to a national examination, year after year? Apparently, it’s the easiest way to keep Division Supervisors from breathing down their necks, demanding better scores.

Dropout rate continues to hover in the disastrous, and many “make it” by pasang awa—which is neither real “pasado” nor real “awa”. Everybody must pass to give room, literally, for the next batch of students. There’s no room for repeaters; just give them a high school diploma and hope it lands them a job, any job. What decent country does this?

Too many of our students are undisciplined and indifferent, perhaps, due to malnutrition and perhaps, after ingesting too much MSG and refined sugar—worse, aspartame—found in abundance in our school cafeterias. But even then, they might behave just a little better had we educators been the slightest bit inspiring.

Administrators and school heads are so preoccupied with garnering points for promotion. DepEd-sponsored seminars right and left, all done for the sake of “complying with requirements”, all at the expense of the taxpayer. Yet, there is little to no drive in them. Hardly any initiative. No desire to deliver real, honest to goodness education. It’s enough to get high NAT scores, win competitions, and receive recognitions and trophies. And then, get the best retirement possible.

Paternalism is still deeply ingrained in our national psyche. No one even knows it’s there. Administrators are nothing more than modern Datus, lording it over their little domains. Hasn’t anyone at DepEd heard of Consultative and Participative Management? Google it, for cryin’ out loud!

How many of our administrators actually have a vision for our country and are not mere career people? How many of us really care? DepEd is big on form but puny on substance. We are the proverbial “ampaw”, big, but full of air. Nobody respects us, not even the least educated of our countrymen, certainly not the rest of the world. There is no real leadership to speak of in DepEd, just plain old I’ll-scratch-your-back-you scratch-mine type of affair.

Most teachers are just weathering out the rotten culture, trying to protect what little career they are permitted to grow old with. “Tumahimik ka na lang kung ayaw mong mapag-initan.” “Wag ka nang magpakahirap, nasa public school ka naman.” “Sumunod ka sa kalakaran.” “Fifty years nang ganito ang sistema namin, babaguhin mo pa?”

How did we ever get into this mess? Could we ever redeem ourselves? Do we even care enough to risk personal interests, our cherished careers and our quiet lives? How long are we just going to draw our breaths, and then our salaries, both of which there’s too little of?

Good news! This need not continue to beset us! We need not pass this curse down to our grandchildren. We can still choose to reverse our fate. We can still pull ourselves out of this wretched socioeconomic and spiritual poverty and turn our country to one deserving respect. Respect from among ourselves and from among the nations of the world.

And the best place to start is not with the formulation of new rules, stricter regulations or more elaborate protocols. Yes, we need all those, and progressively, but they are not worth the paper they are written on if our hearts are not set right. Yes, the best, and truly, the only place to start is in our individual hearts. The wishes of our hearts dictate our choices. The choices that we make dictate our actions. The actions that we take dictate our future.

This is what must be done: First, administrators must stop seeing themselves as masters but as servants. It’s so clichéd, but we are actually servants of the people, servants of our children, regardless if we forgot it. Those in-charge must stop acting like taskmasters and start acting like leaders. We need leader-servants. They must stop pushing teachers to their limits and start inspiring them to push their own limits. Teachers must stop being mere executors of plans emanating upstairs, but vital sources of new ideas and catalysts of change. They must become co-planners and co-designers of education, being at the forefront of the battle against ignorance and complacency. Educators must be the source of inspiration and of strength to our children. We must stand for all that is right, despite the prevailing culture. Our children expects this of us; they are aching for it! True leaders do not just tell people what to do, they show them by example.

Mutual respect must be our binding force, from the Secretary of Education, to the school janitor. These are not mere words! Teachers must be treated as professionals and they must act as such. They must be treated with respect, even when at fault. Teachers must be recognized for their good work. They must be consulted on matters affecting them and their families. They must be consulted on matters of education–they are educators. They must be given what is due them, when it is due them. The amount of work given them must be calibrated to what is realistically doable, given the 400 to 600-plus students they need to teach each day, and the voluminous records that follow. Minimize paper use and turn to electronic means—it’s 2010! Deped is a behemoth: It blinks and forest turns to desert. So, workflows must be streamlined to bare necessities. No redundancies. No distractions from the teachers’ primary responsibility, which is teaching. Give them the opportunity to grow, not only academically but as total professionals and total human beings. Give them time to breathe, to be with their families and to be with themselves. Protect their psychological well-being at all cost as it is the key to their full functioning as shapers of our national destiny. Teachers with shattered egos, crushed hearts, and barely-there bank accounts cannot be model citizens let alone true educators. Neglecting our teachers, or worse, abusing them, is destructive to our nation. The effect is sure and quick.

Teachers, in turn, must respect all students, even the least able, even least privileged of them. Let us not ask an underprivileged student to do for us what we will not ask a senator’s son or daughter. Students are not in school to run teachers’ errands but to be equipped for national leadership, leaders of our country, not servants of other countries. Let us develop their self-respect by respecting them first. Let us feed them properly in school and let us keep them safe there. Let us take care of them as we would our own. They are our own, all of them.

“There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.” - Nelson Mandela

Educators must be the architects of our culture, not its victims. They cannot let themselves to be tossed by the tide—they must create and control the tide. They cannot just watch things happen; they must make things happen. There are two kinds of fish in the stream, those that go against it and those that are carried away by it. The latter are dead fish.

If we resolutely start today, we can have a completely new Philippines in as soon as ten years. Ten short years and we could be on our way to becoming a progressive nation, with strong, educated youth, high in spirit and full of hope. If we could change just one generation of Filipinos, our country could finally achieve our dreams as a nation. Dreams of prosperity and esteem among the nations.

DepEd has over half a million trained and talented professionals in its arsenal–teachers, administrators, and non-teaching personnel. But, presently, we are like a badly maintained eight-cylinder muscle car, aimlessly chugging around on only four. This huge manpower and intellectual powerhouse could propel our country to heights never before seen in our history. Imagine what half a million highly motivated professionals can do as they mould our children’s minds eight hours a day, for the ten crucial years of their lives! We can put this country back on its feet! More than anyone else’s, this is our job, our mandate. We are the shapers of the national mind.

The Asian region is rushing on to progress. Most of our neighbors have arrived long ago. We have been lagging behind for far too long, but this could change right now. Let us stop blaming our culture; we created it. Let us stop blaming poverty; we invited it. Let us stop blaming the politicians; they too, were in grade school once. The buck stops here.

Let us do this. Let us not wait.

VILLAR TRYING TO BUY PRESIDENCY - IS IT FOR SALE ?

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:01:00 +0000

FACT--- VILLAR HAS A MINIMUM OF 40 TV SPOTS A DAY AT A COST OF P10 MILLION EVERY DAY THE PAST 5 MONTHS FOR A TOTAL COST OF P1.5 BILLION - AND THAT IS NOT COUNTING HIS EXPENSES ON RADIO, DOLPHY, WILLLIE REVILLAME ETC, ETC AND THE ELECTION OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN PERIOD HAS NOT EVEN STARTED - THEY SAY HIS BUDGET IS P20 BILLION AND ALL FOR A JOB THAT PAYS P200 THOUSAND A YEAR!

QUESTION - ----HE SAYS HE IS A GOOD BUSINESSMAN - AND IF HE IS, I WONDER WHERE HE EXPECTS TO GET HIS RETURN ON HIS AT LEAST P20 BILLION INVESTMENTS. WHAT KIND OF RETURN WILL VILLAR EXPECT - - ---GIVEN THE HIGH RISK OF THIS UNDERTAKING, HE PROBABLY EXPECTS A GOOD RETURN - MAYBE DOUBLE OR TRIPLE HIS MONEY IN SIX YEARS SAY TO P60 BILLION

WHERE CAN HE GET THAT RETURN ---- TOTAL ESTIMATED BUDGET OF THE
GOVERNMENT OVER THE NEXT 6 years IS P10 TRILLION WITH ABOUT P1 TRILLION DISCRETIONARY - IF VILLAR MAKES C5 AND TAGA ON THE P1TRILLIO OF 20% ... hmmmm THATS P200 BILLION ON AN INVESTMENT OF P20 BILLION - HMMM VILLAR IS ONE SMART BUSINESSMAN.

WHAT'S THE IMPACT ON THE POOR? - P200 BILLION THAT WILL CONSERVATIVELY BE LOST TO CORRUPTION AS A PAYBACK TO VILLAR's CAMPAIGN EXPENSES CAN PAY FOR 40,000 CLASSROOMS TO SOLVE THE SHORTAGE PLUS, CREATE A MICRO LENDING FUND THAT CAN GENERATE 3.2 million jobs - CORRUPTION IS THE CAUSE OF POVERTY!

DAGDAG:

NOW THE CAT'S OUT OF THE BAG....
MANNY VILLAR IS THE SECRET CANDIDATE OF PRES "GMA" ... MIKE ARROYO HIMSELF MET WITH MANNY VILLAR AT THE HOUSE OF MIKE DEFENSOR LAST JAN 7.... VILLAR SECRETLY AGREED TO MAKE GMA AS SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE AND PROTECT HER SHOULD VILLAR WIN THE PRESIDENCY.. .. VILLAR AGREE TO GMA'S OFFER OF MASSIVE LOGISTICAL SUPPORT IN GMA'S COMMISSIONERS IN THE COMELEC WHO WILL ASSURE VILLAR'S VICTORY ...

PLEASE PASS... PARA DI TAYO MALUKO ULIT.

‘The Philippines is not for sale’

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:59:00 +0000

Every yet undecided voter must get to read Enrile’s statement

"I commend Senator Gordon for unmasking the real character of Senator and presidential candidate Manuel B. Villar as a man who thinks he can buy his way to the highest position in the land with his billions of money.

"I understand Senator Gordon has come out to tell the public about the bribe attempt made by Senator Villar through an "emissary" and a "mutual friend." I confirm that such attempt actually happened and I have no doubt about its veracity because Sen. Gordon told me about it immediately.

"My recollection is that when I filed the report of the Committee of the Whole on the Ethics complaint involving the C5 controversy, having been signed by 11 Senators with myself as the author acting as Chairman, my Chief of Staff relayed to me by phone that another Senator, who Villar was supporting to replace me as Senate President, had approached Sen. Gordon to join the plot to oust me and install a new leadership in the Senate.

"The approach, which came with an offer for a position of Sen. Gordon’s choice under a "Villar Administration" was turned down outright by Sen. Gordon saying "I cannot, in conscience, do such a thing, especially not to Senator Enrile who I regard as a father."

"On that same day, upon seeing Sen. Gordon arrive at the Senate session, I embraced him and whispered "Thank you, Dick. I know what happened." At that time, he seemed surprised at my gesture and just hugged me back.

"Several days after, when we were about to take up the report on the floor, I got another report that Sen. Gordon was offered, on top of the first offer for a position if Sen. Villar makes it to the presidency, was likewise offered a huge amount of money to withdraw his signature from my report. I was appalled by this report and felt it was my duty to tell Sen. Gordon that such news was circulating. I called Sen. Gordon and informed him that I will never believe that he will succumb to such a brazen act of bribery.

"Sen. Gordon privately confirmed to me that such offer was indeed made and that he felt furious and insulted by the temerity and gall of Villar to think that he can be intimidated by money, much less lured by an offer for a position of power. He immediately said NO to this offer.

"Later, I learned that it went even beyond that; that Sen. Villar offered "reimbursement for what Sen. Gordon had so far spent for his presidential bid with an added premium just to convince him to withdraw from the presidential race.

"I have known Sen. Gordon from his younger days, and one thing I can say is that this man cannot be bought. Sen. Villar is dead wrong about Sen. Gordon. You do not put a price tag on everyone, especially not Dick Gordon.

"Actually, I knew about the plan to oust me since last December. On the last day of our sessions before the Christmas break, Sen. Allan Peter Cayetano, on orders of his master, Sen. Villar, in no uncertain terms, delivered the threat to my Chief of Staff that if I make a move to gather enough votes in support of my Committee Report, Sen. Villar wants me to know that he will have no other choice but to take the Senate Presidency either for himself or for another Senator of his choice.

"As things developed and the co-perpetrators of the coup plot against me began to show their real colors, I surmised that the "emissary" to Sen. Gordon and Sen. Villar’s nominee could be no other than Senator Edgardo J. Angara…

"This attempt of Villar is similar to the offer made by another "emissary" to former President Estrada, our standard bearer in the Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino- "reimbursement in exchange for withdrawal." President Estrada rightly turned down this indecent proposal. President Estrada’s candidacy is NOT FOR SALE.

"I had earlier revealed that Sen. Villar himself tried to bribe me into not proceeding with the investigation by the Committee of the Whole, offering me "help" for whatever it was I needed. As I said, I replied to him that I can only advice him to participate in the hearings and introduce evidence to counter the charges and evidence against him, and that I am giving him that advice for free, without any consideration. I wish to reiterate to Sen. Villar: I AM NOT FOR SALE.

"If you tie all these things up with Sen. Villar’s unprecedented campaign spending for advertisements, cash give-aways to local officials and supporters, his media budget and sum it all up, then you have a complete picture of the man who is now presenting himself as the "best" alternative for the presidency.

"Sen. Villar is a pretender posturing as a pleasant and decent person and using his poverty during his childhood days to project himself as pro-poor. It is as if having been once poor was equivalent to really having the heart for the poor.

"Villar has to answer what he has done for the poor since he became a multi-billionaire and in his long career as a politician apart from his expensive "give-aways" , helping OFW’s, giving livelihood, building homes for the poor by shelling out money ALL FOR PROPAGANDA.

"Sen. Villar must be asked what he did for the poor that he did not make sure was covered by media so he can use it for his campaign propaganda. He should be asked what social cause he has really championed as a legislator, not an ordinary one, by the way, for he served as no less than Speaker of the House and Senate President.

"He should he asked how he victimized the poor and the taxpayers of this country with his financial schemes in the housing business, and about the collapse of his own bank, Capitol Bank, mysteriously leaving him richer, not poorer.

"Amongst all who are now running for President, Villar stands out, indeed, as the RICHEST and one who thinks that everyone can be bought: the people through his misleading advertisements, some media people who are obviously in his "payola", political leaders who are vulnerable to his offer to partake of his financial largesse, and all his attempts to bribe even his colleagues and fellow aspirants to the Presidency.

"Sen. Villar may have succeeded to a large extent in deploying the huge fortune he acquired, perhaps some by honest means, but definitely, a large part, by the immoral use of his political position, power and clout to advance his own business interests as borne out by the evidence in Senate Ethics case and, much earlier, by the shenanigans exposed on the Floor of the Lower House by Sen. Joker Arroyo.

"But on May 10, he must be taught a hard and painful lesson by no less than the electorate. He must be unmasked and rejected as a fake leader in order for the nation to redeem itself. We must clearly send the strongest message to Senator Manuel "Manny" B. Villar, as Senator Richard J. Gordon has said, that THE PRESIDENCY OF THIS NATION, THE FILIPINO PEOPLE, AND THE PHILIPPINES ARE NOT FOR SALE."

http://www.malaya.com.ph/03092010/edbanayo.html

Villar Mansion

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:33:00 +0000

Imagine who would have such taste and live in such opulence?
An American Billionaire?
A Saudi Prince?
Louis XIV of France ? Savour the pictures then scroll to the bottom of the page to see who owns this Work of Art.
This Mansion is in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA and belongs to: Senator Manny Villar of the PHILIPPINES

While Filipinos starve, and die because of abject poverty ....and while Sen. Villar brags that he had poor beginnings and he had helped his poor countrymen over and over again... but look now.. he and his family live like this.......his GREED kills his poverty stricken fellow Filipinos .
PLEASE send this to everyone you know.
They can send it to everyone they know.
Soon Filipinos around the world will know what this man is doing to the people he wishes to serve if elected President.

Why Villar Is Money Villarroyo

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:37:00 +0000

Why ever not Villar(1)
LITO BANAYO

‘Manny Villar is without doubt cunning, skilful, intelligent, even more than GMA.’
IN the years when FVR was president, a prominent businessman whose name I shall not mention because he is old and ailing was conned by a police character into buying prime real estate right smack along Roxas Boulevard. He was given a torrens title (TCT) and seizing the opportunity to land a bargain, he paid.

When his lawyers went to the Registry of Deeds, they learned that he bought land that belonged to a foundation. In short, the title he had was fake. Police character could no longer be found. So my friend peddled the property to a big Chinese businessman, whose shipping and airline empire based abroad was as big as big could ever be. The Chinese businessman wanted to put up a hotel, and nothing could beat a view of the Manila Bay for a luxury hotel. His Philippine representatives paid the Filipino businessman for what seemed a bargain at the time. But when the Chinaman’s lawyers went to have the torrens title transferred, they learned the awful truth --- it was fake.

Genuine taipan (bigger than Lucio Tan and Money Villarroyo combined) however developed a friendship with one who would become president of the Philippines. And indeed, when Erap became president, the Chinaman expressed interest in investing heavily in the country, proposing, among others, a huge container seaport and an international airport in Sangley at the tip of Cavite. But could his friend Erap please help him recover his losses for buying a property with a fake title? And Erap tried, but as far as I know, the Filipino businessman would not relent. The Chinaman refused to have anything to do with the Philippines, other than as an occasional port of call for his ships and landing his jets at the NAIA every now and then for the paltry business they get from budget travellers to the US of A.

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Now what happens when the people of these benighted islands elect a man who has: (1) converted prime irrigated ricelands into subdivisions without getting the approval of the Department of Agrarian Reform, and instead fix the local government units to get his permits (against the CARP law); (2) use government monies either from his pork barrel allocations or his "insertions" to finance the building of roads that would connect the subdivisions he has since converted (abuse of power for personal gain); (3) causes a planned major metropolitan thoroughfare to be re-aligned/relocated, so that the new road would traverse properties that belonged to his family corporations (again, abuse of power for personal gain); (4) allocate funds in the budget so that the Republic of the Philippines will buy his properties for road rights-of-way for lands that will be utilized for the road that he had caused to be re-aligned (punishable under the Anti-Graft and Corrupt Practices Act; plunder if the amount involved is more than 50 million pesos); (5) wastes the money already paid by the Republic for land already purchased for road right-of-way because of the re-alignment of the road (abuse of power once again; betrayal of the public trust); (6) causes the BIR, the DPWH and whatever other government agency to value his properties at three to four times higher than adjoining properties, and getting either paid for, or still awaiting collectibles from the purse of the Republic (profiteering at the expense of the taxpayers of the Republic)?

There’s more.

What would you think of a man who presents himself to the people as the next "savior" of the benighted, particularly the poor from where he claims to have sprung, who upon the other hand, purchases and/or produces through layers of corporate veneer, spurious titles to hectares upon hectares of land (estafa; falsification of public documents); pawns the same to his family-owned bank (against the General Banking Act, as amended, which prohibits self-dealing, also called DOSRI loans) which in turn borrows huge sums of money from the Republic, and specifically, the bank of all banks, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, using the same fake titles as collateral (I am running out of legal violations and certainly have lost track of wilful violations of the moral law); and worse, in the process effectively grabs the land of poor and penniless farmers, mostly less-educated "katutubo", whose forefathers through several generations have tilled the land, and who have been awarded by a just and responsible Republic original certificates of title to their land? (Heartless!)

How could you consider a man who wants to be president of this country, who spends obscene amounts of money, billions upon billions, in advertisements peddling fake but embellished claims, the better to fool a gullible voting public (paano babawiin iyan?) and who openly declared that "If you don’t have one billion (to begin with), why run for president at all" (yabang!) and whose fabulous wealth can be traced to a housing empire financed by government through the NHMFC, supported by GSIS and SSS and whatever other infusions of monies of the Republic, who sponsors legislation to tap all kinds of revenue sources to re-capitalize and replenish the money of government housing agencies, so they can pay him for houses he sold, again financed by Pag-Ibig? When his business acumen fails him, or perhaps his desire to get fabulously rich in such a fabulously short period of time catches up with his reckless and imprudent business adventurism, passes on the burden of rehabilitation to government, uses his power and influence, as Congressman, as Speaker (all of nine years), then senator (all of eight years and counting, three of which were as Senate President, and prior to that, as Senate President Pro-Tempore and Chairman of the supra-powerful Committee on Finance), and profiting much, much more, and when his "rehabilitation" is done and its strange manipulations hidden under the rug, goes to the Philippine Stock Exchange and cashes in through an IPO that, according to his chief apostle cum apologist, Alan Peter Cayetano, netted him and his Vista Land 23 billion pesos, more than enough to finance a campaign where he buys media through a limitless advertising budget (thanks in part to those dolts who run the Comelec), and buys "free" media even more, from reporters to desk men (and women), so that bad news could be "killed" and good news about him purveyed by his lying spokespersons can be "magnified" so that he becomes like a "skin whitener" or a "beauty" product, peddled to the gullible and the shallow?

Why can’t the poor understand the legal and moral implications of C-5? Because paid "free" media makes certain it is the Villar soundbytes that get prominence in the news. Because few even bother to explain what ought to be their duty as journalists, which is the truth … the truth. Why aren’t the print and broadcast media, again save for a few, bothering to take up the plight of poor Dumagat farmers robbed of their land titles because of a deal hatched between the corporations of Manny and Cynthia Villar and the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas using fake land titles? Isn’t it our responsibility as the "powerful" Fourth Estate to expose anomalies, to check abuses of the other "estates", to uphold the law, to help the poor and the under-privileged, most certainly the victims of abuse by powerful men and powerful institutions?

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Now the Magdalo, whose cause I believe in, whose unjust suffering I commiserate with, officially supports the candidacy of Manny Villar for president of this benighted land, because of his "competence, character and vision".

And their spokesman, a fine former lieutenant of the Air Force, adds that behind this decision is a "man-to-man" talk between Villar and Trillanes.

Now let me tell you this: Sometime in early November 2009, I visited Senator Sonny Trillanes in his cramped detention cell. This was not my first visit; there had been several in the past. We were discussing the viability of the presidential run of young Chiz Escudero, given his paucity of financial resources, an affliction that also visited another common friend, Ping Lacson. The conversation drifted to C-5 and the Senate investigation of the same. I bewailed the lack of a coherent communication plan among the senators to inform the public, given that Manny Villar had practically "bought" many in media.

I almost fell off my monobloc chair when Senator Trillanes told me (there were five of us in the room), that (and I quote from memory) "Ganyan naman daw ang kalakaran…nag-explain sa akin si Manny dito…ganyan din naman daw ang ginagawa ni Enrile sa Cagayan)".

I did not argue at the time, because the matter was extraneous to the reason why we were there in the first place, and because our time was limited. If I had had the chance of a one-on-one, I would have explained, argument after argument, and not in the presence of one who was related to Juan Ponce Enrile, and who may have felt slighted by the reference to her kin.

But Senator Trillanes reads, and reads voraciously. Senator Trillanes is a very intelligent man. When everybody thought he was a quixotic choice for senator of the realm, I personally sponsored his inclusion in the Genuine Opposition ticket in 2007, and I was mightily pleased when he won against all odds. Hence you could understand how crushed I was by his defense of Manny Villar --- "Ganyan…ang kalakaran". And I thought we were fighting for what was right, against what was wrong; against what is evil, and for what is good.

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revisited: Bible & Cellphone

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:52:00 +0000

Ang Cellphone	Ang Bible
laging hawak ipinapakita,	laging nakatago at ayaw ipakita.
binibili kahit libo-libong halaga,	ayaw bilhin, kahit isang daan ang halaga.
laging pinapalitan ng case,	hindi man lang mabilhan ng case.
ayaw magasgasan,	hinahayaang maalikabukan.
bihirang makaligtaan kung saan iniwan,	madaling makaligtaan kung saan naiwan.
mahirap ipahiram, baka masira,	madaling ipahiram, kahit mawala.
laging binabasa kung may bagong message,	hindi binabasa kaya hindi makita ang message.
message masarap i-share.	verse nakakalimutang i-share.
pinapakita ang lifestyle ng tao,	nagpapabago ng lifestyle ng tao.
mabilis maluma,	hindi nalulu ma.
message kung minsan ay late,	laging on time ang message.
kailangan magload para mag-message,	laging fully loaded ang message.
ay mahalagang gamit ng tao,	ay mas mahalaga kung gagamitin ng tao.

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