An Inspiring Station ID for Christmas by Abs Cbn

Indeed, Jesus is the reason of the season. Thank you for coming into this world and saving us from our sins. You showed us the perfect example of LOVE...

Hoping For A Miracle!

Lord,

Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. May your will prevail over men.

Thanks,
Hannah

I need a miracle today. I hope God would listen to me.

I Call Them Friends

I am so excited! This October 23, I and my highschool friends are planning to meet in Cebu and enjoy the beauty of Bohol. Despite the short notice and the budget constraint, I decided to have a three-day vacation with them. Why? Because of the following reasons:

1. When I checked the cost of plane tickets bound from Iloilo to Cebu, I found out that Cebu Pacific is offering Php 1,000 off the original fare.

2. I am dead tired. I'm tired with my day job and I know that I need a break.

3. I have never been to Bohol in my whole life.

4. I missed my friends.

When I think about my friends, I always remembered our careless moments during our gradeschool and highschool days. We used to sing the following lines back then:

Make new friends and keep the old
One is silver and the others gold.

I really appreciate the meaning of this song. I believe that it's good to have new friends but old friends are the best since we have known them for so long.

Stay tuned for my vacation pics!

My Ironic Likeness For Fashion

I am not aware that I have a special interest in fashion until I started my Fashion-O-Lic blog. At first, I am more concerned at getting a bigger website visitors for the blog. As months and years past, I discovered that I am loving fashion. Reading the latest fashion trends and the celebrities quirky fashion styles makes me happy.

However, I have a confession. I am not fashionable. My mom would call be names that would pertain to being unfashionable. I love to see other people wearing those fashion trends but I can't imagine myself on those clothes. Maybe because I am not accustomed to them or I know that I can't afford them.

If you are interested with the latest fashion trends, you can visit my fashion blog!

Help Typhoon Ondoy (international name Kestana) Victims

The victims of Typhoon Ondoy (international name Kestana) needs your help. Thousands were homeless and some lost their loved ones. Right now, they need old clothes, food, water and of course money to start a new life.

If you want to help them, checkout the options where you can send/bring your donations as compiled by Bianca Gonzales.

For USA Residents:

1) Help in the typhoon relief effort by calling ABS-CBN Foundation USA toll-free 1-800-527-2820
2) American Red Cross call 1-800-435-7669

For Filipino Residents:

Checkout Bianca's blog: http://superbianca.blogspot.com/

Oh What A Rain!

I visited the PAG-ASA site today and according to them:

Central and Southern Luzon and Visayas will experience monsoon rains. The rest of the country will have mostly cloudy skies with scattered rainshowers and thunderstorms.

Moderate to strong winds blowing from the southwest will prevail over Central and Southern Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao and the coastal waters along these areas will be moderate to rough. Elsewhere, winds will be light to moderate coming from the southwest and northwest with slight to moderate seas except during thunderstorms.

The rain will probably be pouring down for the next few days. Thinking about waiting for the sunny days, I remembered a song I used to sing with my grade school classmates:

If all the raindrops were lemon drops and gum drops
Oh, what a rain that would be!
I’d stand outside with my mouth open wide—–
Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah
Oh, what a rain that would be!

There's a Tagalog version too!

Kung ang ulan ay katas ng mga prutas O kay sarap ng ulan! Ako'y lalabas ng ako'y nakanganga Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah, ah O kay sarap ng ulan!


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Working During Holidays

When I was a student, I loved holidays because they all meant: no classes and rest days. Now that I am working, I hated special non-working holidays! Why?

Because here in the company that I am working for, special-non working holidays meant: no work, no pay. I don't want to go to work but I have no choice because a one-day salary will be deducted to my so-small monthly salary. I envy my friends who don't need to force their lazy bodies to work during the special holidays.

I hate the world today! Why? Because it is a holiday! hehehehe

A GoodBye for The King of Pop

I don't know why I am quite affected by Michael Jackson's death. Somehow there's a piece of me who mourns for him. I am not one of his avid fans, though I like few of his songs. I am sad about his untimely death, a few weeks before his comeback concert. In my own opinion, it's too soon for him to leave. Why now, when he had a chance to redeem himself and showed the whole world that he's only human just like the rest of us.

But I am not in the position to question the decision of our Life-Giver. He alone knows the reason and purpose behind the mystery. Life lives, life dies. Life laughs, life cries. Life gives up and life tries. But life looks different through everyone's eyes. Love is stronger than death even though it can't stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can't separate people from love. It can't take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.

As I watched Michael Jackson's Memorial Service, I got hooked with Jennifer Hudson's Will You Be There number. I had goose bumps when I heard MJ's voice saying the following lines:

In Our Darkest Hour
In My Deepest Despair
Will You Still Care?
Will You Be There?
In My Trials
And My Tripulations
Through Our Doubts
And Frustrations
In My Violence
In My Turbulence
Through My Fear
And My Confessions
In My Anguish And My Pain
Through My Joy And My Sorrow
In The Promise Of Another Tomorrow
I'll Never Let You Part
For You're Always In My Heart.

Stand In The Rain by Superchick

Hello everyone!

We all have those moments when we feel as if we’re drowning in life’s pressure and stress. Many failed in coping up with the problems that comes along their way but there are also those who stood up and survived the pain. How can you handle the circumstances that are beyond your control? How can you live a happier life?

Superchick’s Stand in the Rain song is very appropriate for this kind of life’s dilemma. It tells a story about a girl who seems so busy with her life but the truth is she is just covering up the emptiness and the fear that she felt inside of her. What must she do if you are currently in this girl’s situation? Superchick advises us to stand in the rain and don’t give up even though all things seems to fall apart. We should always remember that when God closes a door, He always open a window. Never give up, just stand up!


She never slows down.
She doesn't know why but she knows that when she's all alone, feels like it's all coming down
She won't turn around
The shadows are long and she fears if she cries that first tear, the tears will not stop raining down

[CHORUS]
So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it's all crashing down
You stand through the pain
You won't drown
And one day, what's lost can be found
You stand in the rain

She won't make a sound
Alone in this fight with herself and the fears whispering if she stands she'll fall down
She wants to be found
The only way out is through everything she's running from wants to give up and lie down.

[CHORUS]
So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it's all crashing down
You stand through the pain
You won't drown
And one day, what's lost can be found
You stand in the rain

So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it's all crashing down
Stand through the pain
You won't drown
And one day, what's lost can be found

[CHORUS]
So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it's all crashing down
You stand through the pain
You won't drown
And one day, what's lost can be found
You stand in the rain

Bible Quote: May 20, 2009

For your Father knows what you need before you ask Him. Matthew 6:8

Love Them Like Jesus by Casting Crowns

This song is about being in a situation where you don't know what to say to the person who really needs your comfort. With our human nature, we tend to panic and have a tendency pull away from a friend or a loved one who had a serious problem or an overwhelming trial. We struggled for words of wisdom that is appropriate for the moment but it only lead us to question God's power it.

If you are in this situation, what would do? Casting Crowns' "Love Them Like Jesus" inspires us to love them (the broken individuals) just like Jesus loves us. We don't need to have a lengthy speech, loving them and having their backs is enough.

The love of her life is drifting away
They're losing the fight for another day
The life that she's known is falling apart
A fatherless home, a child's broken heart

You're holding her hand, you're straining for words
You trying to make - sense of it all
She's desperate for hope, darkness clouding her view
She's looking to you

Just love her like Jesus, carry her to Him
His yoke is easy, His burden is light
You don't need the answers to all of life's questions
Just know that He loves her and stay by her side
Love her like Jesus
Love her like Jesus

The gifts lie in wait, in a room painted blue
Little blessing from Heaven would be there soon
Hope fades in the night, blue skies turn to gray
As the little one slips away

You're holding her hand, you're straining for words
You're trying to make sense of it all
They're desperate for hope, darkness clouding their view
They're looking to you

Just love them like Jesus, carry them to Him
His yoke is easy, His burden is light
You don't need the answers to all of life's questions
Just know that He loves them and stay by their side
Love them like Jesus

Lord of all creation holds our lives in His hands
The God of all the nations holds our lives in His hands
The Rock of our salvation holds our lives in His hands
He cares for them just as He cares for you

So love them like Jesus, love them like Jesus
You don't need the answers to all of life's questions
Just know that He loves them and stay by their side
Love them like Jesus
Love them like Jesus

Bible Quote: May 19, 2009

Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

~ 1 Peter 5:6-7,

Jay "Bugoy" Bugayan: Deserving PDA Season 2 Grand Star Dreamer

I always watch reality shows here in the Philippines but I am not fond of spending some money to vote for them. However, for the Season 2 of Pinoy Dream Academy, I will surely cut a small amount from my daily budget just to vote for Bugoy.

Jay Bugayan aka bugoy came from an impoverished family in Camarines Sur. One of Bugoy's dream is to earn a college degree so he payed his tuition through scholarships and earned his pocket money working as janitor, dish washer and other odd jobs. As a farmer's son, he also worked in the farm and sing songs with the cows and birds as his audience. He never took his talent seriously for until one of his friend discovered his singing talent accidentally. His friend heard him singing while cleaning with a mop. Soon, he joined school competitions that led him to try out for PDA. He said that he never auditioned just for himself but it was also for his family and for all the common people who had "small dreams" in life.

At first, I don't like Bugoy. He was funny for me. He was good as a recording artist...not as a performer. But as I watched the show every day, my perspective about Bugoy changed. I want him to win in this one big fight. For me, he deserves to win. Here are my reasons:

• He's not perfect but with a small polishing especially in his diction he will be among the top performers in the Philippine industry.
• He had a pure heart, I can see it in his actions.
• Some say that helping Bugoy is just an act of charity. Yes, if he'll win he'll be a millionaire but we can't deny the fact that he got talent.
• Bugoy is humble.

Again, let's support Bugoy.

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Hurry! Vote now...the Grand Dream Night will be this coming Sunday.

My Personal Experience with Typhoon Frank

Last June 21, Typhoon Frank (international name: Fengshen) hit and battered Iloilo City, heavily affected the province’s 42 towns. Around 80% of the city went underwater affecting 48,836 families and the district of Jaro (where I, my sister, and my cousins live) was submerged because the water level reached a height of 2 meters.

Everyone has his or her own version of "Baha" (Flood) story... and here goes mine (I hope the pictures reflect the calamity that we had overcome):

We were having a good sleep when somebody knocked on our door. It was one of our boardmates, she said: Ate, may tubig na sa kwarto! (Big Sister, the water has entered our room!) My sister (Aying), my cousin (Rophe) and I immediately jumped out of our beds and grabbed the things that we can save. However, the rain didn't stop and the water reached the second floor of the house.

Fortunately, the house had a ceiling. Thank God, it didn't collapse. Imagine...all the things that we were able to save were placed here and 11 of us stayed here for almost 3 days and 3 nights.


On the second day of the flood, we checked our rooms and we found some clothes, shoes, and slippers that were soaked in the mud.


These are the things that helped us lived through that traumatic experience...the well and the stove..



Frank destroyed some parts of the house. We can't even use some of our kitchen utensils.


Here is a picture of the ceiling during daytime. It's good to have some spare clothes... shoes... slippers even though they don't have pairs now.


When the water subsided, we immediately wash our clothes and clean the house.


P.S. I appeared only once in these photos because I was the photographer.

Second Childhood?

It's all coming back to me now...I mean my obsession to "The Little Mermaid" Disney character. I had saved a copy of the movie, downloaded a wallpaper and my ym icon showed Ariel. Honestly, I don't know why I'm so hooked with the mermaid characters. All I know is that I really loved Ariel, the way she swim and the way she sing "Part of Your World". In fact, Donna and I keep on singing it again and again as we worked on our respective tasks. It seems that we can relate to the song's lyrics: " Bright young women..sick of swimming..ready to stand..."