Just looking at the twin boys "blabbing" "talking" "communicating" gives us all the reason in the world to smile and know that the world is still worth living in. Children, indeed, make our day.
So let us see the video again and again. . . and smile again and again . . .
How do we make sense with loss of life other than natural death?
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 6:17 PMHow do we make sense with loss of life other than natural death is the question foremost in the minds of families who lost their loved ones through death penalty, heinous crimes and the like? How do we make sense with the loss which by itself is senseless and if ever has basis, the life of a human being should have ample strength to get more significant weight over all other issues at hand?
Due to the internet, especially Google, it is already one's ignorance if you cannot surf once in a while if only to update one's awareness. Part of this move however is to ask questions, one of which is the present one: How do we make sense with loss of life/lives other than natural death? We are all stuck right there in our living room or kitchen or internet cafes brooding, thinking and sighing why all these phenomena are still happening in 2011. Then we realize, for as long as every person refuses to go beyond instinct, materialism, egoism, cannibalism and plain sinful tendencies, man will go on answering the questions as long as it takes.
Today, March 30, 2011 is one of the longest days since three Filipinos lives are in the brink of "life or death".
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 5:48 PMToday has a different meaning depending on where you are situated in the globe: others are a day ahead while others are a day late and this alone leaves you to do the research why?
This is the word for this blog: WHY? These are some of the whys that will make or unmake you, help or destroy a person's life:
One: Why are some people very rich they have a hard time thinking how to spend it? Why are others facing the whole country, like the Ligot couple of the Philippines, answer or not answer whether they owned houses in Los Angeles or Canada etcetera; whether they have millions of dollars or pesos out of their sweat or out of their escapades legal or illegal - still in court to be settled -. Why Mr. and Mrs. Ligot can sit there in the Senate hearings for weeks now and look at people and smile or laugh along the way with every other Filipino gnawing or biting their tongues how to control themselves not to throw anything directed to the tv hoping it will hit you?
Two: Why are many people very poor they have to become "drug mules" or rob or scavenge or stare at the sky hoping for manna from heaven or become crazy or killers or commit suicide? Why are Sally Ordinario, Ramon Credoand Elizabeth Batain today, March 30, awaiting their execution in a foreign country, Beijing, China, when there some proofs according to some sources, that they are victims of drug syndicates? "3 Filipino Drug mules" they are called.An additional information has just surfaced that in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, there are about 70 Filipinos who are also facing execution, why? why? why? Back to the 3 Filipino mules awaiting execution: the promulgation of the verdict will happen at 9:45 A.M. Beijing, China and the time now is 8:16 A.M. Our heart goes out to the children, the parents and relatives and every Filipino who are praying ardently, hoping for a miracle that only the hand of God can bestow. We have only God to rely on for the Chinese government has already said its piece, that the Chinese government is hard on Drug peddlers. Only God knows why Ordinario, Credo and Batain are embroiled in such a dangerous situation it has come to this consequence: death by lethal injection.
Three: Why is there death penalty in China and other countries when by now it is common knowledge that even heinous crimes are not eradicated by death penalty. Criminals, after all, are human beings whose lives are given by God and no country - superpower or not - can take away a person's life which is not its property in the first place. There are many schools of thought about death penalty but there is no question about who has given life to man: the Creator or God, the Author of Life!
These are just some of the whys that Teacher's teacher would like to reflect upon. Many more whys will be dealt with in the succeeding blogs.
In the meantime, let us take a moment or so to observe silence, bow our heads and offer prayers for our co-filipinos whose lives are in the hands of the Chinese "justice" system. May God be with you more than ever . . .
How do you understand the revelation of Senator Lacson why he fled and now came back?
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 9:13 AMThe once Chief of Philippine National Police and later became and still is a Senator of the Republic of the Philippines Senator Panfilo Lacson, decided to flee the country and stayed in hiding for a year since January 2010. His name was dragged in the unsolved murder cases of Dacer and Corbito. and when he felt he would not have the justice he wanted in a regime where he did not believe in, he just disappeared. Then recently we heard his side of the story why he has come back and is determined to "face the music".
For ordinary citizens, the question arises: How do we understand the revelation of Senator Lacson, now that he has resurfaced and has decided to become Senator of the Philippines once again notwithstanding the cases hurled against him? Teacher's teacher advances some points of reference:
One: Listening to Senator Lacson during his press conference this March 28, 2011, reminds us how a person goes through some trials alone. Friends can help but the pain that hits the innermost part of one's being is the person's alone and no one elese's.
Two, Reflecting on what he called his burdens-that he washed dishes, cooked his meals, baked some recipes, hid inside the house most of the time and the like - the lonely state is sometimes too much to bear.
Three:Humility is always a difficult virtue to accept and do but there are moments that it becomes the meaning behind the story.
How do we understand the revelation of Senator Lacson? We understand only to the extent that you are either open to the possibility it can happen to you or has already happened or is about to happen. To understand is not just a matter of knowing up in the head but in the heart as well and who knows - in one's walk daily. Judgment is not our territory but God's so how do we understand one issue is to allow it to take the course of time for if there is anything that happens it is that which has to happen when its time comes. We are all human beings who have a mission to fulfill sometimes easy and sometimes difficult.
Teacher's teacher can only pray for the good Senator to live up to the special mission bestowed on him by his constituency. Let us pray for each other so that the truth will come out not only for the Dacer and Corbito families but to the Filipino people who need genuine leaders and role models.
Why do travels succeed and/or not succeed? This is the question.
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 7:05 AMIt must be clear by now that Malaybalayan just came from a travel which was so successful. The wish is there to make it possible to would-be travellers to have a glimpse of what makes a travel succeed even before it happens.
Why do travels not succeed is the way to know why it succeeds. These are some of thequestions that must be asked and the answers should be positive.
One: Does the travelling group have a team of planners. These planners prepare the itinerary to a T such that research is part of its preparation. They assign among themselves what every item must be implemented. Nothing is left to chance.
Second: When the journey begins, is there a leader according to the need of the moment? For example, who gets the map upon arriving in the airport of Hongkong or Singapore or Macau? Does he/she know how to read the map? Can this person be relied upon in following directions especially in how to go about the MRT tours and rides? If the group is "lost" who keeps up the morale?
Third: Who holds the purse? Should there be extra money needed, is there someone who can supply it epecially because the group is in a foreign country. Does this person have a credit card?
Fourth: Does someone become the cheer leader if there is need for pep talk? Who says it is time to rest and breathe more deeply and easily?
Fifth: Does someone care to find out if the food is delicious or is there need to go to a familiar place like MacDonald or Kentucky Fried Chicken if the food served seems too chinese or too foreign for a filipino taste?
Sixth: Is there a photographer who knows how to give justice to the magnificent views and sites that the group may never be able to visit again or if ever, only after two years or so?
Seventh: Do you pray once in a while for the many good things that have been happening especially the good weather, the safe journey, the good health, the problem-free immigration procedure and the like?
Eighth: Did you come home intact as a group with smiles on your lips even if every part of your body is aching of fatigue?
There are many more questions but these eight will do and in fact are already difficult to fill you man not want to travel after all.
So have a safe trip and God bless!
Travels make you forget if only for a week what made you travel in the first place.
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 4:37 PMTravels are for everyone so why not travel? For some, it may not be immedite what with the infants and the very young kids who occupy the minds of young moms. Precisely because of this scenario, young mothers can already begin planning when the travels will be once the infants become children and the children become old enough to travel.
Think about this: Travels make you forget if only for a week what made you travel in the first place. What does this mean? It means sooner or later life will become stressful - more or less - and to catalyze it is to let it run its course and leave it - by travelling and seeing other milieus and scenery. More than not you come home refreshed, renewed and more open to the other facets of what gave you the stress and other ways of looking at it.
So travel - and travel soon before you end up physically weak to enjoy only travels provide to strengthen even the weak bones and the "slow puts".
Sayings that were "born" during the family trip . . .
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 11:52 PM"Sometimes the realization of holding on to the original family escapes you until one day you wake up alone and lonely."
"We must leave our comfort zone sometimes for it is in leaving that we learn to treasure what has been taken for granted."
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A tribute to families who travel together - while mom and dad can go with them
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 8:05 PMGot to see the world as a family
Kids you've now grown
Before your own children come
Let the original family be together for once
And see the world as one
Bring it on: Pa, Ma, Ate, Kuya, Diko and Bunso
Got to see the world as family, as one
It can be Cebu, Bohol,Boracay, Davao
and later Hongkong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur
You may wonder why wander
When the home is the place to be
Why not stay put and avoid the expense
Your answer lies when the travel finally comes
Guaranteed it is that when you do travel as a family
Each member comes home better and more able to see a bigger world
Better grasp why people differ and yet are greatly similar
We view the world from eyes that are more open
Avail of Cebu Pacific's great discounts
Then there is Air Philippines too.
Do not take too long for Papa and Mama
May not be physically and chronologically strong
Do not take too long then
Plan and save even now
And join me in the challenge
Go and see the world as a family.
This route: Cagayan de Oro City - Cebu City- Hongkong- Macau - Hongkong-Cebu- Cagayan de Oro City was the focus of Teacher's teacher in her most recent trip. It was a trip that she is so sure not to happen again for quite a time. It was a trip of her "senior citizen phase" with her four children all turned professionals and decided to still stay single. It was a trip that erased the notion that the children whom we insist on seeing as children still put the parents on their toes for painful it may seen, they are now the prime movers of the world they have "conquered" and are still conquering.
Science of Tsunami vs. Science of Everyday Living
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 5:34 AMAccording to experts, tsunami occurs when there is sudden movement at the bottom of the sea thereby causing friction of the "fault" and forcing the waves to move upward to as high as it can go. In the case of Japan, the 8.9 magnitude is the intensity of the movement and the waves that went up, went as high as 100 plus miles upwards. The data may be simplistic so may not be as scientific as it was intended but it would suffice to say that great damage had been done. When CNN showed it, the boats, the buildings, all other objects that got on its way were literally turned into rubble or were pushed to as far as it came from.
The "science" of everyday life, however, does not dwell much on the physical movements that go down under water. Rather, it focuses on the depth of realization that haunts every believer and drives him/her to question the extent of preparedness to meet the Maker if the tsunami were to happen and death was inevitable,
Teacher's teacher is trying to make something of both if only to stay sane and hopeful that things happen to remind us that this world is not meant to become perfect. Only that which is perfect can become one.
The call is always upon us to face our own "tsunamis" in life especially now that even the nuclear plant of Japan has caught fire.The challenge is now more intense since many countries will be affected, if not geographically then economically. Underdeveloped countries, like the Philippines, will always suffer more the consequences like oil increase which will now a valid reason to go on increasing.
While attention is on tsunamis, we should not totally forget another "tsunami" - kind of problem in Libya. The turmoil may not be about water but the anger and dissatisfaction of the Libyans towards their leaders. The Filipinos, who were forced to leave Libya, had to come home to a country where they felt they do not have good future in terms of employment if they had their way, they would have remained in Libya even it e was dangerous.
Life tells us that science or not, the one gift which should never be taken for granted is every person's life. For what it is worth: We are made in the image and likeness of the Creator of everything.
Tsunami photos captured do not replace the real thing . . .
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 1:51 PMCNN always delivers such that like the tsunami that hit Japan- its effects and damages are seen in every way: video, audio, still pics and the like. For teachers, the materials are exactly what are considered beyond books. Teachers can almost imagine every pupil and student transfixed as they hold on to what is being shown, teaching them in live color what a tsunami is and how it destroys everything that gets in its way.
For the onlookers, you might think it is awesome but for the victims, it means life or death.
Worst quake in Japan's history:8.9 in intensity. Tragedies of any kind always remind us "how fragile life is" according to U.S. President, Barack Obama.
Life, however, has to go on. This is where you and I can do something - big or small. Like the teachers in the Professional Studies Division, College of Teacher Education, plan to resume the rosary time daily - which is timely since the season of Lent has begun.
May God take care of Japan and the whole of mankind.
For the onlookers, you might think it is awesome but for the victims, it means life or death.
Worst quake in Japan's history:8.9 in intensity. Tragedies of any kind always remind us "how fragile life is" according to U.S. President, Barack Obama.
Life, however, has to go on. This is where you and I can do something - big or small. Like the teachers in the Professional Studies Division, College of Teacher Education, plan to resume the rosary time daily - which is timely since the season of Lent has begun.
May God take care of Japan and the whole of mankind.
Good Teachers should also include Facebook and Twitter as qualifications
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 8:07 AMNever would it enter the mind of Teacher's teacher the need to open a facebook account nor a twitter site but time became ripe to open both.
Good teachers should already entertain the inevitable, that of having facebook and twitter accounts. Of course, young and advanced professionals have already done this so the advice is directed more for the fiftiesh and above.
Someday, the senior citizens will be bringing their own Apple compu set and/or i pod and why not?
The children are expected to be more patient in teaching their parents. Luckily, Chevy, Tennis Guru, always facilitate the on-the-spot IT session of Teacher's teacher.
Keep up fellas!
Today, Teacher's teacher greets Bukidnon, Happy 94 years old!
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 5:40 AMParades used to excite everybody before. Is it because there was clear understanding that the parade participants prepared what to wear so the onlookers do not waste their time waiting for a long time. Nowadays however, there is passivity that prevails. In addition, there is the sad realization that even the so-called costumes came to be worn with some doubt as to how it caime to be - prepared as priced or at a discounted rate, its genuineness has been minimized. Are there people to blame, who made money?
For people who have overcome indifference, the event is dominant over superficial details. Bukidnon celebrates its 94th foundation - this is the determining reason for jubilation.
Blogs at Fifty joins Teacherallherlife in thanking God for blessing Bukidnon with 94 blissful years. As the song persists: Wherever I may roam, the distant land to see. I to sweet long to go back soon, to sweet Bukidnon Home.Where lovely mountains high, with forests all and grand, bring memories to me, the home I long to see.
Ref. There, my heart, yearns to be, in faraway, Bukidnon land, Under its blue, starry skies, where love and joy never die.
Mabuhay ka Bukidnon, My Home!
For people who have overcome indifference, the event is dominant over superficial details. Bukidnon celebrates its 94th foundation - this is the determining reason for jubilation.
Blogs at Fifty joins Teacherallherlife in thanking God for blessing Bukidnon with 94 blissful years. As the song persists: Wherever I may roam, the distant land to see. I to sweet long to go back soon, to sweet Bukidnon Home.Where lovely mountains high, with forests all and grand, bring memories to me, the home I long to see.
Ref. There, my heart, yearns to be, in faraway, Bukidnon land, Under its blue, starry skies, where love and joy never die.
Mabuhay ka Bukidnon, My Home!
When to speak out and when to just keep mum . . .
0 comments Posted by Malaybalay Blogger at 7:54 AMHave you had the experience of feeling you just have to speak out about certain issue and you did in one forum and yet after doing so, the feeling was one which is empty? This is my present predicament. The feeling is so all embracing, it is already CSI time, my favorite tv feature in Channel 22, AXN, the "bile" is still in my consciousness.
This leads me to the observation that it is better to keep mum or better still to become passive for as long as the benefits are there. What do you think?
Teachers, in general, prefer the latter than the former, I hasten to add. Or am I wrong?
So as I go on watching CSI, I will also go on reflecting on the dilemma I am in. I pray that tomorrow, I will wake up refreshed, renewed and re-oriented and geared for a better perspective on matters that only the day brings.
Have a "Suka" - not Duka" night. (A Malaysian taught me, duka means sad in their language while suka means happy.)
This leads me to the observation that it is better to keep mum or better still to become passive for as long as the benefits are there. What do you think?
Teachers, in general, prefer the latter than the former, I hasten to add. Or am I wrong?
So as I go on watching CSI, I will also go on reflecting on the dilemma I am in. I pray that tomorrow, I will wake up refreshed, renewed and re-oriented and geared for a better perspective on matters that only the day brings.
Have a "Suka" - not Duka" night. (A Malaysian taught me, duka means sad in their language while suka means happy.)
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