Friend

There are a lot of things we can think of when we see or hear the word "friend" .  It is something we want, most of the times we need, and is usually given at different places and situations. We definitely want it to be nourished, and there are many ways to keep a friendship bond strong and make it lasts forever, especially after high school.

It’s easy  when your high school classmates/batchmates are your native neighbors. You grew up together, your  parents are friends and you both lived in your great grandparents  hometown.  But still, opportunities create a way to test your friendship.  Some will have to go to other places, out of town, out of the country and later you’ll realized, you’ve lost contact of each other. But true friendship lies in our hearts. 

No matter how long, no matter how far, once the chances of getting together is just at your fingertips, no distance can block a heart’s desire of sharing those high school friendship memories to one another.
Truly a  homecoming brings back the bond of friendship that was once started in high school and will surely last a lifetime. In this world of 21st century lingo, they’re called your BFF! …your  Best Friends Forever.

BFF secret formula:

• Be real. Always be true to yourself and to your friends.
  

  

  
  
• Acceptance. Love your friend for whoever she/he is.  If you think your friend is not doing the right thing, you can always give a reminder in a very friendly caring way.

• Avoid Insecurities. We are all created unique from each other.We all have our own strenght, talents and gifts.  We shouldn’t feel insecure for any differences that we see 

• Be genuinely interested in your friends.

  • Of course not for material reasons, but for reasons that a friend— just like  your partner—completes the missing piece of your puzzle. 

  
  
  
  

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• Communicate. It doesn’t need to be as regular as with some other friends (such as your officemates, church-mates,  colleagues, neighbors or even blogmates, ), but for as long as you keep in touch once in a blue moon , and you know it in your heart, what matters most is your quality time. You also have to really express yourself. Sometimes it’s done with a drama, but what is important is , you express yourself.

• Increase your trust and understanding. We always want a friend who understands, and someone whom we know we can trust. Trusting is like giving this person your main door house key  when you have to leave your house for weeks or months. Understanding a friend is like wearing different hats while you’re with your friend. You wear a mommy’s hat, or a sister/brother ‘s hat, or a boss’ hat, or a dog’s hat …whatever you think is necessary.

• Be proud of your friend. The word “envy” doesn’t exist in the Friendship Dictionary. If you have a moment, let your friend feel you are proud of her/him, especially proud on your friend’s achievements and creative talents.
• Offer a”real “hand. You know it when a friend needs it. Don’t delay, you can do it in any simple many ways.

• Divine support. For whatever relationship there is, a consult and support from our Great Creator makes everything  guided. He protects and bless a true friendship.

The list can be endless. Having at least five of them that you keep in heart and mind and apply to your circle of friends, there’s no doubt your friendship will last a lifetime.

• Friends are treasures. 
• Here's to your friendly day!
• -- This is a repost from my other blog . 
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Life Quotes

Life quotes inspire us. It helps to keep us moving, especially when life's challenges is trying to sneak a chance of putting us down.. Life quotes...what a great friendly reminder.

As you meditate:
"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose" ---Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

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As you learn new things:
"Don't do anything for the money you will make, but instead for the skills you will learn " ---Robert Kiyosaki

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As you keep the inspiration flowing:
"Every creation that I do becomes my inspiration" ---Lemoiel Senillo

As you find blessings in life:
"Capture the beauty of every moment .It's a blessing. It may or may not happen again, and if it does, maybe in a different way. In coincidence, or in any simple ways. It is still a time and space worth nourishing." --- J.B.Rosales,MD

 
As you create a wonderful day: 
"Feel good and all these things shall be added unto you" --- Marian Alonzo,MD

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Here's to your quote-full day!

7th Philippine Blogging Summit

It's been a blessed day today discovering about the upcoming blogging summit. I consider myself still a newbie in the blogging world and I know I still have a lot to learn as I am enjoying the process. For everything learned, it is always great to share. So for those who drop by here and are interested to know more about blogging, let us meet together on April 1 and 2 At Malcolm Theater, UP College of Law, Up Diliman Quezon City. To get more details please see:  iBlog7; The 7th Philippine Blogging Summit 



The day 1 , according to their post, will be focused on Blogging for Business ( isn't it nice to know, we just blog and then we are in business? then we are all entrepreneurs! ).  It was even mention in the post, they're inviting speakers to submit their names for consideration to be a resource speaker. Day 2 will be about Blogging in general. Whatever the purpose of blogging will be, I'm sure we can learn a lot from here.

So many questions, so many things to learn. A fellow blogger and an internet guru shares a lot about this on his site Viloria.net

Register now and let's see each other there!

Valentine's Day Gift Ideas

Ever dreamed of a romantic getaway and give your loved one a surprise and unforgettable valentine gifts?
Yes, "gifts". I know a serene place somewhere in Cebu, near Kawasan Falls, giving a Valentine free gifts such as an overnight stay, free meals, free massage, free transportation and a lovely Valentine trip and boating, gift certificate, and a special dinner date. So much of a gift for a couple, right?

Like it on facebook and learn more about Terra Manna Camping and Resort 

Lantawan at Terra Manna Camping and Resort

 
Check this out and make your dream date come true!
Terra Manna on Facebook

Here's to your lovely day!

Raising a Global Child

As Christmas is just around the corner we are reminded of a special gift, the birth of the Divine Child. For a mother, having a child is already Divine; so much more when your child is gifted with the ability and capacity to use them favorably for the enjoyment and fun of those around. I believe every mom is blessed to have a child with their unique ability and intelligence.

Preparation and Nourishment

As a mother, I consider the art of child rearing is such a great and pleasurable task for every mom. Yet, nurturing happens even before the child would physically say hello to the outside world after a warm nine-month stay in a mommy’s comfy-tummy.  For my daughter I always let her listen to music when I was on my second trimester pregnant with her. By placing the other earpiece of my walkman to my tummy (no CD player yet that time), we both always enjoyed the music together.  When she was born, she always slept much better with instrumental music played most of the time.  She’s such an angel child she never gave me sleepless nights.

Monica at 4 years old

As I gladly enjoyed moments with her, preparing her for a much better childhood is also what was focused on my mind.  When food is the question, she was never a picky eater so it was easy to feed her, to the point of letting her grow with a healthy bigger frame for a child her age. Nevertheless, I could not discount the value of giving her complete nourishment not just through healthy foods but also giving her a multivitamin nutritional support; a safe, educational playing tools and a warm, happy, pleasing home life.  We made education fun for her.  At the age of two, we were already playing with alphabets.  We toss and turn the alphabet cards and make a guessing game, three alphabets per week. She loved singing the alphabet song. Before she turned three, she already can read the alphabets even in random.

Kinder Graduate, with Honors

With that admirable propensity to academic, we still wanted to create a more balanced life for her. She has the passion of meeting more friends that she sweetly, politely requested to be in school even she was then just three years old, but we just let her enjoyed the fun and activity plays. She learns so easily and dynamically participated in any activities. She joyfully sings perfectly her favorite piece of Lea Salonga’s “tomorrow”. At the age four she was already hosting some of the school program; at the same time is a participant of the group performances, especially a soloist singer performer on stage.What a delight to see your child like that.

Meeting  the Challenge

Monica at 7 years old

As she was growing up as a child, she was noticed with a great voice. She contend in some school singing contests and even on television for which she was lucky to have been included as finalist to sing on TV after a long line in the audition. On top of these activities, she still managed to make it as one of the top students in school. These are some challenges she faced for which she handled well. She continued her passion and singing, developing her core gift, but she always sets aside time for studying. She was even given a scholarship in school for her active participation in many singing activities both inside and outside school and for being still academically responsible.

The Fruits of Love, Nourishment and Guidance

Monica has been blessed with a great talent. I have been blessed with a child who knows how to boost her intelligence and talent. Still fresh on my mind was what one of her teacher told me. “Your daughter is global. She sings very well, she mingles with anyone very well, 
she’s very polite, humble and yet she excels in school” I was stunned to know this. For me, it was such a compliment. From Roget’s thesaurus global means covering a wide scope, all- around and comprehensive. Seeing my child now, with her caring attitude, good values, diligence in school and passion in honing her skills, I guess I am delighted to agree, my daughter is global.

Monica Rosales at 8, duriring Commencement Exercise

Reminiscing just a few months back as my daughter officially stepped into the teenage world, I know she had gone through a wonderful childhood.  Hence, every end of the month of each year, as most would make a list of New Year’s resolution; I usually make a list of my blessings and I am grateful, one of the greatest blessings given to me is having a global child.

                                  Monica at 12 years old:

Here's to all moms-- we are all blessed with our child!

Make your wish come true

We all have our wishes...from time to time. Some people would make a wish out of a sudden event or upon a shooting star. Some would do it  with rituals such as lighting a candle, offering some tokens, making use of a balloon and allowing it to escape your wishful thoughts and just soar high up in the clouds. You may be doing any of them or all of them. If you are someone who does not believe in wishes coming true, maybe you should try it one time. There are many ways and I'm sharing with you one of the newest discovery-- making a wish in a Flower Mandala Wishing Well .

Mandala Wishing Well

Normally or should I say, usually, in a wishing well, you throw up a coin and make a wish. And most of the time, you throw up plenty coins...one coin for each wish. With this one, instead of using your coins, you will be going green, by finding a flower, even just a petal of flower, an old or fresh one would do, or pick up the ones that fell on the ground next to your toes, place it in the flower mandala and make a wish. It is also great to do it at night where you'll see the different effects of light subtly changing from red to yellow to green, to blue. What a nice ritual! You can even meditate on your wish, with all these lights emanating from the bottom of this mandala wishing well.

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I love making a wish as far as I remember, and have never outgrown it. I always make a wish on the first uniquely shining star I see at night. Maybe sometimes I'm wishing upon a Venus star, I don't know. I even love the song When You Wish Upon a Star.  I do it with these ritual words: "Starlight, star-bright, the first star I'm seeing tonight, I wish ...I'll be granted with the wish I'm making tonight" . More often than not...my wish comes true.


Go and make your wishes come true!...well, take action too..and trust.

Manny Pacquiao has a Secret

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The last time I wrote something about Manny Pacquiao was last March 14, 2010 just before his fight then, exactly 8 months to this date. If he wins again this time against Margarito, is it because "eight" is a lucky number for Manny? Well, no one can really tell, maybe only Mommy Dionisia can. But there's something I've known about Manny Pacquiao. I've discovered his secret why he always win in the game of boxing. I wrote down everything in my other blog.

Click here if you want to know his secret.

Prayers and cheers to Manny's fight!

Finger Puppets

Most kids love to play, watch TV or magic shows, educational shows or anything that can stimulate their creative minds.

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One of the shows my 4-year old son got interested was the Finger Puppets Wrestling show on TV.  There was a little bit of apprehension in me allowing him to watch the show. You know, most moms doesn't want their kids get influenced with the idea of fighting, though maybe for most Dads, they prefer it the other way around , especially if their child is a boy. "Be always strong, brave, and never be a chicken in a fight"--- is what some dads would say to those little boys. However, out of apprehension, suddenly an appreciation of the show replaced my previous emotions upon seeing the influence of the show to my little boy. I saw him suddenly creating some face drawings on his fingers and then when he's done,  showed it to me and told me what those finger puppets were. Amazing! He even showed the different emotions through those cute creations. Wow! Lovely finger puppets!

Our kids are really creative. Let's let them be.

Bankrupt at 55, Successful at 65

He just turned 67 last October 30. How grateful I was on that day, and been thanking God the whole day for another birthday celebration we're giving for my Dad, who is still strong and healthy for his age. Yes, sometimes he has some bouts of his allergies but through God's grace he 's able to manage it and still is motivated, inspired and focused to work in the wee hours of the night, until even the sun shines on his ever proud forehead.

The Passion
You're probably guessing what he does. No, he's neither a security guard, nor a call center agent to be working that late. It's his own business he's working for. I remember when he told me 5 years ago, "I'll never stop working to the last of my breath".  However, knowing he's on his sixty's, I would rather like to see him resting and enjoying the prime of his life than still working late in the night....and my mom told me then," your father's passion is work, so just understand."

It was only when I've read "8 Secrets of the Truly Rich" and some more books of Bo Sanchez   http://www.bosanchez.ph/  ,  that I've totally understood about my Dad's passion . His passion to work, to pursue his dream and to become successful once again. With that understanding about my Dad, within me also blossomed a deep admiration to him that he was able to get up and walk again from the fall of bankruptcy in our bakery business which had been our bread and butter for years while the eight of us, their children were heading up to school every day. Some of us now have our own family life and we have finished our schooling through all the efforts of my Dad, together with my Mom.

The Secret Ingredient and the Twister
In the books of Bo that I've read, one thing that created a big impact to me is "The Power of Focus . I realized how powerful it is to be in "focus". I think this is what my Dad has. He only finished second year high school. Got married at age 21 and started working as a bakery helper and through his diligence, patience and focus on his dream, he has learned the craft in bakery business.

He was able to worked abroad as a Bakery Production Manager while he was able to put up our own bakery here. Years later he came back to the Philippines and assisted my Mom in letting our business grow. It has been very successful then. Successful enough for them to be able to send the eight of us to College, was able to build a 3-story house with ten big rooms, bought cars, and was able to branched out two more bakeries. But because none of our parents had the financial intelligence, and some of us were still finishing College then, when a slow turn of tide hit our family, it seemed like a twister that had given us a big blow. We lost our house, cars, bakeries, and all our finances. We went down to negative zero balance. My Dad then was at the age of 55. It took a few years of trying to pick up the pieces again and together we stood on our faith as each one was dreaming. Then, we (his children) had started to work on our own chosen career, and everyone decided that we will just share and sum up everything as a share for our parents finances. But my Dad insisted on putting up again a bakery business. We told him, it's not possible anymore, he's already old, he has not enough capital to start it again, and it is hard to find a cheaper space to put it , and he needs helpers/workers.  None in the family entertained his plan of putting up again his dream. But to our surprise, with just 5 kilos of flour and some other ingredients, he started it again, until slowly, it grows big and bigger. Big enough that he was able to get and pay a helper, a saleslady, and bought some stuff for his General Merchandise and Bakery business.

The Dreamer

At his age of 65, I saw my Dad's dreams starting to materialize again. Now he's extending his bakery business with another room space,   and plans to teach people who are passionate in bakery business. He plans to have a school of baking. This time, how can we disagree again? He already proved us wrong. Now we all know, as long as you have the power of focus and you use your core gift, success will never say to you that a senior citizen is already a late age to start dreaming.

The Successful Senior Citizen
My Dad never gets tired, never gets disappointed when it comes to working and dreaming, and that is the reason why, to his age now, he's still up and about in the wee hours of the night. Though not all the time, his helper does the work for him, but still, his passion is there.
He may have not yet reached again the riches we had before, he may not have still all the financial intelligence I've learned from Bo's books (such as the Steps to Control Cash, Creating Money Machines, etc), but seeing what he went through and how he surpassed it all, and seeing him happily working, to me ... my Dad, truly is, a successful man.
Cheers to my Dad's birthday and success, and may God continue to bless him with good health and strength as he keeps inspiring someone like me in the way we should believe, focus and fulfill our dreams.

Here's to everyone's dreams!

You're Amazing, Just The Way You Are

White Peacock at The Farm

It is always wonderful to see something different. We usually see what is common...so when something new and different  is there, what is common is taken for granted. But we always have to look what eyes cannot deeply see. It is amazing. However,  to see something of spectacular beauty on the  inside and outside makes it a more rewarding day. 

Such as a friend beside you.

Whenever you see something really beautiful and amazing...Don't just look, but feel...more of the core beauty will be revealed.

Like you...

 

             Being just the way we you are....you are already amazing.

Song Lyrics: Just The Way You Are


Oh her eyes, her eyes make the stars look like they're shining
Her hair, her hair, falls perfectly without her trying
She's so beautiful and I tell her everyday.

Yeah, I know I know when I compliment her she won't believe me
And it's so, it's so sad to think she don't see what I see
But every time she asks me do I look okay, I say


When I see your face, there's not a thing that I could change
Coz you're amazing just the way you are
And when you smile, the whole world stops and stares for a while
Coz girl you're amazing , just the way you are


Her nails, her nails, i could kiss them all they if she'd let me
Her laugh, her laugh she hates but I think it's so sexy
She's so beautiful and I tell her everyday


Oh you know, you know, you know I'd never ask you to change
If perfect is what you're searching for. Then just stay the same
So don't even bother asking if you look okay you know i'll say
(Chorus)
The way you are, the way you are
girl you're amazing just the way you are.