...A father's day poem....
I want to say,
How proud I'm for you,
You're loving and kind,
Who listen, suggest and defend,
You're my very best friend.
What would my life without you?
You're the best father for our children,
When things go wrong,
You can be patient and helpful and strong.
You're wonderful father,
Thank you for all the support and love,
For listening and caring,
For giving and sharing,
You're even more glad, more grateful and proud,
Just to call you Dad!.....
..."HAPPY FATHER'S DAY"...
Dedicated to my hubby....
This was and will always be the question I will ask
myself, every time Father's Day is approaching.
My first acquaintance to this question was way back
when my children were young.
Blue colored cut shape stationary with a note
saying, " Happy Father's Day"! love, mama--that was
my last gift to my hubby during father's day. Simple
and concise, I told myself as the years went through.
However, I could say that was a good start.
Years have passed I bought material gifts of my hubby.
These I thought were the best , then I realized they were
not, they were just a gift- sake things. And my
children open my eyes to what it mean. Because
they are my children, I do have the time and skills
to make and buy better gifts to my hubby.Compared to them, they could only cut simple heart shape paper out of pad with an " I love you Papa" note.Yes, that was there gift. I even told them that it does not have a worth. But of course, my hubby showed more adoration to the heart shaped paper of my children, for a reason I thought that they were still young.
But no, I was wrong, the paper has a worth.
The adoration was real. My children were thoughtful,
more clever and sweeter than me, for an early age, they
were able to find the best gift for his father made him
happy. I did not expect that from there gift, I could see
the biggest smile of his father.
Cost and so much effort are not needed to give
the best gift. The simplest would be the best . As long
as you see he is happy, you have already given him the
best of the best. Happiness is the most expensive and
hardest gift to find and give to someone else, especially
to a Father........"Happy Father's Day".......
* Remember that great love and great achievement involves great risk.
* When you lose, do not lose lesson.
* Follow the 3r's ...Respect for self, Respect for others and Responsibility for all your actions.
* Not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
* Don't let a little dispute a great relationship.
* When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
* Spend some time alone everyday.
* Open arms to change, but do not let go of your values.
* Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
* Live a good and honorable life, then when you get older and think back,
you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
* In disagreements with love ones, deal only with the current situation. Do not bring up the past.
* Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve morality.
* Be gentle with the earth.
* The best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
* Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
* Approach love with reckless abandon.
* And remember! There will be no oil without squeezing the olive oil....
.....Country without divorce law.....
In the Philippines, the House Committee on
the revision of laws is set to tackle the controversial
bill legalizing divorce law in the country, filed by a
women's part list group and to be discussed by the panel
is House Bill 1799 or " An Act Introducing Divorce
in the Philippines".
The bill proposes five grounds for the filing of a
petition for divorce. According to the measures,
coupled who may apply for divorce include those
who have been separated in fact for five years
and those already legally separated for two years.
Grounds for legal separation may also apply when
these same grounds have already caused the
irreparable breakdown of the marriage.
In addition, psychological incapacity, causing one's
failure to comply with essential marital obligation,
and irreconcilable differences causing the irreparable
breakdown of the marriage are also recognized as
grounds for divorce.
Proponents of the bill said divorce will be cheaper
compared to other modes of dissolution of marriage
especially for poor couples. Getting an involvement can be
very expensive while legal separation will not give
estranged couples the right to remarry.
It's said that it's very difficult to let the people who
cannot continue to live together. I think there's a lot of
social problems involved and it's possible for two
partners to continue to nurture their children.
One of the worst, things in the world for a
child has to be coming home and seeing his
parents openly hatting each other. It's surely worse
when the child sees the mother being beaten by the
husband. Several of them separated from their husband
as soon as they thought their children were grown up
enough to understand. Some of them have found
new loves, but cannot legitimize their union in the
absence of divorce in this country.
The divorce bill as it stands, provides for several
years of waiting. Divorce proponents are in for long wait.....
....
.Filipino Dream.......
The greatest Filipino dream by working overseas.
Today, one in nine Filipino workers abroad,
where they can earn salaries five or six times
higher than they can at home. During 2010 alone, 53,532 people left the Philippines while those nine million already settled across 180
countries sent 17 billion dollars home to their relatives.
At 12 percent of the GDP, it is a source of income, the
Government is more than happy to see coming in.
OFWs or Overseas Filipino Workers remittance
have long been a core elements of the Philippine
economy. A healthy surge of 6.2 percent growth
in overseas remittance has positive gain for the economy,
bolstering the confidence of local and foreign investors.
Seeing the opportunities brought by the economic
boom in the Middle East during the 70s, the Philippine
Government it has since sent millions of Filipinos to work
in oil companies, construction sites, hotels, and hospitals
and tend to the needs of the ruling class and rake in
dollar remittances in return.
Filipino Overseas Workers, ultimately leave a
lasting proof of our kind of bravery, with standing
challenges all to give their families and eventually
themselves, a better future to look at......
......D i s n e y l a n d ......
A vacation to remember at
Hongkong Disneyland Resort....
We'd enjoyed the charming
Disney attractions in the resort...
The park rides, the favorite Disney
character, and we'd take a picture!
Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, Pluto,
the Disney Princess, and the
rest of the gangs are all there to
complete the Disneyland
experience...
Disneyland is the best and
popular Resort destination of Asia,
and the best for families and
group of families to enjoy
Disney experience together......
...Flores de Mayo....
The month of May is the merriest and the
most beautiful month of the year. Filipinos are
celebrating Flores de Mayo. It is the season of
many colorful festivals, with the festival of the
Flores de Mayo, or Santa Cruzan, as the queen
of all fiestas.
This festival has since become part of Filipino
traditions identified with youth, love and romance.
Nine days of prayer (novena) in honor of the
Holy Cross precedes the Flores de Mayo or
Santa Cruzan.
A month-long festival in May ...in honor of the
Roman Catholic's Holy Mary, the Flores de Mayo
is a religious festival.
Many towns celebrate Flores de Mayo with
the community congregation in the afternoon to pray
the rosary, offer flowers to the Virgin Mary, and share
snacks to the children. Children and adults
wearing their Sunday best, sing, and dance to welcome
the rains that will water the new crops.
The last day of the festival is highlighted by pageant
called the Santa Cruzan where the town's loveliest ladies
are paraded in full sagala, and their pathways strewn with
native flowers.
The town folk choose their pretty young ladies to
represent the various character of the commemoration:
the "Accolades of our Lady ", Each one is dressed
in an exquisite, colorful gowns. Reyna Fe (Faith),
Reina Esperanza (Hope), Reina Caridad (Charity),
Reina Mora (Muslim), Reina Bonderada (Flag),
Reina Justicia (Justice), and etc.,walk with their consorts under
hand-carried bamboo arches decked with color themed
native flowers. The male members attending the Santa
Cruzan wear barong tagalog, the woman wear any Filipina
costumes.
As the pageant moves along the streets, devotes
holding it candles follows, and join in the rosary, novena
and songs of praise. Oftentimes, after the evening
mass, the town officials hosts a dinner party for the
celebrations.
...A father's day poem....
I want to say,
Just to call you Dad!.....
