BLOGS CAN CHANGE LIVES

Josie: kuya ad mo nman ako sa YM mo...josie_pretty17@yahoo.com, tnx
jessie landingin: o ano na?
josie: hi, kuya.
jessie landingin: hallow
jessie landingin: musta na?
josie: ok nman, wla na ko sa pesi.
jessie landingin: o bakit naman?
jessie landingin: natauhan ka na rin?
josie: natauhan na kaso medyo l8 na. nbasa ko yung blogs mo, tama ka nga, mas masuwerte ka kpg wla ka sa pesi.
josie: sobra gulo na don.
josie: ang yabang ni dagul.
jessie landingin: heheheh. . . . tama yang desisyon mo bata ka pa wag ka manghinayang
jessie landingin: huwag mo na intindihin yun. . . . dapat maawa pa nga tayo sa mga tao na nanduon pa at patuloy na nagpapabusabos at hindi makita ang tiwala sa sarili. . .
josie: kalo mo kung sino siya.
jessie landingin: heheheh. masama ata loob a?
josie: di ah... hapi ako nakaalis na don.
jessie landingin: right!
josie: im here now, Philippines Airlines my future d2...
jessie landingin: i think so. ano ang work mo jan
josie: bngyan mo kasi ng lakas ng loob.
jessie landingin: ganuon?
jessie landingin: in what way na man?
josie: circulation assistant / billing section.
jessie landingin: thats good! happy to hear that
josie: dhil s blogs mo.
jessie landingin: heheheh. salamat naman at binabasa nyo blogs ko
josie: ngkaron ako ng lkas ng loob....tama ka tlga kuya, thnks ha!
jessie landingin: lalo tuloy ako ginaganahang magsulat
jessie landingin: u deserve that
josie: oo nman.
jessie landingin: matagal na hindi lang sana ngayon
jessie landingin: basta learn the lessons
jessie landingin: patawarin mo kung sino man ang may mga kasalanan sayo sa pesi
jessie landingin: forgive , forget and start a new life . . .
josie: kya nga cnsbi ko sa knila wag cla mtakot mag start new life, ganun tlaga sa umpisa medyo mhirap pero yung result ok nman. my good things silang ma22nan.
jessie landingin: tama. .. .
josie: dhl s gnwa nila sa mga tao....my bad karma rin clang marrcvd....
jessie landingin: let them know to express ur concern to them
jessie landingin: hahahahah!
jessie landingin: pabayaan mo na sila heheheheh
josie: yes...nakaaawa lng sa mga tao up to now inaabuso pa rin cla....
jessie landingin: basta magwork ka. focus mo yung mga disappoinments mo sa bago mong work
josie: hapi n tlaga ko d2...e2 na ang new life ko.
jessie landingin: congrats! and I hope u'll succeed
josie: kuya...try to help them, para ma realize nila my magandang buhay pa.
jessie landingin: thats what im trying to do
jessie landingin: kahit man lang sa blogging
josie: tama ka....
jessie landingin: i can only say or write my opinion
jessie landingin: its up for them to act
josie: i know mrmi nakakbasa sa blogs mo. and i suggest them to read ur blogs.
jessie landingin: ty! ano ba sa blog ko ang nabasa mo at nainspire ka?
josie: mrmi...sympre ung about P-nix.
jessie landingin: salamat naman kahit man lang sa pmmagitan ng blogs ko I can change somebodys life . . .
josie: pwde nman tlga yun...if youre willing 2 do sumthing new in ur life....di ba! ka2lad ko, feeling ko nun ganun kaliit lng ang mundo ko. And start reading ur blogs, mali pla ako....
jessie landingin: salamat! Salamat! ok i really want to talk to u more. bago ka ngayon jan. pag wala ka sa work mo usap tayo. I wish you good luck n your new work. Strive hard for success. I know u can make it. Thanks for reading my articles and God Bless you!
josie: thank you very much. I do!
jessie landingin: . . . over n out

This was the actual transcript of my YM natter with Josie, I deliberately modified some of the typescripts to camouflage her real character for security concern .This is one of the best recompenses I received from my blogging. It feels like drifting on Cloud nine to know you have touched someone's heart and changed life. People blog for different reasons. Some people blog for commentaries and analysis, others for their personal online diaries. Others blog for media and business purposes .Many professional writers monetize their blogs. Blogs are even used by some people to express their bitterness, rancor and antipathies against somebody. I take pleasure and joy of my personal blog because it was a fruit of forgiveness. My very first blog post entitled FORGIVE was the tiny glint that started this all. After publishing this article I felt a tremendous load off my chest. My wish that one day all people that had transgressed against me will traverse on this publication of my personal thoughts for them to know that I have forgiven them and my hope that I could change them for better. Blogging is more than a habit to me, it is a commitment and calling for everyone to know the truth because the truth is the grasp that will set us unbound, to trigger off and embolden people and rise above stumbling blocks so they can live their hopes and dreams, to share fancies and share the goodness of life for its real positive reception and enjoyment and to express endlessly my faith, gratefulness, my love for my family and above all to My Creator who gave me this endowment. Now, I guess I cannot live my life . . . without blogging.

"DREAM AS BIG AS YOU CAN DREAM AND ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE”

When Mark Andrew Spitz won seven gold medals in swimming and setting word records in each seven events at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympic Games no one ever envisioned it could be equated nor outshone by any Olympian. For nearly four decades, his incredible achievement stood as a benchmark. It was a humongous task for any athlete to break this iconic attainment in the field of sports. On August 17, 2008, Michael Fred Phelps outstripped Spitz's legacy and went for the historic eight gold medals in the Beijing Olympiad. His victories set an Olympic record and seven world records. Phelps also became the first person to win ten gold medals exceeding nine-gold-medal of Olympians Finnish runner Paavo Nurmi, Ukrainian gymnast Larysa Latynina, US swimmer Mark Spitz and sprinter Carl Lewis. Phelps 16 medals ranks second in total career Olympic medals, after Soviet gymnast Larissa Latynina, who won a total of 18 medals (nine gold) spanning three Olympic Games.
Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Phelps in his youth was diagnosed with ADHD (Attention- Deficit hyperactivity Disorder) He started swimming at an early age of seven. By the age of 10, his superiority in swimming climaxed his many feats in the sport. At the age of 15, Phelps contended at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, becoming the youngest American male swimmer at an Olympic Games in 68 years. He won six gold medals and two bronze in Athens Olympics. After the Beijing Olympics Phelps momentous feat will go down memory lane forever and what makes him the greatest Olympian of all time? Phelps - known as the Baltimore Bullet worked out hard at an early age and maintained his unbending focus in the pool to realize his dream. He was inspired what Mark Spitz has done 36 years ago. Phelps said "Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible". In Beijing, Phelps finally harvested the fruits of his adversities and hopes and concluded his enthronement not only to become the best swimmer and Olympian of all time, but the greatest athlete of all time.

"Practice means to perform over and over again in the face of all obstacle, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. It is a means of inviting the perfection desired. Dreams come true if you survive the hardest time"

LAUGH YOUR HEADS OFF

I am a little bit late about this. Last Thursday my daughters Days and Pau were yelping and giggling in front of the computer while watching a video from YouTube. “ Ano ba yan, ang iingay ninyo!” I screeched. “Pa, tignan mo ito!” said the two. I drew near them and see what stuff was making them crazy. Pau put on the headset above my head. “ Pa, pakinggan mo at panoorin mo iyan ha?!” said Days. When Pau rolled the video we laugh our hearts out as we watch two lip-synching guys do their acts.

I’m talking about Moymoy Palaboy. This two Pinoy lip-synching siblings is the latest YouTube marvel. Lip-synching isn’t new in Youtube, in fact the first time I saw one was several years ago when two Chinese teens made it first, doing a lip synch of Backstreet Boys’ “ I Want It That Way”. But honestly, Moymoy Palaboy do it better and funnier. Using a Sony Ericsson W810i cell phone with a 2-megapixel camera and an HP laptop, the innovative music video act of brothers Ronald and Rofil Obeso debuted on the Internet in 2007 last February. Their first lip-synch video was NSync’s “Dirty Pop “and the following videos were sensational. Their “Wannabe” by the Spicegirls is currently registered at 1.3 million views and their 22 uploaded videos so far have 7.12 million hits all in all! Although the “Wannabe” is the video to beat I find the Lion King’s “In the Jungle” and “Marimar” the funniest. The very simple dramaturgical parody of Moymoy Palaboy has earned them buffs here and around the world. Out of fancy, their hilarious clowning were shot in a stark environs, in the poky living room of their Pasay City apartment, with “Mama Auntie “, their Tita nonchalantly strolling in and out of the picture. Their videos have ordinary and basic allure to the millions of YouTube viewers. These guys are making fun out of themselves to give joy to others and lighten people’s problems. They say they enjoy it too while making it big now. Watch out for more rib-prickling videos of Moymoy Palaboy. But for now let’s just show samples of cool and stimulating revisions of lip-synching spoofs and laugh your heads off!

SACRIFICE OWN HAPPINESS AND SEE IT IN THE END

I had an unfathomable reflections last night about what Carlo Corpuz, my high school classmate posted in Batchof83 e-group days ago. He has the point when he uttered these words "ang pag isipan na lang nating lahat ay kung papaano natin matutulungan ang mga kabatch natin na walang- wala sa buhay" During the past years some of us has been very occupied getting off the ground for meetings, parties, outings, reunions and the likes but have we thought on what Carlo was trying to hint at? I do not see any wrong giving precious time starting up these concerns because our school somehow benefits from it and give us the chance to re-unify with one another but have we really achieved something out from it? Or we really just want to relish the sweet savor of gaiety and cheer of missing the good old days of our youth? Or kick around our triumphs and showcase our attainments to blow our own trumpets in front of the less successful? Or the zeal to see someone how he/she looks like after 25 years? Or to think that our batch is the best amongst MHS? Have we made endeavors to ferret out and uncover those less known names of Batch '83 and see how they are doing? Or we really did nothing for them and sealed them off to oblivion because we think they cannot be of help? Tama si Carlo, sometimes people act and talk out of duplicity and egocentrism. Last week I have the chance to talk with a female classmate and we talked a lot of things regarding our batch and some of the unattended problems arising from within us. It was open and poignant, I tried to mollify her. I have one important watchword I left her . . . . "REACH OUT" . . . Try to reach out everyone, because they are all apart of us. If there is one undertaking that will genuinely give us the real significance of accomplishment it is none other than helping our less fortunate batch mates as what Carlo said and making worthy projects for MHS, and all MHS Alumni as a whole. Batch 83 is not MHS, there is a lot of MHSians before us and even a lot more after us. Though first and foremost our trust is on our own peer let us not curb the boundaries of ourselves to our batch alone. REACH OUT and sacrifice our own happiness for the happiness of others and lighten our minds to give us the real sense of peace, joy and fulfillment. You can break a strand of broomstick easily but when you put each strands together it becomes stronger and resilient. Everyone has his own role and responsibility to make this a reality. If Christ died for us, then no sacrifice is too great for each one of us to make for Him. God Bless MHSians!!!!

GOLD . . . HOPEFULLY. . .

If Victoria Manalo Draves and Natalie Coughlin only decided to compete for the Philippines in the 1948 London and 2004 Athens Olympics or if only someone put forward this choice we would have won four Olympic gold medals in both diving and swimming. If only Arianne Cerden~a played bowling as regular event in 1988 in Barcelona or boxer Anthony Villanueva and Mansueto "Onyok Velasco were not pick pocketed of the decisions during the 1964 Tokyo and 1996 Atlanta Olympics, we would have counted our gold harvest to seven. These historical facts will always remain as probabilities for our ardent ambition to win the Olympic gold. Our dreams and hope of winning our first ever Olympic gold medal always turned out into frustrations. Since the Philippines joined the Olympics in 1924, Filipino athletes have only won a total of nine Olympic medals. Seven bronze medals and two silver. It is nearly nine decades our athletes went home empty handed of the sneaky mint. Yesterday, the 2008 Beijing Olympics, the most spectacular, marvelous and extravagant in history unlocked the door for the entire Filipino to renew once again our united visions and optimisms in prayers to wind down the 84 long years of Olympic gold medal drought and defeats. The Philippines has produced some of the finest athletes in the arena of amateur and professional sports but yet has to ascertain our prowess in the Olympics. Jeff Fenech, International Boxing Hall of Famer said "An Olympic medal is the greatest achievement and honor that can be received by an athlete. I would swap any World Title to have won gold in the Olympics" Will our athletes this time bring home the gold? With a bit of luck . . .