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Monday, February 26, 2007
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I watched second season of The Apprentice last night and in one of the episodes, Donald Trump rewarded the one team to meet New York City's mayor (I forgot his name). One of the contestants says this guy (the mayor) is one of the people that brought NY for what it is today. I don't know how true is that statement but he (the mayor) did commanded respect from the contestants. He said something like this, "To be a leader you need to be respected." And on his office is a statement that says," I AM RESPONSIBLE".

I reflected on those two things:
1. To be a leader you need to be respected.
2. I AM RESPONSIBLE.

To be a leader you need to be respected.
To be a leader is to have follower(s). One person says, "One test if you are a leader is to look behind you and see if somebody is following you. And if no one is following you that means you are not a leading, you are merely taking a walk." For people to follow you, you need to be respected. Of course it is possible for people to follow you without respect - thru fear. But that's another subject. As what I've said, without respect people will have a hard time following a leader. The lowest form of respect is respect because of a person's position/rank in life. [ need to add more here...]

I AM RESPONSIBLE.
This is one of the most powerful statements in life. A lot of people (including myself) tend not to take responsiblity of what is happening in their lives. They blame people, government, taxes, life, God, and others but themselves. To say that "I am responsible" is to say declare that that person has reached a level of maturity to take resposiblity of what's going on. It is good to note that the statement says, "I AM RESPONSIBLE" and not "I AM REACTIBLE". To be responsible means to be RESPONSE-able. To respond means to use intellect as oppose to REACT-able which is triggered by emotion. [need to add more here..]
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Thursday, February 22, 2007
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To dream is one of the most wonderful gifts God has given us. It is free and it is unlimited. Sad to say, I know a lot of people (sometimes even myself) who put a limit on their dreams. They might have reasons as to why but I think that to limit our dream of what we will become is like a slap in the face to our Creator,who created us to be not less than the best.

I believe God created all of us with the best version of us in His mind. He didn't create some of us to be best and some to be not so best and some to be not best. God is not a mediocre and He did not made any mistake when He created us. So, if you dream for something lower than what is the best, I think it's better to stop dreaming at all. Stop dreaming because it is not pleasing God.

If we dream, why not dream for the best? Why not dream for the stars? Why limit our capicity when in fact God created us to reach the top of our potential. Instead of saying, "Lord, all I want is not only get by and eat three times a day and I'll be OK."No, God wants you to be more than OK. God wants you flourish. God wants the best for His children.

I think we should be good stewards of dream. So lets keep our hopes up. Keep the faith that God can move the mountain for you and for me. Dream... believe... and not just survive but live. Live in a life of faith. You see, the Bible says that it is impossible to please God without faith. So just keep on activating your faith. And when you dream, close your eyes. Don't rely on the natural but look at things through the eyes of faith.. look at the supernatural. One song says that we need to walk by faith and not by sight so when things go wrong you will know that it will be alright.

Dream in faith and you will be more than alright.

God bless you.
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Thursday, February 15, 2007
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WANTS not CRAVING
I want to make another poem or a song....
I'm just a bit uninspired to write one..:(
I want to bring up my created juice to a level of overflow and hopefully...
I can create a poem that will make other people laugh..
Or an atricle that will make people think.

I want to go to Doulos but I find it hard to find the time. Doulos will leave on the 19th so I should be on a schedule going to Pier 1 ASAP.

BAD HABIT
I am developing a bad habit of coming to the office late. I need to stop. Tomorrow, I will try to pull all what I can pull to be early.

REASON TO GET EXCITED
There are so many reasons to get excited.:) One of which is meeting a client this Saturday.:) It's my first referral and I am just excited to pull things together and start the project ASAP. I have 2 on going projects and I hope to get it done with the client feeling good about it. I want then to experience the great feeling of making a project with Josiah. :)

La Chi' is another reason to be excited. I'm excited to talk to clients and etc.. (secret).:-)
It's almost there and I just hope the team can stand higher than anybody's level of expectation.

FEB. 14
What a night... it's something.:-) All in all my team got together and celebrated the event with a nice meal. :-)

WORK WORK WORK
Back to work...:)
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Tuesday, February 13, 2007
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Foxsports is now blocked in my company...
too bad.. NBA is the only news I read.

ESPN.com offers almost the same thing but I still like foxsports.

Anyway, I've been really occupied lately. There are a lot of things that kept me busy. Today, my life is a bit slow and I am hoping that it will go to fasttrack soon. Speaking of fasttrack, I just got a copy of CashFlow 101 E-game and I have it for sale. You will enjoy it. :)

Hmmm.. updates? I'm thinking of having my own website and just put all the things I have for sale there: web development, security gadgets, call center softwares and etc.

Speaking of websites.. www.LaChiExports.com is coming and it's pretty exciting to finally see it launched.
I pray that God will use this site to be a blessing to La Chi'. This is another step forward for La Chi. And when all things are in motion there will be a rush in Jesus' name!

I'm also excited making my own website. I'm still deciding between buying my own .com or just hook on to some free hosting sites. 4th Heaven's CEO agreed to make me the site.

Focus. This is one thing I need to have always.
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Monday, January 29, 2007
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I am a monster..
Everyday.. I beat myself up coz of that fact...
I am a fake..
Somehow, I want to believe that I am real..
That I am one of the good guys..
But I am not..
I am no better than anyone else..
I blamed myself for what happened to us..
And losing you is the stupidiest thing I did...
Somehow I don't want to be justified..
I want to be beatten up...
I thought the monster inside me is dead...
But it's still alive..waiting for the perfect moment to get loose...

I heard Pastor Sumrall said to the pastors, "One day, you will wake up and said some thing to somebody that you will regret." Even though I am not a pastor I feel that what he said spoke to me. I said some things I never should have said. I released words I never should have released. I surrendered myself completely to rage... now.. I lost it. Everyday, I beat myself up. And when I read the Bible I feel so stupid. I feel like it mentioned me. I want to stop reading and stay away from God coz I am not worthy. I just feel like a fake every single time I read it. But then I thought... Who is worthy? No one is worthy... we all need God. I don't have to let myself loose to stupidity again. Pastor Sumrall added, "You are human." Yes, I am human. I make mistakes and if I won't learn from this.. I will be like Samson..I will surely fail.
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007
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1. Do not confuse the process with the people.

Sometimes we tend to sacrifice the person just because we want to stick to the process even though we know that something is wrong with the process. The person is, many time, more important with the process. One good example of this is when we dined at a fastfood in Cebu. There were six of us trying to fit ourselves in a table for four people. We don't have much of a choice, the store only caters for groups of four and we need to be together since it was our working lunch. After taking our orders, we sat the down and talk about what we are about to do. When our food was served, a crew of that fastfood has the stomach to tell us to remove the extra chairs we had because it will block the aisle. I look around and nobody was there except our group; We are the only customer of the store at that time. So I reprimanded him and told him where will he put the group in such a way that we will not block the aisle. He did not responded instead he grab the chair and asked us to move. WOW!!! So I went in under his skin and give him a piece of my mind. What I thought at that moment is that after ordering food from them and paying for the place, he has now the stomach to correct us without even giving us an alternative solution to our problems. He confused the rightness of the procedure with the customer. He forgot that the customer is always right.

2. Don't confuse people with tools.

Never refer to one person as a tool. Because he is not a tool, he is a being. I hate it when some people refer to somebody as a tool. I feel that it is such a disrespect to the God who created that person. I have an example about this but I will not write it.

3. Exercise the power of choice.

This is a very relative statement. If you are a dictator then you don't give a damn about choice. What you probably want is for people to obey you whether or not they want to. Choice is a power given to us by God. Like all powers it can be used and abused. In any institution where freedom of choice is advocated, people there is has no right whatsoever to dictate choices of other people, esp if the choice is between two good things. Dictators don't belong to a these kind of institution. They just don't mix. Rebellion is not even needed to overthrow dictators because the system will overthrow the dictator itself. Free choice and forced choice just don't mix.
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Thursday, January 11, 2007
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"I don't like you...", she told me straight in my face. "Just forget it.. don't even wait.", she added. I let out a slight grin and said, " then.. OK.. let's just be friends then. OK?". "OK.", she said. I know that was not going to be the last time that I will tell her how special she is for me. She was just 15 years old and it was just months since I celebrated my 21st birthday. We hang-out a lot; Just talk about anything - music, love, politics, religion, human rights, and so on and so forth.
Before that conversation took place I already determined in my heart that I am ready for whatever she will say. If she rejects me then it's worth it. Somebody so special should be worthy of hurting me emotionally. I won't regret being rejected by somebody so special to me. So there I was.. letting out that slight smile that might changed the mood of the situation. The next night, we spoke again as if I never told her that I love her and I want her to be my girl the previous night. This probably came in as a surprise to her but I was not going to allow it put a gap between us. If I can't have the girl then I want the friend. That night, I am ready to be just a friend.

One day, she told me that she likes the song, "I could sing of Your Love" by Sonicflood so what I did was I went to a friend and asked him to help me play that song using a guitar. She is musically inclined so I am planning to impress her by playing that song using her guitar (I don't own a guitar but she does). If you know me personally I can't even play a "cling-clang". I mean I don't play any musical instrument but I sing. And I found my voice to be OK. So I thought, if I can just learn a bit of strumming and sing at the same time then I should be able to pull this amazing feat of playing a guitar. And so there I was playing and practicing one single song - I could sing of you love. My friend didn't asked why I want that song, he just showed me how to do it. I practiced for about 2-3 Saturdays. After feeling a little bit of confidence... I feel that I am now ready to present this amazing act of playing the whole song.

So I went to her.. chitchat a bit. Then asked for the guitar and started playing the song that she like.:D I know I was not impressive but I think I was able to pull it off. You know why? Because she sang with me!!! hehehehe... yeah she sang with me.."Over the mountains and the sea.. Your river runs with love for me.." hehehe... she sang with me. :)
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Tuesday, January 09, 2007
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I like this blog: http://jonowen.blogspot.com

He wrote about worship which I really miss doing. I mean I do worship God but I want more. I'm hungry and thirsty and I just want to cry and laugh in His presence. I miss doing all those things. I miss our [me and Jesus] intimate time together. I mean I miss it and I became a bit hard-hearted because its been a long time since I really had a sprit to spirit encounter with God. It's been a long time since I had a "burning bush" experience with God. Today I had a bit but I want more. I want more of His presence and just want to experience more of God.

I want to see His Word leap out of the pages of the Bible once again. I want to experience Him again and again.. until, like the bush, I get burned. I want to be burned again by the holy fire of God. I want to melt the man in me. I don't know if you know what I'm talking about but I hope you do.
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Thursday, December 28, 2006
Daghang Gwapa Sa Ayala

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Aku napasoruy ngadto sa Ayala..
Oh my .. oh my... kadaghan jud ug gwapa..
Look to your left..
Look to your right...
Perting daghana..
mistesa ug chinita..

Uban na nay fafa..
Ang Uban lolo na ang tag-iya..
Uban kuyog ug puti..
Ang Uban kuyog ug itum..
Uban noypi nga sosyalan....
Ang Uban instik ang gibunalan..

Pero aku naswerthan..
Kay daghan sad ug solo flight..
Mga tisay nga sige ug text-text..
nagHello-hello.. nagcalling-calling sa ila mga friends..

Swerte jud kaayu kay aku ra usa..
Wla ku kuyug..
hmmm...hehehehe
higayun na ni..:D

Pero.. wla jud sila swerte..
kining mga girls nga perting tesaya..
Kining mga nka mini-skirt nag nagpakitasa ila pusod..
Kining mga gwapa nga englisera..
kining mga sexy ug sopesteketed nga mga babaye..
Kay kining lalakeha nga ng-istorya kay taken na..:D

Hehehe...Abi ninyu kalimot ku??
nga mubasa sad aku uyab ani no?
Wa oi... hehehehe...


from: balut4sale.blogspot.com
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Tuesday, December 26, 2006
Me and Joyce in the Bird Sanctuary
Joyce leaping her way to the sky..
Josiah flying like a butterfly.:D
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Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Heroes


Heroes
Where does it come from? This quest... this need to solve life's mysteries for the simplest of questions can never be answered. Why are we here? What is the soul? Why do we dream? Perhaps we would be better off not looking at all. Not delving, not yearning. That's all human nature, not the human heart. That is not why we are here.



You do not choose your destiny, it chooses you. And those who knew you before fate took you by the hand, cannot understand the depth of the changes inside. They cannot fathom how much you stand to lose in failure. But you are the instrument of a flawless design... and all of life may hang in the balance. A hero learns quickly who can comprehend... and who merely stands in your way.




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Thursday, December 14, 2006
Shatterred Mask



There are things that we hide from others..
Things we don't want other people to find out about us.

But there has to be a time where we lay down our masks
There has to be a time where we retire from pretending and be ourselves.

I do not mean that we hang our underwears for the world to see but what
I mean is that we show the world that we are true and free.

The dungeon of pretention is the most tragic place a free man live.

To be impressoned in the hell of the past is such a tragic thing for a man whose future is already paid.

You are free and I am free. What good is Christ's sacrifice on the cross if we don't receive the freedom He paid with His LIFE?

I am a free man. You are a free.
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