A Girl’s Notebook :)

It is a national holiday today in the Philippines. Today we celebrate National Heroes Day. We remember the bravery shown by our heroes to protect our country.

Now that we are in modern times, we do not need to shed a blood or to die to become a hero. Heroism for me is standing for what you believe in for the benefit of others; for the goodness of the poor the protection of the weak.

In our lives, we have our own heroes that we look up to, heroes that become our inspiration to continue our life’s journey.

Yet, even if we are now leaving in the world of computers and automations, we should always remember that without the courage shown by our heroes, we will not be able to taste the sweetness of freedom!

Happy National Heroes Day!

Ciao!

In celebration of Linggo ng Wika, my daughter’s school had a program about it. I was so thankful to my area manager, Ma’am Richee for allowing me to be on half day last Friday. It was my daughter’s first performance and I wanted to see it. It was raining hard last Friday that the school officials decided to hold the program inside one of the school’s classrooms.

My aunt Evelyn is a dressmaker and she has some extra cloths that she can make Antoinette’s costume. I helped my mother look for a printed cloth that can be made into Nonet’s skirt or saya, and a lace to for her kimona. We found pink printed cloth, which was made into her skirt and a nice lace for her tops. Mama bought her pair of native slippers to go with her costume.

I bought puto or rice cake for the feast after the program. The kinder students declaimed, “Ang Batang Munti” and they danced to the tune of “Sampung Mga Daliri”. They kids were all well applauded.

I am so proud of my little girl! The performance was not as perfect as the teachers would have wanted it to be. However, the very cute children made the performance a pleasing one!

I know that the said show would only be the first of many more. Antoinette is only at kinder, and I know that she will be doing more performances as she step on elementary. Well that’s going to be 2 years from now!

God bless her!

Ciao!

Today is a national holiday in the Philippines to commemorate the 112th year Independence Day. The Independence Day was on June 12 which was last Saturday. The holiday has been moved on a Monday for a long a weekend. We are lucky to be born in this generation for we are already enjoying the sweet taste of freedom.

But in spite of what we have today, let us always remember the bravery shown by our heroes to achieve our freedom. Let us join hands in keeping the liberty that we inherit from out fore fathers.

Happy Independence my fellow Filipinos! Mabuhay!

Ciao!

The Filipinos have spoken. Today, June 9, 2010, almost a month after the first National Automated Election, Benigno Aquino III and Jejomar Binoy have been proclaimed as the new President and Vice President, respectively of the Republic of the Philippines. I am so proud to have Noynoy as the 15th president of the our country. Before the elections, my family and I were talking about the presidential candidates. We have different views and opinions about our own choice but the my first reason why I have chosen Noynoy over other candidates, is because of his integrity. I am clapping my hands as Noynoy walked down the session hall of Batasang Pambansa.

As for Makati Mayor Jejomar Binay, well, the Filipinos are expecting a lot from you. We have heard that if you were able to make Makati what is it now, then we believe that you would be able to do the same for our country.

I pray that God will bless our newly elected leaders. I pray that we Filipinos will all be united. Set aside all the misunderstanding and let us join hands in making our country progress. The two leaders will not be able to do it on their own. We need to help them and work with them in bringing progress and good life to our country.

God bless our leaders. God bless the Filipino people. God bless the Philippines!

Congratulations Noynoy and Jojo!!! Mabuhay!!!

Ciao!

Today is a National Holiday here in the Philippines. Araw ng Kagitingan is also known as Bataan Day. On this day, we remember the great Filipino soldiers who suffered and died because of dehydration, heat prostration, untreated wounds and wanton execution as they march the 90-mile road to Camp O’Donnell in Bataan.

It has been decades since that fearful day happened. I hope and pray that it will never happen again.

Ciao!

I hope that everybody remembered that the reason for December 30th holiday pay is Rizal’s Day. Amidst, the busy schedule and everyday routine, we should not forget the heroism shown by Dr. Jose Rizal and all of our national heroes.

As I was looking over the Internet for a good picture to accompany my post, I found this picture entitled Rizals execution. I wonder whether this picture was really taken on December 30, 1896. Well, whether this picture was real or just a re-enactment of Rizal’s execution, it is still a reminder to each one of us and to tomorrow’s generation about his love for our country.

To this day, I still wonder about the contents of the letter he wrote for one of his sisters. History said that Rizal hid it in his socks. But when his body was claimed by his family, the letter was no longer there.

In our time today, we need not to die to become a hero. There is a hero in every one of us.

Ciao!

Today is Philippine’s National holiday. We are celebrating Bonifacio Day. I guess everybody knows who Andres Bonifacio was. He was the founder and said to be the father of Katipunan. History told us that way back then, Katipunan was split into two. Humors said that Andres is a no read-no write person. But the truth is, he can write and he can read. I have read an article that he was into teaching then.

I remember my history teacher in high school, sir Manny. He said that Emilio Aguinaldo had a lonely life. Why? Andres Bonifacio was executed at Bundok Buntis on May 10, 1897 under the orders of Aguinaldo. I am not sure whether the issue about Aguinaldo taking Andre’s wife Gregoria de Jesus is true or just a rumor.

Nevertheless, we should never forget the great things that Andres Bonifacio did for our country. We should not forget that November 30 is set to remember him aside from enjoying the holiday.

Ciao!

United Nation’s Day is celebrated every 24th of the October. I remember when I was in elementary and highschool, whenever United Nation’s Day is approaching, we were asked by our teachers to make a flag of a country that is a member of United Nation Organization. I often choose to make my own country’s flag, the Philippines. Aside from being nationalistic, it is easier for me to make my own flag. Some of the most famous flags being made by students are Japan, Libya, France and Indonesia.

Students find those flags easy to make!

United Nations was established in 1945. Currently, United Nations has 192 members. Their headquarters is located in Manhattan, New York City. It has 6 official languages which are used used in intergovernmental meetings and documents. These languages are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish. The Secretariat uses two working languages, English and French.

The Secretary-General of UN is Ban Ki-moon. He took over Kofi Annan’s position in 2007.

I know that United Nations will continue to help different countries and will help maintain peace in conflicting countries as the next century unfolds. God bless UN!

Ciao!

Another song that Dwight wanted me to sing for them is At The Beginning.  This one, is the theme song of the movie Anastasia. I believe it was not produced by Disney. The story is about a Russian princess. It was based on a true story but there are scenes that are made out of fiction. The princess name is Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia. She was the daughter of Russia’s last czar, Nicholas II.

Anastasia

In 1918, her whole family with some faithful servants were murdered. But there are rumors that Anastasia survived that night. And that she was taken cared off by one of the Bolshevik police. Several woman have falsely acclaimed that they are the Grand Duchess Anastasia. The most popular of them all was Anna Anderson. I have read a lot of articles about Anna Anderson and her claims being Anastasia. There are some incidents that you would really believe her. But DNA results said that Anna Anderson has no relation at all to the royal family. That the remains of the four daughters of the Nicholas II, including his wife and only son, Alexi have been recovered and now been accounted for. That no one escaped that dreadful night.

I always get goosebumps every time I talk about them. Well, I know that a lot of you are familiar with this song. I like this song from the cartoon movie Anastasia. But, I like Journey to the Past more.

At the Beginning

We were strangers starting out on our journey
Never dreaming what we’d have to go through
Now here we are and I’m suddenly standing
At the beginning with you

No one told me I was going to find you
Unexpected what you did to my heart
When I lost hope you were there to remind me
This is the start

(chorus)
And Life is a road and I want to keep going
Love is a river I want to keep flowing
Life is a road now and forever
A Wonderful journey

I’ll be there when the world stops turning
I’ll be there whenthe storm is through
In the end I wanna be standing
At the beginning with you

We were strangers on a crazy adventure
Never dreaming how our dreams would come true
Now here we stand unafraid of the future
At the beginning with you

(chorus)

I knew there was somebody somewhere
Like me alone in the dark
I know that my dream will live on
I’ve been waiting so long
Nothing’s gonna tear us apart

(chorus)

In the end I wanna be standing at the beginning with you

Ciao!

I supposed to post this yesterday but wasn’t able to. Anyway, when I opened my IE browser yesterday, found something ”weird” icons instead of the usual GOOGLE name which is actually set as my homepage.

Well, yesterday the world celebrates the birthday of Samuel Morse. The man behind the invention of the telegraph and of course the Morse Code.

Ciao!

As always, I spent hours of watching DVDs since it’s my off from work. I finished the season 1 of Charmed, which is actually my favorite TV series. I started watching few episodes of season 2, then I decided to watch an episode from the National Geographic Video Collections I bought a month ago.

I chose to watch an documentary entitled “The Secrets of Titanic.” I admit that I had been a fan of the Titanic movie in 1998, which starred Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio. You bet I went gaga like any other teener, with Leonardo DiCaprio. In fact, I have bought several magazines about the Titanic and its lead stars. My dear godmother even sent me a 1000-pc jigsaw puzzle of Titanic and an address book. The thing is, I have not finish working on the puzzle and it has been 11 years since I got it!

The episode featured how the wreckage of Titanic is located by sending down sonar device that sends signal to the mother ship. It happened sometime in 1985. Then, in 1986, the expedition to get closer to it happened.

I am really having goose bumps while watching it. And as the submarine came closer into it and took pictures of once “most biggest and luxurious” ship in the world, I can’t help but imagine the tragedy that occurred about 97 years ago, during its first and final voyage.

There are a lot of websites, books and information about Titanic, which has been pass years after years. But the fate of Titanic taught us a valuable lesson. No matter how monstrous a device man has ever made, we should not be boastful of what we have made but instead be thankful for the wisdom and knowledge that was given to us by our one powerful and the truly unsinkable, Almighty God.

White Star Line’s Titanic

Titanic on its final resting place, which is about 2 miles deep into the ocean. It was found in 1986.

I received an email this morning from my previous team leader, Vane. It has been said that President Obama is more important than anybody in the past and so is the new presidential limo, called Obamamobile. The car really amazed me.

The mobile was built based on a Cadillac chasis by General Motors in Detroit. Though the company didn’t give the precise information on how it will protect the president, we know that it is it’s primary purpose.

Cadillac One is its official call sign but it will always be known as the Obamamobile. With its features on how the mobile will defend the president from its detractors, I don’t think Mr. President will even need a personal injury claims.

Like other, presidential vehicles, it has a bulletproof glass and armour plating throughout. It has been hermetically-sealed also that will make it withstand chemical weapons. The mobile is also packaged with foldable desktop, a wi-fi ready laptop and with a satellite phone that has a direct line to US Vice president and the Pentagon. Wow! What a feature!

Well, that is if you’re the president of the United States of America. But for ordinary citizens, we need always to think about our security and safety when on the road. Accidents could happen on the time you expect it to occur. Whiplash or neck injuries can mess one’s life. But then, if you accidentally got it, then a whiplash injury claims can be of good help.

Even non-motor vehicle is a not an exemption. Though, our main and public roads have designated lanes for bicycles, bikers can never be sure of their safety especially when on the road. It a good thing though, to know that there are companies who offer Bicycle accident claims.

As per Obamamobile, it has to be really good and will shield the president from any attacks. I just hope one day, I will be able to ride in it.