Horoscopes have always fascinated me, not because I believe in it entirely but because oftentimes than not personality readings often tell us how great we all are. If you want self affirmation and appreciation, read your horoscope. You can always find something good about yourself everytime.
So here's my own horoscope's overview of what's in store for me this 2009.
This forecast is copied from http://shine.yahoo.com/astrology/pisces/yearly-overview/.
Pisces Outlook for 2009
In 2009, Pisces will enjoy swimming in new dimensions, as the highly charged Aquarius energy allows you to dream big and manifest your ideas. Your imagination soars, awakening a deep desire to seek spiritual truth and meaning in your life -- and in the world.
Your awareness and new perception helps to serve others. You are able to live freely in the world of transformation, and this encourages others to do the same. They feel supported by your wisdom and understanding. Your inspirational qualities are a large part of your purpose in the world -- your ability to heal and inspire.
At times, it may be difficult for you to live in this world of concrete realities, and conversely, sometimes it's hard for others to understand that all you want to do is live in a world of endless possibilities. As you learn to balance these polarities, harmony prevails.
Is this me? or me? hehehe.
GoldenSeeker
Saturday, January 3, 2009
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
A New Old America
Liberals of the world must have rejoice and I would like to join in the cheers!
The American people have elected a Democratic leader this time. To top it all, it had nonetheless pick one as African American as Barack Obama can be, and we'll that's a first for America.
Again the United States have speak up and once again shouted to the world that it is indeed the land of equal opportunities. Electing to the Oval office a once member of the American minority is indeed a great way of showing what the founding fathers of America has immortalized.
I have once been a follower of the American Democratic Party rhetorics and would say I like what I read then. Since leaving Innodata I&A, I had lost touch of my favorite topic to work then--American politics. I don't know much, but I hope all the good things I've read before regarding the policies embraced by the Democrats will hold true for Obama.
As in any one who went out to the world to prove a point, Obama is faced with more than what other White presidents before him have faced right now. Be it as it may, but I am positive that like others who came before him, he too can and will conquer the challenges that was set for him--and like the electoral process come out of it victorious.
Cheers for America. Cheers for equality. Cheers for the world.
The American people have elected a Democratic leader this time. To top it all, it had nonetheless pick one as African American as Barack Obama can be, and we'll that's a first for America.
Again the United States have speak up and once again shouted to the world that it is indeed the land of equal opportunities. Electing to the Oval office a once member of the American minority is indeed a great way of showing what the founding fathers of America has immortalized.
I have once been a follower of the American Democratic Party rhetorics and would say I like what I read then. Since leaving Innodata I&A, I had lost touch of my favorite topic to work then--American politics. I don't know much, but I hope all the good things I've read before regarding the policies embraced by the Democrats will hold true for Obama.
As in any one who went out to the world to prove a point, Obama is faced with more than what other White presidents before him have faced right now. Be it as it may, but I am positive that like others who came before him, he too can and will conquer the challenges that was set for him--and like the electoral process come out of it victorious.
Cheers for America. Cheers for equality. Cheers for the world.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Political Consciousness
Politics, the boon and bane of human civilization, have enticed me at quite an early age. Born during the last years of the Marcos Era, some seven to eight years or so of its reign, I have had some vague understanding but very strong impressions of how politics motivate people to do almost anything. At some point during those turbulent years leading to the February 1986 presidential elections and the EDSA Revolutions that followed a couple of weeks after, I always remember my father talking about how Marcos had hugely cheated Sergio Osmeña during the 1969 elections. The tale was that a lot of official ballots have been dumped by Marcos’ choppers into the ocean in order to have a clean sweep in the elections. Of course, Marcos was re-elected then and a huge majority of his allies sat with him in both the Senate and in Congress. I know this now, but not before.
Before, all I heard was my father’s tale and all I can think about was that Marcos was bad. I don’t know what’s in it to being a president then but in a child’s mind, nothing, and I mean really nothing was worth cheating for. That image of Marcos was heavily re-enforced when during the 1986 elections, I have seen and touched the crisp, 5 and 20 peso bills that’s being stapled together as a bribe to vote for the great man—Ferdinand Marcos. Thus, I have had my first real life, front seat view of vote buying. My father’s tale had since then become as real for me as the food we ate from that bribe. My parents never voted for Marcos that election. Even if it prove to be an exercise in futility since Marcos still managed to declare himself the victor for a couple of weeks until the power of the oppressed had ousted him from office. What about the money? Well, that was what might have been meant when someone biblical said “be cunning as a snake, but harmless as a dove.” Being practical enough to benefit from the bribe but harmless enough to have refused to vote for the briber. Again, of course I wouldn’t know this then, the rhetoric was coming to me a lot later.
For some time, as I go on with my life trying to be a child, an adolescent and a teenager, politics and the exercise of it (except during every classroom elections of officers) had taken a back seat. I had, however, could not totally removed myself from such issues as injustice, salvaging, poverty, rebellion, and other politically involved problems on the radio and in television.
I had grown up with these themes that I can honestly say that I am practically raised and my values molded by media. Fortunately, because early in life I am conscious enough that there are some things I just can’t take; I have been rather selective of the radio and television programs that I’ve watched. I have had with me a personal sense of censorship over the things that I’ve I wanted to see.
I am growing up with a lot of the idealism of youth, an idealism that I zealously guarded even as I become an adult—a feat made more difficult by the rise of overly and materially practical views of our time. Adulthood and idealism, somehow, do not mix in this “practical” society I am currently living.
At some point in my life when oppression and rebellion are the common themes in radio drama and movies, I had made a promise never to join in the armed rebels group regardless of how much I would come to hate the political system. The promise I made is to try to join in the system and work from the inside to see the change I would like to see or die trying. Armed rebellion is just not my thing.
I don’t like most of our politicians; yes. Our government system sucks; we’ll for the most part. It is hopeless to elect young idealist since eventually they will be corrupted and to succumb to the dirty tricks of the very system that they are trying to change originally at first; yeah this happens a lot of times. But all these, did not stop me from honestly voting for the candidate that I think would help establish some of the things I would like to see in this country. Personally, if you don’t exercise your right and obligation to vote honestly to the best of your God-endowed intelligence you have no and I mean absolutely no right to open your mouth to criticize those who are elected. Why should you!
As I mentioned earlier we have become a materially practical society that everything already have a price tags. And votes become a seasonal favorite like candles during All Saints Day. Today, all forms of vote buying abound. We’ll why not, politicians have a lot of money to give and we voters—mostly have nothing to eat. Sad to say, it’s just not those who are hungry that accepts this bribe at. Nowadays, everybody, except maybe for a very few, accepts politicians bribe money like it’s a welcome Christmas bonus. But like my parents; they said they are not voting for those candidates who paid them. Then whose votes were it then that we so painstakingly counted up to the wee hours after the Election Day, huh! When it seems that 99.9% of election candidates pay one way or another to get votes and voters claim to just accept the money without voting for those who paid them, it’s a wonder we still have candidates being elected with more than a hundred votes. Be cunning as a snake and harmless as a dove… the problem with this is that cunning tends to snake back and bite you where it hurt most. Taking a bribe slowly eats you inside. That part that takes care of the balance between what you believe is good and what is bad. When taking that vote-buying money starts to seem normal and clever to you, then I believe its time you take a long hard look at yourself and find that innocent little being that’s hiding inside you for fear of not fitting in to the rest of the crowd.
Before, all I heard was my father’s tale and all I can think about was that Marcos was bad. I don’t know what’s in it to being a president then but in a child’s mind, nothing, and I mean really nothing was worth cheating for. That image of Marcos was heavily re-enforced when during the 1986 elections, I have seen and touched the crisp, 5 and 20 peso bills that’s being stapled together as a bribe to vote for the great man—Ferdinand Marcos. Thus, I have had my first real life, front seat view of vote buying. My father’s tale had since then become as real for me as the food we ate from that bribe. My parents never voted for Marcos that election. Even if it prove to be an exercise in futility since Marcos still managed to declare himself the victor for a couple of weeks until the power of the oppressed had ousted him from office. What about the money? Well, that was what might have been meant when someone biblical said “be cunning as a snake, but harmless as a dove.” Being practical enough to benefit from the bribe but harmless enough to have refused to vote for the briber. Again, of course I wouldn’t know this then, the rhetoric was coming to me a lot later.
For some time, as I go on with my life trying to be a child, an adolescent and a teenager, politics and the exercise of it (except during every classroom elections of officers) had taken a back seat. I had, however, could not totally removed myself from such issues as injustice, salvaging, poverty, rebellion, and other politically involved problems on the radio and in television.
I had grown up with these themes that I can honestly say that I am practically raised and my values molded by media. Fortunately, because early in life I am conscious enough that there are some things I just can’t take; I have been rather selective of the radio and television programs that I’ve watched. I have had with me a personal sense of censorship over the things that I’ve I wanted to see.
I am growing up with a lot of the idealism of youth, an idealism that I zealously guarded even as I become an adult—a feat made more difficult by the rise of overly and materially practical views of our time. Adulthood and idealism, somehow, do not mix in this “practical” society I am currently living.
At some point in my life when oppression and rebellion are the common themes in radio drama and movies, I had made a promise never to join in the armed rebels group regardless of how much I would come to hate the political system. The promise I made is to try to join in the system and work from the inside to see the change I would like to see or die trying. Armed rebellion is just not my thing.
I don’t like most of our politicians; yes. Our government system sucks; we’ll for the most part. It is hopeless to elect young idealist since eventually they will be corrupted and to succumb to the dirty tricks of the very system that they are trying to change originally at first; yeah this happens a lot of times. But all these, did not stop me from honestly voting for the candidate that I think would help establish some of the things I would like to see in this country. Personally, if you don’t exercise your right and obligation to vote honestly to the best of your God-endowed intelligence you have no and I mean absolutely no right to open your mouth to criticize those who are elected. Why should you!
As I mentioned earlier we have become a materially practical society that everything already have a price tags. And votes become a seasonal favorite like candles during All Saints Day. Today, all forms of vote buying abound. We’ll why not, politicians have a lot of money to give and we voters—mostly have nothing to eat. Sad to say, it’s just not those who are hungry that accepts this bribe at. Nowadays, everybody, except maybe for a very few, accepts politicians bribe money like it’s a welcome Christmas bonus. But like my parents; they said they are not voting for those candidates who paid them. Then whose votes were it then that we so painstakingly counted up to the wee hours after the Election Day, huh! When it seems that 99.9% of election candidates pay one way or another to get votes and voters claim to just accept the money without voting for those who paid them, it’s a wonder we still have candidates being elected with more than a hundred votes. Be cunning as a snake and harmless as a dove… the problem with this is that cunning tends to snake back and bite you where it hurt most. Taking a bribe slowly eats you inside. That part that takes care of the balance between what you believe is good and what is bad. When taking that vote-buying money starts to seem normal and clever to you, then I believe its time you take a long hard look at yourself and find that innocent little being that’s hiding inside you for fear of not fitting in to the rest of the crowd.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
What?
What?
What is a word. One word that gives a lot of meaning.
Meaning?
What is meaning?
Meaning is another word.
Then what is the meaning of the word?
What is a word. One word that gives a lot of meaning.
Meaning?
What is meaning?
Meaning is another word.
Then what is the meaning of the word?
Sunday, July 13, 2008
The Choice of Death--the Princess of the Stars Tragedy
Even before my poll on this topic come to a close... allow me to share with you my thoughts.
As it is with all grand scale tragedies, pointing a blaming finger is always the norm and the Frank disaster and the "Sulpicio fiasco," as some people would really like to say, is no different.
Since the news on the sinking of the ship, people are starting to find someone to blame for the tragedy. Obviously, Sulpicio is at the top of the guilty list. Most people, especially those in close proximity with the victims, either by blood relation or just a friend of a friend of a friend are inclined to blame Sulpicio. Sulpicio on the other hand and those who knows somebody in Sulpicio who are convinced or tried to convince themselves of the seaworthiness of the ship is predispose to find others to put the blame on--like the Coast Guard or PAG-ASA. Round and round the blame winds out people and entities until the most guilty coughs out and accepts their guilt.
Also as it is with any tragedy with lots of death involved, the blame is heaped on the weary shoulder of the survivors and those who came out of it with just a little scratch. We've seen it on television, people derisively telling crew survivors that they are only trying to save themselves.
We'll, if you're the sister, mother or a friend of a victim you rightfully feel the need to say those things out of the overwhelming grief of the moment. But then no one should really blame anyone for surviving. Being there and enduring it while seeing all those flesh and blood cry out is a burden heavy enough to bear for a lifetime, adding guilt on it is really too much.
A lot of people may blame Sulpicio for the tragedy and these people have equally sound arguments to support their opinion; arguments though does not make a case. Facts alone would clear the conscience of all those involved in the tragedy. However, my intention here is not to convict or exonerate those responsible.
As it is with all grand scale tragedies, pointing a blaming finger is always the norm and the Frank disaster and the "Sulpicio fiasco," as some people would really like to say, is no different.
Since the news on the sinking of the ship, people are starting to find someone to blame for the tragedy. Obviously, Sulpicio is at the top of the guilty list. Most people, especially those in close proximity with the victims, either by blood relation or just a friend of a friend of a friend are inclined to blame Sulpicio. Sulpicio on the other hand and those who knows somebody in Sulpicio who are convinced or tried to convince themselves of the seaworthiness of the ship is predispose to find others to put the blame on--like the Coast Guard or PAG-ASA. Round and round the blame winds out people and entities until the most guilty coughs out and accepts their guilt.
Also as it is with any tragedy with lots of death involved, the blame is heaped on the weary shoulder of the survivors and those who came out of it with just a little scratch. We've seen it on television, people derisively telling crew survivors that they are only trying to save themselves.
We'll, if you're the sister, mother or a friend of a victim you rightfully feel the need to say those things out of the overwhelming grief of the moment. But then no one should really blame anyone for surviving. Being there and enduring it while seeing all those flesh and blood cry out is a burden heavy enough to bear for a lifetime, adding guilt on it is really too much.
A lot of people may blame Sulpicio for the tragedy and these people have equally sound arguments to support their opinion; arguments though does not make a case. Facts alone would clear the conscience of all those involved in the tragedy. However, my intention here is not to convict or exonerate those responsible.
What I want is to somehow discuss the death of those passengers and all others who died during the typhoon. For many people, these deaths are the cause of anger towards Sulpicio, PAG-ASA, Coast Guard etc.. To their minds I guess, is the belief that these people should not have died without that tragedy; and the cause is... whatever mistakes that according to them was perpetrated by those in the guilty list.
We'll whatever their reason, as somebody I recently know would often say... "but that's to their own according." And so now, here's death "to my own according."
I have always believe that death is something that would come, regardless and no matter, when its time. The moment you die is the moment you choose to leave this lifetime. Life is a choice... death too is.
The death of someone, regardless of the manner, is with that person's full consent. You can never blame death on anyone. The manner of death, maybe but as to the moment of death, no. It is something that the individual unconciously decided on his/her own.
The freedom afforded to us to take control of our life is absolute and so as with determining our lifetimes.
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