What is your birthday wish?
17 AugOur birthday is one of the most celebrated events in our life. We give thanks to the Almighty God who had given us life. We do acknowledge our loving family who had raised up and guided us to become good citizens of the world. We appreciate the presence of our friends, neighbors, co-workers and relatives for their wonderful supports in times of urgent needs. Some people enumerate their birthday wishes as follows:
Good Health
Most people wish that they get maintain good health on their birthday and to the rest of their lives. How can you determine the taste of delicious birthday foods if you cannot eat them anymore because you are severely sicked? How can you feel the joy of having a birthday party if you cannot sing or dance with your guests anymore? People should stay fit all the time so that they can do wholesome activities which they want to do.
Better Income or Profits
Most people wish that they get better job or business venture to increase their income or profits. How can you treat yourself and your family on your birthday if your individual income goes from paycheck to paycheck only? How can you expand your business if you have limited resources to run your business? For economic reasons, people should look for a better job or business opportunity wherein it may bring them into a higher income or generate more profits in order to meet their daily needs. They want to save their money for long-term use.
Best Family
Most people wish their own family to be the best. How can your family live peacefully and happily together if some members of your family are fighting to one another for some reasons? How can your family be united if some family members are separated from each other by distance, wealth, life principles, faith, values, attitude, work, crimes and death? Anybody in the family wants their extended family to be the best family in the world with flourishing joy, contentment, respect, hope, love and care.
Therefore, whether you have a birthday party or not, just pray that these birthday wishes will push true with God’s guidance, friends and family’s supports and your positive attitude about life.
I am a Child
22 Jul
“Yes, I did it.”
I am a child that grows bigger and wild
I need to take a walk and talk with you as a child
Make a step one, two to three until I can climb a tree
Teach me how to run and have some fun around you.
I am a child that thinks wider and bright
I need to stay here and play under the sunlight
Great outdoor experience brings up more essence
Teach me how to explore about things beyond my door.
I am a child that needs your comfort
I need your loving care and good rapport
Love me for what I am and wherever I came from
Teach me all areas of learning in the morning until evening.
I am a child that has always a dream
I need your coolness like an ice cream
Your positive attitude and good mood everyday
Teach me how to teach other children well someday.
How the Medium of Communication Evolved in the Past 30 Years
16 Jul
The medium for local and overseas communication had rapidly evolved in past two decades. People all over the world get along with such technological advancements in the field of communication. These advancements bring improvement to the business sectors, promote political parties and serve as networks for family bonding. Let us recall how this medium of communication had evolved based on my own experience.
From letter to online chat
In 1991, I got an opportunity to work in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. As a Filipino contract worker, I used to send letters and greeting cards to my family, relatives and friends in the Philippines through post mails. I sent letters at least once or twice a month to them. I got in line in the post office there just to buy postal stamps or drop my letters immediately for them. It took around two weeks in the post mail system that time before my family, relatives and friends received my letters. When they replied immediately for my letter, it took another two weeks before I received their response letters. I did that way for more than 3 years in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Nowadays, I can communicate with them through online chat if internet connection works efficiently and online schedule permits. At available time in any social media site, I used to sit down in front of my laptop waiting for online family members and friends. I can chat with them from a couple of minutes or several hours to exchange essential ideas and messages with them. However, I still do the traditional way of sending letters or greeting cards through post mail services to relatives and friends who do not have an access in the internet. The most important thing to me now is I do remember them in spite of distant apart and busy life.
From coins call to video call
Every time I made a call to the Philippines when I was in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, I had to get up early in the morning due to time difference. I went outside in spite of severe weather condition there and got in line in the telephone booth with a handful of Saudi coins. I usually made a call to my relatives in the Philippines and talked to them uninterruptedly. I held the phone arm with my right hand while my left hand dropped the coins one by one and continuously into the phone booth to prevent cut off of communication lines and could prolong our conversation with full of excitement and emotions. Nowadays, I can communicate with them using my laptop. It is just a click away with any social media site then I can talk and see them already. I can communicate with my mother, sisters, brothers, nephews, nieces, close friends, co-teachers, students and even online friends through video call. I can hear their laughs and see their bright smiles now. These technological advancements in the computer, mobile phone and internet help us a lot for several reasons and merely serve its primary purpose and that is communication for all.
What is really in your name?
14 Jul
A name of a person whether it is his first name or last name does matter to him. Whether he likes it or not, he has his own identity through his name. You can find out if his name can really help him or affect him in an every day situation. But first of all, how do parents derive the names of their children? Let us consider the following assumptions below.
How did you get your name?
1. Parents got the first name of their newly born child from trending person’s names in their locality or in the world. In the previous years for example, John became famous first name for the boys and Mary for the girls in the world so people followed what were trending first names that time.
2. Parents got the first name of their child from famous religious personalities in the Holy Book. For instance, David, Matthew, Mark, Luke, Peter and Simon were some well-known personalities in the Christian world. Therefore, Christian believers named their children after them due to their integrity and inspiring achievements.
3. Parents got the first name of their children from famous celebrities in the world whom they adore so much. Parents were fascinating that their children will become famous too like them. These celebrities might be in the entertainment industry, sports or political communities.
4. Parents got the first name of their children by putting up together certain letters from the father’s first name or mother’s first name in order to come up with a unique and newly sounding first name for the child. Sometimes, parents were not aware about how difficult in pronouncing their children’s first names as well as writing the correct spelling of it the way how the parents want to particularly when these children started to go to school.
5. Parents got the first name of their children wherein it is commonly associated with the last name. For instance, if your last name sounds like an American name due to the father’s descendants even you are a purely Asian citizen, parents picked first names which can match with your last name.
6. Children got their last name due from marriage of their parents. When a single lady and a gentleman got married, commonly happened was the children’s last name derived from their father’s last name. Unknowingly, sometimes his last name which sounds funny created troubles in his entire life. Sometimes, it became the center of bullying in the school campus, teasing with his classmates and friends, frustration in love life, disappointment in employment which generally result to more social conflicts from the early stage of his life up to adult life. Thus, one’s personality undesirably changed gradually.
7. Some parents associated the first names of their children with certain things which sound nice to them such as Princess, King, Venus, Miracle, Heaven, Lucky, etc. Parents want their children to be remembered that way with integrity, hope and success.
What is really in your name anyway?
Well, a name is really a name whatever its nature, origin, derivation and purpose. That is one’s identity for being a unique person, for being a functional part of your family or society as a whole. No matter what it is, learn to love your name as you love your parents. Because your name is really who you are and it means a lot more than what others expect from you.
Because of a Coin
9 Jul
“What if I can find a coin?”
While a poor man was walking on the sidewalk to report on his work, he saw a coin. He picked up the coin quickly and went through continuously. The hungry man dropped by in a store and bought some breads for his family. Every day, the man walked on the sidewalk and always looked the ground. He did walking in the morning and evening as well. Sometimes, he found a cent, a quarter, a dime or a dollar or more coins in a week. From that on, he felt more excited to look at the ground and found more coins as the days passed by. He bought of what his family needs from these coins.
While a poor man was walking on the sidewalk to report on his work, he was always face down looking for a coin. The poor man’s neighbor greeted him, “Good morning!” The poor man did not notice her because he was seriously looking the ground to find a coin. He did that for several weeks. The following month, the poor man’s best friend was smiling at him when his friend was nearly approaching him. He did not notice him because he was looking down again for a chance of finding a coin. He did that routine for several months.
One day, there was a road accident that occurred wherein two people died and some people were injured. The poor man passed by again in the same pathway he used to be his way. He was not bothered because he kept looking the ground and never look the people that coming in to rescue the victims. When he arrived into his home, he felt excited and happy to give his few coins that he had found in the whole week for his wife and only child. He called them by their names one by one but no one answered. He looked at them inside the house but no one there. He waited for several hours inside the house until he fell asleep.
That afternoon, he heard the voice of his neighbor calling his name. Her neighbor told him that he should go to the hospital because his wife and only child got an accident. He rushed into the hospital with the plenty of coins in his bag after hearing the bad news. Unfortunately, his wife and only child did not make it. They died after few hours in the hospital due to severe head injuries from the road accident which happened that day in the same road where the poor man used to pass by. The poor cried loudly and never stop crying until no more tears coming out from his eyes.
His neighbor said to him while tapping the poor man’s shoulder, “You missed the greetings of your neighbor when they passed by on you because you kept on looking on the ground with face down to find a coin.” His friend said to him as he cried, “You missed the smile of your friends when they passed by on you because you kept looking on the ground instead of looking the beautiful surroundings around you.” Another person whom the poor man did not know him personally had said, “Now, you missed your family which supposed to be with you all the time. You gave more value the coins on your hands than to the people around you.” “You missed their smiles, laughs, pains, sadness….and all their feelings and emotions.” ” Now, you cannot bring back the things that had happened and done.” “But, still”, the person continued, “there is always a room for improvement so you have to act right now.”
From that day, the poor man directly looked at the peoples’s eyes and had a friendly conversation with them. The people around him extended their help by giving not only a box of coins from their savings but also more money bills to the poor man. The poor man said, “Thank you, You are more than the money that I had now.” Despite of the sorrow he had felt because of the death of his wife and only child, the poor man realized that the people around him show their love, care and concern for him. He had witnessed the great smiles on their faces when the people said “Goodbye”.
3 Ways on How Writing Attributes Freedom
1 Jul
Writing is a means of communicating one’s ideas to others. It expresses the heart of one’s feelings and emotions. Through writing, a person can change the attitude of a million people. It considers a powerful tool to change the mind set of anybody which may lead for a gradual or rapid change in the society. Sometimes, heroic writing may lead into people’s revolution or civilian uprising. Civilians and authorities gained their absolute freedom through writing. Literary books, articles in prestigious magazines, and featured news and stories in the newspapers catch up public attention and interest. Many nations got their total independence from the hands of foreign and local invaders through the general supports of the well-known writers.
Writing has a significant role in the lives of many people around the world. Whatever languages that they use, still, they can understand each other. Whatever types of writing they have, still, communication occurs between two parties. Whatever delivery methods that they had used, still, the message has been sent, received and replied. Through writing, a person has been motivated to act according to his purpose. On the other hand, it depends to the receiver of the message to rightfully respond or not based on how she understands it.
Writing serves as an agent in the academic and social media today. Post mails, web seminars, online learning and social networks are some examples of how writing works out. It also contributes to the business sectors such as call centers and publications. Writing develops one’s skills and abilities to create an excellent masterpiece which can express his own personality, uniqueness and individuality.
Anak nin Mayaman
30 JunAnak nin Mayaman
ni
Guillermo Menes Meron alias Emong
“Sicoy labayon mo”
Sicoy labayon mo, anak nin mayaman;
Pito-pitoy aysing, talawinis coy siyam;
No hicoy malyo, humen pisagilyan;
Main putog Neneng, cot tatalunuban.
Ciay luta co Neneng, malawang a putog;
Tamulawon mata, calo cay maabot;
Lumato a bulan Mayo, sicoy mamasursor;
Ciay bini co Neneng, sansalop masulok.
Ciay damulag co Neneng, masyadon malabong;
Lima a cabayan, mapulo a capon;
Maco ca itaw bali, pigaw ca mamipol;
Main oybon a makit mo, masyado ya ot mabong.
Ciay aso co Neneng, labas pesten baboy talon;
Yay ancunaon ay adobon angguygoy;
Maco ca itaw bali, pigaw ca mamipol;
Asay canastro nin nangnaan bisokol.
Ciay manok co Neneng, masyadon laco sila;
An-apunan nan manggas, ankaspi a sanga;
Maco ca itaw bali, pigaw mamipol ca;
Main luway sisiw, tula la ot baga.
Ciay baka co Neneng, masyadon laco sila;
Yay ankunaon co permi nin lao-ya;
Maco ca itaw bali, pigaw mamipol ca;
Main ot sinukbit nin bulong malisa.
Bulong malisa payte, pitpitan mon laya;
Bayo mo sabawan, iiyop coni garana;Laran, laran, laran, ay, ay, ay, ay;
Panayngotan cayna.
Komposisyon ni
Guillermo Menes Meron alias Emong
Insalita ni:
Teofila Mas Meron
(Legal a Lamo)
Impariado ni:
Renato Mas Meron
(Anak)
Hands-on 