Panalipdan Youth

Last April 19-22 together with my comrades in the College of Education, Had a conquest in Tantangan, Libas, South Cotabato, In Surmions Farm resort. We are to attend a seminar concerning the environmental issues here in the region and the restoration and protection of patrimony of our heritage.
The seminar was facilitated by a Non-government unit called Panalipdan Youth, Headed and financed by a rich OFW in the state. They are composed of various youths with advocacies that sparked my interests, They condemn corruption and the plunder of foreign investors to our national wealth, And so i was encouraged to be hand in hand with them, fighting for the right.
I see no wrong in their doings and upon joining this group, for Rizal himself is an activists for a noble cause.
I learned many things in the seminar, I saw the painful truth illustrated on graphs, how corruption holds us in a suffocating grip, how the government allows foreign mining industries in our lands, spewing poison that became of our peoples demise, trees of our virgin forests brought single handedly by metal beasts. they the witness of our heroes martyrdom and sacrifices, together with them, our mountains died.
I hope its not yet to late to avoid this mess, i want my children to see our lands still hospitable with its rich resources, with this group, I will fight using this pen. for the change.

PBB teen edition plus

I wonder what the makers of this supposed reality TV show had eaten that made their show popular towards my Filipino people. They really got the masses hooked, but honestly not me, I'm tired of seeing such a cheap TV reality show, I really don't believe that the "house mates" are being true to themselves, i think they are just faking it, meaning they maybe following a certain script made by the directors, its evident in their face aren't they ? I don't get the point of having persons locked inside a house, stays their, do their stuff, flirting with each other just for the sake of having viewers hooked to their Show.You can see love teams developing in the house mates, disgusting hidden secrets, non-sense house tasks and immoral showing of skin adapted on foreign liberalization. then i came to realize and see the future of Filipino Television. It will be worse!

Importance of Television

I am a certified supposed TV geek. I watch a wide variety and range of relevant TV shows specially those catches my interest. I really appreciate TV shows that is relevant and educational like Discovery, CNN, documentary films, movies, news, and etc. When i was in high school it was my investment in watching TV, not that i am more updated to certain important current events but it also bombarded my thirsty thoughts ever inquiring for new knowledge.
Upon entering college life, i got less time in watching TV (my boarding house has no cable network), Instead i spend money and surf the internet to get my self updated always to the latest pop culture. It is clear then to me that nothing beats the comfort on watching and clicking the buttons of your TV remote control.

A call to mend the fractures of quiescence

Peace with justice is such an odd and ambiguous phrase for me, I think it sounds better if it is written “peace and justice” – like all other peace keeping missions use to state, although the phrase has an intellectual quality, being of its depth in meaning, it is mystified by a fog of intrigue that will keep the reader or thinker give some ample time to reflect and analyze the significant truths that it conveys. It is not easy for a poet or a writer to mend weaves on this theme, especially if your dealing with the most common concept of peace, therefore, it is an investment for us to dig in this subject as people of God who follows the commandments and set morals.

Just like all the great discoveries of great people like Maxim, Pasteur, Freud and Einstein that shaped the world we know today. We also has the capability of unraveling great discoveries in oneself, that there are other things that weighs more than all the worldly pleasures that should be given importance. The ideas I got from “peace with justice” really lunged through my head in an instant, literal brainstorms drenched my thoughts and I was suddenly talking to myself with an outburst of realizations that hit me hard.

We all know that peace is such a very self-explanatory word, you wouldn’t even have to get the dictionary to define it for it is very common, but when we came to realize that words really has two meanings, we came to the conclusion that defining the words alone are not the enlightenments to our queries, we maybe the best speaker or the best writer who expresses large quantities of thoughts and ideas, but we may never compensate the other needs of human existence, things that Jesus himself thought us on the sermon at the mount, to love our neighbors wholly, to be of peaceful instrument to God’s kingdom.

Let’s accept the fact that self-centeredness and greed are still the wrecking force that lashes down the base of society’s pyramid, and Jesus is unhappy with that. Now is our time to turn the tides of injustices.

During my childhood years my concept of peace is very limited; I thought that peace is a hand symbol in the middle of catholic rites in the middle of a Catholic mass. Sometimes peace comes to me in forms of symbolisms with no integral values at all. I reached the stage of understanding of knowing the definition of peace, the high school student in me thought of the peace associated with the wars in Mindanao, the peace that comes after the bloodshed, the deathly peace of corpses in the hands of their mourning loved-ones, and the peace of hiding evacuees in the comforts of slums.

Peace and justice is a state of calm, quiescence and tranquility that enables one to sleep sound at night, not afraid of things borne of evils cradle, When one can hear the chorus of nature in the wellness of his/her backyard, when you are free of debt from an unruly person, when you cherish the times with your family and friends, when you hold no grudge to a neighbor, when you’re contented with what you have and you know in yourself that you are just in the eyes of God.

Real peace comes from the grace of God; we are the bridge in an unbridgeable point in time where evil has a place, it is in our own two hands that we mold red bricks of hope to the purged ones that does nothing except singing sobs of misery. God encourages us to stop this civilized shame, by promoting peace with equity to the less fortunate. Lets us not waste time in things that provoked Adam and eve’s fall, but let us give time to think of the graces that we received from God and its time pay him back with this holy service, If obstacles obstructs us, then lets us not use force in the inquisition of righteousness sake, do not let the ruins of Sodom and Gomorrah rise up again in the sinful sands where they came, for we all know that evil shall not prevail through Jesus. Let us favor the condemnation of prostitution, where evil possesses the lustiest thoughts, of slavery, where innocent souls get deprived of their rights as human beings, of greed, where money rules the hearts by making it numb of sympathy and care, of other injustices, where all is a sore loser in the end, these things defines the other side of peace, the peace without justice.

The Gospel teaches us many things that guide us to a happy living; peace is a perfect example of it. If you are in peace but have not loved, it is hypocrisy and it lives with the perished. A poet’s common theme of peace is superficial and artless if he himself has not loved and has no peace. So therefore it is a must to first drop all of our fermented malt and change our evil ways before we go to the peace with justice crusade with our lord Jesus Christ as our general.

We must think of our future, will we let the inequities continue to stain our lives as Christians? We have Jesus beside us, so what are we afraid of? We longed for peace a long time ago during the world wars, but today it is different, instead of bullet and bombs we now face a totally different evil that silences the human race, the time is now for us to make a stand, lets break the quiescence of fear, let us work hand in hand, we are the youth, the morning awaits us with optimism lets not throw it away.

this essay won 3rd place on the UMYFP peace with justice essay writing contest

Utopia

I'm sure you haven't heard this online web-based game before so let me take the opportunity to explain this to you. this is the world's largest interactive strategy web game. Wherein you get to manage your own province to a kingdom which serves as your teammates from all over the world and you work hand in hand to win wars with other kingdoms. it is in here that you must apply your skills. where it be political, economic, or military. (click here for further guidance)

As for me, I've been on to this game for quite a long time and i really enjoyed it, competing with other provinces and stuffs. choosing the right race and personality that will make your taste in governing. it really is a great pastime and i must admit, I'm hooked.

It is not forever that you will own or manage that province, for it is only trimester long then another age.

As for me, the new age is coming and i am to record my highlights of the previous age.
the picture above is my province, "Elves of Undying" 23:2

2008 NBA sixth man of the year

My my my! this guy here happens to me my favorite basketball player of all time
and I'm glad to see him with the award, he really deserve it.

2008 stats;
A sixth man in 51-of-74 games played this season, Ginobili led the Spurs in scoring with a career-high average of 19.5 points to go along with 4.8 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 1.47 steals. He increased his scoring nearly 6.0 points over his career average entering this season (13.7 ppg). He is also the only player in the NBA to average at least 17 points in under 32.0 minutes per game.

talk about a real team player! i admire him more than the overrated ones.
i like him because he is humble and a good sportsman

He is an Olympic champ, and led the spurs together with Duncan and parker to several NBA championships.

So if you are not in a hurry, pls do visit my other blog at

www.geekerzz.blogspot.com

Blog Opening

I came up with this idea of making a new blog, since my other blog Satirical Poetry
is only for my Poetic sentiments, to make it more organized.

This blog will hold all my views, news and contemporaries and I'm excited to start it.
I'm going to monetize it so that it will hopefully help in my student hood penuries.
you are all welcome here, be part of my linkages and share your notions. thanks.

- Gerald