fwd email: Why Philippines is poor
April 30, 2008 by
Filed under People and Places
Why Is The Philippines Poor?
Dear Friends,
Here is a good article sent by Dr. Arsenio Martin of
Fort Arthur,Texas .. Enjoy reading.
THE DIFFERENCE
The difference between the poor countries and the rich ones is
not the age of the country:
This can be shown by countries like India & Egypt , that are more
than 2000 years old, but are poor.
On the other hand, Canada , Australia & New Zealand , that 150
years ago were inexpressive, today are developed countries, and are
rich.
The difference between poor & rich countries does not reside in
the available natural resources.
Japan has a limited territory, 80% mountainous, inadequate for
agriculture & cattle raising, but it is the second world economy.
The country is like an immense floating factory, importing raw
materials from the whole world and exporting manufactured products.
Another example is Switzerland , which does not plant cocoa but
has the best chocolate in the world. In its little territory they
raise animals and plant the soil during 4 months per year. Not enough,
they produce dairy products of the best quality! It is a small country
that transmits an image of security, order & labor, which made it the
world’s strongest, safest place.
Executives from rich countries who communicate with their
counterparts in poor countries show that there is no significant intellectual difference.
Race or skin color are also not important: immigrants labeled
lazy in their countries of origin are the productive power in rich
European countries.
What is the difference then? The difference is the attitude of
the people, framed along the years by the education & the culture &
flawed tradition.
On analyzing the behavior of the people in rich & developed
countries, we find that the great majority follow the following principles
in their lives:
1. Ethics, as a basic principle.
2. Integrity.
3. Responsibility.
4. Respect to the laws & rules.
5. Respect to the rights of other citizens.
6. Work loving.
7. Strive for savings & investment.
8. Will of super action.
9. Punctuality.
10. and of course…Discipline
In poor countries, only a minority follow these basic principles
in their daily life.
The Philippines is not poor because we lack natural resources or
because nature was cruel to us. In fact, we are supposedly rich
in natural resources.
We are poor because we lack the correct attitude. We lack the
will to comply with and teach these functional principles of rich &
developed societies.
If you do not forward this message nothing will happen to you.
Your pet will not die, you will not be fired, you will not have bad
luck for seven years, and also, you will not get sick or go hungry.
But those may happen because of your lack of discipline &
laziness, your love for intrigue and politics, your indifference to saving
for the future, your stubborn attitude.
If you love your country, let this message circulate so that many
Filipinos could reflect about this, & CHANGE, ACT!
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Filipinos, you would be the fair judge on this… What do you think?
WWE Backlash 2008!
April 29, 2008 by
Filed under !!!Entertainment!!!
I watched live WWE backlash 2008 on jack tv! Who would not be happy, events like this is a pay-per-view and we can only be given a chance to watch it after a few days or weeks. So I had a great morning watching it live for free on Jack TV!
It started early morning around 8am here in the Philippines so I was not able to witness the first few wrestling matches.
My father said Matt Hardy won over from the cheating MVP in the US champion.
I was able to watched the remaining minutes of Kane’s (Undertaker’s younger brother) match with Chavo Guerrero. If you are familiar with the movie “See no Evil”, the villain man in the movie is Kane. Luckily ECW Champion Kane won. I like him even if he looks scary. I like him a lot!
Next was Big Show defeating another giant Great Khali.
Then, there was this match with Batista and Shawn MIchaels with Chris Jericho as a referee. Everyone expected Jericho to have an agenda for this match since he has been humiliated and beated by both wrestlers. However, he proved everyone wrong when he went on to become a fair referee for the whole match even offered to help the winner HBK (Heartbreak kid) Shawn Michaels off the ring as he limped. I wasn’t really happy with the result since I was expecting and hoping Batista would win.
I was also disappointed in the Diva tag team match since Beth’s Phoenix team won over Micki James and her friends.
However, the best match I have ever loved is the World Heavyweight Champion Undertaker vs. Edge. I hate Edge so much. Well, we can’t blame him for being scripted as the bad annoying and boastful opportunist and cheater in WWE.
His ugly lover whatever-her-first-name-is Guerrero scheduled three brutal fights to Undertaker to pin him down and to ferociously injured him before their match.
First, he fought against his brother Kane, then Festus and the last was with Batista whom undertaker had a bad injury on his lower back 48 hours before his match with Edge.
Undertaker was popular of enduring pain, like the more the match takes longer, the stronger he becomes! However, doubts during this match if he would since his lower backpain is giving him trouble during the fight. He was more popular with his entrance music which is really spine-tingling and very intimidating. I like Undertaker very much. He is my most favorite wrestler!
I love it when before the fight began, he told Edge “I am going to hurt you.” He looked so intimidating and powerful. He did hurt Edge badly bwahahaha!
I do not know why I love WWE but I just do.
There were two useless dogs of Edge who tried to help him by hitting the deadman but it made him even determined to win the fight despite his lower back pain.
Even after Edge tapped out, Undertaker continued to pinned him down and kept his submission lock in that ended Edge on a stretcher with a bloody face. Such a lovely sight really…
Next was the Fatal Four Way Elimination Match where three wrestlers and one nuisance fought in the ring to get hold of Randy Orton’s belt for WWE Championship. 1st to be eliminated was the nuisance JBL by John Cena when just for a few seconds was kicked by Randy on his face and was knocked down and was eliminated too leaving Orton and Triple H to fight for the championship. My brother was disappointed since he wanted Cena to win though his favorite is the ever boastful and cheating Randy Orton.
I admire Randy Orton and Triple H, though they had these bad boy images as cheaters in WWE they fight really well with great stunts on their matches. They both had a great fight in the ring ending it with Triple H giving Orton a pedigree.
Triple H won the title and the belt.
More on http://www.wwe.com
31st birthday
April 27, 2008 by
Filed under The Diary
In exactly a week from now.
Month of May
April 26, 2008 by
Filed under The Diary
Read it from Geisha about people’s personality based on which month they were born.
I will not post everything anymore but I was interested again with what they say about people born under these months. Here’s mine:
MAY: Stubborn and hard-hearted (im known for my stubborness but never hard-hearted..) Strong-willed and highly motivated (amen). Sharp thoughts (ano daw? hehehe). Easily angered (Calling all the witnesses, family members, friends, former co-workers, and even strangers to testify… Definitely one of my strongest weaknesses) Attracts others and loves attention (I dont know Im not even sociable, blogging lang ang social world ko na ngayon hahaha). Deep feelings (hello? lo.. lo.. lo.. ayan nag-i-echo na sa super lalim hehehe… true… true…) Beautiful physically and mentally (if you call potbelly physically beautiful). Firm Standpoint (AMEN to that.. i would die for what i believe in). Needs no motivation (as long as i love what i am doing, i definitely dont need any motivation). Easily consoled (which is really bullshit sometimes…) Systematic (left brain)- (in some other ways, I can be VERY systematic because it makes me perform better with what I do). Loves to dream (24/7). Strong clairvoyance (sounds strange and crazy but it’s true, my family and friends could attest that too, so ano papahula mo sa akin? hehehe). Understanding (coz i know what it feels to be misunderstood). Sickness usually in the ear and neck (i’ve been hospitalized before because of straining my ear with a strong sneeze and it bled so painfully, aside from that my doctor already advised for a tonsilectomy because of unusual tonsilitis every now and then). Good imagination (the only thing active in me). Good physical ( i dont know what exactly it means, make it more detailed and particular hehehe). Weak breathing (yeah.. sad but true). Loves literature and the arts (yo! nde man halata pero im so into these stuffs). Loves traveling (of shores!). Dislike being at home (heller, home-based ang work ko noh! I disagree!) Restless (literally, physically, mentally, emotionally, psychologically, etc). Not having many children (feeling ko nga eh baog ako). Hardworking (tanga ang ayaw maniwala or baka iba definition niya sa hardworking hehehe) High spirited (… and passionate!). Spendthrift (this is definitely not in my vocabulary!)
NYPD cops innocent at killing an unarmed groom 2 years ago
April 26, 2008 by
Filed under People and Places
Scores of police officers surrounded the courthouse to guard against potential chaos, and as news of the verdict spread, many in the crowd began weeping. Others were enraged, swearing and screaming “Murderers! Murderers!” or “KKK!”
Inside the courtroom, spectators gasped. Sean Bell’s fiancee immediately walked out of the room; his mother cried.
Bell, a 23-year-old black man, was killed in a hail of gunfire outside a seedy strip club in Queens on Nov. 25, 2006 as he was leaving his bachelor party with two friends. The case ignited the emotions of people across the city and led to widespread protests among those who felt the officers used unnecessary force.
Officers Michael Oliver, 36, and Gescard Isnora, 29, stood trial for manslaughter while Officer Marc Cooper, 40, was charged with reckless endangerment. Two other shooters weren’t charged. Oliver squeezed off 31 shots; Isnora fired 11 rounds; and Cooper shot four times.
The case brought back painful memories of other NYPD shootings, such as the 1999 shooting of Amadou Diallo — an African immigrant who was gunned down in a hail of 41 bullets by police officers who mistook his wallet for a gun. The acquittal of the officers in that case created a storm of protest, with hundreds arrested after taking to the streets in demonstration.
Though emotions ran high, there were no immediate problems outside the courthouse Friday, where many wore buttons with Bell’s picture or held signs saying “Justice for Sean Bell.” Some people approached police after the verdict was read, but they were held back and the jostling died down quickly.
William Hardgraves, 48, an electrician from Harlem, brought his 12-year-old son and 23-year-old daughter to hear the verdict. “It could have been my son, it could have been my daughter” shot like Bell that night, he said.
He didn’t know what result he had expected.
“I hoped it would be different this time. They shot him 50 times,” Hardgraves said. “But of course, it wasn’t.”
Justice Arthur Cooperman delivered the verdict in a packed Queens courtroom. The officers, complaining that pretrial publicity had unfairly painted them as cold-blooded killers, opted to have the judge decide the case rather than a jury.
Cooperman indicated that the police officers’ version of events was more credible than the victims’ version. “The people have not proved beyond a reasonable doubt that each defendant was not justified” in firing, he said.
The nearly two-month trial was marked by deeply divergent accounts of the night.
The defense painted the victims as drunken thugs who the officers believed were armed and dangerous. Prosecutors sought to convince the judge that the victims had been minding their own business, and that the officers were inept, trigger-happy aggressors.
None of the officers took the witness stand in his own defense. Instead, Cooperman heard transcripts of the officers testifying before a grand jury, saying they believed they had good reason to use deadly force. The judge also heard testimony from Bell’s two injured companions, who insisted the maelstrom erupted without warning.
Both sides were consistent on one point: The utter chaos surrounding the last moments of Bell’s life.
“It happened so quick,” Isnora said in his grand jury testimony. “It was like the last thing I ever wanted to do.”
Bell’s companions — Trent Benefield and Joseph Guzman — also offered dramatic testimony about the episode. Benefield and Guzman were both wounded; Guzman still has four bullets lodged in his body.
Referring to Isnora, Guzman said, “This dude is shooting like he’s crazy, like he’s out of his mind.”
The victims and shooters were set on a fateful collision course by a pair of innocuous decisions: Bell’s to have a last-minute bachelor party at Kalua Cabaret, and the undercover detectives’ to investigate reports of prostitution at the club.
As the club closed around 4 a.m., Sanchez and Isnora claimed they overheard Bell and his friends first flirt with women, then taunt a stranger who responded by putting his right hand in his pocket as if he had a gun. Guzman, they testified, said, “Yo, go get my gun” — something Bell’s friends denied.
Isnora said he decided to arm himself, call for backup — “It’s getting hot,” he told his supervisor — and tail Bell, Guzman and Benefield as they went around the corner and got into Bell’s car. He claimed that after warning the men to halt, Bell pulled away, bumped him and rammed an unmarked police van that converged on the scene with Oliver at the wheel.
The detective also alleged that Guzman made a sudden move as if he were reaching for a gun.
“I yelled ‘Gun!’ and fired,” he said. “In my mind, I knew (Guzman) had a gun.”
Benefield and Guzman testified that there were no orders. Instead, Guzman said, Isnora “appeared out of nowhere” with a gun drawn and shot him in the shoulder — the first of 16 shots to enter his body.
“That’s all there was — gunfire,” he said. “There wasn’t nothing else.”
With tires screeching, glass breaking and bullets flying, the officers claimed that they believed they were the ones under fire. Oliver responded by emptying his semiautomatic pistol, reloading, and emptying it again, as the supervisor sought cover.
The truth emerged when the smoke cleared: There was no weapon inside Bell’s blood-splattered car.
The victim and his fiancee and daughter on an undated photo:
The victim’s fiancee:
The victim’s parents:
The NYPD cops:
Crowds reaction to the verdict:
I was browsing to yahoo news when this article interests me. I love watching the news but since I spend most of my time working, I could not watch the news on early evening anymore though I can still watch Balitanghali in Q another channel of GMA network. So, I also spend time everyday reading articles and news on yahoo…
Anyway, I sympathize with the victim’s family.
Excerpt from: NYPD cops innocent at killing an unarmed groom 2 years ago
NEW YORK - Three detectives were acquitted of all charges Friday in the 50-shot killing of an unarmed groom-to-be on his wedding day, a case that put the NYPD at the center of another dispute involving allegations of excessive firepower.
Reader’s Digest March Sweepstakes March Winner part 2!
April 23, 2008 by
Filed under The Diary
I recieved the registered mail today. It is confirmed I won! Yipee!
Thank You Lord for my advance birthday gift!
Weekend Movies
April 21, 2008 by
Filed under !!!Entertainment!!!
The Other Boleyn Girl 
The beginning of Anglican after splitting from Roman Catholic. One of the most important history of the Church and of England.
A story of how a family’s ambition ruined their family. A story of two sisters rivalry of the king’s love, fame and power.
I love the movie very much!
The Bank Job
My mom’s crush, Jason Statham… We were all glued to the screen watching the film. It was not as action-packed as any Jason Statham’s movies but the story is good, anyway it was a true story of how corrupt Scotland Yard was during the 70s.
Worth your money too!
WWE
April 21, 2008 by
Filed under !!!Entertainment!!!
I watched wrestling last Saturday night on Jack TV. It has been quite a while since I’ve watched wrestling matches.
The greatest match was with JBL 
and Triple H 
. My mom lost her posture because she was very upset with Randy Orton who out from nowhere came out and attacked Triple H. The match was disqualified.
Randy Orton 
won a match from a British wrestler I do not know.
Happily, Mickie James 
got the championship for WWE Women from the glamazon and the almost unbeatable Beth Phoenix 
!
Jericho after being kicked by Shawn Michaels won the match against Umaga.
Carlito 
and Santino also won the tag team from another team I do not know hehehe.
Reader’s Digest March 20,000 peso Sweepstakes Winner
April 21, 2008 by
Filed under The Diary
My name was posted as a winner for two (2) weeks now but still I haven’t recieved any registered mail from them.
I will not assume the name ‘Honey M. Reyes’ is the same person as me (though it is quite impossible not to be since I think only a few of the Filipino people join this online sweepstakes). However not until I recieved the registered mail from Reader’s Digest then it is nor yet confirmed.
My schedules until May
April 14, 2008 by
Filed under The Diary
* 6:00 am schedule is just for 2 weeks. She will go back to her schedule at 8:30 pm after it.
* preschool ends on May 30, 2008. I never really want to. However, I used to be a preschool teacher for 3 years. I am proud to say, I have made 3 year old kids read at the same time made them love to go to school. So somehow, I had this reputation as one of the best preschool teachers in town. A lot of schools have offered me high salary just to teach in their institutions but I made up my mind, I will teach only in my own preschool. I hate following other’s curriculum and following orders. These kids are private students too. I havent been teaching for 4 years now in preschool but still words of mouth here spread that I can make their kids read at the same time train them to learn how to love studying and going to school. These kids are from my family’s close friends and it’s so hard to say no.
Anyway, my schedule is killing me until May. Especially my schedule starting Thursday to Friday makes me want to get a gun and aim at my head…
grrr… cant seem to show the time schedule from 12:00 am to 11:30 pm… (30 minute each)
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