I had been a fanatic of the Phenomenal reality TV show of ABS CBN’s Pinoy Big Brother that I had follow each season and watched over it and never missed a segment up to the Big Night.
I see myself as one of the PBB house mates in the Big Brother house where each day is an endless task, a goal to achieve and a competition I have to win – a competition which rewards more than a million or any amount could buy but an honor and prestige to be proud of. PBB housemates stay in the house for 126 days with “kuya” as the big brother; I live in a bigger house where tasks and responsibilities are more complicated, where I live more than 126 days but a lifetime for me to complete such tasks – that indeed if I live in errors I will make my stay even shorter, where my “big brother doesn’t converse with his voice through my ears but speak through my heart – my living guidance counselor – the living “God”.
My big brother has taught me to become what I am today – a man of dreams and ambition, of attitude and fear on his words. I become astray for sometime in my life that at some point I felt I wanted to have my force eviction and get out of his house. But my big brother gave me chances to renew and led me back to the right path enabling me to realize that indeed I can be part of the big winner which is eternal life if I follow his house rules.
I am into his service right now. For as his Golden Rule says: “What you do to the least of your brothers, you do it unto me”. I believe being an educator is one way of becoming his servant where I stood to nurture values, enhance skills, and inculcated discipline to young minds.
Time moved swiftly that I realize that the big prize is too high that I have to work harder of getting it. Along with it is sacrifice, failures, and defeat but all paid off with victory. Yes! It has somehow torn me into pieces but I never stopped believing – there can be miracles when you believe, right? With this, I made a very impulsive decision that I went further with my overwhelming optimism. I took up Bachelor of Science in Nursing and experienced the most difficult times I can ever imagine. The sleepless nights and burning gas pain during long hours of clinical exposures. It has crowned me with glory when I finished and walk the aisle of success. Yet, the burden for the preparation of the board exam is another war to conquer. It has left me hanging and perhaps my anxiety right now is seemingly increasing. Yet, My Big Brother is still standing and watching over me for he is the director of my life; He has always drafted a plan for me.
My big brother is your big brother too; we are sharing the same house. However, we do not compete with others but with ourselves into making it on the Big Night. And on the big night we will all be seeing each other in the finals where we will be judge according to how we performed in the house he just lend us. He has prepared a big prize for all qualified winners and my fervent hope that we will all be there and share the prize.
With all honesty, I feel guilty at times because I made mistakes and makes a lame excuse that I am just human. I have this guilt feeling because it is not the same PBB I loved to watch that has season 1, 2, 3 and so on. Our Big Brother who is God holds his BIG NIGHT just ones.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
YOU TOUCHED MY LIFE!
A man’s life lies within this present as it were, but a hair’s breath of time; as for the rest, the past is gone, the future will never be, short therefore is a man’s life and narrow is the corner of the earth wherein he dwells.
Such excerpt from Marcus Aurelius writings lifted and encouraged me to be a better man I am today - believing that my existence is limited. If I live in errors, I make it even shorter. I went to the cemetery last November 1 celebrating all saint’s day with my friends. For no reason at all I went there just to enjoy the night with them, nothing more,nothing less. When everybody gets tired from chatting, laughing aloud and polluting their lungs with their cigars, a thought flashes in my mind – What if I’ll be under that "lapida" right there six feet below the ground? Will this mob of friends talk something good about me even if I wont hear them at all?
I remember 10 years ago, when I thought life is a never-ending struggle. With my
desire to become successful, I spent every single moment constructing my goals,
exhausting my body to compensate these aspirations and even burning my lashes
on the task given just to meet them. Looking back onto those very memorable days, I smiled. I smiled because those were the days that I had granted my selfless wish. Those were the times that break me,however shaped me into becoming tough as I am today. That was the moment that I used the two most power-filled words – “I can” - that makes me survive and make me what I am.
Such dream of greatness I believe offers me a wider horizon to explore what life has
in store for me. These accomplishments I possess has urged me to make a
difference in the lives of others. Ambitious as it may seem to be, but I always wanted to be great in everything I do (I loved to be on the spotlight). Great things need not to be in a package of extravagance. In my small ways I believe that my
simple greetings and sincere smile has inspired others and indeed brighten up
every heart (the power of smile).
I don’t have a fortune to share, but I have a big heart to extend. And I have the mind that guides every beat it makes. And in every cardiac cycle it completes makes a vital moment to deliver its purpose. And that purpose is to be a person for others -Sharing not just time but moment, not just love but life.
Our existence therefore allows us to become remarkable because we are equipped with extraordinary capacities that make the quality of our lives more joyful than ever before.An inspirational of Brian Norris’, becomes my mission statement in making my life worth living: “If I were to leave this world tomorrow, I’d leave this world knowing that I have made a difference in the lives of the people I met. Learning is the key to discovering and embracing purpose and once you know what your purpose is, you’re virtually unstoppable.”
Let me end by quoting the words of Og Mandino: We are not on this earth by chance; we are here for a purpose. And that purpose is to grow into a mountain and not shrink into a grain of sand.Henceforth, will I put my efforts to become the greatest mountain of all, and I will strain my potentials until they cry for mercy. But my skills, my heart, my body, my mind shall not stagnate and die. Lest I put them into good use, I have unlimited potentials, only a small portion of my brain do I employ; only a paltry of nerve do I flex. A hundredfold or more shall I increase my
accomplishments of yest.
I wished that one day when I will have my final rest and everybody celebrates another "all saint’s day", they would smile and say “Hey dude, I can’t forget you…You touched my life”.
Such excerpt from Marcus Aurelius writings lifted and encouraged me to be a better man I am today - believing that my existence is limited. If I live in errors, I make it even shorter. I went to the cemetery last November 1 celebrating all saint’s day with my friends. For no reason at all I went there just to enjoy the night with them, nothing more,nothing less. When everybody gets tired from chatting, laughing aloud and polluting their lungs with their cigars, a thought flashes in my mind – What if I’ll be under that "lapida" right there six feet below the ground? Will this mob of friends talk something good about me even if I wont hear them at all?
I remember 10 years ago, when I thought life is a never-ending struggle. With my
desire to become successful, I spent every single moment constructing my goals,
exhausting my body to compensate these aspirations and even burning my lashes
on the task given just to meet them. Looking back onto those very memorable days, I smiled. I smiled because those were the days that I had granted my selfless wish. Those were the times that break me,however shaped me into becoming tough as I am today. That was the moment that I used the two most power-filled words – “I can” - that makes me survive and make me what I am.
Such dream of greatness I believe offers me a wider horizon to explore what life has
in store for me. These accomplishments I possess has urged me to make a
difference in the lives of others. Ambitious as it may seem to be, but I always wanted to be great in everything I do (I loved to be on the spotlight). Great things need not to be in a package of extravagance. In my small ways I believe that my
simple greetings and sincere smile has inspired others and indeed brighten up
every heart (the power of smile).
I don’t have a fortune to share, but I have a big heart to extend. And I have the mind that guides every beat it makes. And in every cardiac cycle it completes makes a vital moment to deliver its purpose. And that purpose is to be a person for others -Sharing not just time but moment, not just love but life.
Our existence therefore allows us to become remarkable because we are equipped with extraordinary capacities that make the quality of our lives more joyful than ever before.An inspirational of Brian Norris’, becomes my mission statement in making my life worth living: “If I were to leave this world tomorrow, I’d leave this world knowing that I have made a difference in the lives of the people I met. Learning is the key to discovering and embracing purpose and once you know what your purpose is, you’re virtually unstoppable.”
Let me end by quoting the words of Og Mandino: We are not on this earth by chance; we are here for a purpose. And that purpose is to grow into a mountain and not shrink into a grain of sand.Henceforth, will I put my efforts to become the greatest mountain of all, and I will strain my potentials until they cry for mercy. But my skills, my heart, my body, my mind shall not stagnate and die. Lest I put them into good use, I have unlimited potentials, only a small portion of my brain do I employ; only a paltry of nerve do I flex. A hundredfold or more shall I increase my
accomplishments of yest.
I wished that one day when I will have my final rest and everybody celebrates another "all saint’s day", they would smile and say “Hey dude, I can’t forget you…You touched my life”.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
"KABATAAN, ITO ANG HAMON KO"
National Youth Congress (PRISAAP REGION XI)
November 20, 2008
Paligsaahan sa talumpatian
2nd placer
Isinulat ni/coach : Jodison A. Tanutan / Dina Barros-Ceballo
Tagapagsalita : JYAN DESSE M. SOLANO
_____________________________________________________________________________________
“Mindanao… ikaw ang lupa na pinagpala ng MAYKAPAL, mahal kita…mahal kita.”
Narinig nyo ang tamis ng himig ng awiting ito! Naintindihan nyo ba ang lirikong nais inkintal nito? Nadama ba ng kalamnan ng ating kamalayan ang tuon nito?
Mga kababayan, nasa kaibuturan ng puso ang kasagutan nito – PAG-IBIG. Aspetong kulang sa puso ng maraming kabataan.
Pinagpipitaganang mga lupon ng hurado, mga ginoo, gasgas na ang kasabihang “ANG KABATAAN ANG PAG-ASA NG BAYAN!” Totoo! Isang katotohanan na nawawalan ng saysay at tila baga isang pahina ng limot na kasaysayan. Ang mga pangarap na ito, ni Gat Jose Rizal ay naunsyami, sapagkat ang mga kabataan na siyang inaasahang pag-asa ng bayan ay halos lugmok na sa iba’t ibang gampanin na sumasabay sa takbo ng nagmamadaling mundo – mundo ng pagbabago. Ngunit walang pokus sa halagang pangkatauhan.
Hayag sa ating lahat ang kalagayan ng lipunan. Ang kasalatan sa maraming bagay. Higit sa lahat ang naglilipanang kaguluhan. Ang awiting aking sinambitla ay isang panaginip na ang titik ay di malirip. Sino ang papanday sa kapayapaan at kaunlarang ating hinahangad? Sino ang tatangkilik sa ating bansa? Sino ang yayakap at magpapayabong sa kulturang nagpapakilala sa ating pagkakilanlan? Diba ako, ikaw, tayong lahat.
Tayong mga kabataan na kinikilala sa lipunan na mapusok, maharot, walang katuturan at walang modo kadalasan. Aminin man natin o hindi, ganito ang marami sa atin hindi dahil sa kakulangan ng ibayong gabay ng ating mga magulang at mga guro ng ating paaralan kundi dahil sa ating kagustuhan at kahinaan.
Bagamat tayo ay mapusok at marupok. TAYO ang lakas at tagumpay ng lipunan. Kaya ang hamon ko liksi ng ating isipan, sigabo ng ating damdamin ay ating gamitin sa katuturan, itaguyod natin ang kaunlaran at palaganapin ang kapayapaan. Manalig tayo sa ating kakayahan, ano mang estado natin sa buhay ito ang maghahatid sa atin sa pedestal ng tagumpay.
Labis ang paghanga ko sa kabutihang asal na ipinamalas ng kagalanggalang na senador na si John Mc Cain ang katungali ni Barak Obama noong huling eleksyon sa Estados Unidos. Nang tanggapin nya ang kanyang pagkatalo, may kumirot sa puso ko at nangarap muli na sana lahat ng Pilipino ay katulad nito.
Ito’y isa sa mga katangiang dapat tularan, kaya pangalawang hamon ko sa inyo kung ang bawat isa sa atin ay magiging bahagi ng isang bakahin, ito’y magiging susi sa pagsulong ng isang mapayapa at tahimik na mundo.
Iilan kaya sa ating sa mga naririto ngayon ang may tapang at paninindigan na suungin ang mapanghamong mundo? Iilan kaya sa atin ngayon ang magiging kasangkapan upang ihanda ang mapayapang bukas. Kung ibig nating maging mabisang kasangkapan, sangkapan natin ang ating sarili ng mga katangiang nararapat.
Hindi lamang tayo dapat kapuso o kapamilya, kundi kabahagi ng bawat pagsulong ng mundo. Kaya hinihikayat ko kayong makibahagi upang pandayin ang minimithi nating tunay na kayamanan – KAPAYAPAAN!
Ang huling hamon ko sa inyo, simulan natin hindi bukas. Kundi NGAYON!
November 20, 2008
Paligsaahan sa talumpatian
2nd placer
Isinulat ni/coach : Jodison A. Tanutan / Dina Barros-Ceballo
Tagapagsalita : JYAN DESSE M. SOLANO
_____________________________________________________________________________________
“Mindanao… ikaw ang lupa na pinagpala ng MAYKAPAL, mahal kita…mahal kita.”
Narinig nyo ang tamis ng himig ng awiting ito! Naintindihan nyo ba ang lirikong nais inkintal nito? Nadama ba ng kalamnan ng ating kamalayan ang tuon nito?
Mga kababayan, nasa kaibuturan ng puso ang kasagutan nito – PAG-IBIG. Aspetong kulang sa puso ng maraming kabataan.
Pinagpipitaganang mga lupon ng hurado, mga ginoo, gasgas na ang kasabihang “ANG KABATAAN ANG PAG-ASA NG BAYAN!” Totoo! Isang katotohanan na nawawalan ng saysay at tila baga isang pahina ng limot na kasaysayan. Ang mga pangarap na ito, ni Gat Jose Rizal ay naunsyami, sapagkat ang mga kabataan na siyang inaasahang pag-asa ng bayan ay halos lugmok na sa iba’t ibang gampanin na sumasabay sa takbo ng nagmamadaling mundo – mundo ng pagbabago. Ngunit walang pokus sa halagang pangkatauhan.
Hayag sa ating lahat ang kalagayan ng lipunan. Ang kasalatan sa maraming bagay. Higit sa lahat ang naglilipanang kaguluhan. Ang awiting aking sinambitla ay isang panaginip na ang titik ay di malirip. Sino ang papanday sa kapayapaan at kaunlarang ating hinahangad? Sino ang tatangkilik sa ating bansa? Sino ang yayakap at magpapayabong sa kulturang nagpapakilala sa ating pagkakilanlan? Diba ako, ikaw, tayong lahat.
Tayong mga kabataan na kinikilala sa lipunan na mapusok, maharot, walang katuturan at walang modo kadalasan. Aminin man natin o hindi, ganito ang marami sa atin hindi dahil sa kakulangan ng ibayong gabay ng ating mga magulang at mga guro ng ating paaralan kundi dahil sa ating kagustuhan at kahinaan.
Bagamat tayo ay mapusok at marupok. TAYO ang lakas at tagumpay ng lipunan. Kaya ang hamon ko liksi ng ating isipan, sigabo ng ating damdamin ay ating gamitin sa katuturan, itaguyod natin ang kaunlaran at palaganapin ang kapayapaan. Manalig tayo sa ating kakayahan, ano mang estado natin sa buhay ito ang maghahatid sa atin sa pedestal ng tagumpay.
Labis ang paghanga ko sa kabutihang asal na ipinamalas ng kagalanggalang na senador na si John Mc Cain ang katungali ni Barak Obama noong huling eleksyon sa Estados Unidos. Nang tanggapin nya ang kanyang pagkatalo, may kumirot sa puso ko at nangarap muli na sana lahat ng Pilipino ay katulad nito.
Ito’y isa sa mga katangiang dapat tularan, kaya pangalawang hamon ko sa inyo kung ang bawat isa sa atin ay magiging bahagi ng isang bakahin, ito’y magiging susi sa pagsulong ng isang mapayapa at tahimik na mundo.
Iilan kaya sa ating sa mga naririto ngayon ang may tapang at paninindigan na suungin ang mapanghamong mundo? Iilan kaya sa atin ngayon ang magiging kasangkapan upang ihanda ang mapayapang bukas. Kung ibig nating maging mabisang kasangkapan, sangkapan natin ang ating sarili ng mga katangiang nararapat.
Hindi lamang tayo dapat kapuso o kapamilya, kundi kabahagi ng bawat pagsulong ng mundo. Kaya hinihikayat ko kayong makibahagi upang pandayin ang minimithi nating tunay na kayamanan – KAPAYAPAAN!
Ang huling hamon ko sa inyo, simulan natin hindi bukas. Kundi NGAYON!
"The Day We Learn"
“I get stinky, I get dirty, but see I learned”… The line is often heard in a milk commercial uttered by a little girl who stoutly stands for what she learned no matter what it takes her. Such act of that little girl is worthy of emulation. It has powerfully enriched the supremacy of positive thinking. Despite the struggle, that girl never sees the hardship but instead highlighted the wisdom she has gotten.
Everyday of our lives as educators, we encounter so many pressures: meeting deadlines, disappointments on students’ behaviors, sleepless nights, fatigue, brain cracking lesson planning, and all that we could think that presses us to say, we were already burned out. We then become self-centered mammal! We think big enough to underscore the hardship instead of the reward these encounters as being a teacher has brought us. Why don’t we celebrate that because we spend formulating time-table we submit requirements and reports on the expected dates. True, we often got disappointed with our students but after being saddened with the students’ behavior we acted on it appropriately – When we see them change, how do we give rewards to ourselves? Sleepless nights has painted eye bugs on our faces, fatigues has cause us muscle and back pain planning and preparing lessons – When we see these students learned, do we smile with a feeling of fulfillment?
What if all of us will think like that little girl in a NIDO commercial oozing with positive outlook in life? I believe that if we think positive the output would also be positive.
When we were born, we were a blank slate – the “TABOLARAZA”. While we grow, this blank slate will be filled with either positive or negative attitudes. The more positive experiences we had during our childhood years, the more we would develop the attitude of having positive sense, action, and perspective in life in the coming years. – The value of optimism.
Romans 8:28 says, “Everything works well for good according to God’s purpose.” A story was told about a man who is in a journey way back home; He brings with him his flashlight, his tent, and a chicken for their dinner. He has to cross a wild, dark and dangerous forest before he could reach the other town where his wife and kids are staying. He started to walk until he felt exhausted and decided to take a rest. He sat down and rests his back on a tree. Because he was very tired, he was able to sleep. When he woke up, he noticed that his chicken is gone, though sad, he stood up continue the journey until he reached home. We haven’t heard him complain of losing the chicken in the story right? Why do you think he didn’t do so? Friends, when he reached home he told his wife, we could have a perfect chicken soup for dinner, but that chicken we suppose to partake tonight has saved my life. If not for that chicken, you would no longer see your loving husband again. I could have been devoured by wild animals in the forest. They took the chicken instead of me.
Such a lovely story from a very optimistic man! He sees the positive side of the experience other than blaming and pointing fingers. Ladies and gentlemen, Optimism believes on the power of good things. It is in believing that we are always here for a purpose. And according to Og Mandino, that purpose is to grow into a mountain and not to shrink into a grain of sand.
We play the real wheel fortune of life, we may loose a turn some times, bankrupt at times, yet we never stopped spinning the wheel hoping to get the big prize which is success.
We bead with our real banker for more. When we think the offer is big enough, we deal and settle on it. Only to find out that there could have been more in your chosen briefcase. Regret and perhaps frustrated. But why not satisfaction and contentment?
We rush on pressing the button to give our answers to the question. We felt it was the perfect answer.
(error sound)
We realized we committed mistake.
The correct answer is given.
… And we learned.
Everyday of our lives as educators, we encounter so many pressures: meeting deadlines, disappointments on students’ behaviors, sleepless nights, fatigue, brain cracking lesson planning, and all that we could think that presses us to say, we were already burned out. We then become self-centered mammal! We think big enough to underscore the hardship instead of the reward these encounters as being a teacher has brought us. Why don’t we celebrate that because we spend formulating time-table we submit requirements and reports on the expected dates. True, we often got disappointed with our students but after being saddened with the students’ behavior we acted on it appropriately – When we see them change, how do we give rewards to ourselves? Sleepless nights has painted eye bugs on our faces, fatigues has cause us muscle and back pain planning and preparing lessons – When we see these students learned, do we smile with a feeling of fulfillment?
What if all of us will think like that little girl in a NIDO commercial oozing with positive outlook in life? I believe that if we think positive the output would also be positive.
When we were born, we were a blank slate – the “TABOLARAZA”. While we grow, this blank slate will be filled with either positive or negative attitudes. The more positive experiences we had during our childhood years, the more we would develop the attitude of having positive sense, action, and perspective in life in the coming years. – The value of optimism.
Romans 8:28 says, “Everything works well for good according to God’s purpose.” A story was told about a man who is in a journey way back home; He brings with him his flashlight, his tent, and a chicken for their dinner. He has to cross a wild, dark and dangerous forest before he could reach the other town where his wife and kids are staying. He started to walk until he felt exhausted and decided to take a rest. He sat down and rests his back on a tree. Because he was very tired, he was able to sleep. When he woke up, he noticed that his chicken is gone, though sad, he stood up continue the journey until he reached home. We haven’t heard him complain of losing the chicken in the story right? Why do you think he didn’t do so? Friends, when he reached home he told his wife, we could have a perfect chicken soup for dinner, but that chicken we suppose to partake tonight has saved my life. If not for that chicken, you would no longer see your loving husband again. I could have been devoured by wild animals in the forest. They took the chicken instead of me.
Such a lovely story from a very optimistic man! He sees the positive side of the experience other than blaming and pointing fingers. Ladies and gentlemen, Optimism believes on the power of good things. It is in believing that we are always here for a purpose. And according to Og Mandino, that purpose is to grow into a mountain and not to shrink into a grain of sand.
We play the real wheel fortune of life, we may loose a turn some times, bankrupt at times, yet we never stopped spinning the wheel hoping to get the big prize which is success.
We bead with our real banker for more. When we think the offer is big enough, we deal and settle on it. Only to find out that there could have been more in your chosen briefcase. Regret and perhaps frustrated. But why not satisfaction and contentment?
We rush on pressing the button to give our answers to the question. We felt it was the perfect answer.
(error sound)
We realized we committed mistake.
The correct answer is given.
… And we learned.
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