Ifugao

Goal-focus

No need to explain but to think and contemplate on the quote is great.

Kapuso: My eldest brother

Jan 30, '08
During my last visit to my family in Davao, my mother and siblings, I made a house-to-house stop-over for even just a few minutes. I met my auntie, my cousins, my brothers too in their house and home. It was random and my aim was to feel a relationship exisitng between and among the clan. It was a nice moment. My eldest brother I call Manong Boy enjoyed a lot of the lanzones we have during the visit. He has one grandson Mark.

Early this year, I learned about the sudden news about my eldest brother who got stroke last December 30. He got a heart attack and needs to battle for life now. I check my age and health too. Are we these old? Are we at this risks?

Papang got one stroke moment in 1998 and gone! My eldest brother got a stroke. He does'nt like doctors or hospitals not only because of high hospital bills but he has a phobia on injections according to my mother. His wife has to knock to our 2nd from the eldest brother to convince our eldest to have a medical check up. And there we learned. He got a stroke and his heart could only function now to 40%. He has to have an angiogram surgery to determine where and how the by-bass operation can be done soonest.

Problem: Will that guarrantee his survival? How much will the surgeries cost? Will there be enough resources to finance it?

The by-pass needs more than half million pesos! A solutiuon is to sell their house-and-lot to be used for the surgery in order to survive. Sell the house-and-lot where others living persons live in that house to save a life? But survival is not guarranteed. If he will just be in status quo, his other organs can be affected lessening his chance to survive.
I think my manong is just 55 or 58 years old? Im not sure but near if not at that range. He still can do many things in his age to a couple of decades I think. AS a CPA and a business partner, their company is a proof of his talent. His 3 professional children though still young have all graduated and have their own career.

And to where should life go? profession? marriage? Where is life destined to be? til where?
The ideals of a God-centered family is more difficult to achieve than understand. The conjugal dreams of a husband and wife may be good as a family goal. But the absence of God makes life so materialistic and relative or temporary.

The perfection of an individual, his maturity of mind and body, the happiness of a God-centered family that mutliplies their norms and mores to the community and tribe to their nation is a big role to be involved with. The proper dominion of the environment, the sorroundings including the global climate, the bio-fuels, the balancing of the animal ang plant kingdoms and many other things are broad enough to spend our time in life.
It is not only our own 4 walls that we need to cater in life. But health is a big factor that we need to bring and maintain in this great mission in life. Correct me if I am wrong.

AMMS offers Medical Mission In Lipa

Lipa- The community-outreach program of the getting much famous AMMS or Asian Mobile Medical Service team led by Dir. Roland Alcayaga spent their weekend in Lipa City, Batangas last January 27, 2008 to offer free medical and dental services to the needy residents in there. Dir. Alcayaga delivered a wonderful short opening statement during ceremonial opening program to start the medical mission in the area.
Dr. Cristy Mercado Baccangen, one of the AMMS Coordinators made the coordination of the local government and find ways to contact some other major sponsors like the DHESAAC 1977, the UPF or Universal Peace Foundation in making the project to its successful implementation.

Mrs. Jelly Torres-Alegre of the FFWPU Southern Luzon also paved way with the activity as one of the sponsors of the medical mission in Batangas with the help of the FFWPU regional and local centers in their FFWPU region. She offered some lines of inspirations from their FFWPU ideals to the public and medical staff too.

Some AMMS staff were so energetic offering their free and voluntary services. Some of them like Dr. Aileen Ado-an, were doing the registration of the patients, gave medical check-up and various dental treatment;

Dr. Cristy Baccangen who is from Lipa, also invited her medical friends to help and join the medical misisons. Some of them gave general and optical check-up, tested the patient's eye reading capacity; test their blood pressures, and have pedia- medical treatment to mention a few.

hundreds of patients were treated during the day's medical outreach.

Sumo Wrestling- a Religious Sports

Yesterday was a nice day for me, not to mention my health struggles.

The morning Longman seminar for English teachers was quite good with teaching strategies presented by 2 lecturers. But the day was more exciting for me during the afternoon sumo wrestling championship games held in Tokyo.

I dont spend money to enjoy my simple sports desires. Watching the TV and utube clips are fine for my simple joy.

But since the 2008 start of the New Year Grand Sumo wrestling tournament in Tokyo, I was already monitoring the games during the evening news. And I could understand somehow the nature of the games. It is a dual sports played by rotation. The professional sumo tournament is framed within 2-week time. There is no elimination but one has to face and fight all the qualified wrestlers.

One unique in the game is the ritual based on a Buddhism and Shintoism approach, seemingly. From the calling of the players by the Shinto priest-dressed Referree to the stretching rituals, bowing rituals, the sitting position before the fight, the face-to-face silent meeting of the players in front of the chief referree to the start of the wresting bout depending on the same time the matched two wrestlers start the game by standing and attacking each other.

Mongolian yokozuna Hakuho passed arguably his toughest test with flying colors Sunday, beating rival yokozuna Asashoryu in a final showdown to win his third straight title with victory at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament. Yokozuna is the highest rank among the professional sumo wrestlers awarded when he became the champion in the whole tournament. Lower rank is called ozeki.

Hakuho, who had determined that he could not lose to a rival who had been away from the raised-ring for so long, got an excellent jump at the face off with his right hand on Asashoryu's "mawashi" belt for a firm grapple.Asashoryu tried everything within his power, lifting his rival up twice in the air, but Hakuho never budged before deploying a perfectly timed overarm throw for the win at Ryogoku Kokugikan, (see this video on their yesterday fight. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thxwT_S5Bq4).

Internally, I saw Hakuho looking more abel-type and humble than his rival Asashoryu, who looked vulgar, unrazorred with his beard, and appeared over-proud of his capacity.

In a battle of ozeki, Bulgarian Kotooshu ushered out veteran Kaio (8-7) to finish with a 9-6 record. Ozeki Kotomitsuki just passed the grade with an 8-7 mark after dispatching of sekiwake Aminishiki, who finished on 5-10.

This is one Japanese cultural and dual sports I learned to know and aprreciate. Nevertheless, there are behind the curtain issues that came out about sumo wrestling when one junior trainee died inside his stable. A kind of hazing case came out.

Cooperative Business Venturing by OFW-m (overseas Foreign Worker-members): A Study

Rationale

The various ways of fundraising activities done by organizations including NGO's or church to OFW-m or Overseas Foreign Worker-members are getting frequent not to mention their monthly tithing-obligations. Of course, their families and extended families are part of their monthly breakdowns. But as their own children are growing fast and are entering high schools aside from those who are still in kindergartens and elementary schools, these working parents and OFWM are getting sleepless to consider the future of many.


The GPF Manila 2007 became a model to all CD's and NL's of the UPF and UM Movements. This year 2008 the 2nd GPF Philippines will still be hosted. The next year, it will be WCSF. These activities and major programs that are thrown to OFWM's organization called the Fil-Jap Blessed Families Association or Commando as commonly known. In a sense, the yearly programs supported will not be extinguished from the burning of fire of commitments they are shouldering.

Local and regional centers where they come from are keeping in touch to them for financial support as GPF, educational campaigns and seminar cannot be stopped as their implementing roles to fulfill the missions on the providential restoration.


The three major areas cited above are getting bigger year after year to every OFW-m.

In Dubai, Pres. Gloria M. Arroyo said she would launch a hedging facility for OFWs as well as two investment tools, in line with her efforts to transform them to what she called "Overseas Filipino Investors." By giving OFWs investment opportunities, the President was hoping for the day when working abroad would become a mere "career option" for Filipinos, who seek employment abroad in search of better pay. This is phenomenal. The OFW-m must have a clear dream now to set not only as individuals or familyman but as a team who love his homeland.

Cases and Analyses


People's skills are honed in some of the world's most complex enterprises, but when they come home, these overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) engage in businesses far from their expertise and many end up losers.

The common lament is that there are just no opportunities here, or if there are, little is known about the places where these engineers and technicians may fit in.

There are newly formed group like the Global Filipino Nation (GFN) seeking to address this problem. Instead of spending for foreign consultants, the business sector can tap these OFWs, according to their spokesperson Jun Aguilar. He said the government should begin gathering data on returning OFWs to harness their potential as specialists and experts.

Case 1: Filipinos in world's biggest dairy desalination
Jun Aguilar noted that the world's biggest desalination plant in the industrial city of Jubail in Saudi Arabia and the largest integrated dairy farm in Riyadh, also in Saudi Arabia, were manned by Filipino engineers and technicians.


Mr. Aguilar gave as an example engineers in their 50s and 60s who have decided to come home from the Middle East upon their retirement.

These engineers are often treated like they have nothing useful to contribute anymore, according to Mr. Aguilar, who is also an engineer who worked in Saudi Arabia.
"Instead of paying thousands of dollars to hire foreign consultants, companies should seriously consider maximizing the use of these returning OFWs," he said.

Database
Mr. Aguilar said he knew of one civil engineer in his 50s who used to work as a structural superintendent in Saudi Arabia.
"When the engineer came back to the Philippines, he was employed as a consultant," he said. However, the instability of the job forced the engineer to reapply for work abroad.
"He was an expert in his field for many decades, and yet he could not be employed by companies who may need his skills because of the lack of data on returning migrant workers," Mr. Aguilar said.

Reintegration program
The Department of Labor and Employment has announced that more than 75 percent of businesses initiated by OFWs have been unsuccessful. This has prompted the creation of the Center for OFW Reintegration program. However, the government`s reintegration programs remain unsustainable, with OFWs engaging in businesses that they do not have the heart to invest in.


National party for OFWs
"One of the things we discussed during our preplanning conference last July was putting up a national party for overseas Filipinos, which would be at par with the major political parties in the country," Aguilar said. He said the GFN would not be a party-list group.

Aguilar said his group would work to increase awareness among global Filipinos of the importance of absentee voting and lobby the government to act on the continued appreciation of the peso against the dollar and the high cost of remitting their earnings.Another convenor, Victor Barrios, said the GFN would hold a conference on May 8 to 11 to flesh out its programs of action.
"We believe that effective governance should be anchored on the political, economic and social empowerment of the global Filipino," Barrios said.

The GFN includes the Global Filipinos Coalition, National Federation of Filipino and American Associations, Filipino Migrant Workers Group, Economic Resource Center for Overseas Filipinos, Ugat Foundation, Center for Strategic Studies, OFW Congress, Overseas Filipino Caucus for Development and Miriam College's Institute of Migration Studies.

Case 2: Gokongwie's business challenges

Last November 2007, Businessman tycoon John Gokongwie testified before the Ad Congress about the three latest challenges that his JG Summit faced.

Challenge 1
" In 1996, we decided to start an airline. At the time, the dominant airline in the country was PAL, and if you wanted to travel cheaply, you did not fly. You went by sea or by land.

However, my son Lance and I had a vision for Cebu Pacific: We wanted every Filipino to fly.

Inspired by the low-cost carrier models in the United States, we believed that an airline based on the no-frills concept would work here. No hot meals. No newspaper. Mono-class seating. Operating with a single aircraft type. Faster turn around time. It all worked, thus enabling Cebu Pacific to pass on savings to the consumer.

How did we do this? By sticking to our philosophy of "low cost, great value ."

And we stick to that philosophy to this day. Cebu Pacific offers incentives. Customers can avail themselves of a tiered pricing scheme, with promotional seats for as low a P1. The earlier you book, the cheaper your ticket.

Cebu Pacific also made it convenient for passengers by making online booking available. This year, 1.25 million flights will be booked through our website. This reduced our distribution costs dramatically.

Low cost. Great value.

When we started 11 years ago, Cebu Pacific flew only 360,000 passengers, with 24 daily flights to 3 destinations. This year, we expect to fly more than five million passengers, with over 120 daily flights to 20 local destinations and 12 Asian cities. Today, we are the largest in terms of domestic flights, routes and destinations.

We also have the youngest fleet in the region after acquiring new Airbus 319s and 320s. In January, new ATR planes will arrive. These are smaller planes that can land on smaller air strips like those in Palawan and Caticlan. Now you don't have to take a two-hour ride by mini-bus to get to the beach.

Largely because of Cebu Pacific, the average Filipino can now afford to fly. In 2005, 1 out of 12 Filipinos flew within a year. In 2012, by continuing to offer low fares, we hope to reduce that ratio to 1 out of 6. We want to see more and more Filipinos see their country and the world!


Challenge No. 2:
In 2003, we established Digitel Mobile Philippines, Inc. and developed a brand for the mobile phone business called Sun Cellular. Prior to the launch of the brand, we were actually involved in a transaction to purchase PLDT shares of the majority shareholder.

The question in everyone's mind was how we could measure up to the two telecom giants. They were entrenched and we were late by eight years! PLDT held the landline monopoly for quite a while, and was first in the mobile phone industry. Globe was a younger company, but it launched digital mobile technology here.

But being a late player had its advantages. We could now build our platform from a broader perspective. We worked with more advanced technologies and intelligent systems not available ten years ago. We chose our suppliers based on the most cost-efficient hardware and software. Being a Johnny-come- lately allowed us to create and launch more innovative products, more quickly.
All these provided us with the opportunity to give the consumers a choice that would rock their world. The concept was simple. We would offer Filipinos to call and text as much as they want for a fixed monthly fee. For P250 a month, they could get in touch with anyone within the Sun network at any time. This means great savings of as much as 2/3 of their regular phone bill! Suddenly, we gained traction. Within one year of its introduction, Sun hit one million customers.

Once again, the paradigm shifts - this time in the telecom industry. Sun's 24/7 Call and Text unlimited changed the landscape of mobile-phone usage.

Today, we have over 4 million subscribers and 2000 cell sites around the archipelago. In a country where 97% of the market is pre-paid, we believe we have hit on the right strategy.

Sun Cellular is a Johnny-come- lately, but it's doing all right. It is a third player, but a significant one, in an industry where Cassandras believed a third player would perish. And as we have done in the realm of air travel, so have we done in the telecom world: We have changed the marketplace.

In the end, it is all about making life better for the consumer by giving them choices.

Challenge No. 3:
In 2004, we launched C2, the green tea drink that would change the face of the local beverage industry -- then, a playground of cola companies. Iced tea was just a sugary brown drink served bottomless in restaurants. For many years, hardly was there any significant product innovation in the beverage business.

Admittedly, we had little experience in this area. Universal Robina Corporation is the leader in snack foods but our only background in beverage was instant coffee. Moreover, we would be entering the playground of huge multinationals. We decided to play anyway.

It all began when I was in China in 2003 and noticed the immense popularity of bottled iced tea. I thought that this product would have huge potential here. We knew that the Philippines was not a traditional tea-drinking country since more familiar to consumers were colas in returnable glass bottles. But precisely, this made the market ready for a different kind of beverage. One that refreshes yet gives the health benefits of green tea. We positioned it as a "spa" in a bottle. A drink that cools and cleans…thus, C2 was born.

C2 immediately caught on with consumers. When we launched C2 in 2004, we sold 100,000 bottles in the first month. Three years later, Filipinos drink around 30 million bottles of C2 per month. Indeed, C2 is in a good place.

With Cebu Pacific, Sun Cellular, and C2, the JG Summit team took control of its destiny. And we did so in industries where old giants had set the rules of the game. It's not that we did not fear the giants. We knew we could have been crushed at the word go. So we just made sure we came prepared with great products and great strategies. We ended up changing the rules of the game instead.

There goes the principle of self-determination, again. I tell you, it works for individuals as it does for companies. And as I firmly believe, it works for nations.

I have always wondered, like many of us, why we Filipinos have not lived up to our potential. We have proven we can. Manny Pacquiao and Efren Bata Reyes in sports. Lea Salonga and the UP Madrigal Singers in performing arts. Monique Lhuillier and Rafe Totenco in fashion. And these are just the names made famous by the media. There are many more who may not be celebrities but who have gained respect on the world stage.

But to be a truly great nation, we must also excel as entrepreneurs before the world. We must create Filipino brands for the global market place.

If we want to be philosophical, we can say that, with a world-class brand, we create pride for our nation. If we want to be practical, we can say that, with brands that succeed in the world, we create more jobs for our people, right here.

Then, we are able to take part in what's really important—giving our people a big opportunity to raise their standards of living, giving them a real chance to improve their lives.

We can do it. Our neighbors have done it. So can we.
In the last 54 years, Korea worked hard to rebuild itself after a world war and a civil war destroyed it. From an agricultural economy in 1945, it shifted to light industry, consumer products, and heavy industry in the '80s. At the turn of the 21 st century, the Korean government focused on making Korea the world's leading IT nation. It did this by grabbing market share in key sectors like semiconductors, robotics, and biotechnology.

Today, one remarkable Korean brand has made it to the list of Top 100 Global Brands: Samsung. Less then a decade ago, Samsung meant nothing to consumers. By focusing on quality, design, and innovation, Samsung improved its products and its image. Today, it has surpassed the Japanese brand Sony. Now another Korean brand, LG Collins, is following in the footsteps of Samsung. It has also broken into the Top 100 Global Brands list.

What about China? Who would have thought that only 30 years after opening itself up to a market economy, China would become the world's fourth largest economy? Goods made in China are still thought of as cheap. Yet many brands around the world outsource their manufacturing to this country. China's own brands—like Lenovo, Haier, Chery QQ, and Huawei—are fast gaining ground as well. I have no doubt they will be the next big electronics, technology and car brands in the world.

Lee Kwan Yu's book "From Third World to First" captures Singapore's aspiration to join the First World. According to the book, Singapore was a trading post that the British developed as a nodal point in its maritime empire. The racial riots there made its officials determined to build a "multiracial society that would give equality to all citizens, regardless of race, language or religion."

When Singapore was asked to leave the Malaysian Federation of States in 1965, Lee Kwan Yew developed strategies that he executed with single-mindedness despite their being unpopular. He and his cabinet started to build a nation by establishing the basics: building infrastructure, establishing an army, weeding out corruption, providing mass housing, building a financial center. Forty short years after, Singapore has been transformed into the richest South East Asian country today, with a per capita income of US$32,000.

These days, Singapore is transforming itself once more. This time it wants to be the creative hub in Asia, maybe even the world. More and more, it is attracting the best minds from all over the world in filmmaking, biotechnology, media, and finance. Meantime, Singaporeans have also created world-class brands: Banyan Tree in the hospitality industry, Singapore Airlines in the Airline industry and Singapore Telecoms in the telco industry.

I often wonder: Why can't the Philippines, or a Filipino, do this?

Fifty years after independence, we have yet to create a truly global brand. We cannot say the Philippines is too small because it has 86 million people. Switzerland, with 9 million people, created Nestle. Sweden, also with 9 million people, created Ericsson . Finland, even smaller with five million people, created Nokia. All three are major global brands, among others.

Yes, our country is well-known for its labor, as we continue to export people around the world. And after India, we are grabbing a bigger chunk of the pie in the call-center and business-process- outsourcing industries. But by and large, the Philippines has no big industrial base, and Filipinos do not create world-class products.

We should not be afraid to try—even if we are laughed at. Japan, laughed at for its cars, produced Toyota. Korea, for its electronics, produced Samsung. Meanwhile, the Philippines' biggest companies 50 years ago—majority of which are multinational corporations such as Coca-Cola, Procter and Gamble, and Unilever Philippines, for example—are still the biggest companies today. There are very few big, local challengers.

Case 3: OFW turned entrep

ENGINEER-INVENTOR RODERICO Cane, 47, has come a long way from a one-man banana catsup maker to manager of his own factory.
This former overseas worker, who used to work for a multinational food company, came home to Butuan City in Agusan del Sur in 1994 and started his own banana catsup experiment, supplying five gallons a day to a restaurant.
With only a single pot in his sister’s humble kitchen, he took the arduous task of stirring the sauce. “I had to stir the sauce for some time and it would strain my arms,” he said.
So he did the next best thing. He invented a stirring gadget to rid himself of manual work and hasten production time.
Soon, Cane was producing 50 gallons a day and the rate progressed to 150, moving from the kitchen to the backyard. He began to hire assistants, too.
He attributes the growth and expansion through the innovativeness of fabricating his own cooking paraphernalia. “I invented them because I knew it would get to save me a lot of money and make the production process easier.”
He was right. Investing on expensive utilities would surely drain his capital.
Being an industrial and mechanical engineer did the trick for him. “It pays if you have this two backgrounds when you get into this kind of business, you get to be creative in the production process.” Cane said.
But if the production angle was solved, there was marketing and promotion to contend with. People hardly heard of a banana catsup that time, and restaurants were hesitant to use them, more so if it was locally made.
“I had to convince them that my catsup was suitable, even taste better, for daily use,” Cane said.
Today, the inventor runs Joy Tablesauce Co., which manufactures Joy Banana Catsup. The product is sold throughout Mindanao and some islands in the Visayas.
The company employs 42 regulars and 26 piece-raters. It has its own factory plant in the family-owned lot.
Cane is currently president of the Caraga Regional Association of Traders and Entrepreneurs in Food (Create), which was founded in 2005. He has been invited often by the government and private sectors to share his experience.

Clinching paragraph

Mr Aguilar told us in his case to imagine how productive it would be if we could bring these Filipinos home to replicate the technology in the country. Given the right opportunities, the returning workers could contribute their expertise to help the country.

The government should begin tracking down world-class Filipinos who want to help the country and include them in the database. "

There are a lot of these people. We just have no idea where they are," But if we have the information about the OFW-m we should thoroughly discuss and study its reintegration programs for OFWs and OFW-m.

It is also noted that aside from the social and welfare framework, it would be better to push for the political empowerment of OFWs.

Gokongwie uses the policy of low cost great value. On late product-service business venturing, being a late player had its advantages. He could build his platform from a broader perspective. They worked with more advanced technologies and intelligent systems not available ten years ago. They chose thier suppliers based on the most cost-efficient hardware and software. Being a Johnny-come- lately allowed them to create and launch more innovative products, more quickly.

But already, hats off to Filipino entrepreneurs making strides to globalize their brands.

Goldilocks has had much success in the Unites States and Canada, where half of its customers are non-Filipinos. Coffee-chain Figaro may be a small player in the coffee world today, but it is making the leap to the big time. Two Filipinas, Bea Valdez and Tina Ocampo , are now selling their Philippine-made jewelry and bags all over the world. Their labels are now at Barney's and Bergdorf's in the U.S. and in many other high-end shops in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

When Gokongwei started thier own foray outside the Philippines 30 years ago, it wasn't a walk in the park. They set up a small factory in Hong Kong to manufacture Jack and Jill potato chips there. Today, they are all over Asia. They have the number-one-potato- chips brand in Malaysia and Singapore. They are the leading biscuit manufacturer in Thailand, and a significant player in the candy market in Indonesia. Their Aces cereal brand is a market leader in many parts of China. Their C2 is now doing very well in Vietnam, selling over 3 million bottles a month there, after only 6 months in the market. Soon, they will launch C2 in other South East Asian markets. Mr. Gokongwei is now 81 years old. But he does not forget the little boy that he was in the palengke in Cebu. He still want to make good. He still don't mind going up against those older and better than him. He still believe hard work will not fail him. And he still believe in people willing to think the same way. Through the years, the market place has expanded: between cities, between countries, between continents. He wants to urge everyone to think bigger. Why serve 86 million when you can sell to four billion Asians?

And that's just to start them off. Because there is still the world beyond Asia. When everyone go back to their offices, he challenged them to think of ways to sell and market their products and services to the world. Create world-class brands. Anybody can if he will really try. He did. As a boy, he sold peanuts from his backyard. Today, he sell snacks to the world.

Cane has proven and said that his struggle and perseverance are proof that local food entrepreneurs can make it, as long as their heart and mind is into it deeply.

Recommendation and conclusion

The Filipino-Japanese Blesed Community who are based in Japan has started a real pioneering of life. Starting from "wakaranai" speaking tongue, to no job, to garbagge-picking and surplus maneuvering, to familyhood to economic and moral survival by their own. More than fifteen years have passed. Enough time has passed to consider them to have stood up in their solid foundation. Others can speak Nihonggo, others have good job and nice salary, most have their family and children not to mention a few who still are really striving to progress.

A Fil-Jap family of seven members who stay in a danchi need to have at least 20 mang per month to survive with his children in the elementary and kindergarten. If the two husband and wife worked for their livelihood and have a minimum of 15 mang per month, the faimly can easily survive in a simple way of living like no car, no ketai and other additional monthly bills. They can have good savings too in a month. More if the family is less than seven. If they are only four, the better. MOre savings. Good for the collegiate education of the kids in the future.

And what for more in the future?

In considering to go back to Philippines, it will be too late to start anew in there if they will go home on their 60's or retiring age. While in their 40's, perhaps there is enough time to plan and start in the Philippines now.

What to start?

A livelihood or business venture that will help as a foundation in your going back is good to envision. Once you are back in the Philippines with an operational business in there makes a good life to go back home. It will be more spiritually blessed when living back to Philippines would allow you to help and involve in the providence with somehting in your pocket too.

From the cases above, the following are recommended:

1. The career experiences of every OFW-m shall be put in a database to have a catalogue of areas of specializations from them, that whenver consultancy and busienss ventures are aligned to their areas, they can be tapped as prime consultant, adviser if not core staff in the business;

2. The desire of business venturing by many shall be taken as a team by integrating OFW's and OFW-m's to a cooperative if not a corporation to bring all resources, including manpower and expertise and financing investment to a more solid ground. This will lessen the probability of mistakes and shortfalls as history says. Specialists who profess with their own educational and experiential background who can do start from feasibility studies, statistical researches, legal and professional implementation to operational management of a corporate business should take a lead in proposing a business project to venture, plan and organize the business cooperative and tap operational capables to implement the approved business program and project/s.

3. Investing to business project shall be open to blessed families and member including non-members who have the orientation about the blessed community in order to avoid misunderstanding on spiritual responsibilities like donation and tithes in the future.

4. Corporate Laws and Cooperative policies shall be taken as legal bases in the implementation of the project to make things harmonious with the government authority.

6. Communication and information dessimination shall propagate the program and gather feedbacks as part of consultany and transparency of the program and project/s with the involved public and community.

7. Business Proposals shall be given chances to be presented to the group for deliberations before a the leader and core group prior to approval of the majority of the body.

Appendix

Definition of terms

OFW- Overseas Foreign Workers

OFW-m- Members of UM-Philippines and/or affiliates who are OFW's or wo are working in foreign countries.

Commando- members of the Filipino-Japanese Blessed Community based in Japan

GPF- Global Peace Festival

UPF - Universal Peace Fedaration

UM- Unification Movement, an umbrella movment of the various organizaitons founded and /or related to the ideals of Rev. and Mrs. Sun Myung Moon.

WCSF- World Culture and Sports Festival

CD- Continental Director of UM and UPF

NL- National Leader of UM Philippines

Rev. and Mrs. Hyung Jin Moon with HAN-PHIL Families

Many Filipinos and their testimonies proved on their special happiness to be with the True Family but this is rare to most. But the Filipina sisters who were blessed to Korean brothers and are now set as Han-Phil International Family in Korea are so blessed to have their Saturdays on Divine Principle Workshops and Sunday Service with no other than Rev. Hyung Jin Moon delivering hte lectures and messages respectively.

The Chung Buk Region along with other blessed families living in Seoul and nearby areas are so blessed with the presence and services of one of the True Family members directly educating and inspiring the Filipinas. The old and memories of Chung Pa dong church are so historical and are kept with their pose and in every heart of our members too.

The outgoing officers of their organization, Mrs Luz Sofia and Sis. August are hopeful to hand the responsibility to the new set of officers this year to Mrs. Loida and Mrs. Nina Rosario- president and vice president-internal affairs, respectively.

And who is not blessed with this pose with a shoulder tap and award with the True Family? Sis Angie Dang-il-Yoon, the former Itinerary Worker in the Philippines and one of the few pioneers in the late 70's in the Philippines is awarded by Rev. Hyung Jin Moon, as Perfect in Attendance in the past Divine Principle weekly workshop. Congratulations to the Han-Phil leaders and members. Thank you to our dearest loving Rev. and Mrs. Hyung Jin Moon in taking care of the Filipinas in Korea.

Sa likurang pananaw (back view)

It has always a big importance and weight for me to look at a situation not only from its front-view but the other way around. See the consequence if not the other factors or people involved who contribute as well to the frontal presentation and event.

Marami ang naaaliw sa mga natatanging palabas habagn pinagmamasdan nila ang nakakaaliw na teatro. Ngunit di nila alintana na merong mga tao sa likuran na halos di na mapunasan ang mga pawis nila para lamang marating at makuha ang dapat na oras ng kanilang paghahanda sa mga susunod na mga eksena.

Ganoon din ang buhay ng mga nagsasakiripisyong mga misyonaryo at boluntaryo sa Pilipinas. May isang lider na de-pamilyado, may asawa't anak. Ang nagdededeng anak kung sa Maynila nakatira ay nangangailangan ng di bababa sa P3,000 bawat buwan para sa kanyang mga kailangan, gatas, diapers, bottled water, gamit, damit at iba pa. Wala pa ang mga pagkain ng mag asawa doon, renta ng bahay, tubig, ilaw at iba pang pangangailangan. Eto ay kakarampot na makikitang sakripisyo ng mga nasa frontline mission sa Pilipinas.

In the present system of UM Philippines, only a selected few, mostly leaders who have a national positions but not all, could recieve a monthly allowance ranging from P7,000 to P20,000 a month. This is due to the limitation of the raised collections from the donors and fundraisers. But we need not deny the physical needs of the leaders down to the local leaders and the full-time members too particularly those who have their family but work as fulltime volunteers.

During the last evaluation of the successful GPF 2007, it was heard that the CD threw all his anger and shout to all the leaders in their meeting. I could not directly get the real scenario on why the leaders, after all their hardships would still deserve to be treated like that by the CD as a representative leader of a church. Many local leaders and members who hear about it stumble down on that terrible and bizarre moment. That was also a part of the back stage scenario althoug the event has passed several weeks already. It was an evaluation meeting on the GPF 2007.

A local home member mentioned too that their local leader largely depended on one homemember's financial support for their whole delegations to attend the GPF 2007, i.e. travelling expenses, registration fees, foods and the like. The local center has not prepared a budget for their local delegation to finance their attendance to it. Largely, the homemember spent much for more than 30 members who joined their delegation from more than 400 kms away to Manila.

One affiliate group who has a major assembly too during the GPF 2007 has borrowed a large amount to make their required downpayment in Manila Hotel. Up until now, the borrowed amount is still unreturned far from the due date as agreed deadline of payment. Fly it high as they see the beauteous frontal view in the sky.

And where will all these sacrifices end up? Will there still be a national leader to stand in humility to recieve a shout of a CD infront of his local leaders and subordinates after a largely successful international rally is organzied and done? Until when will a CD remain so vocal in his anger and deem to shout to these humble and objective Filipino members?

Bulaklak ng Aloe Vera

Basta ang alam ko, aloe vera ay herbal para sa kutis, pampaganda daw ng balat, gamot sa sugat o napasong balat.

Di ko alam pa ang iba. Pero minsan sa Dumagete ata yon, nakita kong isang tao at lalaking German na baog ata at di nakakaanak ay pumitas ng dahon ng aloe vera, pumunta sa banyo at di ko na alam ang ginawa.

Dito sa Japan, ng mapaso ang anak ko sa hinawakang parte ng fire-place, dahon ng aloe vera ang pinampahid ng lola nya ng wlaa siyang makitang ointment dito.

Pero sa aking sorpesa, may bulaklak din pala ang halamang aloe vera. At dahil perstaym kong makakita ng bulaklak nitong sumisibol pa lang, eto at nakunan ko din nang larawan ang aloe verang eto.

Kung sana namukadkad na eto, pero pagkakataon lang kasi na masilayan ko ang sumisibol pang eto. Sa hugis nya, tila maganda din ang bulaklak nito.

Kayo, nakakita na ba kayo ng bulaklak ng aloe vera? Sheyr naman plis.

Human dignity and communication

When a phone rings, you don't know who is calling. You pick the phone and say "Hello". Perhaps, your hello may mean far from greeting the caller, but a mere word to let the caller knows you are ready to receive his/her message. Hmmmm. There should be phone ethics anyway.

But when the caller is asking for a longer talk, maybe, you will simply say sorry that you are about to go or you are a bit busy to entertain it. If the caller is asking for someone else and not around or doesn't like to receive the call, you may just say, pls. try to call after the day. That makes you save your time with dignity.

In today's IT age, the chat or messenger technology is a cheap and a good medium of communication too. You can tele-communicate easily without any additional charge in your Internet except when you are in a cafe.

But when you send a message to an online buddy, and you don't get an answer, you may speculate of something. He may be far from his desk, busy, or has stepped out. Moreover, if the online buddy will suddenly log-off after you have sent you message, what else can you speculate? Is it the same when you make a phone call but the receiver just bang the phone down as he hear your voice speaking on the phone?

Let us know more what is dignity in communication arts.

Dasalan 2

Mapaglikhang Ama ng sanlibutan,

Sa inyo ko po gustong ipaabot ang mensaheng eto. Medyo matagal man na di tayo nagkakausap ng matino, sana, sa ngayon ay mapaabot ko ang tinitibok ng puso ko.

Sa mga nakalipas na linggo, medyo lubog din ang katawan ko sa dinarama ko. Ngunit di pa naman ako bumibigay po. May pananampalataya pa rin akong, gagaling at susuko rin ang mga maruruming ewan na palaging bumubuntot sa aking kalusugan. Patawad po.

Ngunit ng malaman ko na sa aming simbahan ay medyo makulay at madugo din ang mga nagiging pangyayari, tila di ko mapalampas na di sumangguni sa inyo.

Tila madami rin siguro ang mga kaluluwang nag papalakpakan nang ang isang lider na Filipino ay natawag upang maging isa sa apat na lider lamang ang magbigay pugay sa Tanging Magulang at sa Panginoon sa pamamagitan ng pagbigay bow diretso sa Kanila. Dalawang Koreano, isang Hapon at isang Pinoy. Tila ata, matunog ang bansang Pilipinas sa ngayon matapos ang kapitapitagang GPF sa Manila.

Ganoon pa man, sanay di magbigay abala o problema sa mga Kontinetanl Direktor ang naging ehemplo ng Manila tungkol sa GPF. Kung eto nga bay modelo, di naman kailangang tumbasan siguro ang mga naging makulay at tagumpay ng GPF sa Manila.

Lord, tanong lang po. Bakit sa kabila ng pagdakila ng TP at ng kanilang mga anak sa GPF, bakit kailangang lait-laitin at sigawan pa ng isang lalaking koreano ang mga lider ng Pinas? Masakit na po ang mga naging sakripisyo doon. Pinag dadasal na rin po namin ang mga kakulangan kung bakit di man naging perpekto ang mga ginawang palno at pamamalakad ng GPF. Ganoon din po ba ang kapalit sa mga pagdadakila ng mnudo sa tagumpay na yon?

Bakit po, kailangang kahit sa telepono ay tatawagan pa ng koreano at pagagalitan ang isang Pinoy na lider sa oras ng tulugan na ilalng oras na nga lang. Wala na rin po bang dapat na magandang liwanag na maiabot sa mga liders po ang mga lider ng konteneto? Tuloy, di na nakatulog ang lider naming pinoy. Napasugod na lang sa isang simbahang katedral at doon na umiyak magdamag. At kinaumagahan e, mga mata nyay maga na lang.

Sana po, sa halip na sigaw at panlalait, sana idaan na lang nila sa propesyonal o maka-magulang na paraan ang kanilang gustong sasabihin, lalo na kung nasa pagtitipon din lang silang lahat.

Sana po, wala na lang ang mga husga-husga. SA Evalaution naman po, dapat lang na makita ang mistakes, weaknesses at strengths ng tao o organisasyon. Di po ba?

Salamat po sa time nyo po ha. Sa uulitin.

Amen

Hello Friends!

We may be knocking to our friends when we are begging for help. And there are times that when we have something to be proud of that we show these things to our friends.

It is but natural to help friends who have met some pressures and limitations or struggles in life. However, we also need to check that we are requesting a favor and help from these frineds and are not a director to give them a command.

It is on the time of a person that unexpectedly, a friend or two would come along the way to see or greet you beyond request or feeler. And a friend is there to offer moral support and greetings aside from the fellowhip of meeting again.

Sometimes, this moment becomes rare. Sometimes, this moment becomes a dream. Sometimes it becomes a nightmare. And there are times that many of them will march to you if not with you on your last farewell.

Parentism and AI

After reading an article about problems with AI or artificial insemination, it puts me to ponder on AI cases as well as the four position foundation or 4PF goal of the blessed married couples who could not have their biological chemistry to have their own child.

Pregnancy as well as sexual activities before the blessing of marriage is not only prohibited among the many churches like in Christian beliefs or tradition. Adultery after the blessing-marriage is also prohibited.

But beyond the desires of sex, married man or couples aim to have their child. And what if their chemistry and health won't allow them?

Child adoption is a way to help them. But in science and medical developments, doctors are offering the AI and other methods to help the couples have their own biological child. Artificial Insemination or AI is a medical process where medical doctors mediate to assist the sperm cells of the husband to reach and fertilize the egg cells of the wife giving a chance to have the wife develop the pregnancy. But deeper problems cannot be solved here if the husband could not have even a single sperm cell or the wife to produce a single egg cell. A third party called donor is available. But is this allowable in the Christian belief and tradition?

The cell from a third party is out from the blessing of the couple. The cell which will serve as a seed of life of a child, does not come out due to love. It comes from somewhere outside the realm of true love. In a sense, AI for the blessed couple can be allowable but AID is outside the blessing of the couple.

And how about 4PF-D or a four-position foundation with donor?

To have an adopted child from a donor who offers his/her child to a couple in order that the couple can have an object of love, an object of their parental love, may not violate the blessing of the couple to recieve a given child. Somehow, the child came not from a third party but from a couple who made the child from their own seeds of life through proper love.

If the adopting parents are to apply their parentship to the child, from the very start, they know their dream before-hand. Now that they have a child adn they can practice parentism and express their God-centered love to the child, then the child will have a good start.

Eventually, the child, even when told about his origin, will not be over-shadowed by his revealed biological fact, if the proper love and care of the practicing parents are good and solid enough.

The story news below is a supplement to this case on parentism.

Kapuso

Group airs problems with artificial insemination
By AKEMI YOSHIMOTO of Japan Times
Kyodo News
As an academic panel prepares to offer its judgment on the ethics of surrogate birth and related issues, a group of people conceived through artificial insemination by donors is going public to shed light on existing problems.
Everyone in the group was conceived with sperm donated by a third person because the fathers were infertile due to illness or other causes.
Conceiving children through artificial insemination by donor, or AID, has existed in Japan for about 60 years, although the practice is largely kept under wraps.
The Science Council of Japan, an independent academic panel that makes policy recommendations to the government, is expected to make a judgment on the ethics of surrogate births this month.
At a Dec. 1 Tokyo symposium, the support group said it wants the council to know "about the problems that have been occurring as a result of existing medical technology before it takes the expansion of reproductive technology into consideration."
One woman in her 20s who asked not to be named said her mother told her five years ago she was an AID baby. She learned the truth when she was distraught about whether she would suffer from the same illness that her father had, which was hereditary.
She said her mother's acknowledgment cleared up why her father did not have much interest in her, and her own feeling that she was somehow different from the rest of the relatives.
"Children can feel the tension in families that have secrets and are distressed about it," she said. "It's wrong for parents to think children would be better off if they didn't know the truth."
Japan had its first AID baby in 1949 when a girl was born at Keio University Hospital in Tokyo. More than 10,000 babies have reportedly been born via this method at Keio and other hospitals since then, but details have been kept secret, including the names of the sperm donors.
Most of the parents of AID children have hidden the matter, except when the mother or father falls ill or they divorce. Many offspring — whether young or grown — in such a situation have become distrustful of their parents for not telling them the truth.
A doctor in his 30s said he learned from a blood test five years ago while in medical school that his father's blood was not in his veins.
He said he felt like "half of what had sustained me suddenly disappeared." He had never suspected that his father was not his biological father.
The man visited Keio University Hospital, where his mother had undergone treatment, for clues about the donor, but the hospital rejected his request.
Based on the information that many Keio medical students were sperm donors, he tracked medical students at the time his mother was undergoing treatment. He also collected mug shots from newspapers and on the Internet to see if he resembled the people in the photos. His efforts proved futile.
"My parents are my present parents. I don't consider the donor my father," he said, while admitting he would still like to find the person. "I'd feel completely different if I'd known about my background when I was a child and met the donor."
The group's booklet says if surrogate births and donations of eggs begin to spread, "the children born through such means may experience the same distress and pain that we had."
If the Science Council of Japan approves surrogate births, the twentysomething woman said: "A guarantee of the right to know one's origin is a minimum requirement. I want them to think carefully about the feelings of future children."

Sindihan mo na... malapit na

Anak ka ng tipaklong!

Noong unang taon ko na may dala-dala akong baon na salbutamol, di mo ako kinatok. Tatlong taon makalipas, saka mo lamang ako hihimas-himasin, kikilitiin at palaway-lawayin? Pati ilong koy dumudugo sa iyong gabi-gabing panghaharana! Bakettt ngayon ka lang ????!!!!!!

Apol dyos! bakeeetttt mo ako pinapahirapan? Expire na ang tatlong nasal spray ko. Ni di ko man lang nagamit pa ang mga yon! Mahal ba naman at pilit pang preniskrayb yon ng kaibigan kong doktor. Nngayong wala na ang mga gamot ko, araw-araw, gabi-gabi, akoy pinapasipol sa aking paghinga nitong lintugang hikkkaaaaaaa!!!!! bweeeeesssssssssss---hatttttttttsinggggggggg!!!

Sa pagtatakipsilim ng hapon, iba na naman ang temperatura. Sara ang bintana, kurtina at iba pa! Wag nyo ng sindihan pa ang de-gaas na heater!!!! Amoy nya'y tila ay sa akin kumakaladkad tungo sa nag-aantay na puntod! Pwe!!!!

At habang nakasara, uumpisa din sasara ang pintuan ng aking ilong, na maghihirap na namang humataw sa paghinga. Ganoon pa man, maririnig mong tila sumisipol na rin ang aking paghinga habang sumisikip na rin ang dighay ng aking dibdib!

Baradong ilong, masikip na dibdib at nabibinging tenga...... hudas kaaa!!!!!!!! Anong kasalanan ko at ako pa ang pinahirapan mo?!?!?!?!

Sindihan nyo na po kandilang magbibigay sigla ng kanyang liwanag! Tila yata akoy malapit na.....sa anim na talampakang pababa mula sa lupang aking kinatatayuan!

Plis lang, kung ikaw ang mauna, pakisabi kay San Pedro, ihanda nya ang salbutamol na nasal spray ko, at kung di man ako pasadong pumasok sa kanyang mansiyong gina guardiyahan, plis namber tu, paki hagis na lang sa purgatoryo o impiyerno salbutamol na pamatay nitong lintugang nagpapasipol-sipol sa paghinga, asthma, hika, hotoy o hubak na eto.


nagmamakaawa habang sumisipol sa paghinga,

allan d sick man

Strength and Weaknesses

We can always dream. And we need to believe to our dream. But to make a dream come true, you have to wake up!

Wake up and see the picture in your dream. Is it possible? believable? If you can believe to it, make sure that you can do it. That is waking up to make your dream comes to reality.

If it is a big dream, a huge one, just make sure that your capacity will not be overloaded by that dream.

Or else, you can be like this truck carrying a big, huge and tons of load that incapacitated the truck. And it means, you need to check your strength and weaknesses to evaluate where you are at to start your dream come true.

A friendly reminder from Kapihan!

Japan's day of Maturity

Today, Janaury 14 is a holiday for Japan. It is a day intended to honor the time for the grown up teenagers who now reach the age of 20 and are now considered as mature individuals who can stand by themselves. They are expected to be graduates from their dependence from their parents, and parents' guidance.

In other countries like those in the west, they have the celebration of debut of a teenager who reaches the age of 18 (other countires do this at the age of 21). They used to have their debut birthday party. Legally, they are no longer underage as they are allowed to vote on their choices as part of their rights of suffrage, they can decide by themselves, go and look for a job and the like.

In the Phillipines, the voting age was drop to age 15 as they have their SK or Sanguniang Kabataan where they elect their youth leaders in their barangay council. But they are not yet that mature nor have graduated in their studies. They are considered at legal age and free from their parents' care and guidance if they wish to be as they reached the age of 21. But Filipinos are used to extend their dependence fro mtheir parents as you know.

But talking about day of maturity, Japan considered the age of 20 where these grown up men and women may now be allowed alcoholic drinks, go and find their job, live by themselves that they can even live and stay by their own. Of course, their parents remain as their parents. But if they wish to live separately from them, they are free.

What is maturity then? Are you mature when you can withstand the drunkenness from alcohol? Are you mature if you can survive to live by yourself? Are you mature if you can convince a friend to stay with you to be your own partner in life?

Man's growth is usually seen in his physical growth. He may be tall, big, heavy, muscled, hairy and so on. But this does not totally constitute man's maturity. Man's attitude, behaviour and personality are beyond his physical growth and measures. And these too are important to consider man's maturity.

The total growth and development of man points to his polarity, the external development and his internal nature as well. Basically, man's education mold his internal development as well. But this should not be under the schope of his intellectual development. His emotion, his will to commit and decide, and his heart to love beyond the libido of his body are important parts of his internal nature and development and maturity.

Hence, the day we call man as mature is seemingly his commnencement and blessing to start his own life and meet the destiny of having his own family and responsibility.

Blossom from buds to flowers and bear the fruits of this development in life!

Reflecting as evaluating

What is existing can be seen. Once there is a bright light, and a tool to use, there can be a reflection to see the existing object. Just like an x-ray or a photo, the theory of reflection is used to generate a good proof of the existence of a sickness or an object.

In terms of achievements, education used a standardized test to evalaute the students on their achieved learning skills. The standardized test is a teacher-made tool with the help of a good psychometricians and statisticians to measure the skills achieved by the learners/students. It is an evaluation in a sense that teachers can surely measure on how far the students have gone on the objectives made from the very start of learning-and-teaching process.

In some institutions, there are awards, recognitions or citation given to some individuals, groups if not orgnization for certain purposes. Film festival is a common example on this. But evaluation may not be directly seen if it really evaluate the entire movies and the film industry or it just merely goes on with sensationalism or commercialism based on the result of the market of such.

Recently, some individuals, volunteers, leaders of the UM Philippines received recognition during the God's Day and Day of Victory of Love celebration as outstanding members or leaders after the whole year of serving doing their tasks as members of the movement. Some were happy, and some who didn't receive have some questions in their mind. You cannot please everyone. However, after four days of the award-giving ceremony, another award-giving was done by the same organization. It seemed that the previous recognition has not done a full or complete evaluation during the whole year on the general members of the movement before the first awarding ceremony . Another evaluation perhaps by another body may have been done to recognize some more of the members.

If one use a mirror to check his whole body, s mall mirror cannot do it itself. Moreover, if not a bright light is on, even if a bigger mirror is used, not a clear picture can be reflected on the mirror.

In a school there is a need of going back to the vision, mission goals and objectives of the institution and the target skills of the students to do an evaluation after the implementation of the academic program. Usually, after the school year, the school always do the evaluation. Companies and business corporation always do such thing. And it is the year-end bonus that makes everyone happy as the company gave these bonuses when they see a good income after the end of the year.

The evaluation team should not forget the general membership. The team to evaluate must know the entirety of the goals of every contributing department and unit aside from the general membership. And before the evaluation, they should define first the set of recognition and awards that they are to bestow to anybody. Even the worst student in the class needs to be evaluated by the teacehr/s and not to spare anybody.

In an ordinary class, teacher evalutate and recognize student/s who answer a question correctly, partially or wrongly. Teacher's way of saying "good, very good, you have an idea but you need to read the whole story in the book", and other motivating words help a lot the students. But teachers do not necessarily give ribbons or medals everyday to their students. So also in any organization.

Institutions need to know their goals and general members and make a wholesome evaluation before the set day of recognition. Members and students need not expect colorful recognition but focus on their target learning skills, goals and responsibilities.

Conceptual Framework

I. Introduction
Educational programs are set to address the needs of the community. Schools Institutions are mandated to have their consultancy to check among the parents, the employers, the individuals as well as the teacehrs and the academicians on what curriculuar programs and offerings would fit the needs of the pople.

To look into the variety of people, it is known that Miyazaki has fine accomodations of gai-jin and is engaged to city-sisterhood with the international community.

There are several foriegners in the city. There are dozens of Filipinos as well. And how do Japanese people communicate and attend to the presence of this international community? As a noted nationalist country, Nihonggo is the keen language of the people which has the limitaiton to address the international community.

This sounds to be a problem now to be undertaken.


According to the statistics of Filipino population for Miyzaki Prefecture, there are 493 over all and for Miyazaki City only, there only 95 Filipinos ( http://www.pref.miyazaki.lg.jp/index/category/03_international.html).

Moreover, currently the Miyazaki International Foundation has programs of cultural exchange for USA, China and Korea. They are conducting language lessons on these 3 countries. But the program is so limited to address only three out of the many itnernational communities in the country. How about other international communities like the Filipinos?

Unfortunately, the International Exchange Office of Miyazaki Prefecture does not have a list of registered Filipino Community Association for Miyazaki Pref. They only have the Japan-Philippines Friendship Association of Miyazaki Prefecture. The office is based in Miyakonojo City. There is no claer program on their exchanges as well.

As an educational institution, it is but right to address a language program to a university based here in Miyazaki.

If there is an English Language Program, the proposal is Pilipino as Second Language Program in the University of Miyazaki.

Paradigm

Input Moderating Variables Output


The Proposal

Title : Pilipino as a Second Language

Description :

General Objectives :

Specific Objectives :

Program of the Proposal

a. Children's Elementary Program I

b. Adult's Elementary Program II

c. Advance Program III

Courses offered in the Program/s

CEP Pilipino 101 - Unang Hakbang Pambata
AEP Pilipino 101b- Unang Hakbang Pang-adult
AP Pilipino 103 - Panitikan
AP Pilipino 104- Balarila

to be cont.

Letter to Mamang

Jan 9, 2008

Dear Mamang,

Love and hugs! I hope you got the land documents we sent to you last Jan 4. Chimie sent it to you as I was in my work that day. And today is her birhtday too. She is now 47.

This photo was our Dec 25 simple Christmas celebration. We have works and school during Christmas here. Japanese know Christmas as a birthday of Jesus but they dont know him. They know more about Santa Claus the gift-giver in red clothes and white beard.

Papano ba naman at, more on Shintoists and Buddhists ang mga tao dito. Joseph took the picture kaya wala ang face nya. Princess Jean Julie at the extreme right is the bunso who drew the hand-made card for you. She is 4 now.

I'm sending thru my letter to Manong Boy a small amount for your medicine too. Pls be patient to us all.

And thank you sa mga pamana mong lupa sa mga anak nyo.

God bless us all.

love,

Allan

kapuso ni allan: Better-half's birhtday

Today is January 9. It is the birthday of my kapuso, my better-half if not the best. She is now tyseven years old. Hmmm... going twilight!
I have nothing to offer to her but my greetings this morning. How I wish to kiss her on her lips but my severe cough and colds with fever could not permit me.
My wife is the best gift God gave me. Yet there are moments that we are not the best in terms of communications or decisions. But this week she again bought some hoykuen (100 yen) shirts and stuffs for me and our kids like socks, long-sleeve shirt, underwear and the like.
I remember last month when I was sewing to repair a futon cover sheets. She later hand to me a long time packed cover sheet. I asked her where she got it. She said she bought it 20 years ago!!!???!!! Twenty years ago? We were not yet married nor see each other that time! Yet she have bought bed sheet and futon sheet covers for me? Amazing!
She explained that it was a bargain sale that time and it was very cheap that she just bought the cover sheets as she knew one day somebody will use it! Hmmmm!!!! A vision? pre-planning?
Before I left this morning, I check my obendo bag if my lunch box is ready. Three medicine tablets are in there for my cough, colds and fever! My wife see to it that I have some medicine for lunch time, as I take in the same after my breakfast.
As I recall, last Sunday when I was so busy monitoring in the internet the on-going services and awarding and national leaders' meeting in Philippines, she noticed that I was already long time with my pc ans she asked me what I was doing. I vividly replied that I was doing the UM's website and checking if there are beats and news that I can write to post in the website. Her mode after hearing me doing UM works changed again. And murmored nihonggo words. Still, she doesnt like me to be working and spending my time to this mission. It seems.
I am thinking what to buy as my gift for her before going home this evening. But my coins may not be enough. I remember that it was on her birthday 9 years ago when we made love and pro-created our third son. Hmmm... that was a real birth day. Shall I repeat the same gift tonight? But my health and body is not doing good.
I will pray for my wife's good health and heart to understand more the living for the sake of others core value.I love her.

Happy birthday mama!

Proposed Peace Embassy Building in Philippines

Quezon City- The able leadership of UM Philippines and UPF Philippines is on the process of considering a proposed Peace Embassy building to house the office of the UPF with its broad vision, goals, programs, projects and activities.

As UPF's Global Peace Festival in Manila last December became a model or reference if not to follow, UPF became an institution that needs a good facility to administer and implement its programs in the country and the neighboring Asian nations if not the world. Hence, a need of a physical facility like a building is asked and proposed.

On the left is a copy of a perspective submitted by Greater Good Builders. It was drafted by its able architect and was presented recently to the UM national board of leaders for deliberations. (with report and photo from Melchor Castro.)

Kapihan: Nyu Yirs Resolosyon

2008 na. Ano bang bago? peudeng gawin para magbago? Wag na muna yong sa turong simbahan na aydiyal at langit palagi ang pinag-uusapan. Nasa lupa pa naman tayo. Yong reyalidad na muna. hehehehe!

Kahapon buong araw ang mga liderato sa ets-kyu at nag meting. Pero umaga hanggang hapon puro powerpoint presentations din ang nakita ko sa webcam ni igan. Sa gabi, diskusyon na sila. GPF 2008 na ang pinag usapan. Ahahahay..... bakbakan na naman sa unang gatsu ng buwang lintugan!

E andito ka sa bansa ng mga sakang. Papano ka makakagawa ng eport para sa bansang tinubuan? Talaga na lang bang patak-patak na parang buhay alkansiya na lang ang magiging misyon mo para kay Juan? Wag naman!

Sabi ni Pres. Aldz ang mga alumnay daw ay kanyang binida sa SAM (Strategic Alignment Seminar) nila noong nakaraang miting nila sa mga world leaders. Na dahil daw sa mga carp alumnay eh nabuhay and intrams senter. My gulay! Eh totoo naman at di lang intrams ang binubuhay ng mga alumnay. Etong BIR ng planeta ng sakang e buong Asya pa ang binubuhay dahil di lang naman pinas ang binibigyan ng mga lords sa kanilang buwanang patak-patak kundi hating kapatid nga daw sa lahat ng bansang sakop ng Kontinenteng Asya! Na hala! Por de sek of aders ngarud! Yan ang sigaw palagi e. Kung di ka ba nabingi sa Quirino grandstand noong Desyembreng pati si Pakyaw e sumigaw ng True Love Power na ang ibig daw sabihin ay lebing por de sek op aders! Hahahahahayyyyyyyyy buhay ng aders!!!!

Papano naman ang por de sek op mi? Baka maging sekli na lang ako nito sa tanang buhay ko?
Eto ang titirahin ng nyo yirs resolosyon ko.

Taong 2008, papaopera ako ng mabuhay pa at ng maka pag por de sek op aders pa rin in de pyutyor. In ader words, kelangang tingnan ko rin ang buhay ko. Di va?

Si ate last yir gineyera nya ang kanser nya. Si Manong nag nyo yir sa ICU! Si pangalawang manong nag nyo yir na may pang mentenans sa puso! Anak ka ng tipaklong. Mga lahing menteryohin ata pala tong lahing to?!?!?! Maalala ko ba naman si Papang. Pers strok lang, babay na agad! Oh my 2008! Magkano kayang gastusin ko nito?

At papano ba ang buhay dito? hangang Marso na lang ang shigoto at tapos na ang kurikulum noong Nobyembre pa! Naawa lang ata etong iskol at pinatapos na lang ako sa katapusan ng iskolyir! Lintugan!

Isa sa nyu yirs resolosyon ko, hanap ng pang dobleng insyorans. Di va? Nang may sasalong magbayad! Puede ba yon? Sensie, watashiwa genki desu. Insyurans kudasai!!!

Kanina, unang Martes sa araw ng basura ( holiday naman yong Enero uno e, yasumi. Walang naghakot.) Kahit sobrang lamig sa kapal ng isno, umikot ako sa mga basurahan. Baka sakaling may mapulot. Ang daming tambak. Mga iniwanan pa ata ng Diyembre at holiday na pinag nyo yiran ng mga sakang yon! Pero, wala akong ma-surplus e. Alang puede. Pero nang maglakad ako puntang shigoto, nakapulot ako ng isang suelas ng sapatos. Hehehehe... Naiwan ata ang takong ng sapatos ni sakang at sa kalsada pa!!! Hmmmm teka, lapit narin mapudpod etong takong ko. Eto. Pag nyuriran ka din nitong my belabed shoes na bigay ni Pres. Aldz. Tenks japs sa suelas mo! Por de sek of aders ka rin kamo!

Pero dream big daw e. Suelas lang ba ang dream mo? Dapat malakihang dream. Yong parang bangungot ba! Biruin mo, ang dream big ng Pinas e bilihin ang hotel Mirador! Tapos ikaw suelas? basura? My gulay ka naman!

Op kors. meron akong dream big. Pero sekret ko na rin yon. Kasi pag sasabihin ko sa iyo baka sasabihin mong tulog pa talaga ako sa kapapanaginip ko. Hiya ako tuloy. Kaya sekret ko na lang yon na kasama sa nyo yirs resolosyon ko. Okidok?