I'd rather be blogging....

while most of the social networking  on the web is down within the middle east region...i'd rather be updating my blog site. i really don't know why it happens on holidays wherein this is the the best time to share our moments during the holidays.in a few hours we'll be saying goodbye to year 2009...and welcome the 2010! just want to live one day at a time and be thankful to God for all the blessings and guidance throughout the year. As we all knew that 2009 was the most challenging years wherein we witness the impact of the global crisis and the "swine flu" pandemic and also the never ending conflict in the middle east. with the crisis we were able to survive together with my family and hopefully things would get better soon. Thanks God for all the blessings!

down with flu...

One day after  Christmas i got a flu. yesterday I was sent home by my Director to take a rest. That was a relief for me ,now I'm having a day-off to rest. Here I am at home with my wife watching movies together "the Blind Side". Hopefully be feeli'n better by tommorow New Year's eve  and welcome the new year with a big bang! Thanks God for another year and looking forward for another great year in spite of the global crisis. Sabi nga kapag  sa aming mga OFW "sanay na sa krisis"

Keeping Christmas

Henry Van Dyke

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There is a better thing than the observance of Christmas day, and that is, keeping Christmas.
Are you willing...

• to forget what you have done for other people, and to remember what other people have done for you;
  
• to ignore what the world owes you, and to think what you owe the world;
  
• to put your rights in the background, and your duties in the middle distance, and your chances to do a little more than your duty in the foreground;
  
• to see that men and women are just as real as you are, and try to look behind their faces to their hearts, hungry for joy;
  
• to own up to the fact that probably the only good reason for your existence is not what you are going to get out of life, but what you are going to give to life;
  
• to close your book of complaints against the management of the universe, and look around you for a place where you can sow a few seeds of happiness.
  

Are you willing to do these things even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas.
Are you willing...

• to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children;
  
• to remember the weakness and loneliness of people growing old;
  
• to stop asking how much your friends love you, and ask yourself whether you love them enough;
  
• to bear in mind the things that other people have to bear in their hearts;
  
• to try to understand what those who live in the same home with you really want, without waiting for them to tell you;
  
• to trim your lamp so that it will give more light and less smoke, and to carry it in front so that your shadow will fall behind you;
  
• to make a grave for your ugly thoughts, and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate open—
  

Are you willing to do these things, even for a day? Then you can keep Christmas.Are you willing...

• to believe that love is the strongest thing in the world—
  
• stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death—
  
• and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of the Eternal Love?
  

Then you can keep Christmas.
And if you can keep it for a day, why not always?
But you can never keep it alone.

Once upon a rain in Al-ain....UAE

T-shirt painting naman!

here's for Christmas.....noche buena ! arroz caldo ka na mamaya!