Pyromusical 2011

16th Philippine International Hot Air Balloon Festival

Heart's Day

Yes it’s sweet if a girl received a flower during valentine’s day. But for me, it doesn’t sound as that special. Yes indeed it’s romantic but everyone feels the same way. The level of enjoyment of a girl is the same as others during this day because everyone is treated because it’s valentine. Everyone is doing it because it’s the time of the year where all of us is sweet.

But isn’t it more sweet if you remember to give your love one a dozen of flower, chocolates and treat her to dinner in an unexpected time and day? Out of the blue, you will give her all those sweet gifts and make her feel that she is so special. In that case, she is the only one who feels very special, loved and important.

From The Movie "TANGLED"

Flynn Rider: You were my new dream.

Rapunzel: And you were mine.

-from the movie Tangled. :p

Christmas Spirit

Few hours left and its Christmas. One of most celebrated holidays amongst Christians and the longest celebration for Filipinos. It's the celebration that everyone is waiting for. Children will go out to find their Ninongs and Ninangs (God Parents) for their aginaldos. Noche Buena for every family, gift giving and sharing of love. For this time of the year, let us spread our love to everyone, share the blessings that we have especially for those unfortunate families. It's not us that will celebrate Christmas, but its Jesus. He is the celebrant at this time of the year and let's not forget the true meaning of it. It is the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ.

MERRY CHRISTMAS everyone. Enjoy this festive season and don't forget to greet Jesus. GODBLESS guys.

Are you a member of SMP?

SMP, according to a juice commercial, stands for Samahan ng Malalamig ang Pasko. In short, no boyfriend/girlfriend to spend the Christmas.  But, is it a really big issue?
For me it is a BIG NO, because Christmas is not about having someone to be with in that day. It's true meaning is to give love to your family and friends. Help the less fortunates so that you can give smile their faces and most of all it is the celebration of the birthday of our Savior Jesus Christ. That's what we need to be prepared of, the coming of our Savior, repent to our sins and give love to the people around us.
Hope each of us will have a wonderful Christmas. God Bless everyone.

Gift giving with Christus Vincit

Yesterday, Christus Vincit held an Apostolate at Paco, Manila. It was lot of fun because we know we gave a smile to children who received gift from us. They also enjoyed the game that they played and the food that we've shared to them.
It was a fulfilling day for me knowing that I also gave smile to those children. As the famous saying untold, "It's better to give than to receive".

The Ayala Triangle Symphony of Lights and Sounds with friends

Betting for the Jackpot

According to the news from different media networks and publications, many of us Filipinos are betting to win the 354M jackpot price of 6/55 Grand Lotto. Nobody has to blame because winning that jackpot will make your dreams come true. Literally making it come true. You can have your own house, own car, own business, educational stability for your children if you have, what else, you can also helped your relatives and even donate to charity institutions. You can do all of it and yet it is still much for you.

Even our Senators bet for that jackpot pot, Senators Tito Sotto, Chiz Escudero, Migs Zubiri, Bong Revilla and Ralph Recto. That's what 354M jackpot can do, even government officials cannot deny of being attracted to hundred millions of pot.

But what would you do if you won that 354M jackpot price solo?

Makati CBD Christmas Lights

Sorry for the blurred shots. That's the LED Christmas lights along Makati Ave. Makati CBD opens up the Christmas season with spectacular lights. Oh by the way, the nutcracker was taken at Glorietta Mall.

All Soul's Day and All Saint's Day

This time, we will again visit and pray for our relatives that have passed away. Most of us here in Manila are going to our respective province and lets all go home safe.

Make sure that we packed all the things that we needed to go back in our province. Before leaving our apartment or house, lets make sure that all the appliances are plug out. You can also shut down the main switch of your home to avoid accidental fire cases. Double check if the gas of our stove are properly turned off. When we are about to leave, make sure that the we locked our windows and doors. We can also ask our neighbors to look for our house.

Have a safe weekend and a safe way back to our province.

Steps for Philippines Passport Application

Last Friday was my appointment of appearance at DFA, Office of Consular Affairs in Pasay City. From SM Makati, I took a ride of bus with route of Baclaran(MOA, DFA, MACAPAGAL). I drop in front of DFA Consular Affairs and I saw some fixers. For those new applicants like me, BEWARE OF FIXERS.
The guard then told us that the applicants who applied at their website were advise to enter at gate 2. Before properly entering at inside the vicinity, the guard there inspect if we have the application form which have the date for that day. After seeing the documents, they told to proceed to verifying area, the personnel will verify if we have the genuine application form and if we were schedule to apply on that day. After you have been verified, you will now proceed to waiting area until your scheduled time have been called.
Inside the DFA office, there 3 Steps to apply for Philippine Passport.

1. DOCUMENTS APPLICATION and REQUIREMENTS VERIFICATION
    The DFA personnel will review your application form and requirements if they are valid. If so, they will ask you the modes of payment and then told you to proceed on second floor for steps 2 and 3. Make sure that you have your complete requirements such as ID's and its photocopies, NSO Certified Birth Certificate and its photocopies and other supporting documents. For the complete list requirements, please visit http://epassport.com.ph/requirements.

2. PAYMENT
    After completing the step 1, you may now proceed to second floor at PAYMENT BOOTH. Pay the necessary amount, 950php for regular passport (20 working days) and 1200php for rush passport (10 working days). After paying, proceed to Step 3.

3. ENCODING and TAKING of PICTURE
    After paying the amount of your desired bill, you mat now proceed to ENCODING and PICTURE TAKING section. First, go to a personnel to get a number. Wait for your number to be called and when number was called, proceed to the booth listed on the tv monitor. The encoder will encode your information and make sure that they inputted it correctly. Those information will appear on your passport so you better take a look at the information that they encode. After encoding it, they will take you a picture and thumb mark together with your signature using the pen tablet. When you're done, decide whether you will apply for delivery or not. If you want your passport to be delivered, proceed to delivery area, pay 120php for the delivery or if you want to get your passport personally at the release date, don not proceed to it. And that's it. YOU'RE DONE. You will just wait until the release date of your passport.

For online passport application you can check DFA E-PASSPORT

What to do during typhoon?

When a typhoon is fast approaching, we are always preparing for what to do. But what should we do to prepare for an upcoming typhoon?

1. Always prepare stock of foods such as in cans like sardines, tuna, corned beef, etc. Also prepare noodles and other foods that are quick to cook.

2. Prepare yourself a stock of water. This is one of the most important thing that we should have so that we can rehydrate ourself during typhoon.

3. Have some flashlight with because we never know if electricity will still available during a typhoon. If a power shortage occurs especially at night, we can have our flash light to light our way.

4. Other that flashlight, we should have candles, matches or lighter with us. We need an alternative source of light other than flashlight so that we can conserve the battery of our flashlight.

5. Battery operated radio and extra batteries. We need to monitor the movement of the typhoon and the only way to monitor it is to listen to news. If power shortage occurs, we can only rely on our battery operated radio and we need to have an extra batteries not only for the radio but also for the flashlight.

6. Lastly, we need to have our first kit aid with  us. Fever, flu and cough are prone during typhoon and we need to have our medicines and first aid kits with us. Disinfectant alcohol, cotton, gauge and other first aid kits that may help us during typhoon.

Productivity is the key

Today, I will share a simple and short post about productivity.

Productivity is almost often uses in work. Being productive in work means that you are exerting effort and passion on your work. Being productive means doing a lot of work for a day and achieving the needs of a certain workload.

If you are productive everyday in your work, you will gain more experience, more passion and work excellently and value the work that you have.  Productivity is the key to succeed in work. Bring your passion and dedication in your work. This will help you to become more successful in your career. So work hard and who knows, you might achieve the goals that want in your life.

Alertness and Preparedness

In our world right now, there are many human but not so good elements that is going around our society. Such persons are hold-upper, snatcher and other crime doers. The big question is, what do we do about them? Yes, definitely what do we do when we will be hit by those such persons, especially when the authorities are not around.

Alertness and Preparedness for me are the two words and needs to have by people right now.

Alertness according to wikipedia is the state of paying close and continuous attention, being watchful and prompt to meet danger or emergency, or being quick to perceive and act. It is related to psychology as well as to physiology. From the word and meaning itself, we should not loose our focus everytime we are walking outside. We need to pay attention on our environment especially at night where those bad elements are roaming around. We should be constructive on our movement, look at your left and right, front and back and notice every details, big or small, on the people that you're walking with. If we stay alert, we can stay focus and not to be frighten on the surprise that will happen.

After being alert, we should be prepared. Even if we stay focus and alert, we cannot refuse those bad elements to do what they will do to us. Being alert is always preparing yourself on what will happen. We should keep our eyes open, recognized the details of every person and bring what could save you from them. Those things are pepper spray, small knife or whatever you think will help you to escape or to fight from them. We should be prepared on the our everyday life because there is no retake when such situations arises.

We should practice this and do it now especially Christmas is coming. Crimes will fast arise because of the need of money so we should stay alert and prepared.

And oh, we can also use that when calamity hits us like storms, earthquake, etc.

So stay alert and prepared, those things will help us big.

DETERMINATION

I read that word two days ago and it keeps ringing inside my head. Whoa! First, what is the definition of determination??

According to Free Dictionary, Determination is the Firmness of purpose; resolve, meaning approaching a task with determination and energy. From the word itself, determination, people do know the simple meaning and they will interact to it.

There are many ways where we can use our determination. We can apply it on our everyday life, on the things that we are doing, things that we want to achieve, goals that we want to attain and dreams that we want to fulfill.

To simplify it, if we have something such as goals or things to do that we want to achieve or to fulfill, we should be determined and focus on those goals, because our determination will be our key in achieving those goals

Fireworks Photos

Together with my digital camera, I had the chance to take some shots of weekly pyromusical at Sm Mall of Asia. Here are my shots of it. Enjoy =)

Cloud Shots

These are my photos of clouds. On my way home to our province, I saw a group of clouds forming in the sky so I quickly grab my camera and took some shots of it. By the way, I am using a digital camera =).