Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Hello
After several months of hiatus from writing, I am now back with a lot of stories to tell to make up for the lost times. My apologies for being quiet. I promise to keep you (my friends) abreast of what has happened and what occupies me at the moment.
Monday, December 28, 2009
Hamzah Marbella-a child prodigy
I am now 32 years old but if you would ask me to paint a sunflower or a garden, I guess I can crudely produce one that would pass for a kindergarten level of work.
But watching on tv about what Hamzah Marbella can do totally blew me away that an epiphany hit me: this little guy really deserves credit. Which happily prompted me to submit an entry about him on the Ellen DeGeneres show website.
Check out what this young soul has achieved: (From Jessica Fenol's blog:
http://badgefenol.blogspot.com/2007/11/future-of-philippine-art-scene-whiz-kid.html )
Hamzah Marbella. Born March 31, 2001, eight-year-old Marbella is already an artist to reckon with in the field of visual arts. With over 40 local and international recognitions, he is the youngest member of the Artists Association of the Philippines.
Hamzah started painting at the age of 2, formally joined competitions at the age of four. At his young age, he is already a recipient of almost 50 awards (local and international). The most recent was from Korea's stamp making contest this November. SOme of his works are also displayed at the UN head quarters in New York City.
Although he received scholarships from prominent schools, it seems like he is still lacking with necessary support. Nevertheless, Cavite's local government already acknowledge this genious, he also appeared in some TV stations and newspapers alike. But what this young painter needs is support from our government. Sir Renato: "Nakakalungkot lang kasi ang napopromote lang yung mga artists na mayayaman kahit hindi masyadong magagaling". I hope artists like Hamzah will be given enough support and proper credit.
You can reach Hamzah through his parents MR. Renato - 09206266163 and Mrs. Elma - 09282626135.
Please be one with me in praying that Hamzah would be recognized worldwide thru the Ellen DeGeneres show and that he will have support in whatever means so that he would be able to grow as an artist and create a difference in this world thru his talent.
PS. Attached below is an e-mail I sent to wikipedia asking them to come up with an article about our wonderboy:
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 6:03 AM
To: 'info-en-o@wikimedia.org'
Subject: Please write an article about Hamzah Marbella
Importance: High
Hello,
Good day!
I have been relying on your site for everything that I need to know about anything. Kindly consider putting up an article on your site about an 8 year old Filipino prodigy in the field of visual arts.
Hamzah Marbella (male). Born March 31, 2001, eight-year-old Marbella is already an artist to reckon with in the field of visual arts. With over 40 local and international recognitions, he is the youngest member of the Artists Association of the Philippines.
Hamzah started painting at the age of 2, formally joined competitions at the age of four. At his young age, he is already a recipient of almost 50 awards (local and international). The most recent was from Korea's stamp making contest this November. SOme of his works are also displayed at the UN head quarters in New York City.
Although he received scholarships from prominent schools, it seems like he is still lacking with necessary support. Nevertheless, Cavite's local government already acknowledge this genious, he also appeared in some TV stations and newspapers alike. But what this young painter needs is support from our government.
I hope artists like Hamzah will be given enough support and proper credit.
He is very much googable which puzzled me why you have no article of him. But considering the tons of work your organization is undertaking, I can understand why.
Please, please, by acknowledging his work, you are helping him achieve his highest potential.
Happy Holidays and best regards,
Ruth Chase
Reply from wikipedia
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From: Wikipedia information team
Sent: Monday, December 28, 2009 6:46 AM
To: Chase, Ruth
Subject: Re: [Ticket#2009122810022788] Please write an article about Hamzah Marbella
Dear Chase Ruth \,
Thank you for your email.
12/28/2009 13:04 - Chase Ruth \ wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Good day!
> >
> > I have been relying on your site for everything that I need to know about
anything. Kindly consider putting up an article on your site about an 8 year old
Filipino prodigy in the field of visual arts.
> >
> > Hamzah Marbella (male). Born March 31, 2001, eight-year-old Marbella is
already an artist to reckon with in the field of visual arts. With over 40 local
and international recognitions, he is the youngest member of the Artists
Association of the Philippines.
> >
> > Hamzah started painting at the age of 2, formally joined competitions at the
age of four. At his young age, he is already a recipient of almost 50 awards
(local and international). The most recent was from Korea's stamp making contest
this November. SOme of his works are also displayed at the UN head quarters in New
York City.
> >
> > Although he received scholarships from prominent schools, it seems like he is
still lacking with necessary support. Nevertheless, Cavite's local government
already acknowledge this genious, he also appeared in some TV stations and
newspapers alike. But what this young painter needs is support from our government.
> >
> > I hope artists like Hamzah will be given enough support and proper credit.
> >
> > He is very much googable which puzzled me why you have no article of him. But
considering the tons of work your organization is undertaking, I can understand why.
> >
> > Please, please, by acknowledging his work, you are helping him achieve his
highest potential.
> >
> > Happy Holidays and best regards,
> > Ruth Chase
> >
> >
> >
>
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Monday, August 17, 2009
My Joy
Some dream of reaching the stars...Others, to be the star.
Some dream of heaven...others, to be the god..
But I need not look far because I have you in my life.
I have my little one...my gift...my son...
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Asia will be first to rise out of global recession: ADB
Asia's recession appears to have touched bottom and the region is likely to be the first to climb out of the global economic slowdown, the Asian Development Bank's chief economist said Thursday.
However, ADB's Lee Jong-Wha said it would be difficult for the world's most populous region to return to the high-growth scenarios of 2007 and earlier unless the industrialised world also recovers from a deep recession.
Speaking at a news conference in Manila, Lee said that compared to other regions, Asia -- outside of Japan -- had mostly managed positive growth throughout the crisis, albeit at lower levels.
He added that the ADB was now seeing stronger numbers in terms of "quarter on quarter industrial production," and concluded that "Asia will see recovery faster than the industrialised countries."
Expansionary monetary policies implemented by governments around the region loosened credit and lowered interest rates, helping Asians spend more money to keep local economies ticking over, Lee said.
Meanwhile large countries such as China and India "maintained relatively strong and resilient growth which provided demand for regional exports" from Asian neighbours.
"Clearly now we are in the transition from recession to recovery. The question is how fast the recovery will happen," Lee said.
"No one can say for sure."
The Manila-based bank said it will update on September 22 its flagship Asian Development Outlook forecasts, which predicted earlier this year that developing Asia will see its economic growth fall to 3.4 percent this year compared to 6.3 percent in 2008.
Lee stressed that "the recovery is still not that strong" and that Asian governments must not pursue policies that may damage any green shoots, ensuring they review current stimulus policy once rehabilitation holds.
Climbing out of the crisis would be more difficult due to the "unprecedented synchronised recession" of the industrialised countries, he said, adding that Europe was apparently faring worse than previously forecast.
In Asia, Lee said Malaysia was also performing "worse than what we expected in March" because its high-tech industries were dependent on external demand, which was declining and not being offset by demand at home
PS. I just got back from a few days vacation in Guangzhou and HK to celebrate Gregg's bday...I was amazed how fluent he is with the Mandarin language...Way to go Dada!!!
However, ADB's Lee Jong-Wha said it would be difficult for the world's most populous region to return to the high-growth scenarios of 2007 and earlier unless the industrialised world also recovers from a deep recession.
Speaking at a news conference in Manila, Lee said that compared to other regions, Asia -- outside of Japan -- had mostly managed positive growth throughout the crisis, albeit at lower levels.
He added that the ADB was now seeing stronger numbers in terms of "quarter on quarter industrial production," and concluded that "Asia will see recovery faster than the industrialised countries."
Expansionary monetary policies implemented by governments around the region loosened credit and lowered interest rates, helping Asians spend more money to keep local economies ticking over, Lee said.
Meanwhile large countries such as China and India "maintained relatively strong and resilient growth which provided demand for regional exports" from Asian neighbours.
"Clearly now we are in the transition from recession to recovery. The question is how fast the recovery will happen," Lee said.
"No one can say for sure."
The Manila-based bank said it will update on September 22 its flagship Asian Development Outlook forecasts, which predicted earlier this year that developing Asia will see its economic growth fall to 3.4 percent this year compared to 6.3 percent in 2008.
Lee stressed that "the recovery is still not that strong" and that Asian governments must not pursue policies that may damage any green shoots, ensuring they review current stimulus policy once rehabilitation holds.
Climbing out of the crisis would be more difficult due to the "unprecedented synchronised recession" of the industrialised countries, he said, adding that Europe was apparently faring worse than previously forecast.
In Asia, Lee said Malaysia was also performing "worse than what we expected in March" because its high-tech industries were dependent on external demand, which was declining and not being offset by demand at home
PS. I just got back from a few days vacation in Guangzhou and HK to celebrate Gregg's bday...I was amazed how fluent he is with the Mandarin language...Way to go Dada!!!
Sunday, May 31, 2009
How to Succeed in Life by Andrew Carnegie
From The Pittsburg Bulletin, 19 December 1903. Reprinted from the New York Tribune.
Everybody wants to preach to the young, and tell them to be good and they will be happy. I shall not enter far upon that field, but confine myself to presenting from a business man's standpoint of view, a few rules, which, I believe, lie at the root of business success.
First--Never enter a bar-room. Do not drink liquor as a beverage. I will not paint the evil of drunkenness, or the moral crime; but I suggest to you that it is low and common to enter a bar-room, unworthy of any self-respecting man, and sure to fasten upon you a taint which will operate to your disadvantage in life, whether you ever become a drunkard or not.
Second--I wish young men would not use tobacco--not that it is morally wrong, except in so far as it is used in excess and injures health, which the medical faculty declares it does. But the use of tobacco requires young men to withdraw themselves from the society of women to indulge the habit. I think the absence of women from any assembly tends to lower the tone of that assembly. The habit of smoking tends to carry young men into the society of men whom it is not desirable that they should choose as their intimate associates. The practice of chewing tobacco was once common. Now it is considered offensive. I believe the race is soon to take another step forward, and that the coming man is to consider smoking as offensive as chewing was formally considered. As it is practically abandoned now, so I believe smoking will be.
Third--Having entered upon work, continue in that line of work. Fight it out on that line (except in extreme cases), for it matters little what avenue a young man finds first. Success can be attained in any branch of human labor. There is always room at the top in every pursuit. Concentrate all your thought and energy upon the performance of your duties. Put all your eggs into one basket and then watch that basket, do not scatter your shot. The man who is director in a half dozen railroads and three or four manufacturing companies, or who tries at one and the same time to work a farm, a factory, a line of street cars, a political party and a store, rarely amounts to much. He may be concerned in the management of more than one business enterprise, but they should all be of the one kind, which he understands. The great successes of life are made by concentration.
Fourth--Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work. A man must discover where his employer's interests can be served beyond the range of the special work allotted to him; and whenever he sees his employer's interests suffer, or wherever the latter's interests can be promoted, tell him so. Differ from your employers upon what you think his mistakes. You will never make much of a success if you do not learn the needs and opportunities of your own branch much better than your employer can possibly do. You have been told to "obey orders if you break owners." Do no such foolish thing. If your employer starts upon a course which you think will prove injurious, tell him so, protest, give your reasons, and stand to them unless convinced you are wrong. It is the young man who does this, that capital wants for a partner or for a son-in-law.
Fifth--Whatever your wages are, save a little. Live within your means. The heads of stores, farms, banks, lawyers' offices, physicians' offices, insurance companies, mills and factories are not seeking capital; they are seeking brains and business habits. The man who saves a little from his income has given the surest indication of the qualities which every employer is seeking for.
Sixth--Never speculate. Never buy or sell grain or stocks upon a margin. If you have savings, invest them in solid securities, lands or property. The man who gambles upon the exchanges is in the condition of the man who gambles at the gaming table. He rarely, if ever, makes a permanent success. His judgment goes; his faculties are snapped; and his end, as a rule, is nervous prostration after an unworthy and useless life.
Seventh--If you ever enter business for yourself, never indorse for others. It is dishonest. All your resources and all your credit are the sacred property of the men who have trusted you; and until you have surplus cash and owe no man, it is dishonest to give your name as an indorser to others. Give the cash you can spare, if you wish, to help a friend. Your name is too sacred to give.
Do not make riches, but usefulness, your first aim; and let your chief pride be that your daily occupation is in the line of progress and development; that your work, in whatever capacity it may be, is useful work, honestly conducted, and as such ennobling to your life.
To sum up, do not drink, do not smoke, do not indorse, do not speculate. Concentrate, perform more than your prescribed duties; be strictly honest in word and deed. And may all who read these words be just as happy and prosperous and long lived as I wish them all to be. And let this great fact always cheer them: It is impossible for any one to be cheated out of an honorable career unless he cheats himself.
Everybody wants to preach to the young, and tell them to be good and they will be happy. I shall not enter far upon that field, but confine myself to presenting from a business man's standpoint of view, a few rules, which, I believe, lie at the root of business success.
First--Never enter a bar-room. Do not drink liquor as a beverage. I will not paint the evil of drunkenness, or the moral crime; but I suggest to you that it is low and common to enter a bar-room, unworthy of any self-respecting man, and sure to fasten upon you a taint which will operate to your disadvantage in life, whether you ever become a drunkard or not.
Second--I wish young men would not use tobacco--not that it is morally wrong, except in so far as it is used in excess and injures health, which the medical faculty declares it does. But the use of tobacco requires young men to withdraw themselves from the society of women to indulge the habit. I think the absence of women from any assembly tends to lower the tone of that assembly. The habit of smoking tends to carry young men into the society of men whom it is not desirable that they should choose as their intimate associates. The practice of chewing tobacco was once common. Now it is considered offensive. I believe the race is soon to take another step forward, and that the coming man is to consider smoking as offensive as chewing was formally considered. As it is practically abandoned now, so I believe smoking will be.
Third--Having entered upon work, continue in that line of work. Fight it out on that line (except in extreme cases), for it matters little what avenue a young man finds first. Success can be attained in any branch of human labor. There is always room at the top in every pursuit. Concentrate all your thought and energy upon the performance of your duties. Put all your eggs into one basket and then watch that basket, do not scatter your shot. The man who is director in a half dozen railroads and three or four manufacturing companies, or who tries at one and the same time to work a farm, a factory, a line of street cars, a political party and a store, rarely amounts to much. He may be concerned in the management of more than one business enterprise, but they should all be of the one kind, which he understands. The great successes of life are made by concentration.
Fourth--Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work. A man must discover where his employer's interests can be served beyond the range of the special work allotted to him; and whenever he sees his employer's interests suffer, or wherever the latter's interests can be promoted, tell him so. Differ from your employers upon what you think his mistakes. You will never make much of a success if you do not learn the needs and opportunities of your own branch much better than your employer can possibly do. You have been told to "obey orders if you break owners." Do no such foolish thing. If your employer starts upon a course which you think will prove injurious, tell him so, protest, give your reasons, and stand to them unless convinced you are wrong. It is the young man who does this, that capital wants for a partner or for a son-in-law.
Fifth--Whatever your wages are, save a little. Live within your means. The heads of stores, farms, banks, lawyers' offices, physicians' offices, insurance companies, mills and factories are not seeking capital; they are seeking brains and business habits. The man who saves a little from his income has given the surest indication of the qualities which every employer is seeking for.
Sixth--Never speculate. Never buy or sell grain or stocks upon a margin. If you have savings, invest them in solid securities, lands or property. The man who gambles upon the exchanges is in the condition of the man who gambles at the gaming table. He rarely, if ever, makes a permanent success. His judgment goes; his faculties are snapped; and his end, as a rule, is nervous prostration after an unworthy and useless life.
Seventh--If you ever enter business for yourself, never indorse for others. It is dishonest. All your resources and all your credit are the sacred property of the men who have trusted you; and until you have surplus cash and owe no man, it is dishonest to give your name as an indorser to others. Give the cash you can spare, if you wish, to help a friend. Your name is too sacred to give.
Do not make riches, but usefulness, your first aim; and let your chief pride be that your daily occupation is in the line of progress and development; that your work, in whatever capacity it may be, is useful work, honestly conducted, and as such ennobling to your life.
To sum up, do not drink, do not smoke, do not indorse, do not speculate. Concentrate, perform more than your prescribed duties; be strictly honest in word and deed. And may all who read these words be just as happy and prosperous and long lived as I wish them all to be. And let this great fact always cheer them: It is impossible for any one to be cheated out of an honorable career unless he cheats himself.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
My Beloved Country
It was just a few months that I was riding high on the wave of motherhood. It seems like just yesterday when I was beaming with pride with the thought of having my dream (at 15 I knew I was going to be a mother someday)come true and being complete as a woman.
But now, looking how things are in the Philippines, I write this piece with a heavy heart and a few tears ran free. Is there hope for this country? Is there an assurance that when I choose to stay here and decide not to move to another country, I would be assured that my son would grow up having the same previleges and options that the other kids his age would have from the other part of the world?
For now, I can only pray and hope, that the best is yet to come for my beloved country and its people. That those brave souls who gave up their lives just for us to have the freedom that we are enjoying now, did not just die in vain.
I can only ask God for his mercy and grace to pour unto this country and its inhabitants...
But now, looking how things are in the Philippines, I write this piece with a heavy heart and a few tears ran free. Is there hope for this country? Is there an assurance that when I choose to stay here and decide not to move to another country, I would be assured that my son would grow up having the same previleges and options that the other kids his age would have from the other part of the world?
For now, I can only pray and hope, that the best is yet to come for my beloved country and its people. That those brave souls who gave up their lives just for us to have the freedom that we are enjoying now, did not just die in vain.
I can only ask God for his mercy and grace to pour unto this country and its inhabitants...
Monday, April 20, 2009
AJ
With the birth of my son came a 180 degree change in my life, the direction I'm taking and things I consider my treasure.
My aspirations and dreams in life dramatically changed. Everything I do, I first think of him. Moment's came when I feel like just letting go and being carefree but then, I heard that whistle, pointing me to AJ. I could not afford to get sick, much worst, die and leave an almost toddler. I cannot afford to raise a son with my bachelor's degree and meager income, I must aspire for more and be more for my son.
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