FAITH IN GOD

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Somewhere in Milaor, Camarines Sur, there lived a fourth grader boy who would follow this route to school everyday: He has to cross the rugged plains and cross the dangerous highway where vehicles are recklessly driving to and from.

Once past this highway, the boy would take a short cut, passing by the Church every morning just to say Hi to God, and faithfully say his, "Magandang umaga po" in Bicol dialect. He was faithfully being watched by a Priest who was happy to find innocence so uplifting in the morning,

"Kamusta, Andoy? Papasok ka na?"

"Opo padre ... "he would flash his innocent grin, the priest would be touched. He was so concerned that one day he talked to Andoy.

"From school...", he advised "Do not cross the highway, you can pass through the Church and I can accompany you to the other side of the road...that way I can see that you are home safe...."

"Thank you father ... "

"Why don't you go home ... why do you stay in this church right after school?"

"I just want to say 'Hi' to my friend, God," and the priest would leave the boy to spend time beside the altar, talking to himself, but the priest was hiding behind the altar to listen to what this boy has to say to his heavenly FATHER.

"You know my math exam was pretty bad today, but I did not cheat although my seatmate is bullying me for notes... I ate one cracker and drank my water, Itay had a bad season and all I can eat is this cracker.

Thank you for this! I saw a poor kitten who was hungry and I know how he feels so I gave my last cracker to him ... funny but I am not that hungry.

Look, this is my last pair of slippers ...I may have to walk barefoot next week, you see this is about to be broken... but it is okay....at least I am still going to school.... Some say we will have a hard season this month, some of my classmates have already stopped going to school .... please help them get to school again, please God?

....Oh, you know, Inay hit me again, it is painful, but I know this pain will pass away, at least I still have a mother.... God, you want to see my bruises? I know you can heal them.... Here... here and .... oh ...blood ....I guess you knew about this one huh? Please don't be mad at Inay, she is just tired and she worries for the food in our table and my schooling that is why she hits us....Oh, I think I am in love ... there's this pretty girl in my class, her name is Anita ... do you think she will like me? Anyway, at least I know you will always like me, I don't have to be anybody just to please you, you are my very best friend! Hey your birthday is two days from now!!! Aren't you excited? I am! Wait till you see, I have a gift for you . but it is a surprise! I hope you will like it! Oooops, I have to go ..." then he stood up and calls out, "Padre, padre, I am finished talking to my friend ....

youcan accompany me to the other side of the road now"

This routine happens everyday. Andoy never fails. Father Agaton shares this every Sunday to the people in his church because he has not seen a very pure faith and trust in God, a very positive look at negative situations.

One Christmas day, Father Agaton was sick so he could not make it in the Church, he was sent to the hospital. The Church was left to 4 manangs who would chant the rosary in 1000 miles per hour, would not smile and would always find fault in what you do, they were also very well versed in cursing if you irritate them! They were kneeling, saying their kilometric rosary when Andoy, coming from his Christmas party,playfully dashed in.

"Hello God! I ......"

"P----!! (a curse) bata ka!! Alam mo nang may nagdadasal!! Alis!!"

Poor Andoy was so terrified, "Where's Father Agaton? He is supposed to help me cross the street ... and to be able to cross the street I will have to pass by the back door of this church .not only that, I have to greet Jesus. It is His birthday, I have a gift right here....

" Just as he was about to get the gift out of his shirt, the manang pulled his shirt and threw him out of the church. "Susmaryosep!!! (does the sign of the cross fervently) Alis kang bata ka, kung hindi matatamaan ka!!!

So the boy had no choice but to cross the dangerous side of the road in front of the church. He crossed. A fast moving bus came in.

There was a blind curve. The boy was protecting his gift inside his shirt, so he was not looking. There was so little time. Andoy died on the spot. A lot of people crowded the poor boy, the body of a lifeless young boy ...

Suddenly, out of nowhere a tall man in a pure white shirt and pants, a face so mild and gentle, but with eyes full of tears... He came and carried the boy in His arms. He was crying. Curious bystanders nudged the man in white, and asked,

"Excuse me sir, are you related to this child?

Do you know this child?"

The man in white, His face mourning and in agony, looked up and answered,

"He was my best friend . " was all he said. He took the badly wrapped gift in the bloody chest of the lifeless boy, and placed it near His heart.

He stood up and carried the boy away and they both disappeared in sight.

The crowd was curious ...

On Christmas Eve, Father Agaton learned of the shocking news. He visited the house, and wanted to verify about the man in white. He consulted the parents of Andoy.

"How did you know that your son died?"

"A man in white brought him here." sobbed the mother. "What did he say?"

The father answered, "He did not say anything. He was mourning. We do not know him and yet he was very lonely about our son's death, as if he knew our son very well. But there was something peaceful and unexplainable about him.

He gave me my son, and then he smiled peacefully. He brushed my son's hair away from his face and kissed him on his forehead, then he whispered something..."

"What did he say?"

"He said to my boy..." the father began, "Thank you for the gift .... I will see you soon ... you will be with me..." and the father of the boy continued, "and you know for a while, it felt so

wonderful ... I cried, but I do not know why....all I know is I cried tears of joy .... I could not explain it, Father, but when that man left, something peaceful came over me, I felt a deep sense

of love inside ... I could not explain the joy in my heart, I knew my boy is in heaven now but...tell me, Father, who is this man that my son talks to everyday in your church, you should know because you are always there ... except at the time of his death ......"Father Agaton suddenly felt the tears welling in his eyes, with

trembling knees, he murmurred, " ... He was talking to no one ......

but .. GOD...."

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---By: Emman Dela Cruz Dumasig-----

Sounds GREAT!!!… ----week3----

The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend and here’s mine.

As all students are wishing for, is to have a long weekend. Whatta good news? Everyone is having fun and have time to be with families and friends. Maybe for others it could be boring to stay longer at their house, some are happy to have bonding with their loved ones or, some of them spent their time in working, like me.

Long weekend? Well, this is really great for me, I have a lot of things to finish and it is very hassle for me. Thanks God for this break!  It is my opportunity to do my work and get extra income, so I could pay my tuition fee. Maybe it will be stressful to be a workaholic, but I’m blessed to be stress. But of course, I gave time to myself be unwinding and playing DOTA will make me lighten up. (Laugh)

I really love long weekend. It’s my pleasure. J

Hmmm. And how’s yours?

UNLIMITED SURPRISES... -----week2-----

Celebrating the day of our language seems to be unfamiliar, for me.
Month of our language. Infact I don't have any idea how LYCEUM
celebrates this land of event. And I wondered how that was be.
Honestly what I only knew that day was just to go to school for
attendance. I thought about this day there is no classes. So, it is
different for me.
From my four former schools, I never have an experience like this.
This is my first time to attend in this kind of celebration. Maybe
because this is also my first time that I reached up to pre-final.
As far as I remember, I was Juan that time, in short I'm lazy.hehe...
But now I need to finish my course. So, I don't have choice.haha...
It's now personal interest.

If I didn't see our beautiful candidate in Bb.(Lakanbini?)., maybe Im
already at home. I don't even have any idea about this pageant.
Expectacular! Because of that, my 1 hour became 2 hours then 3
hours.
Pictures here! click there! click here! picture there! that's what
I did. Thanks Ms.A for this is our topic in our blog. At least
my photos will not be wasted. (hehe...) Fortunately, I have my
evidences to show that I really participated in this event. I didn't
have my attendace that day because the attendance paper was
already passed to Ms.A.
I was happy that day because most of the awards in Bb.(Lakanbini?)
was awarded to candidates of CAS.
When I visited my FB , I found so many comments that congratulating
the CAS candidates."HAKOT" that was the common comment I found.
GOAL. Grab most of the awards.
Thanks God I belonged in CAS Department. It seems that Im
intelligent as well as my classmates.
That's my colorful experience.This school year was very energetic.
I have many experiences that was different from before.

      Thanks for patiently reading.hehe...

prelim and midterm!!exp!! ----week1----

           Also finished at last prelim and midterm. I do not think that I reach the prefinals. Hopefully I will finish this semester to feel that I do my college life. When beginning of the school it's more priority in my work.
           But now I've decided to make an schedule of my time to study and work. Concurrent more likely to develop more new friends like Rogelio and others students to be happy especially if I like being student i;ve already enjoy bonding after class, bonding during the project done.
           Especially those of the project that we have to made and to pass with  Ms.A. Since the project;done and submitted to Ms.A we had a organization to as a group. One of my favorite subject is the Philippine government.
           Although I always I stand right here in front of my classmate in that subject because of the recitation and always being stand for a while because I can't not answer the question given by my prof.
I do enjoy the subject matter while I stood there listening just because of  i'd rather not to answer the questions. haha ... I remember on prelim when tribe does absent just because I'm always late. Happy to attend in the Lyceum, but I also enjoyed my job. Right now, I too can say nothing more about my prelim and midterm. on my opinion the most beautiful blog I can do maybe if I finish this course in this school.and also maybe one of the most fun and success as I can.been done.

• Do new technologies change how we access information? • The type of information upon which we rely? • How we communicate with each other? • Does new media limit or expand our personal freedom?

Yes nowadays technologies are very rampant...Its scattered around the country and also globally...yes it does...it can make our daily living a useful one....technologies make and brings information accessible in just one click, we can have the source we need at our disposal ....the type of information we rely on is and varies per individual it depends upon your disposition but regarding the info we should rely on the most, it should be i think from a reliable source and the warrantableness/warrantability of the information itself of course should be taken into consideration

There are many avenues by which people can communicate with each other. There is the interpersonal/primitivel way (talking/body language) and through gadgets as well.
The question of personal freedom is grounded on the definition of personal freedom. As of now, the universal definition of personal freedom is much contested and ambiguous.
NEW MEDIA IS THE INTERNET!!!!!

A way trough Perfection

First of all, being mediocre does have its advantages. For one, you get play it safe and not look foolish. You get to avoid risk, and safely hang within the crowd. Yet the problem is, a mediocre life is boring and requires you to bury your dreams and potential.

While Excellence is derived when we embrace the change and growth needed to attain a breakthrough level of performance as far and as perfect as they can.

Excellence, is being a person that always not satisfied of what did they achieve because being excellence also means perfection ..achieve your dreams or surpass it as possible.

While Mediocrity is a kind of people or person that always think of playing safe being satisfied in what did they rich and not expecting too much to their life. But Mediocrity is a way trough Excellence because not all of our life time we satisfied ourselves as simple life as we want but some of the time we imagined and we dream for a big cause and we want to break trough.

 Not only just “good” we want it to be “very good”not only “awesome” but we want it “amazing” not only “satisfied” but we want it “perfect”.

So Mediocrity is a way trough Excellence!!

tHinGs to rEminD aBouT sOciaL mEdia

Social media is just a fad? We can say that social media is mostly know by in using it to fad, because we enjoy and relax our mind and body by watching movies,listening to songs, making a conversation with some friends and love ones and also by playing some games just make every moment would  be bussy and enjoyed, but  how can we say that social media is just for fad, if the social media had a vision to learn and to get more acknowledgement,information,ideas and tips how ever if it is for business,job career,or researching for any things that questioned your mind.

    

      Social media also make a fact that they have a mission to get not only the the attention to people,mostly the businessman and people who want to make direct contribution to their economy, but also to get the willingness of the consumers to make an open forum and adjustment in getting the voice complaint of costomers to enhance and make their consumers satisfied as well as their expectation.

      So being an student social media really a big part of me because i used it morethan 12 hours a day for reaserch,activities,fun,and getting an important impormation it also helps me to have a voice within this social media outlets and mentaining it with sense of purpose,and take an advantage by using social media strategically and with reasons, means that years after years social media would be so usefull and more options and much easy.