2008 turns 2009

Year 2008 may not have been cause so much joy to our life, to the society or to the world, hence it caused us more inhibitions. But for me, it has been fair and square. The Rat will be transferring it's throne to the Ox.

Time flies so fast. It seems like yesterday we only celebrated and welcome Year 2008. But here we are, later, we’re going to change the calendar on our walls and will be welcoming Year 2009.

As part of our customs, people will be making once again their New Year’s Resolution(s). But don’t count me in. Anyways, does your [your] New Year’s Resolution come true? Or do you still make it (your past New Year’s Resolution) until now?

I bet some don’t and good for others that still do it.

Don’t you think that we should welcome 2009 a different way? I mean, hello? Why are you going to make a New Year’s Resolution if you can’t keep it? Right?

Why not, instead of making New Year’s Resolution, let’s set some goal to achieve! Basically, New Year’s Resolutions are just mere undertaking that were meant to be busted and the turn up is you’ll be a loser while if you set your goal at least you will always be reminded to give your very best in everything that you will do. And another idea is why not change our bad and awful attitudes for the better. Change for the better! It can never be changed in a wink of an eye. It takes time. Take it slowly.

In a matter of few minutes another chapter of our lives will be ending and will immediately followed by another one.

As I have said earlier, Year 2008 may not be as good as we are expecting it to be. Many trials had come along our way. But amidst to it, we stand firm enough to face all these challenges.

Au Revoir 2008!
Welcome 2009!

oswaldfabisablay
31dec2008

ONLY YOU CAN CHOOSE

We can associate life with sundry mere things that we can never imagine, not even in our wildest dreams can be associated to but it is possible that we can match up to our life with these mere life.

Life is like a box full of chocolate. You’ll never know what sweet treat might come next to meet in your mouth for the next big scene, connoted by one of my colleagues -Kristelle. Indeed, life is full of surprises. Expect the unexpected, so they say. We may not meet what we are expecting and we may meet the things that we don’t expect to happen but the choice of choosing what is best for us is within ourselves. We are the only ones who can tell what will be our fate in the ensuing imminent future.

We are the ones who are painting the wall that signifies our life. We are the ones who paint black in our wall, the red, the green, the blue to mention few. The more colors we paint in the wall, the more our life will be meaningful. There may have been some perquisites but we must never be abuse these perquisites, but instead be just be thankful.
Life is can be as funny as a comedy films maybe, or can be as enchanting as a fairytale movies can be or can be as dreadful as a horror and suspense movie, or can be as lovely as a love-story movie can be or can be as gloomy as a drama movie. Life is a silver screen in a making. All the “genre” that we’re mentioned above are all part of our mere life that makes it complete before ending, and that ending lies among us, we may choose have a happy-ending story or a wrecked-ending story.

Life is a paradox. It is full of contradicting things that happens everyday that we might not be aware of. Choose wisely are the words of the game. Be painstaking in making decisions. We are the ones whom we are going to benefit in the end if we follow this only rule in life. We are the ones is will be responsible for every decisions we make. Have off pat that we make decisions to make our life more colorful not to wreck our life.

oswaldfabisablay
9nov2008

YULETIDEseason

Christmas is always the happiest and the much awaited season in our family. For some reasons, Christmas became my favorite time of the year -the cold breeze that touches our skin, the break from doing and thinking school works etc.

We celebrate Christmas the way we used to -exchanging of gifts, going to the mall and buying new clothes and shoes, singing Christmas carols, eating, going to our ninongs and ninangs and a lot more.


But the question now is, "Do you know the true meaning of Christmas?"

I hope so.

"Great little One! Whose all embracing birth lifts
Earth to Heaven, stoops Heaven to Earth."
-Richard Crashaw

The coming of Jesus Christ, the Saviour, the Messiah is the true and heart of Christmas. It is the most amazing event that happend in the history of mankind. Jesus became human, like us who experienced how normal people lived. God sent His only son to save us because of one reason. LOVE.

Now, to payback the greatness and goodness of God, we should love in return. Love yourself. Love your parents. Love your siblings. Love your neighbor. Love your enemies and love the whole world.

Happy Yuletide Season!

YELLOW stands above all!

"unlike the students of the University of the Philippines, Ateneo de Manila and De La Salle, the UST community had been silent and modest of their Tiger blood"

"Uplift the Thomasian spirit"

"Rock and Roar"

"If you have it, then flaunt it!"

*note: all the captions were from the article
-Shirts that RAWR! of December 19, 2008 issue
The Varsitarian

oswaldfabisablay
20dec2008

Do You Believe?

IF SOMEONE HAD A GUN HELD IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE AND ASKED YOU IF YOU BELIEVED IN GOD, WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

> > > > SAY NO AND FEEL ASHAMED THE REST OF YOUR LIFE?OR SAY YES, I DO, AND DIE STANDING UP FOR GOD?

> > > > If you would say no, DELETE THIS E-MAIL , NOW.IF YOU WOULD SAY YES,

> > > > AND STAND UP FOR JESUS CHRIST, PLEASE READ THIS AND PASS ON.

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> > > > Note: This is a true article that was printed in a southern newspaper less then a year ago

> > > >

> > > > TAKE A DEEP BREATH BEFORE READING THIS

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> > > > There was an atheist couple who had a child. The couple never told their daughter anything about the Lord. One night when the little girl was 5 years old, the parents fought with each other and the dad shot the Mom, right in front of the child. Then, the dad shot himself. The little girl watched it all. She then was sent to a foster home. The foster mother was a Christian and took the child to church. On the first day of Sunday School, the foster mother told the teacher that the girl had never heard of Jesus, and to have patience with her. The teacher held up a picture of Jesus and said, "Does anyon e know who this is?" The little girl said, "I do, that's the man who was holding me the night my parents died."

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> > > > If you believe this little girl is telling the truth that even though she had never heard of Jesus, he still held her the night her parents died, then you will forward this to as many people as you can.

> > > >

> > > > Or you can delete it as if it never touched your heart.

> > > > Funny, isn't it?

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> > > > Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell.

> > > >

> > > > Funny how we believe what the newspaper

>>>>PLEASE spread this in any forms

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"I was in point of fact swamped in amity and was clear-fell by it’s grandiose supremacy. I was not able to mull over of my part. I didn’t leftward a single spec of ardor for myself. Not fathoming, I am already downing myself and obliterating my imminent and so my dear existence. After lengthy stint of discerning, I turn up to a verdict that I must take up and bequeath myself one more venture to hold dear myself. And cry that life must carry on whatever complications may happen.""

oswaldfabisablay
3dec2008

Voices in Harmony

*note: the next critique your going to read is actually a message from the Chairman of Voices in Harmony published in their souvenir-book and was actually read as the opening remark in the Grand Finals Night of Voices in Harmony held at the Crossroad 77 Convenarium last November 29, 2008 at 5PM.

"It was 1999 when the first Voices in Harmony was staged at the University Theater of the Philippines’ premiere state university. Planned as one-time-big-time event of the Children’s Museum and Library, Inc. Junior Council Alumni Association (CMLI JCAA), it has grown and developed to be one of the most premiere and sought-after annual choral competitions in the country today. In its tenth year of existence, Voices in Harmony has been a living legacy of empowering the youth through music as it does not only focus on the youth’s talent development but also in gearing them towards the appreciation of Philippine airs - a mirror of our culture, our identity as Filipinos.

Allow me to say that Voices in Harmony has somehow set the standards of choral competitions in the region. It has a decade of giving our secondary school choirs a suitable competition venue, year-after-year exciting avant-garde compulsory pieces, and top caliber personalities in the field of choral music as jury members, to name a few. These serve as a challenge not only to the choral groups and glee clubs but also to the organizing committee as expectations rise and as audience grow in number.

As the doors of Crossroad 77 Convenarium open, we present our ten competitive choir-finalists armed with their musical prowess and their conductors’ choral ingenuity. Tonight we pat tribute to the future Philippine ambassadors of chorals singing, to the ethnolinguistical groups of the uplands contributing their bountiful rhythms and chants, and to young, budding Filipino composers who continue to enrich the Philippines’ musical excellence.

This is a celebration of a decade of empowering the youth through music. This is your annual awit-tagisan ng batang Pilipino! This is Voices in Harmony!"

Charlz William C. Dimal
Chairman
Voices in Harmony 2008