Philippine Climate

As you planned to visit the Philippines, I want to tell you the types of the Philippine climate. We have four types of climate here in our country. The latitude, surrounding bodies of water and mountains of the Philippines. You will have understand why we have there types of climate.

First type:
Two pronounced season: dry from November to April, wet during the rest of the year. All regions on the western part of the island of Luzon, Mindanao, Negros and Palawan are shielded by mountains from the northeast winds but open to the southwest winds.

Second type:
No dry with pronounced maximum rainy season from November to January in Catanduanes, Sorsogon, the eastern part of Albay, the eastern and western part of Camarinez Nortre and Camarines Sur, the eastern part of Quezon, Samar, Leyte and Mindanao. These regions are along or near the eastern coast. They are not sheltered from the northeast winds and storms.

Third type:
Seasons are not very pronounced relatively dry from November to April and wet during the rest of the year. Region with this type of climate are the western part of Cagayan, Isabela, Nueva Viscaya, the eastern part of the Mountain Province, southern Quezon, Masbate, Romblon, northeast Panay, eastern Negros, central and southern Cebu, Northern Mindanao and Eastern Palawan. These places are partly sheltered from the northeast winds but open to the Southwest winds and storms.

Fourth type:
Rainfall in more or less every evenly distributed throughout the year. The regions with this type of climate are Batanes, Northern Luzon, Western Camarines Norte and Camarines Sur, Albay, Eastern Mindanao, Marinduque, Northern Cebu and Negros, and most of Mindanao

Baskets and Textiles

In the world’s new interest in crafts and collectibles two items have come to the fore: baskets and textiles. Ironically, the advance of technology has brought people back to the primary crafts as items of concern and care.

The many different peoples and their divergent lifestyles have given the craft a multitude of unusual and specialized forms. The union of these forms with selected materials to create useful tools has put the users into a unique relationship with their environment. The baskets utilize the natural materials of the environment, as in the case of fish traps and creels, to build the ethic and style of a culture. The true appreciation of a basket as a work of skill and artistry comes with its use. However, a layman can analyze the union of a selected materials with all its inherent characteristics and see that it is unquestionably suited to a particular form and use.

When one looks carefully at the fold basketry of the Philippines, one can always notice the care with which the gauge of the material is scaled to the size of the basket. To too, the finishing details such as the fit of a cover, the insertion of a handle, the use of a natural lock, all evidence the eye of master craftsmen who take pride in their work.

There is a logic to the use of light natural materials in basketry. The form created satisfy the demands of heavy work, repair ability and flexibility. Good baskets don’t just happen, they are carefully planned. It remains for the general public to develop the discerning eye that will appreciate the details of form and construction.

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Memories and Family Practice

Call it your family tradition, ritual, or practice. Traditions that families do together can act as a thread to weave them closer to each other. When effort is exerted to uphold and continue doing these activities, the more meaningful these tradition can be and the more treasured they become among family members.

Memories are then build of the treasured moments spent together. In some families, it can take the form of going on trips during weekends or holidays, celebrating occasions, cooking or baking together, engaging in sports, telling stories, and the list could go on. In contrast, changes in the family’s routine or usual practices ma possibly indicate changes in family structure and even breakdown in communication or conflict between members.

There is a certain security and warmth that emanates from being with family and doing a specific activity together at a specific time. Strong ties may result from these practices and the same traditions may be handed on from one generation to the next. In families who love cooking and baking, recipes of the older generation are treasured and passed on to the younger ones.

I have a friend whose family books a room at a certain hotel while visiting their extended family for the holidays. They stayed at the same hotel for several years. When my friend one time suggested to try another place, her children were horrified at the thought of breaking their ritual and exclaimed, “But mom, it’s tradition!”

Integrity of Heart

Integrity is based on the word “integer” which means a whole number or a complete unit. Integrity means wholeness and a double standard. A person with integrity is a whole person, and undivided person. This is someone who is the same person at the office and in church; someone who is the same person in private as well as in public. Jesus the Messiah was a Man of integrity. He was not two-faced or uneven while representing both earthy humanity and His Heavenly Father.

I have just thought of something! One other way to view “integrity” is to consider the way a civil engineer would when speaking of a building with “structural integrity”. This kind of integrity keeps the building strong and safe. Faults in structural integrity are revealed under pressure or unusual stress. A few years ago there was a major earthquake in Taiwan. Many people were killed and injured when the quake caused hundreds of reinforced concrete buildings to suddenly collapse. The shattered buildings revealed that some had been built with large, empty metal cans inserted into columns and beams where there should have been solid concrete. Structural integrity had been sacrificed for profit. How many of our lives have empty spaces where there should be something solid and strong? When we speak the Word of God, are we building a house of faith that will stand up under stress?

Believers are people of truth. We should never fear that speaking the truth in love will cause us to fail. The opposite is true. I have found that while we often do need wisdom regarding how and when to speak the truth, God will never forsake the righteous in heart. He is a shield of protection for the one whose life is committed to the Word of God. Integrity, however, is more than simple honesty in business. It is more than “doing the thing right.” Integrity means keeping out commitments, whether it is a matter between us and God (such as tithing) or in relationship with our fellow human beings.

Integrity requires a lifestyle of worship and prayer that under binds all business and ministry activities. Worshiping God draws us into a place of intimacy with Him. In our inward, personal life with the Lord that is carried forward by trusting in Him, we learn to stand before God and man in honesty. He sends us forth from the holy meeting place of prayer ready for whatever kind of works our calling demands. Through prayers and the Word of God, we receive wisdom, grace and moral understanding to deal with tough decisions. Through prayer and the wholeness of integrity, we receive courage from the Spirit to act on what God has shown us to be the right path for our lives.

The World’s Largest Living Fish is a Shark

The whale shark, locally known as “ butanding “, is the world’s largest fish. This gentle giant is known to grow to great lengths of up to 18 meters and can weigh up to 34 tonnes. As a highly migratory species, whale sharks are distributed worldwide in warm and temperate seas of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. They can migrate long distances through international waters to favored coastal areas in a few months of the year when the plankton they feed on is abundant.

Food is an important factor for the growth, migration and abundance of whale sharks in time and space. Its presence is highly associated with blooms of planktonic organism and changes in water temperature. Unlike other species of sharks, the whale shark can neither bite nor chew. Its thousand of teeth are so tiny that it can only eat small shrimps, fish and plankton by using its modified gift rakers as suction filter.

Whale sharks are slow growing, maturing sexually only after so many years and with long interval between pregnancies. Female have been found to produce as many as 300 embryos in her uterus, although it is thought that less than 10% of the young survive to adulthood. Upon giving birth, the mother sharks leave her young to fend for themselves. In effect, the species have low reproductive potential and low capacity for population increase. These make the species highly vulnerable to exploitation.

The ecological role of whale sharks is not yet fully understood but the links of these giants with other processes within an ecosystem cannot be underestimated. Whale sharks are related to important ecological processes such as crab, fish and coral spawning. As possible indicators of plankton-rich patches, whale sharks may be using baitfish to locate their prey.

Philippine Classical Music

Philippine music today is a unique blend of the traditions of the East and the West. It represents a flexible and wide variety of oriental and occidental influences, with the scale tipping heavily to the latter. Because of our long exposure to the culture of the western world, an imbalance in our cultural values was brought about by inevitable historical circumstances and foreign domination in the course of our growth as a nation. Our Asian heritage which existed prior to colonization was almost wiped out. A large percentage of our population understand and perform 19th century European and American types of Philippine music, both parochial and secular.

Philippine music present the collective experience of its people as expressed in its folksongs and creative music, a reflection of their feelings, hopes and aspirations. Philippine music may be classified into traditional/indigenous and contemporary/western. There are two types of traditional Philippine music – the indigenous music of the pre-hispanic origin, and the hispanized or western-derived. This paper specifically deals with western-derived classical music.

Healthy Body

Eating healthy foods, you need to eat food rich in calcium, proteins, carbohydrates and vitamins. Eating healthy foods especially when you are still growing is important because it makes you stronger. Starving your body of important nutrients causes your bones to stop growing. It can also make you feel bad!

Drink your milk. Eating and drinking food rich in calcium, a substance found in dairy products such as milk, cheese and yogurt, is an excellent way to keep your bones and teeth strong and healthy. Bone matter is partly made up of calcium. So calcium-rich foods help the body improve your bones and encourage bone growth. That means that chocolate milk is actually good for your bones. (Just brush your teeth after drinking to get rid of any sugar build-up!) Research has shown that having healthy bones as kids play a big role in preventing bones diseases, life osteoporosis.

Have a sound sleep. Sleep helps the body and brain develop and grow. You can do better when you get enough good sleep. Kids like you need 10 to 11 hours of sleep each night.

Earth Day Begins at Home

You can make everyday an Earth Day by considering these suggestions and sharing them with your neighborhood.

Purchase nontoxic cleaning products. Use natural fiber sponges and cleaning agents that are biodegradable, phosphate-free, chlorine-free and unscented.

Reduce paper use. Use rags instead of paper towels; cloth napkins instead of paper ones. Buy post-consumer recycled paper and recycle it when you have used it.

Restore responsibly. Use water-based or vegetable-based paints, stains and varnishes. Do not wash paint thinner, household cleaners, oil or pesticides down the drain or pour them on the ground. Use them up, give leftovers to your friends or dispose them at your local waste disposal center.

Repair instead of replace. Reupholster furniture. Resole your shoes.

Replace disposable goods with renewable ones. Buy rechargeable batteries. Use dishes instead of paper plates.

Plant for the planet. Strengthen your garden’s resistance to pests by planting resilient plants, by rotating the fruits and vegetables you plant and by attracting friendly bugs to prey on the pesky ones.

Transportation

TRASPORTATION TAKES PEOPLE where they need or want to go, and brings them the goods they need or want. Without transportation, trade would be impossible. Without trade, there could be no towns and cities. Towns and cities are traditionally the centers of civilization. Therefore, transportation has helped make civilization possible.

Although transportation has benefited people in many ways, it has also created problems. For example, it uses great quantities of fuel and so strains the world’s energy supplies. Cars jam many streets and motorways making travel slow. In addition, there exhaust fumes pollute the air. Such problems are so difficult to solve that government have become increasingly involved in transportation.

Traffic congestion on streets and highways increases transportation times and can also make driving more dangerous. Scientist and engineers have been developing intelligent transportation systems to deal with congestion. One development, an electronic toll system, automatically identifies vehicles and charges their owners or drivers for the use of roadways and bridges.

Cars are the chief cause of traffic congestions in urban areas, and their exhaust fumes contribute heavily to urban air pollution. Many cities plagued by traffic jams and air pollution have taken steps to reduce car traffic in their busier areas. In addition, increasingly strict pollution control standards are being introduced for new vehicles. There standards require carmakers to manufacture cars that five off cleaner exhausts that earlier models.

Social and Welfare Services

Most of the things done today by individuals, charitable societies or governments as social and welfare services have been done in the past in many societies. Closer to current times, poverty, child neglects, and other social ills were pioneers in many of today’s social and welfare services, although they too had called such services by various other names such as “organized charity,” or “philanthropic work”

Notably the newly independent and developing countries, have attempted to apply the term social services to those services, such as education and health, that are addressed to the general population and to apply the tem welfare services to services rendered to vulnerable groups – groups that are socially, economically, physically, or mentally handicapped or special groups would apply to those persons who because of the misfortunes of circumstances have tended to lag behind or fall by the wayside

Another classification of social and welfare services focuses on their remedial, preventive, and supportive roles. Remedial services express the basic humanitarian and social responsibility of society toward people in their need or distress. The y seek to meet the special needs of various sections of the population, such as the young, the old, the destitute, and the handicapped. Preventive services seek to lessen the stresses and strains of life resulting from social and technological changes. The try to provide built-in safeguards to meet the problems facing individuals and families, particularly in times of economic growth. If effective, they should reduce the need for more expensive remedial programs, Supportive services deal with educational programs, health services, population policies, manpower planning, employment and training, and community development projects.

Faith Healing and Psychic Surgery: Fact or Fallacy ( Part 3 )

Is psychic surgery true? Studies of foreign researchers have remained inconclusive, some says it’s real, and others say it’s complete fakery. The inconsistency perhaps lies in the fact that some healers are genuine but there are others who are fakes. And there are times when even genuine healers face an operation when they have temporarily lost powers.

Still it is a fact that these healers the genuine ones at least, have healed thousands upon thousands of people from all over the world specially those otherwise given up by their country’s medical doctors.

Despite discouragement from some foreign governments and the adverse publicity against the faith healers, there are still thousands of foreigners, who flock to the Philippines every year in search of a miracle cure. Some go back either completely or partially healed; others not at all.

My friend have personally observed around 33 psychic surgeons in the Philippines and one in Brazil. She have witnessed thousands of psychic surgeries performed by them. She have also two laboratory reports of specimens taken from patients of the healers and another report from a Japanese medical specialist. All the reports proved to be genuine. Still we cannot openly advocate faith healing except perhaps as a last resort, because we are dealing here with a paranormal phenomenon whose results cannot be pre-determined or predicted. A lot depends on the powers of the healer at the time, the belief and attitudes of the patient and the people surrounding the healing process. It is a mystery that waits further study and explanation.

For those interested in seeing a Filipino faith healer, the above points are worth considering. Although it had seen many spectacular cures in the course of extensive research on the subject, it had also seen many spectacular failures. The decision lied in the visitor where he should subject himself to faith healing or not..


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Faith Healing and Psychic Surgery: Fact or Fallacy ( Part 2 )

Faith healing with its sensational process of bare-handed psychic surgery is one of the most extraordinary and controversial examples of and indigenous paranormal phenomenon in the country that many from all over the world must have heard but know little about.

Of the thousands of spiritual or faith healers scattered all over the Philippines, only around 150 to 200 can perform psychic surgery. And only about ten percent (10%) of these have consistent powers to practice regularly.

Bare-handed psychic surgery exists only in the Philippines. A similar phenomenon is found in Brazil, but their healers use knives, scalpels, scissors and other instruments to perform “surgery.” I decline psychic surgery as the process by which the healer while entranced opens up the body of the patient with his bare hands, take out diseased tissues, and closes the opening without any trace of the incision at all.

It is believed that this is done through the intercession of a benign spirit or saint using the healer as a channel or medium of the healing force or energy. All faith healers are members of one spiritist group or another.




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Faith Healing and Psychic Surgery: Fact or Fallacy ( Part 1 )

For about half of the 24 years in the business management of my friend, she was engaged in a very unusual hobby after office hours, doing research and writing books and articles on various paranormal and psychic phenomena. During her offbeat hours, the presence of a fascinating hidden culture of the Philippines became evident to her – a culture that is much more fundamental, more powerful and more pervasive than the outward culture that the ordinary visitor to our country becomes easily familiar with.

This hidden aspect of our culture, which she call the esoteric cultures of the Philippines, consists of beliefs in the supernatural, in the existence of various in habitants of the spirit world and the many rituals and practices connected with their supplication and intervention into our daily affairs. The esoteric culture also refers to the Filipino’s persistent belief in the awesome powers of the mind to transform one’s life and protect him from harm so long as that mind is connected with the spirit source. The paranormal is part of the hidden culture.

The Philippine Paranormal Research Society, a non-profit organization found in 1986, together with several business professionals and scientists, defines the paranormal as “any observable or experience able phenomenon, object, energy, force, event or human capability for which there is yet no generally accepted scientific explanation.”


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A Romance With Books -2

At six in the morning I got up and went to the toilet. I did everything possible to make myself look human for my interview with the dean at nine. He was tall who possessed a sense of humor. That he took me into his faculty after a few minutes of conversation. He told me I could start teaching in the coming semester, which was just a week away. He gave me two subjects, English literature and Sociology. When I reminded him that I had never taught sociology, he smiled and said that was good, for then I would be learning a new discipline. He was the only dean I have ever worked with who put a great trust in my ignorance. After making arrangements with the owner of a boarding house which he referred me, I searched the city for materials to use in my forthcoming academic adventure.

My collection increased with works that I found in the most unlikely corners of the city. I bought and Encyclopedia on installment plan, I was an indiscriminate collector. I was always on the lookout for bargains. I read all my books, finding them helpful to my struggle to be a good writer. In my romance with books, I sometimes met other collector. There is no stereo-type portrait of collectors, they come in all shapes and sizes, but they betray themselves of respect and care, as one would speak about a beloved, and would never be at a lost for words to describe their latest achievement.

A Romance With Books -1

Whenever I pass by a bookstore, I recall the days when I was struggling to collect a decent library. That was long ago, when five pesos could buy you a brand new, hardbound copy of your favorite book. So when I was in college, I often dreamed of a house with bookshelves reaching from floor to ceiling, with all the books printed with my ex libries. Being poor and subsisting academically only on scholarship, the dream had a long way reaching reality. By the time I got my degree, I had a few pocketbooks, though. I was penniless and now unemployed. I sought the help of our dean. I quite humbly (for I had in the past caused him trouble), that I needed a teaching job soon or I would perish in the unsafe world. I was hoping a position in the faculty of my own college. He nodded his white haired head and told me to come back in a week’s time. When I went back to him on the appointed day, he gave me a letter of recommendation to a far university. I thanked him but refused the letter and left at once, hardly containing my irritation. I suspected he wanted to exile me to that violent no-man’s island as self-punishment for all the grief I had caused him.

A few days later I bumped into a former classmate who was then a teacher at the near university where I should supposed to teach. He told me stories of his nice life in that mountain city that made me mouth water. She said I could join of it if I liked; all I had to do was send an application to the dean and he would check for me. I did and he did. Out of complete ignorance, I miscalculated my journey’s time and arrived at the bus station in the evening. My teeth chattered in the cold. I could not afford a hotel room. The only way is to stay in a station. I noticed two clerks in the dispatcher’s office engaged in a game of chess. To pass away my hunger, I went in and silently watched them. It was a nearing midnight when they finished. I went to lie down on a bench. I hardly slept that night. I noticed only one other fellow there who could not afford a hotel room. I felt safe in that huge corner whose embrace was the first hospitable welcome I had in that city.

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Building Business Relationships

Business is an integral part of human life and it flows through networks of human relationships. Effective businessmen are always looking for promising people, even if they are not immediately useful from a business standpoint. I know one story. A man worked as an international sales manager, he arrived in an Asian country without a single contact. He prayed in his hotel room and felt led to call the commercial officer of a nearby embassy. That person recommended a local businessman with a small company in a closely related field. He met the man and was impressed him as an unusually bright and effective person. In the end, he signed him to be his company’s distributor even though his company was not exactly in the best position to help him. He had about twenty-five employees when he met that man, but the next time he visited him, he had two hundred and soon that figure was over two thousand. On day he heard on the news that he had been appointed to a cabinet level position by his nation’s president, without any previous government experience! His company is now one of the largest and more powerful in its field.

I have been asked if it makes sense to try to work with friends. Good friendships sometimes develop as a result of good business, but rarely does the reverse happen. In fact, trying to do business simply on the basis of friendship can be one way to destroy or badly damage long-standing and valuable relationships. But there are exceptions to every rule, but profitable business results from providing a consistent value to customers through legitimate and ethical means. Friendship is a great benefits but not necessary factor. Right relationships with the right people means success in business. God’s Word gives wisdom in choosing people and in building the kind of relationships that will lead us to success.

The Will to Win and Working Hard

If you are in business you must have the will to succeed. We are in a competition, not against others but against sin, the flesh and the devil. “We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.”

Many people would prefer this verse to end after the words “we wrestle not.” I sometimes tell the story of a believer who wanted to play compassionate, caring tennis. He did not want to make his opponent run or stretch or get tired, so he deliberately lost every game and wound up losing every playing partner too. His partners lost respect for him and no longer wanted to play.

If you are called by god into business, you have been called to compete in the marketplace fairly, with courage and endurance. We must demonstrate our faith through good work and not be like the fearing and mistrustful slave with one talent. It is God’s will that we be like the slave with ten talents who had an abundance. When your customer or your employer makes money with you on the team, they win and you win. Business is like a game and it is competitive by nature. Play fair, but strive for excellence and play to win. When you have won and helped a few others win, tell them about Jesus. They will listen to you because what you have won is their respect.

Working hard and knowing when to rest is an important part of God’s wisdom. There is a special joy that can only be found through the discipline of hard work. As the word says, “Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.”

You’ve got the Power!

Here’s a very unfortunate reality that happens everywhere: the buck gets passed. I’m referring to this negative attitude we frail humans have: Everything is everybody else’s fault, not mine! We just fall prey to the temptation and keep on passing the buck to others.

Let’s go review those times. You know, those times when each of us said:

• It’s not my fault – he did it!
  
• What?! Me? Don’t blame me – if she didn’t do this and that in the first place, then everything would be ok!
  
• It’s not my fault; I was just born with this set of genes!

(Try saying those things again, this time in a really winning voice.)

Now, do you realize how silly those things are? By passing the buck, we are robbing ourselves of this great power we possess. Something even greater.

We all possess the power to change our lives!

We can’t choose the genes we’re born with, or the way we were raised as kids, or the environment we grew up in. But we don’t have to be slaves to our genes, or our environment. Sure, they all affect us, but the last word is still up to us. We can change ourselves. We can expand our boundaries. We can develop ourselves more, without being limited by anything but our determination. That’s what’s great about being human. We are adaptable – and we conquer our environment! We don’t just suffer hardship or misfortunes – we surpass them!

As my life is not so meaningful these past few years I had to change myself for the better. Reading books, magazines and everything got me an idea to do things. I write now a lot. And I’m sure it will help me to become a good writer even not a famous one. I’ve got lots of interesting topics in my mind. I want to share it all with you. You can see my first content there in my blog. I will be planning each of my article there a unique one. I will make sure that everyone who visits Pari's Blog will be contented. Every thing in there will bring up to date. So I do thankful to you all who will visit my blog. You may also freely give your suggestions for any article you wanted and I will do write about it. Thanks again for visiting Pari’s Blog will make you believe in everything.

Believe: Trust in me! I’ve got the power!

TRUST WHO?

My heart pounds nowadays every time I hear my phone beep. I can’t help but think that there’s more bad news coming. You can’t blame me though, because a recent experience made me think of something that I have always taken for granted. I’ve always believed. I used to think that everyone else was just like me: carefree, unaffected and easily trusting. But my thoughts were proven wrong.

I hurriedly grabbed my phone. I was surprised to find out that it was one of my close friend. What was far more surprising was her message. It was short and simple. But its impact was huge. I nearly lost my balance when I red her text in bold letters: “I’M TWO MONTHS PREGNANT.” For a moment I was stunned. I was replying to the text message: What happened? Did you tell anyone else? All I got was a curt reply: “ NO ONE ELSE KNOWS. “ I felt bothered. I wanted to call her. But I didn’t know where to start. I have always perceived her as the shy-typed and probably now ashamed to admit her condition. I’m quite surprised that she told me, but somewhat relieved. At least she trusted me. So I promised to never let her down.

Sometimes the world can be so indifferent. People can be so immature. Sharing a part of yourself with others can be hard. Looking for that elusive trustworthy someone then becomes a quest. I have never put much thought on this matter, until I realized that trusting isn’t easy at all. But do people today still have their own confidantes whom they can turn to in times of troubles? Or do they just keep it all to themselves? I had to convinced. So I made my own little survey. I tried to find out whom people trust and the reasons why they do so. Out of 100 respondents, my survey says: “ MOTHERS KNOW BEST. “