Sunday, May 3, 2009

Manny Pacquiao - Your Hero

We all need heroes today, selfless men and women who bring out the best in us by showing us what we are capable of achieving. Without them life would devolve into an utter state of savagery since no one would willingly sacrifice anything for anyone at anytime and place.
Nations would not have been formed were it not for the daring seafarers who challenged the elements with their filmsy boats and landed on the unknown beaches. Countries would not have been founded were it not for the blood and guts of their leaders, patriots and martyrs. And were it not for a certain Jewish Carpenter who gave up carpentry to proclaim His Father's love for mankind, we would still be pagans today, children who would have had no idea that our Heavenly Father loves us!
Children, in particular, need heroes more than adults do. The very first heroes a baby girl learns to love, admire, and imitate are her parents, without which, she would not have been created in the first place. No one would have guided her and molded her into to be the best that she could be the way her parents would have.
Even the Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao, a child at heart, found heroes in the sparring partners, trainers, opponents, coaches and boxing greats that molded him into the champion he is now. Manny started out as a chunk of marble that was carefully chiselled and sculpted by masters into one of the greatest boxers in history. His skill level now is far greater than what it was ten years ago, thanks to Freddy Roach! People have admired and loved Manny so much that they leave their families, homes and jobs to travel to Las Vegas and support him everytime he fights! Manny Pacquiao WINS because of the millions of HEROES that have supported and loved him through the years!
That said, can the fifty Filipino Solons who had reportedly travelled to Las Vegas using their own money and time to watch the Hatton vs. Pacquiao fight be considered heroes? They spent millions in travel and lodging expenses so that they could "SUPPORT" and "NOT BET" on their hero Manny Pacquiao. Who in his right mind would go to Las Vegas, watch a great boxing match, and NOT BET?
Don't these lawmakers have more important things to do like legislating new laws to put a final end to corruption and to improve our impotent justice system? How about helping to the poor and sick? I have yet to see a member of the Lower House who would personally minister to the poor and sick at the Culion Leper Colony in Palawan. On the other hand, don't the children of the Payatas dumpsite barely eat once a day? Can't these leaders do anything about this severe problem with their FAT pork barrel funds?Pasong Tamo Avenue in Makati City floods terribly during the rainy season. Can't they do anything about this SIMPLE PROBLEM? I'm sure they could fix this if they really wanted to because even a private firm can fix this flood problem given a chance to do so.
Democracy is democray is democracy.
Are these leaders the kind of heroes we would want our children to admire, or better yet, are these the kind of leaders we would want to vote for and follow?
Okay then, let us all vote for them in the next election!
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My wife and I decided to bring our four year old child, Rochelle Marie, to Baguio last Saturday, and as expected, she enjoyed the city, the climate, the horses, and most especially the people. We hope to teach her much about Filipino culture, especially the Ifugao and Igorot cultures, before their customs and traditions fade away into history and are replaced by television, video games, and rock and roll. These senior citizens charged us Php 130 pesos (10 pesos each) for the photo because they really needed money, as they have no other sources of income. Their ancestral lands were either sold or taken away from them many years ago and I doubt if our government is doing anything to help them out today. They really need our help. So, go to Baguio whenever you can and visit them. - Baguio City, May 2, 2009

Snippets: Sports and Children

Any sport teaches kids the values of discipline, perseverance, courage, humility, obedience, patience, and most of all, cooperation and love, values that take a longer time to develop within the four walls of a university classroom.

This is why schools and universities all over the world have already recognized Olympic Sports as more effective ways to develop a child's Bodily-Kinesthetic, Spatial, Interpersonal and Intrapersonal intelligences. (There are seven multiple intelligences known to man.)

Perhaps, this is the reason why many child athletes tend to be great leaders when they grow up. Primary Examples: 1.U.S. President Obama plays basketball; 2. Russian President Vladimir Putin plays Judo. He holds an advanced blackbelt degree in this martial art and sport; 3. England's Margaret Thatcher played hockey and swimming earlier in her life; 4. Governor Arnold Swarzenneger is a competitive bodybuilder; 5. And Saint John Paul II, the late Pope and Holy Father of the Holy Catholic Church, played skiing, swimming, cayaking, boxing and mountaineering.

So, introduce your kids to sports. It is worth it.
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