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How Do You Pursue Peace?

I joined the November 6, 2008 Blog Blast for Peace. I was late but still, better late than very late, I mean, never.

My focus for this round of peace talks, I mean, blog posts about PEACE was about pursuing peace. Here is a part of my entry:

We pursue peace not by waging a war but through communication and laying out all the cards on the table. We pursue peace through compromise and understanding.

We pursue peace not by stockpiling arms and weapons but by building communities that will help each other, where people can live harmoniously. We help ourselves and other people be self-sufficient enough to live comfortably. We help each other have peace when we foster cooperation.

The Weekly Question would be about the last question that I have written in my November 2008 Dona Nobis Pacem post:

How do you pursue peace in your life?

My answer:

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Pursuing Peace

I have joined Blog Blast for Peace last June 4, 2008. This was my post.

Below is an excerpt from that post:

Oppression. Killing. Famine. War. Terrorism. Environmental destruction. Natural disaster. Even family matters that seem trivial, all these and more, cause disturbance of peace. Through it all, maybe peace is a mindset, a lifestyle and a kind of wishful thinking. With all the negative things happening, can one really have a peaceful mindset?

I have again joined (even if I am late, again!) the November 6, 2008 Blog Blast for Peace hosted by Mimi Lenox.

The Bible is one of the best books to read about peace. It may have events where peoples and nations fought against each other, it is still full of hope, faith, love and peace.

Psalms 34:14 says “Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.”

Pursue? Yes, we pursue peace, not through war but through peaceful means.

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Maalaala Mo Kaya?

“Maalaala mo kaya…? so goes a soulful song, asking the listener to look back and reflect on the promises of love that were made.

“Maalaala mo kaya, ang sumpa mo sa akin, na ang pag-ibig mo ay sadyang di magmamaliw…” Ayan, awit mula sa puso, para sa isang puso, tila ba naninisi, nagpapaalala kaya dapat hindi sumusumpa ng pangako eh 😀

My photo for this week’s theme would not be about love nor about family matters because not only are these personal topics but about the nation’s history.

Ang aking larawan ay hindi tungkol sa aking pag-ibig o pamilya dahil mga personal itong usapin. Ang aking entry ay tungkol sa kasaysayan ng ating lahi.

It is funny to see people answering questions about the country’s history with wrong information. Sure, as time passes by and we become busy and preoccupied with so many things, we forget about history facts and trivia.

Nakakatawa kung minsan panoodin sa TV ang mga tinatanong tungkol sa kasaysayan natin kasi mali-mali ang sagot nila. (nangyayari ito kapag me mga selebrasyon o holiday ang ating bansa) Hindi natin sila masisisi dahil sa pagdaan ng panahon, sa dami ng dapat asikasuhin at gawin, nakakalimutan na ang tungkol sa kasaysayan ng bansa.

But for us to grow not just individually but grow as a nation, we should at least have a clear understanding of how our nation was before and what it has to go through to be what it is today. Never mind if we do not particularly like what is happening.

Pero para sa ating paglago hindi lamang bilang mamamayan kundi bilang isang bansa, dapat me alamtayo sa pinagdaanan ng atng bansa, sa kasaysayan nito na siya namang naging  daan kung ano ito ngayon.Kahit pa nga ba hindi tayo sang-ayon sa naging kinalabasan nito sa panahong kasalukuyan.

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Remembering

As we cap the celebration of All Saints Day and All Souls Day, the Weekly Question will focus on our departed loved ones. No, I am not asking you to play favorites with the question.

Who among your dearly departed hold(s) a special place in your heart?

My Answer:

I can not really say who among my dearly departed relatives hold a special place in my heart. Both my paternal and maternal grandparents are not with us anymore. I have only seen one, among all four of them, when they died. I miss them all.

My paternal grandfather, Dada used to be active in church activities that some of our relatives thought he must have missed his calling and would often tease him as “Father Porong”.

My maternal grandmother had magic touch in the kitchen. She can cook meals that one would never forget. It just that we didn’t live with them so I was not able to study how she did these things. In fact, I think nobody in the family got her special culinary talent. Except maybe my father who is now not fond of cooking anymore.

My maternal grandfather was a very hardworking man. He would wake up at the crack of dawn and go to work in the field. After lunch, he would sit on the hammock hanging below the house. He would then go back to the field with his cart, pulled by a carabao filled by root crops and vegetables.

My maternal grandmother stayed in the house and did housework. She would sometimes get herself busy playing solitaire or one would find her sitting on her rocking chair by the window facing the direction where my grandfather would walk from the field.

I miss my grandparents. I really wished I was able to stay with them more, especially my maternal grandparents. Now I know why my mother permitted me then to travel to their place by myself when I was as young as 12 years old, to be with them. To enjoy fun times with them, to learn from them, to spend time with them. Because I was young then, I enjoyed playing with my cousins rather than spending time with them.

Alas, we can’t turn back the clock and do things that we would have wanted to do with them.

To avoid regretting not doing these things, perhaps it is time to change how we treat our loved ones by spending more time with them and keeping them closer to our heart, before time runs out.

WordPress 2.7 Beta 1

When we attended the WordCamp Philippines 2008 last September, the highlight of the event was the unveiling of the new WordPress called 2.7 which is due this November.

First I have been putting off writing a post about this because my memory card got busted and all my photos were there. I have forgotten about this until I remembered that the files were recovered. Bah.

In the State of the Word talk, Matt showed us some photos of this 2.7 version.

WP 2.7 dashboard.

WordPress 2.7 Plugin page.

For now, the WP 2.7 is still in Beta 1. Click here to read about it. Click here if you want to download and test.

I would probably wait until the end of the month, the probable time they will have the final release, before I download this version. For now, I wait. Impatiently 😀