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My Odyssey

2010-02-07T16:11:00.008+08:00

Reload Odyssey 2010. Phillip Island, Victoria. It was a loooooong journey, roughly 13 hours from CRC Seaton, well, plus the stops, it's more than that.

If I should tell you some brief details about what I learnt, it is:
Life is short
Life is pointless
and Life is complicatedly nothing.

However, REAL Life is found when you surrender everything to Jesus.

He knew he was on the fence, he was halfway both ways. Standing in the middle. And surely, it was painful. Well, he seriously thought life was awesome, he had heaps of friends, they had enough finances, and they could afford luxuries in life. Life was amazing. It is a material world.

In the long run, he found something more than that. He found God. He believed in Him. And he trusted Him. Then he went to a journey, he thought it was awesome for he know that God sent him to another place for a reason. He gave up things and glory for a journey to another country, a good opportunity.

"Leave your country, your people and your father's household and go to the land I will show you.I will make you into a great nation and I will bless you; Iwill make your name great, and you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." Genesis 12:1-3

When he was on it, he wasn’t strong enough. He listened to the enemy, the lies that made him believe about something else. He felt disturbed, very alone and depressed. And it worked, to the point that he just refused to believe, for he saw it was consistent. I am positive that boy has a brand name ‘Christian’ but its content is less than enough to consider him one. He went to a Youth Conference beforehand going to a Christian Camp, and there he made a new decision to get off the fence and be fully with God and so he invited Jesus unto his heart. But on the last day of the Youth Conference, he didn’t stand strong, he was defeated again, and he bailed out the last day of the Youth Conference. A day after, he travelled to the east. He didn't even actually desired to go to this camp. But at the first night of the camp, He heard the words of Mark in Chapter 1, verse 17.

“Come and Follow Me.”, as what Jesus said to the fishermen that became His’ disciples.

“Come, Follow Me.” “Come, Follow Me.”

It was stuck not only in his mind, but also in his heart.

"Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw the first stone." John 8:7

That night, he didn't just stood on the other side, but he started to walk with Him. And now it is for real.

For in James 4:8, it is said, "Draw near to God and He will draw near to you."

And as he picked and chose, he shall give and surrender.

In that camp, a word from Romans 6:11 was told to him,
"So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus."

As he surrendered his body, he was freed from the lies of the flesh and the enemy. He now knows where he is going. He's found the compass, to walk in the right direction. And now, that boy became me. He is no longer in existence. I sacrificed him to God. And now, I am the soul that controls over this human body, which is the soul that will join Our Saviour and Creator at the end my Odyssey and nobody and no body will change that!

"For me to live is Christ, and to die is gain." Philippians 1:21

I discovered that the 13 hours travel isn’t even a journey, and that the real journey is had just taken place, the Odyssey. The Odyssey with my God. The easiest choice I should’ve chose even before and should’ve fought for! And I should’ve stood firm, and kept my Faith strong!

Well, it is very easy to the point that in that Ship has a free ticket, with 5-star accommodation and amenities. And the best thing? It has a lifeguard that walks on water, and calms the storm! And so, I found the truth. Now, I’m on board, going to a destination. Not wandering and going around something.

Other than that, I found friends that stand as my family, friends that made it easier for me to go back to Him. And most especially, friends that will keep me on board the Odyssey.

Most of all, I found Him. Cause I followed Him. And now I am found too.

And as the word in Philippians 3:12-16 says, "Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own. Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do; forgetting what lies behind and straining forward to what lies ahead,I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."

And from now on, I’ll live to the word of Acts 20:24. "I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God."

Stay strong in Faith!

And when Jesus is no longer walking with you, there’s only one reason for that. It’s because He’s carrying you!

I have recently received heaps of email from them: And one email contained the word from Jeremiah 29: 11-14 "For I know what I have planned for you,' says the Lord. 'I have plans to prosper you, not to harm you. I have plans to give you a future filled with hope. When you call out to me and come to me in prayer, I will hear your prayers. When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul, I will make myself available to you."

And a prayer:
I have not arrived. I am far from the finish line. But I am on CHRIST'S TEAM. His love ignites me. His power fuels me. His mission compels me. I AM COMMITTED to Christ and to this race. I will run STRONG and LONG. Who will join me?

And we can't all wait 'til the next RELOAD!

God bless us all! Glory to God!!!

2009 Posts

2010-01-18T12:44:00.004+08:00

Shop 'til you get hit!

Rainy days = Party days?

Reflections on a Bicultural Family

Youth of the Nation

Dude, that's so conyo

Girls need to realize

Odyssey (2010)

UPDATING NOTICE

2010-01-11T10:18:00.001+08:00

Petitions for this pointless blog has been raised.

Yes, I will. Soon.

I haven't updated this for almost a year!

And yes, everything has changed. So most of the things here will too!

Awesome? So cool.

Blah Box

2009-07-13T14:07:00.005+08:00

The Revelation

2009-07-13T12:55:00.012+08:00

My friend forwarded me this, and thought of sharing it to you guys,
it says 7, pero in the email, there are only six. Pero with one missing, it doesn't make it less informative.
It's not yet too late. God Bless.

Revelations of
Heaven and Hell
to 7 Columbian Youths
Together as a group, these 7 Columbian youths were taken by Jesus Christ and shown Heaven and Hell. Hear their account of the Glories of Heaven and misery of Hell.

6th Testimony

2009-07-13T12:55:00.009+08:00

Psalms 62:12 "And Thee, O Lord, belongs covenant love, for Thou rewardest every man according to his work"

On the morning the Lord visited us in that room, He took us by the hand and we started to go down. My heart was totally full of fear, I can't even describe it. I just knew that I could not loosen the hand of my Savior. I felt that Jesus was my Life and my Light and all my hope was in Him; otherwise I would be left behind in that place. I never thought that I would ever go to that place. I didn't even believe such a place existed. Even as a Christian, I had always thought that purgatory was Hell, but God showed me the reality of Hell.

When we arrived in Hell, I felt the place shook. And all the demons there ran to hide, because not one of them could endure the presence of the Lord. We heard the captive souls shout even louder, because they knew that Jesus of Nazareth was there. They all knew that there was just one person that could possibly get them out. They had that hope, even though it was a false hope.

We walked hand in hand with Jesus, and arrived at the section of fornication. Jesus turned to look at a woman who was totally covered with the fire. When Jesus saw her, she started to go out slowly from the fire, although her sufferings never stopped. We could see she was totally naked and saw all of her physical characteristics. Her body was totally dirty, and she stunk. Her hair was all messed up, and she had a yellowish green mud on her. She had no eyes and her lips were falling to pieces. She had no ears, just the holes. With her hands, which were bones charred black, she took the flesh that was falling from her face and tried to put it back on. But this gave her even worse pain.

She then shook and shouted even more; her shouts never ended. She was full of worms, and there was a serpent wrapped around her arm. It was very thick and had thorns around its body. She had the number 666 engraved on her body; the number of the Beast mentioned in the book of Revelation. (Revelations 4:9-11) She also had a metal plate embedded on her chest, made from some unknown metal, it was never consumed by the fire. On the plate was something written in a strange language, but we could understand what was written on it. It read, "I am here because of fornication."

When Jesus saw her He asked her, "Elena, why are you in this place?" While Elena was answering the Lord her body twisted with the pain of her torments. She said that she was there because of fornication. She asked the Lord for forgiveness over and over again.

Then we started to see the event of her death. When she died, she was having sex with one of her lovers, because she thought that the person she was living with was gone on a trip. However, he came back from his job and found her in bed with someone else. He then went to the kitchen and took a big knife and stuck it in Elena's back. She died and was taken to Hell, exactly the way she died; totally naked.

In Hell, everything materialized and she still had that big knife in her back, causing her great pain. By this time, she had already been in Hell 7 years and she could remember each moment of her life and death. She also remembered when someone tried to preach to her about Jesus; that He was the only one who could save her. But now it was too late for her and everyone else in Hell.

The Word of the Lord talks a lot about fornication, and it is very clear. Fornication is having sexual relationships outside of marriage. 1 Corinthians 6:13 "Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, but God will destroy both of them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body." also in 1 Corinthians 6:18 "Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person sins against his own body."

When Jesus finished talking with her, she was covered with a big blanket of fire and we could no longer see her. But we heard the sound of her flesh burning and those horrifying screams, I can't even describe them with words.

As we continued to walk with the Lord, He showed us all the people there: the idol worshipers, those who used and practiced witchcraft, the immoral, adulterers, liars, and homosexuals. We were very scared, the only thing we wanted to do was leave. But Jesus kept saying that it was necessary to look so we could tell others, so they might believe.

We continued with Jesus, holding His hand even tighter. We came to a section that really made an impression on me. We saw a young man, 23 years old, suspended waist-high in the middle of a fire. We couldn't see exactly what his torment was, but the number 666 was engraved on him. He also had a metal plate on his chest that read, "I am here for being normal." When he saw Jesus, he extended his hand towards Jesus begging for mercy. The Word of God says in Proverbs 14:12 "There is a way that seems right to a person, but its end is the way of death."

When we read the plate that said "I am here for being normal", we asked the Lord, "Lord, how come!? Is this possible that a person can come to this place for this reason?" Then Jesus asked him, "Andrew, why are you here in this place?" He answer, "Jesus, when I was on Earth, I thought that just killing and stealing were sins, and that is why I never tried to get close to you." In Psalms 9:17 is says "The wicked shall be turned into Hell, all the heathen that forget God."

Andrew made a big mistake by classifying sins, like many people do today. The Bible is very clear when it says that the wages of the sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life. (Romans 6:23) Further, when the Bible talks about sin, it never classifies sins, because all of them are just sins. Andrew had the chance to know and accept Jesus but he didn't take the opportunity that God had given to him. Maybe he had a thousand opportunities to know the Lord, but he never wanted to know Him and that was the reason he was there. Then a big blanket of fire covered his body and we never saw him again.

We continued walking with Jesus. In the distance we saw something falling down, like chunks of material. When we got closer, we saw that it was people that were falling into Hell at that moment. People that just died on the Earth without having accepted Jesus Christ in their hearts, they were arriving in Hell.

We saw a young man, many demons ran towards him and began to destroy his body. Immediately his body began to fill with worms. He shouted, "No! What is this? Stop! I don't want to be in this place! Stop it! This must be a dream! Take me out of this place!" He didn't even know that he was dead, and that he died without Jesus in his heart. The demons were making fun of him and always tormenting his body. Then the number 666 appeared on his forehead, and a metal plate on his chest. Even if we couldn't see the reason he came to Hell, we knew for sure that he would never get out again.

The Lord told us that the torments of all these people in Hell would be even stronger on the day of the Judgment. If they are suffering in such a terrible and horrifying way now I can't imagine how will they suffer after the day of the Judgment.

We didn't see any children there. We just saw thousands and thousands of young people; men and women of many nationalities. Nevertheless, in hell there are no more nationalities or social levels, all come to be tormented and punished. There was one thing that everybody wanted, and that was a chance to go out, at least for a second. They also wanted to have one drop of water to refresh their tongues, like the story of the rich man in the Bible. (Luke 16:19) But this wasn't possible anymore, they choose where they wanted to spend their eternity. They decided to spend it without God. God never sends anyone to the Hell, everyone arrives there according to their own acts. In Galatians 6:7 "Make no mistake, God will not be mocked. What a person sows, he will reap."

Today you have the great opportunity to change your eternal destiny. Jesus is still available now, and the Bible says that while we have life we also have hope. Today you have life, don't miss this opportunity, it can be the last one.

God bless you.

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5th Testimony

2009-07-13T12:54:00.009+08:00

The Word of God tells us in Romans 6:23 "For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord"

When we went down there, I felt the pain and experience of being dead. I was very frightened by what I saw. I realized there were many, many people there; all were shouting and crying out. It was total darkness, but with the presence of the Lord, the darkness disappeared. We saw thousands and thousands of souls all crying out for help and mercy. They cried out to the Lord to take them out of that place. We also felt great pain because we knew the Lord suffered tremendously whenever He saw them.

Many cried out to the Lord to take them out just for a minute, just for a second. The Lord would ask them, "Why do you want to go out?", and they would answer, "Because I want to be saved! I want to repent and be saved!" However, it was too late for them.

Dear people that are listening to me now, now is the only opportunity to choose our eternal destination. You can either choose an eternal place of salvation, or an eternal place of condemnation.

We went down further. I saw that the floor we were walking on was being destroyed by fire; mud and flames were coming out of it. There was also a terrible smell everywhere. We felt so upset and nauseous from the smell and the shouts of all the people.

We saw a man, far away, who was waist deep in burning mud. Whenever he took out his arms, the flesh from his bones would fall off, into the mud. We could see a grey mist inside his skeleton, so we asked the Lord what it was. This type of mist was in every person in hell. The Lord told us it was their souls trapped inside of a sin body; like it is written in Revelation 14:11 "And the smoke of their torment goes up forever and ever; they have no rest day and night, those who worship the beast and his image, and whoever receives the mark of his name."

We began to understand many things that we had been ignoring on Earth; most importantly, the clearest message was that our lives on Earth determine where we spend eternity.

As we walked hand in hand with the Lord, we realized the Hell had many different places with various levels of torment. We came to a place with many cells which contained tormented souls. The souls were being tormented by many types of demons. The demons would curse the souls, saying, "You cursed wretch, praise Satan! Serve him like you did when you were on Earth!" The souls suffered terribly from the worms; and the fire was like an acid over all their body.

We saw two men inside one prison cell, each had daggers in their hands and were stabbing each other. They would say to each other, "You cursed wretch! It's because of you that I'm here! You made me come here because you blinded me to the truth and didn't let me recognize the Lord! You didn't let me receive Him! Many times I had the chance and you didn't let me accept Him! That is why I'm here, tormented day and night!"

Through a vision, the Lord showed us their lives on Earth. We saw them in a bar together. An argument started which lead to a fight. They were already drunk. One of them took a broken bottle and the other pulled out a knife. They fought until each one was mortally wounded and died. The two men were doomed to repeat that scenario forever. They were also tormented by the memory that they had been best friends on the Earth, like brothers in their love for each other.

I want to tell you today, there is just one real friend, and His name is Jesus of Nazareth. He is the real friend. He is the faithful friend, who is with you at every moment.

As we continued walking and we saw a woman inside another cell, she was rolling over in the mud. Her hair was all messed up and full of mud. Inside the same cell was a big and fat snake. It move close to her, surrounded her body, and went inside of her starting with her lower parts. She was forced to have sexual contact with that snake. In that place all the men and women that lived in fornication were forced to repeat it there. However, they had to do it with snakes covered with 6 inch spikes. The snake destroyed her body every time it went inside of her. She cried out to the Lord and asked Him to stop it. She did not want to suffer any more. "Make it stop! I won't do it again! Please! Make it stop!" she begged the Lord as the snake came inside and destroyed her body over and over again.

We tried to cover our ears to her cries but we could still hear her. We tried even harder to cover our ears, but that didn't help. We said the Lord, "Please Lord we don't want to see and hear to this anymore! please!" The Lord said, "It is necessary that you see this, so you can tell the rest, because my people are being destroyed, my people are ignoring the true salvation, the true road to the salvation."

We continued walking and we saw a giant lake with thousand and thousands of people in the midst of flames. They waved their hands asking for help, but there were many demons flying over that place. These demons used spears with S-curved spearheads to hurt all the people burning in that lake. The demons mocked and cursed them saying, "You cursed wretch! Now you must worship Satan! Praise him, praise him as you did when you were on the Earth!" There were thousands and thousands of people. We were so scared, we felt that if we did not hold the Lord's hand we would be left in that horrifying place. We were terrified from the things we were feeling.

In the distance we saw a man standing up, who was very great pain and agony. He had two demons flying over him, tormenting him. They would dig their spears inside his body and take out his ribs. They also made fun of him all the time. Even further, the Lord showed me that he was tormented from always worrying about the family he had left on the Earth. The man didn't want his family to arrive in the same place of torment. He was worried because he never gave them the message of salvation. He was tormented because he remembered that they once had the chance to receive this message. He was a very important person to give this message to his family, but he preferred to ignore it, and now he was worried about his sons and his wife.

The torment continued as the demons cut off his arms, he fell into the burning mud. Because of the pain from the burning mud, he wiggled like a worm from one place to another. His flesh fell from his bones because of the heat. He then started to slither like a snake, trying to get out of there. But every time he tried to go, the demons pushed him back and he went deeper inside the mud.

We then saw a number of demons in one place. Something caught my attention, I noticed that one of the demons was missing a wing. I asked the Lord, "Lord, why is this demon missing one wing?" The Lord said, "That demon was sent up to the Earth with one purpose, but he did not accomplish his task, and he was cast back to Hell by one of the servants of God. Then Satan came and punished him, and cut off one of his wings." Then we understood that as Christians, we have all authority and power in the Name of Jesus to cast out all demons and principalities.

Dear friends that are listening these words right now, this testimony is not for condemnation but salvation; so you can test yourself and see the condition of your heart before the Lord. This is so that you can change your ways, for salvation and not for condemnation. Right now, lift your heart before the Lord and confess your sins, so if the Lord came at this moment you could go with Him instead of going to that place of torment where there is crying and gnashing of teeth. There, you will really understand why Jesus paid such a high price at Calvary's cross.

We saw many people in Hell who were ignorant of why they were there. Their lives were full of activities that they didn't think were sins. Dear friend, test yourself! Do not think that lying, stealing, being vain are okay things to do! These are all sin before the eyes of the Lord! Dear brothers, turn away and stop doing these things! I'm giving you this message so you can stop willfully sinning, and look even more to the face of the Lord.

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4th Testimony

2009-07-13T12:54:00.008+08:00

God bless you brothers. When the Lord took my hand, I could see that I was standing on a rock, and behind us, I saw an angel. We began to go down through a tunnel with incredible speed. Quickly, I turned and saw that the angel was gone, and I felt so afraid. I asked the Lord, "Lord, where is the angel? Why is he not here anymore?" The Lord said, "He cannot go where we are about to go."

We continued downward and then stopped abruptly, like an elevator. I saw several tunnels; and we went through the one my sister Sandra spoke about. The tunnel where people were hanging off of hooks by their heads, with shackles on their wrists. The wall that had people on it seemed infinitely long. Millions of people were hanging on it. They had worms all over their bodies. I looked ahead and saw that there was another wall, exactly the same as the other. I said to the Lord, "Lord! There are so many people in this place!" Instantly, a scripture verse entered my mind; one that I did not recognize. The Lord told me, "Hell and Sheol are always hungry." (Proverbs 27:20)

We left there and soon arrived at a place we called, "The Valley of the cauldrons". These cauldrons were full of a boiling mud, and we got close to one of them. The first person that I saw was a woman. Her body floated and sank with the boiling mud, but when the Lord looked at her, she stopped moving and remained suspended in the mud at waist-level. The Lord asked, "Woman what is your name?" She answered, "My name is Rubiella."

Her hair was full of boiling mud and flesh hung from her bones, which were charred black from the fire. Worms entered through the holes of her eyes, came out from her mouth, entered again through her nose and exited her ears. When the worms could not enter, they simply made a hole to enter the other parts of the body, which caused indescribable pain.

She shouted, "Lord, please! Take me out of this place. Have mercy on me! I can not continue like this any longer! Make it stop Lord! I can not stand it any more! Please have mercy on me!" The Lord asked her why she was there. She said she was there because of vanity, which was the same word written on the metal plate on her chest. In her hand was a normal looking bottle, but to her it appeared to be a very expensive perfume. Rubiella had to take the bottle, which was full of acid, and spray it all over her body. This caused, all the flesh that was sprayed to melt, causing her great pain.

She shouted to the Lord, "Lord please, have mercy on me! I can not be here any longer! Just a single second Lord." I am not saying that it is a sin to use a perfume, but the Lord told us that the woman was there because of her perfume, as the Word of the Lord tells us in Deuteronomy 5:7 "You shall not have other gods before me." She was there because her beauty, perfumes, and vanity were first place in her life. However, the Lord Jesus is King of kings and Lord of lords! He has to be the first in your life; that is why she was there. With sadness, the Lord looked at her and said, "Rubiella, it is too late for you, worms shall be your bed, and worms shall cover you." When the Lord said that, a blanket of fire totally covered her. While her body was being consumed inside that cauldron, she suffered horrible pain.

We then got far away from there and arrived at a place with giant doors. As we approached them, they opened for us. On the other side we saw a giant cavern. As I looked up I saw different color lights were moving like a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, we heard music; salsa, ballenato, rock, and different kinds of popular music that people hear on the radio. The Lord made a movement with His hand, and we saw millions and millions of people hung up with chains in their hands. They were jumping wildly over the fire.

The Lord looked at us and said: "Look, these are the wages for the dancers." They had to jump wildly up and down to the beat of the music. If salsa was playing, they had to jump to that beat, if any other kind of music was playing, they had to jump to that beat. They could never stop jumping. But worse than that, their shoes had 6 inch spikes on the bottom. Whenever they jumped it would pierce their feet, and they never had a moment's rest. When someone would try to stop, demons would come at once and stab them with spears, cursed them, and saying, "Praise him! This is your kingdom now, Praise Satan! Praise him! You can't stop, praise him! Praise him! You have to praise him! You have to jump! You have to dance! You can not stop one single second."

It was terrible that many of the people were Christians who knew the Lord, but they were in night clubs when they died. Maybe you are asking, "Where does it say in the Bible that it is wrong to dance?" In James 4:4, the Word of God says: "Do you not realize, you adulteresses, that friendship with the world is enmity toward God? Therefore, whoever determines to be a friend of the world becomes God's enemy." Also, in 1 John 2:15-17, "Neither love the world nor the things in the world. Whoever loves the world has not the Father's love in his heart, because everything in the world, the passions of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the proud display of life have their origin not from the Father but from the world. And the world with its lust passes away, but he who does the will of God remains for ever." Remember the world will pass away, all this will perish, but the one who does the will of God stands forever.

My friends and brothers, when we left this place, we saw something like bridges that divided hell into different sections of torment. We saw a spirit walking over a footbridge. It looked just like a doll that we have seen on the Earth; we call them Treasure Trolls. They have different color hair, with an old man's face but a kid's body; without sexual parts. Their eyes are full of evil. The Lord explained that these were spirits of loss. This spirit had a spear in his hands and was walking pompously on that footbridge, like he was royalty.

As he walked, he stabbed people down below his spear. He would curse them saying, "Remember the day you were outside of a Christian church and you did not want to come inside? Remember the day they preached to you and you did not want to listen? Remember the day they gave you a gospel tract and you threw it away?" The lost souls would try to cover the area where their ears used to be. They would reply to the demon, "Shut up! Shut up! Don't tell me anymore! I don't want to know more, shut up!" However, the evil spirit enjoyed doing that because of the pain it inflicted on the souls.

We continued walking with the Lord. Upon looking at a mass of people, we noticed one man was shouting louder than the others who were burning there. He was saying, "Father, Father, have mercy on me!" The Lord was not going to stop to look at this man, but when He heard the words "Father" He shook and turned around. Jesus looked at him and told him, "Father? You call me Father? No, I am not your Father and neither are you my son. If you were my son, you would now be with me in the Kingdom of Heaven. You are sons of your father the devil." Immediately a blanket of fire came up and totally covered his body.

The Lord told us the story of this man's life. The man called Him Father because he had known Him. He used to go to church and listen to God through His Word, and he had received many promises of God. So we asked, "What happened Lord? Why is he here then?" The Lord replied, "He was living a double life; he lived one way at home, and another at church. He thought in his heart, 'Well, there is no one that lives close to me, not the pastor or any other brother, so I can do whatever I want'. But he forgot that the eyes of the Lord are set on all our ways and that no one can lie or hide from the Lord."

The Word of the Lord tells us, "Don't lie to your selves God can not be deceived. Because everything a man sows, the same he will harvest." (Galatians 6:7) This man was suffering a thousand times worse than others. He was paying a double condemnation: one for his sins, and one for thinking he could deceive the Lord.

Today, people try to rank the gravity of sins; they think that homosexuals, thieves, and murderers are greater sinners than liars or gossips. But in the eyes of the Lord, all these sins have the same weight and the same pay. The Bible tells us, "The wages of sin is death" "the soul that sins will die." (Romans 6:23) (Ezekiel 18:20) My friends and brothers, I invite you now to accept Jesus' invitation. Jesus is extending His hand of mercy to you if you repent. The Word of the Lord tells us that the one that changes his ways and repents will be given mercy. It is much better to believe now, than to wait and find out the hard way later. God bless you.

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3rd Testimony (of Sandra)

2009-07-13T12:53:00.008+08:00

Let's go to the Word of the Lord in Matthew 10:28 "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul; but rather fear Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell"

Whenever a soul arrives in hell, that person acquires a body of death. The Lord Jesus took my hand and we began to go downwards through a very deep dark tunnel that led to the center of the Earth. We arrived at a place with several doors; one of them opened and we entered with the Lord. I would not let go of the Lord's hand, because I knew if I did, I would stay in hell forever.

Upon entering that door, I saw was an enormous wall. There were thousands of people hung from their heads by hooks, with shackles that bound their hands to the wall. We also saw many thousands of people standing in the midst of flames everywhere.

We went in front of one of the flames and it started to go down slowly. Soon I could see a person inside, and when he spoke, I could tell it was a man. The man was wearing a priest's garments, which were totally filthy and shredded. Worms were slithering inside and out, all over this man's body. He looked charred and burnt by the fire. His eyes were plucked out and his flesh was melting and falling to the ground. But after the flesh would all fall off, it would grow back, and the whole process would resume.

When he saw Jesus he said, "Lord have mercy on me, have mercy on me! Please let me out of here just a moment! Just a minute!" On this man's chest was a metal plate that read, "I am here for robbery."

When Jesus came close, He asked the man, "What is your name?" The man answered, "Andrew, my name is Andrew, Lord" The Lord asked him, "How long you have been here?" Andrew answered, "I have been here for a very long time." The man began to tell his story. He said he had the responsibility of collecting tithes and organizing monetary distribution to the poor in his Catholic church. However, he would steal the money instead. With eyes full of compassion, the Lord asked the man, "Andrew, have you ever heard the gospel?" Andrew replied, "Yes Lord, there was one Christian woman that went to the church and she preached the gospel once, but I didn't want to accept it. I didn't want to believe it, but I believe it now! Now I believe that this is real! Please Lord take me out of here, at least just one moment!"

As he was speaking, worms were crawling through his eye sockets, exiting his ears, and coming inside again through his mouth. He tried to pull them off with his hands but it was impossible. He was shouting horribly and kept begging God for mercy. He kept asking Jesus to take him out of that place. Even worse, there were demons tormenting him, constantly piercing him with their spears. The demons looked just like one of the toy dolls that we have here on earth called "The Jordanos". I saw those dolls in hell, but they were not dolls anymore; they were alive and demonic. They were abut 3 feet tall and had very sharp teeth. Blood came out of their mouths and their eyes were completely red.

They were stabbing Andrew with all their might, as well as all of those who were in these parts of hell. When I observed this, I asked the Lord how was it possible for a doll on the earth, to look exactly like that demon. The Lord told me that those were spirits of sadness.

As we continued, we saw thousands of people in torment. Whenever a soul saw the Lord, they tried to reach Him with their skinny hands. I noticed a woman that started to shout when she saw Jesus. She screamed, "Lord please have mercy on me! Take me out of this place!" She was suffering a lot and she extended her hands towards the Lord. She kept begging Him to take her out of that place at least just one second. She was totally naked and covered with mud. Her hair was all dirty and worms were slithering up and down her body. She tried to take them off with her hands, but every time she scraped some away they multiplied even more. The worms were about 6-8 inches long. The Word of the Lord says in Mark 9:44, "Where their worm never ceases and the fire is not put out"

It was so terrible seeing this woman and hearing her cries as the worms voraciously ate her flesh. There was a metal plate embedded in her chest that could not be destroyed by the flames. It read, "I am here for fornication." In the same manner of her sin, this woman was forced to fornicate in hell with a very disgusting and fat snake. The snake had huge thorns around its body, about 6-8 inches long. The snake penetrated her private parts and traveled up her body to her throat. When the snake entered her, she started to scream.

She begged the Lord more intensely to take her out of that place, "Lord, I am here for fornication, I have been here for 7 years, since I died from AIDS. I had six lovers, and I am here for fornication." In hell she had to repeat her sin over and over. She had no rest day or night, suffering the same way all the time. She tried to extend her hands toward the Lord, but the Lord just told her, "Blanca, it is too late for you. Worms shall be your bed, and worms shall cover you." (Isaiah 14:11) When the Lord said those words, a blanket of fire covered her, and I could no longer see her.

We continued walking, seeing thousands and thousands of people. There were young people, adults and elderly people suffering in torment. We arrived in a place that looked like a big swimming pool of fire, with thousands of men and women inside of it. Each of them had metal plate on their chest that read: "I am here for not giving tithes and offerings" When I read that, I asked the Lord, "Lord, how can this be possible, that people are here for this reason??" The Lord responded, "Yes, because these people thought that tithes and offerings were not important, when my Word shows it as a command." In Malachi 3:8-9 it says "Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me. But you say, 'How have we robbed Thee?' In tithes and offerings. You are cursed with curse, for you are robbing Me, the whole nation of you."

The Lord told me that when His people withhold their tithes, it hinders the work of the Lord, and then the Gospel is not preached. People in this place suffered a thousand times worse than others, because they knew the Word of the Lord and disobeyed.

We continued walking and the Lord showed me a man. I could see from his waist to his head, and I started to have a vision of how he died. His name was Rogelio. He was in his car while a person got close to preach the gospel to him, and gave him a Bible. But Rogelio ignored that person's warning and continued on his way, without knowing that a few minutes later his car would crash. It fell into a precipice, and he soon died.

The moment he crashed, the Bible opened to Revelation 21:8, "As for the cowardly, however, and the unbelieving, and the depraved, the murderers, the immoral, those practicing magic arts, and idolaters, and all liars- their lot is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death." When Rogelio read this verse, he died and arrived in hell.

He had only been there one month and still had some flesh on his face. However, he was suffering like everybody else. At first, he did not know why he was in Hell. I think when that Christian got close to his car, it was the only and last chance for him to accept the Lord Jesus. The same way that many have had the opportunity to accept Him. Today, I invite you to open your heart to Jesus; He alone is the way, the truth, the life. (John 14:6) Only through Him we can be saved into the Kingdom of Heaven. (Acts 4:12) The Lord also asks us to follow His ways in holiness and honor. God bless you.

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2nd Testimony (of Lupe)

2009-07-13T12:53:00.007+08:00

God bless you dear beloved brothers. Let's read the Word of the Lord from Psalms 18:9. "He bowed the heavens and came down; thick darkness was under His feet" When the Lord reached for my hand, I grabbed His hand and we started to descend down that tunnel. The tunnel grew darker and darker to the point that I could not even see my other hand, that wasn't holding onto the Lord's hand.

Suddenly, we passed something dark and sparkling; which was making noise. The darkness was so dense, your hand could not even find the walls of the tunnel. Our descent was so fast, that I felt like my soul was separating from my body.

Soon I noticed a very rotten smell; like the smell of rotten flesh. It was getting much worse each moment. Then I heard the voices of millions and millions of souls. They were endlessly shouting, crying out and moaning. I was so frightened that I turned to the Lord and said, "Lord where are you taking me? Lord have mercy on me! Please have mercy on me!" The Lord only said, "It is necessary that you see this, so you can tell everyone else."

We continued down through this horn-shaped tunnel until we arrived at place that was entirely dark. Like pulling a heavy curtain from my eyes, I then saw millions and millions of flames. Even worse, I heard these agonizing screams but couldn't see anyone. I was really scared. I said to the Lord, "Oh please Lord have mercy on me! Oh please Lord have mercy on me! Don't take me to this place! Forgive me!" At this time, I didn't think that I was just a spectator in hell, I thought it was the day of reckoning. Standing before the Lord Jesus, I was shaking violently because I really thought this was the end of my life.

We drew closer to a big flame ahead of us; it was huge and burning with fury. I continued going down slowly, seeing multitudes of flames and hearing millions of souls crying with one voice.

Then I saw a wooden table that was not being consumed by the fire. It had what appeared like beer bottles on it. These looked refreshing, but they were full of fire. As I was looking at this, a man suddenly appeared. His flesh was almost completely destroyed and what was left of his clothes were muddy and burning. He had lost his eyes, mouth, and all his hair from the fire. He could see me, even though he had no eyes. I tell you it is the soul of a person that thinks, reasons and truly sees; not your natural body.

The man extended his skinny hand towards the Lord and started to cry out, saying, "Lord, have mercy on me! Lord have mercy on me! I am in pain! I am burning! Please have mercy and take me out of this place!" The Lord looked at him with pity, and I started to feel something warm in my hand. I looked and it was blood...the blood of Jesus! The Lord's blood came from His hand while He was watching this suffering man engulfed in flames.

Then the man turned his gaze in the direction of the table and walked towards the bottles. He grabbed a bottle but as he was about to drink from it, fire and smoke shot out of the bottle. He put his head back and screamed like I have never heard before. He cried with such great pain and sorrow and then started to drink what was in this bottle. But the bottle was full of acid and his throat was totally destroyed by it. You could see the acid passing through his stomach and hurting him.

The number 666 was engraved on the forehead of this man. On his chest was a plate made of some unknown metal which couldn't be destroyed, not even by the heat or the worms. It has some letters written on it, but we could not understand them. The Lord, in His great mercy, gave us an interpretation of what was written. "I am here because I am a drunkard." He begged the Lord for mercy, but the Word of God is very clear when it tell us in 1 Corinthians 6:10 "thieves, greedy people, drunks, slanderers, and robbers will not inherit the kingdom of God."

The Lord showed me this man's last moments on earth, just like a movie or film. It was like a big television screen showing me his last seconds before death. The man's name was Luis and he was in a bar drinking. I saw the same table and the same bottles in that bar. Around this table were his friends. (I can tell you this now, there is only ONE TRUE FRIEND, and His name is JESUS CHRIST. He is the faithful friend.) Luis was drinking and his friends were already drunk. His best friend took a bottle, broke it and started stabbing Luis. When he saw Luis lying on the floor he ran away, but Luis bled to death on the floor. The saddest thing was that he died without the Lord.

In the middle of all this, as all those souls in hell were crying out, I asked the Lord, "Oh Lord, please tell me, did this man know about you? Did he know about your salvation?" The Lord sadly replied, "Yes Lupe, he knew about me. He accepted me as his personal savior, but he did not serve me." Then I felt even more fear. Luis cried louder and shouted, "Lord this hurts! This hurts! Please have mercy on me!" He extended his hand again towards the Lord, but Jesus took my hand instead and we walked away from the flame. The flames consuming Luis became more violent, and he cried louder, "Have mercy on me! Have mercy on me!!" He was then lost in the flames.

We continued walking, this place was just so huge and scary! We approached another flame and I said to the Lord, "Lord, no! Please I don't want to see anymore of this! I beg you to forgive me! Please forgive me! I don't want to see this!" So I closed my eyes, but it didn't matter, open or closed I still saw everything. This flame started to go down slowly and I began to see a woman. She was covered with mud, and the mud was full of worms. She had very few hairs left, and she was caked with worm-infested mud. She was consumed by worms all around and she shouted, "Lord have mercy on me! Lord have mercy on me and forgive me! Look at me! This hurts! Have mercy on me! Take away these worms! Take me out of this torment because it hurts so much!" The Lord simply looked at her with great sorrow. As we held His hand, we could feel the pain and sorrow in the Lord's heart for all the lost souls, eternally burning in the flames of hell.

This woman had no eyes or lips, but she could still see and feel; all the pain was just stronger. She had a bottle in her hands, full of acid, but she believed it was perfume. I could see that it was acid and every time she sprayed her body, it burned her. Nevertheless, she still kept applying this acid on her body over and over. She kept saying that it was an expensive perfume. She also believed that she was wearing a beautiful necklace, but all I saw were serpents wrapped around her neck. She believed that she was wearing very expensive bracelets, but I saw they were actually worms, about a foot long, furiously digging into her bones. She said that her jewelry was all she had, but I saw scorpions and worms all over her body. She had a metal plate, that everyone wears in hell. It read "I am here for robbery."

This woman had no remorse for her sin. The Lord asked her, "Magdalena, why are you in this place?" She answered, "It didn't bother me to steal from others. The only thing I cared about was having my jewelry and getting more expensive perfumes. I didn't care who I robbed, as long as I looked good."

I held onto Christ's hand as I saw the worms burrow through her entire body. Magdalena turned around looking for something. I asked the Lord once more, "Lord, did this person know about you?" And the Lord answered, "Yes, this person knew me."

Magdalena started to look around, saying, "Lord where is that woman who talked to me about You? Where is she? I have been in hell for 15 years." All people in hell can remember everything. Magdalena kept asking, "Where is this woman? I can't see her!" I knew her body could not turn around because her flesh remained in the same position. She tried to turn and look into other flames, to find that woman who talked to her about God. The Lord replied, "No! No, Magdalena, she is not here. That woman that told you about Me is with Me in the Kingdom of Heaven."

Upon hearing this, she threw herself down in the flames and which burned her even more. Her metal plate condemned her as a thief. I want you to read in the Word of the Lord in Isaiah 3:24. "It shall be, that instead of a sweet smell, there will be rottenness; instead of a girdle, a rope; instead of well-set hair, baldness; instead of a rich robe, a wrapping of sack-cloth; instead of beauty, a branding mark."

As we continued walking with the Lord, I saw a very big column filled with worms. Around it was a slide made of red-hot metal. On this column there was a brightly-lit billboard that could be seen from anywhere. The Billboard read, "Welcome all liars and gossipers." At the end of the slide was a small boiling lagoon. It looked like burning brimstone. Then I saw a totally naked person coming down the slide. As they slid, their skin would peel off and stick to the slide. When they fell into the burning lagoon, their tongue expanded until it exploded and worms appeared in place of the tongue. This began their torment. The Word of God says in Psalm 73:18-19 "Surely you did set them in slippery places: you cast them down into destruction. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors."

After seeing this, we were taken back, out of Hell. I just want to tell you that Heaven and Hell are even more real than this physical world that we know. It is here where you decide what direction you want to go; to spend eternity with Jesus or to a burning hell. The Lord kept saying to us, "Without holiness no man will see me, without holiness no man will see me." (Hebrews 12:14) That is why I tell you the same thing now, "Without holiness you can not see the Lord."

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1st Testimony

2009-07-13T12:50:00.005+08:00

(Luke 16:19)

There was a rich man that dressed in purple and fine linen, who enjoyed luxurious living every day. In front of his gate a beggar named Lazarus was placed, covered with sores, and hungering to be fed crumbs that fell from the rich man's table. Even the dogs came and licked his sores.
The beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried, and while suffering tortures in hades, he looked up and from a distance saw Abraham with Lazarus in his bosom. So he called out, Father Abraham, take pity on me and send Lazarus to dip his finger tip in water and cool my tongue, for I am tormented in this fire.
But Abraham said, Son, remember that you enjoyed the good things in your lifetime while Lazarus had the bad things; now he is being comforted here but you are suffering anguish. Besides, there is a great chasm fixed between you and us, so that those who want to cross from here to you are unable; neither can they cross from your side to us.

The Bible, the word of God, is very clear about the subject of heaven and hell. In this portion that we have just read, the Lord tells us about two places: Heaven and Hell, the condemnation or the salvation. There is no intermediate place. Purgatory does not exist. Limbo does not exist, where men exist for a while after they have departed from the Earth and then go to heaven; the Bible is very clear about that.

(April 11th 1995)
God gave us a revelation that would change the trajectory of our lives. We had just begun to know about God and His Word. We are seven youth to whom God has given the privilege and great responsibility of sharing this revelation with the world.

Everything started about approximately 10:00 a.m. We were praying and were prepared to go out on a picnic later on that day. Suddenly around 10 am, a very powerful white light shone through one of the windows. When the light appeared, all of us immediately started to speak in tongues and were baptized with the Holy Ghost.

In that moment, all of us were astonished and fascinated with what we saw. That glorious light was illuminating the entire room. The light was much stronger than the light from the sun. In the middle of the light, we saw a host of angels dressed in white. These angels were so beautiful, tall, and very good looking.

In the middle of all those angels we saw something amazing -- the figure of a Man. This image was a special being, a man who was dressed in a very white mantle and robes. His hair was like gold threads. We could not see His face because it was too brilliant. However, we saw a golden belt around His chest, with gold lettering that said: "King of Kings and Lord of Lords ." He was wearing pure gold sandals on His feet, and His beauty was without equal. When we saw the presence of that Man, all of us fell to our knees.

Then we started to hear His voice. It was very special and wonderful; every word drilled into our hearts like a double-edged sword; just like it is written in the word of God (Hebrews 4:12). He spoke to us in very simple but powerful words. We audibly heard Him say to us, "My little children, don't be afraid, I am Jesus of Nazareth, and I have visited you to show you a mystery so you can show and tell to towns, nations, cities, churches, and all places. Where I tell you to go, you will go, and where I tell you not to go, you will not go."

The Holy Bible, the Word of God, says in Joel 2:28 "It shall come to pass after this that I will pour out My Spirit upon all flesh, your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions." These are the times that God is preparing for everyone.

Then something strange happened, a rock appeared in the middle of the room, and the Lord, who was with us, made us get on that rock. The rock was about eight inches above the floor, and a huge hole appeared in the floor. It was a huge, black, terrifying hollow or cavern. Soon, we fell on top of the rock and went down through the hollow in the floor. It was dark and it lead us to the center of the earth.

While we were in that gloomy darkness, we were so scared! We were so afraid that we said to the Lord, "Lord we don't want to go to that place! Don't take us to that place Lord! Take us out of here Lord!" The Lord answered us with a very beautiful and compassionate voice, "This experience is necessary so you can see and tell others."

We were in a horn-shaped tunnel, and we stared to see shadows, demons and figures that moved from one place to another. We kept going deeper and deeper down. In just a matter of seconds, we felt an emptiness and a great fear.

We then arrived at some caverns; at some horrible doors, like a labyrinth. We didn't want to go inside. We noticed a terrible smell and a heat that choked us. Once we entered, we saw terrible things, frightful images. The entire place was engulfed in flames; and in the middle of these flames, there were bodies of thousands of people. They were suffering in great torment. The sight was so horrifying, we didn't want to see what was shown to us.

The place was divided into different sections of torment and suffering. One of the first sections that the Lord allowed us to see was the "Valley of the Cauldrons" as we called it. There were millions of cauldrons. The cauldrons were inlaid at the level of the ground; each of them was burning with lava inside. Inside each one was the soul of a person who had died and gone to hell.

As soon as those souls saw the Lord, they started to shout and screamed, "Lord, have mercy on us! Lord give me a chance to get out of this place! Lord, take me out and I will tell the world that this place is real!" But the Lord didn't even look at them. There were millions of men, women and young people in that place. We also saw homosexuals and drunkards in torment. We saw all of these people shouting in such great torment.

It shocked us to see how their bodies were destroyed. Worms were coming in and out of their empty eye sockets, mouths, and ears; and were penetrating the skin all through their bodies. This fulfills the word of God written in the book of Isaiah 66:24 "They shall go forth; they shall gaze upon the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against Me; for their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be quenched; they shall be an abhorrence to all mankind." Also in Mark 9:44,"Where their worm never ceases and the fire is not put out." We were just horrified at what we were watching. We saw flames about 9 to 12 feet high. Within each flame, there was the soul of a person that has died and went to hell.

The Lord allowed us to see a man who was inside of one of the cauldrons. He was upside down and the flesh on his face was falling in pieces. He remained watching the Lord intently; and then started to shout and call on the name of Jesus. He said, "Lord have mercy! Lord give me a chance! Lord take me out of this place!" But the Lord Jesus didn't want to look at him. Jesus simply turned his back on him. When Jesus did this, the man started to curse and blaspheme the Lord. This man was John Lennon, the member of the satanic music group "The Beatles." John Lennon was a man who mocked and made fun of the Lord during his life. He said that the Christianity was going to disappear and Jesus Christ would be forgotten by everyone. However, today this man is in hell and Jesus Christ is alive!! Christianity hasn't disappeared either.

As we started to walk on the edges of that place, the souls extended their hands to us and begged for mercy. They asked Jesus to take them out of there, but the Lord would never even look at them.

Then we started going through different sections. We came to the most terrible section of hell, where the worse torments happen; the center of hell. The most concentrated forms of torment; such torments that a human being could never express them. The only people here where those who knew Jesus and the Word of God. There were pastors, evangelists, missionaries, and all types of people that had once accepted Jesus and knew the truth; but lived a double life.

There were also backsliders; their suffering was a thousand times worse than any one else. They were shouting and begging the Lord for mercy, but the word of the Lord says in the book of Hebrews 10:26-27, "For if we go on sinning willfully after acquiring the knowledge of the truth, there is no longer left any sacrifice for sins, but some dreadful anticipation of judgment and of a fierce fire that is to devour those who oppose God."

Those souls were there because they preached, fasted, sung and lifted their hands in the church but in the streets and homes they were in adultery, fornication, lying, robbery. We can not lie to God. The Bible says that he to whom much has been given much also will be required. (Luke 12:48)

God then allowed us to see two women that had once been Christian sisters while on the earth, but they didn't live a righteous life before the Lord. One said to the other, "You cursed wretch! It's your fault that I am in this place! You didn't preach to me a holy gospel! And because you didn't tell me about the truth, I am now here in hell!" They would say these things to each other in the midst of the flames, and they hated each other because there is no love, mercy or forgiveness in hell.

There were thousands of souls who had known the Word of God, but their lives weren't clean before the holy presence of the Lord. "You cannot play with God or with the flames of the hell either!" the Lord said. He also told us, "My sons, all the suffering on the earth concentrated in just one place is nothing, NOTHING compared with the suffering that a person has in the best parts of hell." If it is that terrible for those who suffer least in hell, how much worse must it be for those in the center of hell, who once knew the Word of the Lord and walked away from it. Then the Lord told us that we that we could play with the fire on the earth, but never with the fire in hell.

We continued walking through different places and the Lord showed us many different people. We could see that all the people there had approximately six different type of torments. There were souls tormented by demons with all types of punishments. Another terrible punishment was their own conscience saying , "Remember when they preached to you, remember when you heard the Word of God, remember when they told you about hell and you laughed about it!" Their own consciences tormented them; just like the worms that crossed all over their bodies, like the consuming fire that was thousands and thousands times more hotter than we know. This was the reward that the devil has for all those who seek him and follow him.

The Word of the Lord says in Revelation 21:8 "As for the cowardly, however, and the unbelieving, and the fearful, the murderers, the immoral, those practicing magic arts, and idolaters, and all liars- their lot is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death."

Next, the Lord showed us a man that had murdered six people. These six people now surrounded him, and were shouting at him saying, "It is your fault that we are all in this place, YOUR FAULT!" The murderer tried to cover his ears because he didn't want to listen to them, but he could not avoid listening since in hell all your senses are much more sensitive.

Souls in that place were tormented with an intolerable thirst for water that can not be satisfied in any way; like the Bible story of Lazarus and the rich man. (Luke 16:19) The rich man in Hell wanted only one single drop of water, that would have been enough. The Word of the Lord says in Isaiah 34:9, "The streams of Edom shall be turned into pitch and her soil into brimstone; her land shall become burning pitch."

In that place, every souls was in the middle of the fire. People saw mirages of crystal-clear rivers in the middle of the fire; but when they tried to reach them, the rivers turned into fire. They also saw trees with fruit that gave out water; but when they tried to take them, they burned their hands and demons would ridiculed them.

Then God took us to a place much worse than the other places that we had seen. We saw the lake of fire and brimstone. On one side of that lake there was a smaller lake. In that smaller lake, there were millions and millions and millions of souls crying and begging the Lord to have mercy on them. They said to Him, "Lord please! Take us out of here at least just a little moment! Please give me the chance to go out!!!" However, the Lord could not do anything for them because their judgment was already set.

Among those millions and millions of people, the Lord allowed us to focus on one man whose body was half-way submerged in the lake of fire. The Lord let us understand and know his thoughts. The name of that man was Mark. We were amazed by the things this man said to himself, in his thoughts. We learned an eternal lesson when we heard the following thoughts, "I would give anything to be in your place now! I would give anything to go back to the earth just for one minute. I wouldn't care if I were the most miserable, most sick, most hated, or the poorest man in the world, I would give anything to go back! Just for one minute on the earth." The Lord Jesus was holding my hand. Jesus replied to Mark's thoughts saying, "Mark, why would you like to come back to the earth even for just one single minute?" With a crying and tormented voice, he told Jesus, "Lord! I would give anything to go back to the earth just for one single minute simply to repent and be saved."

When the Lord heard what Mark had said, I saw blood come from Jesus' wounds and tears filled His eyes as He said, "Mark, it is too late for you! Worms are set for your bed and worms will cover you." (Isaiah 14:11) When the Lord said this to him, he sank in the lake forever. Sadly, all those souls have no more hope. Only we on Earth have the chance to repent today and go to Heaven with our Lord Jesus Christ.

I now leave you with my sister to continue this testimony, thank you.

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When life gives you lemons, never cry on spilt milk!

2009-06-08T19:02:00.003+08:00

"When life gives you lemons, never cry on spilt milk."
-Blah Boy

HUH?

(1) When life gives you apples, make apple juice!
-Use what you have!

(2) Never cry on spilt milk
-Indeed, regrets are not worth it.

OHYE?

When you go out of your porch to get the milk that is freshly delivered right on your doorstep daily, and suddenly you hear a truck, full of lemons along your neighbourhood giving away free lemons! You kicked the milk and spilt it just to chase after the lemons.

When you go to town to pick up some milk and see lemons, again for free. You'll drop the milk to pick up the lemons.

WHY?

Because lemons are just so great! Milk gives you calcium and stuff, but Lemons give you a way better stuff. Well, In my opinion. Lemons has this tropical taste that you'll never get from the milk. It's natural and it's more expensive than milk, for sure, I guess(?).

NOW,

Let's go to our lives. For me, Lemons are just special fruits that I long. The special fruit that I want but I can't have it everyday, whereas Milk is like the thing that nourishes me and I drink it everyday.

When God gave you a new opportunity, weigh things! Well, when something's better, you'll give up the lesser better for the better better one, of course. (I know, right?)

I have to let go of this thing that could be very great for me, like awards and a valedictory place, perhaps? I have to give it up. It is God's will, and He know my desire for the lemons. The lemons that I long wanted. For He gaved me the milk to be nourished enough before I go to the next phase.

OHW;

I know what I'll be doing. I will be walking with God. He'll never forsake me, for He set up the Land He has promised me when He placed me back to a place so I'll be able to get to know Him more and to be able to experience what life is.

He is awesome. No any other prep could be more popular as Him or any jock to be cooler than my Lord and Savior.

I'm going to miss what I'll give up, but I know it's for a better one.

Trading Post - Is Davao defying the impact of the global downturn?

2009-05-20T14:23:00.000+08:00

Trading Post - Is Davao defying the impact of the global downturn?
Monday, 18 May 2009 01:46
by Aurelio A. Peña

IF YOU”RE commuting daily from Lanang to Bajada and back, along the long stretch of J.P. Laurel Avenue, you’ll get the impression that this bustling southern city of Davao seems to be defying the full impact of the global downturn.
Why am I saying this? Deep beneath my skin, I can feel the vibrance, the breathless anticipation and the excitement of how Davao’s future will look like five to ten years from now. It’s all there before your eyes when you take a commuter jeepney along Bajada to Lanang. Philippine investors are investing millions in this city right in the middle of the global crisis!
You can see and feel the frenzy in the ongoing construction of the Abreeza shopping mall and property development joint project of Anflo Management and the Makati-based Ayala Land at the bend of the Bajada highway in front of the Redemptorist Church.
You can see the clearing going on by the SM Property Development group at the former Lanang golf course, hidden by the thick shrubs and foliage of lush trees near Damosa -- which, by the way, has its own, new shopping center called “The Gateway”.
If Damosa feels threatened by another big SM shopping mall along Lanang, right at its doorsteps, tree-lovers like me also feel threatened that the beautiful greenery at that former golf course in Lanang will all be gone. You can’t stop progress when Henry Sy’s architects and construction people will swoop and cut down all the trees, bulldoze all that beautiful grass and turn that huge tree-shaded area into a concrete jungle.
If you’ve gone to all the SM shopping malls in Makati, Manila, Mandaluyong, Pasay, Cebu, etc, etc, that’s how all SM malls look like: a giant monolith of grey concrete with huge areas of cemented parking areas. All grey, no green spaces.
Of course, no one knows yet whether the new SM shopping mall in Lanang might turn out to be a totally new design that will finally respect fully-grown trees to the point of preserving them and protecting them right where they are, even if the mall structure itself will still emerge as the usual block of grey monolith.
Fact is, I’m still crossing my fingers on the Abreeza mall project of Anflo and Ayala group.whether or not they’ll turn out another commercial building that refuses to blend with the environment. I cannot deny that I’m impressed by the Ayala Center project in Cebu where the mall has a beautiful park with lots of trees and a big lagoon that makes it such a nice place to relax on Sundays. You can see lovers seated under the trees beside the lagoon, whole families having a picnic in the shade and some, just reading books and listening to birds with nests up in the trees.
The new opening of Robinson’s Cyberspace shopping center along Bajada the other week didn’t generate the kind of excitement whenever an Ayala mall or an SM mall opens in any major city of the country. And it didn’t care less about preserving trees because that area was already barren when they constructed that small building, dedicated it seems, to provide more renting spaces to call centers and other ICT companies now mushrooming all over this city.
For all you know, that’s also the same reason the Anflo-Ayala group and SM are jumping into the cyber space ventures because more and more call centers and ICT’s are set to invest millions in Davao City in the next three to five years down the road.
Yet, even with all these hundreds of millions of pesos in investments now pouring into Davao City for all these malls and ICT buildings, we’ve not given up wishing that these guys who are building all these structures will try to blend them with the cool, green environment of this southern city.

Dirty Dozen Ugliest and Lamest Cellphones

2009-05-19T21:22:00.003+08:00

by MSN

12 Cell Phones We Love to Hate

Some cell phones really look great, but are impossible to use. Other cell phones have cool features, but are ugly ducklings. Then there are those rare mobile monstrosities that fail at both looks and usability. Some have pricing issues as well.

Now to be fair, many cell phone makers fail when they are too ambitious, adding cutting-edge features way before their time or taking a design risk. Without these noble failures, perhaps no iPhone would ever have been possible.

The phones in our dirty dozen list all suffer from either design flaws or functionality failures, or both. While we hope you never get stuck with one of these stinkers, we also hope these phones have contributed to the greater good of the mobile world by letting handset makers learn from their mistakes.

-- By Daniel Ionescu, PC World

Click to see the list:

THE HALL OF SHAME

Filipino Names

2009-05-18T16:32:00.001+08:00

In the Philippines, all Filipinos, Spaniards, and Americans follow the conventional American form: First name-Middle name-Surname. For persons of legitimate descent, the mother's surname becomes the legal middle name.

Almost all Filipinos have either English or Spanish names, and a majority of them also have a Filipino nickname. For example, a man named Rafael (Spanish) would be given a Filipino nickname of Paeng, coming from a local rendering of the last two syllables of Rafael. In more formal occasions, Filipinos use the American surname first type. For example, a Filipino named John Gomez Gonzales would render his name (in formal occasions) as Gonzales, John Gomez.

Many modern-day Chinese Filipinos have traditional names with one syllable like Lim, Tan, Sy, and so on. However, early Chinese Filipino families took on the complete name of their patriarch, thus their names had three syllables. These are truly Filipino surnames and don't exist anywhere else in the world. Their names were transcribed using Spanish orthography in effect during the 19th century.

If you are wondering why so many names end in -co and -ko, it is because co was a title of respect given to someone like an elder, or an older brother. However, Co was also a valid name so that it would be hard to say whether the "Co" in the name was part of the original Chinese name or was an honorific. Generally speaking, if it is at the end it would have been an honorific.

An example of this is Cojuangco. Their patriarch was Co Chi Kuan, who was addressed respectfully as Co Kuan Co (one given name dropped). Co Kuan Co eventually became Cojuangco.

The new generation of Chinese have English names, but there are still members of the older generation living bearing completely Chinese names and also having an English nickname. For example, a man named Go Sun Tiak can also write his name as David Go (if he likes), or even as David Go Sun Tiak. Many of the Chinese also have double Spanish names, so, some Chinese people can have a name as Vicente Fernando Tan Gi Hieng.

Tagalog Surnames

These are truly unique Native Tagalog and Filipino Chinese surnames and don't exist anywhere else in the world. Alimboyugen, Abulog, Ahkiong, Bakekang, Butil, Cojuangco, Chincuanco, Chuchu, Cuyegkeng, Dysangco, Gosiengfiao, Dinguinbayan, Dyquiangco, Ipinasok, Kalawakan, Kanaway, Kaunlaran, Lao-lao, Magday, Marapao, Matapang, Makisig, Malaki, Maputi, Maitim, Maliit, Masipag, Matiyaga, MaNgSinco, Lanta, Limcangco, Loshang, Luansing, Ongpauco, Pinagbuklod, Pinagpala, Sese, Sinagtala, Songcuya, Sipsip, Siapuatco, Simangan, Simsuangco, Sytengco, Talong, Tiaoqui, Tanhehco, Tansiongco, Quisumbing, Quindipan, Quibuyen, Uytengsu, Yengko, Yaptinchay, and Yapchulay.

Chinese and Derived surnames

Most of the Chinese Filipinos today have surnames like Ancheta, Co, Go, Chua, Yee, Tan, Cue, Ku, Cheng, Lee, Sy, Chan, Yap, and Tiu.

Spanish Derived Surnames

Examples of Spanish surnames are Orante (which means prayer), Escribano (notary), Santos, Desiderio, Sanarez, Ponferrada, del Rosario, Cervantes, Vejerano, Fontanilla, Magallanes, Alcante, Alcantara, Barcelona, Concepcion, Canencia, and Bernal.

American Derived Surnames

The most unusual American surname in the Philippines is Doughman. Other examples are Grossman, Dimian, and Sweeney.

Baby Names World

This is Davao, Sir!

2009-05-18T15:27:00.005+08:00

Monday, May 18, 2009

Tabije: This is Davao, Sir!
By Ismael D. Tabije
Monday Notions

A FEW years ago when I was still stationed as UN Consultant in Timor Leste (formerly East Timor), I came home for a vacation. The air route I took was Dili (Timor-Leste)-Bali (Indonesia)-Singapore-Davao.

I arrived in Singapore about noon time but had to stay overnight there to wait for my connecting flight to Davao the following day. After lunch, I went to a department store to pass the time.

As I was walking around, I stopped to marvel at a store displaying very beautifully tailored suits. The Singaporean haberdasher approached me and engaged in sales talk. I told him that it is not possible for me to have a suit ordered as I was leaving the following morning.

His answer shocked me, "Don't worry, sir, we can finish your suit tonight. We'll deliver it to your hotel at 8 p.m." That was then 2 p.m.
"Are you sure?" was my incredulous reply. I knew for a fact that a suit ordered in the Philippines takes two weeks, at least.

"Don't worry, sir, this is Singapore. We do what we say. And, if by any chance we can't finish it before you depart, we will send it by air freight to anywhere in the world, free of charge."

That "boastful" claim really piqued my curiosity. I was forced to take up his offer even if it was a bit pricey. "Tingnan nga natin ang yabang mo," I murmured.

I chose the cloth to be used and ordered a coat, two pants and one long sleeved shirt. At 2:30 p.m., we were done with my measurements.

At 8 p.m., I got a call in my hotel room apologizing for some delays. They promised to be done by 10 p.m. I started to doubt. 10 p.m. came and still no delivery. More doubts. Then at 10:10 p.m. it arrived.

Still doubtful, I checked the suit thoroughly just in case they delivered a previously-sewn suit. When I confirmed that it was exactly the textiles I chose and the fit was perfect I was absolutely bowled over by the fact that they did a complete suit with an extra pair of pants in just 10 hours!

Now, why am I telling you this story? Because I love the haberdasher's catch phrase, "This is Singapore, sir." It shows a lot of nationalistic pride borne out of confidence that they can do what they promise. It explains succinctly why Singapore has progressed tremendously.

I think the City Government and the concerned national agencies, e.g., Department of Tourism (DOT), can start a campaign with a slogan, "This is Davao, sir!" The objective is to make the Dabawenyos prouder of their place and work harder to improve its image.

Let me drive home the point a bit further via a true story.

A few years ago, a friend from Manila narrated a story to our group. She said she took a taxi from her hotel to our office. The taximeter showed P56. When she gave P60, he was totally surprised that the driver promptly gave him a change of P4. Never in Manila. "This is Davao, Sir."
Suddenly, one of those in the group, also from Manila, shared that his experience is even more "unbelievable". He took a taxi and the meter showed P84. When he gave P100, the driver apologized that he had no change and requested for an exact fare. My friend told the driver that his loose change is only P80. The driver said it's okay, took the P80, and cheerily drove away.

"Pambihira, ako pa ang nabigyan ng tip," was my friend's comment, shaking his head in disbelief. "This is Davao, Sir!"
The campaign can be expanded to trumpet the relative peace and order condition of Davao that allows the people to roam the streets even at night, the people's friendliness, the cleaner air, the lesser traffic, the convenient access to world-class beach and mountain resorts and more.

"This is Davao, Sir!"

Shop 'til you get hit.

2009-05-18T14:34:00.008+08:00

Gaisano Mall of Davao
The Biggest Mall in Mindanao

FIERCE & STUNNING

We patronize them even though we've walked around this mall a hundred times.
"Never gets old."
And I'm glad they are giving us something new to like them even better.
Practically, everything's here! From a small tiangee to a high-end shop(?) LOL.
They are currently too busy polishing the factory-type mall to a sophisticated and classy shopping centre! The ceilings and lightings are way WAY! and the toilets are huge improvements. The tiles are still the life-threatening slippery ceramics(?) Haha.
But basically, Gaisano Mall is the best in Mindanao.
Therefore, G in GMALLstands for Great. Great shopping, great dining, great malling.

however,

I guess I don't have a good pedestrian system.

Mall-goers risk their lives just to get in this establishment! LOL.

Here, as you can see, the apple green part is where you could disembark from a vehicle LOL.
So, the one on the lower left is the most common for people who rides from the North-side to the mall, they tend to clog up this part of the street and they just cross the street like crazy frogs. Then after that, they'll pass the lakes of dirty water beside the sidewalk stores and after, risk their life for another frog cross the street to the mall, finally. Opps, not yet. If you're going to the Main Atrium entrace, be in risk again to be hit by a car going to the parking building.

GMALL! Do something!!!
here, the pedestrians/skybridges are on red. :]
Perhaps, THIS.
At least a good pedestrian system or a 'skybridge' (LMFAO).
And if you're planning for the Annex on the adjacent space, better get started. LOL.

Just the vital facilities we need.

Just crossing to GMall, Are there any deaths or injuries recorded?
Better safe, than sarrreee.

Rainy days = Party days?

2009-05-18T14:24:00.000+08:00

The hard rains are here and little tragedies are bound to follow. In Partylandia, there is a premium on sunny days and warm nights, because they can affect a partyphile’s mood, or worse, the mood of his/her party. However, instead of trying to work your way around the weather, why not make it the theme of your next house party?

Since the rains have come, why not host an event to welcome the rainy season? This is not only a unique way to throw a house party, but this will also leave you feeling warm and fuzzy ‘til the wee hours of the morning. Here’s how:

Ambience: When it rains and pours, one wants nothing more than to cuddle up with some plush pillows or curl up in a soft chair. So for this type of party, plastic chairs and tables won’t work. Instead, bring out all your mattresses, lay them out on the floor, and cover them with a plush bed cover, some fluffy pillows and blankets. Fill your sofa with fluffy pillows as well to add to the effect. Also, to take the cuddling to an all new level, try using soft textures like pure cotton, fleece, or velvet. Silk and satin sheets and beddings won’t work here because they feel hot and stick to the skin.

Think of more relaxing colors like dark neutrals. I would suggest an all chocolate brown theme. To add interest, keep the pillows and blankets lighter. Do not turn any white light on, it does nothing for the complexion, plus it reminds people of kitchens, hospitals, and offices; not relaxing havens of pure bliss. Keep the lights dim and at a minimum, you would want people to relax and feel at home.

Food: When rainy days come people often crave for a heaping bowl of hot soup. Serve up the traditional Arroz Caldo, Tinola, Chicken Soup or create your own ham chowder. If you want to serve something more unique, try downloading a Minestrone recipe; this is not only a very healthy soup, but is also quite addictive. Your guests will surely ask for more. Serve your soup with some toasted bread, baguettes or crackers.

Drinks: Serve up some hot traditional drinks with a twist. Why not try serving some apple cider tea topped with whipped cream? How about some coffee spiked with kahlua, or some hot choco spiked with Bailey’s Cream? You could also serve some salabat, regular hot choco made from tablea or cocoa powder, freshly brewed coffee or tea. And for the kiddies, serve up some hot milk with their choice of chocolate or strawberry syrup, top with whipped cream and sprinkle to give it a festive touch.

Games: I usually suggest games you fun and crazy games you could play, but for this party, I suggest you play something mellower. Try playing classic games like Scrabble, the seemingly never-ending game of Monopoly, Chekers, Chess, and Games of the Generals; or try some Poker or Mah Jong.

Music: You could choose to play some somber songs like Dido’s Thank You, which actually has optimistic lyrics but a very sad sound to it, Nina’s Someday or Sarah Machlachlan’s Angel. You could also opt to play some fun and Summery songs to help you forget about the rainy days like Solange Knowles’ Sandcastle Disco, Lionel Richie’s Just Go, Corrine Bailey Rae’s Put Your Records On, or any Bob Marley Song.

I hope you enjoy your rainy day party; grab some comfortable clothes, plush blankets, and a cuddly partner (live or stuffed). And remember to prepare everything before the guests arrive so you won’t be stressing yourself out.

by Partyphile

Reflections on a Bicultural Family

2009-05-12T12:53:00.002+08:00

Can a biracial couple navigate the many conflicts of their cultures?

One afternoon while in Chinatown, my family and I stopped to eat at a restaurant. Once seated, I looked around and noticed the patrons and staff were all Asian. I looked down at my place setting and saw only chopsticks, no silverware. Turning to my husband, I remarked, “This must be a good place, we’re the only White people in here.” My husband replied with a grin, “No, You are the only White person in here.”

As is evident from the above exchange, I sometimes forget that I am a minority in my own family. I am a Caucasian married to a first generation Filipino American, which makes my children biracial. By calling my family “White”, I wasn’t referring to their skin color. My husband and children have darker skin than I and, at least racially, they would not fit the “White” category. Instead, I meant our culture.

My husband is so Americanized that he has been told by other Filipinos that he is “not really Filipino.” In fact, he doesn’t understand or feel comfortable with many of his parents’ customs. Many years into an interracial marriage, and three children later, I’ve discovered that the issues arising in my Asian/Caucasian union are not about race or color, but about conflicts of culture. Because my husband is culturally more American than Asian, the differences only become evident when we are with his parents and relatives.

For example, I once called one of his aunts by her first name, without first using the proper title of “Aunt”. Her look of dismay was my only clue that I had done something wrong, although I didn’t know exactly what. I later thought about the incident and remembered a time when another relative had acted in the same manner when I had called my own uncle by his first name. An Asian friend later explained that calling a relative by their first name was considered the height of disrespect. When asked, my husband said that he had not ever thought to tell me because, for him, it was second nature to use a title when addressing a relative.

Another issue was how to address my in-laws. I had always called them by their first names, as is the American custom. I found out, after more than a decade of being married, that not only was I was expected to call them “Mom” and “Dad”, but that they had been seething over this lack of courtesy for years. Apparently, I had even humiliated them in front of their friends by using their first names.

When I discovered my mistake, I was upset and dismayed. From my perspective, it would have been disrespectful to call them “Mom” and “Dad” without an invitation; from their viewpoint, I was being deliberately disrespectful by not using the endearments. The sad thing is that no one ever brought the issue to my attention. Had they explained this to me, I would have certainly complied.

Because my experiences seem to be mirrored by friends who are also in Asian/Caucasian marriages, I’m starting to think that lack of communication is a part of the culture. These things just aren’t discussed. A Chinese friend, who is married to a Caucasian, once explained, “If you were to ask them what was wrong, they would say everything was fine, they wouldn’t tell you what was bothering them. My husband just doesn’t address anybody in my family by name, so that he doesn’t make a mistake.” I wish I had thought of that!

Food is another source of conflict. When my husband’s family visits our home, I cook because I consider it rude for guests to have to make their own food. However, I wouldn’t dare try to cook Filipino food, even though I love it! As a result, they get my American-style food. Even though I always ask their opinion on what I should make, and I try my best to find dishes that will appeal to them, it doesn’t always go well. The rice isn’t the right type or isn’t cooked properly. They balk at unfamiliar foods. I find it frustrating that I’m expected to try bitter melon and blood pudding, but lasagna is enough to send them running for the nearest Chinese restaurant.

Finally, cultures can clash over something as simple as an adjective. When my husband’s aunt once called my five-year-old daughter sexy, I was offended by the application of that very adult term to my little girl. It wasn’t until I noticed other relatives calling her dress sexy, a book sexy, a pair of shoes sexy - throwing around the word with such abandon - that I finally realized it must not have the same connotation in their culture. My best guess is that they thought the word meant cute or pretty.

Later, as I reflected upon my strong, emotional response to the situation, I wondered if maybe this is how they feel when I do something against the grain of their culture. Maybe their response to my using their first names is just as visceral - and even, perhaps, subconscious. I wish now I had brought it up for discussion. Maybe we could have shared a laugh over the misunderstanding?

So many rifts and hurt feelings have occurred over the years on both sides of the family, simply due to lack of communication and understanding. I wish they would tell me the rules. I would be happy to follow them if I knew what they were. I’ve grown tired of feeling like I flunked a test for which I was given no study guide. Although I do believe that my Filipino relatives love me and my children, will this White girl ever truly be accepted? I really don’t know, but I’m going to keep trying.

-by T.A. Leonard

Facebook

2009-05-06T12:38:00.002+08:00

My VFF is departing today :(

I'm going to miss her alot!

WAYYALOT.

And we've learned something about each other pa today! Ahahaha, diba? :]

We're ENGAGED! Hahahahaha.

BTW. Speaking of FACEBOOK,

Their quizzes are like so random.

Like, taking an exam that you answered correctly and you'll have a result as F.

WTF Facebook?

Youth of the Nation

2009-05-06T07:40:00.005+08:00

Recession. Global Crisis. Failing Economies. Job Shortage. Poverty.

by Partyphile

We have been hearing much of these words lately. The problems of the world’s economies are all over the news; they are the topic of almost everyone’s conversations and they have now been accepted as a fact.

But the younger generation, my generation, doesn’t know much about these words. Basically, we know that the economies of the world are not doing great; even the highly industrialized countries are now feeling the crunch.

I do not know if there really is a global crisis, or if we should accept this as a fact. And even though it has been scattered in every news channel, in every newspaper, and in every important website, we still don’t understand it. Honestly, we kids haven’t felt the crunch yet. We have yet to feel the effects of the so-called global crisis first-hand.

The people we associate with the global crisis are the Americans we see crying on TV for not being able to pay rent; for being laid off of their jobs; for not having enough to eat; for not having enough money to put their kids through college; or for not being able to pay for a decent home.

And although these scenes are heart-breaking, they are as common as Buko Pie in the Philippines. I mean, this isn’t something new. Long before I was born, this has been the plight of, my fellow Filipinos. And just because Americans are now going through these problems as well, they are suddenly worthy causes to panic and be alarmed?

More importantly, these scenes pale in comparison with the latest episodes of the even more dramatic American Idol, or Gossip Girl. Adults always blame us kids for not caring too much, but can you really expect us to care about something we can’t relate with?

While Americans on the opposite side of the world complain about these problems that we Filipinos now consider part of our culture, here we are trying to convince ourselves that there is a crisis for the sole reason of pretending to be informed and in tune with current events. Which leads us to question: have we always been living in crisis, and not know it?

Because the cries of these Americans we see on TV are familiar. Too familiar in fact, we kids don’t even find it reason enough to care. What we want is plain and simple: basically, we just want to when we are going to feel the crunch and how we are going to feel the effects of this crisis, because last time we checked, we still had money to go out partying, we still had money to buy the latest “it” gadget, we still had money to spend on gourmet coffee; and we still had the money to stay beautiful (gosh, even my labandera sports manicured and polished nails).

What I want to say is: we are not an informed lot. And this is a very sad fact, considering that we have become global as a generation. Our generation has become more in-tune with the rest of the world, we have succumbed to globalization in media, entertainment, technology and in other facets of life.We know more about the latest fashions and the latest widgets on Facebook than we do about this crisis. And you can’t really blame us kids. Nobody has tried reaching out to us to explain what is happening around the world, nobody has tried to break these terms down to help us understand what is happening around the world and if there is even reason to be alarmed. There is nothing to help us understand these ideas in terms we could actually understand and relate with. Right now, all we want is information; digestible, understandable, practical information to help us understand what is actually going on. Sadly, we have nothing of the sort, thus we have to rely on guesses, mere hunches.

But maybe it is better for us to keep guessing. Maybe it is better for us not to know. Maybe it is better for us to be clueless about the economy. Maybe we just don’t care. Maybe we just don’t want to know. After all, information, though hard to digest, is just a click away. Maybe we have made youth an excuse to not care about these stuff because maybe we do not have to think about them. Maybe we have deemed it irrelevant to know how poor we are. Maybe it is better for us to not know so that (unlike people from highly industrialized countries who hoard and save and keep their money) we won’t change our spending patters, thus keeping the money, finances and assets rolling inside the country, which could probably keep the economy afloat. Or maybe that is just some ridiculous idea we have heard through he grapevine which we use to impress people on our knowledge about the topic.

We can have a million and one guesses, but the truth remains that, the youth sector is misinformed and almost even clueless about the topic at hand. And maybe, just maybe, we would start to care once we know enough about this crisis.

But who am I to know? I am just some ignorant brat who knows absolutely nothing about the economy, and has enough time on his hands to start writing about his generation’s depressing cluelessnes on the factors that affect the way we live.

GAP Farm

2009-05-05T12:23:00.004+08:00

It is preserved. In my opinion.

It feels good to be back to the Sunday Family Getaway place for almost 10++ Years!

Sucks that Kublai was probably a student then, and crappy statues were erected there.

There's a weird crying statue of a Saint there too, covering a door, we called her, San Rio :]

Lol.

At the middle of the Land of Promise, it is a good place to talk.

And I saw for the first time, the cow was pissing! Lol.

The cave is still in good-condition, I reckon.

The conferencia of multos were quite odd, but it was fun. Lol.

Their swimming pool could match any resorts in the city, but no one's dipping, I wonder why.

GAP Farm probably lack advertisement and was forgotten.

If you wanna have a blast to the past,

It's just along Diversion Road, it is a good walk from Outland Adventure.

Then only P25/head.

You could walk back to the Diversion-Ma-a Junction, just needs a good talk and you'll be there soon. :]

Cyclops of the Cave

Timezone

2009-05-05T12:22:00.003+08:00

Almost everyone has been here, and probably played the games we enjoyed. Did you too?

Dance Maniax is a fun game, to boost your dancing skills?

It's like Para-dancing.

Then, House of the Dead 2 in a awesome car-like arcade.

Feels like real.

So, Kudos Timezone?

I just hate their +2 for Papercards. T_x" But they got a good strategy with the card + credit thing. I think they got it from the Aussie Arcades, like the one in Beachouse.

VFF!

2009-05-05T12:15:00.004+08:00

Meet my VFF (Vampire Friends Forever):

Krizelle Lakshmi R. Plang

"im not a girly girl, nor am i a tomgirl; i got glitters on my veins but i enjoy playing in the dirt. so im pretty much both. :P im way smarter than i look; in fact i support literacy -- also GAY RiGHTS. i enjoy writing, and i find psychology and criminology interesting. anti-smoker. alcoholic."

One phrase to describe her:

"LOOKS COULD BE DECEIVING."

10 Conyo-mandments.

2009-05-01T15:15:00.001+08:00

So here it is na. The 10 conyo-mandments na. Make basa na and have fun speaking in conyo. And for more conyo fun, make visit nalang I.PH’s official conyo thread sa forums. Credits to my TL Shaun for sending me this conyomandments nga pala.

10 CONYO-MANDMENTS

1. Thou shall make gamit “make+pandiwa”.

ex. “Let’s make pasok na to our class!”

“Wait lang! I’m making kain pa!”

“Come on na, we can’t make hintay anymore! It’s in Andrew pa, you know?”

2. Thou shall make kalat “noh”, “diba” and “eh” in your pangungusap.

ex. “I don’t like to make lakad in the baha nga, no? Eh diba it’s like, so eew, diba?”

“What ba: stop nga being maarte noh?”

“Eh as if you want naman also, diba?”

3. When making describe a whatever, always say “It’s SO pang-uri!”

ex. “It’s so malaki, you know, and so mainit!”

“I know right? So sarap nga, eh!”

“You’re making me inggit naman.. I’ll make bili nga my own burger.”

4. When you are lalaki, make parang punctuation “dude”, ‘tsong” or “pare”

ex. “Dude, Physics is so hirap, pare.”

“I know, tsong, I got bagsak nga in quiz one, eh”

5. Thou shall know you know? I know right!

ex. “My bag is so bigat today, you know”

“I know, right! We have to make dala pa kasi the jumbo Physics book eh!”

6. Make gawa the plural of pangngalans like in English or Spanish.

ex. “I have so many tigyawats, oh!”

7. Like, when you can make kaya, always use like. Like, I know right?

ex. “Like, it’s so init naman!”

“Yah! The aircon, it’s, like sira!”

8. Make yourself feel so galing by translating the last word of your sentence, you know, your pangungusap?

ex. “Kakainis naman in the LRT! How plenty tao, you know, people?”

“It’s so tight nga there, eh, you know, masikip?”

9. Make gamit of plenty abbreviations, you know, daglat?”

ex. “Like, OMG! It’s like traffic sa LRT”

“I know right? It’s so kaka!”

“Kaka?”

“Kakaasar!”

10. Make gamit the pinakamaarte voice and pronunciation you have para full effect!

ex. “I’m, like, making aral at the Arrhneo!”

“Me naman, I’m from Lazzahl!”

Repost: Girls need to realize.

2009-05-01T15:08:00.000+08:00

We don't care if you're friends with other guys.

But when you're sitting next to us, and some random guy walks into the room and you jump up and tackle him, without even introducing us, yeah, it pisses us off.

It doesn't help if you sit there and talk to him for ten minutes without even acknowledging the fact that we're still there.

We don't care if a guy calls OR TEXTS you, but at 2 in the morning we do get a little concerned.

Nothing is that important at 2 a.m. that it can't wait

till the morning.

Also, when we tell you you're pretty/ beautiful/ gorgeous/

cute/ stunning, we freaking mean it.

Don't tell us we're wrong.

We'll stop trying to convince you.

The sexiest thing about a girl is confidence.

Yeah, you can quote me.

Don't be mad when we hold the door open. Take Advantage of the mood im in.

Let us pay for you!

Don’t "feel bad"

We enjoy doing it.

It's expected.

Smile and say "thank you."

Kiss us when no one's watching.

If you kiss us when you know somebody's looking, we'll be more impressed.

You don't have to get dressed up for us.

If we're going out with you in the first place, you don't have to feel the need to

wear the shortest skirt you have or put on every kind of makeup you own.

We like you for who you are and not what you are.

honestly, I think a girl looks more beautiful when she's just in her pj's. or my

shirt and boxers, not all dolled up

Don't take everything we say seriously.

Sarcasm is a beautiful thing. See the beauty in it.

Don't get angry easily.

Stop using magazines/media as your bible.

"Don't talk about how hott Chris Brown, Brad Pitt, or Jesse McCartney is in front of us".

It's boring, and we don't care. You have friends for that.

Whatever happened to the word "handsome"/"beautiful"?

I’d be utterly stunned by a girl who greeted me

with "Hey handsome!" instead of "Hey baby/ stud/ cutie/ sexy" or whatever else you can think of.

on the other hand I’m not saying I wouldn't like it ether

Girls, I cannot stress this enough: if you aren't being treated right by a guy, dont wait for him to change. ditch his sorry ASS, he's a disgrace to the male population and find someone who will treat you with utter respect

Someone who will honor your morals.

Someone who will make you smile when you're at your lowest.

Someone who will care for you even when you make mistakes.

Someone who will love you, no matter how bad you make them feel.

Someone who will stop what they're doing just to look you in the eyes....and say "i love you" ..and actually mean it.

Give the nice guys a chance

Guys repost this if you agree

Girls repost this if you think it's cute

Every Guy who isn't a jerk will agree with this, so we hope that all the girls that read this will repost this

*Holding Hands

Girls :If you want to hold his hand, gently bump into it a couple of

times.

Guys : Grab it if it happens more than once.

*Cuddling

Girls : When you want to cuddle with him, tell him you're cold

Guys : Automatically move closer to her.

*Movies

Girls : During a movie, if he puts his arm around you, tilt your head on his shoulder

Guys : Lift her chin up and kiss her.

*Loving each other

Guys : When she tells you she loves you, look deep into her eyes, give her a peck on the lips, and tell her you love her

too... And mean it.

*Laying below the stars

Girls : When you're both laying under the stars, put your head on his chest and close your eyes as you listen to his steady heart beat

Guys : Whisper in her ear and link your hands with hers.

By 12 am tonight your one true love will realize how much they want you.

Girls repost as: written by a guy :]

Guys post as: Girls need to realize

Celestial Seasoning

2009-05-01T15:06:00.004+08:00

Hey guys, this tea is very great.
Well, I'm not in the 'right' age for this, but it is great!
They have a wide range of flavours.

And and, after using the tea bags, I've read online that
tea bags helps reduce dark circles under the eyes.

And drinking tea, reduces acne.

So, I guess, I should be reading teeth whitening remedies for the tea-stains :p

Btw, This 110% Vitamin C.

Confessions of a Partyphile - The new tribe of Davao

2009-04-27T17:34:00.001+08:00

Confessions of a Partyphile - The new tribe of Davao
Wednesday, 22 April 2009 05:54
by Zhaun Ortega

BAGOBO.
Bilaans.
Guiangans.
Tagacaolos.
Manobos.
Mandayas.
Mansakas.
Gimikeros.
Alright, alright, I know what you are thinking. The last word does not really belong in that particular line up. But if you really think about it, maybe it does, doesn’t it?

When we speak of tribes in Davao we often think of the Lumads and the natives who live high above in the mountains; but what you, and the rest of the people who belong in our generation, do not realize is that this isn’t necessarily the case. No matter where you originally come from, no matter how long you have been settled in this city, and no matter how little you know about your other Davaoeño brothers and sisters; you are now part of the New Davaoeño tribe.
Yup, you may not be consciously aware of it but you are now a part of this breed of educated, street-smart, and confident people. The yuppies and students that walk the city streets unknowingly form one homogenous tribe; we share the same interests, attitudes and points of view. We may not know it, but we share a lot of common traits which now dictate, not only how the economy of Davao moves, but also how we deal with each other.

Unlimited Rice, Pito-Baynte and Eating Hearty

Surprisingly (or not), the new breed of Davaoeños is still much like the past generations of Pinoys. We still eat five times a day; merienda is still a must, and Banana-Cue, Pito-Baynte (7 for 20 pesos) Barbeque and Tulo-Diyes (3 for 10 pesos) Siomai are still staples of the dining table, or at least of the side walks right outside the school gates.
We still use sawsawan with every meal, thus explaining the abundance of toyo (soy sauce), suka (vinegar), calamansi (native lemon), sili (chili), patis (fish sauce), ketchup and pinakurat (well. there’s no translation. You will just have to try this one yourself) in all Davaoeño restaurants. We still invite whoever happens to pass by our dining tables to join us in eating with a loud “mangaon ‘ta!”. And we still enjoy eating our favorite sud-an (viand) with a steaming hot cup of rice, no matter how many times Ms. Winfrey tells us to do otherwise.
My humble opinion: Unless Oprah has tried eating a hot, freshly cooked piece of Bulad (dried fish) dipped in vinegar, chili and paired with fresh tomatoes, served over some steaming white rice… she can’t tell us Davaoeños to quit rice completely.
What’s more, unlike the Manila crowd, we are less obsessed with eating healthy thus Kwek-kwek, Fish Ball, Balot, frozen strong beer and, much to the horror of Manilenyos, unlimited rice are favorites among Dabawenyos.
And this is actually good for us: we still get to enjoy our food, no matter how embarrassingly cheap they are; and we don’t even need to feel guilty about stuffing our hearts with all the cholesterol it can take (seriously, now is a good time to bring in the Sisig, Bulalong Kalabaw and Crispy Pata)

Anti-Sosyal, Passing Gas and the Magic F. Torres Brings.

Unlike past generations, we have stopped trying to be “sosyal”. We are now content with being ourselves and even put a premium on simple living. Thus, fancy restos are now being snubbed; we appreciate simple Filipino food like Barbeque, Inihaw na Isda and other home-cooked favorites that can compete (in price) with even the most established fast-food chains.
Even bars are now getting shrugged; partyphiles have gone back to the old Filipino way. It used to be, when you walked the streets at night, you would see a group of men sharing chit-chats over some cold beer in every baranggay, in every kanto, in every sari-sari store in the city. Yes, we have gone back to this very Noypi tradition of conversing over beer, but unlike the generations of our parents, we now find the right place and time for it: thus, as everyone has probably realized by now, F. Torres is where all the magic happens.
And, unlike generations before us, we are never embarrassed to admit that we don’t have money in our pockets, that our feet smell or that we just let out a silent but deadly fart. Trust me, we have become anything but sosyal.

Free WiFi, Chillaxing and Gym Buddies

The only exception to the “anti-sosyal” rule would probably be the coffee shops. We still frequent them even if we know we can get our caffeine fix at home for a much, much, much lower price; because coffee shops are the perfect venue for lazy conversation (and of course, free WiFi). They set the stage for great conversations and somehow, after a trip to your favorite café, you feel relaxed. And this is what we are after: stress-relief.

Wellness and relaxation have become the priorities for the new Dabawenyo tribe. We spend money for spa services and massages, and no, I don’t mean the local manghihilot. We go out partying to forget all the chaos that life brings (yes, Mom and Dad, the only reason why we go out on gimmicks is to relieve stress) and kiss our worries goodbye. And we now enroll in our local gyms to help sweat our stress away (aside from the fact that it is also a great way to find new friends. Gym buddy, anyone?). We put a premium on good living and letting our hair down after a hard day at work. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have our share of mischief and misdemeanor.

Informed Wild Children, Not-So-Squeaky-Clean Images, and Owning up to Mistakes

Older generations often think of us as rowdy or “wild”, but I think my generation is more informed and make wiser decisions. That is not to say that we do not have our share of wild nights, but I’m pretty sure, we have not been doing anything that our parents’ generations haven’t done before. However, the difference is in the way we handle these facts of life. We may be wild (but I am doubtful that we are wilder than any of the generations before us) but this time, we are confident enough to admit that we are. We admit to doing what we do, we are not a generation who tries to seem squeaky-clean; we have gone away with all the “kaplastikan” and we have matured well enough to realize that, although it is not okay to make stupid mistakes, it definitely is okay to own up to them.

Things I Know For Sure

Of course, an article could never capture the true essence of the new Dabawenyo tribe but these things I know for sure: we know what we want and we know how to get it; we have mastered the art of remaining under the radar while moving mountains; we are oblivious to the fact that we have great potential; we still love fried food, Hebi and Choc-nut; we have done away with social-climbing; farting is not that big a sin as it used be and more importantly, we love and appreciate Davao and all the quirks it brings along with it.

Camella Northpoint

2009-04-27T17:00:00.003+08:00

Camella Northpoint

In the heart of it all

Site Amenities Features

A. Clubhouse with the following features

Function Room
Recreation Hall
Fitness Gym
Veranda - overlooking with pool

B. Grand Entrance Gate with proximity card access
C. Perimeter Fence
D. Swimming Pool
E. Playground
F. Cabanas with Grill Pits
G. Pocket Parks and Playgrounds
H. Overhead Water Tank and Cistern
I. Garbage Collection Facilities
J. Sewer Treatment Plant
K. Back Up Generator for Amenities
L. WiFi Access at Clubhouse
M. Water Station
N. Convenience Store
O. Laundry Pick up Station

LOCATION:

Progressive:
The new face of "North" -- commercial, IT ceneters, just 10 minutes to Davao International Airport

Strategic:
Strategically located at the corner of major highways of J.P. Laurel Avenue and Buhangin Road.

Convenient:
Close to the U/C Abreeza & Ayala Business Park, Robinsons Gateway, Victoria Plaza, Pryce Business Park, Gaisano mall and New Night Spots.
5 minutes away from Downtown.

Camella Ad

Camella Northpoint

Site Plan

Friendly Agents

Phoenix, just across the Site

Davao Central Convenience Store, just across the Site

Davao Central Convenience Store

LBC, Bakery, Xurex (Purified Water) and LBPI Design International, just beside the Site

Pambahay Accents, GNLD International, INOS Philippines and Cutworx Salon

Machine Shop, Merco, Havaianas and Furniture Shop

Laundry Best, Villa Margarita Hotel and Binggoy's Gourmet

Davao Light and Power Company (beside Villa Margarita Hotel), Roadway Inn and few more steps to Abreeza and Redemptorist Church

2009-04-26T16:44:00.001+08:00

TEN BEST FEATURES OF DAVAO

1. THE DAVAO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT

The new Davao Internationl Airport is one of the busiest airports in the Philippines with daily flights to major destinations in the country. Davao City also serves as a gateway to the sub-regional trade bloc known as the EAST ASEAN growth area with direct flights to Singapore and Indonesia.

2. PERFECT WEATHER

The Davao City is situated in a typhoon-free zone. The all-year round predictability of its tropical weather (sunshine by day and occasional rain shower by night) makes the place conducive for business, leisure, agriculture and other worthwhile activities.

3. EFFICIENT PUBLIC UTILITIES

Davao City has excellent public utilities that offer the best products and services. From abundance in the supply of potable water, to cost efficient electricity through hydropower generation, innovative players in telecommunications industry (phone companies, Internet Service Providers, Cable-TV, etc.)

4. REGIONAL CENTER OF SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES

Davao City is the financial center of Mindanao Island with more than 1,200 institutions classified as banks and other financial institutions.

5. MOST PEACEFUL CITY IN SOUTHEAST ASIA

Davao City is one of the most peaceful cities in Asia. The Davao City Police is a consistent top pick for the Country, Best Police Award. The effective Emergency Hotline 911, with a very quick response.

6. COMPETITIVE COST OF DOING BUSINESS

In Davao City, quality products and services do not necessarily equate to high cost. Almost everything of quality in Davao City costs cheaper compared to other major cities.

7. BEST PROFESSIONALS AND LABORERS

The City is home to the best professionals and laborers in Southern Philippines. Its human resource are touted as competent, highly literate, English-speaking and very cost-effective.

8. FRUIT BASKET OF THE COUNTRY

Almost all kind of fruits grow in abundance in the City. It is host to a lot of fruit platations and it is famous for its exotic Durian.

The City is one of the biggest exporters of Banana in Asia. Other fresh produce incluedes delectable delights such as Pomelo, Mango, Mangosteen, Rambutan, Strawberry, Lanzones and Pineapple among others.

9. INVESTOR-FRIENDLY CITY

Investors are taken cared of in Davao City. Being the pioneer city in establishing an investment promotion center that proviedes free professional assistance including processiong of applications for local fiscal incentives.

10. RESPONSIVE AND FORWARD LOOKING LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The City Government of Davao is very positive on developmental projects. Infrastructure modernization such as international standard airport, roads, bridges, and seaports are being one in response to the present challenges of the new millennium.

Facial Remedies

2009-04-24T12:18:00.004+08:00

I've been using this Eskinol + Dalacin C, it pretty works.

+

I also use Mandolin Facial Scrub, St. Ives Facial Wash, Cetaphil and Eskinol Pore-cleanser just to get rid of my pimples. Some OHM Moisturizer too. Desperate to get rid of them.

In conclusion, WHAT YOU EAT IS WHAT YOU ARE. I eat spicy food :p
I'm HOT!
Nah, The chocolates + junk foods are the to-blames :(

Wish upon a star

2009-04-23T17:39:00.009+08:00

Hey guys,

I was thinking of one thing last night.

Like just one thing, and then I went out;

I looked at this Southern Cross, then on my left, I saw a shooting star.

Do you believe in wishes?

Nothing's wrong with it. I wished right away as soon as I saw it fade;

I felt so good and happy.

Hope my wish comes true! :]

Laptop Glass

2009-04-23T17:39:00.006+08:00

I think I broke my Laptop Screen, I had like this protruding dust on my screen, I scraped it off.

NOW I'M RUED(How do spell it? I heard the word awhile ago from iCarly. LOL)

I so regret scratching it to remove it!

Urgh, We'll; I'll be optimistic about it! :]

iPod Lyric + Album Art

2009-04-23T17:39:00.004+08:00

I just got stucked putting lyrics and album art on the songs on my iPod;

I used MUSIC-LYRICS-CHORD.COM

And I got good set of lyrics and album arts,

Better use it :D

Masquerade

2009-04-17T17:13:00.003+08:00

Well,
I had my iPod Touch GMasked.

Before, I asked how much it costs to have the back ONLY masked, the girl said 500+, then if full, it's 795.

Well, today, when I went back there, another girl told me, it's 795 for a back mask ONLY, so i was like WTF? And she told me, extra 250 for the front.

I'm like... OKAY FINE.

So yeah, I got a black denim design. It looks good, though it has sticker scratches + punctures. It's better than a scratched iPod Back.

So yeah, and she intentionally FORGOT the discount, if I didn't asked for it, I could have wasted the 10% discount.

RIP Hair

2009-04-17T17:11:00.001+08:00

Well, I dyed my hair. Though it's uber short hair.

I dyed it, it's Deep Blonde.

Lol.

I'll post details and photos soon :]

Sim City 4

2009-04-15T11:56:00.005+08:00

I always love this game since it came out!

I installed the Rush Hour expansion and always created cool cities, and I installed a lot of mods and nams, then one day, I uninstalled it to move it to another disk.

Then, I lost the whole datas.
I reinstalled the game but can't reinstall the Rush Hour for some graphic problems.

So I have to reformat the computer to get it back.

But I am playing the Sim City 4 with this box buildings, it's okay though, I'm just after the City Planning and the Urban Growth(well, even I get boxes).

So if I were you and you're in the zenith of your game glory, better not uninstall it or do stupid stuffs. Yeah, I know I did something stupid.

Photos of two random cities, not the best, but the average cities I make, without Rush Hour :D :(

Travelling Tips for Teens

2009-04-15T11:27:00.002+08:00

Planes tickets are now affordable! So if you're planning to go International, here are tips :)

This Tips is based from my experience:

1. Book your flight on Wednesdays. Cheaper tickets are on this day.

2. Bring what you need. Don't bring too much clothes, you could mix and match your clothes, you don't want to be burden with a heavy luggage.

3. Roll your clothes. Rolling your clothes saves space and prevents wrinkles on your clothes.

4. Know where you're going to stay. You should be aware to what kind of climate you're going to anticipate and if you're bringing with you your cosmetics.

5. Ready your things before you sleep. You don't want to cram over stuffs in the morning.

6. Never forget to put your name in your bag. And contact details, please. Duh! :]

7. Get a good night sleep. You don't want to be sleepy in the airport, sleep in the plane with an open mouth; and get really dizzy after disembarking the plane.

8. Wear comfy clothes. Because you will wear it for many hours in many places. Comfy clothes make you comfortable in all ways, of course.

9. Be on time. The plane won't wait for you and if you're with a connecting flight, chance: missing the whole trip.

10. Check in everything if possible. Avoid handcarries, they are annoying, and you look funny with a lot of bags.

11. Be alert. Of course, you don't want to miss the flight because you were too busy reading New Moon and didn't hear the announcement because of your maxed music.

12. Ask as much as possible, but not always. Better safe than sorry, always ask. You don't want to violate anything.

13. Chew a gum or exercise your jaw during take off! Everybody hates congested ears.

14. Bring chocolates and less water. They keep you awake, happy and energized. Bottled water ends up in the trash bins. :(

15. Salty chips makes you less dizzy. That, according to my mum.

16. Never hesitate to ask if they serve free food, and if they give away goodies! :]

17. Make Friends. It is good to have friends around the world, and a new person to talk to while waiting to board your plane. But don't give out many details, you don't want to be in a situation like in the movie Taken.

18. Be mindful of your things. Anybody could just pick up your stuff and on board a plane going miles away from you.

So that's it.

Boyce Avenue

2009-04-15T11:01:00.004+08:00

Cover UP!
Boyce Avenue;

"Who the heck?" I had my iPod loaded with music and videos from a random music shop, so I saw from my iTunes, BOYCE AVENUE.

Boyce Avenue, a Florida-based band popular for its strong acoustic roots and melodic rock sound, consists of the three brothers Alejandro, Fabian, and Daniel Manzano.

Are they too lazy to compose their own songs? If that's the case, I like them lazy. They make acoustic versions of the cool RNB music, which I like!

02/10/09
Live and Acoustic in the Philippines

Boyce Avenue
We are so happy to announce that we will be doing 4 acoustic shows in the Philippines. Our fans in this region are very important to us and we are going to try and make these shows particularly special. We hope to see many of you there.

check out their official website.

Brain Damage

2009-04-15T10:42:00.006+08:00

Well, here's another MD Thing:
BRAIN DAMAGE, well, Being insane could mean so, but here's the real Brain Damage deal you must know.

BRAIN DAMAGING HABITS

1. No Breakfast
People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level.
This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.

2. Overeating
It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.

3. Smoking
It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.

4. High Sugar consumption
Too much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.

5. Air Pollution
The brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.

6. Sleep Deprivation
Sleep allows our brain to rest. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells.

7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.

8. Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.

9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.

10. Talking Rarely
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain.

Thank goodness I'm talkative.

Sleep early!

2009-04-15T10:35:00.004+08:00

I have always been wonderin' why parents FORCE their kids to sleep early?
Even when I was young, I don't want to go to bed because I know it will waste my playtime.
They don't want to get rid of their annoying children by putting them to slumber!
And even today, I slept so late and overslept again. I don't want to sound like a doctor here, but I think you should know;
So here's a forwarded email from my mum:

Reasons for sleeping and waking up early.

Evening at 9 - 11pm: is the time for eliminating unnecessary/ toxic chemicals (detoxification) from the antibody system (lymph nodes). This time duration should be spent by relaxing or listening to music. If during this time a housewife is still in an unrelaxed state such as washing the dishes or monitoring children doing their homework, this will have a negative impact on health.

Evening at 11pm - 1am: is the detoxification process in the liver, and ideally should be done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 1 - 3am: detoxification process in the gall, also ideally done in a deep sleep state.

Early morning 3 - 5am: detoxification in the lungs. Therefore there will sometimes be a severe cough for cough sufferers during this time. Since the detoxification process had reached the respiratory tract, there is no need to take cough medicine so as not to interfere with toxin removal process.

Morning 5 - 7am: detoxification in the colon, you should empty your bowel.

Morning 7 - 9am: absorption of nutrients in the small intestine, you should be having breakfast at this time. Breakfast should be earlier, before 6:30am, for those who are sick.

Breakfast before 7:30am is very beneficial to those wanting to stay fit. Those who always skip breakfast, they should change their habits, and it is still better to eat breakfast late until 9 - 10am rather than no meal at all.
Sleeping so late and waking up too late will disrupt the process of removing unnecessary chemicals. Aside from that, midnight to 4:00 am is the time when the bone marrow produces blood. Therefore, have a good sleep and don't sleep late.

Tap Tap Revenge 2

2009-04-15T10:26:00.002+08:00

TAP TAP Revenge 2 is a music game created by Nate True, and developed and published by Tapulous for the iPhone OS in July 2008. But no worries, you could get it with your iPod Touch.

This game is so much like the Dance Dance Revolution and the Dance Maniax, only it is played with your tapping rhythm. It's so fun!

I've been so much hooked to this game! The multiplayer part is a cool one, and it is a good way to have a close moment with your crush!

So if you have your iPod Touch or iPhone, this is a must-have!

Apple iPod Touch 2G

2009-04-14T21:20:00.000+08:00

"An apple a day; keeps the doctor away."

Cut the crap.
Black Saturday 2009;
I got my first Apple iPod, and it's the new iPod Touch 2G.

3.5-inch (diagonal) widescreen Multi-Touch display
480-by-320-pixel resolution at 163 pixels per inch

Music playback time: Up to 36 hours when fully charged
Video playback time: Up to 6 hours when fully charged

SOUNDS COOL!

Okay, to be honest, I hate reading long paragraphs about revies because it only tends to misunderstand details. So I'll make this short and brief! :]

I got a 16 GB one for practical reasons,
It costs cheaper and you get just the right amount of memory.
You won't be able to play all your stuffs concerning the battery power!

I like this gadget so much, because...

It is WiFi Capable! And you could browse internet just like with your PC!
It is touch-screen, a new experience. And it's scratch-proof.
Cool features and apps.
Good Graphics!
I love the accelerometer!
Built-in Speakers!!!

I don't like the...

Fingerprint-prone Screen!
The scratch-prone back!
The fragile look.

If you're confused between an iPhone or an iPod Touch,
here's my opinion.

iPhone has a camera + iPod Touch + Phone features, that will consume more battery power. It is overpriced for a small memory! Let's say the 8GB costs way higher than the iPod Touch 8GB.
So iPod Touch plus a cameraphone works better for me!

"Touch my Body!" -iPod Touch.

BLAH

2009-04-14T21:08:00.002+08:00

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2009-03-02T20:36:00.000+08:00

2nd of March 2009

What a day?!

6:00 AM - The usual alarm time. I spent a little more extension to pay off the late sleeping time. Well, I reckoned it will just be an ordinary boring day. But I anticipated the photos from our Promenade. So a bit of a yay. I had a pack of zits at the right side of my cheek so I gotta put extra cure on it. I had porridge for breakfast, well the choices are rice porridge or oatmeal. I want something salty for the morning so I picked rice porridge. I arrived school at 7:20 with Klarenz walking towards the gate, but before then Don was asking for some coins to pay the tricycle.
Lemuel: Bye mum.
Don: Moi! Naa ka'y coins?
Lemuel: Wala! Papel lang.
Don: Sige na beh.
Lemuel: Wala lagi, basin si Renz.
Lemuel: Late na ta?
Renz: Wala pa oi!
(Looks at the clock: Minute hand on 4)
Renz: Dugay mi nakauli gabii bah, 11 na.
Lemuel: Oh, Dokyu?
Renz: O!
Lemuel: Wala pa mi kastart. Gahh.
Social came, social went.
English came. We weren't prepared for the report.
Lovely: Oy! Di pa man ta ready.
Lemuel: Sige, ingnan nako.
Lemuel: Sir could we have our reporting tomorrow? We're quite unprepared yet.
Sir Alf: Okay, Exchange your notebooks!
Recess went on, with 5 minutes deprivation.
We had our radio drama.
Kulas - Me;
Celing - Christa;
Sioning - Pia;
Teban & Castor - Alexys
Oh well.
Happy Birthday song!
Discuss. Discuss. Life stories. Jokes. Life stories.
Well, it went ookay.
Math - Christa and Darvin.
Quiz.
Lunch
"Oy! Naa na ang pictures!"
Getting pics.
Bill = 600; Haggle down to 500.
+60 for another 3 :]
But should have paid 800 for all of 'em.
MCDO treat by Tris.
Bin, Paul & Me.
Thanks Tris.
Moccha Sundae.
ComSci - Do While Loop
TLE - Recycling
Chem - Recycling Plastics
A kiddo surprise! :)
MAPEH - LOL 'should've been'
Billy was supposed to report then we requested for a free time.
"I would like to congratulate Lemuel...."
"Naiinis ako..."
"I know what he felt..."
"Para syang ako... Competitive..."
(YELLS LIKE FOREST WILD BEASTS)
"OMFG. Wth? :))"
"Well, si Moi lang ang nakakaalam..."
"I'm really feminish, but I like girls."
"Whom do you like?"
(Insert story about Miriam here)
"So sino na?"
"I don't wanna risk the friendship"
Girls pledge.
"Who do you want?"
"Twinkle"
"Okay. Right"
(Crazy people)
"OMFG."
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So yeah.
T_X
Bin knows what happened next :))
And sinabi ko sa kanya na gusto ko sya? Is it right?