Oroquieta City Fiesta Parade

A king is a symbol of the nation's unity seeing themselves as better dressed, better looking, center of attention and most virtuous of all.

Rituals provide means in which they can express their feelings and their sense of great religious occasions.

Body and spirit moving in unison in a dance to appease the spirits in a traditional and romantic ritual  associated with monarchy.

What we need are good people's good governance by imitating God. Kings, absolute or constitutional, and dictators  have provided and can provide good governance without losing the common touch.  

A long time ago, the semi-divine force found in various emblems as the sword, the orb, the scepter and the crown means absolute power delivered from the altar of God by his servants to the king who by virtue of that, may imprison or behead anybody without trial, tax people without their knowledge, or make peace or war without the permission of the people.

The king is the absolute master, above the law and everybody fell on their knees before addressing him. Certain countries having Absolute Monarchies like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Brunei, Oman, Qatar and Swaziland and Great Britain with 29 others having constitutional monarchy retain their rulers that seem permanently established and more are coming according to the signs including Royal Families that appears homely, good natured, friendly, considering themselves glorified and idealized, better dressed, better looking, richer, wiser, and popularly virtuous.

Why does a bride like dressing up in white satin gowns embellished with colorful accents that go with it? It is no doubt partly for the show and also because the wedding is the crucial event in her life and those of millions like her. She is promising herself for life to the man she loves. Signing at the bottom of the civil register does not adequately express this but a religious ceremony and ritual does. Human beings feel that serious emotion and important event should be bodily expressed with the spirit intertwined in the ritual that fully satisfies.

Modern life lack so much that people feel and experience certain amount of frustrations and as a consequence they readily join any club or troupe which involves them in dressing up in some way however unbecoming and performing ritual acts however undignified. They respond more to the romantic and traditional ritual associated with monarchy in which the church can better demonstrate.

Hero worship is innate in humans and if there is no provision for that like a king which history have proven to be healthy as Christ The King, they have a substitute like Hitler.

In a modern democratic society and setting, this kind of autocratic monarchy is completely out of harmony except in the entertainment realm of a fiesta or other occasions and certain exceptions, we have the right to choose our government and get rid of corrupt ones as we please.

OROQUIETA CITY, PHILIPPINES (MY BIRTHPLACE)

 

"WE DON'T SEE THINGS AS THEY ARE, WE SEE THEM AS WE ARE."  -A. Nin

SOMEWHERE HIGH ON THOSE MOUNTAINS GROW A LOT OF WILD STRAWBERRIES THAT HAS IN THEM POWERFUL ANTIOXIDANTS THAT HEALS ALL MALADIES THAT SOME VERY EXPENSIVE ANTIBIOTICS CANNOT - AND ITS HERE IN OROQUIETA CITY.  

 SUBANONS THAT LIVE IN THE VERY FAR MOUNTAINS OF OROQUIETA  CAN HEAL  MYSTERIOUS AILMENTS THAT ARE HARD TO DIAGNOSE. MAYBE GENETIC DEFECTS OR OTHER DISORDERS,  AND IF LEFT UNTREATED, COULD BE A FRIGHTHENING  THING TO LIVE WITH.  THEY (SUBANONS) COULD MINIMIZE DISEASE BURDENS AND IMPROVE A QUALITY OF LIFE  WHICH TO MANY CRITICS MIGHT BE QUACKERY BUT LEFT MOST WHO HAPPEN TO BE WITNESSES - AMAZED FOR THE FIRST TIME.

 

"MOST OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS IN THE WORLD HAVE BEEN ACCOMPLISHED BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE KEPT ON TRYING WHEN THERE SEEMED TO HAVE NO HOPE AT ALL." D. Carnegie

 

"OUR LIFE'S JOURNEY OF SELF DISCOVERY IS NOT A STRAIGHT LINE RISE FROM ONE LEVEL OF CONCIOUSNESS TO ANOTHER INSTEAD IT IS A SERIES OF STEEP CLIMBS AND FLAT PLATEAUS, THEN FURTHER CLIMBS. EVEN THOUGH WE ALL APPROACH THE JOURNEY FROM DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, CERTAIN OF THE JOURNEY'S CHARACTERISTICS ARE COMMON TO ALL OF US." -S. Wilde

 

"THE TRUE VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY CONSIST NOT OF SEEKING NEW LANDSCAPES, BUT 

 HAVING NEW EYES."  -M. Maltz

FROM THIS FOTO...

UP TO THIS, SHOW  THE CLEANEST RIVER WATER IN THE PHILIPPINES THAT IS IN OROQUIETA CITY.

("IF YOU LOOK TO OTHERS FOR FULFILLMENT, YOU WILL NEVER BE FULFILLED. IF YOUR HAPPINESS DEPENDS ON MONEY, YOU WILL NEVER BE HAPPY WITH YOURSELF. BE CONTENT WITH WHAT YOU HAVE; REJOICE IN THE WAY THINGS ARE. WHEN YOU REALIZE THERE IS NOTHING LACKING, THE WORLD BELONGS TO YOU."  -L. Tzu)

  

"THE HISTORY OF FREE MEN  IS NEVER REALLY WRITTEN BY CHANCE BUT BY CHOICE; THEIR CHOICE!" -D. Eisenhower

THESE PICTURES SHOWING  SHORES...

 

UP TO THIS IS WHAT SOME USED TO BE IN SOME RECENT PAST. CHANGE WAS SO SWIFT SO AS IT TURNED INTO THIS IN ONLY A FEW WEEKS TIME.

("MORE THAN ANYTHING ELSE, I BELEIVE IT'S OUR DECISIONS, NOT THE CONDITIONS OF OUR LIVES, THAT DETERMINE OUR DESTINY.")

THAT HABITATS WERE LOST FOR THIS DELICACY THAT I USED TO HAVE  EVERYTIME THE TIDE WAS LOW. WHAT A VERY HIGH PRICE TO PAY FOR PROGRESS!

INCLUDING THIS

MAYBE BY LEAVING FOR ANOTHER VENUE WE COULD FIND SOMETHING HOPEFULLY BRIGHT ...

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"IF YOU WISH TO TRAVEL FAR AND FAST, TRAVEL LIGHT. TAKE OFF ALL YOUR ENVIES, YOUR JEALOUSIES, UN-FORGIVENESS, SELFISHNESS AND FEARS." G. Clark

AT LAST, WE ARE IN ANOTHER VENUE BUT WHERE ARE THE COCONUT TREES THAT USED TO DARKEN THIS PIECE OF LAND WITH THEIR SHADE TURNING DAYTIME INTO NIGHT?

"A LIFE LIVED WITH INTEGRITY EVEN IF IT LACKS THE TRAPPINGS OF FAME AND FORTUNE IS A SHINNING STAR IN WHOSE LIGHT OTHERS MAY FOLLOW IN THE YEARS TO COME." -D. Waitly

RUEL AND KRISHAN

THE BEST SECURITY BLANKET CHILDREN CAN HAVE ARE PARENTS WHO RESPECT EACH OTHER.

IF YOU CAN, HELP OTHERS; IF YOU CANNOT DO THAT, AT LEAST DO NOT HARM THEM.

THE OLD BELIEVE EVERYTHING, THE MIDDLE-AGED SUSPECT EVERYTHING, THE YOUNG KNOW EVERYTHING,  -O Wilde

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA

PRESIDENT BARRACK OBAMA



President Barack Obama's move in increasing the benefits of poor Filipino WWII U.S. Veterans, his beer drinking session with ordinary human beings in times of stress and controversy showcase enough evidence how he focus himself on people and his camaraderie - a mark of a true leader.


It is one of the many reasons why he got the Nobel Peace Prize that he deserves and not his lousy, overbearing, biased, unfriendly, stupid, artificially intelligent, good for nothing critics who only know how to destroy, blame, lie and maliciously fabricate negative things instead of helping build a wonderful world for their children and grandchildren.

HEALTHY PATHOGEN-FREE INTERIOR INNOVATION

Experts believe there are about 1600 species of naturally growing bamboos around the world and 64% are in the Southeast Asian region. 33% in the Latin American region and the 7% is in Africa and Oceania regions of the world.

For centuries in the Philippines, especially in the hinterlands, this grass called bamboo, is the poor man's building material, readily available all the time and cheaper too. They even cook food, stock food and keep valuables in it. Bamboo poles as long as seven feet are utilized as water containers fetched from a nearby spring and some as long as a meter are used as containers for gathering coconut wine and some as long as 6 inches are bamboo mugs used to drink the coconut wine from. The poor people using them are found consistently disease free and healthy because it is discovered just recently by scientists that bamboo can kill a number of bacterial species at the rate of 99.8% on a longer span of time and has a deodorizing effect owing to its bamboo kun composition and its Lyocell fiber surpasses that of a wood Lyocell fiber on the negative ion effect and antibacterial property. It is purely organic and non-toxic in nature - (absence of pesticide and inorganic fertilizer inputs to make it mature in three years unlike trees that takes in at least fifty years. Cutting trees allows the danger of us losing underground water reserves in the long run.)

In designing interior spaces, bamboo, due to its natural anti-bacterial property, can be an appropriately suitable material to use and not only that, it is a perfectly healthy alternative at this modern age and time where mysterious maladies like SARS and A(H1N1) scare and worry everyone. It can be used as a germ killing, hygienic, sterile and clean walling materials and flooring, furnitures; cabinetry and tables in bedrooms, bamboo breadbaskets for serving bread in the dining room and on picnics and baskets for storing soiled linens, clothings and undergarments. Its fabric, having 3 times longer lifespan than cotton, can be used as a germ killing wall cloth, pillowcases, blankets, bedsheets, curtains, clothing materials for surgical people and patients in hospitals where 99% possible cross contamination is always present, can be a perfect undergarment material, in socks and shirts, in towels and bathrobes, and practically the list is quite lenghty. No longer can it be called a poor man's material for building but really a perfect one if we aspire for a sanitary, high tech and innovative interior space and household items - the perfect choice for an operating room grade interior space and a truly healthy lifestyle in this day and age where there are no more easy answers regarding health care.

MIKHAEEL JACKSON

Everytime a finger, a hand, an arm, a leg, a shoe or his whole body is moved thru his own music in a dance on a stage, a beautiful poetry is seen and everyone feels great- really great. Some people vividly become a bit insane-they also awkwardly dance and shout - singing - though minus the right tune, some do it all in their imagination in secret, some just stare with mouths widely open, some cry like babies and others do faint. Dancing is an athletic endeavor but to be a dancer it takes an artist. Only one can do it- only Mikhaeel because God allowed him to do so with that gift.

Now that he is on another plane of existence, he may be seen singing and walking on the moon and maybe his next venue is the sun among the stars in heaven. Who knows?

DEMOCRACY, INDEPENDENCE and LIBERTY

Freedom is the very essence of our democracy. The state of being FREE rather than in confinement or under physical restraint, exemption from external control, interference, regulation, etcetera. Personal liberty as opposed to bondage, dictatorship or slavery, exemption from ties and obligation.

Governments are put in place to serve the needs of the people and ensure that their basic inalienable and undeniable rights are protected. Among these are, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness with the aid of almighty God, and in order to build a just and honest society that shall embody the peoples ideals and aspirations, promote the common good, conserve and develop the patrimony of the nation, and secure to the people and their posterity the blessings of independence and democracy under the rule of law and a regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality, and peace...(FOR THOSE WHO HAVE FALLEN IN IRAN FOR DEMOCRACY, LET THIS BE KNOWN TO ALL MEN THAT THEIR LIVES HAVE NOT BEEN IN VAIN, THEY HAVE SPOKEN AND HEARD, THEY HAVE SHOWN HOW COSTLY DEMOCRACY IS. WE WHO ARE THE LIVING, KNOW WHAT TO DO! THIS WOULD BE LONG AND SLEEPLESS NIGHTS FOR US KEEPING VIGIL. MAY THE DEMOCRATIC POWER BE WITH YOU ALL.)

I find it hard to understand why some leaders (maybe in the middle of their midlife crisis) are insisting to oppose some of the less fortunate people's choice to pursue their own little happiness by way of legally betting pick 3 lotto with the purpose of finding a glimmer of hope there. - ( one sure thing that I'm sure of whenever there is evidence confusion is the presence of Free Radicals in the body. ANTIOXIDANTS can take care of that - no problem!