A prayer and a flower for the cyclone hit Burma

It was Friday, May 30, 2008, I just got in the office sweating and rushing to avoid being late, I received a spam email from one of my staff. After so many times of informing him that corporate emails shoul donly be used for business purposes, I received another one.

I was pretty frustrated receiving this email without a subject again from the same person. When I opened it, I was warned by this opening message "I'm forwarding this, but please do not open if you can't handle the graphics!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After the message were series of pictures that shocked me.


I've heard about this in the news yet I didn't pay attention to it. I felt like I have a lot of problems already to take care of and I don't need anymore additions. I never thought that the tragedy was this devastating.

BBC News Asia-Pacific in its world news report online which came out on May 22 mentioned that "About 78,000 people have died and another 56,000 are missing." I felt really bad about what happened. My anger for the person who sent me this email faded and sent him a reply saying my thank you.


I kept still and silent for a moment, offered my prayer to the victims and their loved ones and thank God for all the blessings that He has given me. I just thought that there are so many things which I forgot to thank Him for. There are so many people who lost their lives in that tragedy and I'm so fortunate that all of us in my family are safe.

I encourage everyone who have read and is currently reading this article to please offer your prayers to Burma for them to survive this tragedy and rebuild their lives as a nation. We can all do our own small ways to make it a reality.

PHOTOS FROM: malaysianindian1.blogspot.com

Flowers for the cyclone hit Burma

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Ninoy Aquino Parks and Wildlife

I can't understand why harmless animals need cage. I can't understand why people want them caged if they could freely navigate the skies and continue the biodiversity and maintain the ecological balance that they are tasked to do!

Are they really endangared or we're just thinking that they are so we could justify our greedy thoughts of earning money from them by showcasing their clueless figures in our zoos. Pathetic!!!

A Lonely Memory

I'm sitting right here

Waiting for someone to come

I'm here...keep on wondering...

That a miracle would shed me on

As I am waiting, I feel sadness

I feel emptiness

Why?

Why am I along this shattered feeling?

Is there someone or even something...

One who or which might help?

One who could mend my broken heart?

I hope and wish...

I can't think.

My mind is frozen by coldness...

My heart is torn down by sadness...

Unaware that I'm drowning

Lonely.

I'm not so sure now.

Word's can't explain why.

Senses couldn't even guess...

Numb.

I'm in a nightmare.

Countless of times...

A fairytale has ended.

Scents and Blossoms

Taho

Inhabitants of underdeveloped nations and victims of natural disasters are the only people who have ever been happy to see soy beans”
Faster than fast food. Better than junks!

that brought such a laugh! there are kids from so-called developed countries whose eyes light up when they see tofu. there are nutritionists from europe and america who have established soy products in the system and who have made this bean product quite well known and very palatable to their co-continent-mates.

putting all of my initial reaction aside, i would also like to say... i love taho. hahahaha. going back home every so often, i still ask the manang or my brothers to call me as soon as they hear a taho vendor on the streets. yes, i think it is healthier than most junk food around. and yes, i also suspect it's not prepared as hygenic as we would have wanted. and yes, i find it quite an inexpensive pleasure.

to stand on the street, watch the man ladle in the taho, the arnibal, the sago... makes me appreciate the way we view time: something to use towards our advantage. and watching something put together, knowing how good it's going to taste after the wait, that makes me all philosophical, too.

the soft light in your pic reminds me of slow afternoons, chatting with friends or family or neighbors, watching the world settle into the night. i like your choice of colors, too. very soothing to the eyes.

you made a beautiful still of something a lot of filipinos can relate to. well done. =) - purplbutrfly