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Early Sunday morning while I was biking I took some shots at Marcelo Fernan Bridge a bridge connecting Lapu-Lapu City to Mandaue City and captured some landscape scenery of quasi-industrial and vaguely technological ambience of Lapu-Lapu City, Mandaue City and Cebu City. Speaking of progress , to some it means improvement or a change for the better and until it reach the stage that this so called progress worsens and threatens to destroy the world we are living and realize that this man made wonders are deemed curse I guess it's the only time we'll say "We have to stop this progress" and realize it is too late.
I watched an arnis tournament at Gaisano Grandmall, Students mostly in their highschool were playing the sport type of arnis, it is organized by Arnis Philippines and the group Magkuno Diamond Back Eskrima. I had a great talk with the Supreme Grand Master of Magkuno Diamond Back Eskrima, Ernesto "Erning" Berdin, his background in eskrima was Doce Pares the late Larry Alquizar and the late Momoy Canete were his mentors who taught him about eskrima. He also told me that the sport of Arnis is like a "Dawat-dawat you hit and you'll be hit, it is a sport but in real life you shouldn't be hit by the opponent at all, when an opponent strike you hit him back with 4-5 strikes" . I shook his hand as I went home and thank him for still being passionate with eskrima and teaching it to the next generation. I took some pictures of the tournament. pls. check them out... Just been to Allan Defensor's house at Mambaling, Cebu City, a friend who is raising honey bees, we've been invited to see his bee colonies, lots of honey bee were flying around his backyard, he became interested in raising honey bee when he met a couple who is raising Apis Melifera Capensis or Cape Honey Bees at Lapu-Lapu City, Cape Honey bees are the gentlest species of honey bees. Honeys are sold at 600.00Php per liter, the best time for the Cape honey bees to produce honey is during dry season, because it is their convenient time to fly, explore, and pollinate. Bees only attacks when they sense fear, bees are territorial, in a picture below I did captured a bee bit an ant because they are very protective of their colony, a bee sting can also be therapeutic, the use of bee venom to treat cancer patients has gained popularity over the years. Each box houses a bee colony, which consists of a queen, nurse bees, engineers, scout bees, guard bees and even carpenters.
This language of ours is like any other,
it once had an alphabet and its own letters that vanished as though a tempest had set upon a boat on a lake in a time now long gone. "To My Fellow Children”, attributed to Jose Rizal, 1869 Baybayin is a pre-spanish Philippine writing system. The word baybayin is a Tagalog term that refers to all the letters used in writing a language, that is to say, an “alphabet” – although, to be more precise, the baybayin is more like a syllabary. It is from the root baybáy meaning, “spell.” Nowadays we can see baybayin used in tattoos, grafittis, artwork etc. for more info about baybayin please visit these links: http://www.baybayin.com http://www.mts.net/~pmorrow/bayeng1.htm#literacy I woke up early dawn today, fix myself up and ride a bicycle from Lapu-Lapu City to Mandaue City, I went to 711 store at Tabok, Mandaue City to buy something and while I got out of the store I saw my fraternity brods on 2 trucks also on a relief operation, they were going also to north particularly Daan Bantayan, I greeted them with a handshake and they left as I wait for my bicycle group to go to Medellin for our relief operation, while I'm waiting I was happy to see several groups going north, even though the national news focused more at Tacloban fellow Cebuano's are are really aware that our fellow Cebuano's from the North were also devastated by the storm Yolanda/Haiyan when it made it's landfall on Cebu. Trees that are standing lost its leaves, some fell down, houses turned to pieces, roofs are gone, people on the streets to beg for relief, it was a sad scenery of the aftermath of Yolanda. Behind those that happened positivism is just around, the smiles of the people you had helped, giving without expecting in return, the so called "Bayanihan" spirit, but most importantly the "LOVE", the love that is not selfish, the love that brings hope to those who are in despair, the love that can make a change for the common good. And please don't stop those who criticize the Government for we all know where our Government fail and one's feeling cannot be stopped, it's like a water from a river that is constantly flowing, try to stop it and it would overflow from the part where it is contained. The storm was worse but politicalamity was worst, we all saw it after the storm and if we all would not learn, history will always repeat itself. And lastly as a human being who lives on Earth, the battle for global warming is now.
Two centuries ago there is a debate on what exactly was sound raging the intellectual salons of Europe. "If a tree falls in the forest," ask the 18th Century thinkers, "and no one is there to hear it, will there be a sound?" "Of course," said the physicists, who were then struggling to measure, analyze and identify everything around them. "Sound consists of a certain physical events which may which may take place whether someone is there to hear them or not. Sound is an organized movement of molecules caused by a vibrating body in some medium water, air, rock or whatever." "of course not," said the philosophers who were questioning all of nature in the search for a"real" world. "Sound is a sensation , known only to the mind of the listener - a sensory experience which we can relate to our physical and emotional lives. Nowadays people would just sit back and google the internet or search the wikipedia and alas Sound according to wikipedia is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations. This question still puzzles people today - and puzzles them to no purpose ( a physical vibration of some material thing) with an effect ( a physiological sensation in the animal brain). and which of the two is sound? Both. In the bible, St. John's Gospel tells us: "In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, The ancient Hindu scriptures, the Vedas describe creation beginning with the sacred sound "Ohm" and the sound "Ah"which is present in the names we use for God across the reigious spectrum such as Yahweh, Jehovah, Allah, Ra, Krishna, Jah, Ras Tafari, Bathala. Such theories say that God sent forth sound, and sound vibrated against sound at different frequencies, which produce patterns and structure, as more and more poured into the structures they became denser, eventually creating matter and it is the foundation upon which everything is built. Sound, we often talk about it but we live with it, the music that we hear, even in the silent depths of our imagination we still imagine word and sounds, a powerful instrument that we have which is ours alone and that is our voice which holds the vibration of our heart's energy, it resonates with everything you are in that moment. You can even send its vibrations silently from within you and it will still have a powerful effect. sound healing... CHAKRA SOUND CHART Each chakra vibrates at a different frequency, from the lowest/deepest/slowest frequency at the root to the highest/fastest at the crown – with each chakra having its own sound, just like it has its own color. Sound is vibration. Music and sound, good or bad, influence us and impact our energy systems. Sound, either as music, musical notes or chanting can be used for chakra balancing – repetition supports bringing the bodymind-soul complex into a meditative state, where healing occurs, and creates a continuous vibrational environment. Visualization with the associated chakra color while using sound can deepen & amplify the experience. CHAKRA-COLOR-TONE-GLAND-VOWEL 7 Crown Violet-Magenta- B - Pineal- EEE (High) 6 Brow Blue-Violet -A- Pituitary -EEE (or I) 5 Throat Turquoise -G- Thyroid -EH 4 Heart Green -F#- Thymus -AH 3 Solar Plexus Yellow -E- Liver-Pancreas -OH 2 Belly Orange -D- Spleen-Adrenals -OOO 1 Root Red -C- Ovaries-Gonads -UH The depth and pitch increase with each chakra note or mantra sound, with the deepest sound and lowest pitch at the root, and the highest at the crown, with the intermediate chakras calibrated between then. Notes start at middle C. Bija is the Sanskrit word for the sound essence of the chakra (its seed). Focus your attention on the chakra as you make its sound, either as a note, vowel or mantra sound. Vowel or mantra seed can be repeated or chanted 3 or more times. Sounds may be soft and gentle - they do not have to be loud. You do not have to be able to carry a tune or sing to sound the chakra notes – you can sound them silently or aloud. Each chakra sound, for 1 or 2, or up to 5 minutes each, starting at the root, can be chanted as part of a sound meditation chakra balancing exercise. You would focus on the chakra as you sound the associated note, and you can add visualiziation of the associated color to enhance the meditation. We were on a ride, me and my highschool buddy Christian Maningo was riding our Dahon classic foldable bike to discover the adventure of the man called "Leon Kilat". Pantaleón Villegas y Soldi (July 27, 1873 – April 8, 1898) better known as León Kilat ("Lightning León" in Cebuano), was a revolutionary leader in Cebu during the Philippine Revolution against Spain. At the heart of Carcar, Cebu a sculpture of Leon Kilat made by sculptor Sarmiento, Roman (II) with a scripture “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.” on the left side which is a Horatian ode that means "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country." and on the right side of the statue etched a scripture saying "Your nation's heart, your grave will be, your monument, a nation free" a quote from Caroline Atherton Mason, to honor Abraham Lincoln. The quote here substituted Nation for People which was her original. Leon Kilat's Anting-Anting displayed at Museo Sugbo The local revolutionaries came up with a psychological tactic to strengthen their resolve to fight the Spaniards. Relatives in Bacong, Negros Oriental would testify that Leon Kilat had the uncanny ability to appear in places from seemingly out of nowhere and disappear, using his handkerchief like a magic carpet. Thus the name "Kilat" (lightning). Kilat willingly told his fellow Katipuneros his secret anting-anting. First was the vistidora, a chasuble-like cloth worn over one's clothes. Printed on it were symbolic words and religious pictures and corrupted Latin and Spanish words and phrases. The frontal part of the vistidora had the image of God the Father at the upper portion. It also had images of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, heads of the Three Persons, the heads of the 12 Apostles, angels, archangels and seraphims carrying swords and chalices. Corrupted Latin and Spanish words that appeared on the cloth were Cruz passion y muerte cruz de Cristo salva mi tress Ave Maria, Adit Dium Empacturom en visto virgo Jesus Jesus. The back part of the clothing also bore the image of God the Father at the uppermost portion. The images of [St. James the Apostle] and St. Michael, both riding horses and carrying swords, occupied the lower part. The center lowermost portion was the palm of the right hand which had the usual Latin and Spanish inscriptions. Another amulet was a triangle-shaped clothing inscribed with several words and numbers. It was divided into nine smaller triangles. Gibison Gaodio magnobaldi contra bala epica egosom pactom Dominom Diom Pactom Jesom Pleom Tom Jesus were some of the words found in that piece of clothing. This was wound around the katipunero's head to shield him from head injuries. A substitute was a small triangular piece of cloth or paper on which the magical words have been written. This was attached to the brim of the hat. A third clothing, about two finger breadths in width, had the image of an angel carrying a kris, with the following Spanish words: Salvate Deus, Los que defienden de la patria como nuestro defensa en la patria celestial contra los demonios. The local katipuneros were also made to place inside their mouths a round piece of paper about the size of one peso, with the following words inscribed in the center: Hiesus lamuroc milano. Around the paper were written: Panes teurom nam butrates luz itirre quetram bobis viva buturiam. At the other side of that paper was written the letters K.K.K. It was called hostia redentora and believed to be powerful in preventing feelings of hunger or thirst during a long fight or long journey. Francisco Ma. Labrador was the young katipunero from San Nicolas whom Leon Kilat entrusted the task of writing the magical formulae. Labrador used wooden stamp marker to hasten his task. Others who helped him with this task were Elpidio Rama, Anastacio Rama and Simplicio Alaura. It was Rama who was assigned by Kilat the task of giving out the correct measure and appearance of the vistidora. There were precautions in wearing the anting-anting. All those who were given these objects were repeatedly warned not to carry money or other metal objects, aside from their weapons, and not to allow themselves to be touched by women. If they do not follow these they would lose the effectiveness of the anting-anting . Few Filipinos know that on April 3, 1898, Pantaleon Villegas who was known by his nom de guerre as "Leon Kilat" (he originally came from Negros Oriental) fought the Spanish troops along the corner of what is now known as Tres de Abril and V. Rama Ave. in Cebu City and routed them. The Spaniards retreated to the safety of Ft. San Pedro (A picture of Fort San Pedro with m black bike on the side) and holed out there for four long days, while Leon Kilat's revolutionaries had full control of Cebu City. "Tana, moalsa kita karong adlawa. Kadtong saad ayaw na'g hulata, dili ta kini palabyong adlawa. Kay usa ka gutlo nga paglangan, libo ka dupa ang kadaugan sa atbang." (Come, let us start the uprising today. Let's not wait for the promised help, we will not let this day pass. A moment wasted means a thousand steps victory for the enemy.) - Leon Kilat By early morning Thursday, April 7, unknown to Katipuneros, the cruiser Don Juan Austria chartered merchant steamer Churruca arrived from Manila. Aboard were loyalist troops commanded by Gen. Celestino Fernandez Tejeiro. These were seasoned veterans. Sensing that they were up against a better-armed enemy, the Katipuneros started a retreat, with a lot of them finally looking for refuge in the mountains of Cebu. They abandoned their positions in the city. Those from Lutao joined the large group from Recolletos and took positions beyond the Forbes bridge. The cruiser would later drive them off by massive bombardment, leaving behind a good number of casualties. The massive attacks forced the Katipunan forces to disperse outside the city. A group led by Leon Kilat proceeded to Kabkab (Carcar), thinking that because there was a group there, they would not starve. Kabkab was also far from the sea, thus making it difficult for the ships to bombard them. Little did Kilat suspect that his retreat would end tragically. The retreat of the katipuneros from San Nicolas and the city paved the way for the widespread arrests and executions of other civilians, whether or not they were involved in katipunan. But of all the katipuneros who met their end, it was their leader Leon Kilat who died most tragically not only for the manner of his death but for the betrayal by one of his men in Carcar on April 8, 1898. Even before the katipuneros’ arrival in that southern town, Kabkab (Carcar) residents already learned of their defeat at the hands of the Spaniards, following the arrival of reinforcements from Manila. They had mixed feelings about accepting Leon Kilat, afraid of retaliation from their Spanish masters. Kabkab leaders, like kapitan Florencio Noel (Tan Insyong), Timoteo Barcenilla, kapitan Kadyo Jaen, kapitan Jacinto Velez, kapitan Simeon Paras, told Andres Abellana: “Tell Kilat to finish fighting in Naga, not in Kabkab.” To which Abellana retorted: “Sa wa pa mosibog si Don Leon nganhi, ang mga tawo gipahibawo una nga anhi padangpon sa Kabkab kay anhi tapusa ang away. Ug karon nga anhi na ang mga tawo, malisud na ang pagsulti kanila sa tagsa-tagsa nga ang away adto usab tapusa sa laing dapit.” (Before Leon retreated here, people were informed that they should proceed to Carcar because the fight will end here. Now that people are here, it is difficult to tell them that the fight will be somewhere else.) Ang Dakong Balay ni Don Florencio Noel Built on 1874 the owners Don Florencio Noel and Filomena Jaen had their two-storey house constructed with strong materials of wood and stone to last for ages. It probably is the oldest house along Sta. Catalina street which is fronting the plaza, the church, convent, school and the municipal hall - an address which gives a hint to the Noel’s social standing at that time. The house wherein the murder plan for Leon Kilat was hatched. In the story of Vicente Alcoseba who was with the group of Kilat at that time, the plan to kill the latter was actually hatched at the confessional in the church. The coadjutor at the time, a Fr. Francisco Blanco who was teaching Latin at the Colegio-Seminario de San Carlos, would not meet kapitan Florencio Noel at the convent because it would be suspicious. Alcoseba said it was Blanco who suggested to Noel that the only way Kabkab (Carcar) could avoid the retaliation of the Spaniards was to kill Kilat. Little did Kilat suspect what would befall him that fateful Good Friday in 1898 in Carcar because when he arrived in the evening of Holy Thursday, he was accorded a courtesy due a visiting dignitary. First, he went to the house of kapitan Paras, then later transferred to the house of kapitan Tiyoy Barcenilla where he and his men were tendered goat’s meat, chicken and pork. After supper, he was offered coffee and ginebra at the sala. While his men were telling stories of the uprising in Cebu, he asked kapitan Tiyoy if he could call a tailor who could make a “traje de rayadillo” which had become the katipunan’s uniform. He wanted to change his clothes the next morning after he took a bath. Minutes later, a tailor named Segundo Alcordo came with his metrosan (a tailor’s tape measure) to take his measurements. Meantime, the plotters appeared ill at ease, said Alcoseba. Tiyoy Barcenilla could not stay put in his seat. Sometimes, he would confer with kapitan Kadyo at the back of the house and talk in whispers. Minutes later, he would shift to Kapitan Gundoy, as if something else was going on. Then Apolinario Alcuitas, a recruit of the katipunan in Kabkab, shouted for everyone to hear: “Mga kaigsoonan, ipahibalo ko kaninyo nga karong gabhiona, may ihawon akong kabayo.” (Brothers, I would like to announce that tonight I am going to slaughter a horse.) At that time, Alcoseba could not understand the meaning of all these.Since Leon Kilat was tired, it did not take long before sleep was in order. The room assigned to him was the one near the stairs of the five-bedroom house of Barcenilla. A son of the owner, Vicente, curious about Kilat’s exploits, had a brief talk with the latter. He was the last person to talk to him alive. For a while, Vicente and his uncle Mariano Alfafara talked for some minutes in the corridor outside the room occupied by Kilat. Very soon, they too, went to sleep in another room. Mariano was persuaded by Vicente to stay that night. Vicente would wake up a few hours later when he heard loud noises coming from Kilat’s room. He awakened Mariano and both went outside at once, only to be met by Florencio Noel coming up the stairs, carrying a huge crucifix and asking excitedly: “Naunsa na? Naunsa na?” (Has anything happened yet?) Then Noel shouted: “Viva Espa¤a! Viva España!” Several others outside the house responded.Vicente found the maid Kitay and both went inside Kilat’s room from where loud noises came. There he saw to his shock the limp body of Kilat being pinned down by eight men, with some of them taking turns at stabbing it. The skull had been earlier smashed with with the butt of Kilat’s own gun. “Buhi pa ba?” Vicente heard Vinsyong Cui ask. “Patay na intawon,” answered Kitay. Vicente who was speechless leaned against the wall, in shock. Then they took his body down the stairs till Cui told the other conspirators: “Ihunong. Ibutang una ninyo. Atong sulayan, ambi tuod dili ba dutlan.” (Stop. Put it down. Let’s see if he is invulnerable.) Each one took turns at stabbing the dead body and breaking some of his limbs. Then they carried Leon Kilat’s body to the center of the town where it was displayed for all residents to see. It was 5:00 early Friday morning. In 1926, Leon Kilat’s remains were found along several others. The top-most part of his skull is missing. By virtue of a resolution by the municipal government of Bacong on August 2, 1926 the bones of Leon Kilat were transferred and finally laid to rest in his hometown of Bacong. The legend and memory of Pantaleon Villegas, known as Leon Kilat still stands tall and a monument in his honor has been erected right in the heart of his hometown in Bacong, Negros Oriental. A picture of my bike at the door of "Dakong Balay ni Don Florencio Noel"
“No one lights a lamp and puts it in a place where it will be hidden, or under a bowl. Instead he puts it on its stand, so that those who come in may see the light.” - Luke 8:16 Light is everywhere in our world. We need it to see, it carries information from the world to our eyes and brains. In the Book of Genesis, the Bible uses the symbol of light 263 times. Nothing is so commonplace, and yet so little understood, as light. The rainbow of colors that we perceive with our eyes is but a small fraction of light's wavelength. The Jews of Christ's time did not share our knowledge of invisible ultra violet light, infra red light, x-rays, gamma rays, radio waves or microwaves – mysterious properties that we gauge only with the help of sophisticated scientific instruments. To the Jewish way of thinking, light was simply the absence of darkness. To keep the light burning, they had to fill their lamps with oil and trim the wicks. They couldn't flip a switch, press a button or insert a battery; they had to attend to their lamps faithfully. Especially in their darkest hours. Jesus uses the light cast from a lamp stand to to describe how his disciples are to live in the light of truth and love. “The caterpillar dies so the butterfly could be born. And, yet, the caterpillar lives in the butterfly and they are but one." It is often said that butterflies are seen when the soul departs, since ancient times, the winged form of a butterfly was a symbol for the human soul. One conversation with my elder brother he said that "the butterfly was there not because it is the soul of the departed but the soul was there, it is just that the butterfly can't resist the scent of the soul that is why they are there." When a close fraternity brother of mine died when he was murdered almost a year ago, 8 hours after he died on Sept. 25, 2012 his soul came to our house this may sound not real to others but it happened, when my mother told me someone is in our door and it is brother Giovy I went to the door and cried because I already knew and have received messages that brother Giovy already passed that same day and as I approached the door I said "Bro..." I heard no voice or response but the door opened by itself and he left a rosary hanging at our door, my mother witnessed all that had happened that day as I went out crying and rode my bike to where the body of a friend was. My mother told me that when I left a butterfly was in our house for an hour. A brother left me a message in a form of a rosary, 10 white beads and a cross, which I gave to his brother also a fraternity brother of mine "Gavin", his message was so simple "Prayer" and "Peace", I do not understand his message yet during that time because we are so devastated of what happened but it became clearer in days to come. Some say it is a frat war so some are claiming for it but if the rival fraternity was involved why is it that it is only Brod Giovy who was gunned down and those brods who were with him were not, I still salute brod Giovy for his message to me because if not for his message many lives will be lost, and lately it is sad to know that those who are involve in Brod Giovy's murder were the bad eggs in our fraternity and were those who are claiming for a frat war. Our prayers overcome the evil. In ancient Greek the word for butterfly is "Psyche", which translated means "soul". Moreover, there is an Irish saying, “Butterflies are souls of the dead waiting to pass through purgatory.” In addition, as there are three steps of metamorphosis in a butterfly’s life, that is, caterpillar, pupa and winged insect, it also represents spiritual evolution and transformation. In the Christian religion, the metamorphosis a butterfly undergoes is symbolic of the spiritual evolution all Christians go through. Butterflies represent rebirth and a new beginning. For Christians, it is considered a soulful symbol. Whenever I visit brother Giovy's burial ground it is always a surprise to me that I was accompanied by butterflies a month ago I was accompanied by 3 white butterflies going to his burial ground and yesterday as I visited him to offer a prayer a brown butterfly appeared and accompanied me as I went out his burial grounds. The butterfly exists in four distinct forms. The fertilized egg is planted in our mother's womb. From our day of birth we are like the caterpillar which can only eat and creep along. At death we are like the dormant pupa in its chrysalis. After that, our consciousness emerges from the cast off body, and some see in this the emergence of the butterfly. Therefore, the butterfly is symbolic of rebirth after death. Garland of Roses Jay Dilan July 1, 2013 And through a soul of a friend you came to me A cross and a single white decade of beads Which is also refered to as chaplets A message of prayer and a symbol of peace And so it change a view of my perception of what life really is A sequence of prayer was prayed A commemoration of the greatest story ever told A participation in the life of a mother Whose focus was her Son And shows the one road to the Father And through the garland of roses A light has shine upon me A light that cloaked me with a powerful armor And so the body may die but the soul will not perish As Sacred Scripture tells us, "For my yoke is sweet and my burden light." |
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