Sunday, December 30, 2007

A song for the coming New Year

Clara's Eyes
Side A

Someday
This world will be a better place to stay
Oh, I believe someday
All our hopes and dreams
Will come to pass away

Chorus:
I believe that through the sun that’s been shinin’
All the stars at night will agree
And when the mornin' comes
There's light of hope
Will shine it's way to all our hearts
I believe, for I see it in Clara’s eyes

Someday
We will hear the children's laughter in the air
Oh I believe someday
We will have a taste of heaven
In this world where we stay

Chorus:
I believe that through the sun that’s been shinin’
All the stars at night will agree
And when the mornin' comes
There's light of hope
Will shine its way to all our hearts
I believe, for I see it in Clara’s eyes

Bridge:
If we can just see the hope in a child’s eyes
(Clara’s eyes)
All the hopes and dreams
(Can easily be foreseen
By those who's faith in Him)
If we just believe

Chorus:
I believe that through the sun that’s been shinin’
All the stars at night will agree
And when the mornin' comes
There's light of hope
Will shine its way to all our hearts
I believe, for I see it in Clara’s eyes
(Clara’s eyes)
I believe, for I see it in Clara’s eyes
I believe, for I see it in Clara’s eyes

Ending:
I believe that there is hope
I believe that there is love
I believe His light will shine in every generation
(repeat till fade)
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Friday, December 28, 2007

Doy's Christmas Gift


Doy's Christmas gift to me is a commuter bike. Frame is a second hand, old school GT Palomar, single speed! It's light (I think I can carry it while crossing pedestrian overpasses!) and rides quite fast. I think I travel faster here than with my mountain bike. Had no problem climbing Jones Bridge (maybe because I'm so used to the climb. Pero kung clim all the way na parang Maarat on single speed baka di ko pa kaya!). I enjoyed riding it from Balut, Tondo to SM Mall of Asia.

Maybe I should try bike commuting! Hehe
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Share-a-Gift Ride



This year, I had promised myself to celebrate Christmas more simply and meaningfully. So when the Firefly Brigade organized this Share-a-Gift ride, I was excited to join, and had to kulit Doy to join also. The event was about gift giving to the less fortunate, specifically those who live in "karitons", who are, like bikers, are mobile. It was truly a privilege to be part of this event, and gave more meaning to my pursuit of cycling.

I want to share with you what Doy had written about the event. Very touching...

First off I would like to congratulate the firefly brigade for organizing this very meaningful and heart-tugging ride. It makes me proud to be:

1. A part of this year's christmas share-a-gift ride,
2. Riding beside some of the best bikers in the country
3. A Filipino (there is hope yet for this country)
4. A cyclist
5. A mountain biker (PMTB rules)

For the others who were not able to make it, hope to see you next year and in other Firefly events.

Let me share with you guys a very unique experience i got in this ride. The world is indeed very small, so small in fact that the odds of serendipity are quite high.

When we rode last saturday, I saw a family I once stayed with in my college liberation theology class. It was in the second semester of my last school year in Ateneo, students under the theology 141 class of the late Fr. George Gorospe were required to undergo a 3 day immersion program some of the "extremely sheltered" students dreaded this as it meant really going way beyond their comfort zone specially for those destined for urban poor and fisherfolk communities. Having grown up in Tondo, I could fairly say that I had my share of exposure to poverty but being a spectator during your daily commute is a far cry from being immersed in the experience of people specially those living at the edge of their means.

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My groupmates as well as another group from another theology 141 class were sent to Nueva Ecija in an Aeta Resettlement site near Fort Magsaysay. We spent a weekend there living with the people in the community. Life was simple there, they had a beautiful tract of land complete with a river and a small waterfall just up stream. However the lack of arrable land and a stable source of livelihood meant that the community could not self-sustain. Unlike the time before Mt. Pinatubo, the Aeta communities of Zambales was able to live in a self-sufficient community and they rarely needed to wander into the busy metropolis as much of their needs were met within the community. Pinatubo changed all of that, coupled with the inability of government to provide a stable means of livelihood (even livelihood training) the Aetas would often travel to Manila in search of whatever they could ask for especially during the holidays. During my immersion, I had a long sunset conversation with my foster father in the community and he said to me that such was their fate, every Christmas they would try to hitch a ride all the way to Manila to solicit what they could in the streets.

I left Nueva Ecija back then with a heavier burden knowing that I would come back to Manila to live a comfortable life that my father has built up for me. Don't get me wrong, I love what my dad had strived for, he literally sacrificed half his life abroad on-board a lonely ship sailing port to port and missing many of his family's notable moments to ensure that my mom and myself could live comfortably. However one must realize that no all people have the same breaks in life as others and while it is the duty of every generation to build a better one for the next, not everyone is privy to the same opportunities.

I took home one very important reminder from that theology class immersion..."live simply, so others may simply live." Unfortunately the promise of a great career and the potential to have what you want in life has some how jaded me over the last couple of years. Seven years down the line, I am again reminded by a familiar face I meet in the Share-a-gift ride of the firefly brigade of what I took home from my immersion in Nueva Ecija.

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pahiram ng photo gerard!!!

I guess, I am just as thankful as the families blessed by this year's ride. particularly because it made me realize the value of why I am riding my bike. To quote from H.G. Wells, "When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race." and Gerard's picture below says it all...

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Mabuhay ang brigada, mabuhay ang reboluSSyon.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
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Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Awitin para kay Fr. Ronald

Ito ang awit na nilikha para sa ika-15 anibersaryo ng aming kura paroko na si Fr. Ronald Macale

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PARI NG SAMBAYANAN

Intro: AM7 - DM7

Stanza Chords: AM7 - DM7 (2x) C#m7 - F#m7- Bm7 - E7sus E

Tinawag ka sa misyon

Na ilapit ang Simbahan sa tao

Upang ipadama ang pag-asa’t pag-ibig ng Diyos

Isang sinumpaang tungkulin

Na ginabayan ng dalangin

Ang maging tapat na lingkod ng Kanyang kawan

Refrain Chords: DM7 - C#m7 (3x) F#m - Bm7 - E

Salamat at nariyan ka

Sa ginhawa, lungkot at saya

Aming ama, pastol at kaibigan

Ikaw ay pari ng sambayanan

Inihandog ang buong sarili

Upang ang lahat ay mapabuti

Sa isip, sa damdamin, sa gawa at sa salita

Sambit sa bawat panalangin

Ang patnubay iyong tanggapin

Mula sa mahal na Diyos na muling nabuhay


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Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Our Bike!




As Doy had said, "This is our bike!" For it doesn't make sense to ride this bike alone! It is indeed a different experience riding this bike, especially for me, since I'm riding at the back. I just had to let go and let the captain (Doy) take control. Trying it out for the first time, I must say that the ride is sweet! :)



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Sunday, October 21, 2007

Mahal na Mahal

Originally sung by Archie D. and revived by the Asia's Songbird Regine Velasquez

Intro: F-Am7-Gm7-C7sus-C7

F-Am7-Gm7-C7sus

FM7

Kung may taong dapat na mahalin

F7 Bb
Ay walang iba kundi ikaw

Gm7 C7
Wala ng ibang makakapigil pa sa akin

FM7 F7
Binuhay mo muli ang takbo at tibok ng puso

Bb
Sa iyong pagmamahal

Gm7 C7sus C7
Ang buhay ko'y muling nag-iba, napuno ng saya

Gm7 Dm7 Am7
Sa lahat ay di maari di maaring iwan

Gm7 Dm7 Am7
Wala ng makakapigil kahit na bagyo man

Gm7 Dm7 Am7
Pa'no kung ikaw na mismo kusang lilisan

Bb C7sus
Pa'no ba?

F
Kung mawalay ka sa buhay ko?

Am7
Kung pag ibig mo ay maglaho?

Gm7 C7sus C7
Pano na kaya ang mundo?
F
Kung sa oras na di ka makita?

Am7
Kung ika'y napakalayo na?

Gm7 C7sus C7
May buhay pa kaya to'ng puso?

Bb A7
Yan lang ang maaari natin sadyang matatanggap

Dm7
Habang ako'y may buhay

G
Mahal na mahal kita

Gm C7sus
Higit pa sa iniisip mo

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Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Prayer for the coming Elections

Mahal naming Ama,
Ikaw ang Panginoon ng bawat isa, ng aming bansa, at ng aming pamayanan.

Nagpapasalamat kami sa biyaya ng demokrasya, at pagbibigay sa amin ng pagkakataon upang bigyang tugon ang iyong tawag.

Para sa nakararami sa amin, ang karapatang bumoto.
Para naman sa mga kandidato, ang hangaring makapaglingkod sa Iyo at sa kapwa.

Hangad namin, Panginoon,
ang isang maganda at maayos na pamayanan,
Kung saan naitataguyod ang katarungan at karapatang pantao,
Napapahalagahan ang dangal ng kasal at pamilya,
At tumutungo sa tunay na katiwasayan at kaunlaran.

Nawa'y kaming lahat, ano man ang estado namin sa buhay, ay maging kabahagi Iyong kaharian sa pamamagitan ng pagiging mga tapat Mong lingkod sa daigdig na ito.

Ito ang aming samo’t dalangin
Nang may buong tiwala sa Iyong kakayahan
Sa tulong ng Birheng Maria na aming Ina,
At ng lahat ng mga banal na nagtaguyod ng katarungan,
Sa pamamagitan ng Iyong anak na si Jesus, na aming Tagapagligtas.

Amen.

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