New Year Party!

2007

Happy New Year to one and all! New Year means new hope, new challenges, renewed energy, new horizons!
Here are some pics of the Neri household New Year Salo-salo.

Boom-tarat-tarat

Eating time!

My Mother and IThe Table

Happy New Year!

God loves you!

Happy New Year!

Thanks for the ride 2006! Please be kind 2007! So what’s the fuzz several hours before the New Year? Starting with this blog! I finally updated it, reformatted it and planning to be more dedicated to the Republika. From time to time I will have an interview with myself. The interviewer is The Republika's Consul (Ideal self) and I will be the interviewee. Weird! I think this method might actually be more effective in letting out my ideas, thoughts, experiences and feelings in a creative and real way. Aside for being an EBN journal, The Republika also wishes to be an advisor or helper in how to face all the challenges of life. Simply to help souls (inspired by the heroic missions of the Jesuits portrayed in the book-Heroic Leadership by Chris Lowney). Enough about the blog!

What are my New Year’s resolutions?

1. To Conquer more of myself. Destroy the Sith in me.
2. Help more Souls
3. Be true to love
4. Be more forgiving about sleeping
5. Constant examination of Conscience
6. Apply heroic leadership
7. Understand more about God
8. Be more responsive of God’s will
9. Maintain Weight
10. Dance! Sing! Study! Magis

the resolutions are there to provide a vague direction for next year. Man’s testament to always seek for self-development.

God loves you!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Great Joy!

Feel the Love

Let love flow through us all

Our Savior is born!

Give more Love!

Merry Christmas to one and all!

Order

This is another thought post.

Man’s desperate need to create order in the chaotic universe. Order governs us all. Try to sit and see the world around us. For half an hour, look at the world in the point of view of an extraterrestrial intelligent life form visiting on earth. What have you realized? Man’s intelligence is set in a direct course to create order in nature. Now morph back to being a human. Open your history book; see that man’s first actions were to create order out of nature by creating cities, farms; concepts such as language, arithmetic, law and order and the sciences; Things such as weighing scales, lists and calendars . Order is unquestionably the very fabric that drives man to tick. Try to imagine if order no longer exists. What if it simply vanishes? Man will simply cease to function. Observe…from a common 5-letter word, we could extract a lot of wisdom form it!

ORDER (Jediism)?

I treat order not just an abstract term but a living force governing the thoughts of man.
GOD IS ORDER.

SO WHAT then?

Order maybe taken for granted but it is the very force that governs man. In our daily lives, do not only strive to be excellent, strive to be one with order because being one with this force puts our place in this chaotic universe.

Dec. 12, 06

It was awhile.

The 2nd semester is finally sinking in my thoughts, actions and heart. Life in a new course is not easy. Paradigm shift is to be dealt with in the deepest understanding of the mind because the external world is new that is why i somehow developed this daily meditation thingamajig. Being an Irregular student and squatter at the same time gives me the perfect opportunity to be friends with myself. The beginning weeks of the 2nd semester are quite a reward! I somehow began a phase of self examination because I was always with myself. And you know what I discovered? I discovered that I’m a person who enjoys being alone in the University and at the same time treasures being with others; an introvert and an extrovert in one depending on the need of the situation. Based on what I observed about myself, I seem to be flexible enough not to be deformed.

Bottom line, it is a very essential practice that we are aware of ourselves and check if actions are coming from us or the dark side of us because an unexamined life is not only worth living but also dangerous.

Philosophy Project Note 2

The concept of Work, School and Studies

“Understand the Fundamentals then you can play with things”

Letting your thoughts touch only the roof of a building can’t give you any good at all. In order to understand why the structure is standing we need to go deep in its foundation and then go outwards. This practice of fundamental comprehension is a great tool in accelerating our learning in any field. We simply need to link our personal ideas to the fundamental ideas of the discipline of interest then the rest will smoothly follow.

“Work, Work: God, God”

Work without any concept of God is useless. Work not only for others but work for God. For God is the source, the process and the end of all human endeavors.

Accounting: It is basically an art. It is n art of balancing, analyzing and writing. What drives me to study accounting is the fact that in every event in this world, there is an effect. Every simple digit has a meaning and this simply amazes me! Debit? Credit? What the heck! If you only see the magnificent fundamental concept of accounting which is event and result, it simply assures you that all acts we do in our lives, there is always an effect. Everyday is the product of our thoughts yesterday. Garbe aha na abot ang accounting!?!?!?! Hahahaha

Political Science: “Human beings are political animals”; the immortal words of Aristotle. He is right! Why? Because politics deals with influence, we in one way of another radiate influence to our surroundings. So what is my fundamental thought for Pol Sci? it is the need for me to be informed of the norms and systems man have developed for themselves in order to attain the ideal society. Yup, it somehow reflects on my individuality for my development to the ideal self.

English 34.1: Simply saying, I’m part of humanity and Literature is the extension of human expression and thoughts thus I am obliged to comprehend and appreciate it.

2nd Week

Significant happenings of the week report. It has been a long time since I posted here cz my life is just too fast. This week was the official wearing of the school uniform hence forth. Honestly, I love wearing the uniform with a reason which reason itself can’t understand. Ganahan lng gyud ko. What pisses me off is the fact that my Wednesday is not washday but PE uniform day! Sayang akong mga sanina. Pero that’s ok anyway…

Work/School: I find all my classes interesting, especially PE! PE, I just love moving my body (dancing bah!). In English, I had a fun time tapping the desk trying to analyze a poem’s rhythm. Try this: If you listen to the rhythm of Stopping by Woods on A Snowy Evening, it resembles the galloping of the traveler’s horse. Amazing! Sa accounting, its really funny because si sir kay hilig mag graffiti! His illustrations in the board are full of lego size drawings! Kasabot man sad so ok lng. Pol Sci, my personal favorite! I just like the teacher! Maka in love! Brilliant kayo bai! Si Mrs. Soriano. She will be gone from Dec 2 to 9 cz she will be going to Australia to read a paper in front an international audience! The rest of my subjects are quite ok, nothing to say actually aside that it’s not really that sober.

Others: hmmm… I’m still in the shift gear but now slowly settling to normal. I am really having a great time with the new domain because people are just friendly. I haven’t felt any disturbances in the Force yet, which means I don’t sense any hypocrites around. I still have lots to develop in this new phase of life like: memorizing names, greeting people effectively, contemplative in action… Sus!

Self: My interest about the Star Wars saga is really getting a beat up now a days. I just love the concept of the Jedi thing. It is so Jesuit! So don’t mind me if I keep on saying about the Force. The Force is actually God.

God: God is the Force of All things.

Thought of the Week: “Love everyone or perish” – Morrie