JEDDAH – Following their highly regarded concert in this Saudi Arabian city, a Filipino children’s choir is donating proceeds of almost half a million pesos to finance the college education of four students in the Philippines.
The 65-member group, Serenata Children's Choir and String Chamber Orchestra, has 45 members aged eight to 16 who are children of overseas Filipino workers in the Kingdom. The children are also students of different Philippine schools in Jeddah.
This is the second time that the choral group is sponsoring students from the Philippines through the concert’s proceeds, which this year amounted to US$10,000, or over P460,000.
The group’s performance last week at the American International School stunned an audience of about a thousand, including diplomats and expatriates of different nationalities and diplomats.
Praise::Pinoy children’s choir in Saudi donates P500,000 to 4 RP students – Pinoy Abroad – GMANews.TV – Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs – Latest Philippine News
JEDDAH – Following their highly regarded concert in this Saudi Arabian city, a Filipino children’s choir is donating proceeds of almost half a million pesos to finance the college education of four students in the Philippines.
The 65-member group, Serenata Children's Choir and String Chamber Orchestra, has 45 members aged eight to 16 who are children of overseas Filipino workers in the Kingdom. The children are also students of different Philippine schools in Jeddah.
This is the second time that the choral group is sponsoring students from the Philippines through the concert’s proceeds, which this year amounted to US$10,000, or over P460,000.
The group’s performance last week at the American International School stunned an audience of about a thousand, including diplomats and expatriates of different nationalities and diplomats.
via Pinoy children’s choir in Saudi donates P500,000 to 4 RP students – Pinoy Abroad – GMANews.TV – Official Website of GMA News and Public Affairs – Latest Philippine News.
rePost :: Phoning it in ::Seth's Blog
You see most people don’t see why this is so important, to live a life of passion.
The thing is : I’m sorry to say this but in a 24 hour day with around 12 hours spent on the grinds of day to day existence spending 8 hours on your job means in most ways your job is your life. This is why you can’t just phone in your job.
See A Life of Beauty, A Life of Happiness, and A Life of Passion; I believe for most people, cannot be separated. You seldom see people with a life of no or limited passion living a beautiful life. These things are aspects and results of each other.
PS: I understand that we cannot be too passionate about something because like a fire we would just run out of fuel. Life is in someways more of a marathon than a 100 meter dash. What I’m really against is how we seem to believe we can turn our passions on and off. I believe sometimes we need a break but we must understand that it is a break. I had about more than a month of Sick Leaves plus Vacation Leaves last year. half of those were for vacations and the other half was because I couldn’t just go to work and phone it in. I go to work because I was inspired to work. If I wasn’t inspired and I wasn’t being required by my boss then I just didn’t go.
Phoning it in
This was sort of shocking, at least to me:
I was talking to a religious leader, someone who runs a congregation. She made it clear to me that on many days, it’s just a job. A job like any other, you show up, you go through the motions, you get paid.
I guess we find this disturbing because spiritual work should be real, not faked.
But isn’t your work spiritual?
I know doctors, lawyers, waiters and insurance brokers who are honestly and truly passionate about what they do. They view it as an art form, a calling, and an important (no, an essential) thing worth doing.
In fact, I don’t think there’s a relationship between what you do and how important you think the work is. I think there’s a relationship between who you are and how important you think the work is.
Life’s too short to phone it in.
Better Electorate Please!!!!::Kung Fu Monkey: Farm Fetish
One of the more fun rants that I’ve read this month! read the whole thing.
Let’s see a few things that are tangential but I believe relevant.
-The social safety net of the USA and probably the world was started by FDR an US elite who traces his ancestry to early US Presidents. Franklin Delano Roosevelt never knew hunger and or poverty as a state yet he has done more than but a handful of people to establish most of what US citizens know as the social safety net.
-The Civil Rights Act although was a bill that was to be sponsored by John F Kennedy but was made into law during LBJ Lyndon B Johnson’s presidency. LBJ and JFK have never been black/african american. Yet the Civil Rights Act has been one of the landmark bills to have helped african americans.
-In the same vein Abe Lincoln has never been an african american yet…(tinatamad na akong ipagpatuloy)
If the only reason you are going to vote Manny Villar over Perlas, Gordon, Gibo , Aquino is that he used to be poor , fuck democracy. I’m beginning to be convinced that a democracy not anchored by an educated middle class is untenable. I know it’s hard to believe but look at it this way. Your doctor has probably never had a brain tumor yet you believe your doctor when he/she advises your treatment. Same with your lawyer (Sorry lawyer friends I had to take a dig, well nobody actually trust their lawyers some lawyers are just less bad as others).
I know this might bite me in the ass in May but we were given a brain to override the emotions that would make us do irrational things or short circuit decision making that is really not that good for us. Think responsibly. My god just think please! (I think there is a possibility that I will vote for Villar)
You know, I just realized how many errant Google hits that title is going to bring. Creepy.
This will just break Neil’s heart, as he does see me as a champion of fighting regionalism, but this CNN piece (from over at Atrios) is the sort of thing that, Jesus H*. Christ on a crutch, gives me a headache. They send a reporter to literally Middle America, and surprise, discover that they don’t much care for them Hollywood movies. Suuuurrr-prise!
But one chunk of this report, to me, is symptomatic of a larger issue that grinds my molars.
ANDERSON: We stopped by the Lebanon [Kansas — ed.] hotspot, Ladow’s Market, where one local told us Hollywood just can’t relate to a farming way of life.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They’ve never been back in here to know what it’s like to actually have to make a living doing this.
You know what, Unidentified Male? You’re right. I don’t know what it’s like to have to make a living farming. NOBODY DOES.
For chrissake, only 17% of Americans live in rural settings anymore. Only 2 million of those people work on farms or ranches (USDA figures). Hell, only ten percent of the average farm family’s income even comes from farming anymore (did you know that? I didn’t. Funky). The median age of the United States is 37. I am more than willing to point out that the agriculture industry is a crucial, nay vital part of the American economic infrastructure generating a sizable amount of the GDP. But why in the name of John Deere’s Blood-Soaked Wood-Chipper Gears, every time I hear a news report on what “real Americans” think do I wind up watching some farmer in their fifties and sixties bitch as they survey the blasted plains landscape behind them, and not only that, somehow their cultural observations are assumed to have more relevance than anyone else’s?
This is only half-rant. The honest question is, what in the American character keeps us returning to this completely false self-image? Seriously, how did we get to a point where this report may as well have started: “Hi there, Carol, we’re about to talk to people twenty years older than the average American living a lifestyle less than one in five average Americans live … to find out what the average American thinks” and somehow nobody blinks an eye?
There are four times as many Americans living in urban than rural areas. There are four times as many people sucking back coffee in New York city alone than make a living farming. According to the Burea of Labor, there are just as many people employed in Architecture and Engineering as farming, hell, 3 million people working in Computer and Mathematical jobs. But when one of these “What does America think about culture” pieces comes on, do I ever see a mid-30’s software engineer onscreen bitching about having to download BitTorrents of “The IT Crowd”? Fuck and no.
Four million people in the US play World of Warcraft. And yet, do I ever hear:
Four million people in the US play World of Warcraft. And yet, do I ever hear:
via Kung Fu Monkey: Farm Fetish.
rePost::Overcoming Bias : Praise Polymaths
Loved reading this, finish the whole thing at the linked site. The comments at Overcoming Bias are really topnotch!!!!!
Praise Polymaths
By Robin Hanson · February 12, 2010 9:15 am · Discuss · « Prev · Next »
Once upon a time folks who traveled far were treated with suspicion. Sure if you were rich and traveled like the rich you weren’t more suspicious than other rich. But those who traveled more than their class were suspected, correctly on average, of being less loyal to their neighbors.
Today travel is mostly celebrated; people love to talk about their trips and admire the well-traveled, even beyond the wealth it signals. But travel today doesn’t much threaten loyalty – intellectual contact with locals is limited, and usually selected to be like-minded. Ooh look, another pretty building. True intellectual travel, where you actually take the time to see things from different perspectives, is rare, more valuable, and yet elicits more suspicion than admiration.
You see, our beliefs are severely distorted by our culture and training, and intellectual travel remains our only remotely reliable remedy. We all know that we would have been inclined toward different beliefs had we been raised in different cultures or disciplines. We see consistent differences between folks trained in West vs. East, science vs. humanities, economics vs. sociology, and in different schools of thought of most any discipline. We like to think that we correct for this, but when we realize how hard that is, we throw up our hands saying “what ya gonna do?”
via Overcoming Bias : Praise Polymaths.
rePost::8 Reasons To Love Being Single This Valentine Day | SaveDelete
8 Reasons To Love Being Single This Valentine Day
By Yogesh Mankani on Feb 14th, 2010 in Other 9 Comments »
Valentine Day, a day to tell our partners how much we love them, to share out feelings towards them. But have you think, what happen with all those people who are still searching for their love means they are single or who recently broke up with their partners. I know if you are single, you may see Valentine’ Day a waste because you don’t have a date or aren’t in a relationship with someone special.
But I love being single because I found eight ways to celebrate Valentine’s Day and make this day a fun no matter what.
via 8 Reasons To Love Being Single This Valentine Day | SaveDelete.
Musings 2010 02 14
I’ve been having migraines lately and it has been somewhat of a hindrance to me. I’d like to have myself looked at but there is just this anxiety that its more serious than what I was expecting. I know I have a high tolerance for discomfort and between that and my anxieties I tend to have to be in excruciating pain to force myself to deal with the problem. I know this isn’t normal but we all have our issues. I hope I learn how to deal with it.
Elink Video :: We Are The World 25 For Haiti – Official Video
Because of the rap part I like this version more.
Thanks to Chuck and Vince for the pointers.
Elink Video:: Four Chords, 36 Songs
This is why name that tune would be so hard today!!!!
36 recognizable hits with 4 chords hehe.
rePost::The Recession is Dead, Long Live the Recession: Life Without Jobs : Casaubon's Book
I got terminated as a tester on my first job out of college. I was out of work for 3 months. Although 3 months was a relatively short time compared to other people’s experience it was too long for me. Nobody can really get you out of that funk your in, the feeling of uselessness , incompetence. After a month I was beginning to have serious thoughts of questioning how good I really was at anything. I don’t know but I believe if it stretched to 6 months I may have accepted jobs I wouldn’t have considered a couple of weeks before. This is why the reluctance of Barack Obama to help the unemployed of his country in the scale that FDR did is really heartless and gutless of him. I could go on and on but this would just be an angst , sorrowful filled post. Suffice to say whenever I can’t get myself to work harder I just remember my last evaluation and a fire lights within me. To end in a lighter note after that job I was able to get a job as a programmer again and I can say that I did well. In a lot of ways I shined. So have faith that God has better plans for you.
Strong evidence suggests that people who don’t find solid roots in the job market within a year or two have a particularly hard time righting themselves. In part, that’s because many of them become different–and damaged–people. Krysia Mossakowski, a sociologist at the University of Miami, has found that in young adults, long bouts of unemployment provoke long-lasting changes in behavior and mental health. “Some people say, ‘Oh, well, they’re young, they’re in and out of the workforce, so unemployment shouldn’t matter much psychologically,'” Mossakowski told me. “But that isn’t true.”
via The Recession is Dead, Long Live the Recession: Life Without Jobs : Casaubon’s Book.