I ask God for the miracle of healing.

I ask Him to take away all my sorrows and pain.

I ask Him to make me stronger as i face all the seemingly insurmountable trials in my life.

I ask Him to take care of my family, friends and loved ones.


I ask Him to bless me with the gift of forgiveness, to those who continually puncture the wounds in my heart.

I ask Him to shower the world with love

To bring sunshine in our lives.

God bless us today.

Thanks for another life.

I'm in deep pain...digging deeper to find a reason to live.... i struggled and fretted how to get over this thing. i wanted to find some words that would stick with you, something that would maybe bring you a little peace and hope and wisdom whenever you thought about me...but naturally...the minute i try to come up with something deep and meaningful, my mind goes blank. I want to cry my guts out. I am filled with sadness and emotionally drained.

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Pain. You just cant put it off. All you can do is delay it. Which is the worst thing you can do, because it festers. It grows huge and ugly. It builds up pressure and power. In the end, delaying it means you have more pain to deal with, not less. Because sooner or later, the pain finally breaks through all the defenses and settles in for good, long siege. That pain has no other plans for the foreseeable future. It unpacks its bags and prepares for a lengthy visit.

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Pain has visited me. Longer than i have expected. Maybe even for a lifetime.

BEFORE AND AFTER


BEFORE:

Good afternoon, fellow TSC members!

It is my belief that there is more to learn outside our automotive industry, and so TSC has come up with this activity of exposing fellow member companies to non-automotive industry.

With the global concern of protecting our environment, Toyota Suppliers Club joins this environmental drive by promoting activities that will foster environmental awareness, health and safety in our workplaces.

Our gratitude goes to Integrated Recycling Industries for welcoming us and allowing us to witness their operation. They deserve our commendations for the noble work that they are doing, in their continuous quest for a cleaner and greener environment. They have proven that making a difference also comes with benefits, and that is being successful in their entrepreneurial endeavor.

May this activity provide you with pertinent information that will help enhance your related environment, health and safety programs. May this also inspire you to make a difference by employing activities that concerns environmental protection.

In behalf of Toyota Suppliers Club Officers and members, again, we would like to thank the management and staff of Integrated Recycling Industries for the warm welcome and support of our visit today. And also, for the entire member companies who joined this activity, thank you so much for your cooperation. We hope to see you again in the coming TSC activities.

Good day to all!

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AFTER:

Good afternoon, to the Management and staff of Integrated Recycling Industries and to my fellow TSC members!

On behalf of the Board of Directors and the member of the Toyota Suppliers Club, I would like to express our sincerest gratitude to Integrated Recycling Industries for warm hospitality and cooperation that you extended to us in today’s local plant visit. Indeed, your preparation contributed a great deal to the success of our activity, making the same not only informative and motivational but truly enjoyable, as well.

To TSC member-companies, I hope that this activity has effectively provided you with pertinent information and new ideas that will help enhance your programs related to environment, health and safety. May this also inspire you to make a difference by employing activities that concerns environmental protection. We hope to see you again in the coming TSC activities.

Good day to all!

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hmmmnnn. Minsan naisip ko kung bobo ba ako or talagang pinagttripan nila. Kung talagang walang kwenta ung mga ginagawa ko o talagang iniinis na nila ako.

Nakakainsulto. Pro dapat matuto.

Buti sana kung isang beses lang nangyari. Pero kung paulit ulit na lang na ganito, ibig sabihin..hindi pa rin ako natututo?

Nakakaubos ng enerhiya.

THE ESSENCE OF A WOMAN

'What is the essence of a woman?' This was a question posed to the beautiful 18-year-old lady in an international beauty pageant. She answered, 'Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.'

The world hailed not only the physical beauty this lady possesses, but the richness of thoughts and wellspring of ideas with high regards to women.

Women have played a role in the transformation of culture, history and politics as leaders, writers, scientists, educators, politicians, artists, historians, and informed citizens. The world is supercharged with women lifting up the society. Gone were the days when women are confined in the four corners of a cell. Now adays, women are in charged of the same basic activities exuding machismo. These bold and new ideas are now being put into practice. Not much of a whimsical aspiration, but of tangible truth.

Grasping the accounts of women's talents, successes, and accomplishments broaden a sense of what is possible for girls who eventually progress into women. Details about women and their successes gives males and females alike a view that dares to dispute some of our cultures' most unconscious and old-fashioned assumptions about women. These includes assumptions that women are only women enough behind a man, that all their actions are highly dependent on the man of their lives, whether a father, a brother, or a husband. But the reality is that of better existence for women. That a woman can take charge of their bodies, minds, lives, careers, finances and families in a way never before seen. A world of choices lay at their doors. Choices that did not always include men. Decisions that were career-oriented and goal driven. And being a woman is all about choices, the power and freedom never before obtained, embraced in mind, body and spirit.Thus, women's history becomes a story of inspiration, promise, possibility, purpose, and hope.

Women have always been the nurturing, giving, kind beings and that has been perceived as a weakness for millennia. The coming of the New Millenium has awakened a power within women today. Women are recognizing what they are, the real essence of their selves. Women are speaking out and living their own lives., may be within a family, a relationship, a job, a corporate environment or any other lifestyle imaginable. One thing, however, is becoming very clear - women have strength, imaginations, and a spirituality that gives them the teeth and power to change their lives and to live as their own person. It is this mystical spirituality that gives women the ‘teeth’ to grab the quarry (whatever it may be) and protect the love and passion in their lives. It adds to the whole woman and becomes the part of her essence which is missing in so many.

The essence of a woman is her femaleness itself. What truly sets women apart from men is not merely the accomplishments or abilities, but the very gender itself. The ability to grow, incubate, nurture and bring forth life. What can be more important and powerful than that?

The definition of woman, is a giver of life first, and then anything else she wants to be. Women hold a very important and awesome job in the eternal scheme of things. More important than any demands society as whole may put upon their shoulders. Their true power doesn't lie in the boardrooms of a company, nor in their endeavors as modern women. It lies within their selves. It lies in the very structure of their gender. There is no such thing as being just a mother. Motherhood is the whole thing. Everything else they do in their lives will pale in comparison. The one true career, the one perfect goal, is to bring forth life, and bring it up. That is their main purpose. And it is the one thing that makes them the most proud about being a woman.

Let us celebrate the innumerable ways in which the remarkable spirit, courage, and strength of women have added to the vitality, richness, and diversity of the world. The charm, the beauty, and the sheer essence of a woman are untouchable. What a beautiful thing.

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these are collective ideas from various posts in response to my dear kuya's request for a speech about women :)

Monday morning, the heavens suddenly wept copiously, drenched i was in furious rain. sigh. It was just another adversity, albeit a minor one.