circle of trust and friendship: abby, alex, art, brai;,, ,edsel, gary, henry, james, jannah, jason, jay, jay-j, mitch, morris, nomer, ong, pat, rain, steve, suzy, tofee, una, vernon, wena, yari.
At the time of the explosion Sadako was at home, about 1 mile fromgorund zero. By November 1954, lumps had developed on her neck and behind her ears. Then in January 1955, purple spots had started to form on her legs. Subsequently, she was diagnosed with leukemia, which her mother referred to as "an atom bomb disease." She was hospitalized on February 21,1955 and given, at the most, a year to live.
On August 3,1955, Chizuko Hamamoto — Sadako's best friend — came to the hospital to visit and cut a golden piece of paper into a square and folded it into a paper crane. At first Sadako didn't understand why Chizuko was doing this but then Chizuko retold the story about the paper cranes. Inspired by the crane, she started folding them herself, spurred on by the Japanese saying that one who folded 1,000 cranes was granted a wish. A popular version of the story is that she fell short of her goal of folding 1,000 cranes, having folded only 644 before her death, and that her friends completed the 1,000 and buried them all with her. This comes from the book Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. An exhibit which appeared in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum stated that by the end of August, 1955, Sadako had achieved her goal and continued to fold more cranes.Though she had plenty of free time during her days in the hospital to fold the cranes, she lacked paper. She would use medicine wrappings and whatever else she could scrounge up. This included going to other patients' rooms to ask to use the paper from their get-well presents. Chizuko would bring paper from school for Sadako to use.
During her time in hospital her condition progressively worsened. Around mid-October her left leg became swollen and turned purple. After her family urged her to eat something, Sadako requested tea on rice and remarked "It's good." Those were her last words. With her family around her, Sadako died on the morning of October 25,1955.
After her death, Sadako's friends and schoolmates published a collection of letters in order to raise funds to build a memorial to her and all of the children who had died from the effects of the atomic bomb. In 1958, a statue of Sadako holding a golden crane was unveiled in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial, also called the Genbaku Dome. At the foot of the statue is a plaque that reads, This is our cry. This is our prayer. Peace in the world.
There is also a statue of her in the Seattle Peace Park. Sadako has become a leading symbol of the impact of a nuclear war. Sadako is also a heroine for many girls in Japan. Her story is told in some Japanese schools on the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. Dedicated to her, people all over Japan celebrate August 6 as the annual peace day and the crane becomes the symbol of World peace.
Nice story huh,,,
Therefore, it can be popular culture which i can be a stereotype who gets influenced by TV. It can be lore which i can still believe in tradition. It can be a a symbol of world peace which i can still care for others. Finally, it can be an ancient Japanese legend that promises anyone who folds a thousand origami cranes will be granted a wish by a crane which i can, safe to say "i am longing something more in this life". I need one more wish, so i will keep on folding...
author: brianne agbulos
source: wikipedia
photography: brianne agbulos
They say "Don’t build castles in the sky" because your dreams may be bigger than your circumstances allow. You should have the right tools and the resources to get what you wanted. We need a ladder to get to the next rung. A shovel so we can dig deep. A hammer so we can push hard and nails to connect the pieces.
Of course if you sit comfortably in your home, dreaming you will make it big one day then your building castles in the sky without the tools. You have to work hard, have an inspiration and commit to a certain goal to achieve your dreams.
Let’s build our castles in the sky…. mine will be covered with gold.A friend taught me that i should never think about negative things because they are attracted to the one who thinks about them. I always look at the glass half full so I have something to look forward and not deprive myself of something I want. Things will always work out…
Remember Peter Pan when he is teaching Wendy to fly… he said think of
happy thoughts and you will be able to fly. So, I started flying when
I learned to think this way.
So who is the optimist? I think… I am!
according to jean jacques rousseau, " Man by nature is good ". he believed in the term of noble savage used by john dryden in his play called the conquest of granada. which means that every man by nature is good before the creation of society and civilization. in rousseau’s theory of natural man, he argued that man is corrupted by society and civilization… meaning arts and sciences contributed to the pride and vanity of man resulted to corruption of the human kind.
but i say not… civilization and society is good, it brings out the human in all of us. i can argue that that man by nature is good so, he created society and civilization. he wanted to interact, socialize and help other humans. we can say that other people take advantage from the goodness of man but have u realize that every action of a man has its reason.
Don’t take it wrong, but think about this words, Fulfillment, Nirvana, and Enlightenment. This are good words,which has good meanings but its prone to abuse… but once you accept it… you see the light in every soul.
Namaste
It’s a German word that means "joy that one feels as a result of some else’s misfortune". Is this human nature that sometimes we think that is funny if someone is in vain, in pain, got into an accident or just plain misfortune pours down to a person. one example is tv shows that showcase misfortune of others and we tend to see it as so funny that sometimes our gut hurts.
I would love to hear a situations or testimonies that this phenomenon is happening. send me your comments. thanks!
why do we have a left and right when we have the center? why do we have black and white when we have gray? why do we have positive and negative when we have neutral? why do our heart and mind contradict each other?
then feel…
the choices we made, will affect us tomorrow… damn this is so true, i’m feeling it today. the choices i made from the past and recently gravely affects me. seems that all of the choices i made are damn wrong. i know its my fault ‘coz i dont listen to advises my friends and family share. someone even told me and i quote "its your choice so bear with it".
i am violating my own rule of living life to the fullest. i cannot eat, i cannot sleep, i cannot even drink beer… all day i dream that hopefully tomorrow will be better. what is happening with my life, drives me nuts. i cannot tell the details ‘coz that will bore you to death.
am i really maturing, or this is just a stage of life that i needed to go tru? but don’t worry guyz, i am re-grouping myself, i know i will be okay. i will just keep on smiling…
have you ever felt that everything in your life seems wrong? felt that there are things that you want in your life but you cannot have? felt that things that were given is not enough? felt the decisions you made was all wrong? felt you want to turn back time?
please share me your experience… i’m going tru this stage. just post it as a comment, it will be appreciated.
my uncle just left the country today to work abroad. he’s going to a foreign land to look for his luck. i’m glad that he can now fulfill his dream to work abroad, but it makes me sad in a way and even shed tears when he left.
i call him shantao, we grew up together. my drinking buddy, my basketball teammate, my go-to guy when i’m in trouble, my uncle, and my friend. all the secrets i share with this guy, we always hang out together and look for each other when one is not around. we are that close even some says that our intestines are connected. So i think it’s not a shame to cry when a friend this close will go away.
ungaz, shang di bao you.
it has been a long time since i updated my blog, so grab a pillow people I’ll bore you with my stories.
city life has been a blast… all changes in a blink of an eye. Changing one job to the other, people come and go, and events that you never imagined happened.
i am glad that i’m back in laguna. i can spend time with my family,,, hang-out more with my friends in woodside (ungas 4 life). they told me that i haven’t change a single thing even i’m 2 years in boracay. well probably thats true but a lot of changes do not show out. it all occurs in your mind and heart, agree? Well guys i miss u ol even i’m busy at work, i’ll try to hang-out more.
career-wise, i haven’t got a chance to take a vacation. i started to work in Discovery Suites a week after i came back from bora. been so busy even working during xmas and new year. but my stay in Discovery has been cut short. i received an offer form a call center 3 weeks after i started in Discovery. i love front office but i decided to accept another offer in a call center, i passed training and everything and now i am enjoying this line of work. I’m with Fifth Third bank as of the present, trying my best to keep up with bank terminologies that i only heard for the first time.
just last week, a friend visited. damn we had a great night outs, its a shame that i still go to work every morning instead of being with them all day. its exhausting yet very much fun and i had a great time. it bring backs good old memories. i miss laguna and everything in it, but i dont want to leave boracay…
shucks having doubts on my plans.
A friend of mine writes about the "act". She said that you can get away from reality even for just a few moments. Just like having a good dream. But what matters most is the feeling that you undergo in the morning. A sense of guilt and pain that you cannot explain.
True, but not all the time. sleeping with someone presents nirvana when done right and willingly. it’s like heaven on earth for a few moments. Realization of the act can be in a positive sense or in negative. it can be a blade at your back but ecstasy when you get it out. learn from it, experience it, & have fun with it. gerr-gerr we call it.
"brai, gising na" or "brai, wake up", this is the first thing i hear every waking moment of my life. i have a sleep deficiency that once i’ve gone to sleep nothing will wake me up unless a person intend to wake wake me. i don’t know the reason and i’m not seeking for professional help. maybe i just like sleeping, or i like dreaming. dreams takes me to places that i would never think of, probably its just the way of balancing my realistic and practical views in life. i just have a felling when i wake up on my own there’s something missing. because i know when someone’s wakes u, i believe that they care.
I’m not complaining that i have to wake up everyday to do chores, go to school, go to work or face the challeges of this life. I just wanted to show my appreciation. the faces i see in the morning is the inspiration i needed to go on. "salamat"
it never failed to make me smile when this word is being mentioned. Maybe because of envisioning a face full of powder that sometimes a person thinks it look good but in reality other people think of them as clown faces.
acronym of Espasol Face, in filipino layman’s term meaning "too much powder or make-up in a face". powder or make-up covers impurities but too much of it becomes impurities itself, agree? compare it to the real espasol, the white baking powder is covering the kakanin to make it look good but put too much of it spoils the taste. the sweetness and the nutrients is all inside, and thats what matters but a touch of white baking powder makes it delightful to the eyes.
"you will never get a second chance to make a first impression"(i’ve read this posted in a bathroom door). Make yourself delightful to the eyes eventually they will discover your flaws but you already make them like you.
Bear with me i’m bored. 
i’m leaving boracay after a year and eight months of staying here. i’m going somewhere to develop myself and earn more money. changes that will improve myself and my standards of living. but i’m worried, i am very much used to the island lifestyle that if i go to a city i will freak out knowing that the beach is far away, the night life will be wild and crazy only on the weekends and my dear friends and housemates will be far way. God, its sad just thinking of it.
No one’s to blame but me, I choose this career move. If i got bored and lose my mind, just point a finger at me then maybe i’ll laugh at you :-). i’m in a great company who gave me the opportunity to learn and lead. a company that i treat as my family. probably i’m doing this to help this company in the future? who knows, every action or decision we make doesn’t need a reason to justify it.
changes that i should learn to live with… changes that i believe is for the better.
So, goodbye sunsets, goodbye flip flops, goodbye serenity, goodbye partys, goodbye friends, goodbye love. hello city life!
"There is truth in wine", a Latin phrase suggesting that people tend to say what they really feel under the influence of alcohol. Alcohol can make you carefree that you would not think of the circumstances of your present action while influenced by it. Even lose your dignity if you’re unfortunate. Alcohohol can make the best out of you or the worst in you. But what is important that you show the real you while while influenced by it, either good or bad. Some people get their courage from a drink, either gain friends, enemies or sometimes love ones.
But in my point of view, I always suggest to treat alcohol as a friend that always there when you’re mourning, always there when you’re celebrating, and even if you’re alone. A friend that gives you courage and strength when you need it. A friend that you only get influenced in when you know it. You’re life is up to you not in the substances that you drink. So, drink up and discover the truth. " In vino veritas".
