Bapa's Notes

UPHILL CLIMB

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 An uphill climb on this slippery, ungravelled road with my 2 stroke motorcycle is a risk taking adventure. It's all uphill with which gravitational pull, weight of the motorbike added to that is the slimy gypsum kind of soil makes riding very dangerous.

 

 

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Just a full acceleration cannot overcome because it literally disabled the tires to grip with the ground.

 

 

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But a little rest, a short stop can help. Through this short stop, I made some adjustment. I made some analysis on what to do, how to do it and most of all just take a deep breath before resuming on this difficult uphill climb.

 

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Don't mind if your boots is full of mud. We all get soiled from time to time. If the fear of getting soiled is not overcomed nothing unusual will happen. The cycles will just remain as it is, nothing extra ordinary will happen.

 

 

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After all those troubles, there is a sunlight that will come to the rescue. It dries up those slimmy wet roads. The mud clinging on the tires a dried up so that it can grip much stronger with the ground. And that makes easier to maneuver even on an uphill climb.

WORK AND ADVENTURE

Just a little budget of P200, you can come up here and see this spectacular scenery of Davao Gulf. I took this shot from Sitio Polipog, Brgy. Sta. Cruz, Panabo City. Riding my 2 stroke motorcycle and exploring some good spots to take pictures of the Gulf. Such beautiful scene compensates the difficult climb through the slippery, turtous and gypsum-rich roads of Barangay Santa Cruz.

Davao Gulf

 

Some of this great sights can only be discovered when one take some extra effort to climb up here and overcome the muddy, slippery roads.

 

 

Climb

 

Great adventure need not be expensive. Some great discovery happens as unplanned. It is just simultaneous discovery just like those tell-tale of the Yamashita treasures hidden in many parts of the country. But discovering natures beauty are oftentimes accidental.

 

 

Valley of Treasures

 

bapa’s humors

 

With continuous pouring of heavy rain, going to the barrios is not easy. The slippery downhill- uphill ungravelled roads while maneuvering my 2 stroke engine can be difficult. I just find it amusing, after those difficult travel, I remember this song which I copied from Youtube. It's entitled, 2-stroke, here it is:

"2 Stroke" by RYDE Music Video

Life won't be of much difficulty if we could find time to laugh about it. Laughing on some mistakes and make amends. Well not everyone can do that. Laughing when having difficulties can be insane to some. But I have always observed that problems will not just go away by frowning about it. If we seek solution to the many pressing problems in life, there is no rule that prohibits us from laughing while finding a solution. If we just know who is in control of our lives, that will truly make you laugh. If Jesus is in control then everything shall be at His disposal. 

USING PSEUDONYM

In the world of literature, the use of pseudonym is not unusual. In our Filipino literatures in the past many great writers used their pen name in order to launch their unbridled attacks against the abusive Spanish friars. So pen name has its own purpose. Using pen name is sometimes utilized by modern writers as a license to maligned the character of persons, the former wishes to destroy. In our modern medium of publishing personal journals such as the one I am composing, there is this urge to use pseudonym in order to express my thoughts without caution. There is a hair-thin-line that dichotomized abusive and responsible journalism. Blogging is the "in" thing nowadays. There are flood lists of free blogging sites that are willing to host anyone who wish to post their journals through the internet medium. It's for free. You only need your PC to be connected on a server and there you go, to boundless sites that offer free hosting of your own blog. How does blogging differ from the traditional journal posting? The traditional journal posting is always a private one, unless you give other persons the permission to read your personal journal. However in blogging, once you publish it, depending on the privacy setting that you did to your blog post, anyone can read your posted journal. Anyone! Blogging is just like the evolution of the tradional diary of which privacy is no longer a major issue. So, why use a pseudonym in posting a blog? If I do not want my works to be read by others, why should I blog? Great writers in the modern times seldom use pseudonym in publishing their works. May be because of the rampant piracy on the works of others. In the world where everything can be done in an instant without so much effort and sacrifice. Plagiarism is now a phenominal problem even in the most prestigious universities worldwide. That is a sad reality. Many who wish to earn their post graduate degrees have succombed to the temptation of copying and modifying the works of others without giving credit to the orginal authors. You see, everything can be done in the name of prestige and power in this world. These are the main reason many writers today never use pseudonym. More on my next post.

IT'S FREE TO THINK BIG

I have this book way back in year 2001. It's almost a decade now and I wonder if there were some changes in my way of life. Some people thought it's ridiculous to read books in order to achieve success in life. But, it's always free to think big. Think big for your family, think big for your work, think big for the ministry, think big for your business and more. Our anthropological ancestors for over a  millions of years ago had adopted this philosophy even before the invention of language. If they had not adpoted this philosophy, perhaps we are still on the stone Age period this day.

the magic of thinking big

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There was a time and the Bible recorded it that the human race had tried to build the great Tower of Babel in order to fathom the Omnipotent God. Thinking big is engrained into man's being. Only non-human do not have this desire or drive to think big. What about man's greediness, is it also a product of the desire to think big? There is always room for excesses in everything that we do in life. As  one grows old, there is always this observation that this inner drive to think big will also diminish. This is one reason many of those who have achieved success in their youthful days have changed their focus in life during old age. After retirement, they opted to be more active on providing for their spiritual needs. They devote more time on spiritual matters and less time on making money. Thinking big should not only limit it's application on material success but should also involved the spiritual development of man. Man is not just a physical being but is also a spiritual being that needs nurturing. Man's innate desire to hoard can only be tamed when his spiritual needs are fully satisfied. Thinking big should also be applied to providing for the spiritual needs of man. Although the book have so much to say about financial security but it failed to reconsider the uncertainties of life. There is always this unplanned events that intervenes the constant movement of life. Science has no way of explaining this things, not even Einsteins' Theory of Relativity can have a means to predict what lies ahead of ones being. This is the truth. No matter how you wanted to live your life, there are always these unwelcome interventions that will take place. Why is that? Remember Phuket, Thailand? No one had ever thought that such thing is ever going to happen to the beautiful tourist destination of Thailand. Those great resorts being swallowed by giant waves. Those great beach resorts were products of men's drive to think big. They built those resorts out of their inner desire to think big for their business. Think big for future financial security. But there is always this uncertainties of life that cuts through the constant motion. Even the natural law of gravity is a classic physical example. The gravitational force and friction are interventions that stop every moving object in the Earth. But these interventions are the very essence that the planet Earth becomes a habitable place compared to other planets in the Solar System. So, we could also say that uncertainties of life are also essential for us mortal beings. Unplanned events are the evidences that mortal men is not in control of his own destiny.