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Free Hugs Campaign

I would like to share this very compassionate video that moved me to tears which I happen to stumble upon YouTube this morning. I was able to watch it a few months ago and I just realized it last night upon giving much thought of what I must post next. I figred out that this should be it.

This is for everyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr3x_RRJdd4

As posted from: http://freehugscampaign.org

Sometimes, a hug is all what we need.

Free hugs is a real life controversial story of Juan Mann, A man whos sole mission was to reach out and hug a stranger to brighten up their lives.In this age of social disconnectivity and lack of human contact, the effects of the Free Hugs campaign became phenomenal.

As this symbol of human hope spread accross the city, police and officials ordered the Free Hugs campaign BANNED. What we then witness is the true spirit of humanity come together in what can only be described as awe inspiring.

In the Spirit of the free hugs campaign, PASS THIS TO A FRIEND and HUG A STRANGER! After all, If you can reach just one person.

The Kindness of Strangers

Have you ever been emotionally touched by the kindness of a stranger?

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels – Hebrew 13:2

I could somehow question what I was taught in a Religious class at secondary school. Many times we discussed how man is created in the image and likeness of God, if it is so, then man should have been pure and kind, until he sees the cruelty of this self-centered world where we are conditioned to look out for our own interests above and beyond all else, and feel emotions that are not of our nature.

Behind hatred or pains, there is a soft spot in every man’s heart. No matter how bad or unkind, we are men, and not just an ordinary one, we are superior beings who happened to coexist with all the evil in this world. Perhaps, we are given free will along with intellect and wisdom, we have liberty to choose which path to take. Virtuosness, nonetheless is a choice not to be made an option. With all the temptations around, it is up to us to decide if we’d be its slave or its master – somebody who has the fortitude to outlast at any given situation.

Stories Worth Sharing

More often than not, we remember things unpleasant and fail to appreciate the good ones that sometimes, we need a little bit of something to keep us in tune with life. Life has never been painted pitch black…

Life is an Adventure … Dare it,  Life is a Beauty … Praise it
Life is a Challenge … Meet it, L ife is a Duty … Perform it
Life is a Love … Enjoy it,  Life is a Tragedy … Face it
Life is a Struggle … Fight it,  Life is a Promise … Fulfill it
Life is a Game … Play it,  Life is a Gift … Accept it
Life is a Journey … Complete it,  Life is a Mystery … Unfold it
Life is a Goal … Achieve it,  Life is an Opportunity … Take it
Life is a Puzzle … Solve it,  Life is a Song … Sing it
Life is a Sorrow … Overcome it,  Life is a Spirit … Realize it

Let us be inspired everyday, to overcome life struggles, to be happy, to bring out the best in us, to be what we plan to be…

Inside a Gamer’s Mind

Being a child of the video age, I must say that gaming has been the latest passionate habit of today’s generation. It is a new form of addiction that does not constrain itself just to the younger breed. The outbreak devour kids and adults alike and its epidemic is not only confined in a gamer’s bootcamp but the entire world. This is not the olympics nor the World Cup, but this is high-tech sports, with which you don’t need a ball, just mouse balls – this is eSports.

The simple old family computer cartridge of Super Mario evolved into gameboy, Xbox, Playstation, PSPs, computer games like Counter-strike, Warcraft, Call of Duty and Halo3. Because gaming is not only fun but is also a convenient way of enouragement to overclock personal computers, and to sell out gaming equipments, major sponsors have been backing up prestigious gaming competitions like the World Cybergames, CEVO, ESL, ESWC and KODE5. Companies like Samsung and Intel takes the advantage of selling out more products from huge promotions out of this tournaments, earning billions of dollars each year. Gaming is a thriving multi-billion dollar industry developed to take us into the virtual world of fun and excitement.

What truly makes the game a hit to its gamers that despite highly cost of maintenance, the gaming world has since then been developing and evolving into a revolution like no other? “We will be emotionally influenced by computer games as much as we are by films, pictures, or music,” said Peter Molyneaux, creative director and CEO of Lionhead Studios. “We will laugh and we’ll smile and we’ll talk about them and we’ll be emotionally invested in them.”

We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers

This story is dedicated to all drunken bloggers.

WE FILIPINOS ARE MILD DRINKERS
By: Alejandro R. Roces

We Filipinos are mild drinkers. We drink only for three good reasons. We drink when we are sad. We drink when we are very happy. And we drink for any other reason.

In 1945, the Liberation Forces landed in the Philippines. We Filipinos were very glad to see the Americans back, not so much because they were Americans but because they were not Japanese.

In our barrio, drunk Americans became a common site. A favorite story in the barrio then was that of a Yank soldier who stumbled with a bottle of whiskey in his pocket. According to the story, the first thing the G.I. did was to feel his pocket. Finding it was wet, he alarmingly looked at his hands: then, with a sigh of relief, he exclaimed: “Thank God, it is blood! I thought it was my whiskey!”

My first acquaintance with groggy GIs began one late afternoon. I was plowing our rice field with our carabao named Carpio. Disabled tanks and shot-down planes still cluttered the fields. I was barefooted and stripped to the waist. My hempen trousers were rolled up to my knees. My bolo was at my side.

Thoughts from a Couch Potato

There is nothing like locking up our self in the movie room when things get a little too depressing and silly things just keep on sprouting from here and there. It’s probably one of the best things to do when we are at home resting or when there’s nothing more better to do.

If you are a movie/TV junkie, have you experienced being really glued in front of the screen, and takes the marathon seriously? I did, on movies that are truly worth watching, movies that teaches us moral lessons, on movies that is not only entertaining but informative, something that will keep you one with the universe.

I am such a fan of good movies, and I would like to share some of them, those that changed me, in one way or another.

• La Vita e Bella or Life is Beautiful
• Glory Road
• Million Dollar Baby
• Sea Biscuit
• Saving Private Ryan
• Titanic
• Blood Diamond
• United 93

There’s still a lot more in my list. I will try posting them soon…

In over a month, 2008 will end and the whole world will welcome year 2009. I hope you also are excited as much as I do.

Movies to look forward to:

• Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
• Dragonball (The Movie)
• X-Men Origins: Wolverine
• Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
• Toy Story 3-D
• Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience

Here are some of the trailers:

Dragonball

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nClSLM_L-sw]

Harry Potter

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zf9IW-R5eI