Comelec 2010

Hello everyone!

Here are the members of the Electoral Board for 2010

1. Edwin Villareal
2. Marcelo Dominguez
3. Abelardo Castelo
4. Toto Durangparang
5. Charlie Behag

Thank you very much to this fantastic 5 for volunteering. Your efforts are greatly appreciated!

They will keep us informed of the electoral proceeding as soon as they've met and discuss things.

As for me, I would like to thank everybody for all their help and its been a pleasure working with you all.

Godbless!

Rona

COMELEC Update

We now have 3 members for the electoral committee. We would like to say "Thank you" to Edwin, Marcelo and Abelardo for volunteering. We are still looking for 2 more, please if your are interested, give me a ring @01482320227.

Rona

update

Hello Everyone!

We had a meeting yesterday regarding the details of the Hull Filipino Community Election (I know.... I can only apologize for the lenght of time it took). Anyway, may we request volunteers to be members of the electoral committee (COMELEC). We needed 5 lovely people to make up this committee, so if you could spare sometime please give me a ring (320227). Also anybody who wants to run for office is very much welcome and encouraged to do so. This could be done by filling your own candidacy, or members can nominate people that they deemed can give a fresh and inspiring influence on the community. So everybody start thinking of names.

But as you all know, it is crucial to form the COMELEC first before any other steps can be taken. So please, help us out by calling me to volunteer or any suggestion of a name that we might persuade to help us.

Thank you all very much!


Rona

Lenten Reflection : Living Happily

Happiness cannot be travelled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. – Denis Waitley

Life is a journey. Along that journey, one experiences many different situations, meet diverse people and encounter a multitude of adventures, happiness, sadness, achievement, peace, anger, excitement, despair and much more.

We can be generous and loving sometimes while other times we feel empty, vengeful and arrogant. There are times when one feels that life is satisfying, happy and fulfilling. However, life is not one long rollercoaster of joy and glee. Truthfully, as you read this you might be suffering of one kind of another of these experiences. Pain and heartache does not distinguish between age, or wealth or status or nationality. There is no easy way of protecting yourself totally from some of the hardships of life.

To some experts however, there is a way to minimize suffering and to maximize the levels of happiness that we can experience.

Some of life's sufferings are unavoidable. However we can take responsibility for preventing as much suffering as possible. Much suffering can be the result of our choices, behaviours, decisions that leads to pain, heartache or injury to ourselves or to others.

Suffering may be prevented by doing some of the following:

• Develop a spirituality that connects you healthily to God, yourself and others;
  
• Don't take unnecessary risks;
  
• Pay attention to the wake-up calls;
  
• Listen to feedback from others;
  
• Examine the negative consequences of your decisions;
  
• Take responsibility for yourself;
  
• Be honest at least with yourself;
  
• Learn from mistakes: other peoples and your own;
  
• Set realistic and achievable goals for yourself;
  
• Walk before you can jump
  

Suffering can also be something that is internalised. It can be closely connected to how we see ourselves or feel about our lives. God continually invites us to see ourselves as His beloved children. Accepting that our God is a loving God, and that he gave up his life for our sake because we are important and deserving of all his love.

And for us to live happily in this life, we should try not to be harsh, critical and negative towards others and ourselves, avoid being aggressive and rude to other people, mingle with people who are positive, healthy and worthy of respect, we should be able to forgive ourselves for our mistakes and stop envying other people. Life is short and we have to make the most of it. It is not too late to mend and change our ways and this holy season is the perfect time to try to start living a happy life.