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.

stress-reliever

> PINOY JOKES
> Anong bansa ang walang pangit? UGANDA
> Anong bansa ang di sikat? LAOS
> Anong bansa ang tinutukso? CUBA
> Anong bansa ang madulas? GREECE
> Anong bansa ang hindi sa iyo? KENYA
> Anong bansa ang nakagapos? ITALY
> Anong bansa ang maraming bacteria? GERM-ANY
>Anong bansa ang nagmamadali? RUSSIA

Learn Japanese:
> 1) Is this your underwear? Jakimoto
> 2) Speechless? Wasabi
> 3) What are your thoughts? kuro-kuro mo
> 4) Are you regular customer? Sukikaba

> > Wife: Gusto kong magpadagdag ng boobs......
> Husband: Ha.... di ba masagwa yon, magiging tatlo.

> > Mga lasa ng gatas ng babae:
> Dalagita: Fresh milk
> Dalaga: Pasteurized
> Bagong kasal: Skimmed
> Matagal ng kasal: Yogurt
> Matandang dalaga: Taho
> Lola: Tokwa

> > Nag-aaway ang dalawang tanga:
> Kulas: Ano ba ang gusto mo? away o gulo
> Tomas: Away na lang para walang gulo.

> > Tomas: Ano ang ingles ang "Maswerte akong lalaki?"
> Susan: Lucky Me with Egg.
> Tomas: Eh, iyong "matronang babae?"
> Susan: Payless instant mommy.

> > Sa isang ospital pagkatapos ng operasyon.
> Pasyente: Dok, bakit ganito ang operasyon sa ulo? Halos kita na ang utak ko.
> Dok: Okey yan.....at least open-minded ka na ngayon.

> > Inday: Sir, karamihan pala ng nakalibing sa sementeryo ginahasa.
> Sir: Paano mo nalaman? Inday: kasi nakalagay sa lapida nila RIP!

> > Sa airport canteen, umorder ang isang Amerikano.
> Kano : Miss, will you please give me one few two..
> Tindera: What sir?
> Kano : I said one few two.
> Tindera: oh, puto.
> Kano : yeah, that's right.
> Tindera: (sa loob-loob, tanga. puto lang, pino-few two, few two pa, gagantihan ko nga).
> Tindera: okey sir, what color do you want? Few la or few ti?

> > Ano ang mas maraming sakay, jeepney or ambulansya?
> SAGOT: siyempre ambulansya. kasi ang jeepney, 10-10 lang bawat side.
> Samantalang sa ambulansya, madalas na 50-50 ang sakay.

> > Hindi raw bingi...
> Customer: sumisigaw... .... Pabili ng HOPE.
> Tindero: huwag kang sumigaw. hindi ako bingi. ilang COKE ba ang bibilhin mo?

> > Kumpisalan.. .
> Tulume: Father, patawarin po ninyo ako.
> Pari: ano ba ang kasalanan mo?
> Tulume: nag nakaw po ako ng limang manok.
> Pari: magdasal ka ng limang Ama Namin
> Tulume: Father, walong Ama Namin na po ang dadasalin ko.
> Babalikan ko pa iyong naiwang tatlong manok

> > Mister1: Ang misis ko, ang sarap humalik.
> Mister2: Alam ko, kasi nahalikan ko na rin.

> > Mister at Misis
> Mr: Sa wakas, nagising din ako sa alarm clock ko.
> Friend: Bakit, sira ba dati?
> Mr: Hindi. Binato na sa akin ni misis.

> > Husband and wife
> Husband: On our 10th anniversary, dear, I'm so proud to be married to the same woman.
> Wife: After 10 years with you, I am no longer the same woman.

> > Two married men talking
> 1st man: Swerte ko, my wife is an angel.
> 2nd man: Buti ka pa, ako ang asawa ko buhay pa.

> > Biro lang po, hehehehehehehehe> Pampabawas lang po ng Stress.

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SUMMARY OF EVENTS

For the sake of clarification we are giving you a summary of what actually happened on the discussions in our blog site. These are all based on facts and what was written by the bloggers, whether real name or alias was used. The names are described on how it was written on the site and not pertaining to a specific person.

After a moment of peace in our blogsite……….
Ø a certain blogger which uses ' …..' as an alias was suggesting that we close this blogsite.
Ø This was opposed by a lot of our members. HFC blogsite still lives….
Ø Then the topic just died out………….
Ø This blogger using the ‘…. ‘ alias was tracked to be originating from Brisbane, Australia

After a few days……….
Ø ‘Melason’ suddenly out of nothing burst out his/her grievances on the Filipinos here in Hull
Ø This was seconded by ‘Nosalem’.
Ø They seem to both agree on how bad the Filipinos are here in Hull.
Ø This ignited the long long debate about unspoken grievances.
Ø There was a suggestion of using the real name just to avoid or lessen trash talking but was ignored by the attacker, now in the alias of ‘melason or nosalem’
Ø Along the heated argument…… a certain ‘tsismis’, ‘nurse’, ‘carboot’, became so emotional and started attacking the personal life of our members which came to a point that it has to be censored by the admin due to scandal/stress that it might bring.
Ø This gave the reason for the admin to track these aliases…
Ø It showed on the tracker that:
o Melason………from Hull
o Nosalem……….from Brisbane, Australia
o Melason or Nosalem……….. from Brisbane, Australia
o Tsismis, Nurse, Carboot……….. from Brisbane, Australia

Ø A certain ‘Bing’ admitted that she is ‘tsimis, nurse, and carboot’, claiming that everything she said was true and she would never take back any word she said
Ø On tracking this ‘Bing’s IP address, it also originated from Brisbane, Australia
Ø Admin provided a certain ‘Eric with the latitude/longitude of the IP address of ‘Melason’ which is 53.7167 and -0.3333 (decimal value)
Ø ‘Eric’ came up with a value in DMS that point to a certain address, which is somewhat different from the value provided.
Ø Hence, start of some speculations and comments on a certain individual.
Ø Mr. and Mrs. Rey Gromet called the attention of Admin asking for explanation about the coordinates and denying that they are in any chance linked to this ‘Melason’
Ø Admin then explained the differences in the value and posted an apology for not deleting the posted new DMS value.
Ø However, Admin or any of the authors are not in any position to clear a name or point a finger on someone. We have never revealed an exact name or exact address as to who are these people using ‘aliases’.
Ø The bloggers opinions are based on their speculation and judgement. It is beyond our capacity to control their thinkings.
Ø Whatever was revealed on this post has been documented and we are ready to back up with evidence.