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Here’s the speech of President Aquino in celebration of the National Heroes Day yesterday.

Good morning.

Allow me to lead, along with my family, our celebration of the National Heroes Day. Each year, we remember the greatness of all Filipinos who offered their sweat, blood and life to attain the freedom we are all enjoying now.

There is no greater testament of courage than sacrificing your life for our country. Rizal, Bonifacio and Gomburza demonstrated relentless bravery when they opposed the Spaniards. When our ancestors resisted Japanese oppression, their strength of will was incomparable. Despite threats to his life, my father Ninoy fearlessly came home to demonstrate his opposition to dictatorship.

But today is not just for those who had to give up their lives for democracy. We also commemorate those who faithfully served our flag, whether recognized or not by history, and continued living with dignity and patriotism for the sake of our country.

They realized that the country could be in a better shape, so they gave up all their comforts and quiet lives, participated in armed movements, and submitted to danger, to fight for the rights of Filipinos. They are the epitome of patriotism, and in our solemn remembrance of their sacrifice, may we also practice the ideals they fought for.

It is only fitting that we offer prayers and flowers, and remember all their efforts. This is a proof that we accept the challenge of carrying on what our forefathers have started and bequeathed us.  I believe that the blood flowing in every Filipino is that of a patriot: we are a nation of heroes.

There are numerous ways of being a hero today, and we can become one without wielding a gun or a spear. Blood need not be spilled. We are no longer colonized by Spain or Japan, and Martial Law is over. Our current time calls for our cooperation and selfless service to our fellowmen without expecting anything in return. In fact, becoming a good and responsible citizen is heroic enough.

It is sad, however, that many of our countrymen seem to disregard the greatness of our past. I believe that their worst enemy is no other than themselves. They prefer to be consumed by selfishness and egotism. They remain shackled to a culture of indifference and finger-pointing. This is the very root of corruption and theft, for it puts their personal interests ahead of the well-being of the majority. Surely this is the biggest obstacle in our path towards change.

Remaining silent does nothing to change things, it makes progress impossible and condemns our people to even greater poverty.

We revere our heroes because they are the exemplars of love and devotion to our homeland. Let their nobility to end suffering in our country.

May we learn from them on how to overcome the obstacles to a better future. Let us never hesitate to stand up and overcome ingrained practices that inhibit progress. Let us all aspire to a prosperous life, and never stop until we achieve it.

For the sake of our posterity, I encourage you to spread the true meaning of heroism: to find the strength to remain vigilant, to serve as watchdogs of our government, to allot time to helping the poor, and to strengthen our collective sense of the richness of our unique Filipino culture. This is heroism through bayanihan.

Let us emulate the courage of our heroes. There is no greater commemoration of their lives than for us to commit to caring for, and treasuring, the liberty they fought for. As we pay tribute to them, let their story guide our hearts and minds towards constantly protecting and preserving our freedom. Let us ensure that the democracy they have watered with their blood will forever bloom, so we can bequeath a bountiful future to coming generations.

Let us all help each other: the strength of one, becomes the strength of everyone. Now that democracy is our birthright, may we further deepen the spirit of patriotism in each of us.

Thank you very much.

Source: Here

Ber months is about to kick in and I am starting to dream on a holiday vacation. We’re really trying to save to be able to get some quality time for the family. It’s been quite awhile since we went to a vacation and I am pretty sure that kids will enjoy it now that they are of age where they could explore about the things around them. We wanted to go far away from the hustles and bustles of city life where there is no pollution and where we could go on nature tripping and swim on the beach.

We would like to avail some self catering cottages and go on a full time relaxing mode without thinking of any work behind. To release and remove some stress and renew bonding ties with family under the heat of the sun and playing around the beach.  I think its just far to reward ourselves after a terrible working schedule that we had from work and this kind of vacation will be a fruitful and renewing experience that is worth indulging every once in awhile. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy as they always say! So we definitely need a holiday and vacation time out right?!

is all we have. But still here I am, procrastinating to the nth level. There are just too many tasks but I can’t figure out what to do first. lol! I just recently transferred the hosting of my main blog and got its own domain too, others can already access it but not me and that’s one reason of my frustration today, added to that is I could not login to the Echofon( An extension that lets me know twitter statuses) this morning, I was trying to figure out the whole day what went wrong, only to find out the reason for it later this evening is that my computer date is not correct, “invalid/ nonce” notice kept on popping out every time I log into it. Such a big waste of time there. But atleast I was able to figure it out. ahaha.

Tomorrow, DH will attend training on Kitchen Management concepts and basic cooking methods. It covers 8 Saturday sessions and costs P14k, but he got it at no cost. One happy culinary enthusiast he is! Thanks to her sister who asked if he wants to sit in with the class. On Sunday, we will be heading to Himlayang Pilipino to visit DH’s late mom, its her 10th year death anniversary. We’ll be meeting there some of DH’s side relatives and will hand on his nephew the amica auto insurance review that he asked for me to research over the net as he just got a brand new car, he’s into networking and will discuss with us few things regarding his so called new business wherein according to him is the source why he got a brand new car.