Simply JAY

                Have you been to an incident wherein someone seems to call your name then you said "yes" or acknowledged it by gestures or facial expressions, then the bad thing is, it is not you who's been called for? How does it feel? It sounds quiet funny yet you get the feeling of irritation, right? But, whether you like it or not, you have to accept with all of your heart that our names are also named  to other people either by just a coincidence or by intention. Well, if there is a person who has the same name as yours, put in mind that it may stands the same identity but it comes up with different meanings according to your personality and possessions.

               Our names are always speaking of who we are. Everyday, life is incomplete without our name being called. Others say, it is by destiny and some say it is by choice with a history. But, whatever it is, these distinct meanings were built by our own.

               I wonder why my parents named me Jay. I can't even find connections with their names (Maria Luz and Benjamin). I don't even get their point why they named me a three-letter combination, succinct yet mysterious. When I ask them about it, they just told me that they wanted a short name for me and forgot the whole thing what's behind it. But whatever reason they might say, i'm just so grateful that they named me so unique in the world that I've known.

               When you look for the definition of jay in the dictionary, you'll find that it is a noun which is a noisy European bird of the crow family with vivid plumage. Well, I can say that I am not that literally noisy person, I am the one who is "silence depends upon the mood and situation", adjusting unnecessary things and identifying elements to be eliminated imperfectly yet trying my best. My friends call me Jay, well, everybody calls me Jay and this name is mostly used by Americans influencing Filipinos. This is me, just simply Jay.

               I've been through experiences wherein my name comes a lot in common to other people. I'm used to it. It is widely used in a name combinations. This brings no problem in me, in fact, I feel so blessed having it, because every name that we have is a precious gift from above and I firmly believed that every name definitely named in you for a reason. It may be ill-defined to be understood now, but for sure someday you will.

Becoming a Successful Person is Courting a Woman You Love

               Becoming a successful person is like courting the woman you love. It needs ample of time to earn points and to prove you really deserve having it. Just like pursuing a woman, you have to prove her, she's worth your time. If you want to be successful, you have to be more responsible giving more effort just to grab it. You have to be hardworking, enthusiastic and loyal for everything you've done. I'm not saying, you have to be a perfect person. Giving your best is purely enough for every success is a comfort just like woman, she wants to feel comfortable having you.

               Sense of humor is also an important factor to become a successful one, you have to balance your life, your feelings and your attitude for life is a complicated one. As what courting acts like, you have to tickle the woman you love for she doesn't want to be bored. Sense of humor in a way that you don't look or feel like a clown, just being yourself is the best way either. To become a successful person, you need to have trust and faith in God for He drives everything like wooing a woman, trust and faith is a basic factor. It's not necessary to treat her as your God, because she might get spoiled.

                Becoming a successful person and  courting a woman comes up with great similarities. But whatever it is, contentment is the best way of life. Success of a lifetime is in relation with love of a lifetime and it is the same success as it was.

BUTANDING (Protect and Preserve)

              Like humans, sea animals have the right to live here on Earth. They have also contribution in the ecosystem just to make it balance. These animals made our world beautiful yet some people did not even realize it's worth, sad to say but true. These people became predators especially on those remote islands wherein large quantity of these species exist. They've been caught and sold for big money that's why advocates of this giant sea animal alarmed for its extinction.

           It is the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), Butanding for its local name. The species originated about 60 million years ago and can be found in the coastal areas in Africa, Mexico and mostly in Bicol Region, Cebu and Batangas here in the Philippines.

         Butanding travels across oceans usually close to the equator. They measure between 18 to 35 feet in length and weigh about 20 tons. They are easily recognized for their broad head and a random of white dots and lines along their backs. Their giant body projects its natural physical appearance. Their skin blooms in the blue ocean.

        In contrast to what their petrifying name seems to mean, these Butanding are not really dangerous living thing as not what we think. Butanding doesn't have the capability to bite and chew. They just easily suck in water with prey like plankton, shrimp, anchovy, small crabs and other small fishes. Their large and capacious mouth which can be up to 1.5 meters (4.9 ft) wide were lined with thousands of little teeth. These sharks have distinct spots in their skin that makes them unique in one another and are useful for counting populations. Butanding have two small eyes that are located towards the front of their flat head. Their body is majority grey with a white belly. Their tails have a larger upper than lower fin while the adult's tail becomes crescent in shape.

            The Philippine government declared the whale shark as an endangered species in 1998, together with the implementing of orders and coastal security. Moreover, these whale sharks improved the tourism campaign in the Philippines. There have been no cases of whale shark taking humans as prey otherwise fishermen hunt and plunder them as their source of income. Butanding can entertain people by their gentle not terrifying actions.   They just look scary but they are friendly and playful. We should realize their worth as a creature of God. Let's just think, for instance, whale sharks are like human too breathing to survive by means of their own. 

My Life Today and Tomorrow

  

           Every life has a dream. Every dream has a life; a life in which is a choice of the carrier. It is also a choice how to live together with dreams, a chance bounded by aspirations and experiences connected by past, present and future. Past is how we fought and survived, present is a continuous fighting and future is what we are fighting for. They say that time is the most playful element in this world, it slows down when you're waiting and it runs fast when you're happy. It is a bare fact that it's always wrong wasting time, as what stupid always does. Others say time is gold, we have to be strict in time. We have to live like we're dying. To live a happy life is everyone's big dream. We have to build a very strong foundation so that the success that we want will become a success of a lifetime. This is the mere difference between the kind of life I have today to the kind of life I really wanted.

            Today, the life I have is quite less reasonable. I want to live life someday with full of reason. More reasonable in a way that I have to wake up more early to earn money for my family. Today, it's okay for me to be stepped by others for I have no sources of being proud but when the time comes, I will never let anyone stepped me and my family because I might slap all the achievements that I have to the faces of those who dared so they better watch out.

             My life today is always in scarcity. I want to have life that is not worrying about my money, food and health together with the people I love. I want to live my life like a professional, educated and more mature one unlike today it's always a trial-and-error. I want to live life conveniently keeping distance to those bad and unnecessary things in this world as not as today, it's always an inappropriate and not suitable. Today, I can't say that I've got a happy family but I've always wanted  to have it someday. Lastly, I want to live my life doing things on my own, to live independently and to be more principled man; a man with a legacy to be given to my soon offspring.

             But do you know what's the best being me and my life today that I never want to change? It is the spiritual values and the other values that I acquired from learning. This is also the best thing I have inherited from my parents and to be inherited soon. The true family and real friends I have today is the same people I wanted together with me someday. Finally, I want to stay humble and genuine person as I can with the best of my luck.

            I'm a carrier of my own life. I'm a carrier of my own dream. I can see how complicated life is yet it's always beautiful. As long as God is with me, I know these dreams will do come true.