thanks for another good year

It is crazy how fast the years go by. We are about to meet the 3rd year since I joined singles for christ. I wanted to thank the lord for giving good health to my family. We were all able to eat together yesterday. Today everyone has already left the house. We have 3 dogs at the house this weekend, cause my brother  brought his dog, and his girlfriend's dog.

I wanted to thank those of you who have helped me, and served with me, or counseled me on how I can improve. I do feel more peaceful and have that serenity. I watched kung fu panda yesterday, and there really is no secret to life. If you just try to be the best version of yourself, then there is nothing else left to gain.

I will continue to pray for jobs for all of my friends and family. I will pray for safe passage for loved ones in other countries. I will pray that you all have the opporunities you need to reach your dreams in life. I forgive you if you ever did anything with bad intentions towards me. And I pray that god forgives me for my sins.

I do enjoy the extra time spent with god during these last couple weeks. Going to daily mass is very different lifestyle. Sometimes I dont want to go, but I believe I needed it. It allowed me to try a new habit to see if it would change me.

Thanks for giving us food, and blessings and gifts lord. Only you know what we need, and I ask that you will give those gifts and talents to us at the proper time and place.

big hugs for everyone who reads this letter of thanksgiving in 2008

Your brother in christ,

Sensei Ronald Panlilio

I like opera's new browser, and operamini works good on blackberrys

I have to say safari on iphone is probably the best mobile browser. But for those of you on non iphone cellphones, you should try out operamini.com. I have been happy with it, so I downloaded opera.com on my desktop as well and I really like it. Very impressed with it being a fast browser.

good stuff. Happy internet browsing. My firefox browser is so slow now, it takes forever just to open up from when I first turn on my computer.

if you are looking for work, why not serve the country at americorp

Americorps has many programs where you can work for our country and help it grow, learn some new skills, and earn money for your student loans or future education needs. Go to http://www.americorps.

they have jobs for students, and jobs for college graduates, as well as some part time, and some full time jobs. They have local programs, and others that allow you to work in a different state.

The new president is promising change, well this is one way that you can contribute to making that change in our country...

take care...I know a lot of folks need work these days, so this could be a good option for them

Help adults and children with mental illnesses have a helpline when they need it

NAMI HelpLine: 1-800-950-NAMI Information - Referrals - Support NAMI needs your help. For over 20 years, the NAMI HelpLine has been a guiding, comforting voice to America's families and individuals in need of support, education, and empowerment as they cope with mental illness. With your help, NAMI can continue to expand this invaluable service; extending our support further than we ever have before. Your tax-deductible donation will be put to good use right now as calls for help increase during the holidays. Each year, the toll-free NAMI HelpLine responds to nearly 50,000 incoming requests from who could be your friend, family member, neighbor or loved one. The NAMI HelpLine is a unique, nationwide service for those most in need of its resources. $10 helps provide booklet and fact sheet information by mail to one of the thousands of people who otherwise would not have access; $25 ensures training for one of the more than 30 volunteer HelpLine associates; $35 assists in helping NAMI expand HelpLine Spanish-language services to the many who encounter great barriers and even greater stigma; $50 helps assure the availability of over 75 HelpLinefact sheets and brochures; $100 aids NAMI in adding additional HelpLine associate stations. "Thank you, thank you, thank you! It means so much to me that you responded to my cry for help. That alone means so much to me you will never really know." -- NAMI HelpLine Caller When people call 800-950-NAMI, the HelpLine staff and volunteers take pride in providing: Knowledge through vital, accurate information. Support through empathy and understanding. Assistance through referrals to the over 1,100 local NAMI Affiliates throughout the country. Assistance through referrals to the many agencies and organizations who serve the needs of people affected by mental illness.

clippers might trade for zack randolph

randolph is a good post player and I believe he would be a good addition to this team, to have someone who can go into the low post and put in 20 points and 8 boards every night.

I heard they are moving either mobley or camby, I hope they are moving mobley. Camby is probably the best player on the clippers right now, cause baron cant shoot so far, only like 34 percent from the field.

tim thomas is just very inconsisten if you ask me, so I dont mind losing him. And with mike taylor, gordon and ricky davis we have a bunch of guys who can play shooting guard. I wonder if randolph will start or come off the bench for the clippers.

glad to hear they are changing things up since they have lost so many games with the team constructed the way it was...

Badminton BDAY

Link

click on the link if you want to play badminton with us....god bless
I believe it is on nov 29th, at san gabriel valley badminton club

good exercise and good workout with friends, friendly competition

some good articles on dating, sex, natural family planning, and president obama's strategy to protect women and unborn children

http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/pure-sex-pure-love-78/
an article on natural family planning

http://www.bustedhalo.com/features/pure-sex-pure-love-79-sex_dating_and_catholicism/
an article and sex and dating for catholics

http://www.catholicsforobama.org
a good article explaining the programs obama wants to support to protect life, children and prevent abortions. Some of my friends have been arguing with me about why I supported obama. But this website gives good explanations about ways obama wants to protect women and protect the lives of the unborn.

Honestly eradicating roe v wade will send women into back alleys to have abortions from people who are unqualified. But creating social and education programs, and creating health insurance for all children and women, and creating jobs for women will allow more women to have the babies safely and be able to take care of them if they have an unplanned pregnancy. Also educating women is a good way to reduce premarital sex and abortions. Americans seem to believe in a right to violence: whether that is guns, abortion, execution, euthanasia, war, hunger, poverty, homelessness, drug abuse, child abuse, violence towards women, rape, molestation, birth control. There are so many factors that create unplanned pregnancy and lead to abortion. We must remember that abortion is a reaction of desperation.

We must educate men and women to make better choices and to abstain from sex until they commit to marriage. Sex is not the only way to show love. In fact emotional bonding, trust, commitment, and responsiblity are much better measures of love. Touch, positive words of affirmation, gifts, service, and quality time will tell you much more about your partner, then a quick sexual encounter. And you dont need to have sex before marriage to be good at it. Good communication will help couples have a great sexual life even if they are virgins. Sex is a natural gift that can be learned by any couple that loves each other.

empty my cup, and fill it with the spirit

when you have been loved, it makes you want to fall in love. But the funny thing is not everyone wants to do that. When I was younger I just figured there would be a time and place for that. For the last 5 years, I have wanted to find a partner.

But then god surprised me, and made me take a look at my life, my habits, my emotional life, my physical strength, and my sins.

And slowly he peeled away layers of pain, and hurts that I wasnt even aware of. As the song goes, I will never know what it cost, to see my sins upon that cross. And I wept over and over again, as Jesus knocked on my heart. As I surrounded myself with people of strong faith, I wondered if I was even ready to take care of a partner and a family. There must still be some work I need to do on my own heart to prepare me to be a husband.

And then I had a very active day, exercising and when I woke up the cross I had on my chain, had fallen off of my neck. So I lived without that cross, but it felt wrong. I went shopping with my friend Billy, and while we were wandering around, I found a new cross. Not necessarily a better cross, but just a different cross. I put it on and it felt like a new beginning. And I found a ring, and I challenged myself to try a new way of living, a new covenant with my god.

And when I commune with my lord at mass I eat the pan de vida, and ask him to wash my sins away and prepare me for the work he wants me to do. I emptied my old cup of knowledge, and pray for god to fill me up with new thoughts.

Create in me a light that draws people unto me,
give me the courage to reach out to strangers.
And let my actions create questions and interest.
Why would this man shout to the heavens,
march for the lives of the unborn, rally voters for
laws that protect the mothers of those babies, why
does he weep during worship. Are they tears
of sadness or elation and joy? Could they
be an awakening towards a better way of life.
I'll be your love, I'll be your light, I'll never let you be alone...
you are so lovely, your are so worthy, you are so wonderful to me.
Indescribable, uncontainable, you are amazing god.
give me your strength, and your wisdom from sunrise to sunset
show me the road less taken, and the trials and tests that will
reveal desperation and give me thanksgiving when joy and love abound
the peace and serenity of faith, courage, and wisdom.....

video about proposition 8, please consider this when you vote tomorrow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBrFHC1aoWI

I believe prop 4 and prop 8 to be very important law making decisions that we have control over as california voters.

And of course we should vote for our next president.

And we will have others on the ballot as well. Please make the time to vote absentee or to vote in person. I cannot tell you how to vote, I just believe god will elect and create the policies that are necessary. But of course by now it is clear what some of my voting preferences are. But it takes millions of people across this state and country to create laws that we can feel good about, and that will create a change in our society, economy, and moral values of our families and children in the future.