Racism?

Ok, i heard about how Donald Sterling made racist remarks. He deserves the punishment because we live in a world that should be equal despite many ethnic groups or subgroups. What happens in the world is still the opposite. Like here in Japan. Most battles at work is Brazilian vs Filipino or Filipino vs Chinese or Brazilians vs Peruvians or Chinese vs their Japanese bosses and etc. They think they are better than each other despite the fact that we are just human while we, the few people knew what we should do as equal, fair and just and human compassion!

Have you ever heard of what Josip Kir did? An ethnic Croat who was a member of the Osijek-Baranja police during the early 90's that told the Serbs to stop putting up roadblocks because they should do what good people do and not bad. Earning the distinction of a traitor to Franjo Tuđman's HDZ and assassinated by Anton Gudelj who is still at large.

Milan Levar? A Croat who joined the Croat Army(Hrvatska Vojska) but quickly became disillusioned on an order he received. He left and made public appearances against the ethnic cleansing against the Serbs from his own hometown of Gospić which he saw immoral and wrong and when the authorities ignored him, he went to the International Criminal court where he testified. Extreme elements in Croatia decided to silence Milan Levar. A bomb was planted in his backyard, killing him. An investigation was set up to indict those involved in the murders in Gospić only to short terms and that is where justice ended for him.

How about a young man from Trebinje named Srđan Aleksić? Srđan saw a Bosniak named Alen being taken away by his fellow VRS(Vojske Republika Srpske) mates and when one learned he is a Bosniak(Muslim), Srđan confronted the man with the knife, got it, threw it away and walked away. Yet, other soldiers watching the confrontation from a far, run and beaten Srđan that he could not even stand up. He fought for his life in seven days against coma from injuries and succumbed in January 27, 1993. Alen Glavović visits Srđan's grave every year from Sweden ever since to remember his fallen comrade.

Or have few people heard of Marthin Luther King Jr. or other selfless people who were sacrificed just to make sure equality is intact on our minds?

World Economy is going down. Thanks to Barack Obama

American foreign policy. Wait, haven't i heard Husein Obama will be wanting to impose sanctions on Russia? Wait too! Not just sanctions on Russia but to supply the Jihadists in Syria try to win a losing war with Hezbollah or the Republican forces. Or, help abortion win more people to go to them rather than saving lives of unwanted babies. If not the earlier mentions, ensuring religious intolerance too and enslaving both blacks and whites into his own evil empire. Look at his policies! What a shame on him and his pro-terrorist policies in the Ukraine! Supporting a new breed of fascism! This is not what the Franklin Roosevelt have wanted or Dwight Eisenhower.

Since the time of Ronald Reagan, American foreign policy is very aggressive, starting by making Mikhail Gorbachev their own puppet, destroying communism the wrong way by establishing the National Endownment for Democracy(NED) to further their goals more. The IMF is the Western Powers' ally to enslave the third world.

The current sanctions of the world against Russia will worsen the world economy much more. If you remove Russia that has more buying powers than EU member states, the demands for Western and their allies' resources will drop while Russia will just find buyers anywhere because they use their brains and not their political maneuvering. It is a mystery but, my homeland is also affected by the Ukrainian crisis directly or indirectly and also the OFW's in EU member states.

Would you still support a man that prioritizes terrorism and global meltdown?

Serbs are allies and not villains!

 

Before, all i knew was anti-Serb propaganda, Kosovo independence, blah blah blah, American liberated the Balkans. Heck, when i knew more, something was completely wrong. I added up Serbs on my facebook account, and i knew, the western media,(CNN, Fox, MSNBC, etc....) made up stories of falsehoods. What the reasons may be is only to get what they want on this country that had done nothing to them. I maybe biased as a pro-Serb but this is what i am really. What is right.

I am fed up if someone will tell me that if i want to be in Siberia or Slobo's actions was the cause of their fall. I would answer them, Serbia or Srbija is a country in the heart of the Balkans that is surrounded by enemies but allies are very far(Greece, Russia) and that it is invaded by Americans who hypnotized Croats, Bosniaks and Albanians that will destroy it for geopolitical interests and not for their own ''genocide'' story.

In reality, what happened in the 1990's was purely American made so that they will get resources or destroying a harmonious coexistence of nations that was made possible by socialism and limited market economy. Preaching Democracy is actually destroying Democracy and America and the big Western powers is just using Democracy to get there and surround Rusija with hostile and nuclear armed states, tricking Mihajl Gorbačov into those treaties that lead to the imbalance of the world. If i would be a democrat by heart, i won't even rely on the big powers but on the will of the people on what kind of policy they like for their country or what will improve the whole country.

And, what i heard from the Serbs are mostly, their history and their current views. I love Srbija, their Orthodox faith, traditions, places, the people and what they truly fight for.

Hasn't the world knew of the story of the forgotten 500? Where the Allied airplanes got hit by the Nazis and made an emergency landing on the Yugoslav plains and they were rescued by the Četnici/Chetniks who was the Yugoslav Royal Army that was deemed as collaborators and yet, they managed to rescue them and prepare them for an Allied extraction.

Or, when Srbija was the Gatekeepers of Europe against Ottoman invasion. My future patron saint, Saint Prince Lazar defended Kosovo against the Turks to the end, getting captured and beheaded rather than to surrender without a fight and to show how patriotic and God fearing he and his army was.

How about Nikola Tesla's cheap AC current than the expensive and dangerous DC by Thoma Edison?

Wasn't the world grateful enough that the Serbs lost 1/5 of their population during WWI and almost 700,000-1,400,000 or more during WWII just to keep the world safe from foreign invasion and influencing internal division? Belgrade was razed a lot of times but it always rises up like a Phoenix because the people their are resilient and love their independence more than Americans do.

Whatever the case, i will continue writing on this blog and multiple entries that we should give Srbija a better economic and social life and not American backed government that will try to get the rich plains of Vojvodina and will leave Srbija empty! And while we have time, let's help Srbija retake Kosovo!

The Vhong Navarro Case is a CRAP!

This would be made in my native Filipino Language. If you have questions about the content, i will summarize in English to you fellow readers.

Ito na ata ang pinaka malalang balita narinig ko sa buong buhay ko! Walang kwentang balita! Isa sa mga hindi dapat pagtuunan ng pansin kasi hindi naman ito may kinalaman sa naghihirap na mga taong bayan! Ito na ba ang pang baon sa balita tungkol kay Janet Lim-Napoles or sa Pork Barrel Scam o sa pagtaas presyo ng MERALCO imbis na magbaba at maghanap ng alternative sources of renewal energy?

Paano naman ang mga naghihirap na taong bayan na ang pera nating lahat ay napupunta lang kay Janet Lim-Napoles na ginamit ang mga NGO para kumuha ng pera? Bakit pa binoto ng taong bayan sila Bong Revilla, Tito Sotto at Jinggoy Estrada na alam natin maraming asawa o mga anak o kapatid? Hindi ko lang masabi si Tito ay kasama sa nang RAPE kay Pepsi Paloma at kanyang mga kasama ay si Vic Sotto at Joey De Leon! Imbis na sa taong bayan mapunta ang mga ipon naming mga OFW's o OCW's para sa mga pamilya namin! Pano din ang mga nakapag graduate na walang trabaho at puro PADRINO system lang ang papa iralin?!

Imbis na magpanukala ang mga mambabatas na maghanap ng mga alterative sources o mag develop ng multiple industries o magsabatas ng Draconian Laws o striktong batas, puro satsat, wala nang ginawa kundi hayaan ang MERALCO at ang mga Big players(Oil importers sa Pandacan atbp) na magpataw ng malaking buwis sa kuryente at sa langis kahit alam nilang naghihirap na ang ating lupang sinilangan!

Pati ang balitang pagsakop ng China sa mga isla na hawak natin ay natatabunan din! Kakawalang gana makinig ng balita sa Pinas kung ganito lang at walang improvement ang nangyayari!

Pope John Paul II declared a saint?

I heard about the canonization of Karol Vojtila or Pope John Paul II. Yes, he made headlines for the good reasons, not to mention the child abuse by certain priests but i don't mind that since it is normal. Yet, i would discuss here why he shouldn't be deserving that title, saint.

First thing, he prayed on the tomb of Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac, a Croat Catholic who advocated the Fascist Croatian Independent State which implemented Serb hunting seasons during 1941-1945, the most well known is the Jasenovac death camp which 700,000 and possibly 1,400,000 Serbs with some Jews, Gypsies, Roma and other obstacles were killed in cold blood by soldiers but the most enraging part, Catholic priests participated in the killing. Most notably, Miroslav Filipović who called himself Tomislav Filipović-Majstorović which means Maestro or Master.

Would someone try to notice that, priests who participated in the killings were proud and killed more for games, turning it to a much worse holocause than the conventional Jewish holocaust for the reason that murderers used a small knife to simply slash the throats of the victims and throw the murdered to the Danube or Sava rivers.

How come the Catholic church tolerated this kind of holocaust? Haven't they tried to praise the efforts of Saint Maximilien Kobe who saved Jews in Poland but at the same time, denounce the Ustaše's brutal and religiously motivated holocaust? Has the Vatican told the media not to mention Jasenovac? Why is this crap happening? This is a travestry! One that will be forgotten unless people will wake up.

Speaking on behalf of the Serbian people and those families of the survivors and killed, we should let you know that this is the Vatican's true dirty secret. If most people think about NWO's or conspiracy theories about nonsense, one thing is true.  The Serb's golden necklace or gold or silver teeth were taken out and brought to the Vatican as it's treasury when the war is coming to an end. Some Ustaše were helped by the Vatican and brought them to South American especially Argentina were most Croats there descended from the ratline Croats. Hasn't most people learned? Did the world totally forgotten about our Serbian brothers' suffering? How about the forced conversions of the Serbian people to Catholicism? And their children taken and forcibly assimilated as Croats because they are easy targets to erase all traces of the Serbian Orthodox in Croatia.

Croat Military and Religious leaders praising the brutality of the Ustaše regime

Bog ti Hrvati(For God and Croats)

Jasenovac body count

The entrance to the worst death camp in history

Srbosjek(Serb Cutter)

Would we wait for this to be shown or we take action?

Rock Songs

My day is not complete without listening to any rock song. I embraced that kind of rockstar attitude within me since i am a lone wolf all the time. Also, rebellious and doing everything in reckless abandon. Would someone not notice it because of my bishounen looks or cute image? Well, think twice or you will be eaten by your own views.

My preferred rock styles is hard or sometimes faster ones or with a symphony background. That is why i liked rock songs that have violins or dramatic effects to male the lyrics powerful.

Everyday, i listen to the song Metallingus by Alter Bridge as my own life theme song because on this day, i see clearly. Everything has come to life. The song Adam "Edge" Copeland used as a wrestler and during his part time appearances.

If i would listen to J-Rock songs here, my first choice would be UVERworld since i am an avid listener of it since 2008 when i searched for the song used in Gundam 00 season 2 opening 1.

Not just American or Japanese but Filipino and Serbian ones. I would listen to Riblja Čorba, Zelle, Silent Sanctuary, Van Gogh and more bands around the world. 

I wouldn't have been a rockstar more since i tend to listen my older sisters' rock songs when i was a kid. Since that day, i wanted to sport locks and sway my head like i am a rockstar. Just imagine Edge's entrance gimmick with those awesome fireworks!

Filipino-Japanese identity

Being a person of Japanese descent, i wonder why very few Filipino-Japanese are celebrating Undokai(native Okinawan/Japanese festival) or some other Japanese inspired fiestas. It is just a shame for me that a few Fil-Japs are proud of their heritage and now, describes themselves as either Filipino or Japanese. I rarely heard them of being Filipino-Japanese like i do. If i see some foreigners who appreciate Japanese culture, i felt why not my fellow Nikkejin do the same?

When i was a kid, i am mistaken by some as Chinese. When i grew up and people in my country were invaded by overrated Korean Pop, i am called a Korean. What in the world they are thinking? My paternal grandmother is a Japanese from Okinawa and i am proud that i had a Japanese blood although i don't call myself a Japanese.

For me, a Filipino-Japanese is someone from mixed Filipino and Japanese ancestry and a delayed group that will never let itself assimilate by other external groups that will be proud of their roots and proud of their host country no matter what situation.

The questions i would raise everytime to a nikkeijin is who is the full blooded Japanese among their family? If they do, i would introduce myself too. And a greeting of a fellow Nikkei to him/her, is that a simple task?

My desired names for my children

Might would have asked me what names i want for my children. Simple answer but very complicated. Complicated in the sense that i would mixed Serbian and Japanese names. 

For example, if it would be a baby born, i would name him Masahiko Đorđe/Масахико Ђорђе. In Japanese alphabetic system, it would be scripted as 雅彦ジョルジェ. If a baby girl, it could be Kejko Anđelina/恵子アンジェリナ/Кејко Анђелина.

My fondness for Serbian and Japanese names for my future children would mean i would put names of saints or with meaning. Or if it would be secular name and the baptismal name for church purposes only, it would be like this:

Boy: Takanori Vojislav/貴教ボイスラブ/Таканори Војислав and the baptismal name would be Vasilije/バシリエ/Василије.

Girl: Tomoko Biljana/知子ビリヤナ/Томоко Биљана.

I would also like the names Dejan, Gojko, Jovan, Takeshi/Takešhi, Dimitrije, Damjan, Đoko, Radovan, Masahiro, Mihajlo, Stefan, Marko, Miloš, Dušan, Srđan, Milan, Aleksandar, Slobodan, Miroslav, Tomislav, Boris, Toshio/Tošijo, Ryouhei/Rjohej, Yuudai/Judaj, Velimir(Veljko), Želimir(Željko), Vukašin, Jeremije, Antonije, Svetislav, Zaharije, Lazar, Ognjen, Stojko, Nemanja, Nikola, Hristijan, Džon, Bojan, Igor and others for male.

Female ones are Kimiko, Yuuko/Juko, Ayako/Ajako, Hristina, Bojana, Svetlana, Milica, Jovanka, Marija, Sanja, Mako, Tamara, Aleksandra, Nataša, Anastasija, Jadranka, Mirka, Dejana, Slobodanka, Jelena and others i can think.

If you know some good combinations of Japanese/Serbian names that i haven't noticed or mentioned, you may tell me in the comment box below this article.

Hvala Puno/ありがとう具材まづ

I love red

Red. Why people would wonder why i wear red in work every Friday? My answer is simple.

I grew up watching Power Rangers/Super Sentai series and i loved that hero who wears/transforms red and as the red ranger. How i wish to be a real life red ranger even in my smallest ways since every episodes of Power Rangers/Super Sentai has a moral lesson to which, i treasure a lot even if i am a grown up.

Also in sports, i love the color red. Alaska Aces. Olympiacos BC. Houston Rockets. Arsenal FC. KK Crvena Zvezda. FC Bayern Munich Basketball.

When i play basketball at pickup games, i am just a red fanatic. Not to mention, red elbow band, red leg sleeve and all red attire, i might as well be a volcano when i scored a lot if lucky. HAHAHA

If i will be a politician one day, if opportunity struck, i will wear red t-shirt during campaigns or if i am an official, red polo shirt to complement my personality. When i repose, i wish to wear red polo shirt too and white trench coat with black shoes to look like the same old me, like how i want people to remember me.

Remember, what your color is, it is still you. Don't let other people make some stupid suggestions on what you really like. Be proud of yourself since you had done nothing bad to others. Stand up. Goodnight everyone.

If i am so sad - Ja Dobro Ne

Time to take some time off from politics and others. Since i am busy from overtimes, i am tired but managed to publish some articles. But when something bad happens, my emotions goes down and in need of someone to take care of my fragile heart. I am hot headed often but, i am trying my best to be a pacifist since i value peace and not war.

If i am so down like in my article about depression hobbies, i would watch Romanian/Moldovan funeral videos, to which i want to be the person inside that coffin and silently being buried. Making me depressed makes me more and more desiring to die. I felt dead ever since i am on these kind of situations. No one can revive my spirit now but God and someone that will give me true importance. How i wish i am not in this state of total depression.

I am jolly at times and funny but serious, dark and boring when people know me well. Thinking too much of earning or changing the world through this blog that no one likes to read at all because it doesn't show the interests of young people but seasoned veterans who want a better moral and economic system. For trying out loud.

I still hope people would remember me for how i brought sincere happiness to them and not just nonsense happiness. I want to die if sadness is blocking my road to happiness.

Vera Sloboda Republika Filipini

Have most people wondered what President Noynoy Aquino is doing? If you would ask me,  i would rather put the Mithril hammer on his head than to support his pro-American policies of political correctedness and continuation of the haciendera system in my country. That is why i am benting my frustrations on his weak policies and supposed pan-Americanism. 

The Padrino system is hurting my country? How about that? Just because he came from a family that is close to the company, he would be an automatic applicant? How about hearing the story of how Filip Čović left KK Crvena Zvezda because he thinks he is undeserving of his role and that, the reason hebplays for them is that the owner of that basketball club is his father. Why can't the dynasties in my country be forbidden to run local or national posts? Do you have to vote for a rapist turned actor to be the country's one of the twelve senators? Do you have to trust NGO's that will corrupt the people's money? Or politicians would be voted even if they have many siblings or nephews/nieces, a sign of true corruption?

One thing though. I am about to explode when the news concerning Vhong Navarro's case against Cedric Lee is being given importance than China's invasion of our integral territories in the Spratlys and secret invasion through buying lands for their own selfish interests!!

Instead of the news focusing on the poor people and how to improve their lives! Instead of creating solar panels and wind propelled panels than dirty coal and Saudi oil(terrorists have a share on those oil)! Instead of enacting stricter and harsh laws against drug traffickers and cutthroat murderers! The culture of apathy and regionalism is slowly killing what Hoze Rizal(Jose Rizal), Andres Bonifašo(Andres Bonifacio), Emiljo Aginaldo(Emilio Aguinaldo) and others that safeguarded and preserved their nationalistic heart!

While we, OFW's and migrant workers are trying our best to earn money for our poor relatives, the government and selfish people are doing their best, to get those money at all cost!

But for those who are concerned, say NO to false media! Say NO to foreign invasions! Say NO to the culture of Apathy! Say NO to regionalism!

Places in Srbija i want to visit when i get there

Hram Svetog Save

The largest Orthodox Christian cathedral in the world by size, it was the site of the burning of Saint Sava's relics by the Turkish oppressors in 1595. If i would be there, i will take a picture near its gates and i will flash the tri prsta, symbolising the Serbian nation.

Manastir Ravanica

A monastery where the headless incorruptible body of Saint Prince Lazar is buried. One friend of mine told me that one day he will take me to that monastery and be baptised there, as Lazar. How i hoped that wish would be granted, that is why i will give my very best to achieve God's plan for me. +++

Ćele Kula(Skull tower)

Skull tower in Niš is one of the most significant places for me in Srbija. The Serbian rebels were fighting a losing war, the leaders themselves blew up the whole place rather than to be captured by the Turkish oppressors. After that, the Turks were ordered by their Grand vizer to collect all the heads and put it as a skull tower. To this day, only a few remain.

Beogradski vrt dobre nade

The Blegrade Zoo, since i love animals and want to see the famous breeding site of white lions.

Hala Pionir

Where most basketball games played by KK Partizan and my favorite team, KK Crvena Zvezda plays their home games. I would love to wear red and support my Crvena Zvezda.

See you all in Srbija and i will consider it as my homeland one day.

Greece-Grčka

Greece (Greek: Ελλάδα, Elláda, pronounced [eˈlaða]), officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία [eliniˈci ðimokraˈti.a] Ellīnikī́ Dīmokratía) and known since ancient times as Hellas (Greek: Ἑλλάς), is a country in Southern Europe.
One of the greatest civilizations came from Greece. From the Mycenaeans, to the Republic, to Alexander the Great, to the Greek influenced Byzantine Empire which Greece was a part of. Also highly notable, birthplace of Democracy, Western Philosophy, Olympics,  Western literature, Mathematics and more.

What fascinated me about this country is that, it's Byzantine and modern history enchanted my imaginations most. Especially when the country was under Turkish rule and how it waged a holy war against the Turks that made them free in 1830.

As i begin, it was also the Byzantine history of this country that made my first step in the Orthodox church. I read about history books about Byzantine History or Greek concise history. It opened my eyes to the unknown Christian sect i am searching for since i was in grade school. Although i need to earn everything through hardwork to get there. If i have money one day, i wish to have a pilgrimage there, especially in Mt. Athos were i will feel the spirituality of the monks, notable for me is the Serbian monastery of Hilandar where i wish to see the three hand icon of the Bogorodice.

Modern Greek history made me feel that, Christians too can wage a holy war against their Turkish oppressors, supported by Russia, because the Russians felt the Greeks were imploring God's miracles in times of troubles and the success of the protection of their national identity.

That part in history made me feel much more God fearing and patriotic although i may or may not apply it on my home country for my personal reasons. Yet, it would also define my future that, what they did is to show the world how they love both God and their country so much.

If not about religious matters, i wish to conquer their beautiful beaches. And some disco moment with people i knew there. P.S. Every game of Olympiacos Pireaus BC. I am a red fan actually.  :)

If some doesn't know Greece yet, i may tell you. Come and feel the beauty of the Mediterranean and the churches there. How i wish to know their language as well, which i am also fascinated. For the Greek People, may they stay united by God and their morals for their future.

Georgia - Gruzija

Georgia-(Georgian:საქართველოSakartvelo)

Is country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. An Asian state geographically and having a European identity. I knew this country even before i want to convert to Orthodoxy. Ever since reading geographical and historical books, i was enchanted in this peaceful, deliquent and resilient state. With people working together and almost everyone doing their part to protect what was left for them, this could be one of the last places on earth to remain committed to Christ and protects their environment, small economy and moral standards than most of Western Europe.

Only second or third in the world for establishing Orthodox Christianity as their official religion(contemporary Georgia is a secular state), is considered to be one of the oldest national church of any state, with Armenia officially the first. A friend of mine before told me that a church named Gergeti was where the people went to pray as a whole when there were times of trouble. 

Georgia survived everything, from the schism of the Armenian church, Latin Roman religious incursions, Mongol invasion, Imperial Russian colonialism and Soviet persecution. But would they survive EU invasion and American geopolitical strategic interests against Russians? Would Russia and Georgia reconcile in the future? Would the old wounds heal between the Armenian and Georgian churches?

Also, i managed to know from a the same friend that, Georgia has one of the best vineyards on earth. How i wish to grt a taste of Georgian wine when i get there. And, it was an honor to everyone that the current Gruzijski Patrijarh Ilija II(Patriarch Ilia II of Georgia) would baptize their infant child since he told everyone that he will baptize every infant, the spark of the birthrate revival which they needed to preserve their religion, culture and way of life.

If that day comes, would i be able to see a Georgia, still one of the most beautiful countries in the world and one of my favorite future pilgrimage destinations? I hoped so.

To the Georgian people, stand united and maintain what God gave you since the time of Saint Nino and the kings and queens of the Georgian state. +++

Hristos Voskrese +++ Vaistinu Voskrese +++

First of all, i would like to greet everyone a Blessed Easter. Christ is risen. Hristos Voskrese +++
We all know that after Easter, we can eat pork, do some stuff and anything. For me, however, our dedication and prayers to God should continue whether it is Easter or Pentecost or Dormition and Christmas. It is also important to know that being Christians, we know how Christ came from the tomb to prove to anyone that he destroyed death and rose up like how he made Lazarus rise up from his death in previous days.

One thing i missed is, the Holy Fire. The Holy fire that only the Eastern Orthodox Church can make every Easter Sunday. A true testament of God's miracle and power, not to mention the Snakes that protected the church in Kefalonia in Greece from pirates and every year appears at Dormition.

If ever i became an Orthodox and would be sharing the Holy fire with churchmates, it means that God works hard for us to know how he loved us even if we sin so much that is why we are being forgiven. No need to mention degrees of sin(seven deadly sins of the Roman Catholic Church) but the commandment of love and lessening our sins.

For me, Easter is the epitome of a new life, new life from a past sinful life and will live by God's miracle. A miracle that ensures us that we can do good, as long as we believe.

Srbi Narodna - Samo sloga Srbina spasava

In this entry, i want to dedicate this one to the Serbian Nation as like my past posts. If only i have connections with Boris Malagurski and some Serbian nationalists, i want to be one of those to unite Serbia although in a Tadeusz Kosciusko style(He helped the thirteen colonies gain independence).

Samo Sloga Srbina Spasva(Only Unity Saves the Serbs) by Riblja Čorba

   Volimo te otadžbino naša(We Love our Fatherland) by
Rade Radivojević

I don't know why i am this as a Serbophile like some people. I wished to support patriotic Serbs create a revolution to remove pro-Western, pro-EU and pro-NATO people there and retake the their Jerusalem(Kosovo). I hope this small entry will help people there to realize how they are one of the best countries in the world.

Arab Nationalism and the role of Christians for their Muslim Brothers and fellow Christians

The conflicts in and around Syria is somehow fueled by Western powers to introduce Saudi Style terrorism and intolerance. Jihadists and foreign mercenaries(John McCain included with some Bosniaks) poured in and are now on a stalemate to their own checkmate by the Syrian Arab army that is united by Sunnis, Shias and Christians who are willing to defend their homeland from external influence.

I don't want to mention Hezbollah coz it is led by a Shia group although they protect either Lebanese or Syrian Christians but in conflict with Sunnis.

So, some of you might wonder who are influential Arab nationalists who told in their ideology that Islam and Arabism is one? Was it Muslims mostly? Wasn't Christians included to be as one? Is this my historical contradiction and not finding much better facts in the internet alone?

May i start now.

Here is a list of well known Arab Nationalists and ideologists:
-Michel Aflaq(Syrian/Greek Orthodox Christian)-ideas played a significant role on Ba'athism and believed Islam will play a major role on Arab Nationalism despite not wanting Islam to be imposed on society.
 -George Antonius(Lebanese/Greek Orthodox)-Arab Nationalist Historian citing Muhammad Ali Pasha's Egypt was the start because of its dormancy and revival by Western missionaries of the Arabic language.
-Shakib Arslan(Lebanese/Druze)-Advocated an Islam that is charged with political and moral assertiveness.
-Zaki Ar Asuzi(Syrian/Atheist)-Unification of the Arab nation
-Butrus Al Bustani(Lebanese/Maronite Catholic)-Education of the Arab nation by mass publishing of literature throughout the Middel East.
-Izzat Darwaza(Palestinian/Sunni Islam)-Supported the unity of Syria and Palestine and his Nationalism was influenced by Islam.
-Constantine Zureiq(Syrian/Greek Orthodox)-In order to revitalize the Arab society, Zureiq demanded that there must be a radical change in Arab life. He called “for science and productivity,” and warned that the advancement of Arab society is dependent on whether that notion became a part of Arab’s “feelings and thoughts and a source of their will”.
-George Habash(Palestinian/Greek Orthodox)-founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
-Ibrahim Al Yaziji(Lebanese/Maronite Catholic)-translator of the Bible to Arabic
-Sati' al Husri(Syrian/Islam?)-Al-Husri saw localist tendencies as the main obstacle to the realisation of nationalist goals, but pointed to the German and Italian experiences as indications that they would eventually be overcome. Communist internationalism was also a threat, but by the mid-1920s, with the Caliphate abolished, al-Husri was confident that the challenge posed by pan-Islamism was vanquished.
-Adnan Pachachi(Iraqi/Sunni Islam)-Arab Secularist
-Abd al Rahman al Kawakibi(Syrian/Islam)-Although Al-Kawakibi did not have a tremendous amount of support during his lifetime, his message and legacy passed onto Pan-Arab nationalists such as Gamal Abdel Nasser, even though Al-Kawakibi was not a Pan-Arab nationalist but instead believed in Arab unity and solidarity. The founding of Islam in Arab land was a key reason for Al-Kawakibi to suggest the entire Muslim world to unite under the Arabs. Many Islamic and Arab reformists have also used Al-Kawakibi as an influence.
-Ameen Rihani(Lebanese American/Maronite Catholic)-On the political front, he advocated several causes and worked tirelessly towards these goals: the rapprochement between East and West as a major step towards global cultural dialogue, the liberation of Lebanon from the rule of the Ottoman Empire, and the Advocating for Arab nationalism and promoting what he called “The United States of Arabia”

Different thinkers. One unity. Christian and Islam would play better roles as one in a volatile society. Only outside factors will try to destroy them as one. Those Arab nationalists may not want their Republican systems be conquered by Western and Saudi anti-infidel and terrorist  influenced people. Look at Syria. Syria and Lebanon is the perfect example of Arab nationalism and continues its tolerance to all religions, maintaining unity and perfect Brotherhood.

Veliki Petak

Good Friday. VelikI Petak. Biyernes Santo. Just the exonyms i know about today. Jesus died for us. For the salvation of our sins. But have we made good repentance every year and not just Good Friday? Have we avoided going discos or do we go to church with our families?

Even i am at work now yet i want to make a confession to a parish priest but i just can't. I am not baptized to God's original church. That may have to wait. But when that day comes, i will grasp it like an eagle, flying to symbolize my freedom, freedom to practice my faith in and out, away from what the Internet is telling us or social norms. It is true, i have problems on my own(personal) but i won't let it stand in my way to remember how Christ suffered and died for us.

"6 Your self-satisfaction is not healthy.* Do you not know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
7 Purge out the old yeast, so that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. And certainly, Christ, [who is] our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.
8 Therefore, let us keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth."

- Corinthians 5 6-8

I maybe a sinner like most people. But, when will i see myself repenting for my sins? That i can practice it with my full reason and love for God?

Bože pravde

Bože pravde or God of Justice in Serbian. If i could be a naturalized citizen there, i might recite it since i memorized it a lot before and would put my three fingers near my chest as a sign of protecting this tiny yet strong nation from outside imperialist powers. Here are clips i got from the Serbian National Basketball team while the Bože Pravde is being sung.

Good for this country, they display their true nationalism even in sports.　Of course, Clean Nationalism untouched by radicalism or fanaticsm. I felt more Serbian sometimes actually and the lyrics of the anthem appeals to my ideals and my future.

My dream wedding

What does a happy wedding looked like? How would i be able to feel it after wedding? Would i have this kind of a wedding? Will God guide me and my future wife to a happy family life? If not, i may go to Mt Athos when i will not be married at the age of 40. By the way...


I wished one day, i can be married in an Orthodox church, with wedding rings, crowns and people and family members of both sides cheering for the newly weds instead of the typical Filipino marriage which parents are crying although that will change by time. I don't know if there would be a Filipino style orthodox wedding. But if there hasn't been a tradition to be created, i want a Serbian one. Or a Greek one.

The Sacrament or, more properly, Sacred Mystery of Marriage does not unite a man and a woman. Rather, it is the Church's recognition of a union that God has already begun to work in their lives.  As long as the union remains within the reality of this world, it will be subject to sin, pain, and death. But, through the Sacred Mystery, the union enters at the same time into a new reality: that of God's Kingdom. In Christ, marriage is restored to its initial perfection and in the sacrament, this union is made open to the possibility of what God intended marriage to be from the beginning: an eternal life of joy in union with Him.
Thus, marriage goes beyond a legal contract. There is no exchange of vows - the two have freely and coequally committed to one another and consented to God's presence in their union. There is no phrase "'til death do us part". If marriage is brought into the Kingdom of God, death, as a separation, is powerless over it. Christ has destroyed death by His Cross and Resurrection; therefore, the union of man and woman in Christ is eternal.(Eastern Orthodox Marriage)

Also if it will be allowed, i may wear red polo shirt and white neck tie with white pants and black leather shoes while i wear my Orthodox Necklace(wooden or silver).

And this would be my promise to my future wife after wedding and before the great feast: ''I swear to everyone that, starting this day, i will love, protect and cherish you forever. I shall commit myself to you and no one else. Because this is my lifetime contract i made with you in front of God. The contract that will make us inseparable and committed to each other for God and love. ''

I am idealistic about my future wedding? Well, i am too innocent to think even if i am so mature. This is because all i want is to do good for everyone and not bad. Doing bad means i am not ready for more things in this temporary world we lived in. Life is precious so we mus cherish everything!

Culture of Betrayal in my own country

I wonder why in Philippine History, a lot of people gave in or sold our divided country to multiple invaders(Spanish, British, American and Japanese). I read a lot a lot of history books in my home and now has invaded almost 60% of my brain storage. And this is what made me feel enraged. Deep down and will never forget.

During the Spanish times around when Manila was first under Spanish conquistadores, there were a group of conspirators trying to overthrow the government, led by Filipino Rajas. Unfortunatelty, someone betrayed them by being a spy and telling the authorities about the plan. Most of the conspirators were either hanged or exiled to Mexico where some of their descendants live although on an assimilated or farther generation. It wasn't known if during those times, the Makapagals of Pampanga were giving themselves to Spanish power. Note that, former Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is from the said clan. Clan of traitors.

Next was the fate of General Antonio Luna. He was winning major victories against the American forces until one battle where the Kawit company(soldiers loyal to Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo) refused to send reinforcements. Enraged, Generalissimo Luna fired the Kawit company for regionalism and lack of nationalism resulting that would certainly lead to his own death by selfish Filipinos. The Kawit company(Aguinaldo doesn't have a certain knowledge of their plans) faked a letter from Aguinaldo, telling Luna to go to Cabanatuan church for a meeting. There, he saw traitors and selfsh people he fired for refusing orders and as a distraction happened, he was fired upon and being beaten up by punches and then, multiple bolo wounds got the best of him. As his aide, Francisco Roman went to his aid, he was fired upon and died. Luna crawls to the outside as his final words were "cowards, traitors". Before or after his death, the wealth of the infant republic went to his girlfriend who was a Cojuangco. They would be the family were Corazon Aquino and Current president NoyNoy Aquino would come. Hacienderos.

The Macabebes. They were from Pampanga and helped the Americans locate the escaping Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo. As he was invited to see "prisoners", one Filipino grabbed him and from nowhere, American soldiers held him at gunpoint. As he has no choice, he surrendered and pardoned by swearing to the American government. The clan had their own town in Pampanga with the name of their clan. Macabebe.

And then came some groups for example, MAKAPILI and small known conspirators that eventually made my country a regionalized confederation than a united Philippines. Everywhere i hear people and are proud of being Tagalogs, Bisayas, Muslims, Ilokanos, Bikolanos, Bulacenos and more instead of being FILIPINOS! If one man or a group of people that has my ideals can execute my ideals for my country, i would not go anywhere. If nothing change, i might stat here in Japan or get a naturalized Serbian citizenship to help the people overthrow the pro-western Government there that i am comparing to my own country and there, instill my changing views to awaken their national identity or go to Georgia and disappear from the public eye altogether. I want to be proud of Filipino heritage but with those mentality, i won't be!

Srpska Pravoslavna Muzika

Before i sleep, i will post my favorite Serbian Orthodox chants i listened before. God bless everyone.

Oče Naš(Our father sung by Divna Ljubojević)

Lord I have cried(Serbian chant by Nana Peradze)

Unnamed chant for Saint Lazar +++

My favorite shoes

Since i was 17, i am wearing Adidas shoes after Adidas shoes. I love Adidas shoes so much that i am sporting Adidas apparel and no Nike's of course.

Here are the shoes i wore or at least, desired to wear it in any pickup games in the future.

Crazy Light(worn by Miloš Teodosić)

I have this as my first shoes here in Japan when i played pickup games. I love it especially the red color that represents my fury and desire to help my team win the game.

Adizero Rose 773(by Giorgos Printezis)

I haven't worn this shoe of mine but will when i could play pickup games again. 

Crazy Light 3(by Jeremy Lin)

I want to buy this one. Much lighter version of my first shoe. A lot of athletes wear crazy lights.

My views on married clergy

I also wondered why there are married clergy. Most of the time before, dad would tell me that, you cannot serve two masters. Well, as i grew up, i learned more than the social norms, especially from a Roman Catholic point of view to an Orthodox one. In the Catholic ones, the Latin rite forbids clerical marriage and installs clerical celibacy. One question though. Why is it that Eastern Catholics allows married men to be priests like their Orthodox origins? Some coincidence? Or Vatican Hypocrisy?

On the other side, the Orthodox church teaches that from the bible, Saint Peter was married. Like this bible verse:(Matthew 8:14-15: "when Jesus was come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother laid, and sick of a fever." Although ironically, Paul isn't. Some church cannons changed some rulings and ultimately, only when a married priest predeceases his wife, he will become a bishop through tonsure(Metropolitan Daniel of Japan is an example. His wife died and he was tonsured as a monk later and qualified to be the Bishop of his territory. Another one is Saint Innocent of Alaska). So, this is nothing new in history. It is just history is twisted by other people so that the inner beauties of our faith cannot be practiced.

The reason why God created things is to make us a better person despite the original sin we inherited from Adam and Eve and our own transgressions. Only selfish people will not let us see every good in this world or will leave us behind from a past we should either take by heart or leave behind. As we journey, i am hoping the faults of history will be fixed and that, i may see the Catholic church return to its roots and remove every secrecy they had. And that, the money they collected will be for the poor and educating them well. Educating them well will see how a bright and happy family will be.

In my opinion, married priests are much better family counselors than celibate ones. They know the hardships of every family and gives them spiritual guidance all through out their lives. God knows every men and women can serve God even from their small yet, sincere acts.

Sveti Knez Lazar(The reasons why i chose him as my future baptism saint)

The headless incorupt body of Prince Lazar

When i became infatuated with learning about the Orthodox church, i learned about this country, Serbia(Srbija) and knew what was their local church. I searched more and then i saw what the world did on this poor and small country. What made me focus more on my faith is that, God will lead me to a saint that put himself to battle the Turks rather than to surrender and let the Serbian nation down. Like his famous curse states:

"Whoever is a Serb and of Serb birth

And of Serb blood and heritage

And comes not to the Battle of Kosovo,

May he never have the progeny his heart desires!

Neither son nor daughter

May nothing grow that his hand sows!

Neither dark wine nor white wheat

And let him be cursed from all ages to all ages!"

 

 

When i saw that curse, i thought if i would do the same for my country if another country invades. And since i am a nationalistic guy and a religious one(not that so much), i chose him ever since. I pray to God for Prince Lazar's intercessions to give me strength and overcome the pains in my life like how he pushed his people to resist Ottoman invasion with God's promise of a heavenly kingdom than an earthly and temporary one that only saints desire like Prince Lazar.

This is a prayer to Prince Lazar's intercessions:

A Prayer to Prince Lazar(Engleski)

   Come to our aid, wherever you may be,
   Look down upon my small offering,
   and place it among the many,
   for I praise you, not because I am worthy,
   but because my small mind compels me,
   and therefore I expect little reward.

   But you are not so generous,
   O my dear lord and holy martyr,
   with that which is perishable and transient
   as you are with the eternal and the glorious
   which you have received from God.

   Yet you have bountifully nourished me,
   a stranger among a foreign people.
   So now my prayer is twofold:
   nourish me,
   and calm the fierce storm
   in my soul and in my body.

 (Srpski Cirilica)

Красоту зажелевши славе Божије, у земаљском Њему благоугодио си, и уручени талант, добрим трудом удвостручио јеси. Њега ради и боривши се до крви, и отуд и плату за муке своје, као Мученик примио си од Христа Бога. Њега моли да спасе прослављаче твоје, Лазаре.

The films i liked to watch everyday if i had a marathon

Weight of Chains

The movie that awakened the human inside of me. And made my eyes open to what is going on in this wolrd.

Summer of 42

One of the romantic films involving a young man suddenly falling in love in a widowed woman.

Private Lessons

A romantic-comedic film about a rich kid falling in love with a new maid that leads him into trouble and the maid developing feelings at the end.

 

Kamen Rider X Kamen Rider VV and Decade:Movie War 2010

The last part of Kamen Rider Decade and VV's episode 0.

 

Political and Social Awakening

How about when people awaken their social and political minds to what is happening in the world? What would be the scenario if they take action? Or stage a bloodless coup against the corrupt governments they are into? If i am to be asked what political orientation i am into, i could answer in between or Social democrat or Monarchist or Absolutism. I just don't believe in either Democracy or Communism. Too much democracy is like setting your goals free from what you need to do. And Communism, too irreligious. It just happened to me that i watched the movie ''Weight of Chains'' and got indoctrinated by what Boris Malagurski mentions as rise up and take action. I was so intrigued of historical facts and what the world is not taking action.

It is somehow annoying that most of the world doesn't care about what's going on around them. Why not overthrow the corrupt system and replace them with an enlightened ruler and will awaken every single corner of his/her country?

I just don't want wars although i never watched the propaganda about Kosovo since that time, the Western media was somehow focused on making the Serbian people the evil people and not the terrorist Kosovo Albanian group UCK so that the West can pretend they are jumping in for the common good of the people which is somehow under false pretense. Few people know America and NATO are creating wars to sell military goods to countries they deemed as aggressors. Yet, they helped the evil groups prevail(Neo-Nazis).

If i would be asked how to change the social system, one thing i would recommend. Draconian Laws. Draconian is an adjective meaning great severity, that derives from Draco, an Athenian law scribe under whom small offences had heavy punishments. Strict but effective laws for my country would be fine and to awaken the human in them and their minds to what they should do and not. Install police everywhere to guard rivers from being polluted, encourage the people to do good and make sure everyone would be equal regardless of race, ethnicity and social class.

About politics, violent overthrows are worse because it involves lives. To avoid bloodshed, it could be done by effective planning and encouraging everyone that to topple the corrupt people in that government meant they should impose strict yet awakening laws after they seize. Once they are able to implement the laws for the future development, the corrupt shall be all jailed for life and the people will throw tomatoes at them to show how the government is serious in anti-corruption. And after that, we all hope that every people in the state would be educated and given the most effective way to survive and give the country a much better future.

Only one man/woman can think but he must share his/her views to take action. And i want to mention this line from the movie ''The weight of chains'', ''Who on their right mind want to be a colony?''

My Language preferences

When i was a kid, i am thought English at first and then, Filipino. I called it Filipino and not Tagalog because i think Tagalog is a sub-group of the basic Filipino languages as a local dialect nowadays. Yet, i speak better English than my Filipino because i learned it much faster since i watched English television shows, cartoons and deemed Filipino as not my own language. I learned the advanced Filipino when i was like six years old. Since that time, i alternated Filipino at home and English at school(like most middle to upper class schools) and it was like i can go to other countries with ease.

When i found out about orthodoxy, i read some Greek but i can't understand so much because of so much letters i can't memorize easily. Yet, learning how to pronounce Serbian letters both Latin and Cyrillic was like a piece of cake to me even before i go here to Japan. I only know the Greek word Kalimera but i know more Serbian words, it is just i can't construct basic sentences like my Japanese.

As i continue living here in Japan and knows little of the language(although i know some kanjis and a bit sentence), i think i can compare my Serbian to Japanese. Of course, they are different but i used my memorization technique of learning Serbian Latin and Cyrillic and how to pronounce it to memorize katakana, hiragana and some kanji like i am memorizing simple figures or number equivalents.

If one day i can know Japanese well, i will continue my Serbian study. So does starting to learn Spanish, Romanian and Greek. Spanish is exotic and daring. Greek is the epitome of all words and mysterious. And Romanian, it is one of the last remnants of the Romance languages(Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian and some lesser known Romance language) and i am knowing some words(especially my favorite Romanian word, ''lacrimi'' which means cry or tears which has an equivalent to Spanish and Portuguese languages almost exactly.)

So for me, learning is one of the very treasures of every intellectual. Rich or Poor, fat or thin, man or woman, and almost everyone that desires more from what the past thought us. Will i be able to learn all languages i like in the future?

Who i am?

Some might wonder who i am personally? Some say i am Gay. Some say i am crazy. Some say i am difficult to have rapport with. Yet, when they know me well, they might be surprised. Because i tend to be informational and idealistic about many things. Although my dark side is that i watch Romanian/Moldovan funeral videos when i am depressed. The reason is that i think of myself as the person inside the coffin. I also have a funny side. Imagine Vlade Divac in everyday life. Lively but like a London Bridge.

I maybe joyful but i am serious all the time. I am the type of guy that is boring. Boring to the point that i am mentioning only history and politics always. Or topics that most people will find strange. Famous people and their Wikipedia articles respectively.

Or even speak Serbian and English although my Serbian is like my Japanese, sentence construction not yet good. I wish to learn Romanian, Spanish and Greek too.

I loved to cook Paksiw, a Filipino dish that is served by cooking fish through vinegar, salt, ginger and onions with other combination. I loved to cook it with Salmon or Blue Marlin or any assorted fish i bought from the nearest supermarket that is half a price when i buy it by around 5:30pm.

I love basketball, soccer and wrestling. I watched those sports when i grew up although i rarely watch soccer games these days. If someone could ask me why i want Adidas, it is because of quality and mobility than Nike fame. My favorite shoes of all time could be Crazy Light.

I am friendly by the way although i have selfish tendencies but only if i have girlfriend because i want everything for her and nothing else. How i wished to be married or else if not, by the age of 40 and i am single, i will enter Mt. Athos and become a monk.

Much had been said but anyone of you might ask me if i haven't mentioned something above on my paragraph.

Thank you.
-Paulo

Depression Hobby

Everytime i get depressed or something bad happens that greatly affects me, i would just watch some funeral videos from Romania or Moldova and just imagines that i am the person inside that coffin wearing a business attire, holding the crucifix with an icon of Isus Hristos or the Bogorodice or any patron saint, the trisagion verse on a paper on my forehead and i am draped with flowers, letters of remembrance from anyone and the blanket my lower body would be crimson with the image depicting Sveti Sava establishing the Srpska Pravoslavna Crkva for the Srpski zemlje. Would i even get that funeral one day? I just want people to remember me and my alone but not alone mentality and never say die attitude.

Here are examples of the Youtube Clips i had watched since November 2013.

http://youtu.be/JBCBu_JJKAI

The girl named Brandusa, a 13 year old Romanian that hanged herself because of being rejected by the guy who is six years ahead of her.

http://youtu.be/-YJ5lMy_MP8

The guy named Serghei Virlan, a Moldovan who died in car accident during the winter. Note that the blanket his body was draped with the baptism of Christ and the letters written in Moldovan Cyrillic.

http://youtu.be/sa4Y9LHZRWw

Angelica Cristea. I never knew how she died but this could be a typical Romanian funeral wake. A group of musicians performing songs of sadness but i don't get it why they sing like drunkards or they never got tired of singing also folk songs. And the highlight was the body of the girl got almost indignified when people argue where she should be placed in the room.

Japan, Japanac i Budućnosti? Srbija? Filipini?

I am really uncertain whether or not i want to stay here in Japan. My personal conflicts are making me ask these or some things i should or should not be doing. How i wish i am from an influential group of people so that, i can use their money to rise up and change society on how it is right and not on our selfish thoughts.

When i was growing up, i saw politics, news and conflicts everywhere. Although i never got into any Bachelor of Arts courses(political-science or history or international studies). Because my dream job is to be a politician that will wipe out every corrupt official and change the current 1987 Philippine constitution. For me, an old and wrong system should be replaced with a strict but socially good laws. Filipinos might be scared of Draconian laws like the ones in Singapore or any disciplined country but my they should implement it to save my beloved Philippines.

Cleaning the major rivers, making dump sites into recycling shops capable of making renewable energy or fertilizers for the once rich farmlands. Building our own military industry and reshaping the current army. Implementing 2 or 1 child policy. Dumping coal and Saudi Gas for much cleaner solar powered panels, wind propelled plants, geothermal energies, reducing vehicles and building up train stations to ease traffic everywhere. Mobilizing people to study and the pork barrels that are supposed to go to corrupt politicians should go to poor children's scholarship and their families be given decent job and allowances to produce the new breed of scientists or economic specialists or soldiers or agricultural advances. Trashing old and superstitious ways. Telling the communist New People's Army to talk with me personally and i will give them livelihoods for their families and that they might serve the nation than to commit sabotages and kill more people and i shall tell them to be open more. Abolish Mindanao autonomy and make it a province equal to all provinces. Improve ties with Russia and other countries with potential markets and lessen dependence on American economic and foreign policy. Make conditions for Fil-Ams or foreigners that wish to be naturalized that they must live in the Philippines and serve the country and practice patriotism and true Filipino spirit of not giving up and ''Bayanihan''. Indoctrinate everyone of what is right and what is really wrong.

But what i must keep telling every Filipinos. Regardless of ethnicity or regional differences, we are Filipinos and not Tagalogs or Bisayans or Moros or Ilokanos or Bikolanos or Filipino-Chinese or Filipino-Americans! Ethnicity is just a statistic but not what our true identities. Imagine a Yugoslavia now that is democratic yet united and strong economically and politically.

Unless some people will act like what i envision, this dream will remain a dream. Hoping that one man or woman will think of what i hoped for my Philippines.