And since celebrating New Year’s would not be the same without the customary Auld Lang Syne, here’s a video to greet our new year. And ever the Filipino minded that we are, here it is in Karaoke.
The year has been interesting to say the least, and we would like to thank everyone for making FV such a success, we have a lot more things to accomplish in our goal of making a difference, step by step we shall do as such, with your help of course.
Again, on behalf of everyone here at FV, Happy New Year and may 2009 have better days in store for The Filipino people.
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Happy New Year!
A PROSPEROUS, PEACEFUL AND PRAYERFUL NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE!
Food for thought for 2009 — Filipinos should stop thinking of themselves as losers.
Words-of-wisdom from Mon Tulfo, who says :
You’re inviting poverty because of your words, “I’m broke.” Eventually, you become penniless.
Why can’t Filipinos say, “Mayaman tayo (We’re rich)” or “Malapit na tayong yumaman (It’s just a matter of time before we get rich)”?
Merely replacing negative words (I’m broke) with positive ones (I’m rich) will make one prosperous in the long run.
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/metro/view/20081231-180843/Watch-what-you-say-about-yourself
“Merely replacing negative words (I’m broke) with positive ones (I’m rich) will make one prosperous in the long run.”
Theres no harm in trying.
But… is a there any empirical basis to that.
Happy New Year Nick and fellow-FV bloggers/readers!
still waiting for the ball to drop at times square in a little over an hour. happy 2009 to everyone at FV, from both sides of every issue.
I am one against Blinded Positive Thinking, a sort of self-hypnotizing into believing that we are rich and okay. That is precisely the cause of why we are poor: WE DON’T FACE THE HARSH REALITY. Only when we admit that we are poor can we start pondering why we are such. We can only become successful when we dig out all the causes of our failures. Ostrich’s attitude will sink us Filipinos deep further into poverty. I think the corrupt politicians who ransack our national coffer will be the first to feel happy about Pinoy’s propensity of enclosing themselves in the labyrinth of “We are rich” self-hallucination. Just like in the case of recent Economic Tsunami,
China and Singapore leaders openly cautioned the presence of crisis, but our national government is still in the state of denial and that I think will be devastating because we will be caught unprepared when the crisis really strike at our doorstep. When the survey says most Filipinos are optimistic about their future I feel worried. We should see if it is a Calculated Optimism or Bahala-na-attitude driven Optimism. My experience tells me Sense of Urgency is never a part of Filipino mindset. Absence of Crisis Mentality is the real reason why our country is now lagging behind our South-east Asian neighbors. How can a people always auto-suggesting themselves to be “already rich” become really rich? They will be irrationally spending more and go bankrupt instead! Is this not now exactly the situation we are in?
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The ball is Dropping.
HAPPY NEW YEAR from the US.
Happy New Year To the FV family and its readers!
My respects, Primo!
Happy New Year to one and all!
Can our marginalized people truly say Happy New Year Today? We have no problem Greeting the New Year with a grin from ear to ear. But those with empty stomach on new year’s eve would sleep out the night and greet the onset of the new year just like every other day.
Nonetheless, I greet FV and all its readers/commenters/hosts Happy New Year. I urge them to agree on a New Year’s Resolution that people in this blog should learn to respect each other and be more tolerant of others who see things quite differently from what they see.
As Barack Obama said: “We can disagree without being disagreeable.”
Food-for-thought: a lot of condominium-towers are rising in Fort Boni and other metro-Manila areas. With Filipino-”financial practices” as conservative as people claim, then this means that the banks who funded the construction of those towers believe that indeed there are many upper-middle-class Filipinos who can afford to pay for those US$230,000-and-higher condominium units.
Positive thinking is not logical. Negative thinking is also not logical. The difference is that one is more useful than the other.
Happu New Year every one
Most of them were pre-sold to the overseas Pinoy even before the start of the construction.
The monthly amortization is lower compared to the condo in the US even with the balloon payments for every specific quarter.
When leased to balikbayans/friends who rather stay in a home environment than in hotels, the unit becomes self-paying.
OFW’s getting fired from work are returning home.
http://globalnation.inquirer.net/news/breakingnews/view/20090101-180970/Welders-coming-home
Orders for RP-electronics drop double-digit year-over-year.
http://business.inquirer.net/money/topstories/view/20081231-180882/Orders-for-electronics-materials-drop
Pawnbrokers report increased business as OFWs and OFW-families make sangla to raise cash to pay for bills.
http://business.inquirer.net/money/topstories/view/20081231-180882/Orders-for-electronics-materials-drop
A happy and peaceful new year to all at FV! More blessings for everyone this 2009.
Keep the flame alive.
So far so good. Happy 2009 to Nick and everyone in FV.