THE GREENER PASTURE

THE GREENER PASTURE
http://frostwhisper2012.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-greener-pasture_26.html


 
I have been in the Corporate Life particularly in the IT Helpdesk Business for 12 Years and Counting. 
I have constantly been hearing this saying over and over and over again...

FINDING GREENER PASTURE ON THE OTHER SIDE

Well...Here is my take on this common saying.
Don't take me wrong...I WANTED TO FIND THIS GREENER PASTURE!
For me it was not the Money (The Green Buck) but Another Place to call HOME.
I wanted sooooooo much to migrate to the USA, to Canada, to Australia, to New Zealand.


 
WHY???
BECAUSE I HATE LIVING IN THE PHILIPPINES!!!!

 

I have done nothing in My Life but to pursue this GOAL.
BUT....I COULD NOT...I COULD NOT DO IT....
I FAILED!!!....I FAILED MISERABLY!!!!
WHY CAN NOT I DO IT???!!!

 
Because I know, First-World Countries like the USA, UK, China always, always believe that the PHILIPPINES, our VERY OWN COUNTRY...is A LAND OF DOMESTIC HELPERS...A LAND OF MONKEYS AND FORESTS....A BEACH PLACE.
The Philippines is a Third-World Country, Impoverished, Dirty, Corrupt.

THE PHILIPPINES and INDIA are on the SAME LEVEL.
AND in the IT Helpdesk Industry, INDIA....
Well, let us just say....Their Quality of Work is Always Suspect.
Just like a cheap throw-away China-made product from Divisoria/CDRKing.



BUT!
Here is another way of looking at this common phrase...FINDING GREENER PASTURE ON THE OTHER SIDE




YOUR GREEN PASTURE IS RIGHT THERE WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW!!!

Again...

YOUR GREEN PASTURE IS RIGHT THERE WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW!!!



 
I CAN MAKE MY WORLD A BETTER PLACE....
RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!
A HAPPY PLACE!
RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!

 
THAT IS WHY WE DO NOT HAVE TO BE DISCOURAGED!
WE CAN MAKE THE MOST OF WHAT WE HAVE...
RIGHT HERE, RIGHT NOW!



 



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WIND BENEATH MY WINGS

I recall writing about this song in 1994 as part of Chinese Composition Class （作文）.
OMG!!! I do not know how the HELL I survived in Chinese High School (中正学院 - 戊组).
English was a BREEZE....but Chinese...UGH!!! 


I turned on the Radio today and I heard this Song.
It brought me back to this Memory.
Anyway this is a Beautiful Song.
Please be silent while you meditate on the Words.
Thank you.




WIND BENEATH MY WINGS
Bette Midler

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
It must have been cold there in my shadow,
to never have sunlight on your face.
You were content to let me shine, that's your way.
You always walked a step behind.

So I was the one with all the glory,
while you were the one with all the strength.
A beautiful face without a name for so long.
A beautiful smile to hide the pain.

Did you ever know that you're my hero,
and everything I would like to be?
I can fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.

It might have appeared to go unnoticed,
but I've got it all here in my heart.
I want you to know I know the truth, of course I know it.
I would be nothing without you.

Did you ever know that you're my hero?
You're everything I wish I could be.
I could fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.

Did I ever tell you you're my hero?
You're everything, everything I wish I could be.
Oh, and I, I could fly higher than an eagle,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings,
'cause you are the wind beneath my wings.

Oh, the wind beneath my wings.
You, you, you, you are the wind beneath my wings.
Fly, fly, fly away. You let me fly so high.
Oh, you, you, you, the wind beneath my wings.
Oh, you, you, you, the wind beneath my wings.

Fly, fly, fly high against the sky,
so high I almost touch the sky.
Thank you, thank you,
thank God for you, the wind beneath my wings.

5 Myths About the Ancient Olympics

Hi! I just woke up and found this Article. 

Filing it...

 

5 Myths About the Ancient Olympics

By Christopher Klein
http://www.history.com/news/5-myths-about-the-ancient-olympics
  

Critics who decry the present-day Olympics as being too commercial, too corrupt and too overrun by professional athletes often say the modern games besmirch the ideals of the ancient Greeks who competed in the original Olympics between 776 B.C. and 393 A.D. The idea that the ancient Olympics were a gathering of amateur athletes competing purely in the name of peace and good sportsmanship, however, is just another piece of Greek mythology. Explore five misconceptions about the ancient Olympic Games and discover some surprising similarities to our modern-day sporting festival.

 

 

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1. Only amateur athletes competed in the ancient Olympics.
The idea that only amateurs should participate in the Olympics is an entirely modern-day concept that developed when the sporting festival was resurrected in 1896. Not only were many ancient Olympians full-time professionals who received stipends from states or private patrons, but the ancient Greeks didn’t even have a word for “amateur.” (To the Greeks, the word “athlete” meant “one who competes for a prize.”) Money prizes were not offered to competitors at Olympia, but they were at other Greek sporting competitions. As is the case today, fame and fortune awaited many ancient Olympic champions when they returned home. States awarded cash prizes to Olympic victors. Athens, for example, showered its champions with enormous sums of money and other rewards such as tax exemptions, front-row theater seats and a lifetime of free meals in its civic building.


2. The ancient Olympics were not plagued by cheating and corruption.
No matter the millennium, the lure of winning can be too tempting for some competitive athletes. Although ancient Olympians stood before a menacing statue of Zeus and swore to play fair, some athletes were willing to evoke divine wrath for the thrill of victory. Athletes breaking the rules could be disqualified and publicly whipped, and competitors and judges found guilty of bribery could pay hefty fines, some of which were used to finance bronze statues of Zeus erected near the entrance to Olympia’s stadium. “Victory is to be achieved by speed of feet and strength of body, not with cash,” admonished the statue inscriptions. Clearly not everyone paid heed: Over the years, fines paid for the erection of 16 statues.

Actors participate in a torch lighting ceremony for the modern Olympic Games at the ancient site of Olympia in May 2012. (Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images)

The first recorded cheating scandal at the games dates to 388 B.C., when boxer Eupolus of Thessaly bribed three opponents to throw their fights against him. Leave it to a politician, however, to take corruption to a new, practically farcical level. When the Roman emperor Nero opted to compete at Olympia in A.D. 67, he bestowed astronomical bribes on the judges, who then agreed to add musical events and poetry reading—activities that Nero considered to be his strong suits—to the Olympic program. The Roman emperor entered the four-horse chariot race with a team of 10 steeds. Although Nero fell out of the chariot and was unable to finish the race, the judges still awarded him the top prize. Nero returned from the Olympics and other Greek sporting events with a haul of 1,808 first-place prizes. Take that, Michael Phelps.


3. Politics and warfare were absent from the ancient Olympics.
With competitors converging from hundreds of independent states, some of them rivals on the battlefields as well as the playing fields, politics inevitably intruded upon the ancient sporting festival. During the Peloponnesian War in 424 B.C., Spartans were banned from competing in or attending the games. While a sacred truce traditionally halted all hostilities during the ancient Olympics, war came right to Olympia during the games in 364 B.C. As the tiebreaking wrestling match in the final event of the pentathlon was taking place, invaders from neighboring Elis attacked. Archers defending Olympia fired from the roofs of the temples. (Security measures for the 2012 London Games, which included soldiers on rooftops with surface-to-air missiles, echoed these long-ago events.) While 5,000 troops engaged in hand-to-hand fighting, spectators used to cheering bloodied athletes in combat sports such as boxing and wrestling stuck around and turned their applause to the warring armies.


4. The ancient Olympics were devoid of commercialism.
The billions of dollars that the International Olympic Committee receives from corporate sponsors and television broadcasters has taken it to a new extreme, but commerce at the Olympics isn’t a modern-day invention. In the ancient games, licensed merchants ran food and drink concessions and sold souvenirs. Artists, sculptors and poets hawked their works. Olympic organizers could hand out on-the-spot fines to merchants who engaged in price gouging or sold inferior merchandise. Champions of the ancient games may not have gotten their photographs on boxes of Wheaties, but their images appeared on specially minted coins and state-commissioned statues.


5. Ancient Olympians trained on their own.
As with many of today’s Olympians, competitors in the ancient games had a wide support network that assisted them in preparation and training. Like many countries today, Greek states invested in sporting facilities and hired trainers who assisted athletes with medicine, nutrition and physiotherapy. Trainers of Olympic champions became famous themselves and penned popular training manuals with advice on exercise and diet.

Gaara's WAR SPEECH

Gaara's WAR SPEECH
(NARUTO Shipuuden Episode 261: Ninja World War Arc)




 
   
I LOVE Gaara's SPEECH HERE!!! 
IT REALLY INSPIRED ME!!!
Everybody needs a Savior.
Below is the Speech as Fan-subbed and
Translated from Original Japanese Language





From the First Great Ninja War to the Last,
Shinobi have WOUNDED AND COME TO HATE EACH OTHER
for the benefit of their OWN Nation and Village.
That HATRED led to A DESIRE FOR POWER,
and that DESIRE FOR POWER CREATED SOMEONE LIKE ME.

I too, was once FULL OF HATRED AND POWER!!!
I WAS A JINCHUURIKI!!!
I HATED THIS WORLD and ALL THE PEOPLE IN IT!!!
I constantly thought of NOTHING BUT DESTROYING IT.
I WAS NO DIFFERENT THAN WHAT AKATSUKI IS NOW!!!

However a certain Shinobi from Konoha STOPPED ME! (Uzumaki Naruto)
HE SHED TEARS FOR ME!!!
HIS ENEMY!!!
EVEN THOUGH I HURT HIM...
HE STILL HE CALLED ME HIS FRIEND!!!
HE SAVED ME!!!
MY ENEMY!!!
MY FELLOW JINCHUURIKI!!!
He suffered the SAME PAIN as me, and yet BORE NO ILL WILL!!!
The moment WE UNDERSTAND each other's PAIN, our MALICE WILL DISAPPEAR!

THERE ARE NO ENEMIES HERE!
We are ALL ONE and it is because we have ALL BEEN AFFECTED by Akatsuki!!!
The Sand Village, Stone Village, Leaf Village, Mist Village, Cloud Village...
THEY NO LONGER EXIST!!!

WE ARE NOW ONLY SHINOBI!!!
IF YOU STILL CANNOT FORGIVE THE Sand Village THEN
I WILL GIVE YOU MY HEAD ONCE THIS WAR IS OVER!
OUR ENEMY IS NOW AFTER THE VERY FRIEND WHO SAVED ME!!!
If they capture him then it will be THE END OF THE WORLD!!!

I WANT TO PROTECT HIM!!!
I WANT TO PROTECT THIS WORLD!!!
HOWEVER, I AM TOO YOUNG and NAIVE TO DO SO...
THAT IS WHY...
I NEED ALL OF YOU TO GIVE ME YOUR STRENGTH!!!


To protect our friends and this world, we will fight as one...
Until our dying breaths...

SPORTS. FOOD. TRAVEL. ANIME.

An Awesome Foursome!

These will be the Four Spheres of Thought that this particular BLOG will be focused about.
Well I guess, you can throw in some other stuff here and there...
But this will be mainly what we will write about.


DISCLAIMER: All Articles are Original Pieces of My Work. 
All Sources and Research are properly credited to their original owners. 
Thank you WIKIPEDIA!!!
ALSO, I treat Blogging/Writing as a Good Therapy and Stress Reliever for myself.
This BLOG Medium is only a Container to put whatever comes in to my Brain in Writing.
By The AllSpark!





I have a knack of SPORTS HISTORY covering an extensive timeline and a whole wide range of Sports. Basically it is because I grew up in the 1980s and still up to now....I AM SPORTS FAN. If it was not for my Childhood Friend then I guess I will not be able to appreciate the PBA, Cycling and the WWE now. I also love watching and analyzing the Olympic Games, Asian Games and Southeast Asian Games where Philippine participation is present.

I am writing all of my first-hand experience about Sports History before I lose my Brain...and go Wacko! I want to share the information to the next generation where they have not yet experienced the 80s, 90s, 2000s and beyond...




I LOVE FOOD

Being a CHEF is my Dream! 
My second career after IT.
Just do not have the money now to go to Chef School.
I do not know only how to cook stuff 
BUT I know and researched the Natural Health Benefits 
of ANY Ingredient I add to the Frying Pan/Wok 
 to create one tasty, healthy dish. 

I am very, very fond of the Food Business too.





 
I TRAVEL

Mainly because of the FOOD!!! :) 
I want to try out all countries' street food and good stuff. 
Maybe you have heard about Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations. 
MAN! That guy has the BEST JOB!!!

The BEST way to know a country is through their Food! YUM!



 
ANIME....I LOVE JAPAN!!!

Everything from Japanese Culture, Food, History, Language, Heritage, etc.
'Nuff said! 
Someday 
I WILL GO THERE FOR A HOLIDAY!!!

WORSE THAN TRASH

Those who DO NOT FOLLOW RULES are TRASH,
but those who DO NOT CARE about THEIR COMPANIONS 
are WORSE THAN TRASH!!!
- Hatake Kakashi 
Naruto: Team 7

Photo: http://www.rubberslug.com/user/ce78f7cf4ea14759aabcd5d2b2b10726/701211-2918344-kakashi%20bells%20thumb.jpg




I reflected on this statement for some time now and found that it does apply to our Everyday Lives, no matter what the setting is!  Maybe this was what was guiding me all these years....

I believe that this is really A MATTER OF THE HEART...A PERSONAL CHOICE!!!

I have been in the Call Center - IT Technical Support / IT Helpdesk Industry for 12 years now and counting.  From Sykes Asia, Accenture and now Hewlett-Packard Philippines.  

I was never, never ever, able to follow ANY PROCESS that I really did not like at all...I would constantly argue and argue to my Superiors, Team Managers, Quality Analysts WHY?! I needed to follow the Process laid out...when I really felt that there was SOMETHING WRONG!!! I tried my best to analyze myself why I have this kind of behaviour.
* I am very, very proud and happy working in Hewlett-Packard HP now by the way!

Why should I follow YOUR Process, when I can definitely discern and sniff out that you are only fooling/contradicting themselves and making things soooo hard for the customer and myself???!!! Why should I follow your process when it is something that you just made up in your head and wanted to apply to the Helpdesk Policies when it definitely makes NO SENSE AT ALL!!!! You only want this because you are only concerned about the STATISTICS!!!

Maybe that "Something Wrong" was that I really felt for my Customer at that point in time that he/she needs help, he/she needs someone to listen. There is a saying in Basketball that come the 4th Quarter of the Game...you throw ALL the Statistics of the past games and quarters OUT OF THE WINDOW....Whoever wins the has the most HEART! ONLY THE ONE WITH THE MOST HEART AND WHO WANTS IT MORE WINS THE GAME!!!

I was never ever able to get a Passing Mark in my QA Scores....BUT.....I racked up THE MOST NUMBER OF COMMENDATIONS a Month, every Month!  And THAT is what I believe WHAT MATTERS THE MOST! NOT being a STATISTIC but being the RIGHT PERSON at the RIGHT TIME to HELP MY CUSTOMER NOW!  I am very, very proud of doing this....And, I think this is where people get PROMOTED OVER the others! 

A LOT of Commendations = Good Feedback from Customer/Client = A Notification to your Supervisor = A "Nice Job!" Letter = A Good Performance Rating = A Hefty Salary Bonus!
 * A very profound thought...Now that I am writing about it... :)

And now, in my life, in all my ups and downs...I have thought and realized that I can not do things on my own....I need HELP....it has to be a TEAM Concept....a TEAM effort that will get you over any challenge in life.  But still, this Principle still guides me today....TO GENUINELY CARE AND HELP THE PERSON NEXT TO ME!  CHARITY BEGINS AT HOME!

I will try to be a better Teammate, a better Person, a better Team Player. But I still need to HELP and CARE.  And if I can not do that.....then EVERYTHING IS USELESS....I AM WORSE THAN TRASH!!!

PRAYER

Dear GOD. 

Thank you for the wisdom and understanding You have given me.
Please allow me to use this medium to help me achieve my Dreams!

In JESUS Name we Pray...AMEN!