I never thought I will find blogging a satisfying activity. I’m not a born writer, I took up engineering and did not consider (English) writing and speech then as important (so please be considerate for grammatical and spelling error). But because of calling (a.k.a. destiny, purpose in life) I ended up doing something that I never imagined doing. I find pleasure in public speaking (training, teaching), coaching and mentoring. I have been doing this in volunteer work as well as in my corporate career.
My experiences in the corporate world is bitter-sweet, and saw how other people is experiencing the same, so I thought why not start a yahoo group to serve as support group for us. So I began sharing my experiences, not because I find myself better than others, but exactly the opposite. I hope to get tips from others of my struggles in life, at the same time, share the lessons from my painful experiences. My problem with egroup was, when I hit the send button, I have no control already of what I wrote. Thus, I started blogging more than 3 years ago after finding it as better platform in sharing but at the same time control of my copyrighted work.
I find satisfaction knowing people are helped with my mistakes and other lessons in life that I shared. Of the 3 years of blogging, this blog
- connected separated families ( 1) relatives living in different continents and had no contact with each other for 2 decades found each other thru the comments section of this blog (2) a father became aware he has a son from an old sweetheart (after 18 years)
- provided resource materials on spiritual intelligence to students and applied it in practical nursing.
- helped struggling small enterprises
- provided helped to young entrepreneurs and young professionals
- provided answer to victims of sexual harassment
- provided job referrals.
- lead people to salvation (acceptance of Jesus as their Lord and Saviour)
and so on… This is fun.
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I am hesitant to discuss this, weary that I may embarrass the people involved. I’ll be sharing 2 stories where people help others “in their network”, who are in dire need. But, I will twist the story a little bit so the people concerned will not be identified.
Story # 1:
This blog, Sonnie Side Up, is (still) part of Entrecard community because of the marketing opportunity it provided and the relationship it built with other blogs. There’s this blogger normally active and engaging became unusually silent or inactive for a while. We send private messages and email but it was unanswered until we received news that 2 members of his family were hospitalized and in serious condition. This blogger was recently retrenched from work and turned to blogging to make a living. As other bloggers in the community came to know of the situation, each one extended a hand. Some visited them to show and give support, others send their help via pay pal and still others, send help via western union.
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No, it’s not the one in your mind…, neither FireFox. I was referring to an advocacy to Fight Flu…., got you there 
Summer is indeed around with the humidity a little inconvenient. I was watching the late night news last week of February when PAGASA announced the early arrival of summer. But I also find it strange that the weather experts are also expecting occasional rains and at least one typhoon per month in a supposedly dry season. Weird climate, courtesy of the global warming.
With the climate change, comes not only disruption of the regular weather cycle, but also the adaptation of different micro organisms to it’s new adverse environment. If you’ve seen the film documentary “An Inconvenient Truth”, the possibility of developing new strains of virus was discussed as a result of the warmer earth. It was kinda alarming…. in fact just this month, some kids of my office mates, and even my daughter was downed by a flu virus. When I visited their school, I was informed that a few more were absent because of flu.
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