Monday, January 17, 2011

What we most need right now

Some thoughts on suffering...

Picked up from an e-book entitled: Why would a good God allow suffering? You can read it online at http://web001.rbc.org/pdf/discovery-series/why-would-a-good-god-allow-suffering.pdf

When suffering, what we most need at the moment is not a four point outline on why we are suffering or even what to do about it. What we need most is a hug, a listening ear or someone who who will sit with us in silence.  Sometime along the way, we will however need the truth of God's word to comfort and help us to see our plight in God's perspective.

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Robert Kiyosaki

After Gelo's burial, I was so depressed. Every evening I cry and had a hard time sleeping.  To entertain my mind, I bought motivational  and self help books and magazines and anything that caught my intererest.  One time I was at National Bookstore, I saw this book by Robert Kiyosaki entitled Guide on Investing.  I did a quick read on Kiyosaki's Rich Dad, Poor Dad in 2007 and his concepts are interesting.  So, I bought his book on investing to see if I can pick up some good points on investing.

After what happened with Gelo and the almost a million hospital bills and related expenses, I had a really rude awakening in many aspects of our life and one of this is in the area of finances, on being prepared for any eventualities and emergencies.  I found out that I did not gave finances the focus it deserves, so that we can be prepared for situation like what happened to Gelo.

Some thoughts after reading Guide to Investing:


  1. Turn your money into paper assets like stock certificates, real estate titles, mutual funds, insurance.  Never put all your money in the bank except your emergency fund, where inflation can easily caught up with.
  2. Have a profitable business and let it finance your invesments.
  3. Create a company where you are a majority owner and have all your properties be owned by the company.  Have very little property in your name, name it under your company.  There is a very good explanation about this.
  4. to be continued........ 

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Christmas and New Year without Gelo

As we prepared for the coming Christmas and New Year, my wife and I decided to invite her nephew and niece come over to our house to spend the holidays.  That is, to ease our loneliness and longing for our son.

But an added bonus was given to us, my office assigned me to a business trip on a far away port together with a colleague to install a biometric finger scan machine.  So, I tag along my wife because we know there is a beautiful beach resort in that area, plus we can make some side trip to other islands and see some scenic and tourist spots, and indeed we had a fun time.

Christmas eve and time came without much of a hitch.  Although, we still miss Gelo but we had some fun time with the family as we shared the noche buena.  We spend the Christmas afternoon at the memorial park and had little activities like card games and eating.  We know Gelo is smiling at us at that moment.

But it was when New Year came that we felt the pain. Wifey was the first to break down as she hurried to the dresser to hug Gelo's favorite clothes and cried.  I  wasn't able to contain my feelings and cried with her.  We really missed our son and wish he was with us in the celebration of the New Year.

Thank you Gelo for the 10 years with us.  Those years are beautiful and will never be forgotten as long as we live. You have touched our lives and others too.

Happy New Year!