Archive for February, 2010

Does My Blog Makes Sense?

Posted on February 25 2010 by Vir Antonio

I’ve been busy with work lately that my only consolation is reading blogs from the internet during my free time. If you check out my inbox lately, you’ll find RSS feeds and subscription from personal blogs to religious and among other things.
I find myself interested to a variety of stories and blog posts and I [...]

Updates for Melankoliko and some thoughts on CHANGE.

Posted on February 23 2010 by Vir Antonio

The Blog Layout
I believe some of you noticed the changes in Melankoliko lately. For one, the blog layout has been reverted to the earlier version for now. And I have to agree with the comment of one reader, it did help a lot in choosing bright colors. The views increased interestingly.
The Blog Title
Another [...]

Devotional: Make Effort for Peace

Posted on February 22 2010 by Vir Antonio

“Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace…” – Apostle Paul, Ephesians 4: 2-3
We often deal with issues and challenges that makes us lose control and get irritated. I for one gets erratic when pressured [...]

Trusting Him – Even at all cost!

Posted on February 22 2010 by Vir Antonio

On my previous post, I shared about doing things perfectly and giving the best of everything. I also shared about doing everything at its best only to find out that the outcome is the unexpected.

Well,I have to say that God indeed is the giver of opportunities. This time, the opportunity is to evaluate my work [...]

The Other Side Of Me – Which is about WORK!

Posted on February 21 2010 by Vir Antonio

[Let's take a break on the topic about "Of Family and Relationships" series and give some room to other topics as well]
All About Work
I’ve been so busy lately about our upcoming big event in our Dumaguete Delivery Center that I’ve stayed till 2:00am to finish some stuff and came back at 9:00am the same day [...]

Of Family and Relationships- Part 2: My Family Testimony

Posted on February 16 2010 by Vir Antonio

I always thought that my family was the perfect fit. My parents are working and they both provided for the daily needs of the four of us. They were always busy at work and we only get the weekends for the family get together.
I soon realized that my parent’s relationship were not doing well especially [...]

Of Family and Relationships – Part 1: When Kids Rebel

Posted on February 15 2010 by Vir Antonio

When I was Young and Foolish
To the young and inexperienced, we think that our parents are the worst enemies that we have growing up. They seems to be contradicting everything we like, and often feel that they don’t love us because they want us to suffer.
I remember as a high schooler sneaking out of the [...]

The Essence of True Love

Posted on February 14 2010 by Vir Antonio

I had the opportunity to talk about love yesterday in our youth group of 20 plus. We were composed of 2 young adult, around 6 college students and mostly high schoolers.

I divided the group into 2 – boys and girls and asked them to write down what they think about love and its meaning. I also asked [...]

Favor and Blessings

Posted on February 13 2010 by Vir Antonio

My pastor always tells me that favor from heaven transcends human capacity. After hearing that message a couple of years ago, I’ve accepted it at heart and is reaping the harvest of this particular truth.
It’s a good reminder for many of us that God’s favor is not limited to what we know and think of [...]

Am I Happy or NOT?

Posted on February 12 2010 by Vir Antonio

“Are you happy with your life?”
That was an interesting question coming from an officemate a few days ago when we were heading back to Dumaguete from our Bohol Jobfair. I was taken aback but the words that came out was – “Yes, I am…”
I’ve been asked a couple of times with thought provoking questions and [...]

My Top 3 Favorite Worship Songs

Posted on February 10 2010 by Vir Antonio

Well, I’m a new fan of Citpointe Live. Although their music is not quite the usual worship songs we hear, the message of the song is definitely heavenward.
Okay, I want to win the cd’s as well and here are my top 3 songs -
1. Dakilang Katapatan by Papuri Singers – First song on my list [...]

In Everything Give Thanks

Posted on February 10 2010 by Vir Antonio

“In everything give thanks…”
That’s the last text I sent to one of our young people when she replied to my request to be included in their prayers since I’m really feeling toxic and tired at work.
Yes, I am tired. I’m tired of waking up early in the morning with work on my mind and sleeping [...]

Of Work and Leisure At Bohol

Posted on February 4 2010 by Vir Antonio

One exciting part of working in the recruitment/marketing is that you get to travel and do offsite recruitment. If I may share, I’ve traveled to a lot of places because of work, all of them are company expense and all of them are definitely an experience of a lifetime!
I’ve been to Cagayan, Zamboanga, Cebu, Manila [...]