Driving through a busy intersection is a test of skill and patience

Getting through a busy intersection is a trial of skill and patience 
Dr Abe V Rotor

Series of shots taken at an intersection along España. Manila 

Tricycle - prince of the road; advertisement-clad rear of buses - hideout and watch hole of hold uppers. It is most likely that hold up cases happen in heavily tinted buses with ad-covered rear glass.

Caged pedestrians and motorists - the feeling of being prisoners on the street where high rise building construction is going on. It's a trap, a choke point, a danger zone. España fronting the famed UST Arch of the Centuries.  

Mural Paintings of the Grand Palace of Thailand

Mural Paintings of the Grand Palace of Thailand

Photos and Verse by Dr Abe V Rotor

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                                                        Author (right) and host from Vinafoods, Bangkok 

 Mural, mural on the wall:

tell me who's the fairest of them all,
 the grandest, the most powerful - 

The wall is mute, its message full 
of wealth, power before the Fall,
and the secrets of its soul.~

A Wartime Message: To My People

A Wartime Message: To My People

Dr Abe V Rotor 
Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid
with Ms Melly C Tenorio
738 DZRB AM Band, 8 to 9 evening class, Monday to Friday

Things seem easy and life is not as challenging as it was with our forebears who knew war and survived it.  Less and less of their kind can be found today. Now and then it would be good to revive some valuable memories for the new generation. 

Delivered by President Manuel L Quezon 

My fellow citizens: There is one thought which I want you to have in mind, and that is that you are Filipinos; that the Philippines is your country and the only country God has given you; that you must keep it for yourselves, for your children, and for your children’s children, until the world is no more and that you must live for it and die for it, if necessary.

Your country is a great country. It has a great past, a great present and a great future.

The Philippines of yesterday was consecrated by the sacrifices of lives and pleasure of your patriotic martyrs and soldiers. The Philippines today is honored by the wholehearted devotion to its cause of unselfish and courageous statesmen. The Philippines of tomorrow will be the country of plenty, of happiness, and of freedom; it will be a Philippines with her head raised in the midst of the west Pacific, mistress of her own destiny, holding in her hand the torch of freedom and democracy and pointing the way to the teeming millions of Africa and Asia now suffering under alien rule, a Philippines.

Heir in the Orient to the teachings of Christianity: and a republic of virtuous and righteous men and women all working together for a better world than the one we have at present.~

Manuel Luis Quezón y Molina served as president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944. He was president of the Philippine government-in-exile in Washington DC during WW II.

This message inspired Filipinos to continue their fight for the restoration and preservation of freedom.   In Nazi occupied Europe, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill raised the battle cry, “Europe arise!” I saw its imprint on cement in Zurich, Switzerland, on the spot Churchill stood some 75 years ago.

Little drama between master and pet

Little drama between master and pet 

Dr Abe V Rotor

Test the rational side of man

the way he puts a stand

on behalf of his best friend

all the way to the end.

 

Who is sad, who is happy?

To be or not to be;

the drama of life to unfold

between man and dog. ~

Characters that accompany greatness

Characters that accompany greatness
Dr Abe V Rotor 

Dr Jose Rizal - Philippine National Hero

Portrait  by Fernando Amorsolo, national artist

“ I will be telling you this with a sigh,
Ages and ages hence where two roads meet in a wood.
And I, I took the road less traveled by.
And that is what made the difference.” Robert Frost

Characters that accompany greatness

1. Genetic propensity, genius, talented

2. Meeting challenge in early life

3. Endurance of pain and various trials

4. Persistence, often stubbornness,

5. Resoluteness

6. Dedication

7. Inquisitiveness

8. Enthusiasm

9. Pioneering

10. Humility

11. Sacrifice

12. selflessness

13. Courageous,

14. Steel character

15. Competitiveness, often against oneself

16. Accuracy

17. Perfectionism

18. Strong character

19. Grateful

20. Admired, vice versa

The other “side of midnight” in the lives of many great men and women may be characterized by the following:

1. Short-lived

2. Unhappy

3. Loner

4. Turbulent

5. Sickly/with infirmity

6. Misunderstood

7. Outcast

8. Maligned

9. Non-conformist

10. Poor, and the like.

Challenge to our former radio audience of Paaralang Bayan sa Himpapawid (School-on-Air), DZRB 8-9 pm Mon to Fri with Ms Melly Tenorio

1. Tell something about the legendary character - The Boy who Save Holland
2. “Serve the greatest good for the greatest number of people.” Is this parameter a good measure of how great a deed we have done?
3. Greatness can be demonstrated by certain leaders in our local community. What are the qualities of these leaders?
x x x

The Art of War (Sun Tzu's Pieces of Leadership Advice)

Sun Tzu's Pieces of Leadership Advice

 "To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting." - Sun Tzu*

Researched by Dr Abe V Rotor

 

• He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
• In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity.
• Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
• A leader leads by example, not by force.
• You have to believe in yourself.
• Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.
• If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. ...
• The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. ~

* Sun Tzu was a Chinese military general, strategist, philosopher, and writer who lived during the Eastern Zhou period of 771 to 256 BCE. Wikipedia