My Love Letter

Dearest Rodney,

It is very important for me to express to you how much you really mean to me. I wish I could do this in person while holding you in my arms and gazing into your eyes. But since we are physically separated by miles of emptiness, this expression must come in the form of letters such as this.

bem, I know it is difficult for you, as it is for me, to be separated for so long. Life seems to be full of trials of this type which test our inner strength, and more importantly, our devotion and love for one another. After all, it is said that "True Love" is boundless and immeasurable and overcomes all forms of adversity. In truth, if it is genuine, it will grow stronger with each assault upon its existence.

our love has been assaulted many times, and I am convinced that it is true because the longer I am away from you, the greater is my yearning to be with you again. You are my Charming Prince, and I am your devoted Princess. I cherish any thought of you, prize any memory of you that rises from the depths of my mind, and live for the day when our physical separation will no longer be.Until that moment arrives, I send to you across the miles, my tender love, my warm embrace, and my most passionate kiss.

Love always,

Your bembi

The Filipino Way

The Filipino has a strong respect for the dignity of a human person and consider the other as an equal. He is sensitive to people,s feelings, very trusting to a point of naivete. He is capable of genuinely relating to others, empathizing during times to stress ad need. On the other hand this very quality makes the Filipino tend to intercept personally any praise or criticism regarding  business or work relationship, other orientedness is the kanya-kanya syndrome the so called crab mentality of pulling down through persons seen to have by passed one in rank wealth honor. The Filipino can easily adjust to any situation. We can improvise, we are flexible, or we are creative. A thing imported is of better value than a native product., having stepped abroad is a highly desirable social status even if it meant being a TNT household help in the states.

A top criterion personal beauty is fair skin an aquiline nose, the mestiza and mestizo. The Filipino in his religiosity remains an animist at heart the Filipino has a strong hedonistic approach to his the Filipinos self-actualization his identity means the enhancement of all that is positive in him and the purification of his weaknesses.