Call for Application: 20 Filipino Youth will be selected for the ASEAN Young Leaders Training Program

Background
The National Youth Commission will be sending twenty (20) young cadres to participate in the ASEAN Young Leaders Training Program from October 11 to 31, 2010.

The ASEAN Young Leaders Training Program is a key program launched by the All-China Youth Federation with the aim of enhancing friendly relationship between China and ASEAN countries and promoting the friendship and mutual trust of the young generations. During the three-week program, the attendees will learn basic Chinese language; study Chinese history, culture, politics, economy; visit enterprises, governments, schools, communities and rural areas in Guangxi and Beijing; and interact with Chinese youth.

Venue and Date
The event will be held in the Nanning, Guangxi, and Beijing, China from October 11 to 31, 2010.

Participant’s Eligibility

1. Filipino citizen;
2. Must be 25 to 40 years old;
3. Must be able to communicate well in English both in listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills (English is the teaching language);
4. Willingness to participate in the discussions and activities
5. Physically fit to travel (Physical Examination Certificate is required)
6. Must have valid passport six months before the departure date of the program

Expenses
The Chinese organizer will cover the expenses including international flights, as well as tuition, food, accommodation, insurance and cost of organized visits in China. Participants will shoulder their own domestic transportation costs and visa fee.

Application and Selection Process
Applicants must send their completed application forms (attached here) by mail, fax, or email no later than September 1 to the following:

National Youth Commission (NYC)
c/o Juliet Carolino
4th Floor Bookman Building, 373 Quezon Ave., Quezon City
Tel./Fax: (02) 781-1406
Email: julietNYC2009@gmail.com

Screening of the applications will be conducted. The qualified twenty (20) applicants will be notified thru email and phone call.

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Closing Cycles

by: Paulo Coelho

One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters - whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.

Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents' house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden? You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won't take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that.
But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your spouse, your friends, your children, etc.
Everyone will be finishing chapters,
turning over new leaves, getting on with life. And they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill.

None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time, not even when we try to understand the things that happen to us. What has passed will not return: we cannot forever be children, late adolescents, sons that feel guilt or rancor towards our parents, lovers who day and night relive an affair with someone who has gone away and has not the least intention of coming back. Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away.
Nobody plays this life with marked cards; so sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Do not expect anything in return. Donot expect your efforts to be appreciated, your genius to be discovered, your love to be understood and reciprocated. Stop turning on your emotional television to watch the same program over and over again, the one that shows how much you suffered from a certain loss: that is only poisoning you, no one else.
Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them.

Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting relationships that are broken off, work that is promised but there is no starting date, decisions that are always put off waiting for the "ideal moment." Before a new chapter is begun, the old one has to be finished: tell yourself that what has passed will never come back.
Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because it no longer fits your life. Shut the door, change the record, clean the house, shake off the dust. Stop being who you were,
and change into who you are.

Sink in to the emotion, master it and let it go....

Intimacy vs. Commitment

I was invited for a simple get together of friends. I was surprised when I arrived in the venue. I never knew that there were bars (small booths) at the back of East West Café and Philosophy at Juana Osmeña St. along Mango Avenue. It was a pretty decent place. The crowd is young and hip. I can say that mostly were college students and yuppies. I manage to blend in although I was thinking that I don’t belong to the demographics. (It’s all in the mind….)

Talks get more exciting and even hotter with the re-mix pop music at the background. When young grown ups get together they usually discuss about sex, relationship and even careers. Carl, Kakay and Yvone were there. We had a very casual conversation about intimacy and commitment. Carl is married man so somehow he is a very good resource person. I tried to ask questions about what will make him stay in a relationship? How will you know that the person you were with is the person you should be with?

When it was his turn to ask questions on me, I was bombarded with questions I am not ready to answer. I answered them hypothetically.

Is intimacy an essential element for commitment?
Can you demand intimacy?
What is intimacy for you?

We have different views with Carl. I don’t know why but it seems that I am ultra-conservative… (although it doesn’t show..)

Intimacy is not an element of commitment. Probably it is an indication of a commitment but it should not be a measure of it. Commitment is a decision while intimacy is instinctive.

Love Hate Relationship Explained!

Love is blind. A new discovery has give a biological basis for this very common adage for the unreasonableness of love. Scientists led by Professor Semir Zeki of University College London and John Romaya of the Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology delve into the relationship of the two most intense emotions of love and hate. According to their study in the physical nature of love and hate they found out that these two emotions are intimately linked within the human brain. The same brain circuitry is involved in both emotions. Although love and hate appear to be a polar opposite, the circuits in the brain responsible for both emotions are the same.

The study advertised for volunteers to take part in the study and 17 people were chosen who professed a deep hatred for one individual. Most chose an ex-lover or a competitor at work, although one woman expressed an intense hatred for a famous political figure.

Professor Zeki and John Romaya of the Wellcome Laboratory of Neurobiology analysed the activity of the neural circuits in the brain that lit up when the volunteers were viewing photos of the hated person.

They found that the hate circuit includes parts of the brain called the putamen and the insula, found in the sub-cortex of the organ. The putamen is already known to be involved in the perception of contempt and disgust and may also be part of the motor system involved in movement and action.

"Significantly, the putamen and the insula are also both activated by romantic love. This is not surprising. The putamen could also be involved in the preparation of aggressive acts in a romantic context, as in situations when a rival presents a danger," Professor Zeki said. "Previous studies have suggested that the insula may be involved in responses to distressing stimuli, and the viewing of both a loved and a hated face may constitute such a distressing signal."

One major difference between love and hate appears to be in the fact that large parts of the cerebral cortex – associated with judgement and reasoning – become de-activated during love, whereas only a small area is deactivated in hate. Love taints reason. Paschal must have been correct in his claim that "Love has its reasons that even reasons don't know."

"This may seem surprising since hate can also be an all-consuming passion like love. But whereas in romantic love, the lover is often less critical and judgemental regarding the loved person, it is more likely that in the context of hate the hater may want to exercise judgement in calculating moves to harm, injure or otherwise exact revenge," Professor Zeki said. "Interestingly, the activity of some of these structures in response to a hated face is proportional in strength to the declared intensity of hate, thus allowing the subjective state of hate to be objectively quantified. This finding may have implications in criminal cases."

Cory Aquino a Philippine Hero

Maria Corazon "Cory" Cojuangco Aquino

January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009

You are our source of inspiration! Thank you.