We all need to be hopeful for in so doing we can achieve what we desire for life. It is not easy to climb the ladder of success. We always meet and encounter obstacles, for all those that we may encounter give us a better life and tomorrow. It is nice to sow what we plant behind those years as fruit of our labor.

Maybe I am the only in this site that like this song hehehe. I am indeed a music lover and could sing too like the way artists do,hehehe. Music is my soul, it entertains my world. It elevates my spirit from low to high, foremost it vanishes someone’s sighs.

One staff isn’t enough for 10 hectares of coconut tree farm and almost a mansion-a-like ancestral house. You should hire not only for maintenance but also for security to guard and secure the house. I know for sure you’re farming already lose a lot of money since your business partners might be scared for they do not want to be involved. Hoping you already solved it.

Your nephew has the guts to cry when you visited them on jail! How shameful of him. ANd it is just but understandable that all of your were angry at him.

Imagine getting PhP50,000.00 monthly plus the fruits of all those produce in your big lot, at the expense of your ancestral home.

So, what happens now to that property? Aren’t the family considering of selling and having just a big enough vacation house instead.

And it’s a good thing that you were all not implicated in that case.

@Dina, our property was already subdivided yes my nephew has thick face.We pity him and forgive him too, but his enemy is the law, so he must face the verdict. His case is not ordinary crime. His enemies are the people of the Philippines for conspiring foreign drug lords.Gone is our ancestral home, we hired a bulldozer to bulldoze it, no regrets friend. At lest we are at peace this time.

Life is not a bed of roses. It has its thorns so we should know the things to avoid in life, to hurdle the challenges we face. We should be equipped with enough knowledge but let us not forget to have the heart too to help people along the way. Yes we can do that, because who knows the people that we helped while we hurdle some challenges will also be the very people who can help us pass those challenges.

It is these challenges that once we have passed that shapes us a strong person. Once, we have hurdled a lot already, we can already say to ourselves, if I have surpassed those challenges that we can really consider as hard, then why can’t we hurdle some more.

I don’t believe I’ve ever heard that expression. “The more you hate, the more you love.” But it doesn’t make any sense to me. My late mother used to say: “Hate is a mighty strong word. Don’t use it!” Quite frankly I think the world would be much better off if there were not haters and everybody loved everybody! I’m talking about relationships between people. I’m not talking about hating certain foods! Like licorice. 🙂 😀

@Treathyl FOX , hehehehe, it is hard by the way to love the one we hate. I had experience hating someone my best friend, classmate and neighbor , she tempted my ex-bf despite my ex did not ride on her desire, but I hated her for she did not respect me and treasure the friendship.At least through this blog, it is proven this as loving someone hated much, so ironical, hehehe.Thanks.

Hahaha. Reading the title itself made me remember one of my experienced. I can remember that I set a qualities (not good qualites) of a boy that I should not become a boyfriend but 3 years later I have realized that my partner had those qualities. But it is fine at all because he has a good attitude anyway.

The post title really bothers me. The more you hate, the more you love? Reading it again and it still makes no sense to me. That’s like saying the more crimes you commit, the more outstanding and upright of a citizen you’ll be. (O.o) (???) In the Christian teachings, hate can lead to and is as bad as murder. Hate is not a good thing! Love is everything and way stronger than hatred. So you EX hurt you. That’s a fact. But you’re not so much hating as you are hurting. Hate. Hurt. Those are two entirely different emotions. So the expression is really very misleading. Especially to young people.

OK. That’s my two cents. I won’t say any more about this. Just felt the need to give it one more try.

The feeling is so sickening if knew a family member to retire broke. It could be unbelievable for he has a good job in Saudi as an accountant but sad he married a bad wife and my brother too so in love with her and he never had the chance in himself to sense the immoral doings of his wife. he never listened to his family about how he was made deaf and mute by his wife. He had made a wrong choice and a wrong girl. Yesterday can never be repaired.

Sad to know about your brother. At times, we think that we have made some good decision in our life, but we later on find our life has gone out of control. Bad people take advantage of good people’s love and concern, betraying them also.

Almost everyone working here in the Philippines have the same fate that includes my parents. They are both on their 60’s in two to three years they will be retiring. They already spend their future pension by having advance loans in the bank. There is a really serious problem to our system.

@PEEUSH TRIKHA, That is so true, no matter how we want to make our fate perfect, but there are forces that drive us to forget what we had planned. It is also because humans are weak and always subject to commit mistake, no perfect humans, but somehow, if we want to make everything happens, it wojuld if we do and strive to accomplish and achieve what has been dreamed of for future sake and better life. So sad, my brother nice and bright, became dull and lame like because of love. That is why i never agree that life will be made beautiful if we listen to the beating of our heart; it is proven false.

@Seth,Oh sorry my dear. What your parents were doing was wrong. I had known someone who loaned in advance his pension worth 1.5 million for a business he wanted to open and have his nephew to run the said business. At the end, no profit found, no money found in his band as what was agreed to deposit the profit to his bank account.Then time came he retired and his nephew left the country bringing with him almost one million. That person I knew became my superior for he was also a Doctor of Philosophy, yet his brilliance was not used wisely. he had the full confidence and trust to his nephew without remembering and thinking that we cannot even trust ourselves, so how much more to a relative.

My boss, died in pain for he did not have money to send himself to the doctor of his sickness Lung cancer.He became a smoker after knowing that loss of his financial.After 6 years of smoking, he was sick of lung cancer. He smoke non-stop, chain smoker.he wanted to forget yesterday that can never come back.

Every dream and plan in life will surely shatter into pieces. There are instances when you are there only to feel the ache when a sickness is on you and it would take months and years to regain the health. The years to suffer is not easy to deal. There might be many nights hard for you to sleep for you cannot believe your life seems broken in several ways. But because of faith, you are still hoping one day you will rise again from where you fall.
Let us not give up no matter how hard life is and no matter how difficult the burden to carry on our shoulder, let us always be positive for positive results always follow.

Yes and not to talk about the con-artist and scammers who rip our people of to fill there pockets and leave you and your family with nothing! Than you have to see your babys go hungry! That make me so angry and they usely target poor people who is desperate for some extra cash.

@Leonora fourie , Those people desperate of extra cash may turn to relatives to borrow and return when they can find a better income or work harder. Those who turned themselves to illegal ways will never have peace.

Nice blog. I, for one, enjoy bananas. Bananas can, also, be a source to heal or alleviate muscle pains. There is a particular banana tea that is supposed to cure insomnia. A mixture of water, bananas and cinnamon can be added in boiling water. Anyone who is interested, please let me know and if I find it, I will be glad to send you the instructions. Also, my darling wife, prepares for us a nice smoothie with some of our bananas. You had mentioned hernia in your blog. I, personally, had a belly button hernia that got, surgically, removed. So, I guess that qualifies me to understand the discomforts that a hernia brings. Hernias are no fun and prompt surgical intervention is key in order to get much added relief. Thanks for sharing.

A good and informative blog. In India, it is known as the poor man’s fruit. Whatever may be the reasons to call it so, it occupies a very significant role in the diet of an Indian.
There are many varieties in Banana as you said in the blog. In India, we got a variety called CHEKKARAKELI which will be very small in size and rich in taste. It will be of 8Cms in length and the layer will be very thin in light pink or maroon color. It is found mostly in the Southern part of South India especially in Andhra Pradesh. Another variety is known for its color and will be of 8 cms in size with very thick skin in yellow color.It will be quite different in taste with a combination of sweet and salt. Another variety will be having black dots on the skin. They are very sweet and rich in taste. People enjoy this variety mostly and in their anxiety eat more than what they actually can tolerate. Of course, it can be digested easily.
Banana has got many medicinal values. It is used in many medicines of Ayurveda and also in Yunani methods in treating diseases successfully. The skin of Banana is a bad conductor of heat. As such it is preferred for healing many skin problem and cracks on the heels. It is asked to take along with asafoetida in Yunani method of treating the diseases. They will prescribe the quantity of the Asafoetida to be taken along with the Banana.
In rural India, people use the bark of the Banana tree in their diet. It is cut into small pieces and a curry is prepared for taking along with rice. This is very effective in curing the kidney problem and melting down the stones in Kidneys. The people in Urban areas are now preferring to use this in their diet and finally, it has become so popular that it is served in 5 star hotels as a special dish.
The flower also is used for preparing curry which will be quite tasty. The chips made of Banana will be available in various tastes and colors. As in the Philippines, serving food in a Banana leaf is a must in a good restaurant and it is a Hindu tradition to take meals in the Banana leaves.

I heard a cliche’ And Apple a day keeps the Doctor away. So can bananas very important food source, much needed details. Great blog

Banana facts

Bananas may have been the world’s first cultivated fruit. Archaeologists have found evidence of banana cultivation in New Guinea as far back as 8000 B.C.
Bananas are produced mainly in tropical and subtropical areas of Africa, Asia and the Americas, as well as the Canary Islands and Australia.
Bananas do not grow on trees. The banana plant is classified as an arborescent (tree-like) perennial herb, and the banana itself is considered a berry.
The correct name for a bunch of bananas is a hand; a single banana is a finger.
Nearly all the bananas sold in stores are cloned from just one variety, the Cavendish banana plant, originally native to Southeast Asia.
The Cavendish replaced the Gros Michel after that variety was wiped out by fungus. The Gros Michel reportedly was bigger, had a longer shelf life and tasted better.
The Cavendish may face the same fate as the Gros Michel within the next 20 years, botanists say.
Bananas are also called plantains. But in general use, “banana” refers to the sweeter form of the fruit, which is often eaten uncooked, while “plantain” refers to a starchier fruit that is often cooked before eating.
There are 50 recognized species of banana.
Wild bananas grow throughout Southeast Asia, but most are inedible for humans, as they are studded with hard seeds.
The vast majority of bananas grown today are for consumption by the farmers or the local community. Only 15 percent of the global production of the fruit is grown for export.
India is the leading producer of bananas worldwide, accounting for 23 percent of the total banana production, though most of the Indian plantains are for domestic use.
In 1923, sheet music for a popular song titled “Yes, We Have No Bananas!” sold upward of a thousand copies a day.
Harry Belafonte’s version of the “Banana Boat Song” was released on the first album to sell over a million copies, Belafonte’s “Calypso.”

banana is so lovely and all do like to eat it but its not the most nutrient food, apple is healthier to eat and has more benefits thatn banan, but people ten dto eat banana for its amazing taste, one apple is equal to many bananas, and though i eat banan more since it affordable and tasty i have to admit that apple is healthier, and as other member said that apple a day keeps the doctor away, and that is why we have lots of food in different shapes and vitamins and this and that, so we do not get board eating one only, Thank God that we need to eat varity food. it is health and fresh food what make it happy life
thanks for you posting such post, and banana is the same in any place, same formula, there is no bad banana or god banana, so eat any banana so you get literaly exact vitamins, have agood time eating it all people

Thank you. These are all the saying written with experience. Hence, they are golden sayings which one should accept as infallible.
Sometimes, we as innocents may not agree with some of the golden sayings remaining in a cage having four corners but once we come out and go on a living in a dynamic society the value of these sayings can be felt.
Note them all and give a reading at least once in a week to make our life perfect and meaningful.

One can only agree with those sayings if they go through such experiences. Life is indeed has a lot to say.
I agree that we must read those golden sayings regularly to enrich our knowledge about what life is and to live it accordingly.