SOME PEOPLE SEE THE WORLD AS IT IS, I SEE THE WORLD AS WHAT IT COULD BE. I ASK, WHY NOT? Bernard Shaw.
OUR PRIME PURPOSE IN LIFE IS TO HELP PEOPLE, IF WE CAN’T HELP THEM, THEN, LET US NOT HURT THEM. Dalai Lama.
ONE LEADER ONCE SAID.
Don’t walk ahead of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Good evening friends, Pangasinenses, Filipinos, brothers and sisters; Good evening President Pepe Palaganas and First Lady Lilia; Outgoing President Violy Salomon; Queen Mary Corpus; Outgoing queen, Mrs. Olive Magsombol; Past Presidents of PAGLB; Bing Dela Vega of the Pangasinan Brotherhood Association; Jojo Braganza of Alaminos Pangasinan Association of South.Ca; Lydia Ceralde, with Romy Ceralde of Dagupan City Club of South Ca.; Roger Coson of Greater Dagupan City Association of Ca; Melendre Cerame of Mapandan Association of South Ca; Josie Braganza of Mabini Club of South Ca; Philippine Disaster Relief Task Force; Cecilia Coson of San Jacinto Association of Ca; Sonny de Leon of Basista Association; Carlos Gasmen of Alcala USA; Nieves Coquia, chairperson of the Board BROTHERHOOD; Johnny Maramba Bonuan Association; Ads Diaz, a very good friend of my Dad; Gil Mislang, former president of Pangasinan Brotherhood; Presidents of different associations; Councilman Elito Santarina of the City of Carson:
For us, a Filipino Association in the U.S is a venue where we could unwind, meet familiar faces, have friendship and camaraderie, have an opportunity to serve.
For unavoidable and official reasons we see in the news, the Commissioner will not be able to attend to this great and momentous event.
I know that he was really looking forward to this affair. He was prepared to be here among friends and brothers. He would have wanted a rematch of his friends to their 36 hours of closed door meetings or rather mee tong its.
I congratulate the new sets of officers led by our incoming president JOSE ‘Pepe’ Palaganas of Urbiztondo, Pangasinan.
I congratulate Outgoing president Tita Violy Salomon for a successful term. For the vision of scholarship projects made successful through contributions and work of our membership. More so, on her value in the time spent by each partners in this organization and by taking advantage of this community for children to meet, friendship to grow, relationships to build and prosper.
One of the visions of Uncle Pepe is for this association to grow in strength and numbers. We need to grow as an association.
As they say, when we stop growing, we start dying!
Harvey Firestone once said: It is only in developing others that we continue to succeed. We need to train our young, our new generation of officers to succeed us in our organization.
Tita Trinidad Tamondong stated in her description of Uncle Pepe’s leadership, together with his beautiful and gifted wife Lilia, that success could be easily achieved by Pepe with the committed backing of his peers in the Pangasinan Association of Greater Long Beach, Inc.
Paul Quinto, Lemuel Navarette, Manny Rabara, Jojo Braganza, Rupito Baylon, Sonny De Leon, Sandy De La Cruz, Lorenzo Salomon, Romeo Cancino, Gus Cortez, Lee Razalan -- we see a united and strong core group backing the presidency with their time, talent and resources; we see a fruitful term ahead.
Being the leader of any organization is a serious matter. With the prestige of being the president is the responsibility of INSPIRING people to serve; inspiring people to work harmoniously as a team.
Leadership is actually SERVING people, pulling people to the vision that we have planned with them to accomplish.
Helen Keller aptly stated: “WORST than having no sight is, having no Vision”.
The success of any organization is the coordinated effort of everyone, cooperating, and participating in the Goals and Vision of the organization.
Our BLESSINGS, positions come from above. Being a leader in any organization is an OPPORTUNITY to SERVE and LEAD.
Our servanthood as leaders must be based on humane and humble leadership. We serve to lead, we lead by example. We lead with compassion for Leadership is A GIFT a follower gives a leader.
We only have two years to lead. These two years are too short for a president who has made a vision and time table for the programs for the organization.
Time is measured by the productivity of an organization. The productivity of an organization is measured on the impact it makes to a community.
The impact is measured on the DIFFERENCE it has made to the community that was felt directly by the people living in the community.
We need to focus. FOCUS on our vision until we reach fruition. We need to remain steadfast until we reach our goal.
The thing is, the DIFFERENCE we need to make is not in our community here in Long Beach but rather in our local community we have in the Philippines.
The blessings you have here is so abundant that it could and should overflow back home.
So many presidents and leaders have come and gone, but the contribution of projects of our kababayans abroad makes a whole lot of difference in our country. More so, it is felt by our kabaleyans who are recipients of worthwhile infrastructure projects, like what we see in Mapandan, Urdaneta, Urbiztondo, Alaminos, Bayambang, San Carlos, San Fabian, Bugallon, Mabini, Calasiao, Alcala, Lingayen, Sta Barbara, Aguilar, Asingan, Basista, Malasiqui, San Jacinto, Mangaldan, Manaoag, Dagupan, Villasis, San Manuel, Rosales.
It is how we bring light to others.
It is how much we give as an organization.
It is how much we have helped others.
If we care, we give everything.
WE MUST see the needs of others.
If we want to grow, we need to develop our younger generation of Filipinos. Do you know that our country is experiencing a problem with education in infrastructure and in the medium of teaching itself? Our DEPED is even contemplating on shortening school hours to give way to double shifting to accommodate more students in a school. Yet, that is not even enough to solve the problem that they are contemplating on paying P4,000 per year per public school student to enter private schools.
In learning, a man’s character is changed and so shall be his destiny. Let us help change the destiny of our country by helping out in the educational system. May we recommend to you and other Filipino organizations present here to think about adopting a school and help build classrooms.
The Chinese Chamber of the Philippines and its Pangasinan chapter has designed a school building that has two classrooms for a price of P380,000 per building or P190,000 per classroom.
As I have mentioned earlier, every blessings comes from above. God has given us our blessings, God has chosen US to be blessed for he knows that the BLESSINGS must be given to generous people for them to spread and help people in need. It is our time to give back to GOD our blessings by helping our fellow Filipinos, our fellow Pangasinenses.
When our time shall come and we are to end our life in this world, we will never be sorry for not having accumulated more wealth, but rather we will be sorry for not having taken the opportunity to spend more time with our loved ones, for not having helped others when we had the opportunity to do so. In the end, we shall not be judged with the wealth we have accumulated but rather on the good we have done.
Our public school children, who shall benefit from these worthwhile projects, would be forever grateful for our contributions. This will be a legacy for generations to appreciate.
Even when we shall be full of life, we could never find contentment on material things. As Blaise Paschal theorized, AS HUMANS, there will always be a GOD shaped vacuum inside of us that only GOD can fill. The GOOD that we do to people is what GOD asks of us.
Our purpose in life is to have a defined purpose of living. That is to LOVE and Help people.
One might ask, I just have enough to survive. Then how could I make a difference. My friends all of us have blessings and the best blessing GOD has given us is TIME; Let us spend it wisely.
We cannot keep it nor rewind it. So use our days wisely, carefully and with inspiration for every moment because today shall never come back. Spend Time with the family, spend time with GOD, spend time to help others…
MABUHAY SA INYONG LAHAT! MAY GOD BLESS US ALL…
SOME PEOPLE SEE THE WORLD AS IT IS, I SEE THE WORLD AS WHAT IT COULD BE. I ASK, WHY NOT? Bernard Shaw.
OUR PRIME PURPOSE IN LIFE IS TO HELP PEOPLE, IF WE CAN’T HELP THEM, THEN, LET US NOT HURT THEM. Dalai Lama.
ONE LEADER ONCE SAID.
Don’t walk ahead of me, I may not follow.
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Good evening friends, Pangasinenses, Filipinos, brothers and sisters; Good evening President Pepe Palaganas and First Lady Lilia; Outgoing President Violy Salomon; Queen Mary Corpus; Outgoing queen, Mrs. Olive Magsombol; Past Presidents of PAGLB; Bing Dela Vega of the Pangasinan Brotherhood Association; Jojo Braganza of Alaminos Pangasinan Association of South.Ca; Lydia Ceralde, with Romy Ceralde of Dagupan City Club of South Ca.; Roger Coson of Greater Dagupan City Association of Ca; Melendre Cerame of Mapandan Association of South Ca; Josie Braganza of Mabini Club of South Ca; Philippine Disaster Relief Task Force; Cecilia Coson of San Jacinto Association of Ca; Sonny de Leon of Basista Association; Carlos Gasmen of Alcala USA; Nieves Coquia, chairperson of the Board BROTHERHOOD; Johnny Maramba Bonuan Association; Ads Diaz, a very good friend of my Dad; Gil Mislang, former president of Pangasinan Brotherhood; Presidents of different associations; Councilman Elito Santarina of the City of Carson:
For us, a Filipino Association in the U.S is a venue where we could unwind, meet familiar faces, have friendship and camaraderie, have an opportunity to serve.
For unavoidable and official reasons we see in the news, the Commissioner will not be able to attend to this great and momentous event.
I know that he was really looking forward to this affair. He was prepared to be here among friends and brothers. He would have wanted a rematch of his friends to their 36 hours of closed door meetings or rather mee tong its.
I congratulate the new sets of officers led by our incoming president JOSE ‘Pepe’ Palaganas of Urbiztondo, Pangasinan.
I congratulate Outgoing president Tita Violy Salomon for a successful term. For the vision of scholarship projects made successful through contributions and work of our membership. More so, on her value in the time spent by each partners in this organization and by taking advantage of this community for children to meet, friendship to grow, relationships to build and prosper.
One of the visions of Uncle Pepe is for this association to grow in strength and numbers. We need to grow as an association.
As they say, when we stop growing, we start dying!
Harvey Firestone once said: It is only in developing others that we continue to succeed. We need to train our young, our new generation of officers to succeed us in our organization.
Tita Trinidad Tamondong stated in her description of Uncle Pepe’s leadership, together with his beautiful and gifted wife Lilia, that success could be easily achieved by Pepe with the committed backing of his peers in the Pangasinan Association of Greater Long Beach, Inc.
Paul Quinto, Lemuel Navarette, Manny Rabara, Jojo Braganza, Rupito Baylon, Sonny De Leon, Sandy De La Cruz, Lorenzo Salomon, Romeo Cancino, Gus Cortez, Lee Razalan -- we see a united and strong core group backing the presidency with their time, talent and resources; we see a fruitful term ahead.
Being the leader of any organization is a serious matter. With the prestige of being the president is the responsibility of INSPIRING people to serve; inspiring people to work harmoniously as a team.
Leadership is actually SERVING people, pulling people to the vision that we have planned with them to accomplish.
Helen Keller aptly stated: “WORST than having no sight is, having no Vision”.
The success of any organization is the coordinated effort of everyone, cooperating, and participating in the Goals and Vision of the organization.
Our BLESSINGS, positions come from above. Being a leader in any organization is an OPPORTUNITY to SERVE and LEAD.
Our servanthood as leaders must be based on humane and humble leadership. We serve to lead, we lead by example. We lead with compassion for Leadership is A GIFT a follower gives a leader.
We only have two years to lead. These two years are too short for a president who has made a vision and time table for the programs for the organization.
Time is measured by the productivity of an organization. The productivity of an organization is measured on the impact it makes to a community.
The impact is measured on the DIFFERENCE it has made to the community that was felt directly by the people living in the community.
We need to focus. FOCUS on our vision until we reach fruition. We need to remain steadfast until we reach our goal.
The thing is, the DIFFERENCE we need to make is not in our community here in Long Beach but rather in our local community we have in the Philippines.
The blessings you have here is so abundant that it could and should overflow back home.
So many presidents and leaders have come and gone, but the contribution of projects of our kababayans abroad makes a whole lot of difference in our country. More so, it is felt by our kabaleyans who are recipients of worthwhile infrastructure projects, like what we see in Mapandan, Urdaneta, Urbiztondo, Alaminos, Bayambang, San Carlos, San Fabian, Bugallon, Mabini, Calasiao, Alcala, Lingayen, Sta Barbara, Aguilar, Asingan, Basista, Malasiqui, San Jacinto, Mangaldan, Manaoag, Dagupan, Villasis, San Manuel, Rosales.
It is how we bring light to others.
It is how much we give as an organization.
It is how much we have helped others.
If we care, we give everything.
WE MUST see the needs of others.
If we want to grow, we need to develop our younger generation of Filipinos. Do you know that our country is experiencing a problem with education in infrastructure and in the medium of teaching itself? Our DEPED is even contemplating on shortening school hours to give way to double shifting to accommodate more students in a school. Yet, that is not even enough to solve the problem that they are contemplating on paying P4,000 per year per public school student to enter private schools.
In learning, a man’s character is changed and so shall be his destiny. Let us help change the destiny of our country by helping out in the educational system. May we recommend to you and other Filipino organizations present here to think about adopting a school and help build classrooms.
The Chinese Chamber of the Philippines and its Pangasinan chapter has designed a school building that has two classrooms for a price of P380,000 per building or P190,000 per classroom.
As I have mentioned earlier, every blessings comes from above. God has given us our blessings, God has chosen US to be blessed for he knows that the BLESSINGS must be given to generous people for them to spread and help people in need. It is our time to give back to GOD our blessings by helping our fellow Filipinos, our fellow Pangasinenses.
When our time shall come and we are to end our life in this world, we will never be sorry for not having accumulated more wealth, but rather we will be sorry for not having taken the opportunity to spend more time with our loved ones, for not having helped others when we had the opportunity to do so. In the end, we shall not be judged with the wealth we have accumulated but rather on the good we have done.
Our public school children, who shall benefit from these worthwhile projects, would be forever grateful for our contributions. This will be a legacy for generations to appreciate.
Even when we shall be full of life, we could never find contentment on material things. As Blaise Paschal theorized, AS HUMANS, there will always be a GOD shaped vacuum inside of us that only GOD can fill. The GOOD that we do to people is what GOD asks of us.
Our purpose in life is to have a defined purpose of living. That is to LOVE and Help people.
One might ask, I just have enough to survive. Then how could I make a difference. My friends all of us have blessings and the best blessing GOD has given us is TIME; Let us spend it wisely.
We cannot keep it nor rewind it. So use our days wisely, carefully and with inspiration for every moment because today shall never come back. Spend Time with the family, spend time with GOD, spend time to help others…
MABUHAY SA INYONG LAHAT! MAY GOD BLESS US ALL…
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