AFTER ONE YEAR & THREE MONTHS

I invited them for a simple dinner; I cooked fried chicken coated with flour, egg, and corn flakes, noodle “pansit canton” with fresh vegetable, and vegetable soup. They haven’t been to my flat after more than a year after my birthday last year. We hang out till 10:00 at night.

Vernalyn Hipolito and Reynaldo Peralta

Staff Visit

Today is my first staff visit for this year and we went to the Mansion of Maza’ih, about four miles, a countryside north of the city of Akka, a lovely place surrounded by gardens. A place where Bahá’u’lláh spent 2 years of His time.

I went with lovely friends of mine, namely Alberto, Austin, Eamonn, Eminoni, my flat mate Luis, and my aunt Reming. After that, we went to the Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh for spiritual nourishment. And to auntie Reming afterward for dinner.

Mansion Of Marza'ih

Interior of the Mansion

with auntie Reming

{L-R} Eamonn, Eminoni, Auntie, Austin Guy, Alberto

Eminoni Raivoka from Fiji Island

Luis Dechtiar from U.S



{L-R}Eamonn Vaughan(New Zealand) Eminoni Raivoka(Fiji) Austin Guy Bowden-Kerby(?)

At Last

Hayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy, finally i found my memory, hahaha!
i haven't updated my blog for more than one year, and finally here i am again and I'm very happy and exited to post a new pictures and a glimpse of my memorable experienced here at the World Center. Yeheyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Test and Difficulties is...

A Blessing

My past four and a half year at the World Center is quite difficult, and encouraging.
Difficult in a way that people of the world with different races came and unite in one place; in one purpose, which is to serve the Cause of God and to develop our own spiritual growth. On the other hand it is very encouraging because the more difficult to learn people’s background and to deal with them; the more you encourage yourself to do our best to build up fellowship and love with one another. Difficulties, trials, and challenges are considered as blessings because those are gift bestowed by God to make us stronger, firm, and steadfast to the faith in returns.

"Naturally there will be periods of distress and difficulty, and even severe test.; but if that person turns firmly towards the Divine Manifestation, studies carefully His Spiritual teachings and receives the blessings of the Holy Spirit, he will find that in reality these tests and difficulties have been the gifts of God to enable him to grow and develop."
(Compilations, Lights of Guidance, p. 70)

RIDVAN DAY(21-03-07)

THE KING OF ALL FESTIVALS

First, the Festival of Ridvan, whichcommemorates Bahá'u'lláh's Declaration of His PropheticMission in the Garden of Ridvan in Baghdad during twelvedays in April/May 1863 and is referred to by Him as "the 225 King of Festivals" and, second, the Báb's Declaration, whichoccurred in May 1844 in Shiraz. The first, ninth and twelfthdays of the Festival of Ridvan are Holy Days (Q and A 1), as isthe day of the Declaration of the Báb.
(Baha'u'llah, The Kitab-i-Aqdas, p. 224)

Say Goodbye

A Farewell
Some people say, it’s difficult to say goodbye, and some people are happy that this sacred experience has ended; to be able to teach and share the experience they adsorbed from pilgrimage, spread the sweet savors of the words of God.

Breaking the Fast 2gether

ALWAYS AND 4EVER- This is one of the special moments that I won’t ever forget being here at World Center and being in this flat for few years. And one of them is observing the fast together with my flat mates, cooking every day, eating, and praying together.

Every year of fasting, most of the time I’m the one who prepared breakfast for all of us, and I love doing it. Then, I woke up my flat mates to be together. Above photo was taken this morning with Luis after we break the fast and pray. We usually eat fresh cooked food, but today I ate piece of bread with choco spread, perssimon, mango juice and water. Luis ate cereal with milk, orange juice and water because we run out of gas. While my other flat mate was still on bed, he just drink a lot of water and it make him feel better all day long. And most specially,this is the time to get more closer to them.

THE PASSAGES

Baha'u'llah revealed these passages for
the world of being.

THE ESSENCE OF LIGHT

The Essence light
Light is like the teaching of the Blessed Beauty, it illuminate the heart, spirit and soul of humankind. And when the light of God shine with the utmost splendor, the darkness turneth into light; ignorance into knowledge; hatred into love; and sorrow into happiness.


The light bulbs that I took at the House of Abdullah-Pasha catches my attention, and it came to my mind that even how small the light is, still has the power to lightened the surrounding in able to see and appreciate what is in there, and even how small it is when you place it in one big dark room, it is and it will ever be a center of attraction...that is the essence of my thought.

MOVING FOR THE NEXT DAY

It’s a long and tiring day, today is my 7th day of pilgrimage, and we went to the Ridvan garden and House of Abdullah Pasha .

AKKA WALK

Inside the Mosque


Mosque of al-Jazzar

Khan-i-'Avamid

Today, I went to the Prison City of Akká and it was a busy day for me. I’ve been here to the Holy land for almost five year and it’s my first time to walk by myself around the city. And it was a noisy day in a rejoicing way may be, because people are jumping from the wall to the water, playing a lively Arabic music, they are walking around with their family and friends, boat riding and other activities. I’ve been walking and walking for one and half hour until I found something new to my eyes, something that amazed me that after quite long years I’ve been to a place that I never ever been before like going inside the Mosque of al-Jazzar where Abdul-Bahá used to visit and one of the room at the edge of the court of the Mosque was occupied by the Master.

Pilgrimage

My First Pilgrimage

This event for being a Bahá’í is one of the precious gifts that bound to us by the Blessed Beauty. Pilgrimage is a sign of devotion and love for God, this is the journey of the soul that connect to our creator and the main purpose of this sacred experience is pray and meditate at the Holy Shrines of the Central figure of the faith, Baha’u’llah, the Báb and Abdu’l-Bahá and to visits the Baha’i Holy Places and some related to the history of the faith.

I’ve been here in the Most Sacred spot of earth, Israel for 4 years and eight months serving at the Baha’I World Center as a gardener in Mt. Carmel. I arrived on 07 July 2002, two days later I applied for pilgrimage during my orientation program, that’s the first thing I did on computer. And here it is, its time to experience this blessing to be on Pilgrimage. The Supreme Body of the Faith, The Universal House of Justice invited me on 12 of February 2007 to join the other pilgrims around the world for 9 days from 05-13 of March 2007.

UNORGANIZED PICTURES

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My video clip

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" A FRIENDS OF MY ..."

Woooooowwwwwwww........................... I love this picture. Nothing to say,just look and smile as you see......

A SIGN OF EMERGING ROMANTIC FEELINGS

The orange rose has become the perfect way to symbolize the heat of passion, burning desire and the flames of love.Orange roses have a power to send a message of romance that can rival even the red rose!Hmmmmmmm.....I think I'm inlove...Ha! Ha! Ha!

"O SON OF EARTH"

"Wouldst thou have Me, seek none other than Me; and wouldst thou gaze upon My beauty, close thine eyes to the world and all that is therein; for my will and the will of another than Me, even as fire and water, cannot dwell together in one heart."

"THE LOWEST ELEVETION ON EARTH"

Location: The Dead Sea is located in the Middle East, between Jordan and Israel.
It's called the Dead Sea because nothing lives in it but with tons of tons of crystal formation of salt(mineral salt). It is some of the saltiest water anywhere in the world, almost six times as salty as the ocean! The Dead Sea is completely landlocked and it gets saltier with increasing depth.
Facts: The surface of the Dead Sea is over 1,300 feet below sea level. The very bottom of the sea, in the deepest part, is over 2,300 feet below sea level. The Dead Sea has some of the most saline water on earth; as much as 35% of the water is dissolved salts!

"NAZARETH CITY"

Nazareth City
The site where Nazareth exists today was founded and settled between 600-900 BCE. Nazareth is located between the open space of the Jezreel valley and the mountainous regions of Galilee. Nazareth is also 60 miles north of Jerusalem and midway between the Mediterranean and Galilean seas. Before Jesus’ time great battles had taken place in the valley that is seen from Nazareth. The Jezreel as it is seen from the town, is a natural battlefield. The villages and farms in the at the time of Jesus consisted of walled terraces, watch towers, and rock quarries. The village was surrounded be vineyards, olive grooves, and terraced crops, that might have inspired some of Jesus’ parables. Nazareth was isolated however because no trade routes ran through the city.
Nazareth is in the central area of Galilee and is surrounded by numerous sites of international historical and archeological importance, such as Cana of Galilee, Sephoris, Mount Tabor, the Mount of the Precipice, Tiberias, Capernaum amongst others. The heart of Nazareth today is the Old City, which is comprised of two parts: the nucleus - the historical and religious core - and the ``casing" - the markets, mansions, and houses on the slope of the Nebi Sa'in Ridge. Nazareth is now the largest Arab city in Israel with a population of, half Christians, half Moslems. These groups live together in a peaceful harmony coexisting with each other.

"THE MASADA"

Masada is one of the National Park of Israel Masada is a rugged natural fortress, of majestic beauty, in the Judaean Desert overlooking the Dead Sea. It is a symbol of the ancient kingdom of Israel, its violent destruction and the last stand of Jewish patriots in the face of the Roman army, in 73 A.D. It was built as a palace complex, in the classic style of the early Roman Empire, by Herod the Great, King of Judaea, (reigned 37 – 4 B.C.). The camps, fortifications and attack ramp that encircle the monument constitute the most complete Roman siege works surviving to the present day.
Criterion iii Masada is a symbol of the ancient Jewish kingdom of Israel, of its violent destruction in the later 1st century CE, and of the subsequent Diaspora. Criterion iv The palace of Herod the Great at Masada is an outstanding example of a luxurious villa of the Early Roman Empire, whilst the camps and other fortifications that encircle the monument constitute the finest and most complete Roman siege works to have survived to the present day. Criterion vi The tragic events during the last days of the Jewish refugees who occupied the fortress and palace of Masada make it a symbol both of Jewish cultural identity and, more universally, of the continuing human struggle between oppression and liberty.