Fireworks

New years are to start a fresh, make new relationships by gathering or new friends and potential interests. It is a time for new beginnings and hoping wishes and dreams would come true. Seeing fireworks like above gives me the joyous feeling of wanting to achieve something in the coming years as well as gives me the feeling of happiness just by looking at them. YOU gotta admit those fireworks looks really nice and soothing. Just seeing a picture of them makes me want the year to fly by and suddenly become the holiday seasons once again. Since i'm a dreamer I imagine things especially once that i've seen in movies, like those romantic love stories where couples watch fireworks at the struck of midnight and suddenly " magic happens". Don't you dream of kissing or hugging that special someone near the window or in a view and at that moments colorful explosions just completing the mood and scenery? Christmas and New Years are everyones favorite holiday, you get to spend time with your family, eat plenty good food, get gifts, and make lots of noise at the struck of midnight. All in all for me fireworks inspires me for a reason...

People do Inspire!

Article 12

This may be out of the blue. I agree too. I live in a small island, not even close to a dot in the map. Saipan, the commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. It's not well known my teacher even joked that if you asked an American student from the US they'll say is that part of china or something? Ever heard of Guam? Yes. It's the chain of islands close to that. Other than my geometry teachers bragging rights about his Real World Design Championship where we placed first out of all the hundreds that participated we are starting to pick up. Parts of Asia may know us because of our tourism advertisement and I must agree, it's full Of ocean, the beach is nice, the weather is beautiful, the culture is marvelous but there is a problem. The economy sucks. We depend on the tourism and for the past few years after the close of its garment industry in the early 20th century, our economy hasn't boosted. The real problem from what I learned in my NMI history class, credit to my teacher that is its because of Article 12 which limits the rights of people to own land.

Benefits: keeps indigenous land that is owned from the local indigenous people safe and protected from people like the prehistoric past of invasion (early Jap and German administration before the war)
Disadvantages: investors or immigrants with the money can't own land to start businesses.

It hurts both parties because there is no money circulation and investors are discouraged. This affects us because our island won't get advertisement around the world due to the lack of optimistic minds. No investments = No money = No work. I agree with my teacher that they should remove this article or modify it so that it helps all parties. If land could be owned by anyone with a contract that could help the indigenous land owner at the same time benefit the investors then our economy would benefit. Think of the jobs and publicity right?

My teacher inspired me to think more about our government and economy and see its flaws at the same time think of ways to benefit it. Sadly we hadn't had the right leader who'd solve all our problems. The children is the future, we'll lead the next generations and help make this world a better place. Our world lack teachers like mine who'd teach us the values of being optimistic and help us become open minded to the world around us. And if there is, I hope there are more so that we won't commit the same mistakes from the past and like my teacher and all the historians says and proved "history repeats itself". Hope I inspired all of you to become optimistic, learn from your elders and make a change to help not only your government, country, state but the world :)

Every Drop Counts.

In some cases every crumb counts. Yes, you might be thinking of water from the blog title. 97% of the earth is water, but when you look at how much of it is drinkable you'd be shocked. Not to mention that we are polluting our oceans already. How about food? A phrase they'd say is "Think of the children starving in Africa." Not only there but in the Philippines and other places suffering from poverty too! If your not gonna eat it don't waste it, give it to the dogs or cats even pigs out there. God had given us food to become fruitful and cherish his blessings. Yes I agree I'm a picky eater and majority of the time I waste food. I'm guilty but that doesn't mean I would throw it directly, left overs are given to our dogs and neighborhood stray cats. There are many ways to help our starving planet, with the right tools and help everyone won't go hungry. My wish is that everyone around the world wouldn't starve and we can start by making the change and bringing up the issue to the higher ups such as the Presidents.