"The Forbidden Game"

When I was growing up, I have a chance to watch it being played. That was the first time I found myself wanting to learn the guitar. Do you remember the Champion cigarettes commercial? This was also featured there being played from beginning to the end.

At that time, nobody was willing to teach me. I found myself just being curious and watch others play. I don’t even have my own guitar, that is why there is really no chance that I will learn it myself.

A friend of mine have shown me the first part of it, but that’s it. I got stuck with the first part of it and until the beginning of this year I still have not find the chance to learn it.

Lately I also saw it in the satellite channel Mezzo being played by Filomena Morietti. This woman is really very great in playing the guitar.

Thanks that I have learn to use the google search. Finally, I was able to find the particular site where I could find the piece I wanted. Happily, I began to study and practice with it. There are some part where it is very difficult. But I just love to play it.

I must say, I still have not able to play it well even if I’ve found the whole piece. Whenever I found the time, I try to practice and practice. Even with this one, I am trying to really make good and learn it the best I can.

Someday, I want to impress myself. Hope I could also learn to really play it well that I can also perform well to show others I know how to play the guitar.

In case some of you want it also I have posted the site below.

http://www.fretplay.com/tabs/a/anonymous/les_jeus_interdits-tab.shtml

How to's ...

(This is something old and copied, but I find it helpful and interesting)

How To Be a Good Wife

This is allegedly actual text from an American home economics text book, circa 1950.
Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal on time. This is a way of letting him know you've been thinking about him and concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home and the prospect of a good meal is part of the warm welcome needed.
Prepare yourself. Take fifteen minutes to rest so that you will be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your makeup, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh looking. He has just been with a lot of work-weary people. Be a little gay and a little more interesting. His boring day may need a lift.
Clear away the clutter. Make one last trip through the main part of the house just before your husband arrives, gather up school books, toys, paper, etc. Run a dust cloth over the tables. Your husband will feel he has reached a haven of rest and order; and it will give you a lift too.
Prepare the children. Take a few minutes to wash the children's hands and faces (if they're small), comb their hair, and if necessary, change their clothes. They are little treasures and he would like to see them playing the part.
Minimize all noise. At the time of his arrival, eliminate all noise of the washer, dryer, dishwasher, or vacuum. Try to encourage the children to be quiet. Be happy to see him. Greet him with a warm smile and be glad to see him.
Some Don'ts: Don't greet him with problems and complaints. Don't complain if he is late for dinner. Count this as minor compared to what he might have gone through that day. Make him comfortable. Have him lean back in a comfortable chair or suggest that he lie down in the bedroom. Have a cool drink ready for him. Arrange his pillow and offer to take off his shoes. Speak in a low, soft, soothing and pleasant voice. Allow him to relax and unwind.
Listen to him. You may have a dozen things to tell him, but the moment of his arrival is not the time. Let him talk first.
Make the evening his. Never complain if he does not take you out to dinner or other pleasant entertainment. Instead try to understand his world of strain and pressure, his need to unwind and relax.
The goal! Try to make your home a place of peace and order where your husband can relax in body and spirit.
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http://www.vocks.org.uk/jokes/stories/goodwife.htm


How to make and keep your wife happy
By Highblood


I AM now 73 years old and have been married for almost 50 years, but I am still interested, if not more so now, in how to make my wife happy.

I don’t refer to money or other material things to give to her, of which I have little, anyway. I have in mind the important things that have to do with a wife’s real and lasting happiness.

When I was very young I read somewhere that the best way to make your wife happy was to treat her as you handle your new car. I got married later, but I could not put the advice to a test because I could not even afford a battered car.

So I played along with what I saw and heard from other husbands. This, of course, was unreliable because some husbands act only for show while others tend to brag about how they treat their spouses, faithfully or otherwise.

I managed later to buy a new car on installment. I was eager to handle it the way it was supposed to be handled, and to discover how I should properly treat my wife.

I found myself on the right track when I opened the owner’s manual that came with the car. It said, ‘‘Congratulations for acquiring this ______ (brand of car). We have designed and built it with COMPLETE SATISFACTION in mind."

The manual reminded me of the day my bride and I marched down the aisle, I knew then that I was completely satisfied. I beamed with pride as relatives and friends congratulated me, their eyes glued to the beautiful vision beside me.

This, I thought, must be the correct way to regard a new car and a new wife: show them off to friends and relatives with complete satisfaction.

From the dealer’s shop, I drove my car straight home and parked it in front of my small abode. I must have tooted the horn too loudly because in no time at all, my wife was already beside me saying her “ahs” and “ohs” as she beheld my princely carriage.

In the corner of my eye I saw my neighbor and his spouse open their window to see what the ruckus was about, only to shut the window almost immediately and rather noisily. But I didn’t mind. I was excited over my new car.

The first thing to do, I said to myself, was to take my car’s picture with my wife for posterity. Then I would bring it on Sunday to our priest and take its picture with my wife watching the priest bless the car, also for posterity. Then I would paste the pictures in my wife’s wedding album.

There was nothing like recording properly this rare event in my life.

As I studied the manual, I wondered why there was no book on how a wife should be handled. The manual said many things about how to maintain and service the car, the kind of gas and oil to feed it, and the frequency and regularity of servicing it.

There was nothing like this as regards wives. I wanted to be fair to my wife, so I tried to see if there were any pieces of advice in the manual that could be applied to her. I found many.

As the days went by, I found myself spending all my free time with the car rather than with buddies and my usual private pursuits after work, if you know what I mean.

I would smoothe my hand on my car’s sheen and flick an imaginary dust particle off its finish. I would inspect it for a smudge on its body, even though I had just washed, rinsed and waxed it, which I realized I was doing too often. I even bought two sets of the best seatcovers and the best air fresheners for it.

I was embarrassed to realize that I had not given the same attention to my wife and had not bought her a single dress or bottle of perfume. I resolved to be more attentive to her. I had no excuse about the perfume, but I reassured myself that the reason I didn’t buy the dress was that her size, like her age, kept changing all the time.

I spent hours peering at my chariot’s body, fenders and bumpers. I was forever twiddling with the steering wheel and stick shift, and lifting the hood to inspect the engine and all the whatsamacallits in order to know how they worked.

I enjoyed running the engine, engaging and disengaging the gears, and listening to the motor purring like a kitten. And I was doing all these at home where I was now spending quality time with my wife.

If it were possible, I would have told my car how much I liked it and wanted to spend more time with it. If perchance I hadn’t said the same things to my wife, I resolved to do so soon.

Before going to work, I would sit behind the wheel and enjoy the thought that my car and I were about to go and face the world together. I saw for the first time that it seemed not fair for me not to take along the wife out into the world once in a while instead of leaving her to the drudgery of housework.

I was extra careful with my car. I didn’t want it bumped. A dent on it would be bad, but a two-inch gash on its body would be disastrous. I would park it in the shade to preserve its beauty even if I had to walk a mile to my destination.

I did not want to lose it, so I would park it only in a safe location.

The guy who knew how to handle a new car and would apply this expertise on his wife was a genius. He was completely satisfied and proud of his new car, he devoted much time to it. He was fastidious about it.

He wanted it safe, and he did not want it damaged. He did not want anyone to steal it or his heart would break. He was so devoted to it that if it were possible, he would love it, as if his only goal were to make it happy and contented.

Then, inevitably he asks himself: What have I been thinking about and doing and not doing for that little woman in the house?

My wife knew my sentiments for my car. She would sometimes roll her eyes, mystified perhaps by the special, if not excessive, attention I was constantly giving to the car. But she never complained or felt jealous.

On the contrary, she was glad because she knew that I had changed. Above all she saw that I was now trying harder to be nice and loving to her.

Because of this she became happy as ever and we both became more contented and close to each other.

You guys out there: Get a new car--go in debt like me if necessary--and follow my example, and you’ll have a more wonderful woman in your house.

There is a bonus, which is that you’ll become a better husband yourself.

In time, however, my car aged and deteriorated. It now had bulges, it wobbled, and it had creaks here and squeaks there.

Its performance went awry. In the United States they throw such a car into the junk pile or trade it in for a newer one. I did not give up.

I had its body rebuilt and repainted and its bumper, engine and other moving parts replaced. I added more chrome parts to its body to make it more beautiful and attractive. I had it reconditioned by the best auto specialists and clinics. Soon it was again purring like a kitten.

I looked at my wife and saw that she also had seen better days. She was aging, she had bulges now, she was unstedier on her feet, and had creaks here and squeaks there. Even her attitude had changed. If I smoothed my hand on her shoulder, flicked an imaginary speck from her hair or fussed about her cheeks, she moved aside because such things were ‘‘childish.’’

Time had changed her, but in the Philippines, it is illegal and unkind to think of discarding an old wife or to look for a young replacement.

But I also did not give up. I brought her to medical specialists and clinics. She had operations like varicose vein removal, a little face-lift and hysterectomy, which I joked removed her hysteria.

I encouraged her to visit beauticians, therapists, masseurs and other people she hoped would improve her looks and remove her bulges, creaks and squeaks.

My trouble and expenses were well worth it. Regardless of the result on her overall appearance, my wife was confident, perhaps deluded, that all those ravages of time on her had disappeared.

In fact, I assured her that they were gone. Soon she became better in many ways. She performed better in the house. She became more peppy and indispensable to me and the children.

Her disposition became more pleasant and her spirits higher. Above all, she learned to be more forgiving of my faults which had multiplied in time.

In short, my wife became a better person. She was like good wine that became sweeter and gained fuller flavor with age.

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Authorities 2

It should be good to know that whenever authorities come into the picture it brings sanity to the whole situation. And they will make sure that everything is alright when they exited the scene and bring a sigh of relief to everybody. You cannot expect to please everybody but at least you can rest assure that the matter has been given deep consideration and due fairness without any compromising deals in the middle. They have to make a decision one way or another, no need for excuses that he cannot judge it either way, taking into consideration the timing as well. This way, they are giving the message that they are not leaving room for anybody to abuse. Of course what I am talking here is under an ideal situation.

Now I want to talk about the current situation.

Remember the garci issue. A presidential spokesman out of nowhere presented two cd’s telling us that one them is genuine and the other is the fake. You can sense what he is up to. Trying to prove or save something or someone. Another thing is the impeachment process. Wherein they just concluded that what they are doing is the right process or interpretation of “initiating an impeachment complaint”. So on and so forth until we reach to E.O. 464, CPR and P.P. 1017. What do all of these tell us. That these people suddenly find it easier and gaining more and more courage to interpret the law into their favor. Not even a recent Supreme Court decision will stand in their way as in the “people’s initiative” issue. Imagine, even an election lawyer has the courage to say that a regional trial court judge has no right to judge or issue decision regarding this issue. Well I can understand if he will bring the matter to higher court for clarification. But that is how brave these people are. A government that is suppose to implement the law to the best way they can.

Really, it all goes down into who is doing it out of good faith. And we can really sense it easily who is doing out of it. I hope justice will prevail in the end, with the help of real “authorities” who will take charge in the end.

Authorities

So do we really have the chance to feel happy with the way things are happening in our country especially the way our people and the government are behaving.

We can say that a lot of things are really very frustrating and you just feel not happy about. I can say that I feel more unhappy on the government side. People around the president are not really doing their jobs properly. They seem to be doing their jobs “for the president” and not for the country.

I guess we should learn so much from our children. Watching our children play, you can’t help but notice that never we have experience or observe from them that they side with those who cheated. They always chose to exclude or refuse to play with those who take advantage or made their way by cheating.

As in our current situation, we should have been relying on our “authorities”. Authorities I would mean those people who are suppose to be doing the right thing in order to decide or do the right thing for our problems.

One of these problems is to resolve the legitimacy of the president. So much should have been discovered with the coming out of the “garci tapes”. But some of our so called “authorities” chose to be silent or what we called as “play safe”. They are contented into being promoted or place in their current high positions. The revolving policy seems to be working for the president.

I am very much disappointed with regard to our military and police officials. The military officials especially when they refuse to disclose what really happened. For me I would be happy if they can clear the president convincingly. At least they should have really made an investigation and reported that no such thing (cheating) happened and the matter should have been resolved and they have done their job professionally. The people could really observe if the report were that convincing and were done in good faith. So the earlier they have made their actions the better for us also. But they have chosen to play it safe and they have done a very good job to their president. Nothing much for us Filipinos, nothing much for our country.

I do not like also their idea of having to follow the chain of command principle. For me it would have been better if this is just secondary. I would prefer that being a professional soldier or really out of exhibiting their being “the authority” they should have done what they believe to be the best thing, and that is to report what really have happened. In my opinion, there is really something there that they have chosen to be silent about. For if they are really confident that there was really nothing happened, they should have say so confidently and convincingly. I would also like to say that they shouldbe willing and should feel proud to follow the chain of command, not just made to follow because they have to. They should feel proud of their leaders and believe so much in them and this will make our milatary institution much more stronger.

Another thing is regarding our police officers. Why are they as if acting like as if they have a mission or purpose in performing their jobs? And it is very obvious that they are doing them likewise to their president. Dispersing rallies should not have been their primary objective. They should just be staying neutral and secure the place for the safety of the people. And there is also a difference between people trying to topple “the government” and trying to bring down a president or wishing her to resign. They are really showing their bias being readily sold to the idea that these people are “destabilizers”. They are not my idea of people of certain “authority”.

My idea of a good leader is that of believing with the ability of his/her chosen people to do their jobs in implementing laws, rules and regulations professionally. And everybody should be tested including himself/herself as a leader.

What is happening today is that being right or wrong is decided by how many will be in one’s favor not really with that is good or bad. The way they are interpreting the law and the constitution is the way that will be to their advantage.

I wish the “REAL AUTHORITIES” do come out and assert their being in authority to solve our country’s problems especially what is happening right now.