Nov 23 2009

miccaldo

Kind of film viewer are you?

Michael Caldo

up_iegeek@yahoo.com

www.miccaldo.tk

When I view a film or a movie, I take note or reconsider the producers, directors or actors of the film. I reconsider the producer since it speaks a lot of the production and the techniques applied in the film, the producers also has to improve the quality of the film since their names are attached into it. Directors and actors are also considered since they are the primary players that portray how the film will look like to the viewer. Actors and directors gets the substance or the message across to the public viewer.

Also before I’m to watch a film, I somewhat researched about the story and the purpose why the film was made. I also get the opinions or comments of my trusted friends and mentors about what they can about the story and theme of the film.

The impact and uniqueness of the film is also a factor for my film viewing. I might do something else rather than view a film that is average or mediocre. There are some films that I particularly like because of the richness of the insights that they convey… e.g. Narnia, The Lord of the rings, Starwars, HarryPotter and many others. I also like films with social relevance or I might coined as realistic-films. I am much more interested with films that says something about societies’ problems and offering a solution.

Values and characters that shown by the film is also factors of me liking a film or not… core values such as love, honor, integrity, creativity, innovation and relevance. I don’t watch pornographic films now since I highly honored and valued the purity and morality of women. I don’t say I haven’t watched pornographic films before, I am saying that I have stopped watching since I became a Christian– when my life was truly transformed by the Lord from deep within.

Sometimes some people say “i want to transform the nation”, well in fact they couldn’t believe for a personal transformation for themselves. I believe that there will be a new moral and sexual revolution that will happen to the youth when we radically take a stand on real purity.

I could hardly believe how we could stand for freedom of violence and abuse for women if we ourselves couldn’t respect their dignity, purity and seeing their real value. If we are to see women with lustful eyes and thoughts, I think we have a great problem…that’s why its my conviction not to watch films that makes women an object of lust, abuse and sexual violence.

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Nov 15 2009

miccaldo

Who is Mr. Leo Carlo Panlilio for me? 12 answers…

Who is Mr. Leo Carlo Panlilio for me? 12 answers…

1. The Father of the coolest family in town (or the Phil.)- Destiny
2. The Pastor of UP. (yes, UPd, UPLB, UPM, UPMin…soon UPV, UPBag, UP Open U)
3. Founder of the new student/youth movement.
4. A National Pastor of the Philippines. With the model church–Destiny.
5. A Family, as a great model (hello ate Zha, Sam and Julia)
6. He’s a transformation for the nation and the nations.(a new missionary movement)
7. He WINS me.
– i meet him in my 1st LIFE Meeting in UP (august 2004), he preached SHAPE of the heart that time.
8. He CONSOLIDATES me.
– i rode his NISSAN car (a great old car) to Kalayaan Dorm in UPd after my 1st LIFE meeting.
9. He text/call/notify me everytime he’s in Negros/BacolodCity doing any ministry.
10. I get to be with him.
–in hotels (Bacolod, Talisay, Silay City), in travels, in their house.He’s a real deal.
11. He gets to meet my family in LaCastellana, Negros Occidental.
Yes, he’s willing to travel for more than one hour, preach in a small local church and eat lunch in your house.
12. He’s My Spiritual Father.
I honor, treasure, value everything, and no words can express (huhu hu am crying.)

Happy Birthday Kuya…
-mic.caldo

p.s. if you have your 12 answers, post it too

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Jul 14 2009

miccaldo

U-belt sociology

U-belt sociology
mic caldo/ up_iegeek@yahoo.com
www.miccaldo.tk

The personal troubles in U-belt are mind boggling. It’s sad to think that many of the students are exposed to such troubles/issues. To name a few, these troubles were violence, crime, drugs, prostitution, dangerous vices and unconducive learning environment.

The social location and living conditions is not good for students. The Ubelt area is overpopulated and not well manage (environmentally and politically). Some would say that it could be a good learning experience for students in real life. But hey, the living conditions in the area is exposing the students for bad influences (as we can see in the shown documentary).

The schools in the area should be held accountable and responsible for creating an environment of safely and protection for their students. But as we think about it, many of the schools in there is simply treating their students as costumers and making education as a great business.
Oh yes, there are students that survived and some get to be successful, but how many are they compare to those whose lives are destroyed and being exposed to many dangers daily.

The personal troubles of students in Ubelt is now a public issue because of the high concentration of schools in the area and the high number of population of students. The overpopulated area cause traffic of vehicles and environmental pollutions in the area. And it seems to me that the local government is not taking measures to solve the problems. I believe that we can still have sustainable solutions for the problems of Ubelt. I believe that the students (in Ubelt) themselves could make a great difference.

As some would rather prefer to blame the school, the local government or even the environment, I still believe that the students in themselves could take the responsibility to be the solutions to their own problems. There are still those who rise up in the situation and refuse to believe that the scenario is hopeless and unchangeable. There are those who are to refuse the illegal/immoral activity and be a catalyst for change.

To have a sustainable solution for the adversities (economic or whatever that is) that we are facing, change must start from within and from an individual one at a time. I believe that “if I change, everything changes” (Rich Witmer).
Other people would not take action when their personal troubles hasn’t become a social issue. But then, I do believe that personal troubles are the battle wherein we are to engage the strongest. I have this thought that winning our personal battle is the key to societal/public issues.

Maybe some others would say that I can’t relate to the problems that students have in Ubelt, that I don’t have personal experience how its like to live in there. But hey, I’m also a student and I’ve been to Ubelt once in awhile. Also, some of my friends are studying in Ubelt.

We in UP might think that Ubelt’s problems are not ours and we are not supposed to care because we have such a campus blessed with many tress and without traffic. But then think about it, Ubelt gives us somehow a picture of our educational system and the graduates that we are producing. We have to care and be a solution. For me, the significance of sociological imagination is to think that we can be the solution, that we can make a difference.

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Mar 09 2009

miccaldo

my girls

This girls or say ladies are a great blessing and inspiration to the world.

They are the two lovely daughters of Ps. Cesar and Claudia castellanos - pastors of the largest (not only in terms of numbers but impact and influence) and fastest growing church in the world.

yey God. So Prophetic or what….. yey.

 

castellanos girls and me

castellanos girls and me

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Feb 17 2009

miccaldo

i’m not bored

 

mic seeing

mic seeing

I’m not bored.

 

Giving your life away… we are bored because i believe the main reason is we just live for ourselves. Life is getting excited and practical lately. my goal is to invest my life away. Investing to harvest the greatest leaders you can raise up. just imagine leading 12 leaders who leads their own twelve.

 

what does it take to have the greatest leaders of our time, much more twelve of them?

 what does it take to win one person and take him into a process of leadership? 

what kind of heart could you have to be entrusted to have the 12 greatest leaders of this present generation?

 

it takes a leader to lead a leader. it takes the greatest leader to raise up the greatest leaders.

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Jan 26 2009

miccaldo

purity

Filed under revelation

Purity is what we were made up of and what we were made for. Like a child, believing on everything without limitations, That’s exactly the picture of how we should operate in our lives. The question “why a child operates like that?” Let me suggest a single-word answer– purity.

In silence and rest we are beginning to greatly understand what purity is all about.

I’ve been thinking, purity must not be a pursuit just rooted in our human nature, it must be a pursuit rooted in our relationship with the Lord. Purity will be one of the significant pillars that our foundations should be built upon.
Purity might also be same with, holiness. exactly. i believe and declare that the greatest anointing/gift that we (i) should carry is this one— purity, power, childlikeness.

Orphans, widows, children and rejected women longs for the purity and love that should overflow from us, the purity and love that we authentically carry.
I believe for a day that our purity would attract all those friends that have seen the impurity of our past. People might sneer on our message, but when the messenger is with purity they would truly like it.
You want to be truly happy, be holy. Holiness leads to authentic happiness.

So here it is : the message is purity, the messenger is pure. Let us declare purity in our lives, family, university (UP), city and nation.

The University of the Philippines longs too see a people that walks the message in equal proportion with its messenger.
I believe that UP Students of Destiny will lead a revival of purity and power. UP has too long been known for rebellion, violence and humanistic thoughts and impurity… but all of that is changing. It is changing. UP will be known of as a catalyst of true spiritual and love revolution, that will spread in our nation and the all the nations.

Purity is the Key.

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Jan 13 2009

miccaldo

“i am a happy people”

Filed under conversations

 

mic and may

mic and may

Learning how to have fun and joy. if you could only be known as a happy person, you are on the right track. “i follow the happy people”.    

 

(for more pics check my multiply site.)

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Dec 29 2008

miccaldo

iLove iRevolution.

iLove iRevolution.

In short, normal people don’t change the world.

Its your turn to start a revolution. Es tu turno.

You have to be on a journey wherein you are the most free’ist and full of joy. You have to be in a place where you are celebrated, not just tolerated.

People would rather be tolerated, that’s why they live a safe and comfortable life. Your life is created to be on its full potential, a journey of faith, a life of a revolution.

Revolution: transformation, upheaval, alteration, conversion, development, change, reform, innovation, modernization.

rev·o·lu·tion

rev·o·lu·tion [rèvvə lsh'n]

(plural rev·o·lu·tions)

n

1.overthrow of government: the overthrow of a ruler or political system

2.major change: a dramatic change in ideas or practice

3.complete circular turn: one complete circular movement made by something round or cylindrical, e.g. a wheel, around a fixed point

4.circle around something: a complete circle made around something, e.g. the orbit made by a planet or satellite around another body

5.geology period of major geologic change: a period during which the Earth’s crust changes considerably and major features such as mountain ranges may emerge

[14th century. Directly or via French

Encarta ® World English Dictionary © & (P) 1998-2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

If you change, everything changes… if you want a revolution; you have to be the revolution- revolution of love. If you change to be the greatest/best version of you, you’ll attract persons to be the best version of who they are created to be.

You’re to open the door of change, the door of intimacy that will violate theory, opening the door of destiny. (smile)

It may sound abnormal but hey… normal people don’t change the world. haha. I’m not kidding,

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Dec 29 2008

miccaldo

skinny meets sneaky.

Filed under conversations

Sneaky means moving in secretly or stealthily and skinny means needing more flesh. It’s a term used for thin, lean, undernourished, emaciated, scrawny, skeletal, and scraggy.

(you might ask, what is this guy talking about?… okay keep on listening).

Okay, sneaky meets skinny, might mean we move secretly to make a spiritual reality into a physical reality (flesh). Also it may mean, we move what is a theory into a reality. Behold there is nothing, but as we sneak-in something is formed. In a short, when sneaky sneaks in, skinny cease to be a skin. (haha nice one)

My goodness, i don’t know if everything that I’m saying makes sense to you, but if it does… you must therefore conclude that you are destined for greatness.

When we enter into a relationship, we created a web of destinies and our destinies are tied up with others. Therefore as we succeed, others who are in relationship with us receive their success too.

As we enter into our destiny, people around us get to enter theirs.

You must have been in the greatest journey in your life. As you believe, include and trust people again, as you begin to invest and open up your life again. As you begin to dream again… you are set up to your greatest journey so far. - So far.

(hi, to miss ceshiley : cesh the star slash supermodel slash the speaker slash the leader. i believe in you and bless your family. smile)

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Dec 29 2008

miccaldo

The power of one.

Filed under conversations, devotion

Entering or being into a relationship with a person (family, friends, love relationships) is amazing. There is something that happens in our being when we get into one, we are in an adventure journey.

When a person meets somebody, the world revolves somehow with a sense, a purpose, a change. i believe deep down inside of us is this longing to be connected, to be in relation or simply be sharing worth with another being. In a sense, a longing for belonging. smile.

Recently, I’ve been discovering the value of individuals or say just an individual or just a single person. Sometimes we look into a crowd finding the force of the majority, but miss to discover an enormous potential of an individual.

There is a power of one. One person can change history. being in a relationship to any person, you are in with a responsibility to value each single one of them…never underestimate a single person’s worth, never underworth a single persons’value.

We have to value our friends, whatever the level of relationship we have with them. We value them not on what they can do, but simply of who they are.

We believe, we trust, we have faith in them knowing the potential yet to be release, and the destiny in them yet to be revealed. Let’s never stop on opening our lives and accommodating people in return, in our circle of friendships. Who knows the unassuming person besides you could be the next worldchanger you haven’t expected him or her to be.

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