EDSA Revolution - People Power Revolution - February 25

 

 

The People Power Revolution or also known as the EDSA Revolution and the Philippine Revolution of 1986 was a series of popular demonstrations in the Philippines that occurred in 1983-86.

These series shows how Filipino people are united against regime violence and electoral fraud of the government just for freedom.

This long time demonstration of the Filipino was became successful as former President Ferdinand Marcos was departed and lead the Philippines for the restoration of its democracy.

This is also called the Yellow Revolution as many yellow ribbons are present in these days. Former President Cory Aquino and his husband former Senator Benigno Aquino help and encourage the Filipino to free their country and claim its freedom and democracy.

On February 25, 2011 the Philippines celebrated the 25th anniversary of the People Power Revolution.

What are the common things you do during New Year’s Eve?

 

All the people in the world celebrates the first seconds and minutes of the year. As become the tradition, people do a lot of things for the preparation in celebrating the Year End and the incoming New Year. Just like other holidays, celebrating New Year is one of the best I say.

There are lot of things you can do during New Year’s Eve or the time between Year End and New Year. Aside from those preparations for this party, we also have some own business that how we will celebrate the New Year. It is not the deal either you are going to celebrate Year End or New Year or both but same thing is through.

People in some kind of celebration are always ready and prepared so when it comes to this big and special celebration they might do the following things during New Year’s Eve:

Eat. This is the very common thing or activity for any celebration. Foods are always everywhere in any party because it is one of our own needs. We can’t do any other things without energy so we need to eat foods to give us energy.

During New Year’s Eve, we tend to do other stuffs before eating our prepared foods. We love to eat that time after a very harmonic moment with our family, friends, relatives, etc. We eat foods without any following any timelines and we eat whenever we felt hungry. That is why there are other cases that foods are less after the first minutes of the New Year than before because we tend to eat a lot or it’s just we love to eat delicious food that time.

Countdown. Well, this is the most common things we love to do during or before New Year, counting down minutes as if it is the end of the world. During New Year’s Eve we always check for the time either two or three hours before just to make sure we will not be late when counting the final seconds of the current year and welcoming the New Year.

We prepare for things during New Year’s Eve with haste because counting down the time is one of the special things you can do for the Year End and for welcoming the New Year. Either we do prepare things before the New Year comes, or we don’t have anything to do, waiting for the countdown is sure you will not miss before the year ends.

Greet/Say “Happy New Year!”. There might be things we do during New Year’s Eve but to say and greet everyone a “Happy New Year!” is the only words we cannot forget. We cannot forget to greet anybody and say “Happy New Year!” because it’s the least we can do to give others a gratitude and respect when celebrating the New Year.

We eat some foods, we wait for the countdown and we say “Happy New Year!”. We always wanted give the essence of a holiday to anybody by means of greeting them or inviting them to our very least. Start the New Year with a smile in our face as we greet everyone a very warming “Happy New Year!”

What reasons you would not keep you New Year’s resolution?

We all know what a New Year’s resolution is and what its purpose. We write and list down things we want and we don’t want. But commonly, we list down some of the things we want to change from ourselves, especially the attitudes. Say you have been a bad boy that bullies anyone you can for the last year, so you may want to write down on your New Year’s resolution that you will change your attitude of being a bad boy that bullies anyone you can. Say you are always late on your work or in your classes, so you may write or list down that you will change that attitude and try not to be late again at times. Say we you were too spendthrift of your money or allowances, and then you may write that you will spend your money carefully and wisely.

All of us have its own wants and needs to change things from ourselves and the basic thing to do is to have a list of the thing you want to change and that is a New Year’s resolution. But commonly, some of are things-want-to-change didn’t go successfully at the end of the year. Sometimes, we cannot keep those we promised that we list down at the first day of the year. But what are the reasons behind we couldn’t keep our New Year’s resolution?

Too hard. Like I said recently, we may write a lot of things that we want to change to ourselves. Sometimes there comes the impossibility to change one of our attitudes that we had almost a year. So when we write those attitudes and practices because that is not good and we want it to change from ourselves we also facing the fact like that we are throwing away a toy from a kid. And that comes the hardest part of it, you know to yourself that you can’t unchanged such things but as you’ve seen it bad, you wrote down to your New Year’ resolution. Say you are a pro smoker and you always practice to take smoke every day. You used to practiced that last year but as you seen it not good for your health, you write it down to your resolution. But badly, for the first days you can’t resist that attitude and tend to forgot what you wrote.

Lazy. Sometimes we can’t just change such things not because it is too hard to change but we can accept that we are just lazy. We can’t maintain our New Year’s resolution because at the first month of doing those things you wrote, you feel enough laziness to not keep your resolution. You can’t choose things that you will sure do throughout the year and better. Laziness is one of the worst sicknesses of all people that have no cure. We can’t keep our promises just because we are lazy and we can’t help ourselves for that. Say you want to change your attitude of being late always at work or at your classes, sure you can’t keep that if you always feel lazy and always getting from your bed late. That is one example, but there are lot more because laziness is inborn in some people out there.

Forget. Sometimes we forget a lot of things or we can say we forget to keep such things. Our New Year’s resolution will not be successful if we forget about it and keep your laziness throughout the year. That is normal to forget things that we listed down to our New Year’s resolution. But if we lose the list, sure you can’t keep your New Year’s resolution for a month or two. You can’t even remember what you had written down to your resolution. You may remember something if you thought about your wrong deeds and you are always doing it. Say you lose your New Year’s resolution, you may forgot those that are written down their but you may remember the top of the list or the number one that you really want to change in yourself.