April 22 is observed by many as the Earth Day. It is a time for everyone to unite to protect our planet earth and also to learn what each of us can do to help. A year ago, I posted Earth Day, which reminded me to evaluate of the things I have done to say I am helping protect our planet earth.

My company, Oracle, is very dedicated in going green. The Green Generation, is Oracle’s first annual Earth Day initiative in going green. We work with various environmenal noprofit organizations globally to restore habitats, plant trees, clean beaches and parklands, and protect wildlife.

One of the small contributions we also advised is to save trees by encouraging employees not to print emails or reports if they don’t need to. We have these signatures on our emails to  remind us of this. Such as shown below:

Oracle is committed to developing practices and products that help protect the environment

And even better I just receive an email for my Recognition certificate. And in that email, it says that they are going GREEN, so no more physical certificate sent, instead it is now electronic. Nice eh?

Going back a year ago when I posted my Earth Day post, what have I done to contribute in this initiative? Well, I have done a lot, too many to list them down here. The question should be is, what are we doing to protect our planet earth? Let’s continue to unite to go green!

 There are so many ways and things you can do to help. Small things like using reusable bags to the grocery stores, turning off the lights if not needed, carpool, and there are so many others.

How about you? What have you done to help?

It’s Christmas eve. I got one text from my old buddy of mine. Glad he can remember me, at least. Though I am not really a ‘text’ person, I replied. What I like about the iPhone is your ability to use SMS much like an email. No, I wasn’t referring to the keyboard-type like entry buttons (I would not be txt’ing if that were the case), but its cool features to send SMS to multiple recipients.

So there was I, spamming all my friends, family, and co-workers. One line of text MERRY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY NEW YEAR, and sent to 15+ friends in one shot; is just so cool!

After just 30 seconds, I immediately got 5 replies from my old classmates and co-workers. Now, that is “TXTing”. L8R, I mean later…

More than a year ago, when I was still in Texas; I recall driving home from the midnight work we did on that Friday night. The day was long, the night was late. The sky was dark, the road was bad. It was raining, it was cold. Though there was not a lot of cars, the drive was not easy.

While driving, this music started to play on the radio and it was beautiful. It is a Contemporary/Country Christian song by Carrie Underwood. One of her first hit songs, I think. JESUS, take the wheel!

I did not take it literally, but spiritually, I relinquished all my glory to Him to take the wheel of my life. To control me, to lead me, and to put me where He wants me to be. Spiritually, let’s have Jesus take the wheel of our life. He’s still in control.

While at my sister’s place this weekend, I could not help but sing the song stuck in my head and been singing it for days. It’s a powerful song. The version I had in mind is Kathy Trocoli’s “Go Light Your World (Carry your Candle)”. It’s really a great song.

I was sent by a very good friend, a sister in Christ, and a mentor of yet another Christian powerful song that is more suited for this time of year. They have almost the same line. It is by Avalon, Light a Candle. I would like to share it with everyone and let us feel the importance of giving to anyone who is in need. Christmas is giving. It is not just giving gifts and any earthly materials. It is giving love and compassion to all who need it.

Remember, the greatest gift is God’s giving His son. So that whoever will believe in Him, will have eternal life. Remember, that gift was given to us and we celebrate it this season. Let us not forget about the main reason for this season. Let us greet everyone “Merry CHRISTmas”. Not Merry X’mas or Happy Holidays. Don’t leave out the name of Jesus there!Merry Christmas.

How long has it been? How has everyone been? It’s seem like my world in my hands stopped for not having to have any updates in my own blog. I have so many things to share, but so little time to spare. Schedule had been very hectic. Every end of a day, I would get very excited to compile all the interesting stuffs to share and would plan that to post it on the weekend. Weeks passed and then months. What do we know? It’s already six months ago and not a single entry.

Now, is it GO light for me? Probably not. But I should just let my world going. After all, I like sharing things about me for all the world to see. In the past months, a lot of things happened. I’ve been going back and forth to Texas and California, but the good part is, I am completely back to California. So, I am restarting my California life back and closing my Texas experience. Don’t get me wrong, they were all GOOD.

Work has never been this busy as before. As usual, “meetings” when sun rises to the setting down. Maintenance and projects are always there. No complaining, though, they are there for reasons.

Christmas is fast approaching. I spent my weekend at my sister’s place in Fresno, CA. To my surprise, the weather was really cold and we got to experience a pretty good shower of hail last Monday. Yep, those are hails! We also get to do Christmas shopping. It was a good break for me, really.

So, it may not be a green for me, but let’s get it going. Let’s celebrate Christmas with Jesus as the ONLY reason for this season. Let us start a new year with a prayer!