Numismatic Liberty Coin Watch

Dear Numismatic Coin Collectors,

I would like to sell my Numismatic Liberty Coin Watch as shown in the pictures below. The brief descriptions of this collector's item could easily be found from the embedded incriptions.

I bought this item in the year 2000 for about $1,200.00 U.S. from the company indicated at the back view of the item. One of the most important values of this collectible item aside from its rarerity (one of 5,000 pieces) and Numismatic value is that the Liberty coin inside this watch is 99.99% one-half (1/2) ounce gold.

The mechanical thing inside is no longer working due maybe to battery power after about 10 years of running. Battery replacement might solve this problem.

I would like to sell it at $1,500.00 U.S. So, if you are interested to keep it yourself further, please kindly indicate your offer which should not be lower than the offered price above.

The lucky collector with the best offer on or before January 15, 2011 will get it.


You can pay through my PayPal acount at hmagnanaw@yahoo.com.

You contact me at this e-mail address: hmagnanaw@yahoo.com.



Thank you very much.

God bless,

Handeil

September 5, 2010 Household Prayer Meeting

Here's one of the pictures of some of the attendees of the September 5, 2010 Couples For Christ (CFC) Household prayer meeting at Kuya Vic and Ate Emily Lau's Residence in Pathumthani, Thailand.

The sharing after the prayer session was really a very inspiring one. Three of the attendees: two sisters and one brother were coming from Singapore to serve the CLP in Phuket.

We're so inspired and encouraged of how the Holy Spirit has moved these people to say YES to the calling to serve outside their comfort zones.

Traveling from Singapore to Phuket, Thailand just to give the talk really inspires not only the Christian Life Program (CLP) participants, but also us, members of the CFC community.

It's really amazing how our Lord, God moves people to response His call to continue the work He had started.

Let's praise and thank God for this inspiration.

God bless us all!

Kids for Christ (KFC) Global Day of Service

This is last Saturday's (September 3, 2010) exciting and wonderful day for all the Couples For Christ (CFC)'s children around the World.

Though it sounds very silent to everyone "in the world", but the whole community around the world was in harmony celebrating the occasion "KFC Global Day of Service" and doing the same things for the same purpose highlighting its three E's: Envision, Enable and Empower (the World Changers - KFC).

As you can read in the banner: Kids can Lead, Kids can Serve and Kids can Make a Difference.

As part of the activities, there were tree plantings for the kids who were assisted by their parents and coordinated with our very active KFC coordinators, Tony and Emy Dalisay, right after the cleaning of the whole Asian Institute of Tecnology (AIT) campus and then a brief lecture on the specific topic on the 3 R's: Reuse, Reduce and Recycle.

The lecture gives the kids some ideas on how to take care for our environment by adopting the above 3 R's.

There were eating, dancing, praying/praising for everyone, and some arts activities for the kids.
The whole activities had ended with the distribution of the certificates for the kids attesting their presence and active participations of all the activities on the said important occasion.

Then everyone had dispersed after taking another set of foods prepared by our beloved brothers and sisters sponsoring it joyfully.

We praise and we thank you Lord, our God for the wonderful day you have allowed us to shared with together during this very important and meaningful occasion we had celebrated globally on the same day.

Birthday Party 2010

This is last Saturday's August 28, 2010) birthday party celebration of our friend and neighbor's son and our children's school mate, Dan Michael.

There were so much funs for the childrens participating the activities just prepared for them.

However, after the party, when we were already at home and ready to sleep, our eldest daughter had a stomach pain which we didn't know what's the real cause. The next day, she went to the toilet many times disposing very soft wastes.

Later, we had learnt from other parents that their children also had the same problem.

With this, I had reminded of the same concern for many children few months back when we had attended the same kind of party celebration held at the same fast food center, but in different location.

Parent Teacher Fellowship

These are just some of the pictures taken today, Friday, August 27, 2010 during the Parent Teacher Fellowship at the Bangkok Baptist Learning Center, BBLC here in Bangkok Thailand.

The occasion was a mixture of many related things: learning the reasons why it's great to have our children learn in this school where God is the center of their learning, remembering the great roles parents have for their children and the overviewing of the bright and Godly future of our children based on the real experiences of the same school in the Philippines using the same curriculum for 23 years already, seeing the many beautiful fruits of the school.

It was great also to have been reminded of the importance of the character of the children which the school is committed to working hard to achieve it, and of course, with the cooperation of the parents and the children.
The pricipal had mentioned about the importance of teaching the chilren not only how to make a living, but also to teach them how to live.

What a great and wonderful day for all of us!

Walking the Talk

The Holy Spirit is really moving and working with the Couples for Christ (CFC) community. It's manifested in the undying commitments of the many leaders of the community, like Kuya Jesus (Jess) Monreal and his wife, Ate Lolit who not only leading the Rangsit Church Sunday Mass activities and yearly Christian Life Program (CLP) activities, but also leading one of the CFC household groups where my beloved family is belonged.

In spite of being so busy of his job as Managing Director in one of the biggest Electronic Company here in Thailand, he still able to manage all this, which, for some people considered extra activities. For him, it's his humble way of saying thank you to the Lord for all His generosity and faithfulness to him and his family, and for all the blessings not only to him and to his family, but also to all the members of the CFC community, especially to his household members, especially my family, whom he would always patienly carry within his car like his own family, whenever we have a household prayer meetings in far away places after the Sunday Mass.

It is in this unordinary gestures that my life is being touched by the love of God.

It's not only him and his beloved wife, Ate Lolit that I have seen walking on the talk, but many of our other committed CFC leaders, like Kuya Vic and ate Emily, Brother Pats and his wife Sister Carla, Kuya Edgar and Ate Monyeen, Brother Sim and Sister Nenit, Brother Art and Sister Laarni, Bro Tony and Sister Emily, Brother Joy-Joy and Sister Emilyn, and Brother Jun-Jun who already returned to our Heavenly Father and Sister Ann, his wife who is now in Canada with their son, Kerby.

Some are doing it secretly and some are doing it widely open. However, it doesn't matter. What does matters is that, it's so wonderful and inspiring to have a kind of life living in a community confined in the same culture, which is centered on the love of God.

Feeding the Birds

It was a wondeful day for all of us spending time together feeding the birds at the Chatuchack Park one Saturday morning right after my weekly tennis at the same park. It's our first time enjoying this kind of family outing, bonding together while enjoying the feeding of the doves.

Our children loved this so much and kept on asking us when would we be doing it again. It had made them laughed a lot and amazed of how close they were with the birds. They could touch them and even fed them on their hands.

It was very nice watching them joyfully, and playfully feeding the birds like their own pets.

Our joy had also made a big difference to the other three young children ( 2 boys and one girl) selling those foods for the birds for we had bought a lot from them. So, they made a lot for money that day from us. It's one good way of sharing our blessings to them.

Big Sea Waves in My Dream

Last night (August 22, 2010) I had a dream of big sea waves coming toward our second old home at Langub, Asturias, Cebu in the Philippines and in this dream I had recalled that I had already dreamt of it before and even now I can agree with this previous dream that it had occurred to me once before.

In this new dream I was so worried of my loved ones slowly running with me to the high level ground for safety, but when we reached there, I was sadden to see that even the highest mountains ahead of us had already been reached by the other big waves coming from different origin, and water already pouring down from these highest mountains.

Then losing the hope of escaping, I gathered my loved ones, holding hands together and we had prayed. Then suddenly, I woke up.

Ayuthaya Province Household Meeting

Today's household meeting was really a great challenge to our household leader. Apart from the distance of the location of the venue, which is in Ayuthaya Province, about 30 to 45 minutes from the Rangsit Church, we had difficulty of accommodating more than 20 people including 6 childrens in just two cars after one of our brothers who has a car had cancelled his plan to come with us for a very valid reason of bringing their son to the hospital for medical check-up.

However, with God's grace, all of us were able to get in those two cars, and with God's mercy, everything was fine. We had funs eating our lunch together and then having our main agenda of having the household prayer meeting, praising and worshiping our Beloved God and then finally our sharing for some of our life's experiences.

When we had finished our activities, we had thanked Mr. Peter and his wife - the hosts for today's household meeting and then hurried back to our place and making a stop for a shot of the elephants as shown in the third picture.

Our Future Family Pianist

This is our eldest daughter whom I encouraged and reminded all the time to do her best in her piano lessons.

She is now studying the notes and already doing well for some basic children's songs. I always tell her that one day, our whole family will serve the Lord through music serving churches, to sing songs while she's playing the piano during the Sunday Mass, or any occasion for the Lord.

This is my dream for my whole family, and I believe God will grant this to us one day.

Now our children, by their heart and mind are preparing themselves for their individual musical instrument they want to play by that time the Lord granted our desire to serve Him.

Our second daughter wants to play the violin while the youngest wants to play the guitar.

Our Children's Field Trip in Bangkok's Geological Museum

These are some of the pictures of our children's class field trip at Bangkok's Geological Museum located at Payathai area, about 3 km. away from their school. It's one of their science class activities for this school year.

One of the purpose of their field trip is to expose them to the different kinds of stones, such as gemstone, limestone, quartz, marble, etc. Then two weeks later, as announced earlier, their teacher had asked them to present their group's field trip's report.
It's a very good experience to our children at their earlier age to have this kind of exposure. I really appreaciate their school's administration to have included this kind of activity for all their students. It's really a great help to all the children's developing mind.

My Tennis 2010 Exactly A Week Ago

This is my tennis 2010's serious competition with only 80% preparation.

I could have done better should I had prepared myself 100% as before, like in 2004 when I won the Championship of the Tennis Association of Filipinos in Thailand (TAFT) Open Tournament.

Because there was no ealier confirmations from the other participants that they will really join the tournament, and due to the constant rain everyday for several days already, and August really is the rainy season in Thailand, I was discouraged to continue my usual two-week regimens before the tournament day.

As a result, I just ended up the first runner for this year's TAFT tournament.

Though I got in the semi-final round as if with good luck, I was very sure that I could really reach the final round, and indeed, I had really made it.

The whole tennis group was divided into two groups, where in each group has five players. Each group has to play round-robin and the first and second ranking players in each group in terms of the points they won, will play cross-over in the semi-final: first vs. second and second vs. first.

While the other two players were still playing, I was wishing that the other guy (Mr. Joey) whose points were very closed to mine will just get equal points with his opponent (Mr. Dennis).

Otherwise, if he gets two point more than his opponent, then he would be the second-ranked player in our group, and he would be the one to play in the semi-final against the first-ranked player in the other group. Fortunately, his opponent got one more point over his. So, I was lucky to get the second highest points in our group and had played the semi-final. I was very confident to defeat my opponent (Mr. Jun) because I am too familiar of his tennis games play.

And I had really defeated him by just one point.

Five minutes after our semi-final match, my final opponent (Mr. Ti) had requested to have our final match immediately, but I asked for five minutes break. So, he was in a little advantage of the situation for he had rested more since their semi-final match had finished earlier than ours.

He got the first point during his service, and I got mine during my turn.

I had almost broken him in his second service turn. It was 0-40 in my favor. Unfortunately, at this very moment, while thinking that I am winning the tournament, I had felt discomfort in my stomach and it's really bursting. So, I had lost my focus and he got the point.
In my second service turn I also got the point.

He got also his third point in his third service turn and I got mine on my third service turn.

However, after this, he got his fourth point. And in my fourth service turn, he had broken me, and had won the tournament's championship match.

I was happy with the result thinking that it's a good gift for his elderly mother for it was exactly a Mother's Day in Thailand that day. She was waiting for him since morning and supposed to go at 5 P.M. for doctor's appointment. I was the one who was pressured with his Mom's appointment.

Anyway, these are the things I had learned in this tournament: I should continue my usual two-week regimens no matter what: whether the tournament will go on or not.

I should eat heavy breakfast few hours before the tournament. I should never be disturbed by anything especially during the final round.

Visualization had really worked for me again this time, but the only thing I had missed is that, when I visualized myself raising the trophy the night before the tournament, I didn't clearly visualize what trophy was it: champion's or the runner-up's trophy.

Household Members Reunion

These are some of the pictures taken during the reunion of our household members when our CFC brother and sister - couple from Singapore visited Thailand two weeks ago.
There were lot of foods and funs we had shared together.

Some were singing and other were eating, drinking and chatting.

Scary Day for the Family

Initially, we're so happy that finally, our children could swim today at the Chatuchak Park's swimming pool. But, after 30 minutes of their swimming, the sky had slowly darkened and the the rain had slowly droppings.

After about 10 minutes, lightnings and thunders had came and the swimming pool lifeguards urgently asked my wife to let our chilren to get out from the pool. I was so worried because I was still very far away jogging when the lightning and thunders came.

When I arrived, I was so happy seeing them safely out of the swimming pool with my wife.

We stayed there near the swimming pool for more than two hours hoping the rain would be gone shortly. While waiting, we were so scared seeing and hearing those very powerful lightning and thunders, respectively around us.

The most scary one was after praying together, after uttering the last word of the "Oh glory be to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit...", the most powerful thunder hits and shut off the power grid supplying electrical power of the whole park.


Almost three hours later, the rains were still there but it's no longer heavy, and the lightnings and thunders were alreay gone. At this moment, there's no way that our children can continue their swimming because it's almost 6:00 O' Clock already - closing time of the swimming pool.

So, we hadn't no other option, but to go back home.

Swimming at the Chatuchack Park

We went to Chatuchack Park this afternoon for swimming. Our three children were so excited about it. I could observed what they had in their minds when we reach the park.

When we arrived there, we're so happy because there were no other children to swim. However, in our big dismay, today, Monday is a cleaning day for the swimming pool.

They're so frustrated and our youngest was crying from the pool until we had reached home.

Mother's Day 2010

In celebration to the Assumption of Mother Marry today, the St. John Church had also given an honor to the celebration of the Mothers' Day.

Before the Sunday Mass had began today, Fr. Dominico, the Parish priest at St. John Church, had a small and secret talk to all the English-speaking Filipino children after their catechism session and had given them some instructions what to do before and after the mass celebration.

Though the parents was just nearby, they don't really understood what was the purpose of the secret talk. They only had realized it after the whole activity.

So, as instructed, all the said children had seated in the first row in front of the altar in preparation to the special thing that they are going to do later, immediately right after the Holy Mass.

When the Holy Mass had ended, before the priest had given his final blessing, he once again reminded all the parishioners the significance and importance of the celebration.

To honor Mother Marry, and to celebrate the Mother's Day, all mothers were honored by giving them flowers.

It was their children handing them the beautiful, red, white and pink flower roses.

Two members of our Church choir had rendered a very beautiful, mixed English-Filipino song very fitting to the occasion, sang beautifully while the children are giving flowers to the mothers.

After the giving of flowers to their own mothers, the children were instructed to give flowers also to those mothers whose children were not with them at the moment.

I have seen how the spirits of the mothers were lighted up due to this very simple, and yet a very memorable experience for them.

In like manner, the children were also very happy seeing their mothers happily and thankfully receiving the flowers.

This time, I had realized what was the purpose of the secret talk earlier. It's all about honoring all mothers, and of course reminding everyone the importance of Mother Mary in our life, and doing it in surprised manner, especially for those who are not familiar to this kind of event.