New year’s Resolutions are basically lists of things we want to do, better in the next year. On that note I have updated a few of my personal development blogs, that are centered around leadership, leadership training and development.
My most significant leadership training experiences were those that I learned from being a member of Junior Chamber International, A Worldwide Federation of Young Leaders and Entrepreneurs.
I started out as a member of a local chapter, then eventually pursued training as a calling. As a trainer, I traveled to different cities and countries to conduct workshops and seminars for other JCI chapters and members. Eventually the highest position I ever attained was of National Executive Vice President for the country, JCI Philippines.
It is very different when in a position of leadership in a voluntary organization, that when leading in the corporate setting, which I have also done so. The lessons you learn in a voluntary organization are priceless, and if you are able to master these leadership skills and put them into use in the corporate setting or even if your personal life, you will not just be a very effective leader, but an effective person and human being.
So why is it easier to be in a position of leadership in the office?
Well, to begin with, people at work, people who are your subordinates will simply do what you ask them to do for any of the following reasons: because it is probably their job description; they are getting paid to do what you ask them to, and finally… simply because you are their superior and it is part of their job to simply follow your orders.
In a voluntary organization, you are working with people who are: not paid employees, not your employees, and certainly are people who in their own right have had some measure of success that you cannot simply boss them around. How do you get volunteers, people who just like you volunteer your time and energy, to work for something?
Here is another question, how do you make people work hard for something without getting paid?
This is where true leadership skills are mastered, in motivating people to work for a goal, above and beyond what is probably simply expected of them; to make them believe in something and strive towards it even in the absence of pay or financial remuneration.
Here are two leadership training blogs to check out.
www.jcipleaders.info
www.jcileaders.info
My back is killing me. That’s what you get for sitting in front of the PC at about 14-16 hours a day… I was thinking some pilates back exercises would help… but wait a sec… I know what you’re thinking.. my social life is non existent… I’m now a certified computer geek! Wrong.. I do have a little “social” interaction going on other than virtual interaction. I must saying being online for long hours does get you a little introverted. I actually can’t believe that I spend that much time on my computer. My broadband internet connection is pretty fast causing me to ignore time whenever I sit front of my PC.
Anyways, fact is I haven’t been getting much exercise anyway and I haven’t been out on any trip recently… and haven’t done anything new lately… yeah been total loser lately.
So I thought maybe getting into Pilates would be something worth exploring, ok maybe not really serious into but starting with pilates back exercises because they are killing me.
I wouldn’t have a problem, I just met a guy who teaches Pilates… Cool!
But what is Pilates? Ok, time to dig up some facts.
What is Pilates?
Pilates has actually been around for a long time now, but it was only ’til recently that a lot of people have started getting an interest in it and getting into it.
“It is a low-impact form of exercise that focuses on spinal range of motion, abdominal and back strengthening, flexibility, and breathing patterns. For a variety of reasons Pilates has become an exercise program recommended by many healthcare professionals for those with certain spine conditions, as well as for the prevention and wellness benefits it offers.” Source for that is http://www.spineuniverse.com/displayarticle.php/article2700.html.
Pilates is a total body exercise program that focuses on 6 basic principles: concentration, control, centering, fluidity, precision, and breathing. Now most people think that they can exercise and build up a sweat with a lot of physical exertion… yo have got to try pilates… taking things slower is actually much more difficult.
Pilates exercises revolve around the spine and flexibility in what they call all lpanes of motion… and pilates practitioners should pay close attention to their own postural or range of motion limitations so they can get the most out of each exercise.
Looks like I found something for my back, the question is how do I actually get started.. well I could talk to KT about it since she is so into it… or maybe talk to Arnel who is a pilates instructor who’s back from his stint in Singapore… or maybe enroll for some programs in pilates cebu style! Hehehehe… pilates cebu style? Whatever that means, I just made that up. would that mean doing pilates exercises just sitting comfortably?
Anyways, maybe it will work for my back… but how to get started really is the big question.
Ok, it might be a little too late to sing our praises about WordPress since almost everybody says all good things about WordPress, but let me give you one great example… of one bad situation that got solved.
For the longest time my domain name main page simply displayed a default under construction page, which basically diverted traffic to all my other sub-domains which are topic or theme specific.
To the uninitiated let me bring you up to speed a bit, in my own words, your domain is your site’s name or address on the web, like now you are currently on www.roysencio.com; that is a domain name. A sub-domain is a more specific address within your domain name, like say internetmarketing.roysencio.com, which is still part of roysencio.com yet is created to focus on a specific topic or field.
A subdomain is also defined as in internet terminology, a subdomain is a domain that is part of a larger domain. for example subdomain.domain.com where domain.com would be the domain and subdomain.domain.com would be the subdomain. Often this is referred to as a “third level domain”. This definition of Subdomain contributed by Eric Blackwell. (source: www.realestatewebmasters.com)
So as I was saying, I finally had an idea what to put up on the main domain, and it was basically to build a main blog site that would link to all my other subdomains and to their specific themes of interest like music, marketing, movies and radio.
For a few days there was something wrong, I thought it was buggy, I could not post a blog, and I could not add categories either, so you can say I was getting very disappointed and frustrated and was even thinking that the program was corrupted.
I don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner, but finally… I decided to check the WordPress.Org site which is basically a huge forum / help desk where developers, programmers and users converge for whatever WordPress topics or issues there may be.
That’s where I found the answer, nothing wrong with WordPress, it was all about my browser setting, I had to tweak it… and to think I was about to uninstall and start from scratch. Had I done that I would probably be even be more frustrated because I’d be faced with the same dilemma.
So the thing is, if you come into a conundrum of sorts with your WordPress blog, there is a huge support community that can help you.
What more can I say… WordPress Rocks!
Finally!
My main blog on my main domain is finally up. It took a while to figure out some kinks in the system and I was starting to believe that there was something wrong with my WordPress installation, or something wrong with the program until I found that the problem lay with my browser.
I received this through email from a friend of mine, and it was an electronic copy of an article that appeared on the Manila Times site, June 12 (Independence Day) issue…. it is indeed quite a compelling article, and does make us wonder and think about the points the author puts forth.
But more than just actually taking into consideration the valid issues he presents, I think we should consider not only how we got to be this way, but look look forth and ask how we can improve the current situation and move forward.
I believe there is no perfect system, but perfect enough to for a certain need and to suit certain requirements and conditions and to serve perfectly the people that system serves.
In the same way, I am very liberal about religion; in the old days, one professed his faith by extolling his faith’s heroes and dogma, at the same time ridiculing the other faiths. I believe there is no perfect religion; religion was instituted by man’s need of faith and hope, to believe in something intangible and maybe not entirely understood… thus he just simply has faith. Religion is also a manifestation of our desire to make us better people. Thus, there is no such best religion, for the best religion is that which you practice that does make you a better person.
On that note, and before you go on to read the article, I believe there is a need for a change of systems if they are not working, regardless if they be drastic or transitional, peaceful or otherwise. In the end, if it achieves its end; and if that is what is the only recourse to achieve it, then so be it. If the government is not working as it should be, then it is not simply enough to change the government or the system is employs, because the system could also be the mere machine to achieve an end, and like any machine is still run by “people” who could still manipulate the machine to serve their own intentions.
So, what do we change? Do we replace our politicians with another set who all come from the same oligarchy and elite? Do we change our government system with another system which would still be flawed? Or do we simply change ourselves and collectively change the face of a nation?
Anyways, enough freewheeling thoughts… here is the article.
THE EVIL OF DYNASTIES
“Virtual Reality” column of Tony Lopez
Tue, June 12, 2007 Issue of The Manila Times
Just how bad dynasties are to the economy and the country can be gleaned from the amount of taxpayers’ money these people have access to.
Take the Senate. There will be siblings – Pia and Alan Cayetano. In addition,Alan’s wife, Laarni, took his old congressional seat from Taguig. There will probably be a father-and-son senator – Nene Pimentel and Koko Pimentel. The No.2 most popular senator, Chiz Escudero, has his father, Sonny, as congressman from Sorsogon, his son’s old turf. Ed Angara is senator; his son and namesake is a congressman.
A senator draws P200 million in pork barrel; a congressman, P70 million. Therefore, Pia, Alan and Laarni will rake in P470 million a year, or P1.4 billion in three years. Nene and Koko will have P400 million between themselves yearly, or P1.3 billion in three years. Chiz and Sonny will enjoy P270 million per year, or P810 million in three years, just like the Angara father-and-son tandem.
How much does the average poor make a day? A third of the 85 million population, or 25.5 million of the people of this country make less than $1 a day, or P365 (or P17,155) a year.
According to Ping Lacson, the P200-million pork barrel of a senator is just a starting figure. If a senator sponsors a Cabinet department during the budget hearings and sessions, he/she is given access to P350 million in the
line budget of that department. So P200 million plus P350 million, that’s P550 million.
What do the Filipino people get in return for electing these people? Very little, if any.
In the last 100 years since Filipinos began electing their representatives, the Philippines dege-nerated from being the No. 1 economy, trading and commercial power in Asia to No. 73 least compe-titive country in the world.
Today,the Philippines is less free than it was a century ago. Did you know that the Philippines used to be Asia’s industrial power?
As late as the 19th century, the Philippines was already one of Asia’s premier industrialized countries and was the center of culture and education. The country was producing iron-ore sheets, refined iron ore, liquor from
molasses using then unheard-of boilers, fine textiles for export, and was using steam engines and steamships. It established the first bank in Asia, made the first typhoon forecast in Asia, and set up the first European-style
universities in Asia.
Manila had a street car system, just like San Francisco; and had a ferrocarril line from the city to Dagupan in the north and from Manila to Batangas and Bicol in the south. By 1895, Manila had an electric light system. The first
taxi fleet, the first airline, the first modern newspapers, the first conglo-merate were established by Filipino tycoons. What happened after that?
During the last 100 years, Japan became a military power and the world’s No. 2 economic power next to the United States. During the last 50 years, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore became economic miracles. Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore became nation states (they used to be unknown islands while Filipinos were already conducting diplomatic relations with Europe and China). In fact, at one time, the Sultan of
Sulu was a frequent visitor in China because he liked it there. He stayed there for three months, but died of syphilis. The Chinese erected a monument in his honor.
In the last 30 years, the Philippines became the slowest growing economy per capita in Asia, bar none. During that time, Congress produced 15,000 laws and law schools 30,000 lawyers, half of whom are active. So two lawyers for every one law. Yet, the Philippines has a very poor human rights and economic rights record.
We got our priorities wrong. We gave the people the power to vote even before the people and those they elect learned how to govern properly, or at the very least, prepare or educate themselves to have a modicum of competency and honesty.
These days, people kill people just to be able to serve the people. People bribe people just to be able to serve the people. That is the meaning of a heated electoral contest. And of fraudulent elections.
Should our politicians be blamed for the nadir we have fallen into? I will say No if those families mentioned in the first part of this column will return their pork barrel and declare, “from now on, I will truly serve the
people.” C’mon, give the money to the 12-million school-age children who are out of school because of extreme poverty. You don’t deserve so much money. You didn’t earn it. femara Eagles: The Farewell 1 Tour – Live from Melbourne film
Today is the 31st of October and as I sit at PC on this Wednesday afternoon, almost everyone I know is either on the way to enjoy a 5 day vacation, or doing financial errands like rushing to the bank and paying bills, as I did some minutes ago. No banks wil be open for the rest of the week.
This is often the case around this time of year, but its not because of Halloween tonight but because of two consecutive holidays, Nov 1 and Nov 1, All Saints and All Souls Days, respectively. A time most Filipinos spend in remembrance of relatives who have gone, and this is especially evident at cemeteries where otherwise somber surroundings were brightly lit, full of people and if not for the location, you would suspect it to be a fiesta. This is a widely celebrated tradition in the Philippines, though there are many who also take this opportunity to get some R&R like my friends did.
Which brings me to answer, if you are, wondering why I am left behind; and all I can say is I have tons of work to do, and these are projects which operate on a different schedule. I have current projects and work tasks with clients in the US, so I am pretty much on American time now… and there is not holiday this time of year in that side of the earth.
Just some days ago I made a post on my Internet Marketing blog and talked about multiple streams of income, and how to find out which of your income sources and the things you do to make a living, are aptly compensating you. Which are working, which are not; which are worth your while and which are wasting your time. I will not get into that, as I blogged already about that on the other blog, you may visit it if you wish.
About a few days ago I had exchanged emails with an existing client based in the US, the gist of which got me thinking and which connected to my multiple streams of income post on the Internet Marketing blog.
I make my living primarily as a marketing and advertising consultant, and have a firm which produces radio ads and tv ads; does design and develops websites. All these are used as tools in marketing. It is a highly specialized service that takes a lot of time, effort, and if I may mention, a right amount of patience a liberal dose of creativity. What we do requires us to possess certain skill sets that are honed and developed over time and experience.
Sometimes, there are clients that do not know what they want…. these are the ones, who want several selections of work output in order to choose one, out of say… 8 or 9 maybe. They could say, they would know what they are looking for when they see it; and as service providers more often we acquiesce lest we lost the account to a more accommodating competitor.
What came to mind is, we allocate resources, personnel, their time and their skills to pour work into a dozen results only for one of those results to be chosen, accepted and paid for. I think it ridiculous.
It’s like going to a restaurant, you order almost everything on the menu because you want to find the one dish that is the best… after tasing all the dishes laid out in front, you eat the one dish that you identified to be the best… then at the end of your meal you only pay for the dish that you liked. Down right preposterous. What about the time, effort, expertise and ingredients that went into preparing the other dishes?
There are clients though who really know what they want and are able to verbalize clearly to us an advertising service provider what it is we need to accomplish for them. On the other hand, we as specialized service providers are not also absolutely right all the time, just because giving to clients what they require or need is something we do for a living.
Come to think of it, there have been some times in the past that I had dealt with clients who were worse. Let me side track a bit as this strays a little far from the topic but I need to squeeze this in, or forget this though forever.
I have had the distinct privilege to work with some clients who, despite your great pitch and reasonable price & proposal, go and dictate the price or the cost they are willing to pay for the service you are offering to them… saying that it can easily be done, or that they can get it cheaper. I think there is some ignorance in these people that translates into a sort of rudeness that we cannot instantly react to and it only hits you later, when you want to then scream out, if you knew how to do it why are you hiring me for it in the first place? Maybe another great snap back would be, if you know so well how to run my business since your dictating my pricing, why don’t we trade places; you run mine and I’ll run yours. But then again, we are just too civil to say such things; probably why there is that relieving joy of blogging when you can vent what you cannot. I remember a couple of instances when they change the details on a contract they are about to sign, and change the agreed cost, “they change it themselves, right in front of your very eyes.” I think in my years of doing sales, these instances are the most unpleasant, and I wonder why I got into sales in the first place. But then a signed contract is a signed contract, despite yo leaving their office like a dog with its tail between its legs.
Going back to my original story, the morale is, it would be insensitive for one to say, they purchase results or a result because results as the word itself, implies a consequence, outcome, sum, or later predisposition brought about by prior actions or tasks that caused it.
Thus, the means to get to the end is just as important as the end itself.
Allocation of resources and personnel for a project or projects that are deemed unprofitable is plain misappropriation.
This was my third trip to Badian, some people told me that they had been there before and that they were not so happy about the beach because it was this.. and it was that… well, maybe this picture changes your mind about Badian.
More pictures available at www.roysencio.com/gallery
I just got back from a two day trip to Bantayan, a much needed getaway as I have been feeling a little toxic with all the stress that comes with living in an urban jungle.
I will be posting some pictures on the gallery page of this blog so check it out. Here is a sample below.
I received an email today from a cousin of mine. It was an article about the Estrada conviction. Strange as it seems, there are many who believe Estrada should be pardoned, much worse, there are countless of believe him innocent and a victim of political sabotage, the stooge of an orchestrated political plot. Well… it is a free country.
But before you read the article I must say that there are a few things which I am getting alarmed about.
First, I find it ridiculous for the present government now considering giving “convicted-guilty” Estrada a pardon. What on earth is going on in the heads of the bright boys in Malacañang.
If we were to speculate I’d say our government has no strong resolve, and is made up of a bunch of wimps who are scared of these rumored destabilization plots and are scared of action by the so called masses who are said to be loyal Estrada followers. Well, the conviction came, and went; not much going on… but I guess it is when it is really quiet that you have to really be extra attentive or whatever happens could catch you off guard.
This preposterous Presidential Pardon simply makes a mockery of a justice system which decent public servants have sought hard to uphold.
Second thing I was getting appalled about however did not have the time to write about. It is without a doubt that there have been several political scandals of late. All these senate hearings and investigations on TV, money and bribes in the hundreds of millions. The anniversary of the imposition of Martial Law by Ferdinand Marcos was observed recently and there were some people who said that Marcos was a great leader, martial law was the best time for the Philippines and so on.
I could not help but exclaim, “are they out of their mind”. Oh these young, idealistic, activists with their misplaced passions and easily toyed with and impressionable minds, how they complain about the current government and easily claim that martial law was grand. Apparently again proclamations of the ignorant, those who were never really around or were too young to know what martial law was about; how the countless bodies in unmarked graves probably turned in their unhallowed makeshift graves with the verbose Martial Law was good and Marcos a great leader.
Sure, Marcos was indeed one of a kind, a great leader… he did start out great but alas, as they say “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” Whatever the cause may have been, the Marcos’ that exited from Malacañang was a very different person from the Marcos that enterred it 25 years earlier.
And today, the Marcosed are back, in power, in politics, and in wealth that never seems to run out… while in their silent unfound and unmarked graves lay the thousands upon thousands of silent witnesses of a regime that abducted, silenced, killed those who were opposed to the dictator.
Ignorance could be very dangerous… especially if the ignorant are the ones who are very vocal about their convictions which are based on partial information.
Empty cans ring out loud you know. They might not carry some weight, but they sure can be as loud and annoying as ever.
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Telltale Signs/ NO TEARS FOR ESTRADA
Rodel E. Rodis, September 17, 2007
On the day the Estrada verdict was announced last week, a retired man who needed my help in his claim for social security benefits in the Philippines professed sympathy for the former president, expressing his hope that he
would be shown mercy because he had suffered enough.
Like most people, he had not read the 212 page decision of the Philippine Anti Graft Court (Sandigan Bayan), finding former president Joseph aka Erap Estrada Guilty of Plunder. If he had read the complete decision, he would have discovered the ironic connection between his problems with the SSS and the basis for the plunder verdict.
(For the transcripts, log on to http://www.manilamail.com)
It took six years for the Sandigan court to try the Estrada case, most of the delays caused by Estrada himself. At one point, he fired all his attorneys so that a mistrial could occur. But after the court provided him with new attorneys, which he promptly rejected, Estrada retained new counsel and proceeded with a strategy to run out the clock until his close personal friend, Fernando Poe, Jr. (FPJ), could win the presidency in the May 2004
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elections and dismiss all the charges against him.
But when FPJ lost, Estrada had no choice but to finally deal with the prosecution’s case by seeking to undermine the credibility of the court and by claiming that the trial is “politically motivated” to justify his removal from office. Very little was done by his lawyers to debunk the voluminous evidence presented in court.
In the course of the trial despite innumerable delays, dozens of witnesses described how Estrada collected billions of Philippine pesos in “jueteng” protection money which they regularly delivered in cash to his Polk Street mansion in San Juan in Metro Manila. It was like a mob scene from “The Sopranos”. But the most damning witnesses against Estrada were those he appointed to public office.
Carlos (aka Chucky) Arellano testified that he was a childhood friend of Estrada who appointed him chairman and president of the Social Security System (SSS) in 1998. On October 6, 1999, he received a call from Pres.
Estrada instructing him to buy Belle Corporation stock. He hesitated to do so, he said, because that decision belonged to the SSS investment committee which selected the stocks to invest in for the millions of Filipinos who had contributed to it. However, after further prodding from Estrada, Arellano unilaterally authorized the purchase by SSS of P900-M (pesos) ($20-M) in Belle stocks on October 21, 1999, just 15 days after he was directed to do so.
Federico Pascual testified that he was the president of the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) in 1999, appointed by Estrada, when he was instructed to purchase Belle shares. He hesitated to do the president
bidding, he said, because the Belle Corporation was involved in jai-alai and gambling and had a speculative flavor. But after receiving another call from Estrada on October 9, 1999, he went ahead and authorized the purchase
by GSIS of P1.1-B (pesos) ($25-M) in Belle stock.
A close crony of Estrada, Jaime Dichaves, facilitated the transaction. Belle Corporation executives testified that they issued a cashiers check to Dichaves in the amount of P189-M($4-M) (International Exchange Bank Check
No. 6000159271 dated November 5, 1999 ) as his 10% commission for securing the purchase by SSS and GSIS of close to P2-B (pesos) ($45-M) in Belle stocks.
Bank executives then testified that Dichaves deposited the 10% commission of P189-Mil. ($4-Mil) into the bank account of Jose Velarde, in Equitble Bank. Dichaves deposited an additional amount of P74-M (pesos) into the same account.
Clarissa Ocampo, an Equitable Bank manager, testified that she personally witnessed Estrada sign his name as Jose Velarde in withdrawing funds from the Equitable Bank, an allegation that was openly admitted by Estrada
himself. Bank executives testified that there were Joint accounts in the bank of Jose Velarde & Loi Ejercito (Estradas legal wife).
Bank executives also testified that it was from this same Jose Velarde account that Estrada purchased the Boracay Mansion near Wack-Wack Golf Club for the use of his favored mistress, Laarni Enriquez. The man who facilitated the purchase of this mansion was Jose Luis Yulo who, because of this housing experience, was then appointed by Estrada to be his Secretary of Housing, replacing the very competent Karina Constantino-David.
The prosecution’s evidence was just too over whelming, the Sandigan Bayan justices had no other choice but to find Estrada guilty of plunder, beyond a reasonable doubt. Sifting through the testimonies of eyewitnesses, one concludes that Estrada never believed that he would ever have to account for his actions so he didn’t care who witnessed what he was doing. Transparency turned out not to be a virtue and stupidity not a viable defense.
But the joke was on the people. When GSIS and SSS bought Belle stocks, As instructed by then PRES. ESTRADA, in 1999, they were priced at P3.14 a share. One year later, on December 29,2000, their value had sunk dramatically to 60 centavos a share. Two years later, Belle stock crashed to a staggering 40centavos a share, from purchase price of P3.14 per share. Now they are virtually worthless! Two BILLION PESOS of the people’s investments down the drain!
While I congratulate the Sandigan Bayan judges for finding Estrada guilty of plunder, my regret is that he was never charged for his possible role in the abduction and murders of Salvador “Bubby” Dacer, Emmanuel Corbito and
Edgar Bentain.
According to members of his family, Bubby Dacer was bawled out by Estrada in Malacanang in November of 1999 shortly before he and his driver, Corbito, were abducted by members of the Presidential Anti-Organized Crime Task Force (PAOCTF) headed by Gen. Panfilo Lacson and tortured and executed. The PAOCTF soldiers who admitted killing Dacer and Corbito pointed to Col. Glenn Dumlao as their commanding officer. Before he fled to the US, Col. Dumlao pointed to Col. Cezar Mancao and Col. Michael Ray Aquino as the officers who gave him the orders. Before they could point their fingers as to who directed them, Mancao and Aquino fled to the US upon instructions of Lacson. If Lacson had been fingered by Mancao and Aquino, would he have pointed the finger to Estrada?
Edgar Bentain was a casino worker at the Casino Filipino located at the Heritage Hotel in Manila when he secretly released to the press the videotape of Estrada playing high-stakes poker with his crony, Atong Ang. The videotape was then shown on TV to the embarrassment of Estrada who ordered an investigation into who leaked the videotape. According to Ador Mawanay’s sworn testimony on August 17, 2001, PAOCTF men abducted Bentain outside the casino and immersed him with cement inside a drum and dumped his corpse in Pampanga. The leader of the PAOCTF team, he said, was Col. Michael Ray Aquino. Mawanay identified Estrada’s son, Jude, as the man he saw give a black bag containing money to Aquino as payment for the killing of Bentain.
Estrada “suffered enough”??
We hear the Auld Lang Syne sung typically at midnight on New Year’s Eve, and is a tradition that has been handed down for generations, but just what is the Auld Lang Syne and what does the Auld Lang Syne mean?
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Auld Lang Syne is an old song by Robert Burns (1759–1796), and though there are similar poems which predate Burns’ version, like Robert Ayton (1570–1638), Allan Ramsay (1686-1757) and James Watson (1711) , this probably is the most popular.
I know were all probably guilty about singing it out loud on news year’s; well actually attempt to sing, because the melody is easier to remember than the lyrics; in fact not a lot of people can probably sing it correctly and in full. Auld Lang Syme is a very old Scottish song and means “times gone by.”
If you would like lyrics to the song, with a matching Scottish pronunciation guide, check out Auld Lang Syne on Wikipedia.
So that’s the story behind Auld Lang Zyne, may you all have a prosperous, happy and content 2008 ahead!
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Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
And here’s a hand, my trusty friend
And gie’s a hand o’ thine
We’ll tak’ a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne
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