It has been five years since I got employed in the professional trading of luminary products from China to any parts in Europe but primarily for the German market. Our team is involved in all the technical aspects of our products from the stages of development and safety approval up to the production surveillance and outgoing shipment quality assurance. Our team, consisting of just three Pinoy engineers in China, would always have a handful of tasks (I think “pending jobs” is the more appropriate term) not just because of language barrier and poor cooperation from Chinese engineers but because our range of luminary designs and products vary a lot year on year.
Luminaires or lighting products have different classification. According to input voltage, we have the high-voltage and low voltage products. According to water ingress protection, we have the indoor or outdoor construction that focus on the water, moisture and other outdoor environment protection. According to the insulation protection, we have three levels of classification – class I, class II and class III.
Lightings according to main functions are oftentimes grouped or mixed as:
1. Downlights or ceiling recessed lightings
2. Ceiling lamps or ceiling surface mounted lightings
3. Wall lamps
4. Table lamps
5. Cabinet lamps which is common for kitchen cabinets fixtures
6. Floor lamps or floor standing lighting
7. Garden lamps that includes solar lamps which uses the sun’s solar energy to re-charge the batteries supplied
8. Christmas lights
9. Novelty lamps are anything small and portably handy lighting products like torch lamps, camping lights.
In all these products, the most important part is the lamp or main bulb itself which gives out the desire lighting intensity for any particular use. Increasingly popular LEDs or light emitting diodes offer the low light suitable for decorative purposes while ESL or energy-saving lamps projects a high radiance outcome with minimal energy consumption. The previously famous fluorescent lamps and nearly phase-out incandescent bulbs, though widely accepted in the past decades or so for their daylight natural brightness and cool-warm lighting effect respectively are slowly loosing their appeal to the two formers.
The importance of light in the world is undisputable and definite.
Sadly and ironic, however, is the fact that as the world finds more veritable sources of light, the world is still very much in the darkness because it is losing the most essential light of all - God’s light.
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 5:15-16)
And so God’s calling for our own light to shine is true everyday. He understands that many of our brethrens are lost in the dark and they need every light they can get to lead them back to Him. It does not matter if our light seems so little because when viewed in total darkness, the tiniest spark is always a welcome respite for those who see it, more so for those grappling in the dark over long periods of time in their lives. What is important is that we keep ourselves connected to our source of light – to our Lord who came as Light for the world and whose shining glory we all seek to be with.
I am blessed to have two uncomplicated but constant light in the form of the janitresses in our buildings and offices. They are both Chinese ladies who, notwithstanding that they have no single idea how to speak in english, always brightens up my day with their simple smiles and greeting gestures. It doesn’t matter if they look dead tired from their cleaning activities. They always have that smile to offer me. Those smiles that add up to a bright and sunny day are God’s tangible blessings to me everyday and every moment I see them around. So I try to pass on these lights to the other people in the factory by consciously being more friendly so that, in my humble way, I will be their light for that particular time of the day. Yes, our lights do not only shine, they are able to re-shine to others as well. It’s like the Olympic torch relays that lately have been traveling from one place to another. The Olympic flame is passed on from one runner to another runner in their symbolic attempt to foster unity and continuity. So when you receive the light of God for today, please enjoy it and pass it on to all the people you will meet. The light is not meant to stop at that point.
Let your light shine.
Share your light.
Remain in God’s light.
Luminaires or lighting products have different classification. According to input voltage, we have the high-voltage and low voltage products. According to water ingress protection, we have the indoor or outdoor construction that focus on the water, moisture and other outdoor environment protection. According to the insulation protection, we have three levels of classification – class I, class II and class III.
Lightings according to main functions are oftentimes grouped or mixed as:
1. Downlights or ceiling recessed lightings
2. Ceiling lamps or ceiling surface mounted lightings
3. Wall lamps
4. Table lamps
5. Cabinet lamps which is common for kitchen cabinets fixtures
6. Floor lamps or floor standing lighting
7. Garden lamps that includes solar lamps which uses the sun’s solar energy to re-charge the batteries supplied
8. Christmas lights
9. Novelty lamps are anything small and portably handy lighting products like torch lamps, camping lights.
In all these products, the most important part is the lamp or main bulb itself which gives out the desire lighting intensity for any particular use. Increasingly popular LEDs or light emitting diodes offer the low light suitable for decorative purposes while ESL or energy-saving lamps projects a high radiance outcome with minimal energy consumption. The previously famous fluorescent lamps and nearly phase-out incandescent bulbs, though widely accepted in the past decades or so for their daylight natural brightness and cool-warm lighting effect respectively are slowly loosing their appeal to the two formers.
The importance of light in the world is undisputable and definite.
Sadly and ironic, however, is the fact that as the world finds more veritable sources of light, the world is still very much in the darkness because it is losing the most essential light of all - God’s light.
Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 5:15-16)
And so God’s calling for our own light to shine is true everyday. He understands that many of our brethrens are lost in the dark and they need every light they can get to lead them back to Him. It does not matter if our light seems so little because when viewed in total darkness, the tiniest spark is always a welcome respite for those who see it, more so for those grappling in the dark over long periods of time in their lives. What is important is that we keep ourselves connected to our source of light – to our Lord who came as Light for the world and whose shining glory we all seek to be with.
I am blessed to have two uncomplicated but constant light in the form of the janitresses in our buildings and offices. They are both Chinese ladies who, notwithstanding that they have no single idea how to speak in english, always brightens up my day with their simple smiles and greeting gestures. It doesn’t matter if they look dead tired from their cleaning activities. They always have that smile to offer me. Those smiles that add up to a bright and sunny day are God’s tangible blessings to me everyday and every moment I see them around. So I try to pass on these lights to the other people in the factory by consciously being more friendly so that, in my humble way, I will be their light for that particular time of the day. Yes, our lights do not only shine, they are able to re-shine to others as well. It’s like the Olympic torch relays that lately have been traveling from one place to another. The Olympic flame is passed on from one runner to another runner in their symbolic attempt to foster unity and continuity. So when you receive the light of God for today, please enjoy it and pass it on to all the people you will meet. The light is not meant to stop at that point.
Let your light shine.
Share your light.
Remain in God’s light.
