NOYNOY is Every OFW

This is what I have in mind right now....based on this photo

We have been asked by a batch mate in our high school Yahoo! Group email thread regarding the three "presidentiables" kung sino iboboto namin. It seems it was from a forwarded email circulating in the internet. There was a photo also attached of the three selections (You can check the above insinuating photo). I know it was not from my batch mate Laudemer and its owner is too impossible to identify.

I realized it is a nice topic to discuss about (I mean the photo) and my few understanding about my candidate for president. Let me put it straight, I AM FOR NOYNOY AQUINO. In my opinion, let's forget about the senate and the house of representatives for the meantime (or the legislative branch) and let's face the fact that the president is the most powerful among the three branches of what we so-called government. You can include judiciary branch as being inferior to executive branch nowadays if you want, pero para sa akin cool lang naman ang Court kumbaga..walang naman kasing mga kibo eh...hmp!..

Wala namang nagawa 'yang House sa pag iinarte at tantrums nung maliit na ale eh. So wala silang bilang muna, mas matindi ang upuan nung ale. So whoever will succeed her will be the important issue.

What we have today is not actually a "government" but huge type of syndicate, as I can see it. There are collusions everywhere as approved by our "favorite Tita". I am not saying that I want Noynoy to be the next head of the syndicate but should be the next LEADER of the Filipino Nation. Right now we don't have that "Filipino Nation" being governed by a leader, but a nation being mobbed up and robbed up, where white color will be red as she wishes and no one will gonna contradict on that. She was made right when she was VERY wrong.

Anyways, I don't know so much about Noynoy Aquino, aside from few that I read from the internet and from the news. I think all of us do not have so much informations about our candidates, because like me, most of you guys are not so personally close to these candidates and probably what you guys know about them is limited to what you have read and what others have fed to you. Chinismis ika nga!

And that's a reality, we are actually voting, though we have been given so much time to scrutinize each one of them, for those who have strong campaign gimmicks and remarkable advertisement, kaya nga tayo "na-leche eh". We have been so "possessed" by "pagkain sa bawat hapag kainan" modus-operadi, and yet at the end it was their plates that had the most expensive dinner ever.

(Oooops! commercial muna: I am actually watching http://www.ustream.tv/channel/blogwatch right now while Noynoy is being interviewed, 6 Jan 2010, Kenji Solis informed about it. Actually, I am watching it, writing this blog post and doing project estimates and costing, lol!)

OK let's continue. Here's my stance and why Noynoy is my man for Malacañang. Let me explain my hypothetic idea about " Mr. Galing and Talino". Just being GMA's boy, this man should have no place right away in all four corners of government. Putting him in the Office of the president is virtually putting back GMA.

The tag "Galing and Talino" is actually all about him but since he is an administration bet, we cannot help but to think that they are dining on the same table and feast on the same kind of food, therefor have a "common goal". They have led the country to all formidable scandals and horrifying involvement in human rights violation.

I would rather drop down the idea of voting for "so intelligent and so skillful" since these things are being used to exploit us Filipinos and especially us Overseas Filipino Workers. She's a Harvard alumna and being such is being a hell of being so intelligent, and where did she use that gift? So being "matalino and magaling" is no longer a plus-point because all them are smart and talented already. Pero nakita n'yo ba kung paano prinitong buhay ang anak niyang panganay ni Winnie Monsod? Why.. hehehehe! he's exactly the opposite of her mother. Kung super talino ang mudra, nuknukan ng "ewan", panoorin niyo na lang ang links. Pero ang yaman ng loko ano po!

here are the links again:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q0JKzpjh_o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B6I8h24sC8

So no doubt lahat naman sila may "galing at talino" wala kang tulak-kabigin. Magkaka-level sila d'yan !

Here's another one "Mr. Sipag at Tiyaga". Everyone knows this is pure propaganda, right? The concept of this modus is to sow inspiration which is agreeable to be good. Has he been doing this "sipag at tiyaga" thing long before the election? Or lumalabas lang ito every election.

He is pointing out this "ST" thing today because he is running for presidency. When he won a senate seat the first time, did he continue his "sipag and tiyaga movement? No he did not. He kept his "sipag and tiyaga" secrets to himself. What is the effect of this slogan to us, wala di ba? Absolutely nothing but made us voted for him. So clearly it's a propaganda and nothing else. Parang gusto pa yata tayong palanguyin sa basura sa jingle niya e.

Also, as I observe this guy has been very active these days in helping the OFWs. Aside from showing the public how he helps them and with matching "heroic speeches in time of distress", he also has plans for us OFWs. That is, if elected, there is no need for us to go and work abroad. Hallleeeer! Wake up, man. That is next to impossibility, are we dreaming to become the next North Korea?

Do you know what is the result of bringing home the more than 12Million OFWS?

Scarcity, over population and food supplies will be limited and who will bring the billions of dollars every year? Di mo po kayang kunin 'yang bilyones na yan sa revenue ng investors lang 'no. Even extremely rich countries have their citizens work abroad. So isa itong pambobola..lumang pulitika at taktika!

What we need is realistic approach and plans for us OFWs..walang bolahan. Migration, temporary or permanent, is deemed necessary, dudong.

Wheew! Ka Blas Ople cared for and helped us OFW without the need to run for president, kaya n'yo ba yun?

Filipinos do not need "sipag and tiyaga" inspiration as we are so naturally HARDWORKING already since time immemorial. The sad thing was that the fruits of our hard work were abused, much more stolen from us by greedy government.

Of course, capturing the more than 12-Million OFWs is more than winning the lottery. They need to have the best political gimmick just to show that they care. One could imagine, if you multiply that 12-Million by at least three voting members of each OFW family, that a sure thing lottery.

Get OFW majority and their families..you are undoubtedly a winner!

So there you are fellow OFWs, let me remind everyone that with us alone..we can make a president... a leader and not a "LORD"

The problem with the first two good-looking candidates, they were crafted, dressed-up and groomed by their parties long before they dreamed of running for president.

So just like in construction industry, all possibilities were anticipated including accidents to achieve a "common goal". Be it a bad or a good goal, they have prepared ways to achieve it no matter what. They have all the well-prepared crew to answer things, to cover things, to scientifically explain thing in more complex way so nobody could understand and accept it whatever it is.

That's all for the sake of the PARTY.

So all in all base rin sa sipag at tiyaga, magkaka-level sila riyan!

So here's my guy, NOY!

At dito walang ka-level si Noynoy pag-dating sa utos ng magulang.

Based on the photo, I would rather go for MAMA at PAPA! The one who follows the guidance of righteous parents, than those who follow the dictates of the party. Here, we have Daddy Ninoy at Mommy Cory guiding the political direction of the party, if that's what the picture above tried to emphasize.

He has one noble guidance, and that is just to LOVE and take CARE for all of us. With this guidance, everything else will fall in proper places. Just like a good father who loves and cares for his family, exactly just like us OFW -- just like you and me.

We are here abroad driven by our love and care for our families, working HONESTLY to keep our jobs for their sake, kahit mahirap and working HARD for them in order to provide their necessities.

Just like Noynoy and us OFWs, WE will never steal because we do not want to put our families in scandalous situation.. WE will never put our families' future at stake for sake of our own personal interest. And most of the time, friendship (or party) is immaterial if things are prejudicial to our families.

So equate that, equals:

"Filipinos is the big family of Noynoy.. our families is his family too, therefor NOYNOY IS EVERY OFW."

Maybe, there were few guys out there who got dismayed during Pres. Cory's time because of her convictions and her true-to-the-line governance..but that few did not represent ALL of us...NOT the majority of the Filipinos.

Look at us today, look around...it's the other way around and exactly the opposite. Only few guys are so happy, the rest of us are begging for a real life we deserved.

Just like his mother, Noynoy's running for presidency is impromptu and consulted no one but his conscience.

Good governance need long planning and presidency is a short term stint. But to corrupt the government needs longer one, longer than planning a good government and it is also a long term operation where 6 years is not enough. So in order to plan for a bad government that will enrich the whole clan and everyone in the party, it should start from ambition down to planned re-election, from one position to another.

Noynoy never dreamed of becoming a president. It is the people who wished him to run, and he did not fail us on that request.

Sabi ko nga sa email thread dun sa Yahoo! Group:

Mas mabuting pumusta ako kay Noynoy at matalo, or mabigo ako sa expectation ko. At least expectation ko lang, afterwards, wala na siya. Kesa magbakasakali ako sa iba...bigo ka na..asar-talo ka pa..mas maraming unexpected na ayaw mong mangyari ang gagawin nila.

Etong move na ito, expected nyo ba:

Tatakbo pang Congresswoman.....tanga lang maniniwalang pagmamahal sa bayan ang nagtulak para muling mag-lingkod sa bayan at constituents ang nag-request. Tanga ba kayo diyan sa lugar na yan at di niyo halata ha?

Si FVR nga panay tulong naman until now ah.

Sa sobrang talino, pinaikot ang batas, binalewala ang moralidad, ininsulto pa ang lohikong pag iisip ng bawat Filipino. Awkward! parang di natural!

So di naman ako galit, nagpapaliwang lang, medyo asar nga lang ako dun sa ale..bad trip!

SO KANINO KA?

Ako, di ako makakaboto..wala ritong presinto sa Afghanistan...kaya eto lang kaya ko.

TATAY rin AKO

This is what I have in mind right now....

Si Mommy at ang kaniyang Angels

Na-excite ako ng ilang buwan sa bakasyon ko last year, kaya medyo naiwan ko ang blog ko. And for last few weeks since I got back from three weeks vacation, parang nagsisisi ako bakit bumalik ako sa abroad. Kasi ang sarap sa amin, kasama ko pamilya ko at ang pinakakmamahal kong mommy. Nag-reunion kasi kami, and I realized habang pinanonood ko ang photos namin sa reunion....naisip ko....eto na kami ngayun....!

I remember nung nilayasan kami ni Daddy in 1979, parang nahihiya ako na sabihing hiwalay ang mga professional kong mga magulang. Not necessarily nagkaroon ako ng inferiority complex, mas superior nga tingin ko sa sarili ko until now. Warrior ang tingin ko sa sarili ko minsan, death is not a tool to stand me down. Kahit matapang ako, inaalala ko lang ang magiging feelings ng mga mahal ko sa buhay na maiiwan ko kapag nadale ako (lalo dito sa Afghanistan) kaya rin nag iingat ako husto. Ayoko ng moment of "iwanan", parang ganun.

Madali akong ma-touch about story of somebody leaving the other permanently, lalo in a sad way.

Ibang-iba noon, ikinahihiya ka ng mga tao kapag galing ka sa broken homes, halos laman ang pamilya mo ng usapan sa kalye, at ang nakakainis pa yung mga iniwanan ang parang tinutuligsa nila at hindi yung ungas na lumayas at nag-iwan ng malaking responsibildad.

Kakaiba noon. Kakaiba ang trato sa amin ng kapitbahay kasi walang matandang lalaki sa pamilya, maliliit pa kami ng kuya ko, I was 7 at kung batuhin bahay namin ganun na lang, kasi di kami Katoliko. Maingay raw pumuri sa Diyos ang mga Apostolic Pentecostal kaya puro tipak ng bato ang bubong ng church namin na pinagawa ni mommy sa ibaba ng bahay.

Maliit pa ako nun kaya di makapalag, puro kutos ang inabot ko..pero di nakaligtas sa akin yun! Kahit ang ginawang kagat ng pulang langgam sa paa ko tinandaan ko....kilala ko isa-isa ang may mga kasalanan sa akin... kaya pinangako ko sa sarili ko..papaluhirin ko silang mga animales sila....mag-a-Army ako! Ayokong pinag uusapan kami, lalo ang pamilya ko. Galit talaga ako sa tsismosong kapit-bahay e. Galit akong pinag-uusapan lalo ang mommy ko.

Taong 1996 tinawid ko ang pinaka-makahayup na hazing sa PNP para sa kanila...at binalikan ko ang kalye namin. Di pwedeng palipasin ng panahon ang inugali nila...kahit paano meron rin nanatiling mabuting tao sa kanila, sila yung nakakatikim ng pa-ibabaw sa akin. The rest!-pailalim na. Sayang nga lang patay na yung iba.

Ako dapat papatay dun kapitbahay namin sa banda gitna ng kalye, kaso namatay na siya bago pa ako lumaki. Kinutusan ba naman ako dahil lang sa kalapati na nabihag ni kuya. Kung may tatay ako, magagawa nya ba yun? Nakalawit agad ni Kamatayan e. Nasa listahan ko rin yung bumabato sa bahay, sa awa ng Diyos napatay rin sya sa inuman. Kung may tatay ba ako mababato ba niya bahay namin? Marami pa silang buhay, pero sa ngayun, ayusin ko muna buhay ko hehehehe! Nasa ilalim naman ako e. Huhugutin ko silang mga animales sila one of these days.

Sagad sa yabang din ako dati e....kasi di lang ako basta pulis....alam ko matikas akong pulis ...bawal magsabi sa akin ng salitang "wala yan" kasi sigurado bibigyan ko sila.

Bago ang PNP... lumusot muna ako sa karayum para abutin at tapusin ang MS-43. Nag-Wing Commander pa nga ako e. Kaya nasanay na sa hazing....pinatibay ng panahon. Kaya siguro di ako takot sa Iraq at Afghanistan.

Anyway, side bet lang yan ng kabataan na lumaki sa broken home. Until now..ayokong haha-hara kahit sino..kaniya-kaniya tayong buhay..kaniya-kaniya tayong tapang... dun ka sa kalsada mo, dito ako sa akin. Kung magbebenta ka ng gulo sa akin.. di ka mapapahiya... kaso huwag ka aasa ng patas. Di ako maligalig tao..ayoko lang ita-trato akong mali. Ang akin, kahit di ko masaktan ng direkta basta makaganti ako...kay itago mo ang "my precious" mo. Nabuo ang prinsipyong yan sa dun sa kalyeng yun...sistema lang ang nahubog dun pero di ang buong pagkatao ko.

Ganun pa man, kinalimutan ko ang kalyeng yun...PERO tinandaan ko ang mga tao at mga pangyayari.

TWIST:

Pero ngayun, ang pamilyang broken home ay parang lima singko. Ordinaryo at parang di ka "in" pag di ka galing dun. Hinahangaan ang mag asawang naka-survive ng 12 years of marriage. Although wala akong data, parang napakataas ng naghihiwalay na mag asawa sa iba't-ibang dahilan.

Pero di tulad noon, ang mga magulang na naghihiwalay ngayun, karamihan sa kanila ngayun mas concerned sa welfare ng anak nila. Minsan umaabot pa sa demandahan, kindapan, sakitan o minsan maging sa patayan kung sino ang kukustudiya sa mga anak nila. Meaning may pagmamahal sila sa mga anak, kahit walang maibigay minsan basta makasama once a week -talagang inilalaban nila.

Ngayun isa na akong parent na rin, naintindihan ko ang mga mag-asawang na naghihiwalay sa henerasyong ito. Acceptable siguro ang mga reasons ng hiwalayan nila, at ang over reaction nila sa mga anak nilang apektado.

Ang hindi ko mahanap sa isip ko hanggang ngayun ay yung mga taong humiwalay sa asawa nila noong panahon nang maghiwalay ang parents ko na basta na lang naglaho. Mommy ko lang ang kinakitaan ko ng attitude at concerned sa aming magkakaptid. Kaya kahit anong palusot, kahit anong paliwanag...unacceptable kay Fabe ang 30 years na lumipas.

Malaking pasalamat at kulang ang buong buhay ko para ibayad sa ginawang pagpapalaki, pagmamahal, pag aaruga, pag-pupuyat, pagbabntay, pagpapa-aral at ilang taong pag sisikap ni Mommy para sa aming lahat. Sa liit ng suweldo ng isang public school teacher, pinag-aral nya kaming lahat...nagtapos sa tamang panahon, kumain ng sapat, dinamitan ng tama at dinisiplina sa lugar. Palagay ko, ang pwede kong itumbas kahit paano ay yung maging mabuti akong tao, at mabuti akong magulang tulad niya..isang mabuting ama.

Nakikita ko si mommy sa bubong ng bahay namin noon, tuwing may bagyo, nag-aayus ng butas, minsan nagkakarpentero pa, mga gawing panlalaki na dapat lalaking kamay ang gumagawa. At Isa pa, buti na lang Math Teacher mommy ko at magaling magpaikot ng numero, kahit baon sa utang dati, nakaraos din. Mga diskarte na dapat isang tatay ang gagawa dahil siya ang inatasan ng Diyos na mag taguyod ng pamilya. Madals nga sa jeep, tig-isang hita kami ni kuya, naka-kalong kami para isa lang ang bayad..hehehehe! tapos sabay kami matutulog.

Di pinadama ni Mommy ang kakulangan ng magulang sa loob ng tahanan namin bagkus pinakita niyang siya lang ay SOBRA-SOBRA na bilang magulang. Sa taas na 4ft at 11 inches daig nya pa ang 6-footer sa abilidad, sa bilis at sa talino. Dami niya diskarte noon, na sinusundan ko naman ngayun, magaling na manager sa buhay ang Mommy. Matalino talaga Mommy ko, honor students kaya ang Mommy nung estudyante pa sya. Planning, implementing and controlling ang basic na makikita mo sa kaniya. Lima kaming inakay-akay niya, pero wala kaming malungkot na Pasko at wala kaming nilagpasang birthdays namin. Siya lang yata ang taong may 72-hours in a day.

Hanggang ngayun, higit pa siyang nakakatulong at parang naging nature na niya ang umalalay sa amin gayong may kaniya-kaniya na kaming pamilya.

Kaya ngayun medyo mahigpit ako sa mga anak ko, prevention ika nga ang the best cure. Ayokong masilat at nakakahiya kay Mommy. Siya nga kababaeng tao e..tapos ako, ka-lalaki kong tao, di ba?

Kapag nakikita ko si Mommy, lalong napapamahal sa akin ang asawa ko at ang pamilya ko. Di nila dapat danasin ang naranasan namin. In-upgrade na ni mommy ang pamumuhay namin, so dapat upgraded na buhay rin ang ibigay ko sa pamilya ko. Di naman ako nagmamalinis, naging babero rin ako, siyempre pulis nga e... pero si mommy ang idol ko e, so kahit di itanong, walang approval ang naging style ko.

Mas mabuting asikasuhin ang asawa at ang pamilya, hubugin sila ayun sa taste natin....para di tayo matukso sa iba.

SO ETO NA KAMI, 30 years na ang nakalipas mula ng inakala ng taong nag-iwan sa amin na ikamamatay namin ang paglayas niya....dumami pa kami, lalong sumaya, mas mataas ang rating yata ng pundasyong ginawa ni Mommy (1Million-pounds per square inch, kahit ipa-compression test mo pa)..... at totoo ang mga smiles namin..nakakasingkit talaga ng mga mata.

Five lang kami sa buhay ni Mommy..kita mo kung paano niya pinarami !

Ang mga tunay na saya at smile....mas masaya kami

Kaya para sa' yo.....Di pa tayo tapos!

Yahoo! Number 5 ako sa PEBA!

This is what I have in mind right now....

(photo from ABS-CBN site)

I feel so proud this morning, kasi naka-received ako ng email from Servando Delen, ang nag iisang ka-batch ko sa Camp Taji, Iraq. Sabi niya " Wow pare number five ka sa PEBA!"

Natawa ako kasi kahit papaano, nasa top ako sa LISTAHAN... sa listahan lang po!

Just being a nominee actually is already a big deal to me, how much more being a finalist. Nung nasa showbiz nga ako, being a nominee for an award is more than enough to be a fulfillment for career move. Di ko lang talaga kaya ang intriga sa showbiz...madalas akong ma-link sa mga leading ladies ko....(ipapakasal ko kay Gloria ng hindi tumawa)

Nakakatuwa kasi magada ang exposure ng PEBA 2009 mukhang sobrang big event. I am so proud at naging part ako ng PEBA !

Visit nyo ang site ni Ellen Tordesillas, nakita ko roon si Pope nag comment...kaya nag sign-up rin ako para pasamalatan ang butihing si Ellen. Bukod sa magiginig judge sya ng PEBA, binigyan nya tayo ng exposure. I would like also to thank ABS CBN for the exposure na ginawa nila para sa atin.

Please visit these sites:

Ellen's blog:

http://www.ellentordesillas.com/?p=7974

ABS-CBN Website:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/pinoy-migration/11/07/09/blog-awards-pinoy-expats-ofws-set

Mabuhay po kayo!

SIDE BET:

Down below the news article sa ABS was a comment from fellow OFW from Sudan, Africa. And his sentiment was that PEBA, as he said, is after only for those in developed countries. He was telling PEBA to visit them and see their plight in that part of the world, so the world will know.

I think he misunderstood the cause of PEBA, the fact that we are really pro-OFWs but I think we cannot write about things we never personally experienced. I suggest somebody from that place should start blogging and tell the world how is it going in Sudan.

In my opinion, I cannot write something about a place that I don't have any knowledge about, baka tamaan ako ng kidlat, and if I wrote it wrong.. somebody will rebuke me and start hating me.

Now, if he could send us verified information, with links and really evidential, maybe I could write something for him..pero the best thing he should write it himself and join the PEBA next year.

Wala pong favoritism dito. Nais ng lahat maipalam ang tunay na kalagayan ng OFW sa lahat na sulok ng mundo, and it is up to us to relay the message through blogging.

Sana nga maging blogger din itong si Ed.

Here is his comment on ABS-CBN site:

Awards..?

Kabayan,

Nakalimutan yata nyo kami d2 sa Sudan Africa...? Mga kababayan nyo nagta-trabaho d2 sa gitna ng disyerto...? Napuna ako ang mga kandidato nyo ay puro na sa developed countries, maliban lang sa Afghanistan.?

Paano naman kami mare-recognized ng blog award na yan..?

Mahirap ang kalagayan namin d2. Bakit di kayo pumunta dito at magsuri ng kalagayan d2 sa Southern Sudan kaysa sa nakikita nyo ay yun lamang mga nasa developed countries. Pansinin nyo rin kami dito sa Africa

Salamat

Submitted by Ed Cuisa on Sun,11/08/2009 - 12:18.

SALAMAT DIN ED AT MABUHAY KAYO RIYAN.