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Yahoo! Number 5 ako sa PEBA!

2009-11-07T22:03:00.000-08:00

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.

Pietà- Historical Tweet (Ovi by Nokia)

2009-10-22T02:40:00.000-07:00

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

One of the famous sculptures during the Renaissance period is the Pietà, depicting the scene of the Christ on Mary’s lap after He was brought down from the cross.

This is the only sculpture of Michelangelo that has his sign, announcing that he made it. His action was prompted by a comment he overheard from someone during the sculpture installation to its new place that Pietà was someone else’s piece. He regretted his outburst and promised that he would never do the same thing again to his artworks.

As you can see in the photo, Mary here wore sash across her chest with Michelangelo's sign (Source: Wikipedia)

However, on the technical aspect (dimension) of the sculpture, do you know?

If the chaste woman (Mary) carrying the dead body (Jesus Christ) would stand up, she will have un-proportioned anatomical body of that of a normal person? While seated, observe her torso and compare it to the legs carrying the dead body. If she is standing, she would have smaller head and shorter torso but longer thighs and would have legs that are almost of the same length as that of the man’s she is carrying.

Make your own analysis if this claim is true.

On-Screen:

In Philippine Cinema, Pietà was an action-drama movie of 1983 starring the late actor Ace Vergel, the original “Bad Boy” of Filipino showbiz, and the late multi-awarded actress Charito Solis who played his mother. Ironically, it is the story of a mother’s agony over her son’s crooked path of life.

Ryan Agoncillo and Cherry Gill starred in the latest version of Pietà in television series in 2008

DARNA-Anti-OFW ?

2009-10-14T23:15:00.000-07:00

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

Chatting through internet between Overseas Filipino Workers and their families back home has become the cheapest and easy tool to combat homesickness. Old folks who have been here in abroad way ahead of us, talked about their dilemma during the early days. Letters took month to get replies that’s why they used to send more than five letters in one sending without waiting for reply. Writing letters had been the common past time of OFWs back then.

Also, they made once a month long distance call to the Philippines since it was extremely expensive, unlike these days where they are just few peso away from each other, wherever and whenever. Communication and staying connected with our families back home is top of the list in OFWs daily life, this helps us prevent experiences of overseas workers in the past, where attentions were diverted.

Today, we have email, Yahoo! Messenger, Google Talk, Skype, MSN, Chikka and many more. Even as our company IT personnel will block these chat machines, we still find ways to get connected through chatting and video talk.

Recently, Astig Pinoys in Iraq were complaining about KBR in Camp Taji blocking their YM and Chikka, but still they found ways and manage to re-connect by themselves (pinoy talents talaga!) and other through soft-hearted IT guys. Staying connected with our families back home improves our performances, unless one will abuse the use of internet during working hours. I could say it is indispensible part of us to be able to overcome fear and loneliness here in abroad. It makes us less worry as we could monitor them all the times and we could even help the kids do their homework, or guide our spouse what is missing in her cooking.

The worse part of working abroad is having no peace of mind. Knowing what’s happening around our dear family back home is important and makes us inspired, which in return boosts up our quality work output. Doing away on this perspective and you are becoming anti-OFWs, as you are putting back the loneliness in our working consoles and it will have a "domino effect" to our decision to better be home and stay happy, which is actually sad ending.

BUT HERE IS THE THING!

These few weeks, as I observe, and it has been a discussion among my peers in the internet that something is eating up our chance to have time with our families online. And even among us OFWs, they don’t have time in the evening for important discussions through chatting, as they have something else focusing on.

It is getting my family’s time for me and makes me feel ignored, as if it is far more important than me. My friends complained the same thing, the same experience and they feel lonely during this time, and homesickness starts to envelope the entire surrounding waiting for them to come back in front of the webcam.

The top rated DARNA is becoming my wife’s "paramour" (lol!) during our chatting hours, even my kids can’t stay longer when the programs starts, they would hang me up until it is done airing. What is with Darna that we OFWs don’t have? Marianne Rivera’s oh-lalah body? Yeah I guess the ever-exciting run of events and suspended climax. Damn! Why GMA7 did not think about putting up a cable TV subscription here in Afghanistan.

Well, I really like Marianne when she hip-rolled in Marimar! Hehehehe! That’s why today, to get even with them, I subscribed to www.noypi-unlimited.com to see Darna.

The next time I face the webcam, I will be in my new two-piece Darna costume too, to get my family back!

“Ding ang bato!”

HAND-CARRY "HAYDEN CAMERA" WHEN YOU LEAVE NAIA

2009-05-29T12:48:00.000-07:00

Official Entry to Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards
FILIPINOS ABROAD: Hope of the Nation, Gift to the World

This is no longer a juicy showbiz gossip that you and I used to talk about across the fence.

The Katrina Halili story has become more of an issue of Filipino morality in the modern age, rather than a simple case of sex scandal caught on video. Most often than not, OFWs like us being away from Manila events, a story like this is a main course on our table. And being sexually related thing, people will come around and talk about it with their mind hallucinating on the details of sexual act using DDR3 processors inside their head as they digest the interesting story of “Hayden Camera”. It has already been a Collector’s Item since, being rare and high priced.

The thing is, while most of us compassionately sympathize to the agony of Ms. Halili as she bravely goes through the process, let us not forget and maybe it is worth touching the stories of those OFWs victimized by this devilish act. Sad to admit, unfortunately, Ms. Halili was not the first one on this dilemma and I could say she is still fortunate to have caught the attentions of all the government agencies plus the fact that she has the money to push through with the case, but nevertheless she is still a victim here. But for those other victims of video scandal abroad who are now being haunted by that single mistake they have done out of love and trust, probably until now are hiding away from DVD players.

We never learned from those video scandals made abroad since it was silently distributed and passed over from one USB to another, from desktop to CDs and from phone Bluetooth to other phone. They have become delightful movies during drinking sessions of all nationalities and a must-have copy in the CD rack. The worse thing about it, no one complained but rather swallowed the consequences that are killing them slowly. Well, that’s the reality of life for us who “can’t afford”. What significant here for us OFWs, I mean all of us, gender is immaterial when it comes to video scandal, is the lesson we can take out of Katrina event, that reputations and future are at stake for every dangerous adventurism. Once happened to you, you can never do a fast rewind anymore, unless it has been burned to the CD tracks. This is absolutely a misuse of modern technologies of micro-camcorder.

People back home have high regards on OFWs (especially the Customs officers) as living heroes and heroines of the new generations, not just because we bring more hard-earned dollars but because we brought dignity to the nation. Precisely this what PDOS(Pre-Departure Orientation Seminar) is all about, the Philippines wanted to send Filipino workers equipped with specific tools in specific country of deployment so they could act, react and interact accordingly as they get there. True to say also that the reason why we have the POEA is to see to it that every OFW has the skills on the job he applied for. Of course all of these are certainly to ensure that we are going to be the pride of the nation, rather than to be the shame of the nation.

Sounds negative? I guess not, because the point here is in order for us OFWs to be intelligent enough to read between the lines and not to expect everything will be laid out in layman’s term and be successful. The POEA and PDOS have reminded us in all things about how to conduct ourselves as OFWs before the grand theater of other nations, but some preferred adventurism over this and end up with broken dreams.

We need something that has a strong and extreme sense of warning that it is up to us to choose. You may get in jailed in Saudi Arabia by drinking alcohol, be sent home and after awhile walk as a freeman. You may be deported from Dubai by working while holding a visit visa and face the nation out of NAIA portal as a freeman. You may get fired from military bases in the warzones by possessing pornographic materials and arrived at NAIA as a freeman. But it is hard to pull yourself together, packed up and fly home if you have been a “star for all seasons” around the globe.

The emphasis we have here right now is for us OFWs to focus on success abroad and set aside immoral adventurism that seems to becoming a trend. We need to be aware of the unseen factors aside from the elements of success (hard work, trainings, perseverance, etc) that will surely undermine our standing around the world, and as I said this is the point of morality. Nobody will remind you but yourself about this thing once you are already in a private room, so you need something like a light bulb next to your head, “Ting! Oh yeah, the Lessons of Hayden Camera.”

What more can we give to the nation as a matter of gift when bad stories covered all stories of achievements in the eyes of the world. Fellow folks back home will eventually think that working abroad in not a good idea anymore. We are the ones who are outside the country and in direct contact with the people of the world and it is in our hand to be responsible, not just to strive to success, but also to fight against pornography and videotaping of other's privacy.

As I've observed, the lessons behind Hayden Camera are not just applicable to sexual adventurism but also in all dealings that we are about to do where our personal dignity may be at stake.

Once an OFW left the country, aside from the family responsibilities he carries, he also shoulders a social and personal responsibility to take care of his well-being as a Filipino. While most of OFWs excel abroad, sexual adventurism wasted all of these efforts. . . . and mind you guys, other nationalities take it as collective tag for all of us OFWs, an act of one seems being tagged as act of all. Sexual adventurism usually arises from getting into adulterous relationships, unfaithfulness to present partner, ambitions, homesickness and other vices which are all could be avoided if we think properly and if we put ahead of libido our purposes of going abroad.

I could not blame those OFWs in most video scandal videotaped abroad by the same devil that possessed “direk” Hayden Kho Jr. while having sex with their partners. I am not saying all, but most of those blinded-by-love OFWs were actually aware of what was going on inside the private room. They knew that a video camera was set up for the main show. But as I said it was all about adventures, love and trust without knowing that things could eventually turn upside down once there is a break up in a relationship, much more if it is an illicit one. It does not actually matter whether your affairs is totally different, what counts here is if the event turns against you and you don’t have the original copy of your adventurism . . .if this happens I tell you what, you have a fire out of control and it will burn you down through generations.

Sex is already an adventure itself, whether legit or not, it is a hell of adventures. Why do you have to add some more when you haven’t explore a lot about it? Videotaping a sexual act is insecurity and sign of madness, so if your partner fires up his mobile phone, don’t be just afraid but be very afraid and start dressing up before you end up in a situation where DELETE is never been an option.

As they considered OFWs being "Hope of Nation-Gift to the World", how can you be one, when you can't even consider YOU as gift to yourself anymore....think about that!

And in order to get the positive out of it, the next time you hit NAIA, make sure you have hand-carried the lessons of Hayden Camera.

Welcome aboard!

Official Entry to Pinoy Expats/OFW Blog Awards

To vote for this entry click this: Vote Bizjoker [5]

Note: Photo posted above is produced in photoshop, definitely not Ms. Halili

JACQUE BERMEJO AND HER ENGLISH LANGUAGE - Storm Ondoy Version

2009-09-29T21:12:00.000-07:00

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

As the entire nation was sadden by that fateful day when storm Ondoy ravaged and caught the entire Luzon unprepared, it was really amazing that in midst of crying, yelling for help and extreme sobbing, and while unified voices and efforts of all the Filipinos back home and around the world to call for rescue, there was one soulless Filipina breaking her devilish laughs accusing the victims of Ondoy as being sinners, and even calling them as being well-deserved of the wrath.

While GMA Channel 7 used its Facebook Social Netweork to help the authorities in their rescue efforts, JACQUE BERMEJO has a different cry to get attention in the middle of the crisis. In her Facebook page, she bravely told right in the faces of those victims, VICTIMS who maybe our very own families, your families or my family, that they deserved what they’ve got from the storm as being sinners and added further that she was lucky enough to be in Dubai at the time.

“Kaya totoo nga ang kasabihan, ipinanganganak sa gitna ng unos ang mga demonyo.”

(Devils are born the midst of storm)

We bloggers used to stand firm to what is RIGHT.

We united to condemn those who lambasted the Overseas Filipino Workers and their families.

This time, JACQUE BERMEJO lambasted not only the OFWs’ families but the country as whole and I cannot let it pass without giving JACQUE BERMEJO her much needed attention as what I did to those others who seek a minute of popularity. As long as my blog exist, her statement will exist as a dire reminder about her intelligence. Her kind of specie is worse than those previous ones. What a rotten personality you have, Ms. Bermejo. (Alam ko palusot mo..na-hack ang Facebook mo)

Ipinagtanggol pa ang sarili nya in her reply and calling the victims as WALANG ASENSO?

Let me tell you this JACQUE BERMEJO, more than anything else that perished underwater, the lives of those Filipino victims were the most affected here in your insulting comment. Have you thought how it was, their trauma and their physical agony while waiting for help and rescue efforts? They don’t deserve you brainless opinion but I will never let it go without castigating you, by all means I know. Your irresponsible opinion will echo through generations. I wish your families and relatives would be able to read this and be ashamed of themselves as they had lapses on how they brought you up. As they search the Google on items related to you and the storm Ondoy, your name and this article will show up-forever.

FOREX ON STREETS OF KABUL

2009-09-03T08:34:00.000-07:00

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

After the car bombing near the NATO facility and US Embassy few days before the national election here in Kabul, again I hit the street this morning to shop around for some personal necessities...syempre kasi nga nakakuha ako ng in-country payment e... the rest po ng sweldo ko goes to my wife...hu hu hu hu!

Although it is an ordinary sight here in Afghanistan seeing Afghan street vendors waving Afghani bills to get attention of their customers on the roads of Kabul, this morning I realized, it is actually an amazing view to see. Holding hundreds of thousands Afhgani bills without somebody watching your back? Afghan's currency is almost equal to our Philippine Peso in terms of US dollar exchange rate.

I could not help but to think and compare how we Filipinos usually negotiate our city street on a daily basis. Absolutely no one can do this trading in our streets in metropolitan areas, without someone or some organized small group snatch your money right from your very hands. As I understand, we even made cellphone snatching has as a specific crime now.

Aside from full-bearded majority, AK-47s, military vehicles, sandbags, soldiers and policemen, one thing that caught my attention the first time I travelled by road outside military base few months back was this scene. I remember seeing those guys doing street trading and holding bundles of papers as they ran back and forth across the highway looking for possible customers amongst motorists. You can see them selling cellphone cards, doing foreign currency exchange, selling fruits, selling clothes and other street tradings. I didn't realize that those were indeed real money amounting to tens of thousand to more than hundreds of thousand. One guy has even more than US$50,000 in his hand...hmmm nice objective for Salisi Gang!

As soon as I got back in the office, I asked my local colleagues, most of them are Pashtu, if this trading practice does not really pose danger to the vendors as they are really vulnerable to robbery, swindling, and other modus operandi of organized street criminals. Our project manager said he never heard of any incident of any street crime against these traders even during times when law enforcers were not around. He said this could be traced back during the Taliban regime where the extremists were so unforgiving to all forms of crimes and probably people had carried over the fear inculcated in them through the years, thus it has become a standing culture in all street business dealings, and of course this is largely part of the teachings in Holy Koran.

Afghan culture, as far as morality is concerned, is really influenced deeply by the strict implementation of Koran's law by the Taliban, where a woman could be killed by her own brothers, father or other relative by suspicion of cohabiting illicitly right on the street where they might meet her at anytime of the day, without persecution on the part of the her slayers. Afghanistan democratic law, however, does not recognize this kind of honor killing any more although still in practice in most provinces out side the cities.

After seeing this in Kabul, I wonder which place is safer? Philippines or Afghanistan...

Money trades in Kabul.

Afghans are trading with bundles of bills right on the street.

Currency Exchange?

You can find it here, sitting duck!

You will never be too afraid to get out from money exchange booth,

as there is no booth at all!

Old Bills Exchange

As the government printed new currency bills,

this Afghan is exchanging old bills with new ones..whew!

Bizjoker with street FOREX local

ANOTHER AQUINO IN 2010

2009-09-09T00:07:00.001-07:00

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

NOYNOY will be running for president in 2010.

Finally, the Liberal Party has presidential bid for next year's presidetial election, as Senator Benigno C. Aquino III made his announcement early morning on the 40th day after Gat Pres. Corazon C. Aquino's death, that he will face and accept the call of the people supporting him and to continue the fight for real democracy his parents have started.

Among other remaining presidentiables, I guess, no one has come to level with or get closed to, or even go over Noynoy's reputations a statesman and as a person. As far as I know, he has never been into any kind of anomaly with respect to his being a government servant and to his performance as such since he entered the politics.

He is the type of person who surely will not taint the good names and legacies his parents had devoted to the Filipino nation. He is spiritually motivated, low-profile, does his assignment without need of publicity, a real patriot, and most of all he is driven by will of the people and not by mere personal ambition.

Just like Gat President Cory, Noynoy never dream of and aspire for the presidency. It is his supporters, the People, who hoped for him to be their next president and that what makes him unique and really stands out from other presidential aspirants.

After the announcement, all we want to hear in the coming days, during the campaign period, are his platforms once become the next leader of the nation.

I wish you all the good luck, Sen. Noynoy Aquino and here are some wishes and expectations from me once you become the next Pres. Aquino, but not limited to:

May you not be eaten by current rotten political system once seated in Malacañang Palace.

May you declare your Statements of Assets and Liabilities Networth (SALN) honestly as ever.

May you live a modest life as expected from a government official, as ever.

May you be contented to eat breakfast, lunch and dinner in a fine dining abroad without unreasonably spending our taxes.

May your spouse-to be, sisters and other relatives do not interfere or otherwise be brokers to all government transactions.

May you not call a COMELEC official at any time during election to ensure winning.

May you respect Human Rights as being your advocacy and not by mere media exposures.

May you consider the nation's plight when you travel abroad for states visit.

May you lessen the number of your visiting entourage when you visit other countries and not to allow unnecessary political personalities and their spouses, their dogs, their yaya, their amigas and their amigos...Baby James would be fine though.

May you not play golf in Wac-wac where "back-off" and "may 200 ka r'yan" are used as sports technical terms to win a game and government project.

May you, as being an economist yourself, be a blessing to Filipino economy as you don't need to be US Pres. Clinton's classmate, your being Atenista is enough.

May you be a true "Ekonomista", who is a Pro-Economy for the nation.

May you consider re-impositioning the death penalty to fight more crimes.

May you consider lifting the travel bans here in Afghanistan and in Iraq (personal wish of mine).

and MAY YOU LEAD US WHERE YOUR PARENTS WANT THE FILIPINOS TO BE.

NO SORRY? THAT'S NOT RIGHT!

2009-08-31T07:11:00.000-07:00

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

OBSERVATION FROM VANTAGE POINT:

After few days, less than a week I guess, all tensions had subsided and it seems like everything is back to normal, hopefully. It looks like nothing had happened while bleeding hearts and insulted dignity are the only evidences left, obviously everyone is sharing the same feelings until now.

This war is shorter than the Six-Day Arab-Israeli war in 1967 after its declaration to engage in the act of blog war against a single enemy but with a reckless and dangerous mind. In the name of peace, the supposed blog war was put to a sudden stop before the first shot was even fired. As I understand, there was actually no peace pact achieved or a formal ceasefire declared but only withdrawal of forces back into the jungle, and for sure his crooked ideology still remain. Is it a stalemate? I'm thinking who will wave the white flag first?

"As he hurt too many of our kind around world and he never even care to say SORRY even to only few, he is still at war in the area of Afghanistan and some areas of Iraq. In my opinion, there is a mistake in giving forgiveness so easily without clear term of "surrender" from this enemy. It may send a wrong signal to others of his kind. A manifestation of apology must be posted "- bizjoker

His psy-war operation is to weak. (or is he?) We should have engaged him first in "fierce fight" to show our might and let him cry for ceasefire, after all he's the one started all of this mess. We should have let him ASK for a talk for HIS surrender option before we offer it. Arrogant as he is, he did not even bother to mention about his intention to apologize, so he is not worthy of forgiveness. Otherwise this thing will be repeated again and again.

In his PEACE entry, in the Bilang panghuli paragraph he mentioned about him being not afraid of any legal responsibility since he believes it will never be accepted in court as a legal issue, which only shows his gross ignorance of the law and all the legal processes. Ironically, in this entry, is he really humbly offering a peace?

I would say ,"Yes sir, a class suit can be filed against you for your baseless and libelous entry and don't be so stupid to say that the judge will drop the case for it will hold no water before the court. The National Beaureu of Investigation recently filed a libel case and other cyber crimes against blogger Crazytolits before the Department of Justice. Crazytolits has been so ellusive that not even a single trace of his real identity can be found in his blog page, but the NBI agents are just smart enough to apprehend the real guy red handed. Crazytolits is way far intelligent than the you are, but not to the rule of law, how much more a specie like you. Bisitahin mo ang site niya nang malaman mo sino ang kinakalaban n'ya. He stopped posting entries as of June... for obvious reason."

Another point, PEBA has recently earned its SEC registration therefore making it a juridical entity with rigths duly recognized by law. As it protects and promotes Filipino bloggers' talents, I guess, it impliedly protects also the Filipino bloggers' welfares for being bloggers themselves. PEBA has the locus standi so why wave the white flag first? Correct me if I'm wrong at this point.

I have now a lots of "what ifs".

What if next time it will be the house of PEBA that will be directly under attack by this kind of specie of blogger? What course of action will be taken and how? What if he is just to hard to move and he will keep his libelous post? What if he will keep on insulting most of us, not in anybody's chat box but in his own webpage where he has all the advantages? What if this thing is repeated again by someone of the same specie? What if he strikes again but this time not against OFW but just against one of us? What if he just simply ignore our wishful thinking and go on with his stupidity around the blogosphere?

We need to protect the house and make it stronger in order it can protect us as well. I am not suggesting a class suit be filed immediately as there are hundred ways to kill a cat (kasabihan lang ha). If this will be repeated, we can boycott his blog, block him from our chatboxes, and promote a shame campaign until his inbox gets flooded by violent reactions from millions of readers for whatever article he will post and until he cries and beg for peace talk.

But of course the final solution, as always, is to file a class suit against the erring blogger for crime of libel and other criminal offenses arising from his blog entry. Once filed, let the course of law drag him around in his daily life..everyone knows it's hard to have pending case and derogatory record in our NBI and Police clearances.

The frog with croak of death will just leap from one blog page to another, annoying each and everyone of us and soon enough it will be a part of our daily blogging life until we get used to his irritating style.

Until an article of apology for OFWs is posted, he has no space in civil society, in society of matured and educated persons...ano akala niya..kunya-kunyarian?

OFW Remittances-Sulbabida ng Ekonomiya

2009-08-28T03:22:00.000-07:00

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

Hundred percent siguro naman lahat ng bloggers marunong magbasa at makaunawa ng binabasa nya.

Ito na yung bendikasyon sa mga sinusulat na laban sa aming OFWs, mga naisulat na kulang sa tunay na impormasyon kundi punong-puno ng adhikaing sumikat sa maikling panahon. At palagay ko nasa ilalim ng kanyang kama at nagtatago sa kahihiyang napala so mundo ng blogs.

Ayun sa balitang 27 August 2009 na naisulat sa GMANews.TV, kung may time kayo basahin nyo..although nakakasawa na at alam na ng milyun-milyong Filipino, pero tila iilang nagmamatali-matalinuhan ang bulag sa katotohanang ito.

Mga kaibigan, ingles po ang balita,

OFW Remittances Kept RP Afloat, economist says

The World Bank had earlier projected a four percent drop in remittances this year but Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Governor Amando Tetangco said that signs of a global economic recovery "affirmed the positive outlook for steady remittances for 2009." (hango sa nasabing balita)

Nitong nakaraang June lang record high $1.5 billion ang ipinasok na salapi na itinuturing na nanatiling nagpapalutang sa ekonomiya ng Pilipinas. Ang tinutukoy rito ay US Dollars, so gaano kalaki yan sa Philippine Peso mantakin na lang na ito ay kalagitnaan palang ng taon? Paano pa pag dating ng buwang ng aginaldo at kapaskuhan.

Dahil naging naughty kayo, wala kayong regalo sa Santa Clause na OFW hehehehe!

Maibahagi ko na rin, na kasama sa bilyon-bilyong pera na iyan ang remittance ng caregivers at nurses (at lahat na bloggers na OFWs) na patuloy na bumubuhay sa ekonomiya ng bansa. Kasama rin dito ang remittance ng tinatawanan nilang domestice helpers at yung mga gumagawa ng "extra" para kumita pa. Sige husgahan nila at ipakita nila ang kanilang KONTRIBUSYON sa malinis man o maruming paraan. Mabuhay tayo sa katotohan na mayroon talagang gumagawa ng di kagandahan. Accepted ko yan, so sino ba ang unang pupukol ng bato sabi nga ni Kristo?

At kung kaya may access pa ang magagaling ng bloggers sa internet, kung kaya may mga serbisyong gubyerno pa ang nakakarating sa kanila at kung kaya mas maalwan pa kahit paano ang kabuhayan sa gitna ng global crisis dahil yan sa OFW remittances. Sisigla ba ang kalakalan sa SM, sa Robinson, sa Divisoria, sa mga sinehan, sa airport, ang lokal na turismo, at iba pang negosyo kung hindi mamimili ang pamilya ng OFW na ipinalalagay na 10 percent ng populasyon ng Pilipinas? Do your Mathematics! At karamihan po sa mga pamilya ng OFWs ay mga negosyate na rin sa Pilipinas, tama ba o mali?

Aba sa text messages at overseas call na lang....panalo na!

So bago gumawa ng artikulo, magbasa nang matuto. Magsaliksik at magtanong-tanong para magkaroon ng sustansya ang laman ng entry sa blog. Minsan sa kagustuhang mag mukhang matalino lalong lumulutang ang kamang-mangan.

Alalahanin dapat..MAS MARAMING MATATALINO SA MUNDO NG BLOG.

Para sa akin, pasalamat ako dahil OFW ako kasama ako sa kahit paano nakakatulong at di ako kasama sa pasanin at pabigat sa lipunan.

OFW Topic - Ticket to Stardom

2009-08-25T10:04:00.001-07:00

An entry of complex ideas, mixed up feelings or whatever. I don't know..nalito na rin ako

More often than not, I have encountered articles featuring Overseas Filipino Workers, their successes, failures and misfits. Some foreign writers touched and shared their personal stories, their momentous experiences with OFWs and their first encounter of the third kind with the Pinoys (parang alien 'no). Para bang kung maka-kwneto ay parang it was the most extraordinary encounter they had in their lives.

Mostly these stories talked about how a Filipino touches one's life, how an OFW rendered above-expectation kind of services, how a Filipino display heroic acts in extreme situation, or commendable no non-sense OFW's performance at the end of his every overseas day. These are all good stories. I am not saying no bad stories were written about us, yes, there are and plenty of them too!

Something about good stuff, however, I can call it "Isang paghanga in totality" to all OFWs by other nationalities in the country where an OFW is working. And mind you, as you go through the reading of these kind of articles, you can feel something inside yourself of some unexplainable of some sort of happiness and pride. The fact that you are not the one being talked about in the article... you can feel the sense of pride... probably you're even vocalizing your thought in soft tone.."ehem... that's us....I am Filipino too"

From those Fil-am Holywood stars, to Manny Pacquiao waving the Philippine flag in Las Vegas, to that Filipino nurse whose name was entered into the book of heroes of 9-11, to that honest OFW in Hongkong, to those extraordinary leadership exerted by Filipino communities in the Middle East which affects the region, to life-saving Pinoy doctors of the UK and the US, to all Filipino seamen and airmen, to all Pinoy desert-settlers working day and night, to all Fil-Am freedom fighters in Iraq and in Afghanistan...up to democratic icon - our very own Pres. Cory Aquino... as a Filipino.. what can you possibly feel...when someone uplifting the spirit of your being a Filipino?

Be honest...ang saya ng feeling di ba? Nakakasama ka sa papuri kahit di naman ikaw ang tinutukoy?

Ironically, while most of them posting articles praising and saluting OFWs, some "Filipinos" who are undeniably gifted in writing wrote non-sense and insulting entries to their blogs and columns about OFW just to shoot themselves to instant stardom. If you want to try it... write something stupid about us OFWs and see for yourself...you are a shooting star the next day. But where does a shooting star go...most of the time into the quite abyss of the ocean. Dun mag isa ka na lang!

One should undestand and this has been mentioned many times, that OFWs are not just those who do "kadiri" works, or those you guys see in your porn DVD, OFWs are not just women... mostly we are those wearing Levi's Maong jacket upon arrival at NAIA..sporting long hair and mustache... so why play on women OFWs?

In order to educate some little brains of some so-called writers, OFW are not just low-salaried overseas workers, there are those big bosses OFWs whom you used to run to borrow money without any intention of paying them back (kasi inisip mo balato na yun). OFWs are also those you are pretending as friends upon their arrival and you keep on asking them about the date of their arrival...the fact that everyone knows when..and you are actually trying to make an opening line before you will say " pare kelan ka pa dumating, painum ka na naman". Sila rin yung kinukuha mong ninong at ninang kahit wala sa sila Pinas. Pinapa-proxy-han mo pa (tapos ang lakas mong manlait).

OFWs are not just caregivers and nurses, there are scientists, researchers, eningeers, educators, ambassadors, company owners, actors and many more. As I understand, not all OFWs are OWWA members and the term is not limited to those members alone as there are those who entered the foreign countries as tourists before getting their overseas works, without getting through the POEA. So I believe OFW is generalized term of Filipino working abroad. Nonetheless, no one, absolutely NO ONE should judge an OFW on his or her reason of living the country nor about his or her long stay abroad, whether one is categorized as low-salary on not.

(see the photo sila ba yung tinutukoy mong OFWs?)

(or sila?)

Also I am so confused about this, is there any glorifying thing about OFWs' scandals, failures and other "Kapit sa Patalim" decisions made by them? Sino ba ang hindi kumapit sa patalim? Kaya nga ang iba pinupulutan ang OFW sa kwento nila kasi kapit sa patalim na sila para sumikat, I don't really appreciate this style. Although some of these really happened and I am witness to that, if I have my way I would tap and talk with them rather that writing and posting or publishing their stories flowered by vulgar words and made-up lies just to look better as presented. Where is the Protein in your brain? As blogger, we should be aware that all our entries, just like commercial ad posters, should be rated as For General Patronage. Just like sexy billboard, it leaves to your imagination the rest about it.. no need to show its total nudity. And for additional information, what happening abroad is also happening in the Philippines as far as illicit affair is concerned. Self-explanatory yan. Really, whatever you write reflects your personality which also reflects what morality you have in your family.

While it is true, that the good story about OFWs is an exhausting-type of reading material, well my opinion to this is that, we have to accept this a matter of fact and that is the way it is being an OFW.....we cannot go against it, it is cultural, it is in the blood and by that we cannot stop good stuff about OFWs. OFWs are basically best source of overflowing triumphant stories. So more and more write-ups will be written and published, can you stop it?

Why?

We are driven by dreams and of love for our family that lead to love of work and extreme display of skills, talents and sacrifices...up to the fact the we are being exploited by our neighbors across our office table..kasi nga masipag tayo kahit trabaho na nya ipapagawa sa 'yo. And this NOT only for OUR DREAMS and of BEING RESPONSIBLE to our families, para kay nanay, kay tatay, kay ate, kay kuya at mga anak... this is ALSO for their dreams that we want them to reach. Paano magiging engineer si Kuya, paano ang bubong ng bahay, paano ang baha sa kalsada na pumapasok hanggang kusina? Pinanganak ka ba para umasa gubyerno, nakanganga at hindi ka kikilos at gagawa ng paraan? Kaya ka nga nag aral so you will have a broader horizon. That is why we are here abroad. Not purely because of money but because other's dream and our immeasurable love we have for them. Kasi kami ang lupon ng hindi madadamot sa katuparan ng pangarap ng mahal namin sa buhay.

But other blogger-vultures see this as an oppurtiny and an enteresting piece of flesh and worth giving a reaction if made a blog entry, so they made stories without personal account.Their chosen way to popularity is a bad taste of pill without curing effect at the end. It's like marrying someone you don't really love by heart but by personal interest. Happiness is ungodly and you are somebody who cries all the time in your solitude... gusto mo ba yun? And easy for you to say sorry...whether you wrote it as only pahaging to OFWs.. masakit pa rin ang tumamang hangin sa amin.

And I tell you this... as we are entitled to our opinion in our blogspace...I am not as forgiving as the others as I live by principle that, "anuman ang sinabi mo sa hangin, di mo na kayang habulin at bawiin" by Nicanor Formilleza, my grandfather, teaching on being responsible to our words we are going to say to others.

(note all pictures are taken from internet)

"2009 Galing ng Blog Mo Awardee"

2009-08-17T01:47:00.000-07:00

First of all, congatulations to all 2009 KaBlogs awardees on different categories. This blog was so fortunate to have been chosen as the right one to grab that "Galing ng Blog Mo" Award for this year. Each award was also categorized for Non-Overseas Filipino Worker and for Overseas Filipino Worker, and I won the OFW award for the galing ng blog mo.

Thanks to all those people behind this award body who had worked for this months ago and to all those who voted for Bizjoker, as they found my page fit for this category. Thanks you guys, I owe you one.

Just like the winners in 2004 Presidential Election, although I never called, "Hello, Kenji", I knew two days beforehand that I won an award since it was me and Jeesa who prepared the list and the badges to be distributed on Monday, 17 August 2009. Nevertheless, rest assured that all the winners are well-derserved for the awards as Garci was never a part of the reviewing committee who went on blog-hopping on all nominated blogs and bloggers.

On my part, the fact that I have been around in bloggershere for quite some times, I am still a neophyte in the field of blog-writing, I will continue writing sensible entries, timely, base on truth, justice and morality to live by the award that I have received.

I just hope that next time...may cash na kasama ang badge hehehehehe! (o kaya gift cheque) joke!

Ka-BLOG-kada - Friendship Badge ni Bizjoker

2009-08-10T06:02:00.000-07:00

Ask ko si Lenzthedreamer, paano ako magkakaroon ng friendship badge mula sa ibang bloggers, nakakahiya naman basta lang ako mangga-grab at ilalagay ko sa page ko...tapos di naman pala kami BFF. Sabi ni Lenz gumagawa ako ng entry at mamigay ako ng badge ko...Hopefully..tama itong pinagagawa ko..

Isa pa wala akong maisip na entry e, kakatapos ko lang gawin ang badges na naka-assign kay Bomzz. Wala na kasi sa huwisyo si Bomzz dahil ang utak nya lumilipad na papuntang Pilipinas...bakasyon kasi si Bomzz. So dahil gawa ako ng gawa ng badges... gumawa na rin ako ng personal friendship badge ko.

At sya nga pala... Bomzz hind mo ako binigyan ng friendship badge mo dahil delay ang pinagagawa mo badge ha....kahit ganun.. hehehehe! ASTIG pa rin tayo.. pag di ko nakita sa page mo ang badge ko...ibig sabihin hindi mo ako love!

Sa mga kaibigan kong bloggers, I don't know if this badge looks appealing to you guys.. but it is my token of appreciation for you being around and connected to my blog. Pwede n'yong i-grab yang nasa side bar.

Thanks, guys! HOPYA like it...

Ito ay para sa lahat na naka-link sa akin at sa hindi naka link..

sa lahat na dumadaan at nakikibasa...

Ka-BLOG-kada kayo ni Bizjoker !

Barkada kayo ni RIO !

Goodbye, President Aquino

2009-08-01T01:34:00.000-07:00

As former member of Philippine National Police and a full-blood Class Kaagapay 1996, PNP- Aviation Security Group I am rendering my last and most snappy salute to President Corazon C. Aquino. My condolences to her family and to the entire Filipino Nation for our great lost of a true freedom fighter and world icon of democracy.

Ten years before our Class passed through the portal of Camp Vicente Lim, in Calamba, Laguna as gradute and as part of full-pledge members of the Philippine National Police, Pres. Cory led the nation to a real democracy and this part of the history is her great gift to our generations.

She lived a great, meaningful and patriotic life. A true insperation to all freedom-lovers and freedom fighters around the world.

Thanks, Pres. Cory Aquino

Kaagapay, Tanghal... na!

ANO BA GINAGAWA NG OFW SA AFGHANISTAN?

2009-07-23T23:06:00.000-07:00

Una sa lahat, nirerespeto ko at nakakiramay ako sa mga pamilya ng mga nasawi sa Kandahar Helicopter Crush, sila'y kadugo naming mga beterano sa warzone, 'wag na natin sila tawaging bayani baka may mang-asar na naman sa ating mga OFW pag tinatawag tayong bagong bayani. Bagong Bayani lang tayo sa revenue pero di naman talaga ganyan ang turing sa atin... tayo ang mga makakatas na inahing baka.

Nainterview ako last night ng taga-GMA 7. Nagpakilala siyang Rolly, kaibagan ni Blogistang Mulong (Naks Naman), o baka sya na mismo yun. Itinago ako sa tunay kung palayaw, hehehe! Tikas!

Five questions yata ang pinaka-main na tanong nya, at yun ay recorded. I trusted GMA 7 dahil may mga kumpare ako dyan at mga naka-dikit na rin na mga reporters. Pero ang GMA na walang 7 ay hindi dapat at kahit kailan man dapat paniwalaan . Sana kung ii-ere ni Rolly ang phone interview, buo at wag putol-putulin para lang maiba ang meaning.

Ito ang mga tanong.

Kamusta na ang buhay ng Filipino sa Afghanistan, ano ba ang buhay ng OFW sa Afghanistan?

Hindi ba nababahala ang OFW dito sa Afghanistan sa pinaigting na travel Ban?

Hindi ba kami natatakot dito sa Afghanistan dahil sa pagkakamatay nung 10 Pinoy sa pagbagsak ng Mi-8 Helicopter sa Kandahar Airfield?

Ano ang work ko dito at ano ang work ko sa Iraq?

Ilan ang Pinoy sa Afghanistan?

Ang ultimate na tanong ito na maaaring yun ang trick dun, paano nakakarating ang OFW sa Afghansitan?

Ito ang mga sagot ko, sa maraming sagot ko at dahil may birthday nang gabing yun (July 23, 2009) medyo iniwan ko ang mic at ang kantang "Lady" para pagbigyan si Rolly. At para sa entry kong ito hahabaan ko na.

Usual ang buhay ng Pinoy sa Afghanistan, trabaho sa umaga, bonding after work, shopping pag day off, inuman pag may okasyon at videoke ang hindi mawawala. Tulad rin kami ng ordinaryong manggagawa, napunta dito para mag trabaho, kumita, mag-ipon, maglibang. Makikipagsaya sa mga kaibigang patuloy na nagbibigay ng tiwala, tulad ng mga Kano. Nalulungkot rin kami pag tinatamaan ng homesick. Masaya kami pag pay day at pag may extrang income. May naiinlove at may napo-fall out of love. Kasi tao pa rin ang OFW sa gitna ng Iraq at Afghanistan. Ang term na pakikipagsalaparan ay generalized... kahit saan ka nakikipagsapalaran ka. Kahit nasa Pinas ka, kahit wala ka sa warzone, kahit nandoon ka sa Vatican kung ang pakay mo ay upang itaguyod ang kinabukasan mo at ng iyong pamilya ikaw ay nakikipagsalaparan.

Mali kasi ang imagination ng ibang tao sa sa salitang pakikipagsapalaran dito sa Afghanistan at doon sa Iraq. Akala nila pakikipag-pantentero sa lumilipad na bala para makatawid papasok sa upisina..Ala ey... mali po kayo. The phrase "search for greener pasture" knows no boundary. And the term itself is packed with struggles and sacrifices and great deal of INTELLIGENCE. The cow in the field sees no fence and respect no boundary if there is abundant food across, di ba? Gigibain nya ang bakod mo pag alam nyang mas matataba ang damo sa kabila, at yan ay kasalanan ng may-ari ng baka dahil hindi nya ginawan ng paraan ang kanyang tumana na magkaroon ng masaganang damo. Hindi nga kami mga baka pero pareho ang pangangailangan namin sa greener pasture.

Dito sa Afghanistan, mas malaki ang chance na magkaroon kami ng maayos na buhay at pamumuhay at napakaliit ng tendency na madisgrasya kami or umuwi kami ng luhaan, pero sa Pinas wala ka na ngang chansa, malaki pa ang chansa mong mamatay sa gutom, ma-abuso, masaktan ng ibang tao, at may tendency kang gumawa ng bagay na labag sa kalooban mo para lang magkaroon ng magandang buhay....AND FOR GOD SAKE, hwag na sana makipagtalo sa amin ang mga taong wala naman dito at nakakakita ng paligid ng Iraq at Afghaninstan. Hwag nyong imaginin ang mga war movies or mga video sa YouTube dahil noong unang panahon pa yan. Nangyari yan sa kasagsagan ng shooting war. May shooting war dito pero naka schedule at dun yun sa walang maraming Kanong sibilyan. Natural dun nila dadalhin ang barilan malayo sa tendency na magkaroon ng civilian casualties..common sense po iyan. At papayag ba naman sila, ang NATO at UN na makalapit ang kalaban..halleeeer!

Walang mas magaling kesa sa amin pag dating sa sitwasyon dito at wag nyo paniwalaan ang ibang mga duwag na media natin... nakiki-interview lang yan at walang first hand view yan dito. Exempted ang Kapuso Network syempre hehehe! bias ako e... (what's up Ederick Villegas...inum tayo pag uwi ko!)

Wala dito ang Philippine Embassy!

Wala dito ang DOLE!

Wala dito ang DFA!

Wala dito ang Malacañang!

Walang Filipino Media dito!

Wala silang lahat dito na nagsasabing NAKAKATAKOT sa Iraq at Afghanistan... nandun sila sa laban ni Pacquiao, nandun sila sa political meeting nila, nandun sila sa EDSA at nagpapapogi...

Nandun sila sa lugar malayo dito habang ginagastos ang contribution ng OFW sa Iraq at dito sa Afghanistan na 13 Billion Pesos annual revenue... Nandun sila sa greener pasture nila....tapos kami na nasa lugar na ito..idadamay nila sa pagpapagwapo nila sa 2010 election, pero kahit wala naman kami...gagamitin nila ang names namin upang bumoto sa kanila as absentee voters..di ba sobrang abuso na yan?

Ngayun paano nila nalamang ganun pa rin ang sitwasyon dito? E nung first term pa nila yun? Naalala ko nang pumunta si Roy C. sa Baghdad... pag uwi nakasabay ang mga magbabakasyon, finish contract at mga terminated na OFW at ito ang sinabi....hahahaha! Nag-media exposure e nakumbinsi nya raw ang mga kakabayan nating umuwi at sumunod sa travel ban hahahaha! chance passengers nga lang sila e. Na-timing pang may incoming nun sa Baghdad...parang daga sa bilis mag-bunker...WTF! Eto namang mga sawing kababayan natin matapos magpasaway dito, gagawa ng istorya na nakakalungkot para makahingi ng tulong sa gubyerno... tapos mandadamay... whooow! (ayan natatawa tuloy sa kaniya yung sadikk kong Afghan.. Roy are you f_kin' kidding me)

Bakit kami mababahala sa pinaigting na ban... e kada may bad news...laging ginagamit yang PINAIGTING.... isa lang ibig sabihin nyan..mas malaki na lagayan. Yun pong mga OFW na namatay sa pagbagsak ng helicopter ay aksidente...at yan ay very elementary...nangyayari yan sa lahat ng sulok.. aksidente nga e..halleeer! Ipagpalagay pang hostile fire yun lagi namang may ganynang opinyon e..laging may hostility kahit saan. Hindi solusyon ang travel ban..yan ay solusyon ng mga taong tamad mag isip. Nakidnap si Dela Cruz sa Iraq, alam nyo ba bakit na-kidnap yun? ilan ba silang nakidnap na OFW....hindi lang kasi mga blogista yung mga nakasama nyang nakidnap e.. kundi lahat kayo magigising sa katotohanan...pataka lang bitaw'g istorya kining mga dili bisaya.

Pinauuwi kaming may magandang buhay dito, para ano? Willing naman kaming umuwi kung meron silang alternatibo na pwedeng ipalit sa offer na oppurtunity dito...e kaso nga wala!..puro pauwi na lang pauwi. Ano gagawin namn sa Pinas, a-attend ng TESDA para mag-titinda ng kakanin? Global Crisis na nga dadagdag pa kami sa unemployed. NI walang siguradong lilipatang kumpanya sa ibang bansa para sa amin e. Hindi madali ang lahat gaya ng naiisip nila. Saka paano kami bubunutin dito? E kami ay under ng isang legal na kontrata ng aming mga kumpanya...maaring labag sa mata ng gubyerno ng Pilipinas ang pagpasok namin dito, pero legal ang contract namin, sige nga kung matalino kayo.. i-void nyo nga ang kontrata nang mabibin ang mga istraktura dito at iba pang proyektong funded ng UN, US at NATO. Hindi tayo naghahamon, pero hindi kami mga botanteng nag-aabang ng bibili ng boto at madadaan sa bolahan, maging makatotohanan tayo sa mga pinapahayag natin. Kasi kami ay di nakakaharap sa media, kaya sila lang ang nagsasalita at sa mga pahayag na binibitawan nila ay nababahala ang aming mga pamilya at kaibigan.

Kung matataandaan nyo sumulat tayo kay VP de Castro noong 2007 dahil sa maling akala nila sa sitwasyon dun sa Iraq at dito http://www.gmanews.tv/story/68519/OFWs-appeal-Lift-the-ban-to-Iraq-Afghanistan. Wala kasing eleksyon noon kaya dedma tayo, hehehehe! E ngayun may magandang istorya bagay sa election season..ayun habulang daga na naman sila. Kung ilang beses na sinasabing hindi sulusyon ang BAN sa issue... pero ginigiit pa rin nila...ilang taon na ba ang travel ban? pero mas marami yata ang nandito ngayun kesa nung unang lumabas ang ban. So ano ibig sabihin nyan?

Mas marami ang naakit matapos may mga OFW na nakauwi at nagbigay ng mga patotoo na mas luntian ang damo rito at ang kinatatakutan ng pamahalaan ay malayo talaga sa katotohan. Mabibiktima ka rito kung puro pera iisipin mo, tulad rin kung nasa Pinas ka. Tama ba?

At dahil sa pinupulutan na naman ang travel ban sa lahat na tumpukang ang iinuman, wala munang magbabakasyon amin...haaaay! miss ko na ang San Mig Lights.. postponed! Mauudlot ang inaasam na relaxation dahil lang sa di pinag-iisipang travel ban.

May debate na ba sa travel ban? or trip-trip lang.

Ilan daw ba ang Pinoy sa Afghanistan? Well kahit scientific calculator gamit ko...di ko mabibilang sila at wala akong balak bilangin sila dahil di ako taga Census Office. Ang masasabi ko kada kumpanya dito palagay may Pinoy...e kami ang kanilang Dragon Balls dito e...kami ang bato ni Darna... at pag nalakad ka sa Kabul City, daming tatawag sa yo ng "pare", sa loob ng military base, tatawagin kang "kabayan" so marami kami. Sa sobrang dami at sa laki ng sweldo namin, sabi nga ni Engr. Ted Mirasol at Engr. Jorge Javelosa... ang laki ng revenue ng Afghanistan kesa sa OFW ng Taiwan, marami sila in terms of volume pero ang per capita dito...hey! ang laki talaga.

Isa rin ang tanong na kung di kami nababahala sa pagbagsak ng Mi-8 Helicopter sa Kandahar Airfield, ang sagot ko bakit ako mabahala. Nag eeroplano ako pag pumumunta sa Kandahar. Isa pa disgrasya yan, walang may gusto nyan at alisin natin ang espekulasyon, masyadong wild ang imagination natin. Wala ngang nabahala sa paglubog ng mga barko ng Sulpicio Lines na mas marami ang namatay, nang atakehin ng terorista ang LRT at ang Makati, wala ngang nabahala, tuloy ang buhay di ba? Nalungkot kami syempre dahil bukod sa pumanaw sila sa isang tradehya, nariyan pa ang mga pangarap na nabinbin para sa kanila. Ang kinabukasan ng mga anak at ng lahat na umaasa sa kanila ay nawala na parang bula. Pero under sa Defense Base Act or DBA, mandatory yan dito, sila ay tatanggap ng insurance. Kung sa Pinas kaya sila nadisgrasya, may insurance kaya? Hwag kang plastic, alam mong wala! Meron SSS or GSIS...pero dudugo ilong mo bago ka makuha..gigimikan ka pa..

Ano raw ba work ko sa Iraq at ano ang work ko dito..well pareho lang pero syempre tumaas lang ng konti ang posisyon. Iyan din ang advise ko sa mga kababayan nating pupunta dito, kung ordinaryong karpentero ka or mason, dapat pagdating dito, leadman ka na or foreman, kahit di mo pa naranasan kasi lamang ka na sa mga lokal dito e dahil articulate tayong pinoy. Ang sistema natin ay pasok sa panlasa ng mga expats dito. Saka kung kapareho mo lang ang lokal dito, mas pipiliin sila dahil mura ang labor pay nila. Bukod dun kakaunti ang leadmen or foremen dito, kakaunti ang supervisor na local dahil wala pa yatang trades school dito pero may mga universities sila. Kaso mas marami ang hindi kayang mag-aral dito, kaya kakaunti ang qualified mag lead. So maganda ang pagkakataon natin dito upang yumabong sa larangan natin.

Ito ang pinaka-cream of the crop na tanong, paano nga ba kami nakakarating dito? OK..ang hint ko yung luma nang style na alam ng marami..dumadaan daw yung iba sa Dubai. the rest...SECRET! ano kayo hilo? E di nahirapan naman kami...basta sa amin dito, ang pagpunta rito ay calculated risk!

Si Sgt. Calangian yan nakita ko sa Kandahar Airport, K9 Handler sya dun.

Yan si Ronaldo Dorado, ang matikas na Lead Scheduler..tanging TCN ng Taji na Certified ng KBR sa Scheduling..kasama ko yan dito. At si Mark Wilson ang brick mason. Ito si Danny, ang "hero" ng Camp Taji, Iraq at nagkita kami dito sa Kabul kagabi.. back in the old days...

Alisin ang Travel Ban -NOW na!

2009-07-24T23:22:00.000-07:00

I don't know if most of you will agree with the idea of lifting the ban in war-torn countries like Iraq and Afghanistan. Well of course iyong nakaisip ng travel ban will strongly oppose on this with a hard slam on her table. Immigration also will jump in to support her in her idea of continous imposition of travel ban, including hundreds of illegal recuiter based in Dubai and in Central Luzon (lalo na!)

Napapanahon na bang alisin ang ban na ito?

Ano ang mga parametro para malamin nating dapat na ngang alisin ang travel ban sa Iraq at Afghanistan?

Para sa akin ito ang mga parametro na dapat isaalang-alang, kundi man kalahatan, ito marahil ay iilan at dapat kunin nating ang pag bentahe at pag dehado sa bawat parametro:

Security Situation

Job Oppurtunities

Victims of Situation

Heavy Expenses

Welfare of Workers

Market Value

Direct Violence Against OFWs

Direct Violence Against Non-combatant Non-OFW

Ang nangyayari kasi dahil alam na ng marami na tahimik at condusive na to be a working environment ang dalawang bansang ito, alam na nilang bearable ang security situation sa halos lahat na lugar dito, hindi pa rin nirereview ang imposition ng ban. Although may kakaunting lugar na talagang maituturing na uncontrolled pa, ito ay nasa malalayong lugar. Parang kasing layo or mas malayo pa sa distansya ng Manila at Jolo, nakita ba nating nabahala tayo sa ganyang distansya? At naitakda na ang limit nito para mapangalagaan ang "sanitized areas" sa pagpapalaganap ng peace and order dito.

(iba na nagpinagkakaabalahan ng mga may baril dito e)

At dahil nga naituturing nang magtahimik ang karamihan sa lugar dito, ang job oppurtunity ay nasa labas na ng base militar, outside the wire ika nga. Ang mga opisina ng malalaking US-based companies ay nasa Kabul City na, nagkalat ang mga iba't-ibang lahi na patunay lamang na controlled na ang sitwasyon dito sa Afghanistan. Ang Iraq sa kabilang banda ay hindi na dapat ipaliwanag kung matahimik na at ligtas. Matatandaang ibinabalik na ng gubyerno ang embahada natin dito e..so sila na mismo ang nag-assessed nyan.

Ganito kasi yun, kung aalisin ang deployment ban, makikinabang ang maraming OFW sa mga bansang ito, maibababa ang unemployment rate sa Pilipinas sa gitna ng global crisis. Ayun sa prediction ng mga financial analysts, aabutin ng ilang taon ang global depression. Kung ganun bakit, di natin tingnan ulit ang puntong pag bibigay ng trabaho sa maraming nakatungangang Pinoy sa Pilipinas na nais mag trabaho pero walang mapasukan. Haayaan natin ang daan-daang Pinoy visit visa holders sa UAE na makarating sa mga lugar na ito.

Nandito ang pera ng UN, ng US at ng NATO at bilyun-bilong dolyares ang inilalaan sa re-construction ng Iraq at Afghanistan.

Habang may global crisis, patuloy ang paglustay ng tatlong ito para dito sa pagsasaayus ng sinira nila h'wag lang silang mapulaang nagkamali sila sa pag-sakop sa mga bansang ito. Nakaraan naglaan na naman ng mahigit na $17Billion ang US government kung saan nakuha ng Fluor at Dyncorp ang mga kontrata sa LOGCAP 4 or Logististics and Civil Augmentation Program -4 para suportahan ang mga GIs dito.

Kung napapansin nyo, mababa na ang market value ng OFW sa Saudi at UAE dahil sa mga pagdagsa ng Bangladeshis, Indians, Sri Lankans at Nepalis na pawang mga cheap labors. Dahil sa murang labor costs nila, naapektuhan ang Pinoy sa presyuhan at napipilitan tayong sumabay sa mababang pa-sweldo kundi mawawalan tayo ng pagkain sa mesa.

Iba dito sa Afghanistan at Iraq, nanatiling mataas ang market value natin. Pero dahil nagdagsaan ang Pinoy na dumarating at dito na naghahanap ng trabaho, ang iba ay napipilitang tumanggap ng sweldong mas mababa sa US$1500 para sa ordinaryong skilled worker. Pagnatili ito, baba na rin ang market value natin sa katagalan. Ito ay dahil sa nauubusan na ng budget ang mga naka-stand by dito at kailangan na nilang magpadala ng pera sa kanilang pamilya. Naka-standby po sila dahil namimili sila ng mas mataas na offer which is normal lang.

Sa pag alis ng travel ban, ang teribleng gastos ng OFW ay maiiwasan dahil di na nila need mag visit visa, mabibigyan sila ng terms sa pagbabayad ng placement fees ng mga placement agencies (well mas ok pa rin ang direct hire, ungas kasing maningil ang mga agencies e-ganid!). Sino pa ang mabibiktima ng illegal recuriters na mangangako ng trabaho tapos sila mismo mga wala ngang trabaho? Nagiging mabango ang mga OFW sa illegal recruiter dahil sa extreme na pangangailangan ng Pinoy, lalo na ang mga nagmamadaling makapagtrabaho. Alam nyo naman ang mga illegal recruiter, dati nasa Pinas lang ang mga yan..ngayun sa UAE na rin sila dahil nandun ang mga nagmamadaling magkatrabaho. And guess what? Ang mga lintek na illegal recuiters may mga doctorate degree na sa panggagancho...wtf! improving din..!

Sa pagpapaigting ng ban, isaalang-alang dapat sa evaluation ang mga nabibiktima ng kinakatatakutang gera, kunin ang statistics ng mga direct victims ng hostile fire versus direct victims ng illegal recruitment. Kumuha sila ng ng kaukulang data ng mga Pinoy na na-biktima ng karahasan dito at sa Iraq at ng iba pang migrant workers anuman ang lahi, saka nila sabihing delikado pa ang sitwasyon dito. Natural hindi kasali ang naaaksidente kundi yung namatay or nasaktan dahil sa hostile activities. Kung maalis ang travel ban mas lalong mapapangalagaan ang welfare namin dito, kasi may sumbungan kami. Lahat ng karapatan at benepsiyo ay mababatantayan at maipapatupad although naibibigay naman ang karamihan sa welfare benefits. May magko-caution na sa mga employers tungkol sa karapatan ng OFWs, at mamomonitor ang galaw ng deployment ng Pinoy. Kaso nga nangunguna sa kaduwagan ang opisyales natin..TV pa lang pinanonood nanginginig na sa takot. Ang tanging nakikita kong pagtaas ng panganib dito ay ang pagdami ng nagiging biktima ng illegal recruiters, dahil sa patuloy na pag exploit sa travel ban.

Nagpahayag nung 24 July 09 ang POEA tungkol sa pagkakasabi kong walang oppurtunity sa Pinas (ininterview nga ako ng GMA7...tinago pa ako sa tunay kung palayaw, damn!). Sabi ng POEA marami raw ang oppurtunities sa Pinas at di na dapat mag-abroad. Kami lang ba ang kausap nya sa pahayag nyang iyon or lahat ng OFW sa buong mundo? Kasi kinukumbinsi nya raw na mag-entrepreneur ang mga Filipino para di na mangibang-bansa at may mga success stories na raw sila...hehehehehe!

Inday, bago kami maging enterpreneur need muna naming mag OFW kasi awan ti kwarta..djay ti banger.. (tama ba ilokano ko poging(ilo)cano?). Kung di na need mag-abroad ng OFWs dahil sa sinasabi nyang upurtunidad..ala eh..gibain na yang POEA at yan ay inimbento para sa amin.

Uwian na!

Uwian na!

Ganito po ang pangarap ko

Kung aalisin ang ban, dapat magkaroon ang gubyernong Noy-pi ng ganito sa Iraq at Afghanistan:

Identification sa Airport

Registration ng OFWs

Monitoring ng Job site

Benefits under contract

Location of Accommodation

Employment Pre-Requisit Document from Consulate

Dahil mahilig na rin tayo sa imbensyon ng polisiya, e di eto imbentuhin natin ito.

Kunya-kunyarian lang ha... e di kunyari may kunsulado na tayo sa Kabul so maglalagay sila ng representative na may personalidad at walang balbas sa Kabul International Airport para sapul lahat na darating na Pinoy. Lahat na Pinoy na kararating lang imbis na salubungin ng banda, dadaan sila kay Mr. Personality para i-verify kung ano ba lakad nila sa Afghanistan o sa Iraq, " 'Tol ano atin?"

Sa ganitong paraan maaabisuhan sila na, "Repapips de-hins ka pwede dun...baka matsugi ka."

Mahalaga ang registration para sa dumarating at umaalis na OFW, need explanation?

Mahalagang malaman ang jobsite, baka ang tubero sa iba mapunta at sila matubo sa "ano".

Mahalagang malaman ang laman ng kontrata at ang mga benepisyong napapaloob dito, baka pasko na wala ka pang bonus e. Sino babasa ng contract? Sige ako na lang babasa, ako nakaisip e.

Mahalagang malaman ang mga pansamtalang tirahan nila dito baka hindi na sila naliligo e. Lalo ang mga Pinoy na naghahanap pa lang ng work. (dapat malaman ang bahay nila nang madalhan sila ng adobo pag tanghalian)

Gawing requirement sa employment ang pakikipag uganayan muna ng Pinoy at ng kaniyang magiging employer sa consulate. Makiki-coordinate ang kunsulada sa lahat na employers na gawing isa sa requirement ng pagtanggap ng OFW ang pagdaan kay Mr. Personality (kaya dapat si mr.personality ay mag-inarte sa pag approve kung walang tocinong suhol).

Sa totoong buhay lang ha, dapat lang magkaroon ng consulate dito ang Pinas dahil may Pinoy dito e pero ang nangyari iniwan tayo sa ere at iniasa tyo sa embassy sa Islamabad.

Ayaw sigurong nilang umupa dito, di naman need na malaking office e, kahit sa tabo na lang sila mag office ang mahalaga may "personal touch".

So di na need maglagay sa recuiter, mag visit visa, magpa-escort, di na need magtanong-tanong kung sino nagpapaalis sa Dubai papuntang Afghanistan at Iraq. In short less expenses, less worry, less creation of Task Force, less victims at less ang kalabaw na maibebenta sa walang katuturan. Napapanahon nang pag-isipan ang mga bagay na ito. Naaangkop pa ba ang trip nilang "tamang-hinala"? Sayang ang bilyones na budget para sa mga bansang ito ng US, NATO at UN.

Eto ang the best...at pwede nyo ring gawin kung nasaan man kayong bansa naroroon... Halleeer MS. POEA listen up, yo! Yung sinasabing entrepeneurship ay dito natin gawin dahil mas maganda ang cash flow sa abroad. Kumuha ka ng sponsor mo na local bolahin mo para makapagtayo ka ng negosyo, dito sa Afghansitan napakaraming gumagawa nya...so bakit nila iiwan ang Afghanistan?

WHAT'S LIFE WITHOUT MICHAEL JACKSON

2009-06-26T03:34:00.000-07:00

Ako na lang muna papalit kay MJ.

(para akong si El DeBarge hehehe!)

Imagine? Moonwalk lang ang pinaka-kabisado kong dance routine kasi mga dekada ochenta at noventa ang aking kabataan. Yung mga sayaw na para kikinsot, alam mo ba yun? Thriller dance yun at yung high kick and leg twist tapos ita-tap mo ang paa mo, Beat it yun. Meron pang isa, yung hahawiin mo sa side ng damit mo then pa-funky-funky yung kamay mo..Billy Jean yun..

Siguro lahat naman tayo, batang-MJ..Michael Jackson! Mayabang ako dati dahil may album ako ng Thriller, yung cassett tape pa nga uso nun... first dance ko sa Manila when I arrived from two years stay in Cebu, Michael Jackson ang sayaw ko hahaha! That't was 1985, tinawanan pa ako ni Buboy yung kababata ko sa Navotas na tumakbong mayor.Pati utol ko, parang nahihiya sa pinaggagagawa ko noon. E uso nga si MJ e. Asar lang sila kasi kakulay ko si MJ at MJ moves ako nun. I remember nag dance number pa kami nung high school under Mr. Morla, ewan ko english subject yun e, english musical dawe ... so Smooth Criminal ang ginaya namin... yung nag-lean forward si MJ dun.

Malaking impluwensya si MJ e. Para nga di nakakahiya, pag wala pang pambili ng pants dati, at bitin na ang pants mo... uuy! Michael Jackson ah..hehehe! totoo lang walang pera mommy ko nun.

I could say kahit complex ang influences ko sa music, Michael Jackson was a big part of my musical side. Nasa Saudi na nga ako last year, namba-bad trip pa ako sa mga ibang lahi, kasi may MJ vcd dun na music video..palagi kong pinapanood at ang sound malakas...habang nag luluto ng Sadike (Saudi cops..hulihin nyo ko.....).

Uniter si MJ ng black at white, maraming siyang music records na siya ang unang nakagawa, at mga records ng kasutilan syempre , ganun paman isa s'ya sa nagpausbong ng black music industry sa mundo. I don't need to talk so much about his life and career kasi konti lang alam ko jan..basahahin nyo na lang sa internet...pero as of now, maglalaban muna kami ni Wes, yung black na lawyer dito, sa paramihan ng kabisadong kanta ni MJ. Gusto ko lang i-dedicate ang isang portion ng blog ko kay MJ, that's it..bilang pasasalamat sa contributions nya.

Wala naman akong personal encounter with MJ, he is just an idol and I am a proud big fan. Anuman ang naging kulay ng buhay n'ya, para sa akin lesson at insperasyon na dapat nating pulitin, at i-absorb. H'wag tularan ang mistakes n'ya na palagay ko yun din ang ipapayo nya, pero gayahin natin ang ang diskarte nya tungo sa pag unlad.

h'wag natin i-deny, we all have skeleton in our closets... kaya sa mga may bad opinion kay MJ...

Beat it!

Anuman ang preference ni MJ...para sa akin, He's the Man!

Go peacefully with our Lord, MJ and teach the angels how to do the moonwalk.

Rest in Peace, bro.

111th PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE DAY

2009-06-11T22:52:00.000-07:00

I can stand now and feel proud with this shirt

LET WHATEVER WE DO SHALL BENEFIT THE NATION AT THE END OF THE DAY…

THE PRICE FOR FREEDOM WILL NEVER BE OF PESO NOR OF A PIECE OF MOMENTO,

BUT OF A PRICELESS FLESH AND BLOODS,

OF TEARS AND BRUISES OF THE HEART,

OF PAINFUL FLIGHT TO LEAVE THE FAMILY BEHIND,

OF PERSONAL SACRIFICES IN FRONT OF THE ELECTED,

OF EXPLOITATION, LIES AND TAKING LIFE,

OF EVENTUAL GRID,

AND CLENCHED-FIST CONTROL OF THE FREED MIGHTY.

THE FIGHT NEVER ENDS

STAND UP TODAY, OR NEVER FOREVER !

I AM AGAINST CONSTITUTIONAL ASSEMBLY !

CHANGE THE CONSTITUTION NOT NOW..NOT TODAY!

DEFINITELY NOT ON THIS ADMINISTRATION!

Full-blooded:

PNP-ASG KAAGAPAY CLASS OF 1996

Phil. Guardians Brotherhood, Inc.

Astig Pinoy-Iraq here in Afghanistan

OFW BLOGGERS ARE ONE AGAINST MIKE AVENUE BLOG

2009-06-03T22:29:00.000-07:00

On Mike Avenue Pinoy Blog’s ‘Tsokolate’

MANIFESTO
So that the bloggerworld and everyone may know....

We believe in the right to freedom of speech as a human right.

We believe in the freedom to hold opinions without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.

We believe in the right to freedom of expression to receive and impart information.

We believe that blogging is an expression of one’s opinions, personal experiences, hobbies, commentaries, diaries and we further believe that every blogger has the right to publish his personal expressions and opinions.

We believe that the exercise of these freedoms is not an absolute right but carries with it duties and responsibilities, that may be subject to restrictions or penalties on specific grounds as prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests and protection of the reputation or rights of others.

We believe that majority of the Overseas Filipino Workers have chosen to leave the Philippines to seek and search for better livelihood opportunities abroad so they may be able to support themselves and their families back home.

We believe that the OFW’s search for a greener pasture is not at all that easy and yet hundreds of thousands of OFWs have created names for them and have excelled in their chosen fields of endeavor, setting the world standards for nobility and for hard work.

We believe that there is nothing wrong with doing an honest day’s work as a domestic help or as construction worker or doing any other menial and blue collar jobs.

We believe that OFWs whether professionals or not should be given honor and respect.

We believe that the OFW is the Hope of the Nation, Gift to the World!

With these guiding beliefs:

We regard Mr. Mike Avenue’s Pinoy Blog post on "Tsokolate" as one that lacked research and a flagrant ignorance of the truth about Overseas Filipino workers and expatriates.

We regard this lack of truth and ignorance as especially inexcusable from one who feigns intelligence and high learning and coax people into belief and following.

We regard his statements: “minumura ng amo kapalit ng dolyar” and “humahalik sa paa ng mga dayuhan” as blatant mockeries of the sacrifices of the Overseas Filipino Workers and expatriates and are hasty generalizations of the living and working conditions of the Filipino expatriates and OFWs.

We regard his post as tactless and offensive, trying to make a lame attempt to sarcasm that failed to be funny, at the expense of the Overseas Filipino Workers.

We regard his post as a clear display of arrogance, done in a distasteful manner with blind indifference and unjust condemnation of the millions of hardworking OFWs who work long hours to earn an honest buck.

We regard his post to have overstepped the bounds of sensitivity and responsibility of a decent mind and an accountable and sensible blogger.

Therefore, we as OFW BLOGGER are not dumb to let this kind of humiliation pass just like that.

We strongly condemn this irresponsible blog post and Mike Avenue.

We consider Mike Avenue as an Anti-OFW persona.

We demand a retraction and an apology from Mike Avenue of Pinoy Blogs for this irresponsible blogpost!

We are Filipinos and we should stand together and strive for a better Philippines!

FIVE GREATEST SCHOOL TEACHERS OF ALL TIMES.

2009-05-06T11:33:00.000-07:00

TEACHERS LOVE US MORE THAN THEIR OWN LIVES.

As I was surfing GMANews.tv this morning (May 6, 2009), the main page showed picture of interchanging photos of teachers asking their salary grade be raised to salary grade 20. A flash of thought came across my memory, I used to receive salary grade 12, I guess, when I was still member of the PNP.

Salary Grade 20 is not that much for the school teachers considering the vast and expanse of public responsiblities their having from time to time, but congressional pork barrel is way to much. There was something in my heart that really made me feel bad, as I see this photo.

I pitty all those teachers for being ignored by the government, some of them are being ignored by their husbands and boyfriends, since most of them are female, and yet all of them are still getting exploited during elections and during public statistics and census season.

My sister is also a public school teacher, I can tell the hardship of the teachers in this generation.

I don't know how could we ever thank our teachers for making all of us what we are today. Nobody could ever be promoted to manager, military general, director, or even get elected to the presidency without school teachers.

Maybe we could generally say that nobody could be somebody without teachers, absolutely no one.

Lawyers can never pass the bar exams, nor doctors can ever wear that white robes, nor engineers can ever read plans, not even a taxi cab driver could ever drive his cab without having a school teacher once in his life.

When my grandfather was still around back in the 90's, he used to tell us that when all of us get up in heaven and line to check our names in the Book of Life, the school teachers are the ones who have the divine priority to go first being considered as the most noble professions humans could have. And they will sit next to the Lord as they have fulfilled lifetimes by educating all people on earth while still living.

Now, have you ever thought about your former teachers, from the most cruel to the most fave one? Have you ever thanked them for being strict and cruel during examinations, otherwise you can not read this.

Have your paths crossed lately? How'd she look like now? You have not recognized her until you get noticed her familiar fashion, right? Teachers have a single fashion they say, whether they are in civilian clothes or in school uniform. Tell me more about your school teachers, and I will share my own stories about them. Join me in sending thanks to our school teachers back home.

Thanks to all those teachers who braved their way into the notorious mountains of Muslim rebels to teach our poor children out there, where some of them are still witheld by the Abu Sayyaf.

Thanks to all those teachers who keep on teaching amidst fierce fire fighting of soldiers and NPAs along the countrysides.

Thanks to all those teachers who volunteered to leave the city life and walk their way to the jungle to teach the barrio people.

Thanks to all those teachers who innovate teaching materials because of limited government fundings.

Thanks to all those teachers who keep on teaching our youths so well amidst having broken hearts, failed dreams, and frustrations in life.

Thanks to all those teachers who keep on teaching our children so well, despite the aching feelings due to the reality that teaching profession receives low salary grade.

Thanks to all those teachers who set aside thinking about their monsterous debts, salary loans, emergency loans and calamity loans, and proceeded on teachings without delays.

Thanks to all those teachers who protected us from bullies and school riots.

Thanks to all those teachers who keep on teaching the children until they are 60 years old.

Thanks to all those teachers who take care of our children while we are busy working. They keep our children learn their lessons.

Thanks to all those teachers who became strong pillars of elementary and high schools, the whole basic education system in the Philippines in general.

Thanks to all those teachers who taught us about Ten Little Indians and I Have Two Hands songs.

Thanks to all those teachers who taught us about subjects and predicates.

Thanks to all those teachers who taught us how to dance during foundation days and field days.

Thanks to all those teachers who loved us more than their own children, more than their husbands and wives, and more than their lives.

Thanks to all those teachers who are now sitting in their retirement and seem to have been forgotten by their students..We will never ever forget.

Thanks to all those teachers who gave us ideals, principles and directions in life that's why we have these lives.

Thanks to all those teachers who are more than willing to join the protests but they could not because of old age, and rather chose to sit around with their small and delayed pensions.

Thanks to all those teahcers who dedicated their entire lives and happiness in exchange of school teachings.

Thanks to those teachers who gave us unselfish love and immeasureable care.

Most of all I would like to thank my very own favorite teacher of all times, my mommy, a retired public school teacher who until now a teacher to all of us, with her undying love both of a mother and a school teacher. Mommy still teaches my kids and all her grandchildren at home.

It is my honor to dedicate one entry here in my blog for the FIVE GREATEST SCHOOL TEACHERS OF ALL TIMES.

Lolo Anot, Nicanor Fetalino Formilleza, an energetic and a happy mentor for all of us grandchildren using a very comprehensive old method in teaching Mathematics, back in the old days. Through his times and efforts, most of us grandchildren are now professionals using Mathematics in most of our dealings.

My aunities:

Mrs.Tabetha Formilleza-Fradejas, a public school teacher in V. Mapa High School in Legarda, Manila;

Mrs. Lourdes Formilleza-Fradejas, a public school teacher in Bati-ano Elementary School in Odiongan, Romblon;

Mrs. Villaflor Formilleza-Dayrit, a public school teacher in Padre Burgos Elementary School in Sta. Mesa , Manila.

And of course, my mom, Mrs. Zenaida Formilleza-Fabellore used to be teaching in T. Paez High School in Manila until her retirement in 2003.

I am proud to belong to a clan who had lived to the fullest by the creed of noble teaching, and made our lives easier through the taste of white chalks and lesson plans.

THANK YOU ALL and I LOVE YOU ALL . . there's no way I can repay you but maybe by continuing your legacy of teaching even I am not a school teacher and to live a better life as you all intended for all of us children.

THANK YOU!

SET ASIDE CHARTER CHANGE AND WORK ABROAD

2009-05-01T00:34:00.000-07:00

I am not into reading other's blog aside from those of my friends' and those who have special care and efforts in their pages.

One of my favororite ones is Mareng Winnie Monsod' s blog. The page is really impressive so much the contents. I have read few of her entries and they made me more educated in events back home. I wish I had that ability too to encourage more readers and they would post comments also, but no fighting amongst commentarists and no direct-spelled foul words of course.

I've read her latest blog the other day, please visit the link: http://blogs.gmanews.tv/winnie-monsod/archives/5-Is-Charter-change-really-necessary.html, and the topic was really worth commenting and you could see the freedom of expression from those who posted their comments.

I rather have my reaction be posted here so that it's kinda more personal view than being a rider of the topic regaridng the proposal to change the constitution of the Philippines. Well, nevertheless this is indeed a rider article.

For a very long time, Filipinos have been focusing on the issue of charter change (cha-cha). Everyone seems floating in limbo if the evil desires will prevail. Our Constitution is a flexible one, in the sense that it can be changed when it is no longer fit to the welfare of the sovereign. But there are certain things to meet and these are not that easy to achieve. People are either in direct or indirect involvement in playing the tune of cha-cha, whether by a plebicit or by a referendum, and somehow through their representatives in the House of Congress. Otherwise we will have consitutions identified by month and year.

One of the claims for cha-cha is the economic growth, that will ensure job oppurtunities, poverty reduction and better quality of living. But what is economy by the way? Nobody could explain this better unless one is well-schooled. Simple laundry woman may not understand economy and she doesn't care, all she wants is to rain with all mud and dusts so there will be more dirty clothes to wash.

For my small understanding, I will apply economy as an OFW, to see if we need charter change. I used to work in Iraq in 2005 and now I am here in Afghanistan where both are banned for OFW deployment. In my experiences of dangers in both worlds, changing the constitutions is far dangerous than the streets of these countries. I listed the comparisson:

1. I am wearing a bullet proof vest and Kevlar Helmet to give me better chance of surviving in an event of an attack, while changing the constitution leaves my whole family vulnerable to abuse. Why? because there is uncertainty and we need no more further explaination to that . The only clear thing is that something bad will happen and it's gonna be soon after the cha-cha.

2. I have an AK-47 here now as a Design Engineer in addition to my basic design tools, back there I don't have weapon against an abusive goverment that will surface right after the cha-cha.

3. I have better salary here to feed more my family, but what awaits the OFWs after the charter change where we have been so abused in the present government theme, "Mga Bagong Bayani". We felt much of a milking cow than a hero, though.

4. Powerful Family and Political Sydicate are giants that eat up all aspects of life, not only on their feeding ground but also licking up dry even the tin plates of hungry Filipinos in the country. Here we could have better food away from them and sure line of supplies to our families in the Philippines.

5. I could send my children now in better school in exchange of threats in the street of Kabul and Kandahar. I had twarted bullets from bad elements in the streets of Metro Manila when I was a PNP member and my kids walked their way to a public school, nonetheless, it was better public school.

6. I could even look straight to the eyes (with my pitbull staffordshire smile) of hungry alligators in the goverment as they sense the smell of US Dollar bills in my pocket, while my peso bills before could end me thrown out in the street. Although I used to be an as---le cop before, it's a culture.

7. Militants here are far more different from militants in the Philippines, while Muslim militants are adhering to the calling of faith, Filipino militants are paid street actors and blind activities who joined the rally for experience, so there will be more Moro-moro in the street afterwards.

We can see all the abuses happening around us, name-droppings, abused strong connnections, political killings, and worst political set up and yet most of us are so busy not to pay attention to these, we thought we are not so close to get affected. Changing the constitution is like giving the grids the chance to wear the cloak of a magician that can and will fool every one of us in a snap.

In my view, concentration on charter change in relation to economic growth should better be circumnavigated in the dollar remittance of the OFWs. We better invest in all our skilled workers abroad, and to those who have the talent but have no finacial capability for all processings to work outside the country. This is better alternative to help the economy in lieu of foreign direct investment (putting all the Arroyos and their allies behind bars may be an option). Create more technical schools with short comprehensive courses in all municipalities, and have contengency plans for the graduates in order to send them directly to employer abroad for a "fly-now pay-later scheme", remove private placement agency in the history of the Philippines and let them be processed directly by the government. Bang hard the heads of POLO and Embassy officials against the wall to have a close on-hand monitoring of all the Filipinos under their AOR.

We have ran out of natural resources because of too much politics and to much fooling around our much-spent laws, therefore we rather get the last resource that we have in order to earn money for our peope, that is sending more skilled workers abroad. This idea has been around for years but never gets the proper attention.

Lift all the travel bans in all dangerous countries since these stand no wall at all to the hungry Filipinos. We are not the only ones at risks in these areas, all nationalities are here for bigger money. Afterall, travel bans are becoming a source of corruption in all exits ports in the Philippines. What we need is a closed facilitation system of Filipinos by the government to ensure they will be employed by UN, US, NATO, and their affiliated international companies, and other world organizations that protect and ensure the safety of all foreign workers. Funny to think, government imposed travel bans as if they are really caring for the OWFs' safety. I doubt it.

Now, if we will go further to favor the charter change how much assurance that our lives will be better than ever? With the presence of all the elements of doom, are we going to gamble? If we're gonna check the ruling party, check the president, check the leaders of Congress, and check all those others sitting in the positions in the government, and their notorious activities, we could still get a mate by pawn at the end.

If there is a need for immediate change, that is the immediate change of administration. Let us not vote for the party that has been around for a long time and has done nothing small good but rather caused big hardship to the Filipinos around the world. The party that has put us all in the billboard of controversy and embarrassment in the history of mankind, bigger than that of the Marcoses'.

I don't like to sound pessimistic, but we have to face the reality the strong and noble men stand no chance with the lady. Cavaliers failed and other cavaliers feed on flesh of those comrades who failed and had forgotten instead their sacred creed.

Let's change the Constitution . .but NOT NOW! We rather wait until the better administration has come in order not to get betrayed again (don't forget EDSA=2). But for now . . set aside charter change and let's work abroad, you'll have a better chance here. Think about that.

When You Travel . .Bring this Reminder with You

2009-04-28T00:10:00.000-07:00

I got the job in Afghanistan

2009-04-08T00:40:00.000-07:00

Finally, I am here in Afghanistan.

Well, I am really excited but definitely this not my dream space int the world.
I like the weather, the snow-capped mountain ranges...and all the beard the Afhgan guys have!

I supposed to be here back in 2007.. damn! that was terrible when the Arroyo Government banned the Filipinos to come over here for work. KBR now is just a failed dream to me... I could not go back to my work in Camp Taji, Iraq...a happy place for Astig Pinoys.

I ended up working in Saudi Arabia for a year..small salary and small respect for ingenuity of works. I am referring to the company I work with specifically, where they like much the Nepalis (who landed there with a little bit short of brain of that a Filipino toddler), than us Filipinos...I maybe rude.. but really..i hate that f---king company.

All I am wishing for today is that no incoming, no ambush, no sniping for now....I wish they would give a short notice before Bin Laden's yahoo group members would do that.

All my American bosses are really cool and very professional (unlike in Saudi of course), 'though they have all motherf--kers, f--k and that sh!ts in between every sentences...they are really nice to every nationality. They used to be my bosses back in Iraq days. Maybe they missed me more than that of my skills . . . .and they thought of hiring me huh...

In Saudi, we do our laundries, cooking and we always craved to have an internet access in the office.. (damn! that company has never been introduced to Microsoft Outlook)...what's the big deal about internet, anyway?

In my company in KSA, damn..everything seemed to be backwards...the production had to produce first and then they would ask me to make the f--kin' design out of it...that Egyptian production engineer, i don't know where in the world he got his degree.. he never read and follow a design..worse he never knew how to read one.....

Here in Kabul..everthing sits right under your nose..foods are good..I've never touched a laundry soap...they know we are not abusive internet users...works here are systematic and well-thought of.

The best part? the R & R every six months...of course the salary. ..oooh! i love the salary ! R & R is rest and recreation just in case you guys don't know....And the snow.... I've never seen snows falling right over my head..

Confused about how I got here?..none of your business..send me private email and I will tell you how...by legal means, though.

'am gonna post some pictures soon... I just need to smile infront of the flashes...i just wish the flash is not from AK-47 huh!

DIGNITY AND RESPECT FOR OFW....

2008-10-12T10:51:00.000-07:00

LET'S SUPPORT THE CALL, GUYS!

On Mon, 6/10/08, Philippine Nurses Association of UK wrote:
From: Philippine Nurses Association of UK Subject: Respect and Dignity for the Filipino WorkerTo: marylleleilayne@ yahoo.co. ukDate: Monday, 6 October, 2008, 10:11 PM

Dear Friends,
The British Broadcasting Company United Kingdom (BBC UK) recently aired a comedy series which directly insulted the Filipino people with its tactless and insensitive behaviour through its disgusting gutter humour.
We have now started an online petition to show the broadcast industry that such behaviours will not go unnoticed and unchallenged.
We now encourage you to read more about the Dignity and Respect for the Filipino Worker Campaign and sign the petition so that collectively we can let them know about our reactions to the series.
The campaign petition can be accessed here http://www.gopetiti on.com/petitions /dignity- and-respect- for-the-filipino -worker.html including the offending video clip.
We also encourage you to pass this message to friends and other kababayans who might wish to support the petition.
Together we have a voice, and through our small voice we can show the world how to respect others and regulate our own actions.

Best regards,
Michael Duque
PNA UK

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CRY OF JUAN DELA CRUZ

2008-09-12T04:57:00.000-07:00

I found this article from Astig Pinoy in Iraq blog site... and I found it very interesting. Since ako rin ang editor dun on some of the posted items, as per request ni Astig Jhim hehehehe! kinuha ko na rin with permission of course....we might not have been fully aware of the time this artcle is telling, pero baka ipinanganak na tayo sa mga panahong ito... ako ay Martial Law baby e...

It is really touching and I wish the old times would come back to bless us all Filipino.. maybe too impossible already.

After reading... my comment? KAYA PA NATIN!

Here it goes! (un-edited)

Cry of Juan Dela Cruz

This Letter is forwarded to me by my friend also an OFW in Iraq and thought of sharing it with you I find it amazing so simple life back then.
My Fellow Filipinos,When I was small, the Philippine peso was P7 to the US$. The president was Diosdado Macapagal. Life was simple. Life was easy. My father was a farmer. My mother kept a small sari-sari store where our neighbours bought sang-perang asin (1cent salt), sang-perang bagoong (1cent shrimp sauce), sang-perang suka (1cent vinegar), sang-perang toyo (1cent dried small fish) at pahinging isang butil na bawang (with free one clove garlic). Our backyard had kamatis (tomatoes), kalabasa, talong, ampalaya, upo, batao, (these are local vegetables) and okra. Our farm had chickens, pigs, dog, and cat. And of course, we lived on the farm. During rainy season, my father caught frogs at night which my mother made into stuffed frog, or just plain fried. During the day, he caught hito (catfish) and dalag from his rice paddies, which he would usually inihaw.During dry season, we relied on the chickens, vegetables, bangus, tuyo, and tinapa (all local fish). Every now and then, there was pork and beef from the town market. Life was so peaceful, so quiet, no electricity, no TV. Just the radio for Tia Dely, Roman Rapido, Tawag ng Tanghalan and Tang-tarang-tang.And who can forget Leila Benitez on Darigold Jamboree? On weekends, I played with my neighbours (who were all my cousins). Tumbang-preso, taguan, piko, luksong lubid, patintero (all local games), at iba pa. I don't know about you, but I miss those days.These days, we face the TV, Internet, e-mail, newspaper, magazine, grocery catalogue, or drive around. The peso is a staggering and incredible P47 to the US$. Most people can't have fun anymore. Life has become a battle. We live to work. Work to live. Life is not easy. I was in Saudi Arabia in 1983. It was lonely, difficult, & scary. It didn't matter if you were a man or a woman. You were a target for rape. The salary was cheap & the vacation far between. If the boss didn't want you to go on holiday, you didn't. They had your passport. Oh, and the agency charged you almost 4 months of your salary (which, if you had to borrow on a "20% per month arrangement" meant your first year's pay was all gone before you even earned it).The Philippines used to be one of the most important countries in Asia. Before & during my college days, many students from other Asian countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan and China went to the Philippines to get their diplomas. Until 1972, like President Macapagal, President Marcos was one of the most admired presidents of the world. The Peso had kept its value of P7 to the $dollar until I finished college.Today, the Philippines is famous as the "housemaid" capital of the world. It ranks very high as the "cheapest labour" capital of the world, too. We have maids in Hong Kong , labourers in Saudi Arabia , dancers in Japan, migrants and TNTs in Australia and the US, and all sorts of other "tricky" jobs in other parts of the globe. Quo Vadis, Pinoy? Is that a wonder or a worry? Are you proud to be a Filipino, or does it even matter anymore? When you see the Filipino flag and hear the Pambansang Awit, do you feel a sense of pride or a sense of defeat & uncertainty? If only things could change for the better....... Hang on for this is a job for Superman. Or whom do you call? Ghostbusters. Joke. Right?This is one of our problems.We say "I love the Philippines .. I am proud to be a Filipino." Words is not enough and never will be..I want to help the maids in Hong Kong .. I want to help the labourers in Saudi Arabia .. I want to help the dancers in Japan .. I want to help the TNTs in America and Australia ...I want to save the people of the Philippines .. But I cannot do it alone. I need your help and everyone else's.If you say you love the Philippines , prove it. And if you don't agree with me, say something anyway. Let's exchange ideas on how to achieve the above. You are bound to have ideas that never even entered my mind or you might hear something that you never thought of before. Indifference, especially among Filipinos and the situation in the Philippines, is a crime by itself.Juan Delacruz :(
How true and it hurts..

Quotes by our two Famous Madam President
The Filipino, crises and all, is truly worth living and dying for."-

Gloria Arroyo

“My biggest disappointment was, of course, the coup attempts, ... The economy was proceeding very well, but in 1989 we had the most serious coup attempt and ... many of the investors who were set to come here had to tell me that they chose to go to other countries because of the uncertainty brought about by (the coup attempt.) If that had not happened, I'm sure our economy would just be booming today ...”

Pres. Corazon Aquino

Posted by Astig Pinoy

2008-07-25T05:27:00.000-07:00

ANG ALAMAT NG ASONG MATAPAT

By: Rio Fabellore

"Dedicated to my Best Friend Thyler"

(photo: My Oldest Dog, Tatang Thyler, he just had a fried pittbull staffordshire for his dinner)

Sa isang malayong lugar sa malapit sa hangganan ng kabukiran at kagubatan nakatira ang binantang taga-bantay ng Hangganan. Siya si Taji ang nagbabantay ng mga pag-aari sa kabukiran laban sa mga hayup na umaatake at kumakain ng halaman at mga inaalagaang hayup dito.

Si Taji, bamagama't taga-bantay, siya ay makatuwiran at pala-kaibigan sa lahat ng kaniyang nakikilala. Bukod sa tagubilin ng kaniyang panginoon, ang kaniyang pakiramdam din ang batayan ng kaniyang desisyon pagdating sa kaniyang tungkulin.

"Magandang hapon, Taji,. Maaari po bang tumawid papuntang bukid?" tanong ng mabangis na Ulupong.

"Dinaramdam ko, kaibigan, ngunit mahigpit ang bilin sa akin na di kayo maaraing magawi sa bukid. " paliwanag naman ni Taji.

"Akala ko ba'y kaibigan kita? Ano naman ang masama kung gagawi ako sa bukid?" tanong muli ng ulupong.

" Ang ginagawa ko'y para sa kabutihan mo rin, kaibigan. Ayokong mapahamak ka sa gitna ng bukid. Dahil bukod sa akin, nariyan ang anak ng may-ari na handang paslangin ka sa oras na makita ka. Kaya ikaw man ay binabantayan ko para na rin sa iyo." Wika ni Taji.

Galit na umalis ang ulupong at bumalik sa gubat.

Ilang oras ang nakalipas, ang masungit na anak naman ng may-ari ng bukirin ang lumapit sa bantay ng Hangganan.

"Alipin, ako ay tutungo sa kagubatan upang mangaso. Paraanin mo ako?" utos ni Bagdad.

"Ikinalulungkot ko, ngunit mahigpit ang utos ng aking pakiramdam na h'wag kang padaanin. Lubhang mapanganib sa gubat at galit ang mga hayup sa mga pumapaslang sa kanilang uri," paliwanag ni Taji

"Pagsisihan mo ang pag suway sa aking nais, alipin. Isusumbong kita sa aking ama." At saka umuwi ang galit ang si Bagdad.

Dumating at nagsi-alis ang lahat na nagtangkang pumasok sa bukid man o sa kagubatan. Ang unggoy, mangingisda, babo-ramo, agila, manlililok, mangangahoy, at iba pang nilalang, lahat sila ay nabigong kunin ang pahintulot ni Taji.

Lahat sila ay bigo na tawirin ang hangganan. Ang paliwanag ni Taji ay may kaniya-kaniyang hangganan ang bawat nilalang upang maiwasan ang di pagkakaunawaan at ang tukso na sirain ang pag-aari ng bawat isa.

Tanging ang mga bilin na sinambit ni Taji ang kanilang baon pabalik sa kanilang lugar, bukid man o gubat.

" Ang ginagawa ko ay para sa iyo rin naman, ang kaligtasan ninyo ang tunay kong binabantayan" ang madalas banggitin ni Taji sa mga mananawid.

Isang araw dumating sa kubol ni Taji ang panginoon ng bukirin. Wala si taji dahil nilalakad niya ang kahabaan ng Hangganan. Nakita ng panginoon ang sipag at kusang loob ni Taji sa kaniyang tungkulin. Maayos ang lahat at walang bahid ng anumang dapat ikabahala.

Ilang sandali pa ay dumating na si Taji.

"Magandang araw po panginoon. Sa aking, pagbabantay sa araw-araw Hanggang sa sandaling ito ay wala pong pag labag sa inyong tagubilin.Sana po ay nasiyahan kayo, " ani ni Taji.

" Lubos ang aking kasiyahan, Taji, At maging ang aking paboritong anak ay iningatan mo sa kabila ng kagaspangan ng kaniyang ugali. Labis mong tinanggihan ang iyong mga kaibigan sa gubat na makatawid dahil sa aking tagubilin. Sa kabila nito ay nanatiling kaibigan ka sa kanila," papuri ng panginoon.

"Nalalaman ko rin ang iyong layunin at matalinong katuwiran sa iyong bawat pagtanggi sa kanila, maaring magkaroon ka ng lihim na kaaway," wika pa niya.

"Ang paglilingkod at pagtupad sa inyong kautusan ang aking kasiyahan at dahilan ng pagkakalalang sa akin, panginoon. Tanging ang pagbabantay ng Hangganan aking mithiin at manatiling nasa ilalim ng iyong kasiyahan." Wika ni Taji.

"Ngunit paano ang sarili mong buhay? Hindi maaaring habang-buhay ay naririto ka sa amin at tumutupad ng aking tagubilin, palagay ko ay kayang gawin ito ng ibang nilalang sa bukid" ani ng Panginoon.

"Inilaan ko na ang aking buhay sa inyo at sa pagbabantay ng Hangganan upang maging ligtas lahat na nilalang. Anuman ang nais ninyong maging direksyon ng aking buhay ay tatanggapin ko, huwag lamang pong ilayo sa aking tungkulin na batayan ko kayo at ang Hangganan," hiling ni Taji.

" Kung ganun, maliit ang iyong kahilingan kung ihahambing sa laki ng iyong nagawa at nailaan. Pagbibigyan kita, anuman ang mangyari at anuman ang iyong kakulangan ay mapupunuan sa susunod mong buhay, " bitiw na pangako ng panginoon kay Taji.

Lumipas pa ang ilang kabilugan ng buwan, naroon pa rin sa Taji. Ngunit lahat ay tila naghihitay ng pagkakataon upang labagin ang batas ng hangganan. Nakita ng mabangis na Ulupong si Taji na natutulog at nagpapahinga mula sa maghapong pagbabantay.

"Ikaw lang ang tanging sagabal sa aming daraanan patungong Hangganan, dapat sa iyo ay mawala na sa aming landas," wika ni Ulupong sa kaniyang sarili.

"Sa bangis ng aking kamandag, ang tulad mong patulog-tulog ay tuluyan nang di magigising he he he he he he…" ani pa ni Ulupong.

Agad niyang sinalakay at tinuklaw ang natutulog na binata. Ngunit si Taji ay nagising sa sakit na dulot ng kagat ni Ulupong kung kaya't nagtatakbo sya papasok sa bukid. Subalit lubhang madilim ang gabi kaya di niya makita ang daan patungo sa bahay ng panginoon. Sa pagdidilim ng kaniyang paningin ay nagawi siya sa kinaroroonan ng palalong (mayabang) anak ng panginoon na kasalukuyang lasing sa alak.

" Tulungan mo ako, Bagdad, kinagat ako ni Ulupong," sumamo ni Taji.

" Aba! Ako ba'y pinagbigyan mo ng ako ay nais mangaso..ito ang para sa iyo," sabay unday ng pamalo sa binata na siyang tuluyang ikinamatay nito.

Sa labis na katusuhan, kinuha ni Bagdad ang kaniyang gamit sa pangangaso at tinungo ang landas sa gubat. Ngunit, tulad ng iniiwasan ni Taji, nagsalubong ang mangangaso at ang Ulupong. Nasawi ni Ulupong ang anak ng panginoon.

"Kailanma'y di nagkamali sa adhikain ang binata, nasawi si Bagdad dahil sa pagsuway sa batas ng kaligtasan na siyang pinatutupad ni Taji sa Hangganan," pahayag ng panginoon.

" At tulad ng aking pangako, ibinabalik ko ang binata sa kaniyang katungkulan na may taglay na kapunuan sa kaniyang kahinaan. Mula ngayun, ang kaniyang sigaw ay hudyat ng pagbabawal at pagbibigay babala," wika ng panginoon.

Iyon lamang at umalis na ang panginoon.

Nang magbukang-liwayway, isang bagong nilalang ang sumulpot sa Hangganan. Ito ay may kaaniya-aniyayang balahibo at maliksing pangangatawan. Higit na mabilis, matalas ang pakiramdam at pang-amoy, at lalong higit ang kaniyang kakayahang makakita sa dilim.

Natuwa ng higit ang panginoon sa pagbabalik ng tagabantay ng Hangganan, at sa tuwing maririnig niya ang kahol nito alam niyang tumutupad ulit ito sa kaniyang tungkulin si Taji, ang matapat na taga-bantay.

WAKAS.

PAGHAHALINTULAD:

Taji
alagang asong matapat (askal man o asong bahay) gaya ni Thyler, actually aso ko rin si Taji at si Baghdad (Bagdad)

Panginoon
amo ng aso, kahit alaga sya ng buong pamilya..iisa ang tinuturing nyang amo.

Hangganan
property boundery (loob at labas ng bahay o bakuran)

Mga hayup at iba pang karakter
mga di welcome sa bahay ng master

ANNOUNCEMENT:

PLEASE LOVE and RESPECT THE FEELINGS of ALL DOGS!

"Paliguan nyo ang aso nyo kasi hindi niya abot ang sabon at tabo, ayaw rin nilang mabaho sila e."