Ang paninirahan sa Pilipinas ay pamumuhay sa panahon ng digma

Ang paninirahan sa Pilipinas ay pamumuhay sa panahon ng digma.


Kapiling ko sa paglaki ang pangamba,

hindi ko tiyak ang bukas na laging nakakawing




sa mga sasakyan sa kalyeng laging nag-uunahan,

masagi ka man ng tricycle lola, sorry na lang.




mga banketa na may bukas na pinto sa swelo,





mga balat ng saging na maingat na nilagay sa gitna ng lalakaran mo.




mga dura ni Tatay, mga ta-che ni Bantay.

Kinatakutan ko ang pag-iisa.



Sa pagiging buhay,

kaharap ko’y tagsalat.





Pagkat ang lupit ng digmaan

ay hindi lamang

sa paggulong ng mga ulo

o sa pagguhit ng espada,

kundi sa unti-unting pagkaubos

ng pagkain sa hapag.





Saan hahanapin ang susunod na kakainin?




Saan makakakuha ng pambili sa niresetang Amoxicilin?





Sino ang sisisihin sa kawalan ng malinis na tubig?





Walang sandaling

walang panganib.


Sa sariling tahanan,

wala ring katahimikan.

May umiiyak na sanggol sa iyong paanan,

meron ding crying baby sa likod ng dingding na iyong sinasandalan,






nawalan pa ng ilaw at syempre bentilador,




paano ngayon patutulugin si Junior?




Sa lansangan,

ang paglalakad sa gabi’y

pag-aanyaya sa kapahamakan.

Sa aking lipunan,

ang pagtutol sa kaapiha’y

paglalantad sa higit na karahasan.



Kay tagal kong pinag-aralan

ang puno’t dulo

ng digmaan.

Sa huli’t naunawaan,

na ang paninirahan sa Pilipinas

ay walang katapusang pakikibaka




para mabuhay at mangarap ng maraya.



Salamat kay Joi Barrios at sa orihinal niyang tula: Ang pagiging babae ay pamumuhay sa panahon ng digma para sa inspirasyon.

Bakit si Media Man ang sumbungan ng bayan? - updated

Inapi ka ba?

May umaway ba sayo?

Abusado ba barangay captain nyo?

Sawa ka na ba sa pulis na nangongotong sayo?



Isa lang ang solusyon sa problema mo!


Si Media Man!!!




Si Media Man ang puntahan ng mga na-agrabyado.




Ng mga naapi.

Ng mga naiinis sa sistema pero walang magawa sa asar nila.



Pano at saan ka magsusumbong kung ang pagsusumbungan mo ang sya ring gusto mong i-reklamo?

Saan ka pupunta?

Kanino ka magpapatulong?

Kanino pa? E di kay


Media Man!





Kay Media Man, di mo kelangang mag-file ng complaint.




Magsumbong ka lang, yun na, bahala na sya kasi Da best sya!


Ang kapangyarihan ni Media Man ay nanggagaling sa natural na takot ng tao na mapahiya.

Hindi kelangang ma-guilty ng inirereklamo mo.

Hindi rin nya kelangang makonsensya.

Hindi rin niya kelangang magsisi sa kasalanan niya.

Wala man siyang hiya, sisiguraduhin ni Media Man na ang nirereklamo mo ay mapapahiya.

Ang kelangan lang ay kunyaring magsisi siya, pakita niya lang sa radyo o TV na kunyari nakonsensya siya.

At voila! Magbabago na siya!

Hindi na magiging abusado si Kap! (hanggang alam niyang pinapanood at may nanonood sa kanya)

Hindi na rin mangongotong si Pareng Les-Pu (lalo na kapag inalis siya sa pwesto ng mga napahiya niyang superior).

Ang inirereklamo mo hindi na magha-hari-harian sa maliit nilang mundo.



Alam ni Media Man na pahiyaan lang ang labanan.

Ang pagbabago, kung meron man, eh hanggang balat lang at hanggang sikat pa ang programa na nagpahiya sa kanya. Pag hindi na sikat, don't worry. Wait ka lang until dumating ang next top program na dapat mo raw subaybayan.

Kaya wag kayong mag-alala dahil si Media Man, laging nandyan hanggang may gusto kang ipahiya!



Hindi ka niya pababayaan!

Tutulungan ka niya sa lahat ng suliranin mo! Tandaan mo yan maski Itaga mo pa sa bato.

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Now na!



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This is not you. This is you looking at you through someone else's eyes

This is not you.

You know your value does not lie on what someone else sees.




But you think it is.

You have learned to love seeing yourself like this.

You have learned to love the seeming feeling and sensation of being appreciated.




It fills and almost completes you.

But not fully.

Somehow, there is that something that leaves you still wanting for more.

So you go for more.

Ask for more.

Look for more.

Attach to more.

Until you fail to see

the fact that YOU are looking at YOU through someone else's eyes.






You are touching YOU not with your hand but with the image of someone touching you.




You are feeling you with the image of someone feeling you.




Your sensations and feelings are filtered from the eyes of someone other than you.



You are seeing the idealized version of you -

the version most want to see / prefer to see because it is easy.



Their image of you is culled from their imagination, not yours.

They think of you as what they think you ought to look and be.

It is an uneducated guess

but with already drawn-out conclusions that does not include your input.

They don't need your input.




They only want to see what they want to see.

What they think they should see.

They do not care what you think.

They only care that you think like them, see like them, feel like them - these make it easier for them to

make you think you want the same thing they do.



Do you?




Nothing will happen to you if you say No.

If you keep on believing what they tell you, nothing might happen to your life too.


But you can tell yourself that it is possible to bring your SELF back to you.

Minus the push and pull of your emotional clutter, you know it can be done.


You can bring yourself back to pleasing YOU.


Do find out

from whose eyes are you looking yourself at?


You do not need to think to be able to respond.

Just feel.

Touch.

See.

Hear.

Not through how you think someone else does.

But How YOU feel when YOU see YOU.

When YOU touch YOU.

When YOU see YOU.

When YOU hear YOU.


Then tell yourself, whisper to yourself what YOU have seen, felt, heard.

And maybe, in a glimmer of understanding, you will also understand why Megan Fox was fired from Transformers:

she expressed sincerely the tediousness of seeing herself from the eyes of 16-year old teens conditioned by Michael Bay - with the blessing of Steven Spielberg - to be narcissistic voyeurs.



She is no longer connected in any way, manner or form with the Transformers franchise because she stated the obvious.

Good for her.

Why Christianity is anti-RH Bill - (UPDATED)

The Reproductive Health bills, popularly known as the RH bill, are Philippine bills aiming to guarantee universal access to methods and information on birth control and maternal care.


"I am not paying special attention to Christianity, but it deserves it...It has been exploiting the poverty of people to convert them to Christianity. Yes, Buddhism has converted people, but not because people were hungry and you provided them food, and because you provided them food they started feeling obliged to you...

And those people are so obliged that they feel certainly no other religion has been of any help to them, and they become Christians. This is not an honest way, this is bribing people. This is not conversion, this is buying people because they are poor...

...Everywhere around the world, Christians have approached the lowest stratum. And the poor have ben there always; but to exploit their poverty to INCREASE THE POPULATION OF YOUR RELIGION is sheer politics - ugly, mean. Politics is a game of numbers. How many Christians you have in the world - that is your power. The more Christians there are, the more power is in the hands of Christian priesthood. NOBODY IS INTERESTED IN SAVING ANYBODY BUT JUST IN INCREASING THE POPULATION.

...Do you think they are interested in the unborn children? They are not interested, they have nothing to do with those unborn children...The whole interest is in bringing many more children into the world, many more orphans into the world. Make it so overcrowded, so poor, that Christianity can become the universal religion...This ambition is inhuman; and if I have been criticizing Christianity, it is not without reason."

"An Ancient Chinese story goes:

A man fell into a well. It was getting dark and his eyesight was not good, he was almost blind. The man starts shouting "Save me!"

Who is going to hear him?

A Buddhist monk passes by and hears the man. He looks down the well.

The man says, "It's good you heard me, I was afraid I was going to die."

The Buddhist monk says, "You're still going to die because this is happening due to some past life's evil act. Now you are getting punishment so accept it and be finished. It is good; in the next life you will start out clean and there will be no need to fall again in a well."

The man said, "I dont want any wisdom or philosophy at this moment.." But the monk had moved on.

Then, a Taoist comes by. He goes to the well to drink. The man cries for help.

The Taoist said, "This is not manly. One should accept everything as it comes - thats what Lao Tzu said. So accept it! Enjoy! You are crying like a woman. Be a man!"

The man said, "I am ready to be called a woman, but please save me first. You can say anything you want afterwards, first pull me out."

But the Taoist said, "We never interfere in anyone's business. We believe in the individual and his freedom. It is your freedom to fall in the well,, it is your freedom to die in the well. All I can do is make a suggestion: You can die crying, weeping - that is foolish - or you can die like a wise man. Accept it, enjoy it, sing a song, go. Anyway, everyone is going to die so what's the point of saving you."

A Confucian monk passed by the side of the well and he heard the noise of the man asking for help. The Confucian monk said to him, "Don't be worried. Our master, Confucius, has written in his books that every water well should have walls, and I am going to protest and force the government to create a protective wall around every well in the country. Don't be afraid."

The poor man said, "By the time you create the great uproar in the whole country and all the wells start having protecting walls, I will be dead. Just think of me first!"

"You are being selfish. You just want to be saved and waste my time which I can use for the whole of humanity" said the Confucian and promptly left.

The next man who came by is a Christian missionary. He was carrying with him a bag. When he heard the man's cries, he immediately opens his bag, takes out a rope, throws the rope down into the well."

The man is surprised, "Your religion seems to be the truest religion."

The Christian man says, "Of course, we are prepared for any emergency. Knowing that people fall into wells, I am carrying this rope to save them - because only by saving them can I save myself."

The man finally comes up and out of the well and says, "A Confucian who passed by says he will campaign to have protective walls around wells."

The Christian missionary says, "You shouldn't make protective walls around the wells; otherwise how will we serve humanity? How will we pull out people who fall in? They have to fall first, only then can we pull them out. We exist to serve but the opportunity must be there. Without the opportunity, how can we serve?"

All these religions talking about "service" are certainly interested that humanity remains poor, that people remain in need of service, that there are orphans, widows, old people nobody takes care of, beggars. These people are needed, absolutely needed. Otherwise, what will happen to all these religions and their teachings, and how will people earn the right to enter into the Kingdom of God?

These poor and suffering people have to be used as a ladder. Do you call it unselfishness? is this missionary unselfish? He is saving this man, not for this man's sake; he is saving this man for his own sake. Deep down, it is still selfishness, but now it is covered with beautiful words: unselfishness, service.

But why is there any need for service? Why should there be any need? Can't we destroy these opportunities for service? We can, but the religions will be very angry. Their whole ground will be lost if there is nobody poor, nobody hungry, nobody suffering, nobody sick. This is their whole business.

Service is a dirty word...Yes you can share but never humiliate people by serving them. It is a form of humiliation. When you serve somebody and you feel great, you have reduced the other to a worm, subhuman. You are so superior that you have sacrificed your own interests and you are "serving the poor" - you are simply humiliating them.

If you have something that gives you joy, peace, ecstasy, share it...When you share there is no motive...By sharing you will be tremendously fulfilled. In the very sharing is the fulfillment, there is no goal beyond it. It is not end-oriented. It is an end unto itself. You will feel obliged to the person who was ready to share with you. You will not feel that the person is obliged to you - you have not "served."


from Osho's The Book of Understanding

Imagine if this face was touched by a Cosmetic Surgeon

If this girl believed for one moment that her nose was not pointed enough, that her lips are too thick and that her skin is not fair enough and so allowed




Belo,




Calayan or




Ellen Lising to manipulate her face, bleach her skin, thin her lips as according to their standards,




would Ford Supermodel of the World 2011 embrace Danica Flores Magpantay?





Who knows? But Danica Flores Magpantay acknowledged, accepted and embraced her self and that is more than enough.

Moral Lessons na Tinuro sa`tin ng Mara Clara tungkol sa buhay, pag-ibig at panonood ng TV

Moral Lesson #1:

True Love means not having to say:

Kelangan kita.
I want to always be with you;
I can't live without you;
I want to have you;
Sakin ka lang.


Ang love-love-an nagdo-domina.

Si Gary, sinasabing mahal niya si Alvira pero ang intensyon niya talaga i-exploit, abusuhin, gamitin, dominahin siya.

Para kay Gary ganun ang pagkakaintindi niya sa love, wala ng iba. Ang love sa kanya laging may kapalit. Sa tingin nya, tama sya. Yung iba, mali. Yung sumasalungat sa sa kanya nagiging kalaban at kaaway na kelangang iligpit.

Bibigay niya kay Alvira ang lahat: pera, bahay, magandang buhay, pero feeling niya:
"Sakin ka lang kasi wala akong pakielam kung masaya ka, ang importante, ako ang masaya."

Ganun din sya kay Clara, ang pinain naman niya sa anak nya: pera at pagkakaroon ng buong pamilya na kasama si Alvira.

Pero just the same, di niya talaga mahal anak niya. Di niya kayang mag-mahal ng kahit sino.

Ang tingin niya sa lahat ng tao ay mga bagay lang na pwedeng i-manipula para magawa at gawin ang gusto niya. Kaya siya sadista.

At ang mga tao - para sa kanya - mapagkukunan lang ng supply - salapi man eto, atensyon, pag-ibig, pag-hanga, sex, awa, etc.

Pag hindi ito nabigay sa kanya o kung hindi man nya nakuha mula sa taong tina-target niya, paparusahan niya eto, pahihirapan at kung ano-ano pa.

High-level narcissist siya mga ate, kuya. Kung titingnan niyo mga ginawa at sinabi ni Many Gary, swak yun sa psychological criteria ng taong may NPD.

O diba, PSYCH101 lesson pa ang Mara Clara, bongga!

Kaya ganun ang pakiramdam ni Clara nung sinabi niya: "Sinasabi ni tatay mahal nya ko, pero bat pakiramdam ko mag-isa pa rin ako." kasi eto ang klasik at textbook na nararamdaman ng kahit sinong gumagalaw at nasa ilalim ng galamay ng isang may NPD.



Moral Lesson #2:

Ang true Love hindi attached o obsessed.

Believe it or not, diluted version ni Mang Gary si Christian, Clara at Alvira.

Maski gaano ka-cute, adorable, nice-looking ang tao, nawa'y matandaan nating lahat na ipasa-walang bahala ang kanyang sinasabi, ang kanyang itsura, ang kanyang damit at pansinin lang ang kanyang ginagawa.

Si Christian, sadly, para ring si Mang Gary.

Kasi, look and see, abusive din siya kay Mara.



Noong hindi nagustuhan ni Christian ang reaksyon ni Mara nung nasa school pa sila at niligawan niya ito - kasi sabi ni Mara friends lang daw muna sila - di ba dinedma niya si Mara? Ni hindi niya nga kunyari maalala pangalan niya.

At maski alam niyang naiinis na si Mara sa ginagawa niya, tuloy pa rin siya.

Isa pa, nung kelangang umalis ni Mara sa Maynila at lumipat sa Isla Verde, hindi tumigil si Christian hanggang di niya eto nakikita maski alam niyang pwedeng mapahamak si Mara dahil sa pagpunta niya sa Isla. At ganun nga ang nangyari kasi sinundan siya ni Clara tapos sinundan naman ni Mang Gary si Clara. Pero maski magkakagulo na, di pa rin siya umalis at bumalik sa Maynila.

Wag nyong sabihin na love na love niya si Mara kaya niya nagawa yun kasi hindi yun love. Attachment yun at possessiveness pa.

Kung totoong love ni Christian si Mara, hindi siya matatakot mawala eto sa kanya o makahanap ng iba. Kasi alam niya na hindi naman niya pag-aari si Mara. At nabubuhay si Mara para sa ikabubuti ng buhay niya, hindi para sa kanya. At kung totoong love ni Christian si Mara, hahayaan niya si Mara at magtitiwala siya dito - hinde niya gugustuhing alamin lagi kung nasaan si Mara at di niya pipilitin na isipin siya lagi nito.

Kapag attached ang isang tao sa isang tao, ibig sabihin ginagamit niya lang eto para sa sa sarili niya, wala siyang pakielam sa kapakanan nung isa.

Ang true love may committment hinde attachment. Pag may committment, ang kapakanan ng ibang tao ang pinahahalagahan.


Si Clara - syempre - may shades din ni Mang Gary.

Mahal ni Clara si Alvira kasi mayaman siya. Pag nakadikit siya kay Alvira, kadikit na rin niya ang pera at imahe ng kasosyalan nito.

Attached si Clara kay Alvira tulad ng attached siya sa limpak limpak na pera na nakatago sa ilalim ng kama niya. Sa impluwensya ni Gary, supply din ang tingin niya kay Alvira at umaasa din siya na magkaroon ng buong pamilya (pero etong huli ginagawa niya for display purposes only).

Di rin nakatulong na ini-spoil at sinanay ni Alvira si Clara sa sosyal na lifestyle. Kasi si Alvira, attached din kay Clara. So in fairness, bagay nga silang mag-ina.

Nung huli, nang di makuha ni Clara yung dating "supply" (attention, etc.) na nakukuha niya kay Alvira, kinuha niya ito kay Mang Gary. May bonus pa kasi si Gary meron na ngayong "money."

Si Mang Gary, nung nakita nyang nahihirapan siyang kunan ng "supply" at atensyon si Alvira, kinuha niya ito kay Clara. Kaya di ba nung huling linggo na ng serye aalis dapat sila ni Mang Gary? You and Me Against the World ang kanilang story.

Yung may mga NPD kung magpalit ng tao, parang nagpapalit lang ng maruming damit. Kasi hinde nga tao tingin nila sa tao, gamit lang.




Moral Lesson #3:


Hindi ibig sabihin ng pag-ibig ay bigay ng bigay.

Pa`no ka magbibigay ng pag-ibig sa iba kung di mo alam kung paano bigyan sarili mo?

Ang totoong pag-ibig alam kung paano mahalin ang sarili bago magmahal ng iba.
Pag alam na niya mahalin ang sarili niya, alam na niya kung paano dapat tratuhin ang iba.

Si Susan, si Aling Lupe, si Mara - lalo na nung umpisa - bigay ng bigay sa kung anuman ang gustuhin ni Mang Gary - para tumahimik na lang ba?

Pero tuwing ginagawa nila ito, binibigay nila kay Gary ang power para kontrolin sila, abusuhin sila, gamitin sila.

Yan tuloy, ginawa nga ni Gary yung di nila gusto.

Kasi ugali naman nina Susan at Mara swak sa characteristics ng classic codependent.

O yung mga nag-Psychiatric Nursing jan, what can you say? Isn't Mara Clara, so bongga ka dey?!

Buti si Mara nagbago nung huli. Lumaban na siya. Sadly, dala pa rin niya yung pagiging codependent ba?

Halimbawa, pinakulong niya nga si Gary pero nagpabugbog naman siya, may matching magmakaawa at paluhod-luhod pa.




Moral Lesson #4:


Ang life parang buhay at batang pasaway.

Uulit siya ng uulit hanggang di natin sya nage-gets.

Papakita niya sa iyo ang dapat mong makita maski ayaw mong tingnan o aminin na nandyan. Pag hinarap mo na ang dapat mong harapin, doon lang siya mag be-behave, doon ka lang niya papakawalan at doon mo lang siya mabibitawan.

Yan ang sagot nung tinanong ni Mara kay Susan: "Baket laging ang daming problema nangyayari satin nay?"

Ano nga ba ang gustong sabihin ng buhay kina Mara at Susan?

Sabi ng life: Mahalin nyo selves nyo girls! I-appreciate nyo selves nyo girls! Walang gagawa nun, hinde si Mayor o kahit sinong Poncho Pilato.

Yan ang regalo sa kanila ng pagkakaroon ng Gary sa life nila. Tinuturuan silang mahalin sarili nila di ayon sa standards ng iba kundi sa standards nila.



Moral Lesson #5:


Ang magandang palabas sa local TV – na sure na susubaybayan – hindi gumagawa ng caricatures kundi character archetypes **"archetypes are embodiments of behavioural stances that humans have developed over millennia, or are established patterns in nature."

Si Susan at Mara as the Martyr

Clara as the Wounded Child

Gary as the Destroyer

Aling Lupe as the Mother




Moral Lesson #6:

Good entertainment allows characters to evolve & change.

Parang totoong buhay, nagbabago ang tao depende sa nararamdaman at nangyayari sa kanila sa bawat okasyon. Kudos sa Mara Clara dahil hindi one-dimensional ang mga tauhan. Di tulad ng ibang Heneral dyan.



Di ba si Aling Lupe noong umpisa hate si Mara & Susan pero nung huli naging love na nya silang dalawa?

Si Mara dati passive tapos naging fighter-fighter-an.

Si Clara naman tinubuan ng konsensya - nag-nervous breakdown lang sa huli dahil sa trauma - temporary shock mula sa pagkaka-dis-attach niya kay Mang Gary, saka i-witness ba naman niya itsugi ang kanyang daddy, e di mejo sya na lurky.



Moral Lesson #7:

Good local entertainment is culturally correct..

..hinde yung mga konsepto na kinuha, hiniram sa mga palabas ng ibang bansa na ginupit gupit lang at dinikit AT pinilit ikasya sa local Philippine TV.

Ang kwento ng Mara Clara kuha mula sa mga kwento ng kapitbahay natin, pamilya natin, kamag-anak, barangay, komunidad at balita sa radyo, dyaryo at TV.

Of course Mara Clara is not perfect but it is sensibly entertaining & true to the Filipino's perfectly flawed & evolving culture.

Kaya na-nominate sya sa Banff World Media Awards sa kategoryang Best Soap Operas and Telenovelas.

Wha did i tell ya?! Di lang pang-local, pang-International pa! Confeermed, Mara Clara is so Bongga talaga.

Of course it's Twitter's fault a.k.a. Of course it's (fill in the appropriate scapegoat here)'s fault - updated

What would you do?

If

You're a big-talking dude who has had a year-long relationship with a comely woman (who could pass for a model/actress) but now wants nothing to do with you - for reasons only she knows, feels or has experienced.

To make matters worse, she has put boundaries on her self and established NO CONTACT by changing her phone number and coursing any communication made by you through her lawyer.

How could you possibly get through to her?

How could you possibly get her back?

Or at least, how could you possibly get her attention back onto you and YOU alone the way it - possibly - has always been during the whole duration of the relationship?

How could you infiltrate her head and make a dent in her heart enough for her to still THINK of you? It is irrelevant whether she gets hurt, humiliated or emotionally maimed in the process, the objective is for her to either be glad or MAD enough to initiate contact with you (in any manner, type or form).

After all, you really don't care about her. You don't really love her. In theory, you do. You tell her you do. You say the right things, buy her the right stuff. You even make sure that you are always communicating with her.

Even when you're not physically around her, you make sure your voice is heard in her head so that anytime she does something, she hears you in her head and think to herself, "well (place name of dude here) would say XYZ if I do this." In fact "no one else who knows her understands why you're with her."

You are attached to her not in a genuine & emotionally intimate way. You are attached to her through your sense of smell, sight, touch or sound. Maybe through the way her perfume smells or the way you see or remember the strand of her hair in your shower. That is why you need to be physically close to her or at least have her feel that you never emotionally left her (akin to her feeling emotionally haunted or hunted by you) because you lack the capacity for authentic empathy and you can only get the faint sense of closeness via physical proximity.

That is all you're really after anyway. She is your supply source. And her not speaking to you, not wanting to see you is similar to an alcoholic not getting his early-morning vodka fix. It is similar to a junkie getting 0 grams from an absent dealer.

And now you feel like a black hole. You feel sick. You are depressed. You are in cold turkey.

You now feel like a baby who is protesting loudly because she is not answering your need for a booty. That is why you're crying everyday.

You will do anything to get some thing from her. A text would be a good start. If she does text back, that means she still can and wants to speak with you somehow. Then maybe you can slowly manipulate her enough so you two can talk on the phone. If you can get her to talk to you on the phone, a physical meet-up is therefore highly likely. Slowly but surely. This thing takes time and energy - but it is all worth it.

But she still won't budge.

Oh wait, she's online!

Why haven't you thought about this before? She still tweets. She still responds to tweets. Maybe if you can get her to tweet anything or something about you, she will finally give you attention.

Calling her derogatory terms is too transparent, so screw that.

Now, think. What did she dig about you? Better yet, what did you show/tell her about you - that may not be necessarily true - which made her fall for you.

Did you show her romance? Then give her romance.

Did you show her how generous you are? Remind her how generous you were.

But why should you be good to her when she made you feel like hell? And who says you can't punish her while being romantic whilst ennobling yourself in everyone's eyes all at the same time? See, if she won't give you attention, get it from everybody else out of her expense. Use Twitter to pour all your narcissistic injuries out.

It's like hitting two birds using one social media tool.

So go! Tell her - and everybody else too - what you did for her, what you bought for her, what you were willing to do for her. Also, don't forget to tell her - and everybody else too - what she did to you, with you, for you. She bathed in your shower? Tell everyone! Did you kiss a lot? Count the ways she did and how.

If she still has healthy boundaries and refuse to talk to you, the least you could do is make her not forget you that easily. You could also include that in your tweet: "Please never forget."

If pressed and made to `fess up that you were suavely valuing and devaluing her, that you were destroying her life or that you were extracting revenge under the guise of wanting reconciliation, blame Twitter!
(or play the DUH card and say "I don't know").

Wasn't Twitter the sole entity responsible for broadcasting your dirty laundry?

If not for Twitter, no one could have read your tweets right?

If Twitter wasn't so damn popular, no one would have read or cared what you were saying about her, correct?

See, it's that easy. Denial of accountability and responsibility is that easy. That is your default position. Make sure you are exclusively focused on your self so you can look at yourself in the eye and honestly say "I never meant to hurt anyone" and you believe it as true.

But deep, not in your heart but, head - you know you're not really sorry or remorseful. If you were, you would care enough for her or the people left to clean up the mess you left. You know you're actions are inhuman but you don't feel guilt, only shame - because you are still not being paid attention to by the object of your obsession.

And finally pray too that she won't read this or your cover will be blown.

Pray too that you'll learn to enjoy misery because - at the rate you're going - you'll be there most of your life.

Ang Porsche ni Arnelli at ni Noy-P, bow

okaaaaaaay,


wag nyo ko i-hate


dahil -- thanks sa press release nila sa TV and tabloidy -- dalawang pa-min lang ang alam kong may Porsch-eee



wag rin sana ako i-hate ni Arnelli,


kasi di ko sinasabi na korek yung mga les-pu for extorting datung from U


because that's bad naman really and trulili


pero, subalit, ngunit, dapatpwat


you are driving a multi million dollar tsikot




in da middle of a third world countree




di kaya para kang kumain ng ensaymada nyan sa harap ng isang diabetic na pasyentiii?




di ko rin say na ride ka ng PUV


kasi kung di mo keri -- wag mo i-keri


pero admit mo ba na d presyo of the Porsche?


may pagka-rude or bastosche?


lalo na kung napapaligiran ka ng masa na kumikita ng more or less than P150 per everyday ?


pero see, i agree na if you have earned it, flaunt it.


but see mo ba din too


na others earn less than you?


and trulili it's not your fault na ganun sila,


pero see mo rin ba na it doesn't take much for anyone or you to not be rude?


and hoy PNoy! isa ka pa,


maski 2nd hand,


magkaibang pareho pa rin yan.



don't be bastos lang,


di dahil sa ikauunlad ng bayan,

di rin kasalanan na may ganyan kang sasakyan,


pero p're,



wala lang bastusan.


basagan lang ng trip siguro,


pero wala namang bastusan, yun lang.

Hail Willie (The Prayer)

Aba Ginoong Willie





Napupuno ka ng grasya






Ang mga network Diyos ay sumasaiyo








Mapapalad ang mga babae/lalake/bata/matanda/kaibigan na nababastos mo.










Bukod kang matulungin sa lahat, alam ng Diyos yan,







At pinagpala rin naman ang lahat ng nabibigyan ng barya mula sa bulsa mo







Santisima, Ina ng Ina, Wala daw siyang kasalanan




Lahat daw ng sinasabi niya ay totoo lang


Ipanalangin mo kaming laging umaapi, umaaway, tumitira sa `yo




Ngayon at kung ikaw man ay mawala sa mundong ito.





Amen.


Hail Willie
You are so full of grace
The network gods are with you

Blessed are you and Blessed are the men/women/children/senior citizens/friends touched by your rudeness
Blessed are the dole outs/hand outs you generously give out

And blessed are the fruits of your hard hosting work
Holy Mary Mother of God
Pray for us sinners who are constantly tormenting him

Now and until the hour of his death
Amen.

Sarah Kay: "I'm trying to tell stories only I can tell."

"..when I meet you in that moment, I am no longer a part of your future. I start quickly becoming part of your past. But in that instant, I get to share your present, and you get to share mine. And that is the greatest present of all. So if you tell me I can do the impossible, I'll probably laugh at you. I don't know if I can change the world, yet...This isn't my first time here, this isn't my last time here. These aren't the last words I'll share. But just in case, I'm trying my hardest to get it right this time around."

Willie Revillame will not change, ever. But we could.

What is Willie Revillame doing now that he hasn't done 5 years ago when his show Wowowee premiered in one of the largest TV networks in the Philippines?

How different is Willie Revillame now since the Ultra Stampede where - according to Marius Corpus, then Interior Undersecretary and lead investigator of the case - "thousands of people were made..restless by the Lopez-owned company because they were offered only a few raffle tickets..and..were exploited, manipulated, and treated like animals after camping outside the arena for days."

"Offering so few tickets to so many people can be likened to throwing a small slice of meat to a pack of hungry wolves. This triggered the stampede.."

Add to this the fact that - and I saw and heard this with my own ears and eyes - days before the Wowowee anniversary show in Ultra, Willie Revillame did entice, made an open invite and encouraged all willing and even unable people to flock to the Ultra grounds A-S-A-P because they will be giving out cash/money to the first few people lined up.


Whether or not I earned less than P100 a day or/and if I had the slight chance of winning or receiving P5,000 or more, I would have lined up too. How difficult would lining up for a whole day be?

The problem was, 30,000 other people thought the same thing. So off went & flocked 30,000 people to Ultra.

Approximately 30,000 people spent the day and night sleeping on the streets and 13,000 people naturally got rabid when they were told by Wowowee staff that the arena could only hold 17,000 of them.

"But we will raffle off P5,000 to 40 lucky persons to compensate for all your troubles." a Wowowee staff reportedly said.


According to Atty Ferdinand Lavin of the NBI, this move was already too late in quelling the people's rage of being made to hope and wait for nothing - which eventually happened anyway.

But this was merely icing on a doomed cake.

The GROSS and BLATANT error was Willie Revillame dangling on national TV the faint hope of an anthill turning into a mountain of money. He conveniently disregarded the fact that people will highly likely gather like moths to his flame. Or is that what he wanted?

Wasn't that the whole point of his shows - Willing Willie and Wowowee?

Why would Willie Revillame not want to see a ton of people going crazy over him, groveling over him, craving to catch a glimpse of him, sacrificing themselves for him?

He thrives in the glory of people's attention - bad and specially good.

Being a narcissist, he will always need someone or something to fill him.

This is the same reason why he encourages feelings of insecurity and lack within his staff because he feels the same way about himself. So why would he treat the audience any different?



He doesn't just want attention, he demands it. He would go to great lengths to milk enough of it or to control any situation just to get it.

He chooses anyone and everyone he finds bully-able: men, women, old people, the body of late Pres. Cory, children, his friends.







What is Willie Revillame saying, expressing, showing now that he hasn't said, expressed, showed before?


Why are we still watching him? Do we want to be included in his statistics?

‘Wowowee’ tragedy pulls up ratings of ABS-CBN shows
By KAYE VILLAGOMEZ
February 8, 2006, 8:00am

Grief and shock on the Ultra stampede earned ABS-CBN an upswing on the ratings race over the weekend.


Those who do watch him either feel lacking and insecure themselves so they are craving for him to fill their "emptiness" or are just as controlling and demanding as him - but will surely not admit to it.


See, Willie Revillame doesn't really care that you care or don't care on what he says or do. Either way, you're watching anyway. And that is all that should matter to him.

Boycotting his sponsors is an excellent move. But unless you do not want to let him go and if you still love to hate him, you are still paying him attention - literally.

So how do you stop the antics of a self-professed "savior of the masses," singer, millionaire, breasts-loving celebrity? How do you put a halt to the unbridled attention it un-rightfully deserves? Don't give yours.

Is the world ending?

Earth: No, I'm just starting.





2012 According to NASA:

Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world will end in December 2012.

Answer (A): Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012.

Q: What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in 2012?

A: The story started with claims that Nibiru, a supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is headed toward Earth. This catastrophe was initially predicted for May 2003, but when nothing happened the doomsday date was moved forward to December 2012. Then these two fables were linked to the end of one of the cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the winter solstice in 2012 -- hence the predicted doomsday date of December 21, 2012.

Q: Does the Mayan calendar end in December 2012?

A: Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen wall does not cease to exist after December 31, the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the Mayan long-count period but then -- just as your calendar begins again on January 1 -- another long-count period begins for the Mayan calendar.

Q: Could a phenomena occur where planets align in a way that impacts Earth?

A: There are no planetary alignments in the next few decades, Earth will not cross the galactic plane in 2012, and even if these alignments were to occur, their effects on the Earth would be negligible. Each December the Earth and sun align with the approximate center of the Milky Way Galaxy but that is an annual event of no consequence.

Are Filipinos conquering the world one song at a time?

Actually they are just singing, but "conquering" is a more dramatic word.

And it's a fact that we are everywhere and anywhere there is a microphone. Plus, it is easier and more fun to sing than do domestic chores, caregive, nurse, construct or do engineering work.

Ask Conrado Yanez, an OFW in Poland who made today's headline by singing and sounding like Louis Armstrong:



Does anyone know Louis Armstrong hearts Filipinos so much that he actually worked with one? See Danny Barcelona play the drums in Louis Armstrong's All-Stars band.




Thia Megia is apparently a Michael-Jackson-sound-a-like and a gentler, less forceful but just as powerful a singer as Charice.




Maria Aragon sings her version of Lady Gaga's song which she gets to sing live along with Lady Gaga in front of a large Toronto crowd.




And - unless it gets posted on YouTube, noticed by Ellen, supported by Oprah or watched by Gaga - there may be many many more singing Filipinos all over the world we do not know of.