“Oh my God!” my friends suddenly whisper when we are in the church for Sunday mass a while ago.
“Why? What’s wrong?” I asked
“He’s the man of my dreams” she said while starring on the alleged man and well he is cute, he is gorgeous and he can be her man of her dreams she’s telling.
I keep on laughing whenever I see my friend having a glance constantly to that guy and I also said “Cheap huh!?”
“You’re so mean” she just answered back but a girl suddenly seat beside that guy and had a kiss on the cheek too, I saw the scowl in my friends face right after. “Is she his girlfriend?” she asked, I did not answered back “I look better than her right?” her next question
I assessed the girl and yes, she’s right. The girl is not so pretty for a guy like his boyfriend.
“That’s how it goes. You can never blame them” I said. “You’re prettier than her, then be happy with that at least”
“Love is really blind!!” she mocked.
I was amazed that last statement, I suddenly wonder why there are people who’s almost perfect had a partner who’s almost their opposite? Are they satisfied with their perfection so they seek less perfect one. Why do we keep on dreaming for the perfect one with pretty face? Does it mean we are not perfect and we’re ugly?
The truth is that Love is not blind that way. Love is called blind whenever you can’t see the bigger picture beyond the reason you just believe for the sake of mutuality of feelings with you partner or a thing. The “Love is blind” statement of my friend is more literal, she believes that the man is blind because he can’t see the real appearance of his girl. But it’s his choice and we can’t always blame them. A man always has standards whenever seeking a partner and it so happened that this man find those with this lucky girl (haha do I really have to call her lucky?) and in return this girl will provide all the needs of this man and this man will do the same in return, and that’s love.
Love is not blind. It can see but it only doesn’t mind.
“Never get insecure, you will find someone who’s a lot better and is destined for you just wait patiently” I advised.
I whisper as if I’m talking to that guy “It’s your choice… but if you change your mind, I’m always here.. haha kidding”
And I also talked to the girl through my mind “You really had a long hair!! Share us your luck some time”
I regularly went to church as I never been routinely off there but as I passed the board exam, I’ve been a believer and it is now my devotion.
After I left every mass I feel very overwhelm and stronger as I know that words of God really helps me realize how to deal with life and how he was there whenever we are happy or not. I rode a jeepney who’s actually waiting for other passengers when suddenly a woman and her daughter caught my attention.
This woman carries her daughter to ride the said jeepney and I can say that she is having a difficulty carrying her child as it is already grown up, I only help them by lifting her daughters wheelchair up to the jeepney as well and I silently observed the situation.
The child is having an obvious disability and late aging illness like problem and as I assessed it is very similar to cerebral palsy. Her moves are uncoordinated, her hands were flexed, her eyes were rotating constantly and she salivates once in a while.
And I was touched. I was touched with the mothers effort to bring her child to church no matter how hard it is; lifting her and her wheelchair to the jeepney, and giving her needs and with those efforts I never heard any repentant words from the mother as others may say “ang hirap” (it’s hard) or “anu ba ang ginawa ko bakit ka nagkaganyan anak?” (what have I done for you to deserve this?) but smile.
I never grow up with my mother’s responsibility and I really never know how a mother’s love could be. But with just looking at the lovely mother and child liaison on that jeepney, it seems like I felt my mothers love to me all of a sudden.
It is really hard to be a mother. It seems like when your child is having trials, the effect on you is doubled and it is worse than being in your child’s situation. What I really want to say is that “Love your mother” because we can never tell how much time they’re still having in this world or maybe how much time you still have in this world. A mother is always ready to care and nurse you when all else fails.
A good friend of mine leaved the country to work abroad, actually it is in Singapore to earn better than what our nation can offer and it so happened that I wanted to go to Singapore since then as I am so amused of its nice feedbacks regarding the beauty of the country. So I always keep on telling her to find me a job there, much better if it is related to my course which is nursing so I could travel and earn bigger at the same time.
Until one time I received a message via email inviting me for an interview to work in there (Singapore) as a Sales Supervisor in a famous brand shop of bags and I never had a second thought but try so I hurriedly prepare all the requirements e.g. Resume, whole body picture, close up and of course myself and went to the said agency the following day. It is actually raining but it never stopped me as I really believe that it is the job I really wanted.
The front desk officer entertained me and gave me a piece of bond paper where in it stated there the terms of salary and so as the placement fees but when I saw the minimum duration of contract which is 2 years I suddenly stopped and it made me think of things I never use to think before I get there… my family, my friends and my hometown.
I will definitely miss my hilarity and funny moments with my friends, I will definitely miss my shopping flash at trinoma or in any various S.M Malls, I will definitely miss my sister, I will miss my dog, I will miss my room, I will miss bar-hopping-bonding moments with my friends every weekends, I will miss monthly film watching with my them too, I will miss my sisters scrumptious Filipino dishes, I will definitely miss the fresh ambience of our plants, trees and flowers surrounded village and many more… I will definitely miss everything I am used too. So I backed out.
I was mute when I’m going home, I’m depressed. Not because I didn’t grab the job, I got depress because I was afraid of losing everything I had. I’m not that strong, so I don’t wanna leave my strengths aside and I wanna stay. I’ll just work here no matter how hard it is, what important is that I’m happy and I wanna be forever happy.
I suddenly valued everything around me because I want to treasure them for the rest of my life. They’re the one who gave me strengths and they’re the one who gave me hope and let me be where I wanted to be.
I salute every OFW (Overseas Filipino workers). I’m so proud of their inventiveness to work in other country just for the sake of better living. I know how hard it feels before leaving, what more when you are there for 2 years or more?
I contacted my friend (the one who’s working in Sg) that I didn’t sign the contract a while ago. She understands me, she said she’ve been into that confusion before but she doesn’t have a choice. But I said I still want to go to Singapore only for travel and good news, she’ll pay for my ticket to get there once I have my passport. Yey!!!
I still can recall that when I was in grade 6 I wasn’t able to construct a good English grammar, I even don’t know how to use pronouns such as Him/his and her properly. I was roughly scolded by my English teacher when I’m in 1st year high school because of my essay where in you can’t really hit upon the real point because of my poor English grammar and I always laugh whenever I take a look of those things then, but I didn’t just laugh about it, behind those laughs are the determination to improve my skills and make it all perfect.
I always envy my co-students whenever I read their English articles which leads me to impression, I really don’t know if I’m just unintelligent or it’s just I didn’t focus on studying other language when I was younger (well, my father is an engineering graduate; so we are focused on mathematics rather). But I never considered it as the end, I practiced constructing things and in less than a year I’m confident enough to join Journal competitions e.g. Essay writing and poem writing contest and so as the news casting contest in school, I also joined our school chronicle with literary as my focus and was given an award both in high school and in college.
I didn’t pursue nursing path after I passed the board exam; I have to earn first so I took the risk of entering the other industries. I was hired in a call center company after some trials but I quit after my sister’s accident then after taking care of her and settling things down I tried another line of job and I was hired to tutor English language to Korean students but as of now, I didn’t signed the contract yet as I was having a second thought after I heard the news of a Korean Icon who insulted Filipino English.
Korean actress Lee da Hae (the star in “My Girl”) insulted Filipino English through his guest appearance in a TV show where in their topic is how different countries pronounce English. She executed English and British Accent with grace and sophistication but made Filipino English accent hilarious without even considering that Filipino people provides English school for her co-Koreans.
The said actress wants Youtube to remove her video about insulting Filipinos after the incident after her apology on twitter that she really didn’t mean it.
Well if I’m an English teacher of Korean students then they can’t blame me if I lost my desire on teaching them knowing that I was being disrespected by their Icon, instead of a simple appreciation on my hard works to make her countrymen improved in this kind of particularity. My suggestion: A Public apology from Lee da hae and suspension for the both artist and the show (just like what happened to showtime after Osang’s incident).
I never needed to teach certain nationality without any appreciation on my hard works and effort but insults instead. I never intend to improve my English just to be insulted by a person whose happen to benefit from me too. I did a story telling first as I wanted everybody to realize that there are lot of Filipinos who’s better than me, a lot better than me in grasping English, and that no one has the right to insult any Filipinos hard work.
To all Filipinos; we know who we are and its right to react on this matter, it constantly hurts whenever unappreciated and all we can do now is to let them eat their words someday and be always humble.
Here's the alleged video and be the judge.
Lee da hae also apologized through her twitter account saying
"First I'd like to give you my sincere apologies for what seems to be a misunderstanding.
It has come to my attention that many of you from the Philippines have posted comments protesting that i was being derisive by mimicking Filipinos when they speak English.
Therefore, in light of this matter I'd like to take this opportunity to clear the air. In spite of what many people believe, I myself did NOT mention anything about the Philippines or Filipino accent whilst on the TV show.
On the other hand I recall bringing up Southeast Asia and not the Philippines and the subtitles were inserted when the show was being edited of which I was not aware of until it was aired.
The TV show where this footage was taken from was designed to amuse its audience and my sole purpose was to entertain the viewers by coming up with lighthearted stories.
Since the producer knows that i speak English he asked me if I could share any episodes that touch upon the English language.
As we all know every country has a typical accent when its people speak English (including myself) so after giving it some thought, I came up with a few lines where I simply tried to compare different English accents: the somewhat rigid British accent and beginners in Southeast Asia whose English tends to be a little hard-edged. No pun or ridicule was intended.
As an individual who use to take English classes over the phone with a Filipino instructor, I give you my word that even the mere thought of mocking Filipinos would never cross my mind. I cannot tell you how much Filipino fans mean to me and as much as I love them, I would in no way hurt or upset them.
I hope I have clarified any misunderstandings and once again I am truly sorry if I inadvertently hurt anyone's feelings.
-i really love you, my Filipino fans."
But filipinos, including me seems to never mind all the apologies. The damage is done and it made a bad and humorous impression to all filipinos so I guess it's really too late to say sorry. We must always think of the consequences of our every action.
Nowadays, it seems like money is the most essential thing in this planet, because with enough money; you can have everything you’ve wanted: food, water, shelter, luxury etc. and worst, with its sufficiency it can also buy any individuality.
As money increases its sought importance the higher its demand and it’s not that easy to make money. It’ll take a lot of effort to get it on clean ways while it takes a lot of intelligence to get it on dirty tactics and if you don’t have both then think of the other options scattered just for the sake of having money.
Show me a man who doesn’t need any money and I’ll tell you how he will never live. It’s not that I’m being money-headed or ‘mukhang pera’ but it’s the bitter truth of this world because money makes it go round.
Money can easily destroy everything. With enough money you can destroy a land, you can destroy a nation, you can destroy the world, you can destroy everything even a single individuality because with enough money you can reveal anyone’s real identity.
There are lots of people whose only there for you because you have plenty of money and the saddest part is that some of them are the people you never expected to be one. They’re only your friends because they’ve something to suck up on you but when it’s your turn to suck on them, they’re the one who voluntary hit you on the ground and leave you helplessly. Simply because money is very powerful as it’s all in the Money... Money will tell you who your friends are: Friends when they need you or Friends when you need them.
It’s not always healthy to have plenty of money. Even if you only have few circles of friends at least you know that they’re all true to you. And if you have plenty of bucks now then you should be cautious and wise enough on how to deal with it because Money is dirty don’t let it contaminate you.
