Congratulations to Manny Pacquiao,
he just won again on his fight with Margarito… although the result of the
fights received certain questions and doubt still, Manny won, he just bagged
another Filipino pride.
On the other hand,
congratulations to all the Filipino athletes who just competed in the recent 26th
southeast asian games in Indonesia. The Philippines was in 6th place
(out of 11) with 36 golds 56 silvers and 77 bronze which comprises 169 medals
for the country. Most of Golds were under Taekwondo and Boxing with 4 each while
athletics contributes 16 medals for the country; 2 golds, 9 silvers and 5 bronzes,
they’re efforts are very much appreciated as Filipinos are happy with the honor
they just brought…
But wait, it seems like not all Filipinos
are happy with the Philippines standings in the SEA games… as I heard that
there are certain politician who were kind’a disappointed that they just bagged
6th place…
My eyebrows really raised on how
these politicians express their disappointments to Filipino athletes, well at
least they are calling the attention of the government to please maximize the
support on our athletes… but what makes my eyebrow raised was the fact that
they didn’t even support our athletes on their own, so what is their
prerogative on expressing their opinion then?
What I mean is that, Pacquiao had
a fight in las vegas last time wherein Filipino athletes were also having their
fights in Indonesia… but where’s our congressmen? Our governors? Our dear
senators? Our other political bodies? They all scattered in the arena where
pacquiao is, supporting what they call ‘filipino pride’ (if it is really the
real meaning of pacquiao’s fight for them) and none of them even went in Indonesia
to supports our athletes, well actually even our dear president (I think) never
had any personal encounters with these patriotic-heart players, even a simple
words of encouragement hasn’t been settled and yet they’re disappointed upon
what these athlete just brought to us? They should be disappointed of
themselves first I guess… because they never faced in front of the mirror first
before they utter unflattering words then… it is never been our athlete’s fault…
Paquiao just had a grand welcome party, but our SEA games athletes? I doubt.
My dear Filipinos, Pacquiao is
not the only Filipino who can bring honor to our country, there are still
numerous athletes who wanted to try everything just to bring us some pride and
make us proud, all they need is support.
I really felt some emphatic
feeling for our athlete for receiving these words of disappointment from those
who they expect will support them and will be proud of them at first.
Well, no matter what happened my
dear Filipino athlete, you were all heroes and I am so proud of you all and I know
that there are lot of people who felt the same way as I do.
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