Fruits of Labor

Dear insansapinas,

When people I met asked me how many tsikiting gubats I have, I said I got five. The eldest among them is a daughter of an in-law who I promised to take care before the mother  died of heart attack. In fact there were four daughters  who got to live in my house but there is only one who finished College, a nursing graduate. Others got married when they were still minor. Kinukuha ng ama at tapos hindi na ibabalik. Only two stayed. The other one did not go to College because she had already a fiance at that time she came to my house. The fiance became the husband where I was a ninang in their wedding in absentia. He is very helpful in the maintenance of my house in the Philippines. I also considered her as another daughter.



Last Saturday, the nurse-daughter  came to visit me. She now lives in England with the husband who appreciated how I brought up his wife including my strict rules for suitors for  the girls to which he subscribed to when he was still in the courting stage. Short to calling me bitch because of my pushing them to study hard  they were distant from me. I believed then that it is only the  way I can help the girls instead of giving them doleouts forever or whenever they asked for help.

When she graduated, I did not attend the ceremony. I asked her to invite her father to be the one to attend the graduation ceremony.


When I left for the US, she had just graduated and was looking for a job. I gave her the task of overseeing the household while I labor here in the Land of Milk of Honey.


I told her that I am not expecting her to pay me back for all the expenses in her study but I asked her to pay forward. It was her turn  to help her siblings the moment she got employed. Her father was a no good, drunkard widower who spent the money she received from relatives as gifts for her graduation on a drinking binge with his relatives/barkada. He celebrated the graduation of her daughter. Duh.


The good or bad news depending on which side you hear it from is she brought already her no good father to England where he is receiving welfare. Sarap buhay di ba.


I was happy to see her succeed and helped her family. When she left, she gave some perfume other pasalubongs to my sister.


She did not give me even a single small perfume or a few pieces of that precious Pound sterling as help for my meds and doctors.


Sabi ko, bakit ako palagi ang walang pasalubong o walang regalo even in the important dates of my life from people whose lives I touched. Isa lang yan.


My friend said that my help could be priceless that they could not think of an amount that is enough to pay me back. (may hinala ako sa kaibigan ko na kampi sa kanila).  So hindi nila alam ang halaga ng regalo na ibibigay nila sa akin. Kahit na isang plastic ng dari creme? bwahahah.



Pero gusto ko rin namang maranasang tumanggap ng regalo. Di va. Totoong tao rin ako. Biglang pose ala Kris .



(Singhot). Huwag kayong maniwala sa emo ko. Hindi ko matatalo si Kris pagdating diyan. Youtube nga please.


Pinaysaamerika

Clueless

Dear insansapinas,

Noynoy Aquino asked the public to give Kris Aquino and James PRIVACY regarding the "panunugod " thing.. What? Is he looking at Kris Aquino ? Is he saying " READ MY LIPS, shut up and solve your marital problem without the media broadcasting it all over the archipelago that designed the "Laban" T-shirt".


Pano na lang ang kaniyang teleserye na pinopromote? Paano na lang ang mga focus ng camera pag siya ay nag-eemote. PAANO NA LANG ANG RATING NG EXPLOSIBO AT EXCLUSIBONG BALITA NG The Buzz?


Clueless ba talaga si Noynoy? Hindi ba niya kilala ang kanyang kapatid? DUH.


I am wondering what my previous co-employee is thinking now. She was the fiancee of a basketball star when the top celebrity endorser was making " flirt" as a spoiled daughter of a President.


Sinunog niya lahat ng regalo ng player at nagmigrate siya sa US.




Pinaysaamerika

Do not do this at home

Dear insansapinas,


A person related to me by affinity died two weeks ago. She had just retired and planned to stay in the Philippines for good where she had bought  properties out of her earnings from a housekeeping job in the US. She was also diabetic and hypertensive. In fact she had already a by-pass years ago.


She went home to the Philippines for a vacation before she packed all her belongings and say good-bye yo her relatives in the US. Unknowingly, that was her last good-bye.


Upon coming home, her relatives in the province convinced her to discard her maintenance prescription pills for her diabetes and high blood pressure and used the herbal supplements that are popular in the Philippines. Outside the US, she is not entitled to Medicare or other State funded health insurance that subsidizes cost of meds, hospitalizaton and out-patient doctor consultation. Whatever meager pension that she is receiving would be spent on her health care needs.


After nine months, she must have felt good...what with the testimonials of the people who are into this kind of business and the endorsements of some celebrities about the effectiveness of the supplements.


There is one popular celebrity who is endorsing supplements for his diabetes. Was this the same celebrity who had a contraption attached to his body that automatically shoots insulin when his blood sugar level is abnormally high or low?


The relative died. The doctor identified her untreated diseases as the cause of death.


I remember when I moved to the East Coast and was in-between doctors and pharmacists. Upon learning that I had been scrimping on my meds aka taking half only so I can stretch the prescriptions until I get a new one, my new doctor panicked. He did not waste time giving me prescriptions and urged me to get them PRONTO and come back for more evaluation of my blood and other lab tests.


I conclude therefore that once you got maintenance meds, you're hooked, otherwise, you are facing the risk of health deterioration.


Pinaysaamerika

Roll Eyes

Dear insansapinas,

pic from Manila Standard

Debatable. Senator Richard Gordon appears unconvinced by the answer given by Senator Manuel Villar Jr. as administration candidate Gilberto Teodoro Jr. listens during a forum with presidential candidates at the Asian Institute of Management in Makati City. EY ACASIO

I like this pic during the Presidential debate sponsored by the Carlos Romulo Foundation last Thursday.

I believe that there's nothing new about the declarations, statements and responses of the three candidates that I did not hear from the previous candidates who had campaigned, were or were not  elected, was  booted from office or had stepped down from Malacanan when it was time for them to say adieu. 

But Dick Gordon's tingin-sa-itaas-parang-nagsasabing-oh-please-spare me in response to Manny Villar's 

reaction to the questions raised by the audience/panel is really PRICELESS.

Buti walang roll eyes katulad noong debate ni Obama at ng kalaban niya.

Pinaysaamerika

Kris Aquino sinugod ang bagong girl friend ni James

Dear insansapinas,

Ayan parang tabloid ang dating ng title ko, kasi pang tablod talaga ang balita.

Show biz celebrity Kris Aquino confronted a female fan of her husband, basketball star James Yap, shouting insults at the woman and her mother just outside their upscale Pasig City residence late Wednesday, the Inquirer learned Thursday.


The popular TV host and movie actress spent about 10 minutes at the gate of the Valle Verde 2 home of Mayen Austria, 35, according to Austria’s uncle, Gabby Lopez (no relation to the ABS-CBN chair).

Ayaw kong marinig ang rason na totoong tao lang si Kris kaya siya nanunugod. At phluease huwag ninyong banggitin ang alibi na she's just in the neighborhood so she decided to drop by. Gasgas na yan.


Isa ang tao ay hindi nanunugod lalo na kung mataas ang pinag-aralan at may pangalan na inaalagaan.


Kaya nga ba ng sinugod ng aking kaibigan ang mistress ng kaniyang asawa, muntik ko na siyang ipagngudnguran nang siya ay umiyak nang tuluyan na siyang iwanan ng lalaki.


Lalong napapahiya ang lalaki at ang babae naman whether fan o girl friend nga siya nakukuha ang simpatiya kaysa sa asawang palengkera.


Boy Abunda came to the rescue

But according to TV host and Aquino’s best friend Boy Abunda, she was “very cool and polite” during her encounter with Austria, Yap’s rumored girlfriend.

Hellow. As always, mali o tama, palaging ipagtatanggol ni Boy si Kris. As if paniniwalaan naman siya.


The mere fact na siya ay nandoon sa bahay ng babae ay isa ng indikasyon na she's lookimg for war. Ang matinong babae would have invited the rumored girl friend to a quiet, neutral place where she can impress to the woman that she knows that there is something going between her and her hsuband and she is not the last to know. A very predictable response would be denial but she has to realize that resolving this kind of problem is not made in one sitting.


The truth came out


When the news that the couple had a spat before Christnas Kris used again her mother's death as a reason for her depression. Hellow, pwede ba.


Ito ang katotohanan:

“She said they almost split up in December and that they were separated for weeks

Mirror, please



Kris Aquino was heard to say this to the mother of the girl:

“(Aquino) also shouted at her (Minna): Anong klaseng nanay ka? Anong klase ang palaki mo sa anak mo? (What kind of mother are you? What kind of upbringing did you give your child?)” the source said.

Buti na lang at naging Presidente ang kaniyang nanay kung hindi baka marami ring babaeng sumugod sa kaniya noon.


Abunda said:

“I understood why Kris did it. I would’ve done the same thing. It was unfair to say that Kris quarreled with the girl. She spoke with caution and temperance. It’s just that with what’s happening between them, she thought that if there was a problem, hindi na n’ya palalakihin pa (she won’t blow out it of proportion). She would like to nip it in the bud.”

Eh lalo nga niyang pinalaki. Naghanap ng mga negative na balita ang kalaban ni Noynoy, palagay ninyo, paliligtasin ang pagtataray ni Kris?



Sabi ni Kris, she's just protecting her territory.
Parang kagaya ng cygnet na ito na ang pic ay kuha sa MSNBC.

No trespassing.

A cygnet defends its territory against a playful dog at the Virginia Water Lake in southern England

Pinaysaamerika

Dalawang Doctor

Dear insansapinas,

Bago ako lumipad sa lugar ng kapatid ko ay siniguro ko muna na ang doctor na irerekomenda niya ay malapit lang.


Sabi naman niya ay sa kabilang kalye lang. Hige.


May isa akong doctor na medyo malayo at para makapunta roon baka ang aking stress level pointer ay umigkas-igkas ng paitaas bago ako matingnan.


Unang appointment ko noong Miyerkules. Sakay kami ng kotse. Dumaan sa isang bloke, ikalawang bloke, ikatlong bloke...parang nagdadrive kami sa Rodeo Drive. Sabi ko akala ko sa kabilang kalye lang.

Kabilang kalye nga ang bahay niya pero ang kaniyang clinic ay 15 minute drive. Stupid me nga naman. Toink


Ganoon pala siya talaga kasi noong isang araw naman ay nagyaya akong bumili ng coconut water. Sabi nya nandiyan lang, sabay nguso sa labas ng bahay.Wala naman akong nakitang tindahang malapit dahil wala namang tindahan sa lugar na iyon na residential.


Sumakay pa rin kami ng kotse. Husme, kasinlayo  pala ng dulo ng daigdig ang pupuntahan namin.

Kaya ngayon, pag sinabi niyang malapit lang, pinasusulat ko kung ilang kilometro at gaano katagal kaming makakarating doon.


Inisip ko tuloy na dapat yong isang doctor na babae ang kinuha ko.


Kagabi may bisita ako. Kuwentuhan. Yon daw Doctor (insert name) ay biglang nag-alsa balutan at iniwang ang asawa sa clinic nila. Wala nang balikan.


Kung siya pala ang nakuha ko purnada ang aking  gamutan.


Pinaysaamerika

Presidential Debate- OFW issue

Dear insansapinas,


Isa sa mga tanong sa debate na ginanap sa AIM  
ay ang issue ng mga OFW.


Si Gibo Teodoro at si Manny Villar ay para sa pagsuporta sa mga OFWs habang si Dick Gordon ay para sa pananatili ng Filipino sa Pilipinas.


Hindi ko narinig kung paano niya gagawing posible yon dahil sa mga sumusunod na dahilan:


1. In demand ang mga Pinoy sa abroad
2. Magaling na trabahante ang mga Pinoy
3. Inggitero ang mga Pinoy - woops - Totoo naman. Sa isang baryo o bayan, pag may nakapag-abroad, asahan mo may mga maiinggit na sisikapin ding magapagabroad dahil marahil udyok ng magulang, anak o kaibigan.


4. Ang mga kamag-anak na nakapag-abroad ay pipilitin nilang sumunod ang mga kapatid, anak, pinsan, magulang, apo at kaht ampon.


Ito ay hindi lang sa Pinas kung hindi sa ibang bansa rin kung saan ang paghihirap ay hindi problema.


Pinaysaamerika

Haiti Earthquake in Video

Dear insansapinas.


How did it look when the earthquake collapsed a building in Haiti.



Pinaysaamerika

Si Rosanna Roces-What is in a name?

Dear insansapinas,

Ang pangalan ko po ay Katerina Esperanza Caridad Gonzales Angeles y San Francisco. Hingal.  In short Cathy.

Ganiyan ang isusulat mo noong kapanahunan ng Kastila pero noon hindi pa kasing higpit ngyon na kailangang may birth certificate ka  pag nag enroll ka sa eskwela. Ngayon, ultimong comma, period saiyong pangalan o maling ispeling ay kailangang padaanin mo sa korte o request sa Civil Registrar para mabago.Pag nag-abroad ka ang hihingin nila ay opisyal na copy galing sa Statistics Office o kaya ay original birth certificate na authenticated ng NSO. Noong araw kasi, may mga magulang na nagpetisyon sa kanilang mga overaged na anak (over 21) na pinabata sa pamamagitan ng pagbago ng birthday sa birth  cetrtificate na nakukuha sa CM Recto. Kaya noon may nakilala akong isang Pinay na nang tanungin ko kung ilang taon na muntik nang maibuga ko ang aking iniinom na kape nang sabhin niya ang kanyang edad.


'Day. mas matanda pa siya sa humukay ng Ilog Pasig kung bibilangin mo ang pileges sa kaniyang mukha. Isang Pinay ang bumulong sa akin na pinabata raw yon nang walang tulong si Vicky Belo ng sampung taon.

Tapos tinatawag nya akong Ate? Nangangalisag ang balahibo ko. Ngiiiii



Balik tayo sa What's in a name Rosanna?



Noong World War II, superpinoy hero (pahiram, silver) ang aking super lolo sa aking tatay side. Wanted sila ng mga Hapon. May nakapatong na pabuya para sa ikahuhuli nila as guerilla na walang takot bumaba sa bayan para patayin o tambangan ang mga Singkit. Parang pelikula. Pero hindi sila nagpagawa ng kamiseta na may tatak ng mapa ng Pilipinas. Aroroy.  Anong kinalaman nito kay Rosanna Roces? Patience my dear, aabot tayo diyan.

Nagpalit sila ng apelyido para hindi sila mahanap ng mga naghahanap sa kanilang  mga sundalo at sibilyan na dakpin ang malaRambong lahi namin. AHERMM.   Ang Spanish sounding surname namin ay naging pangalan ng dalawang tao na kami lang yata sa Pilipinas ang mayroong ganoon apelyido. (Naaah, hindi BagongGahasa o Bagong Gising). Basta.


Nang ako ay nasa College, pumusta ako sa aking mga kaklase na wala silang makukuhang pangalan sa telephone directory. WAGI. BEH.


Ngayon ay isang bata na lang sa fourth generation ang may ganoong pangalan. Ang mga lumabas kasing apo sa tuhod at apo sa talampakan ay mga babae. WAhhhhh.


Ganoon din si José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda na nagenroll sa Ateneo na ginamit ang JoseProtacio Rizal imbes na buong pangalan dahil sa takot ng kapatid niyang si Paciano na malaman ng mga Katsila na sila ay magkapatid. OO mga kafatid si Paciano talaga ang masigasig noon na lumalaban sa kabuhungan ng mga Katsila pero ni minsan ay hindi siya ang naparangalan.

ITO SIGURO ANG GUSTO NI ROSANNANG ISAGOT NG KANIYANG ITINANONG.


Anong kasalanan ni Rosanna Roces?


Hindi kasalanan ni Rosanna ang eencourage ang mga bata na magbasa hindi lang ng librong kanilang textbook at ang magtanong sa teacher. Ako rin ay madalas magbigay ng assignment na wala sa libro. Aty may titser ako noon na wala talaga sa libro ang assignment kaya ang National Library sa akin a naging pasyalan ko. AHERM. Bakit ba ang kati ng lalamunan ko. 

Hindi rin naman kasalanan ng mga  teacher kung hindi nila alam yon dahil hindi naman sila computer o encyclopedia na maiibigay ang kasagutan ng lahat nang itatanong. 


Ang mali ni Rosanna ay turuan ang mga batang idisrespeto ang mga titser kapag hindi ito nakakasagot ng kanilang tanong.




Lalo may mga istudyante  kasi na para lang makapagyabang o makatawag pansin o kaya ay hindi sila matawag, ginagawa nila ang ganitong pagtatanong. Minsan gusto mo ring batuhin ng eraser (whoops nagbabasa ba ang MTRCB) dahil sa pasaway.


Marahil gusto ng magpasikat ni Rosanna may alam siya kahit wala siyang mataas na pinag-aralan. Ganoon ang mga kaunti ang alam. Makabasa lang ng isang bagay na akala nila ay malaking bagay gusto nila itong ipamarali at the expense of some people.


Ano ang kasalanan ng Programa

Ang mga producers at ang istasyon ay may obligasyon na maging maingat sa mga pangyayaring gumagamit ng mga bulgar na salita o nag-iinsulto sa kapwa.


Sa Estados Unidos, ang network ay pinapatawan ng multang mahigit dalawandaang libong dolyar para sa isang mura na sinabi ng panauhin o ng staff. Hindi kailangang suspendihin ang buong programa. Dapat pinatawan sila ng multa.


Ang Opinyon


Naiinis ako kapag nababasa ko na gagamitin ang freedom of expression para lang masabing entitled ang tao sa kanilang opinyon.


Ang opinyon ay hindi kasali ang pagmumura at pag-iinsulto sa ibang tao dahil kung may karapatan ang isang tao na  magsabi ng kaniyang opinyon, may karapatan din ang ibang tao na hindi mainsulto o mabastos.

Malabo ba?


In a polite and civil society, hindi nagmumurahan o nagtuturo ng pambabastos sa mga bata ang mga taong may access sa media.


Pinaysaamerika

Fake Friends for Sale and Ghost Followers

Dear insansapinas,

In the privacy of our e-mail discussion about the mother who counted more than five thousand friends in her social networking sites and informed her "friends" half an hour after her young son drowned in the family pool and few minutes in between her last twitting before the tragedy happened, I felt that it was kind of weird. Some of these friends reprimanded her for giving priority to the updating of her site than grieving for the dead son.  Others justified her excuse of being alone  to spend most of her waking hours in the social sites to meet people. Lest I will be accused of it-is-true-to-me-and-therefore-it-should-be-true-to-everybody, there was a time when I hardly touched my pc at home when a relationship went sour and a friend who I met in the internet died . The pc in the office was tweaked  for the use in  the accounting transactions only.



Some people have a tendency to treat the people that linked them as their "fans" and therefore it gave them the I-am-bound-to-update -my-FOLLOWERS-to-inform-them-of-my-current-status-so-what-if-it-is-just-about-the-little-sandwich-I-ate-for-breakfast feeling. Methinks that it  gives them  a false sense of popularity just like those bloggers who regarded themselves as political analysts after writing  a few articles about politics.
DUH.


Lately, there were comparisons of the number of friends of the presidential candidates in their Facebook account-- trying to impress the image that those with more friends have a bigger chance of winning in the election.


Not many knew that just like traffic in the websites or blogs, virtual friends  can be bought  from enterprising internet savvy people. An Australian company is offering 1000 friends in the Facebook and Twitter account for 125 pounds.

Leon Hill, its 24-year-old chief executive, reported a surge of inquiries about his service over Christmas.
He told The Sun: "Social networking sites can be cruel if you're unloved – they show exactly how popular you are.
"People are buying pals so they have more mates to chat to, rather than sitting alone on their PCs.

 Fake friends anyone?


Pinaysaamerika

Expiry Date

Dear insansapinas,
A person I know donates canned goods which have already expired. My mother-in-law used to take the meds beyond one year expiry date. She said that it was still good a year after.


I was eating my steak the other week when I noticed that the steak sauce has a 2009 expiry date. Masarap pa rin but the mere thought  that food that had expired could become poisonous or toxic, I developed a stomach discomfort. If it was toxic, I could have been vomiting and feeling red and hot all over.


But the idea of the blog is not to brag that I-am-making-dildil of steak with some mashed potatos, green beans and yellow corn. Sabihin pa ninyo ang totoo na mayabang ako.


The point is the proposed expiry date of marriage proposed by a party list group of women. 
Like my usual question to my students, I would also like to ask the group, why ten, why not one, why not five or 8 or 9? Where did the number come from?


If it is trial marriage, ten years is too long for both couple to know what's wrong with their partner and why the idea that one can change the other is just a "love-niya-ako-and-he will-change-so- as- not- to- lose-me" is only a fraction of an inch true.


If this law is approved, the couple would not be able to remarry not until their church marriage is annulled too assuming that they also had walked the aisle lined with thousands worth of flowers and covered with red carpet. .


When the marriage "catastrophe" happens (definition: when every time, the couple communicates and there is an exchange of thuder and lightning; when UFO like round plates invade the kitchen, dinng room, living room as the couple try to hit each other and when the house became a traffic less street between rooms, years before the expiry date a year or two of their married life, should they wait for 10 years to move on with a new legal partner?


What about those couple who have lived happily ever after? 




Pinaysaamerika

The Feeling of Being Alone and Useless

Dear insansapinas,
I had just closed my eyes to have a shuteye when the phone rang. Again. It was a friend from the university. 


One of our colleagues passed away. Darn, why am I getting the bad news?


He broke his heart when his wife of many years contracted Alzheimer's and was sent to a nursing home for better care  and attention. He missed their only son who has already a family of his own and had decided to migrate in Europe.


His house in an upscale neighborhood was an empty nest of antiques, Persian carpets and Lalique crystal. It was a place where I used to go when I wanted to eat with someone who has a dscriminating taste for food and drinks. The couple was a perfect host for a small gathering.


His teaching in the university was not motivated by money. He had money of his own when he retired from a previous profession.  He handled three subjects only--enough not to tire himself but gave him unexplainable pleasure of being able to contribute to the molding of the youth to become responsible citizens.



That semester, he got another bad news. He was not given a teaching assignment just because the Dean was questioning his loyalty in a very factious group.


He realized that it was pure vindictiveness if not an emotional blackmail to become subservient to the whims  of the  Dean. He felt he lost his usefulness when he had nowhere to go everyday but his small garden.  He felt so all alone that he questioned the purpose of getting up in the morning just to remain in his favorite lounging pants the whole day and retire to the cold bed in the evening.  He missed his teaching colleagues and his students.


One day, he was found dead for more than 24 hours inside the bathroom. Stroke. 


My friend told me that he died lonely and bitter.


I felt the rage towards the Dean because I know her personally. I was the instrument in hiring her as an instructor. She had gone a long way from a shy new graduate  to a  conniving bitch to those who have powers. Long before she came to the university, the old male colleague was already a regular faculty member.

  Our road will cross again.





Pinaysaamerika

Thank You for Not Smoking

Dear insansapinas,


Misery loves company so when my friend visited me, she thought that  it was obscene to talk about the happy days that we shared when we were much much younger while I am looking sorry for my bloated leg. Yon yong sinasabing binting pamalo ng bangus. 

We kinda like, wala yan sa lolo ko thing.


She underwent an operation months earlier where the doctors almost "axed" one of her feet. Kid you not. But it got swollen like a humongous ginger that she could not wear even the lola of the "croc " shoes. No honey, she did not have diabetes and that ugly thing was not gangrene due to infection.


IT WAS THE RESULT OF THE SECOND HAND SMOKE.


The doctors found that her vein in the leg was blocked by nicotine. Ito palang nicotine, when it hardens, it is as hard as cement.


The smokers can easily puff out the smoke but the persons who inhaled the smoke absorbs the toxic nicotine in their system.


She consented to have an operation where incision was made in her big toe. The doctors were able to save her leg and foot from being chopped off.


I looked at my bloated feet. Nahhh.


The phone rang. A friend of mine called to see how I am. After the usual hellos and how-is-your-husband-dog-cat -and neighbor chat, she told me that she was admitted in the orthopedic hospital early this month when she broke some bones in her body because the small slab of wood did not walk by itself to the place where it was not a hazard to the safety of a person whose eyesights are in the 400 level or whatever eye issue  you may call it.


 In short , she tripped. Kasalanan ng kahoy. Kung pwede lang idemanda. RAW.  The blessing  in disguise was   the doctor discovered that she was developing osteoporosis.


And she said that her clumsiness started when someone mispresented herself that she was  an expert in Shiatsu. This is a form of Japanese massage (naaah, not that massage where the massager starts with clothes and ends up with no clothes at all. Marumi ang isip) which is a form of accupressure that follows meridian lines on the body to transfer energy.


She broke some bones again. Ano ba yan?


Now I feel cured of my stinkin' thinking feeling syndrome disorder that I was like Sharon Cuneta in the Pasan ko Ang Daigdig (am not  sure of the title)  na pasan ko ang Mundo (sorry Atlas).


Pinaysaamerika

Wheel chair Brigade

Dear insansapinas,
WAGI...nakahijack din ng available na pc. Yong laugh tough ko nakumpiska ng mga rangers. Kahit na namamaga amg aking paa,  magbablog pa rin ako. mwehehehe


Last Friday. nakawheel chair ako. May katabi akong  babae, naka wheel chair din. Naghihintay din nang magtutulak sa kaniya.


Kuwento kwento. Pinay siya eh na may asawang Puti pero hindi yong asawa problema niya. Yong dating employer niya na pinahirapan siyang makakuha ng disability. 


Tumulo luha niya psg kuwento ng buhay niya sa akin. Inoffer ko yong canvas doon sa kuwarto. Tinanggihan niya.



Sa loob ng oras na magkausap kami,  kulang na lang hindi niya naikwento ay yong ipinanganak siya.


Nang itulak siya  ng attendant nagpasalamat siya sa pakikinig ko. Sabi ko, SIYANGA PALA ANO NGA ANG PANGALAN MO?


Bago siya nakalayo, may isang Puting lalaki na tulak tulak din ang isang wheel chair, sakay ang isang matandang babaing Asian. Either Chinese siya o Vietnamese o Thai.

Tapos iniwan siya. Nag Hi ako. NagHi din siya. Tinanong ko kung sino yong nagtulak ng kaniyang wheel chair at bakit umalis.


Sinagot niya ako sa Tagalog. Ewan ko ba sa demonyong yon. Pinay pala. Otsenta mahigit na pero naglalaro ba ng SOduku. Talo pa ang pusa ko.


Madaldal siya. Laitera. Naalala ko tuloy ang nanay ni Lee at aking nanay.

Tapos itinulak na siya.

Sa isang hallway, nagkita ulit kami. Sinusundan niya ang wheel chair ko. Ito ang usapan namin.

Me: Sinusundan ninyo ba ako? :)
Tandang Babae: Hindi ah. Nauna ka lang pinila kasi mas matanda ka sa akin. :)
Me: Nasaan na ang demonyong kasama ninyo?
Tandang Babae: Ewan ko kung naglalakwatsa.

Me: May hinala ako Spy kayo at iniispayan ninyo ako kung talagang may disability ako.
Tandang Babae: Sssh. huwag kang maingay, undercover ako. Tinatago ko ang baril ko sa diapers ko.

Sound track of James Bond movie. Tan taran taran tan tan. ( Pink Panther pala yon).

Pinaysaamerika.


* Wala akong mailagay na pic. Bawal sa pc na ito. Batok PC.

Laugh Tough

Dear insansapinas,

Nabreak-in ko na ang bago kong laugh tough.  Maghahanap ako ng makakabitan nito sa pupuntahan ko.


Pareho kami ni Lee na kailangang magparehab (TOINK), kung hindi pati readers maniwala sa mga kalokohan namin. Buti na lang may isang matino sa amin si Biyay.

photocredit: MSNBC



So see ya. Habang inaayos ang mga sira sa akin, baka makapagblog ako.



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TRUE LIES and Facebook

Dear insansapinas,

Nagiging overreaction yata ang mga airports sa States. Nakita ba ninyo ang TRUE LIES ni Arnold Scwars (whatever) kung saan may ginamit siyang fighter plane para iligtas niya ang kaniyang anak sa mga terrorist. Sa Oregon naman, ginamit lang itong pag-escort sa eruplanong may pasaherong pasaway. Hindi lang isa, dalawa pa.  Ito ang balita:

Portland, Oregon (CNN) -- Two F-15 fighter jets escorted a passenger jet that had been headed for Hawaii back to Portland International Airport in Oregon after a passenger in coach became "uncooperative," an airline official said Wednesday.

Hanep. laki ng gastos nito para lang maprotektahan ang mga pasahero.  

Facebook

Labanan ng mga kandidato sa Facebook. Eh kahit pamangkin kong hindi pa botante may fezbook na eh.

Bakit kailangan pa itong pangalandakan eh ang taas na nga ng rating sa survey.

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Spitting in China, Efren huwag ka ng malikot

 Dear insansapinas,

Kahit saan ang low income housing complex ay nabababoy pag hindi mahigpit ang namamahala.May nadalaw kaming kakilala sa isang low cost housing sa SF kung saan may makikita kang sirang matress sa may stairwell na hindi dapat dahil fire hazard yon. Dito naman may nadaanan din kaming low cost housing kung saan ang mga nilabhan nila ay nakasampay ang kanilang veranda at ang mga junk ay nasa terrace nila.


Well, siguro dahil sa lugar namin except for furniture para sa terrace,hindi pwedeng magsabit o maglagay ng kahit na exercise equipment sa terrace. Bawal din ang magtapos ng upos ng sigarilyo.


Sa Singapore naman, nakita ko ring maraming sampay sa terrace ng mga  hig rise-condo-apartments. Pero hindi naman low cost housing yon. Maliit lang talaga ang Singapore at ang mga tinitirhan ay mga high rise apartments kung saan walang masyadong lugar.



Ito ang balita sa China.

GUANGZHOU, China - Residents could find themselves homeless if they get caught publicly spitting seven times at a low-income housing complex in a southern Chinese city.

Tossing fruit peels, spitting chewing gum on the ground and urinating in public are other no-nos listed Thursday on a government Web site in Guangzhou. The rules are part of a proposal designed to enforce better behavior at the new public housing project.

 Sa Pilipinas ito sasabihin ng mga Leftist na walang democracy kagaya nang pagpatupad ni Fernando noon ng mga batas para manatiling malinis ang Manila.

Efren huwag ka ng malikot (Lola Basyang's favorite dialogue to grandson)

Nabalita na nanghingi ng permiso si Efren Penaflorida sa ama ni Angel Locsin para ligawan ito. Ang daming reaction. Tipo raw nagpapashowbiz si Efren (hwag ka ng malikot).

Husme naman nainlove yong tao. Hindi naman niya kailangan ang  publicity pag nalink kay Angel locsin (or is it the other way around) kasi mas kilala naman siya sa buong mundo at nakasalamuha naman niya celebrities sa Hollywood. Tigilan nga ninyo ako. 

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Pictures tell stories

Dear insansapinas,
Ninakaw ko ito kay polo. Naalala ko ang bahay ng aking pinsan sa aming baryo. Malaki nga lang ang solar noon kaya nga panay ang punta namin doon para mamitas ng santol, bayabas at saka suha. Pero iyong bakod na yan ang nagpaalala sa akin kung gaano ako kabigat noon. Dahil hindi pa ako makaabot sa harang, kailangang kargahin ako ng aking pinsan. Nagkakahigit ang litid niya. Sabi niya kailangan daw matalian ako para hindi nakakawala sa kusina. Minsan sinubukan kong tumawid sa harang, nagawa ko naman. WAGI. 
Una nga lang ang ulo. bwahahah.

photocredit: Paulding.blogspot.com
Hindi naman ganiyan ang damit namin anoh. Circa 1930 yata ito sa Pandacan. Biruin mo bata pa nakasaya na. Ang init siguro noon. Pero hindi pa naman siguro polluted ang Pandacan.


Picture 2


Nakita natin yong squirrel na nagpapicture doon sa isa kong post. Ngayon naman ay seal ang nang-aagaw ng eksena sa mga madre eheste penguin na may group picture.

photocredit: here

Ito naman ang version ng Filipino pagdating sa mga picture picture.

photocredit: Felmar's Missionary

O di va tama si Father. Tayong mga Pinoy mahilig sumama sa picture na linalagyan ng sungay ang nasa harapan natin. 

Picture 3 

photocredit:MSNBC

Naalala ko noon pag baha sa Sampaloc. Nakalilis ang mga palda ng uniforme ng mga istudyante sa UST at St. Jude.

Tuwang-tuwang nanonood yong kapatid ng isa sa mga housemates namin. Nakapanungaw siya sa bintana.

Pinaysaamerika 

Buy One Take one at iba pang katangahan pag BS ka sa US

Dear insansapinas,

Definition of term: BS - bagong salta o FOB or fresh off boat 


Kapag bago ka sa US marami kang dapat matutuhan pagdating sa mga promo.

BUY ONE TAKE ONE 


case 1


Nabanggit ko kasi sa comment box sa aming pagpapalitan ng kuro-kuro ni Lee na bumili ako ng isang card na buy one take one. Nang dalhin ko sa cashier, expired na raw ang promo. BAKIT hindi pa nila tinanggal eh sambuwan ng expired. KASI PANG HATAK NILA NG CUSTOMER NA MADALING MALOKO. Bakit kayo nakatingin sa akin? 


case 2

Sabi ng aking kaibigan, kung pwede raw bilhan ko siya ng cell phone dahil mura raw dito sa States. Babayaran daw niya ako. Nakita raw niya kasi sa internet. Ang hindi niya binasa ay required ang 2 year contract na kahit hindi na humihinga yong cell phone mong original ay magbabayad ka pa rin ng monthly service fee for connection. Pag pinutol mo ang connection, magbabayad ka ng penalty. Pag inavail mo ang next promo nila, extended ang contract. Sa mga ads sa web, fine print sila. masabi lang na inilagay doon ang condition. Syempre kung ikaw ay after sa price at hindi mo alam ang practices dito, silaw ka kaagad.


Case 3


Tumingin ako ng isang designer na pabango. hindi para sa akin. ang pawis ko puwde na. Pwede ngang gawing scent na  ibotelya at ipagbili parang Chanel 5 1/2, kasi scarce. Hindi ako nagpapawis.
Nakalagay buy one take one. ANG LAKI NG MGA LETTERS. Pero sa baba ay may nakalagay. Buy one take one for half the price. !@#$%^& . Laglagan ang mga display. 

Noong  bago ako sa States at excited akong may return address na maganda ang design sa murang halaga at check book na may design, order naman kaagad ako.  Kuwenta ang utak ko gamit ang abacus kung paano nakakaafford ang kumpaniya na ipagbili yon sa murang halaga, mahigit kalahati ang baba ng presyo ng chincharge sa bangko.

Tapos mga ilang buwan, halos masira ang aking mail box sa junk mails. Isip ko saan may espiya na nakakuha ng aking address. Yon pala negosyo rin nila ang pinagbibili ang mga pangalan sa mga researchers kagaya ng listahan ng mga narses, accountants, etc. Sa ganoon yong mga kumpaniyang may mga producto na pwedeng ibenta sa mga professionals na ito ay may mailing list na tinatawag. Mas malaki ang kinikita nila doon.


Meron pang isang sales blitz na ipagbibili siya ang paperbacks o anumang libro at one dollar. O  di ba ang dami mong bibilhin. Dollar lang eh. Ang hindi mo alam pagkatapos niyan every month padadalhan ka na ng mga libro na nagkakahalaga ng mahigit 20 dollars. Noon tinatanggap nila ang return pero nang tinanggihan na ng Post Office ang mga ganoong klaseng return mail, mapipilitan ka ng bayaran. Lalo pag nakacharge pa sa credit card mo.


Ganito rin yong mga trial subscription ng mga journals, magazines at iba pang may regular edition monthly.
Libre for the first six months tapos ichacharge ka na after six months kung hindi mo sasabihing ayaw mo na.


Dahil busy ka makakalimutan mong magbigay ng notice na hintuan na ang subscription.


Noong bago ako sa US, punta kami sa Monterrey, Calif. Sa park doon ang daming squirrel. Ang tataba kumpara sa mga squirrel dito sa East coast.


Dahil sa park sila, sanay sila sa mga tourists na nagpipicture. I am not pulling your legs pero talaga nakikipose sila o kaya hindi sila gumagalaw habang hinihintay nila na kunan mo sila ng pic.


Ito ang kuha ng mag-asawa sa isang squirrel photo crasher.

photocredit: here

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What's up Earthlings?

Dear insansapinas,


Airport sa Pilipinas


Sa Pilipinas, ang mga dumating na pasahero ay nadelay ng husto dahil sa bagong form na pin-fill-upon samantalang meron ng ginawa sa eruplano ang gamit ay yong luma.


Double jeopardy.

Arriving passengers had to sit on the floor to fill out the new immigration arrival forms despite having filled up an older document while in flight.

Pakitai nga sa hantikan (malalaking langgam ang nagparusa sa mga pasahero na baka wala pang tulog at hinihintay ng mga pamilya sa labas ng airport. Twiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing. Kung hindi pa kayo handang idistribute yan sa airlines, huwag sa mga pasahero ipataw ang parusa ng inemptness. (di ko alam sa Tagalog ito).


Newark, New Jersey


Pero hindi lang naman ito sa Pinas. Dito rin sa States, delayed naman (palagay ko maraming mabubuntis, palaging delayed) sa Newark, New Jersey, pinalabas ulit ang mga pasahero para magcheck-in dahil may isang taong hindi malaman kung sadyang pumasok mula sa exit. Nasaan kasi ang ang mga guwards.

On Sunday, Terminal C at Newark Airport was shut down after a man was seen walking the wrong way through an exit toward the terminal’s secure area. Flights were grounded, seated passengers were hustled back to the terminal and thousands had to be rescreened.

Hanep, daming naabala.

Mga Retuning Immigrants

Ang mga artista/celebrities na nakakuha ng green card sa US dahil may special talent sila exceptional qualification ay nag-uuwian na sa Pinas.

Wala naman silang makuhang trabaho sa States kung hindi kumanta rin. Pagkatapos ang paconcert-concert kuno, naubos  na ang kanilang mga savings kaya balik ulit sa Pinas.
Meron namang isang family of celebrities na pagkatapos ikumpara ang bansa na nilipatan nila at ang Pilipinas, nagbalikan din sa Pinas dahil wala namang makuhang magandang trabaho din doon kung hindi sa coffee shop.


Ang problema kasi any ang mga kasinungalingang hinahabi ng mga napupunta roon na maganda ang kabuhayan nila. Natuto silang magluto, maglinis, blah, blah at maganda ang kanilang bahay.


Kung sanay sila  sa limleight, not unless gusto niyang  magermitanyo o biglang maging invisible, hindi sila mabubuhay doon dahil ang mga tao ay walang pakialam kung ikaw ay big time celebrity sa Pinas.


Tingnan mo ang isang sikat na superstar. Ang mga press release ay may mga concert na siyang pinanggalingan ng kaniyang kinikita.


Susme, naman, concert na ba yon, may wala pang singkwenta katao na kumakain sa isang restaurant na kakantahan ng ilang awit lang, pagdating ng balita sa Pinas, ay concert na.


Di ba nga yong mga concert niya nilangaw noong una kaya nagkuwentuhan na lang yong mga dumalong reporters. Libre pa yan.


Ang huling concert kuno ay kasama ang dating asawa pero hindi na natuloy dahil wala namang bumili ng ticket.


Gusto ko siyang artista pero bakit hindi na lang sabihin na naghihirap na talaga siya at hindi yong gusto niya rito at simple ang buhay niya. Sus.


Pag nakabasa naman ang mga artistang wala ng pelikula, kandarapa rin sila nang pagpunta rito sa States na akala mo ba ay may makukuha silang trabaho.


May panahon daw dito, matagal na, wala pa ako, na lahat ng party na pupuntahan mo ay matitisod mo mga laos na artista, nagbebenta ng kaldero, insurance at real estate.


Anong masama noon? Nagtatrabaho naman sila. Ang kasalanan ay pag-umuwi ng Pinas, papress release na mayaman sila dito sa States samantalng panay naman ang ride sa mga tagahanga kuno.


Meron nga isang artisitang lalaki na nakalimutan na niya ang umampon sa kaniya habang nag-aaral kuno siya rito sa States. Wala namang nangyari doon sa itinayo niyang negosyo. 
Sus. Ewan ko kung nabayaran yong mag-asawa.



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