Mga Nakakaantig Damdamin na Kabutihan: Celpon Para sa Apo at Lolo Na May Libreng Bike

Libreng Bisikleta para kay Lolo Carlo na nagtitinda ng Kendi at naglalakad ng oras oras araw araw bigay ng Carandang Bike Shop at galing sa natitipid na P50 kada araw sa pagtitinda ng gabi, lola, binilhan ng smartphone ang apo para magamit sa pag-aaral.

Kapag gusto, laging may paraan. Lalo na kung gagawin mo ito para sa iyong pinakamamahal. 'Yan ang ipinamalas ng isang lola na nag-viral online matapos mabili sa wakas ang pangarap na cellphone ng kanyang apo. Hinanap at pinuntahan ng mga news media ang mag-lola. Ang kanilang nakakaantig na kuwento, panoorin sa videos na ito.

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Lola Emma Abucay Monta was able to buy the phone for her grandson by saving her earnings from selling vegetables every day. Her apo was overjoyed after receiving the gadget.

A fellow mall goer, John Mico Tan, saw them sitting together and poring over the phone while he was waiting for his order.

He decided to snap a photo and share it on social media, which touched the hearts of thousands of netizens. Upon visiting vendor Nanay Emma Abucay Monta this morning, the uploader learned that she made somewhere around P20 to P50 a day selling vegetables. She saved all her earnings just so she could afford the mobile phone she bought her apo.


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Libreng bisikleta para kay Tatay Carlo!

Ayon sa may-ari ng isang bicycle shop sa Pasay City, araw-araw simula May 15 daw dumadaan ang isang matandang lalaki sa tindahan nila para magtanong kung may bisikleta na puwede bilhin, pero sold-out palagi ang mga ito.

Kahapon ay dumaan ulit si Tatay Carlo para tanungin kung puwede niya bilhin sa halagang P2,000 ang isang bagong bisikleta na P4,800-P4,500 ang presyo. Dahil naramdaman ng may-ari na kailangan talaga ni Tatay Carlo ang bisikleta at ipinakita pa ang naipon niyang pera, nagpasya siya na ibigay ito ng libre, kapalit ng ngiti ni tatay.

Napag-alaman nila na galing Nichols ay naglalakad raw papuntang Makati City si Tatay Carlo para magbenta ng kendi. Siya ay 82-anyos na raw.

Mensahe ng may-ari ng bicycle shop sa publiko: "Sa sobrang dami po na gusto tumulong kay Tatay, sigurado po ako na sobra-sobra po ang kanyang matatangap. Hindi n'yo na po kailangan lumayo para tulungan si Tatay Carlo, madami pong Tatay Carlo sa paligid nyo. Maaring bata po sya, babae, buntis etc. buksan n'yo lang po ang mga mata n'yo, tiyak po meron Tatay Carloo ng buhay n'yo."

Video courtesy: Carbs Bike Shop/Fe Carandang

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Words That Are Better Than Gold

My almost two year old daughter and I are playing Starfall online, an educational website for kids when we stumble over this page. Four words that says the possession of them all are better than gold.

Hope.

Joy.

Kind.

Peace.

My wife adds, health but I pointed out, you can't have peace if you don't have good health. I think these are the very things, or gifts our world wanted.

Hope amidst the uncertainties of the future, when there are so much pessimism and prophets and prophetess of doom and gloom. That the sun will not shine again clearer and lighter.

Joy, the very reason we all wanted in life and even in the life beyond. Sometimes the simplest things are those that gives us real and lasting happiness, or joy. It is when we do good, and when we truly share our best without expecting anything.

Kind - thoughts, words and deeds, that is. I love a song that I always sing when I am alone, "Have I done any good in the world today? Have I help anyone in need? Have I cheered up the sad and made someone feel glad. If not, I have failed indeed. Has anyone's burden been lighter today, because I was willing to share..."

Peace. Anyone in this world wanted it. Nations and countries, kingdoms and tribes, clans, families, individual wants a piece of peace. Peace they say cannot be achieved without change.

"May the people on this planet be changed.
Changed from hatred to love,
Changed from greed to giving,
Changed from selfishness to selflessness,
Changed from apathy to action,
Changed from jealousy to joy over someone's accomplishments,
Changed from intolerance to acceptance,
Changed from being destructive to being constructive,
Changed from fighting to peace,
Changed from killing to protecting life,
Changed from censorship to freedom,
Changed from ignorance to education,
Changed from fearing our differences to rejoicing our variety."

For me, another song, "Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me." You've heard this song, don't you? So I guess, we better start singing now, haha.

So there you go, the four words that says to be better than gold. Hope, Joy, Kind, and Peace. May we have all these things as we continue our journey in this life.

©2010 THOUGHTSKOTO

WE BUILD PEOPLE

We have been contemplating lately about the real purpose of our blogging as well as of founding the PEBA and KABLOGS. Our real intention really is to build people, or to make other people/blogger happy. We don't want to tear others or put other blogger/s down.

We have had experiences of fighting back using our blog in answer to some people's blog post or entry. We had the obligation to do so, since we are attacked in the same medium, and we felt we have the obligation to stand and correct whatever notion other people back home about us, Filipino's leaving the country for the betterment of our families and for the fulfillment of our simple dreams.

Reading through the blog world and hearing some news, I alarmed. There seems to me people or blogger that exist to destroy others, or to humiliate others, or lightly, to make fun of others right at the net.

We want people to be the best in their field. We want them to make the most of their talents and skills and share those stories because it will create inspiration or give happiness to others.

Sabi nga nila,

IF YOU KNOW OR FEEL ANYTHING IN YOU THAT IS GOOD, and RIGHTEOUS, as long as you are not doing any harm to others, do it, because it might be God's wisdom telling us to be kind, to be better people.

Sabi nila ang masamang damo, matagal namamatay, kaya kung ayaw mong mamatay, magpakasama ka.

WICKEDNESS NEVER WAS HAPPINESS, and NEVER WILL BE.

I can't believe people will have that principle in life.

magpakasama.

ang sama!

We want people to be kind and decent, we want to be good because we know that if we are good, we feel better and if we feel better, we are healthy, and if we are healthy, we live happy, thus, we live a much longer life.

Bakit ang mga pinoy sa abroad, hindi tumatanda? haha

Kasi masasaya kahit malungkot.

Alam mo yun.

Maraming pera? Maybe.

Masarap ang mga pagkain? Maybe.

But ang mga pinoy sa abroad, feeling nila nakakatulong sila ng malaki sa pamilya, kamag-anak at komunidad kaya masaya sila, at dahil masaya sila, walang wrinkles, kaya feeling young and looking young. One fine example is Isla De Nebz. Alam natin na ?0 na ang edad niya di ba. Pero he really look young, at mukhang mas matanda pa nga ako tingnan kaysa sa kanya. haha. Di kita binabati dito Nebz dahil I'm courting you to be the EIC ng PEBA Magazine, hehe, pero honest to goodness lang ito.

Building people is actually inspiring them. We inspire others, my friends in PEBA and KABLOGS makes me a better person, as well as my friends in the blogosphere. If that simple act of blogging a little here and a little there will create inspiration to someone like me, let us encourage others to blog and share and inspire and build people, by and by, we won't notice it, but we are transforming the place we live in, our family, though they maybe distant and far-away, our associates in work, our host country, and the world.

BUILD PEOPLE. BUILD FRIENDSHIP. BUILD A LEGACY.

By the way, may mga pagbabago na nga sa PEBA homesite. Salamat Jon the Mango!

©2009 THOUGHTSKOTO

Life Changing Moments

October 2001, nasa MRT ako, kagagaling ko lang sa pressure na trabaho, maraming phone calls, maraming projects, maraming worries. Galing ako ng North Edsa station papuntang Taft Pasay, and from there take the LRT to Pedro Gil para imemeet ang may-ari ng company namin na noon ay nakacheck in Midtown Hotel, near Robinson's Ermita.

Magulo ang isip ko, mainit pala, dati na magulo. hehe. Hawak hawak ko ang Philippine Daily Inquirer gawa ng pagsunod sa news about sa 9-11 na nangyari sa America. Nakaupo ako't nakapikit ang mata at nagrelax ng huminto ang train sa Boni station. Biglang napuno ang area kung saan ako nakaupo, may isang nanay at tatlong mga anak ages between 7, 5, 3 na pumasok at dahil likas na gentleman, sa dami ng mga gentle dog sa loob ng station na nakamake-up at nakapowder pa ang mga mukha at gagala sa greenbelt at ayala, ako'y tumayo at pinapaupo ang mag-ina. 

Ang mga bata ay makukulit, maiingay at sa sikip ng MRT ay nakuha pang maglaro, maghabulan, at magsisisigaw. Ang nakapgtataka ang ina ay tila walang pakialam. Di ba niya naririnig na ang mga bata ay maiingay? Di ba siya nahihiya sa inaasta ng kanyang mga anak? Nanay ko po, nakakabulahaw ang tili, iyakan at sigawan, at nakakawala sa matinong pag-iisip ang habulan, at muntik pa akong masundot ng lalaking panganay. Gusto kong pasimpleng pingutin or pinch sa kamay yung pangalawa na walang pakialam nakatayo ako sa tapat ng kanyang nanay habang sia ay punta dito't balik sa nanay niya ng walang pakialam. 

Di ako nakapagpigil, sinabihan ko ang nanay. 

"Ale, yung mga anak niyo po, ang iingay, nakakabulahaw po sa mga pasahero, pwede po bang patahimikin niyo?"

Parang walang narinig ang nanay, nakatingin sa malayo, at parang walang pakialam. Kaya inulit ko ng medyo malakas sa gitna ng maraming pasahero.

"Ah, Ate, yung mga anak niyo po, sobrang ingay at makulit, pwede po bang sawayin niyo?"

Sagot ng nanay na biglang gulat at napatingin saken, at dun ko lang napansin ang namumugto niyang mga mata.

"Ha? Mama, pagpasensiyahan niyo na po, kagagaling lang namin ng Polymedic Hospital, at kamamatay lang po ng kanilang ama. (Humahagulgol na ng iyak ang nanay, ako naman parang binuhusan ng nagyeyelong tubig) Di ko alam ang gagawin, at di ko alam paano ko sasabihin sa kanila"

Di ko alam ang nangyari saken during that time pero bigla akong nanlamig. Naawa sa nanay, nahiya sa aking sarili, at nakalearn ng isang napakahalagang lesson. 

Be sensitive towards others feelings.

Sometimes in our lives we are focused on what we want and what will comfort us, without regard or without thinking about others. Naiingayan ako, and Im sure yung ibang pasahero din pero ako lang naglaks ng loob magsabi dahil seguro ako lang ang hindi naging sensitive na ang nanay pala ay nagdadalamhati.

Nakakahiya.

Bago ako bumaba ng Taft Avenue, nalaman ko na ang nanay ay taga Cavite, ang asawa ay nagkasakit ng cancer sa brain, at nagtratrabaho sa may Manggahan sa Gen Trias. 

Nag-abot ako ng isandaan bilang abuloy.

©2009 THOUGHTSKOTO

We Will Not Always be the Same

My brother arrived from vacation and brought with him hundreds of photos of my hometown, my friends, my cousins and relatives, and the places I missed myself after nearly a decade.

There are many nephews and nieces I can't recognize, and toddler's names I don't know. Some of my cousin get big, not just in sizes, but problems as well. Some becomes too dark, and too skinny. Almost all my Uncle's and Aunt's have gray hairs and Grandma can't see anymore.

Almost all my friends changed either the shape of their face or the size of their bodies. Some of my most admired people in our place are not admirable anymore. Some feared man when I was young is reduce to almost nothing now. Some people who possessed great lands and wealth are selling their lands now. Some beauty queens I know are now domestic helpers in Hongkong or Singapore, and my valedictorian classmate who married a rich man is now separated and she is now working in Dubai.

Some good people I wanted to emulate are not nice anymore. Some powerful politician are not powerful anymore. Some small and simple people before are leaders in our place now, some poor people before are not poor anymore.

There is a cycle in life. Life really is a lot like a wheel, sometimes, you're up, sometimes too you're down. But when you "do good continually" and live life the way you wanted it to be, treat others the way you want them to treat you, then life goes on, progressing, inch by inch, towards our goal.

There are some shortcut to glory, but it's dangerous and could lead to failure. The proven way to live life and be successful is to be patient in working and striving for those dreams.

I never thought I will be this goodlooking guy (here we go again, please forgive me of my honesty and overbearing vanity) and never would I thought marrying someone so beautiful (no one will question me that). (:-

We will not always be the same, the way we look, the way we think, the way we are, but somethings will stay the same and will never change. The memories of the past cannot be altered, but they can be cherished. The memories can renewed the friendship we build, and build enthusiasm in our busy lives and keep in touch to those we care and love.

We will not always be the same, our physical and mental and emotional aspects in life will always improve or wear out, but that is life, like a wheel.

©2008 THOUGHTSKOTO