A friend complained to me one time about an arrogant resident in the subdivision where we both live. The man is just living with his relatives, not a home owner. He was a “mere tricycle driver”yet he has the guts to complain about a dog that accidentally escaped from the cage. The dog however was immediately caught and brought back to his cage. So what’s the reason he should be complaining. My friend, being a professional at that and who did not mind other people’s business, didn’t like the idea being accosted by anybody without a valid reason.
Sensing the tricycle driver was just trying to catch attention just ignored him and left him to avoid trouble. But the guy was so stupid enough not to understand the action of my friend, avoiding trouble, followed him and kept complaining. And finally my friend got tired and told the man, “If you think my dog committed a crime for escaping in his cage, better bring this case to the court and let the judge decide on it.”
That’s the only time the man stopped following my friend.
“Tricycle driver lang napakaarogante na ang gago. Anong akala niya sa kanyang sarili? (he is a mere tricycle driver yet he’s so proud and arrogant. What does he think of himself).
To cool of my friend I just told him, “relax ka lang pare, kulang lang iyan sa pansies (relax my friend, that guy is only trying to catch attention).
“Ano kaya kung nagging abogado pa ang tarantado, di lalong nagging mayabang pa siya at mangaapi pa ng iba (What if he became a lawyer he could have been more arrogant and perhaps even oppressed other people)?
I have been personally studying Filipino arrogance over the years. It is quite amusing to note, Filipinos who had been former slaves have the tendency to enslave other Filipinos. Even a Filipina domestic helper who had been treated like slave serving her foreign employer acts like a “donya” (a very rich woman) when she returns home. It is common to see Filipino contract workers when they come home spend all their earnings buying expensive appliances, giving up parties, and wear valuable jewelries, etc. just to show up.
“Mayabang talaga ang mga Filipino, maporma. Matabii lang sila sa mga makapangyarihang tao at may sinasabi ay napakataas na rin nila. Kaya huwag mong tularan ang mga ganitong klase ng tao (Filipinos are very proud; they are very showy of their possessions. If they have some rich and influential friends in the government, they think they are already that high and untouchable. Don’t imitate these kinds of people,” my grandfather used to t ell me.
“Ay masyado tayong mayabang na mga Pilipino kahit walang pinagyayabang. Mga kawalan natin sa buhay ay pilit na ikinukubli sa pagyayabang. (We Filipinos are too arrogant, we can’t accept our deficiencies in life that’s why we kept on hiding them through our arrogance,” my auntie Feliza who is a retired High School principal kept on telling us.
Along this perspective I remember what my grandfather, who worked as a sugar cane planter in Hawaii, used to remind us. “Ang kayabangan, katamaran, at kasakiman ay mga negatibong katangian na naglalayo sa mga tao sa pag-unlad. Kung hindi magbabago ang mga Pilipino sa ganitong pag-uugali, mapagiiwanan tayo (Arrogance, indolence, and greed will be our greatest obstacles to progress. If Filipinos will not discard these negative values, we will always be left behind).
While this does not apply to all Filipinos, I believe many of those who sink in poverty have one way or the other allowed these negative traits to rule their lives. Is poverty a consequence of negative “valueing”?
“You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today. If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God.” Deuteronomy 8:17-20
Pride is natural to the human heart. Would one suppose that such a people, after their slavery at the brick-kilns, should need the thorns of the wilderness to humble them? But such is man! And they were proved that they might be humbled. None of us live a single week without giving proofs of our weakness, folly, and depravity. To broken-hearted souls alone the Saviour is precious indeed.
Nothing can render the most suitable outward and inward trials effectual, but the power of the Spirit of God. See here how God’s giving and our getting are reconciled, and apply it to spiritual wealth. All God’s gifts are in pursuance of his promises. Moses repeats the warning he had often given of the fatal consequences of forsaking God. Those who follow others in sin, will follow them to destruction. If we do as sinners do, we must expect to fare as sinners fare.
It’s sad to learn that many Filipinos abroad do not want to be identified as Filipinos anymore because they are ashamed and bitter about the negative traits and characteristics of their fellow Filipinos. Who wants to be identified as an inhabitant to one of the most corrupt countries in the world? Who wants to be identified with people who are arrogant, lacking in discipline, prying on other people to survive, and being opportunistic? Who wants to be identified with people who behave like vipers, who like crabs pull each other down, and too difficult to unite? Who love to deal with liars, plunderers, and perhaps even those who commit murders? You can not change the fact that you are a Filipino for simply ignoring you are a Filipino.
But being born a Filipino you can not change what you are even if you change your citizenship. Better love your own people, do whatever you can to help transform the Filipinos to become one of the most respected people in the world. But prepare yourself if ever, the way is long. It will take many years to see a transformed Philippine society.
But there is a shortcut to this. Jesus said, “I am the truth, the way and the life.” There is still a time to repent and be transformed to conform with the glory and righteousness of God.
“It is quite amusing to note, Filipinos who had been former slaves have the tendency to enslave other Filipinos.”
That is not only true to pinoys, doc. We have a friend, a black professor at Virginia Tech U (kung saan nagwala si cho, hindi ko sya kapatid, ha, hehe). Everytime we’re being waited on, (lalo na kung itim rin ang nagsisilbi), he puts on a superior attitude, always angry and shouting demanding the most trivial service. Inaalipin din nya ang kanyang kapwa itim via strong words, at sinisindak ang puti at iba pang kulay.
Sabi ko sa aking partner in life, “tingnan mo si Oji at bossing na naman ng mga plantation workers” at nagngingitian na lang kami.
May pinag-aralan at wala, korek ka sa iyong obserbasyon na ang mga dating alipin ay malakas ang tendency na mang-alipin din. Their history and experience have been deeply imbedded in their respective universal grounds which they are not aware of. Kaso ng psyche.
Sa tanong mo kung may pag-asa pang magbago ang pinoy, I can honestly say…I don’t have any clues.
Doc B
Gandang katanungan sa araw ng Kapaskuhan! May pag-asa bang magbago ang Noypi? Hindi ko na matandaan kung saan blog ito unang napag-usapan, pero para sa akin, sabi sa English, while there’s life, there’s hope.
Pero itong HOPE cigarette, kumitil din yan ng maraming buhay dahil sa patuloy nilang hinihithit. Ito ang nagpayaman kay Lucio Tan.
Noong ako’y isang self-supporting student, sa Pag-asa, Quezon City ako nakitira sa isang uncle at sa kabila ng kahirapan, punong puno ng pag-asa. Noon din naging PAGASA ang dating weather bureau.
The tricycle driver knows his rights than that “professional”. Maybe the tricycle driver jumped on the occassion to show that a marauding dog would likely bite a passersby. The tricycle driver, most likely, though he knows his rights, didn’t have the finisse and polished way of communicating to that “professional”.
In the Philippines a tricycle driver, a housemaid, or some lowly clerks should not and cannot show their intelligence and education. If they do, they’d be looked at as arrogant. The professionals will likely say “so you know, saan ka ngayon, drayber ka lang pala … bwesit!”
OK. Let’s turn the story around. What if the tricycle drayber was a manager in his Armani suit berating a tricycle driver. Filipinos would look at it differently.
In civilized world, like Europe and America, people there are looked at equally. In the Filipinas it’s what you drive, the clothes your wearing and most of all speakengese goot-country-club-perpekt-englischtzes.
Filipins has a long long long long way to go.
You are crazy. Plain Crzy. Typical Filipino Crzay and it’s people like you that make Filipinos look bad and make Filipinos abroad want to be ashamed. Its normal for Filipinos that are steady abroad to be ashamed of where they come from. Imagine, you turn on TFC and you always see gay men, filipinos always yelling on dramas/soap operas, and when your in the store filipinos always doing the ,ssshhhttt….It’s more or less the status of the Philippines. Filipinos are smart, but why havent they corrected the govt. yet. 25 years of unresolved corruption of democracy. Every election, 80% of votes always going to someone who screws up the govt. even more. Don’t Filipinos ever learn from their mistakes. No progress..and whats with the selfish (kanya-kanya mentality) No wonder Filipinos are not considered asians. We say we help each other but don’t. If Filipinos want to progress…first things first, change the mentality and stop the kanya-kanya enviyous mentality and get rid of the gayness there, and fix up the media so there are more informative educational pograming instead of this crazy stupid dramas over overcrying and yelling.
Filipinos in America are pathetic people. I have a niece who was born and raised in America. She speakengese goot-bisdak. I mean, when she speakengese bisdak, IT’S BISDAK! nary a hint that she’s born and raised in America.
Flippos would immediately ask, “kaylan ka dumating?”. This goes to show that Flippos in America are surprised if your child don’t speakengese goot-country-club-perpekt-englischtzes. Meaning, further, that Flip children should not be taught their language.!!!!
Flippos are weird bunch of people. I gave up being a Flippo. I speakengese my proud Bisdak! I don’t believe in their God-chock-full-of-unfulfilled-promises! I don’t make excuses!
Flips has no place in this world except back in the Philippines!
A professional Filipino don’t take orders by fellow FLIPpinos below him. IT’S NATURAL TRAIT OF FLIPpinos! NO MATTER HOW HIGH YOU STACK BIBLES AND DECORATE THEM WITH ROSARIES, FLIPpinos are still oblivisous and ignorant. GOD FAILED TO RE-engineer FLIPpinos!!!
Now, God-apologists, place that re-engineering responsibility on us! I thought, really, god answers our prayers but GOD HAS GOOT EXCUSES!!!! AND FLIPPOS SWALLOWED IT HOOK AND SINKERS!!!!
WAKE UP!!!! GISING!!!!
In this blog’s last paragraph … Jesus is not the shortcut, mind you. It’s a long cut. It’s been 480 years since Filipijnos startedxc praying and nothing happened. We’re sooo left behind just like any other Catholic countries …
Doncha think Japan, South Korea, Vietnameses, Indonesianeses and Thailandeneses ouight to be left-behind? Why religious Filipinos? THE ANSWER IS BEYOND ME!!!!
Kaya ako hindi nawawalan ng pag-asa, for myself and for all others out there, tingnan natin ang isang ito:
Filipinos cannot be inspired. No matter how hard we work, nothing happens. Prayers don’t work. Now that the church is aware that prayers don’t work, they’re blaming the government. Shouldn’t god intervene in behalf of the praying majority? It seems God prefers the corrupt. Because the corrupt gives bigger tithe to the church. NOW THAT’S CORRUPTION.
How many bureaucrats who live on corruption and died happy? And, these god-apologists says “Let’s see where God sends them to, HEAVEN or HELL”. If that’s the case, LET’S STOP SNIPING THE CORRUPT IN GOVERNMENT, anyways, GOD WILL SEND THEM TO HELL.
NEAT!!!!! CONVENIENT!!! SOOOOO LAME!!!!!
We want our life now, not later. Not until we’re dead.
Mang Joe,
Pareho pala tayong galing ng Pag-asa Quezon City. Dito po ako nag-practicum. Doon naman sa Golden Acres noong college pa ako ay nasama ako sa isang grupo ng mga estudyante na nage-entertain sa mga Elderly Citizens na nakatira doon. Dito ako nagkainterest to pursue a degree in sociology and social work. Kaya alam ko na na balang araw ay katulad ko rin sila na kung hindi na aalagaan pa ng aking mga kamag-anak ay dito na lang kami magsama ng kapalaran ni Banong, hehehe.
Nagpracticum din ako sa Payatas noong araw para sa isang livelihood project. At dito ko nakita kung papano nabubuhay ang mga tinatawag nilang isang kahig-isang tuka. Sa maniwala kayo o hindi, dito ko nakita ang mga taong sinasabi nila at maituturing “tunay na tao.” Sa kabila ng kanilang kahirapan ay nagagawa nilang tumulong sa kapwa nilang magbabasura. Marami sa kanila ay may malasakit sa kapwa at may disiplina sa sarili. Mas mapagkakatiwalaan pa nga ang iba sa kanila kay sa ating mga opisyal ng gobyerno at pulitiko. Mas may takot pa nga sila sa Diyos kay si Joc-joc Bolante na sagad na yata sa buto ang pagsisinungaling ayun sa ating mga Senador.
Mang Joe, hanggang hindi pa binbabago ang pangalan ng lugar na Pag-asa ay may pag-asa pa rin sa Pilipinas. Magbabago pa kaya ang Noypi? Hindi lahat, pero sa pamamagitan ng tamang edukasyon pamayanan at pangkultura may nakikita akong pag-angat sa civic consciousness ng mga Pilipino. Sa seryosong usapan, bilang isang guro, at the end of the semester may nakikita akong pagbabago sa pag-uugali ng aking mga estudyante. Kaya nating baguhin ang takbo ng ating bayan kung nagkakaisa tayong lahat na itama ang mga maling gawain ng mga Noypi para sila ay maging disiplinado at produktibong mamayan.
Kaya doc.bobonyo, tama kayo sa inyong panuntunan. Hindi lang sakit ng katawan ang dapat gamutin sa mga Pilipino pati na rin sakit sa kaluluwa. Minsan ay nagkabiroan kami ni Colegiala girl, supot lang daw po ang nawawalan ng pag-asa. Kan yo tule-tule dem, hehehe. Merry Christmas to you Dok and to ol da pipol who bisit bisit you here. Mabuhay!
Manay Chi,
I agree with your observation a hundreed percent. Napakalawak na topic itong Konsepto ng “Slave Consciousness.” It goes from one country/culture to the other. It is quite amusing, may mga taong ayaw paalipin ngunit nang-aalipin. May mga taong malaya na pero ang tingin pa rin sa sarili ay isang alipin at hindi malaya. Since Biblical times ganito na ang kalakaran ng daigdig, there are slaves as there are masters. Pero sa isang banda ay may mga naging alipin din na sa katawan lang pina-alipin, hindi sa prinsipyo at isipan. Ang pagkaalipin sa isipan ay ang pinakamasahol nang mangyari pa sa isang tao. At maraming bagay ang maaring mang-alipin sa isang tao, maling paniniwala, kawalan ng pag-asa, kayabangan, kasakiman, at kamundohan (yikes daming nadale), hehehe.
Maraming salamat po sa inyong lahat sa mga brilliant comments ninyo. May “feeding program” akong dadaluhan at naatasang magbigay ng munting mensahe. Mang Joe, salamat for sharing us tungkol sa isang motivational speaker na hindi sagabal para sa kanya ang kanyang physical limitations para maging “isang winner”. Isasali ko ito sa aking mensahe.
Segundina
Kung nag praticum ka sa Golden Acres, malamang kapag medyo pagod ka na, doon ka sa SM City nagpapalamig. At marahil, nakabunggong balikat ko ikaw sa kainan sa basement o baka naman doon ka nagkakape sa Starbucks. Incidentally, the latest report is SM City is now the 3rd largest mall in the world and it’s in Pagasa. And 3 malls in the Philippines are among the top men largest!
If the Filipino arrogance is in the mold of Henry Sy, malaki ang pagasa natin na magbago ang Pinoy but the question is, kailangan kaya yun? The answer is: Pagdating ng Panahon.
One arrogant Filipino is now in the midst of an ugly imbrioglio because of the alleged Fertilizer Scam. But Pedestrian Observer, instead of magmura ng p___ina, niyaya na lang tayong kumanta:
ANG PASKO KO’Y SUMABIT (Hinaing ni Bolante)
(Tune: “Ang Pasko ay Sumapit” ni Levi Celerio)
ang Pasko ko’y sumabit
ngunit `di pa rin aawit
kahit sa magdamagang hearing
dahil, diyos ko, ako’y may feeling
kung ako ay magsiwalat
may tatlong pari na dadalaw
at ang bawat isaay
may ihahandog na dasal pang-patay
bagong taon kala’y bagong-buhay
humingi ng asylum du’n kay Uncle Sam
ako ay nagsikap upang di makita
ginawa ko para kay ma’am!
ayaw ko talagang umawit
balak ko lang ay tumahimik
kalusuga’y naiipitkapag namatay,
bagsak ko’y di sa langit
St. Luke’s pa naman may kamahalan
kaya inyong sundin `tong gintong aral
kung mabubuking kayosa probinsya magtago,
`wag nang mangibang-bayan!
Doc B
Mali ako sa pag-type sa itaas, it should be: are among the Top Ten (not men) biggest mall.
Segundina
Mali na naman ako nang isulat kong sa Golden Acres ka nagprakticum. Sa Pagasa ka pala nagpracticum at nagkataon doon din nakatirik ang Golden Acres kaya na-mixed up ako.
Ako naman, hindi na kailagan makisalimuha sa mga katulad ng taga Payatas dahil naranasan ko ang kahirapan at katunayan, sa kabilang dagat pa ako lumaki. At alam mo, nanlalaki ang aking mata tuwing ako’y umuuwi ng bayan at makakita ng malaking bahay at sasakyan. Ang katulad mo ang pinag-aralan ang talagang makakapag sabi kung may pag-asa pa o wala na ang isang tao. At ang katulad mo rin ang pwedeng magmulat sa mga nawawalan ng pagasa na halip na maglupasay, aba’y kumilos para mabuhay. Our life is really important. Without it, we are dead.
Hope springs eternal, really.
A very large segment of Filipinos are clinging to hope that their current economic status can still turn for the better, outnumbering a small number of compatriots whose persistent morose outlook continues to cast a pall of hopelessness over the Filipinos� ability to grow as a nation.
Yan ang pambungad sa isang artikulo sa Daily Tribune:
http://www.tribuneonline.org/headlines/20081220hed3.html
Flippinos been hoping for the past 480 years … LOOK WHERE IT PUT US?
Reading the article on the link I posted above, this part must have a strong basis:
Interestingly, majority of the people of various educational background, whether they were without formal education or had elementary or secondary education or even finished college, were consistently not losing hope for the better. And neither the respondent’s age nor gender had any bearing on the people clinging to hope, or hoping against hope,
Those who conducted the survey are technically and professionally prepared and I would like to agree on their findings when they wrote:
Translated into bigger picture, the survey results may mean a slew of virtues among Filipinos ranging from perseverance to resilience, and from positivism to self-confidence and trust in their compatriots. It may also mean the Filipinos are getting bolder and daring in their struggle for survival.
Sa karanasan ko naman sa field, marami na rin akong nasaksihan na pamilya na umunlad sa paraan na parehas, hindi nanlalalmang sa kapwa at sa tunay na sipag at tiyaga sila umunlad.
Problema lang sa ibang mga Pilipino mahilig sa shortcut. Gustong umunlad kaagad na walang kahirap-hirap kahit sa mga illegal na bagay pa nanggaling ang kanilang yaman.
Sa mga proyekto namin na pang-livelihood noong araw sa aking pinapasukan na NGO, halos lahat na aming binigyan ng puhunang pangkabuhayan ay nagtagumpay. Kailangan lang talaga ang gabay at suporta sa ating mga kababayan na mahihirap na nagsisimula pa lang sa mga gawaing pangkabuhayan.
Dito namin ibinuhos ang aming mga efforts sa social preparation. Lahat ng mga kasapi na nagtiyagang umattend sa mga meetings at training programs ay nabiyayaan ng husto dahil nabago ang kanilang panuntunan sa buhay, from being makasarili to somebody na may malasakit sa kapwa at sa kanyang organisasyon. Of course maliit lang na porsiento ito pero ito ang nagpapatunay na maaring magbago pa ang isang “Noypi” kung mabibigyang lang siya ng pagkakataon, tamang gabay at suporta.
Wala na ako sa field of social services and development, nasa public health na ako, pero natutuwa ako dahil nagpapatuloy pa rin ang mga gawaing tunay na nagpapaunlad sa mga Pilipino na hindi dole out. Natutuwa pa rin ako dahil may mga dating mahihirap na ngayon ay naging maunlad na ang kanilang buhay sa pagsasaka, cottage industries, small scale businesses, mga talyer, at iba pang klase ng kumikitang kabuhayan.
There are two sources of social change, intrinsic and extrinsic. The change that comes from within is more lasting than any kind of change motivated by reward such as money and other forms of benefits. Malaking bagay ang tinatawag nating “education for life.” Hindi lang ito nakakatulong sa isang tao, nakakatulong din sa pag-unlad at pagbabago ng kanyang social environment.
Social Change? Yes, the Filipino can.
“Walang taong mangaalipin kung walang magpapaalipin.” May mga Filipinong na napakababa ang tingin nila sa kapwa Pilipino, ni hindi man lang kinakikitaan ng kahit maliit na sinag ng pag-asa. Para sa kanila ang mga Pilipino ay itinalagang maghihirap at mabuhay sa impierno nang habang panahon. At sila man na nagsasabi ng ganon ay mga bilanggo at alipin ng sarili nilang kaisipan at kasawian sa buhay.
Patay lang ang wala nang magagawa pa sa buhay. At ako’y takot sa sino mang nagsasabi na wala nang patutunguhan pang mabuti ang bansang ito, dahil ang tanging nagsasabi lang ng ganon ay isang multo.
tsk. tsk. tsk.
talaga naman, oo.
kahit saang pusyon, doon kayo nagkukulumpon.
teka, sino ba ang bangka dine?
malaki ba ang puhunan?
o, pareng joeseg, kasado na!
saan ba tayo, kurus o kara?
kung ‘yung patay nga may delihensiya, ang buhay pa kaya ang mawalan ng pag-asa?
kung ang tao’y likas na tamad, talagang malabong umunlad.
masasalamin din sa ugali ng iba na kapag nakakita nang medyo umaangat ay kung ano anong sitsit paninira ang gagawin at pipiliting mahila pababa tungo muli sa antas nila.
ang mga uring ganito sa kapinuyan ang dapat mawala.
tingnan na lamang ang mga ibang lahi, habang may magagawa sila ay pinapaangat ang mga kalahi nila, kahit na nga walang alam sa anumang larangang pinapasukan. hindi nila inaalis ang suporta at ipinakikitang lubos ang tiwalang aasenso ang kababayang kanilang tinatangkilik.
‘yung ibang pinoy?
ewan!
“Our life is really important. Without it, we are dead.”
pareng joeseg, oo.
alangan namang “our dead is really important. without it, we are life.”
he he he heeeeh!
meri krismas en a hapi nyu yir tu ol op yu!!!
ay lab yu!!!
dok,
may feeding program ba ‘ika n’yo kayong pupuntahan?
sama kami, hane?
ano ba ‘yun breastfeeding ba?
sino ang magpapa-feed?
huwag lamang ‘yung aleng may bangaw sa mukha, mag-e-endyoy tayo sa pag-feed!
meri krismas ule!
MRivera, it seems and looks like Filipinos are working ourselves to uplift our condition. GOD HAS IGNORED US! Now GOD is blaming the Filipinos for being lazy, dumb, stupid and ignorant.
Where was the “Ask and you shall receive”? HUH?
I thought God would devinely intervene and change the Flippinos!!!!
DUH!
OPEN YOUR EYES FOLKS!!!!!! GET REAL!!!!
Filipinos minds are intellectually deformed by religion.
Once we liberate ourselves from the hope, promises and excuses from God that’s the only time we Flippos progress!!!!!
Away from excuses, away from promises, away from uneven application of cruel and unusual punishment …
GOD IS THE DEVIL!!!!!
RP,
eto ang masasabi ko sa iyo, bagaman at iginagalang ko ang opinyon mo.
katulad nang sinabi ko sa itaas, kapag katamaran ang pinairal ng isang tao (kahit anong lahi pa siya nabibilang) patay ang kanyang pag-asa sa anupaman.
ako ay may kapansanan na sa katawan, subalit pinipilit kong makisalamuha at makipagtagisan sa mundo ninyong mga walang kakulangan. sa kabila ng paghina ng aking pandinig bunga ng hindi ko na babanggitin pang maaaring dahilan, hindi ko itinuturing na ito ay isang malaking hadlang upang mabuhay ko nang maayos ang aking mga mahal sa buhay.
dito ako ngayon sa gitnang silangan, at awa ng panginoon at pagtitiwala ng aking boss na lebanese na isinasama ako sa bawat project na kanyang pamunuan, eto ako kahit alam niyang ganito, hindi niya ihinihiwalay sapagkat nakikita’t napapatunayan niya, kaya ko at may nagagawa para sa mga accomplishments ng kanyang team. at, hind lang ako, KUNDI kaming lahat na pinoy na nakasama niya at nagpakita ng katapatan at kasigasigan sa bawat trabahong ipinagkatiwala at iniatang.
hindi ako paladasal na tao, pero hindi ko BINABASTOS ang DIYOS na pinaniniwalaan ko!
Pag ang tao tamad. Pag ang tao hindi matupad ang mga pangako. Pag si GMA, in lieu of God, hindi matupad ang mga pangako bino-bullshit n’yo si GMA, di ba? Binabastos n’yo si GMA, di ba?
Therefore, logically speaking, babastosin rin natin ang DIYOS na walang kagalanggalang sa mga kapwa Filipino. RIGHT? LOGICAL?
Filipino always says the Jews are unbeatable because your God is a Jew. Therefore, God devinely intervened in behalf of the Jewish Israelites so as they will not get annhilated. RIGHT?
God, devinely intervened in the minds of the jews to be bright and intelligent. RIGHT?
If your God were able to devinely intervene for the Jews, WHY NOT INTERVENE IN THE PHILIPPINES!!!!! LOGICAL, RIGHT?
PERO HINDI NAG-INTERVENE ANG DIYOS N’YO!!!! THEREFORE, BABASTOSIN NATIN GAYA NA BINABASTOS NILA SI GMA!!!!!
RiP,
mahirap samahan ang katwiran mo.
diyan ka masaya, ikaw na lang.
huwag mo na kaming isama sa pagdadambana mo kay gloria bilang kinatawan ng sinasamba mong diyos, kung ano man ‘yun!
The reason Philippines is corrupt and ignorant is you are OBLIVIOUS!!! YOU ARE BLIND!!! YOU CANNOT CONNECT THE DOTS!!! YOU ARE LIVING IN FANTASY!!!
I betcha you live in America. Americans tore down their ten commandments in public places. And what you cannot see is Americans are way way way way progressive than Philippine Roman Catholic fanatical religion.
If your GOD were there today in America, your GOD’s cruel and unusual punishments that routed the infirm, disabled, children, old people and innocents thru GREAT FLOOD, ORIGINAL SIN and FIRE AND BRIMSTONE, YOUR GOD WILL BE IN HANDCUFFS AND YOU WILL BE SCREAMING WITH JOY “HALLELUJAH FOR AMERICANS TO IMPRISON THIS TORMENTOR”
I believe Doc.Bobonyo also is in America. Doc reaped what the “devil” American has sown.
Meri Krismas doc. Alam ko busy ka ngayong pasko, wish ko lang sana magtagumpay ang lahat ng mga project ninyo sa serbisyong sosyal at pangkalusugan para sa mga mahihirap. Huwag sana kayo madadala sa kuwan, hehehe. May you have a prosperous new year too.
Tito Magno,
Mabuhay ka! Sana dumami pa ang mga taong katulad ninyo. Nakakainspire po kayo talaga.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to All.
HAPPY December 25th!!! A celebration of historical, human Jesus Christ.
HAPPY, PROSPEROUS, NEW LIFE, NEW ATTITUDE, REENGINEERED TRAITS AND CHARACTER FOR THE NEW YEAR!@!!
Let us educate our fellow compatriots of the glaring obvious difference between GOD-BASHING civilized world (ie Europe and America) and GOD-FEARING Flippinos, latin america and the rest of poor religious countries.
If people prefer poor and religious. GOOD! STOP BASHING THE GOVERNMENT! Ask from GOD who promised us good life yet instead God blame it on us, poor Filipinos.
If people prefer being wealthy and secular. GOOD!
So much has changed. From Vatican’s marketing false advertisement “Ask and you shall receive” to modern day “you Filipinos are bunch of lazy idiots”
Renato Pacifico,
hindi ka nakakainis kundi nakakaawa sa iyong ginagawi at inaasal.
ikaw ba at si ANASTACIOng KUPAL na itinakwil ang pagiging pinoy dahil naging isang ‘merkanong hilaw ay iisa?
tama ang ginamit mo, PACIFICO. kasing lawak ng pinakamalawak na karagatan ang kayabangan at kagaguhan mo!
huwag mong lalahatin ang lahing pinoy na itinatakwil mo. katulad ko, kahit may kapansanan, ay binubuhay nang marangal ang aking pamilya at hindi nanlalamang o nangyayapak ng kahit na sino dahil alam ko ang kasalukuyang pagkagumon sa kahirapan ng aking bansa dahil sa kagagawan ng mga gahaman at linta ay hindi panghabang panahon.
hindi ka ba kinikilabutan sa mga pinagsasasabi mo?
o inaamin mo ring kabilang ang angkan mong naiwan sa pinas sa mga tinatawag mong tanga at gago?
kung hindi man mawala nang lubusan ang mga gahaman sa ating pamahalaan, meron sanang isa o dalawang manindigan para sa kapakanan ng mga dukhang siyang mas tinatamaan ng masakit na hampas ng lahat ng katiwalian.
paano na ang kinabukasan ng ating mga supling na siyang magpapasan ng bigat ng dalahing wala silang kinalaman? hahayaan ba nating hanggang sa pagpikit ng ating mga mata ay nariyan ang nakaambang patalim na anumang oras ay handang itarak sa atin mismong lalamunan? tatanggapin ba natin ng may ngiti sa labi at buong kasiyahan ang mga pagyurak sa ating karangalan at pagsupil sa ating karapatan?
bagong taon na. panibagong pahina ng kasayasayan ang muling masusulat. panibagong pagpalaot sa masalimuot na tagisan ng buhay. lalagi na lamang ba tayong talunan dahil na rin sa ating mga pagkukulang?
panawagan sa natitirang mga magigiting at mararangal na kawal, kayong mga inaasahan ng taong bayan na kanilang magiging sandigan, pangunahan ninyo ang paglulunsad ng isang makabuluhan at napapanahong pakikipaglaban!
mabuhay ang bagong pilipinas!
mabuhay tayong lahat!
meri krismas tu ol op yu on da leyt en hapi nyu yir in da neks.
iniimbitahan ko kayo sa birthdey ko sa bagong taon.
magkakatay ako ng isang matabang baboy, isang imported na kabayo at isang poodle na aso!
‘yung tatlong haring sinungaling na gago ang magiging kusinero at weyter na magsisilbi sa inyo.
masasarap naman ang luto nila, pero kung duda kayo dahil sa kanilang mga kabulastugang pinaggagagawa, eh bring yur own baon na lang, hane?
huwag na kayong magdala ng regalo dahil hindi ko tatanggapin. ibigay na lamang ninyo sa kawanggawa pero kung mapilit kayo, huwag na lang in kind, cash na lang.
he he heeeh!
pakilagay na lang sa sobre para hindi gaanong mahalata, puwede?
“……….But being born a Filipino you can not change what you are even if you change your citizenship. Better love your own people, do whatever you can to help transform the Filipinos to become one of the most respected people in the world. But prepare yourself if ever, the way is long. It will take many years to see a transformed Philippine society. ”
tamang tama ang mga salitang ito para doon sa mga pinoy na itinatakwil ang pagaging pinoy dahil lamang sa pagiging american citizen.
mga walang utang na loob at hindi marunong lumingon sa pinanggalingan at hindi iniisip na meron silang mga kamag-anak na iniwan sa lupaing kanilang hindi na nais na balikan ay inaalimura pa’t dinuduraan ang mga “dating kababayan”.
MRivera, I’m changing the Filipinos by exposing the bad side of us. It’s a gargantuan task! HELP ME EXPOSE so Filipinos be aware and eventually change.
RP,
paano mong mababago ang sinasabi mong napakasamang pag-uugali o asal ng lahing iyo nang ITINATAKWIL?
hindi ang sama ng asal ng karaniwang mamamayan ang pumipigil upang umunlad muli ang dati nang nagsisimula noong umunlad na bansa kundi ang pagiging GAHAMAN at SUWITIK ng mga napapaupo sa poder partikular ang ngayong administrasyon na wala nang iniisip at ginagawa kundi lokohin ang taong bayan.
ikaw at ang mga katulad mong nabibilang sa mga may matataas na pinag-aralan, maunlad na pamumuhay at malawak na koneksiyon ang mas may kakayahan upang hatakin at hikayatin sa pagtahak sa tamang landas tungo sa inaasam na pagbabago ang mga taong sinasabi mong walang ginawa kundi magreklamo at maghintay ng milagro.
ang magagawa ko lamang ay ang matulungan silang mapasok dito sa pinaglilingkuran ko upang sa gayon ay matanto nilang merong nagmamalasakit sa kanilang kababayan na galing din sa antas nila sa kasalukuyan.
hindi sapat ang salita upang ang tao ay maakay sa tama.
We know that the administration (ie. GMA) is corrupt. But we have to do it by way of rule-of-law not mob-rule. Problem is The gung-gung Senate bungled the invistigative process.
At itong mga gagong pekeng-peryodistas don’t know about it. They are so oblivious of the invistigative process.
So from pekeng-peryodistas to the Senate are extremely clueless. That cannot happen in America where we copy our constitution and rule of law.
Say, we are sucessful in ejecting GMA, we are left with gung-gung clueless oblivious Senate, right? So nothing change. We change the presidency but we are still left with gung-gung Senate.
Therefore, we are still dooomed!!!!!
Happy New Year to every all!
Are you sick of making the same resolutions year after year that you never keep? Why not promise to do something you can actually accomplish? Here are some resolutions that you can use as a starting point.
Here’s NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION YOU CAN KEEP
1. Gain weight. At least 30 pounds.
2. Stop exercising. Waste of time.
3. Read less. Makes you think.
4. Watch more TV. I’ve been missing some good stuff.
5. Procrastinate more. Starting tomorrow.
6. Not date any of the Baywatch cast.
7. Spend more time at work, surfing with the T1.
8. Take a vacation to someplace important: like, to see the largest ball of twine.
9. Not jump off a cliff just because everyone else did.
10. Stop bringing lunch from home: I should eat out more.
11. Not have eight children at once.
12. Get in a whole NEW rut!
13. Start being superstitious.
14. Personal goal: bring back disco.
15. Not wrestle with Jesse Ventura.
16. Buy an ‘83 Eldorado and invest in a really loud stereo system.
17. Get the windows tinted. Buy some fur for the dash.
18. Speak in a monotone voice and only use monosyllabicwords.
19 . Only wear jeans that are 2 sizes too small and use a chain or rope for a belt.
20. Spend my summer vacation in Cyberspace.
21. Not eat cloned meat.
22. Create loose ends.
23. Get more toys.
24. Get further in debt.
25. Not believe politicians.
26. Break at least one traffic law.
27. Not drive a motorized vehicle across thin ice.
28. Avoid transmission of inter-species diseases.
29 . Avoid airplanes that spontaneously drop 1000 feet.
30. Not swim with piraanhas or sharks.
31. Associate with even worse business clients.
32. Spread out priorities beyond my ability to keep track of them.
33. Wait around for opportunity.
34. Focus on the faults of others.
35. Never make New Year’s resolutions again.
ang kawalang pag-asa, kung paiiiralin ay lalong magbubunga ng kasiphayuan at magtutulak sa mga mamamayan upang gumamit ng kamay na bakal lalo pa’t sa harap ng sunod sunod na dagok na dinaranas ay nagsasaya pa’t nagagawang magsipagtawanan ng mga pulitikong sukab. isama na natin ang dapat sana’y merong magagawang mayroong matataas na pinag-aralan subalit sila na rin ang ugat ng panghihina ng loob ng mga umaasang taumbayan.
wala na nga bang pag-asang makabangon ang ating bayan?
malaki ang pag-asa, huwag lamang pakikinggan ang mga gunggong ang katwiran!
Walang pag-asa ang Filipinas for the past 480 years and still counting.
Loving Filipinas is turning a blind eye on the gung-gung bumbling Senado that derailed the invistigation.
In my dear Filipinas, criticizing Filipinas is BAD. Loving Filipinas means loving corruption, thievery and other nefarious activities.
Since loving Filipinas will not bring us to 21st centuries, why not bash Filipinas!!! At least Filipinos would know what’s drowning Filipins.
But loving Filipins has good points, too. Loving is not knowing. Not knowing what hit us better THAN knowing and not doing anything about exposing it.
We, Filipinos, has our intellect mangled and deformed by religion.
SATAN IS GREAT!!! SATAN IS MEEK!!! NO CHURCH, NO HOLY BOOK, NO FOLLOWERS, NO PARENTS, CARICATURED AS UGLY. YET, SATAN DOESN’T SAY ANYTHING. SATAN DON’T FIGHT BACK.
SATAN IS MEEK!!! AND THE MEEK SHALL INHIRIT THE EARTH!!!
If it were not for Satan, Adam would not have a hard-on, Eve would not have been sopping wet, we would not have been here.
Thank you Satan for the Apple tree!!!
God waterboarded the earth when the world, then, was flat and the sun revolves around the earth. God drowned everyone as far away as the Philippines whose aborigines didn’t even know who Noah was nor the ten commandments. Disabled, old, infirm, pregnant women, defenseless children were waterboarded and drowned by LOVING GOD because of the sins of the FEW and only in PERSIA!!!! WATERBOARDING AND DROWNING is cruel and unusual punishment FROWNED UPON BY CIVILIZED THINKING WORLD!!! (i.e. Europe and America, of course, not Filipinos)
God watched Noah and his children led an incestious life. That’s why we came about.
Another cruel and unusual punishment approved by so called God is death thru Fire and Brimstone.
That is why God cannot appear in our lifetime because God is wanted by INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS!!!
VIVA SATANAS!!! SATAN IS MEEK!!! AND THE MEEK SHALL INHIRIT THE EARTH
The civilized world, except Roman Catholic countries, save the enslave children paying for the sins of their fathers and great grandfathers and their forefathers in Africa. Civilized world, except Roman Catholic countries, paid off their father’s sins.
Yet, Roman Catholic and Christians around the world gleefully clap their hands every sunday recalling the original sins, the gruesome cruel and unusual punishment thru great flood and fire and brimstone.
Freaking weirdos!!!
SATAN IS GREAT!!! SATAN IS SILENT!!! SATAN IS MEEK!!! AND THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH!!!
God’s road to heaven is strewn with thorns. LAUGHABLE!!! Better off my parents made sure my road to manhood is not strewn with thorns.
The God believers are the most atrocious people on earth. Common names in Philippine prisons are …… (drum roll please) … JESUS, MARIA atsa ka Joseph. They adore genocidal maniac called Jesus Christ.
Common tatoo designs preferred by murderers: Jesus Christ, Crucifix
Doc.
Happy New Year. Sana makapasyal kayo sa amin para matikman naman ninyo ang suman na luto ni Britney at ang dala ni Kap na Kapeng Barako mula Batangas.
DocB.
Hapi new dear, este new yer po, hehehe. Nandiyan ka lang pala sa paligid-ligid. Kumusta na ang mabait na lingkud ng bayan. Naghihintay po kami ng bago ninyong poste, salamat po.
doc.bobonyo,
Ganap nang presidente si Barack Obama. Magkakaroon daw ng pagbabago ang takbo ng mundo sa pulitika, ekonomya, at pag-uugnayan ng mga tao. Ikaw doc.bobonyo naniniwala ka ba?
Mukhang nawala yata iyong isa mong pasyente?
Kapitan, The world will change but Filipinos and the Philippines will forever remain the same.
We remained the same for the past 480 years what’s stopping us from not changing. BARACK? Ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!ha!
IN MY DREAMS …..
Kabataan Pag-asa ng Bayan.—I’ve read this long time ago on Jose Rizal’s novel.
When I was growing-up I have a dream, I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.
I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice.
ay mali….Kay Martin pala ang speech na iyan.Hehehe!
Anyway, during my school days my Sir and Madam would require us to memorize 1million words on the chapter of the book we currently have to remember. We need to cram a bunch more words into our heads to get 75% on the report card,soon we forget after the test with codigo penal. All my classmates were impressed on my answer on the test question,I always get 110 right out of 100 and that’s of course 10 was a sidenote to my teacher that if he won’t mark x on my test paper I will buy him Siopao bola-bola and coke with a bonus of 1 cartoon of Salem.Don’t ask me where I got those.US naval base was in Gapo that time and the guard on the gate saluted my eldest brother’s car.Most of my teachers died with lung cancer.
Of course! I was always stressed out with grammar and reading, even if there were time for communicative practice, I could not wait to have soup number 5 after enduring those torture avoiding the ass whacking of a majorette baton my teacher always have in his right hand.
Now, the teaching maybe,is different. Just say “Present” if the teacher call their name on the roll call without learning, the most important maybe,is to send their students to march on the stage on culmination exercise so that they can get their 13th month bonus..
Those people in the education ministry have no idea anyway, what it’s like in the public sector or how to solve problems in public schools because they all went to the best private schools sleeping in class. This fundamental problem means that the Lapuz ministry of education lacks understanding of what the public wants students to be taught, as well as how to teach students effectively.
Why don’t the parents complain or write more often about their disgust and the postmaster will deliver it to Lapuz desk.? (Oh! Damn me,!those parents could only write carabao English I suppose)
Now, Obama got elected, explaining how this fulfilled the American idea that anyone can become President of the United States. Soon after explaining this, Mr.Castro looked at his students in History class and said, “Isn’t that great? Too bad that is impossible for the students in public school. And unfortunately, all of the students understood what the teacher who’s suffering from COPD meant. There is no point in dreaming of becoming a topnotch politicians because those jobs are reserved for the kids whose parents can afford to send them to schools that specialize in producing future bureaucrats.You must have a Gonzales,Magsaysay,Garcia,Marcos,Zobel or Ayala last name and you must have a Meztizo or Meztiza blood to enter in Politics.–Only Jojo and Ruben got Lucky because of Cory,they waxed Cory’s table before serving coffee.
Pareng Cocoy,
Napasyal kami kahapon sa Subic upang magcelebrate para sa Chinese New Year. Mukhang naapektohan yata ng economic crisis ang mga ibang negosyo doon at nagsara. Marami na sa mga buildings ng mga Kano ang giniba. Umikot lang kami sa paligid, may barkong Kano ang nakadaong doon at may mga babae akong nakita na mga bata pa at magaganda. Tila kasama pa yata sila ng kanilang mga papa san, hehehe. Hindi na yata lumalabas ang mga Kano upang maghanap ng kaligayahan, sila na yata ang pinupuntahan ng mga palay para tukahin. Napansin ko lang ang malaking pagbabago ng Zambales, iyong bagong expressway connecting NLEX to Subic ay talaga namang kahanga-hanga. Akala mo nasa Tate ka habang binabagtas mo ito. Ang ganda rin ng tanawin, lalo na iyong mga puno ng mangga.
Dapat pumasyal naman sa mga eskuwelahan sa Probinsiya itong si Sec. Lapus, subukan niyang magturo sa mga pupils kagaya ng mga teacher at nang malaman niya mismo kung ano ang mga kakulangang ng DepEd. Subukan niyang magtanong sa mga pupils at nang malaman kung may laman ang mga utak nito o wala. Dito niya malalaman kung ano pa ang mga pagkukulang ng kanyang departamento.
bihira sa mga bloggista ang ispiritwal na ay nasyonalista pa.
sulat pa!
hmmmm….. i think, there’s a possible that filipino can be change by improving there self. Taking a chance into new life just because they have a conflict about thier one’s character.
LOL.. people like you just like to generalize, probably you just got so mad because of what happened, enough reason to remind you of all the arrogant filipinos you met and forget those who are not… every race has arrogant people and you should just learn to be individualist -_-
..and by the way, you are also arrogant to call someone “tricycle driver lang”, sino bang may gusto ng pakalat kalat ang aso sa daan lalo na’t sinabi mo na nasa subdivision kayo?
Always have to mix in a non-existing god, and pretending you are good catholics, but still have to brake the seven deadly sins every day. I just wonder, and smile…:)
I thought I was alone in this observation.True, there is none more difficult to deal with than a former slave who has achieved “something”. In his mind, he thinks he is above others. It is Biblical, as it describes how it is difficult when a former slave becomes his master’s wife. One very negative trait of many brown “natives” is pride. It is repulsive.