as-3cm..
galengan nyo gum,wa reaction..

…”it’s not a wake-up call its a final alarm”

Expectations to the contrary, he is a Filipino… who could be hurt more seeing a country go down but a citizen to the country.

Just to quote from your writing…

“Your Biggest Fault

If there is one thing that comes to mind, I think your biggest fault would be your individual greed. “Ako muna!” seems to be the national mantra. The trouble is, very few people think for the common good in a deplorable “to each his own kurakot” festival. Coupled by your crab mentality of pushing down others, this can be fatal. You think barangay, not national. Hello, everybody else around the world is thinking global! Europe is unshackling her national boundaries while you are building fences around your nipa huts.”

Please reflect on what you wrote… “Ako muna!” you are indeed a true blooded filipino, im not surprised at your decision… to be ex-filipino… Sad to say, but most of us seek shelter on a bigger and fine and rich looking umbrella and leave our own umbrella on the ground… why can’t we be thankful that God settled beforehand that we be Filipino… regardless of the place we are blessed to bloom…

You claim to be in a better and much stable ship right now. If the US ship that you are claiming to be in, is flowing at a lower depth, i bet! you’ll be one of those who will decide to be ex-filam or ex-american?

Again to quote from your writing…

“Of course, I would gladly reverse my decision if someone offered me exclusive lordship over lotto, bingo, jueteng, pintakasi and the jai alai.”

Let me guess? your zen master taught you the value of appraisal.

To my fellow proud Pinoy, let’s not loose heart, listening and reading a lot of bad things about our country and the filipino people, take it as a challenge for us to be good citizens of this country. Let the change start in us.

To end, thank you Nasty for reminding me to be of use to our country in keeping our bangka afloat and in God’s time celebrate the victory in reaching its destiny.

I’m a true-blue Pinoy, and I’m proud that I’m a Filipino. But, this doesn’t erase my awareness of how rotten our ways are. Nasty is right when he said that we lack discipline. This is something that we can start practicing at home. Our parents should be the one who should implement discipline in the early stages of our lives. I believe that if we are brought up in a family that practice discipline and honesty, our future leaders or our next generation will be free from rotten corruption and dirty politics.

On the other hand, even though my country is like this, I don’t feel the urge of condemning my fellow Filipinos just like that. We are humans, not perfect individuals, nor saints or deities. I still believe that we still have a very bright future ahead of us. Being negative and bitter because of the wrong doings of others won’t yield any positive results. What we can do is to encourage everyone to support each others advocacy to help our country to progress.

The Philippine nation is a country composed of highly intelligent people. I believe we can still move on from this mess we are in. We got lots of talented and skilled individuals, and we have vast of natural resources. The only thing we can do is how to maximize this resources to achieve our goals.

Everyone should practice optimism and start doing things (in our own little ways) to help our ailing country recover, and start moving on the ladder of development. Go, go, go Pinoys! Mabuhay tayong lahat!

Second, why would Nasty, bother going to phil if he denies being a Filipino? hearing what’s happening globally.

Third, why would he bother comment about the Phil?

Fifth, i dont know if you noticed but, i havent seen any badwords there like tihsllub <– or something like that. hmm.. why?

Sixth, i think he’s not using his email. why?

Seventh, why would he recommend things that would make us rise, if in fact, he doesn’t even care anymore? the “Bahala na.”

Eighth, why don’t i have a “Fourth line?” see you didn’t notice that eh?

So much for that, well, this is just some proof that he ain’t quitting being a filipino, he’s just bluffing, using such words to encourage us “in a way” which we should take note and start working it out. After all “everything happens for a good.”

For me, everything starts with a smile. if early in the morning you have a crappy looking face, then you’ll look like pres. GMA (joke) i don’t think that our politicians will start among themselves, i prefer we are the starters for them to realize, “oh! its not just you people who is needed, all of us are!” i dont know how but, its better to leave a “how” in our mind, coz that’s what philosophy always say.

and then man i hate typing, so ill just say it this way. “Fear is just an excitement, in need of attitude adjustment.” i hope that helps!

PS: i love MCFloat btw!
- Anima Christi

“i hope you know why i did not write my real name, you’ll find out why by my name here itself.”

“Kyrie Eleison to all btw.”

have a nice life

But the thing is, we don’t even have to go too far to hear it. If we listen closely, we would learn that even amongst us, or better yet, within us, we hear these grievances, criticisms, protests, grumbles and objections directed against ourselves – our system, our government, our culture. We hear it from the lips of our discontented kababayans, from our church leaders, from our OFWs, from Filipino radio commentators, from street vendors, from the news, from students, from disgruntled employees, from emails and jokes, and even from our own politicians. It only sounds very sinister kapag narinig natin sa iba. It hits our ego. But the truth is, we’ve been hearing these comments all our lives…sa mga rallies, sa walang katapusang senate hearings, sa mahahabang pila sa govt offices, sa mga walang trabaho, etc..etc….Sure, there are undeniably a whole lot of good things we could tell about us, and we could write pages about it. But the negative comments we hear are there and unavoidable when the symptoms are all around us. we would probably say the same thing to other countries like Afghanistan.

The best defense is a good offense. If someone writes something bad about me, getting enraged about it will be of little use other than for emotional release. If there’s no truth to it, then my life, “real life” will come to my defense. I could sit there in silence, untouched, unmoved, happy and at peace with the truth and can go on with my life. Otherwise, I will live my life in such a way that other people are attracted to it, leaving no room for negative comments.

In the meantime, I still would like to go and visit places like Singapore, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan or Hongkong and see for myself all those good things I’ve been hearing about these places. Most Filipinos if not all, I presume, would also like that opportunity. And why not, these are really good places to visit, di ba? But there is one thing that I like better, and that is to hear from a Japanese or a Singaporean say to me someday, “I’d really like to come and see your cities and your people, and learn from your technologies, your infrastructures, and your government. I admire the Filipino discipline. I wonder how you did it? Your economy is an Asian miracle. I’ve heard lots of good things about you. And I want to see it for myself.”

huling hirit – i guess we can’t choose how people would comment on us. that is not our choice and to a great extent, we are even powerless to stop it. people would say what they want to say. however, for our part, we can choose how to live, how to work, how to vote, how to be involved, how to drive safely. we could choose to help others in the areas we find ourselves in. we could choose how others would see us…for other people are more objective sometimes about us than we are about ourselves when the only way we can see ourselves is through our OWN MIRROR.

and i know we could do better. i just don’t know if as a nation we ARE, and we WILL be better…but we certainly COULD be. it takes national humility, sincerity, prayer and a lot of hardwork.