Ms. Ric
14 April 2007

 

 

Mr. Pontaoe,

Sharing family recipes in this board is NOT petty. I’m STILL looking for Calasiao Puto recipe.

So, Mr. Macaranas, nayarin pitepet yo pa ed si Bai nu anta da man ya lutuen. Salamat na balbaleg.

Ms. Ric
14 April 2007

 

 

Mr. Oriel,

I really am not looking forward to exchanging these kinds of post with you. I’d like to think I’m better than that. But let me just clarify one thing. That last post of mine was NOT meant to criticize the HAVEN, far from it. You really do not need to educate me on what they do nor do you need to tell me or anyone else on this board for that matter to start DOING.

And since you listed an array of your good deeds, let me just give you a sample of what other forum punchers like myself DO. I volunteer six weeks of my summer vacation working for Big Sister’s Organization here in my county. Last Christmas vacation, I volunteered my whole two weeks in New Orleans, teaching winter sessions because some students are STILL behind from being out of school for such a long time during Katrina.

For 180 days I volunteer one-two hours after school in my local library and/or homework lab helping kids with homework or reading stories out loud. For one weekend a year, I organize my neighborhood “Block Garage Sale” and donate the proceeds to a local halfway house for battered women. For an hour every Saturday, I vacuum and dust the pews at my local church. Last Saturday, I climbed ladders hanging garlands around the church, hid eggs for children to find after the mass, and cleaned up after the children on Sunday.

And I’m sure I’m just one of many on this board who I’m sure DOES something to give back to their community, be it the community they live in or back home.

Mr. Oriel, I believe in people. I believe that they DO what they can WHEN they can. It would be really presumptuous for ANY of us to assume otherwise.

Eduardo Pontaoe
14 April 2007

Mr. Ramon Macaranas,

Let me be unambiguous. When I said, “Any subject under the stars”, I meant, any discourse that will tickle your brain. Those topics germane and mundane must be kept to oneself.

And if you knew Timbuktu…trivial… you wouldn’t even mention the weather of that city in Mali, you know why, because it’s a city in the southern fringes of the Sahara where it seldoms rain. That will tell you, the climate is dry and terribly hot.

For your info, Mali is located in the northwestern part of Africa south of Algeria. And your grandma’s recipe on adobo, it’s petty don’t do it. Setting the record straight is not bad taste or an invective to anybody as you mentioned. Part of the learning process. I wouldn’t mind thrown curved balls every now and then. I can live with that.

Eduardo Pontaoe
14 April 2007

 

You unquestionably hit the nail on the head, Ms. Ric. Your deductions why Filipinos couldn’t get out from the political pigsty they’re in, is because they are unknowledgeable to tackle such trivial a task. That corruption precedes everything. Nothing accomplished without the grease.

Almost four (4) centuries of Spanish sovereignty, the Filipino did not pick up any substantial experience of governing themselves, but only the mastery of the rosary.

Came the Americans and their token recognition of independence. The outcome of that gesture after 61 years trying to emulate the Yankee brand of freedom brought us to the abyss of unfathomable irresponsibility, mismanagement and malfeasance.

The copied Constitution of the US imposed on the gullible Filipino did not help much as we can see the birthing of monstrous dreams, unfulfilled…scattered to the four winds. The dream… Charter Change (Cha-Cha), whatever you call it, that Oriel dreamed about is vacuous, hypocritical and vain. It cannot be adopted in that country… like you said, “It is only diced, sautéed, cooked for the Canadians”.

So accurate, did Oriel overlook that this form of government was tried under Marcos and it was staged just to extend his rule eternal? It was a flop.

The Filipino is noted for his complaisance, bending to everybody’s will. Like a drunk drinking anything offered him even for his own demise. But, the most significant about him, is his penchant of destroying his own creation…like a crocodile devouring its own young.

Rafael L. Oriel, Jr.
14 April 2007

 

Ms. Ric, don’t lose hope that somewhere in Ms. Kimi Cojuangco’s speech she also asked the kids to start doing something with their lives. I totally agree with you, to encourage them to just dream would be doing them disservice.

Well, Ms. Ric, you can keep on hoping or dreaming. You can also start doing by asking Ms.Visperas or Ms. Kimi Cojuangco or Mrs. Gina de Venecia for more information about The Haven, Home for Street children in Bonuan Binloc, Dagupan City. I have strong feeling that the kids will be guided accordingly at The Haven not just to dream but to do something for their future.

At least, there is one thing sure, the kids are much better with somebody helping them than no help at all. The kids are lucky to have The Haven for Street children, one of the noble projects put up by the Congressional Spouses Foundation Inc. led by Mrs. Gina de Venecia, with the full backing from her husband, House Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. and the Department of Social Welfare and Development.

In one of my previous post, I talked about our worldwide organization and some of the projects that we have done. I like to add that members of our Cebu Chapter planted hundreds of tree seedlings on August 20, 2006, at a considerable area along the Trancentral Highway in Cebu, as part of their project called PLANT A TREE OF HOPE. That meaningful slogan, which embodies our members’ faith and hope, has also served as their rallying point towards contributing to the realization of a better Philippines.

Another project that was done by our Cebu Chapter is to visit Hospicio De San Jose De Barili to plant HOPE not by way of trees this time but by planting it in the hearts of needy old people. Hospicio De San Jose De Barili in Cebu is a home for the care and support, free of charge, of indigent invalids and incapacitated and helpless persons.

Maybe someday, we can also organize our Pangasinan Chapter. If there are some of my Kabaleyans, most especially the youths, who are interested to help, please let me know. Organization of our Bohol Chapter is now in progress. Our chapters in Khobar, Saudi Arabia, Cebu and Catanduanes are in the process of establishing cooperatives for the benefit of members and non-members.