Sulat ni Nanay at Tatay sa Atin

Sa aking pagtanda, unawain mo sana ako
at pagpasensiyahan.

Kapag dala ng kalabuan ng mata ay nakabasag ako ng pinggan
o nakatapon ng sabaw sa hapag kainan,
huwag mo sana akong kagagalitan.
Maramdamin ang isang matanda.
Nagse-self-pity ako sa tuwing sinisigawan mo ako.

Kapag mahina na ang tenga ko at hindi ko maintindihan
ang sinasabi mo, huwag mo naman sana akong sabihan
ng ‘binge!’ paki-ulit nalang ang
sinabi mo o pakisulat nalang.
Pasensya ka na, anak. Matanda na talaga ako.

Kapag mahina na ang tuhod ko, pagtiyagaan mo sana akong
tulungang tumayo, katulad ng pag-aalalay ko sa iyo
noong nag-aaral ka pa lamang lumakad.

Pagpasensyahan mo sana ako kung ako man ay
nagiging makulit at paulit-ulit na parang sirang plaka.
Basta pakinggan mo nalang ako.
Huwag mo sana akong pagtatawanan o
pagsasawaang pakinggan.

Natatandaan mo anak noong bata ka pa?
kapag gusto mo ng lobo, paulit-ulit mo ‘yong sasabihin,
maghapon kang mangungulit hangga’t
hindi mo nakukuha ang gusto mo.
Pinagtyagaan ko ang kakulitan mo.

Pagpasensyahan mo na rin sana ang aking amoy.
Amoy matanda, amoy lupa.
Huwag mo sana akong piliting maligo.
Mahina na ang katawan ko.
Madaling magkasakit kapag nalamigan,
huwag mo sana akong pandirihan.

Natatandaan mo noong bata ka pa?
pinatyagaan kitang habulin sa ilalim ng kama
kapag ayaw mong maligo.

Pagpasensyahan mo sana kung madalas,
ako’y masungit, dala na marahil ito ng katandaan.
Pagtanda mo, maiintindihan mo rin.

Kapag may konti kang panahon,
magkwentuhan naman tayo, kahit sandali lang.
Inip na ako sa bahay, maghapong nag-iisa.
Walang kausap.

Alam kong busy ka sa trabaho,
subalit nais kong malaman mo na sabik
na sabik na akong makakwentuhan ka,
kahit alam kong hindi ka interesado sa mga kwento ko.

Natatandaan mo anak, noong bata ka pa?
Pinagtyagaan kong pakinggan at intindihin
ang pautal-utal mong kwento tungkol sa iyong teddy bear.

At kapag dumating ang sandali na ako’y magkakasakit
at maratay sa banig ng karamdaman,
huwag mo sana akong pagsawaang alagaan.

Pagpasensyahan mo na sana kung ako
man ay maihi o madumi sa higaan,
pagtyagaan mo sana akong alagaan sa mga
huling sandali ng aking buhay.
Tutal hindi na naman ako magtatagal.

Kapag dumating ang sandali ng aking pagpanaw,
hawakan mo sana ang aking kamay
at bigyan mo ako ng lakas ng loob
na harapin ang kamatayan.

At huwag kang mag-alala,
kapag kaharap ko na ang Diyos na lumikha,
ibubulong ko sa kanya na pagpalain ka sana …
dahil naging mapagmahal ka sa iyong ama’t ina…

Written by Rev. Fr. Ariel F. Robles
St. Augustine Parish
Baliuag, Bulacan Philippines

Filipinos around the world please take time to vote online for the Tubbataha Reef in Palawan, Chocolate Hills in Bohol and Mayon Volcano in Albay to be included as one of the “New Seven Wonders of Nature.”

The contest was organized by the non-profit Seven Wonders Foundation that was established in 2001. Voting ends December 31, 2008 then panel of experts will short-list 21 candidates of which voters worldwide will select the New 7 Wonders of Nature in 2009 and the new winners will be announced in 2010. Tubbataha Reef is an atoll coral reef found in the Sulu Sea. It is a marine sanctuary protected as Tubbataha Reef National Marine Park (TRNMP).

Click this link to vote New 7 Wonders of Nature

Photo courtesy of Tubbataha.org

Good news as reported by gmanews.tv

Eleven days before trial starts for 10 Filipino nurses and their lawyer in New York, the state’s health department came out with its findings in an inquiry that residents of the nursing home “were not placed in jeopardy” when the health workers quit their jobs in April 2006.

The Filipinos, who are holding immigrant visas, are scheduled to face trial starting January 28 in a Suffolk County district court on charges of conspiracy and endangering patients in a pediatric ventilation unit at Avalon Gardens Rehabilitation and Health Care Center.

New York-based Newsday reported in its online edition on Thursday that the health department was the second major government agency to support the nurses’ claim that the patients’ lives were not placed in danger when they quit.

The state’s education department, which licenses nurses, said in 2006 that the Filipino nurses did not abandon their patients.

Facing trial are Elmer Jacinto, Juliet Anilao, Harriet Avila, Mark dela Cruz, Claudine Gamiao, Jennifer Lampa, Rizza Maulion, James Millena, Ma. Theresa Ramos, and Ranier Sichon, and their lawyer Felix Vinluan.

They were indicted on March 22, 2007 even after the state’s education department cleared them in September 2006 of any wrongdoing.

Jeffrey Hammond, spokesman of New York’s health department, said the nursing home was fully staffed when the Filipino nurses resigned en masse, contrary to the claim of its owners that they abandoned their patients who were children and a disabled who were hooked on mechanical ventilators to breathe.

They quit after complaining for months about breaches in the contract they had with Sentosa Care’s recruitment agency in the Philippines involving pay differences, working hours and benefits.

“The shifts were covered and patients were not placed in jeopardy,” Newsday quoted Hammond as saying.

Source: GMANews.TV

I don’t get what this commercial is really trying to promote, actually it is soooo offending than Desperate Housewives brouhaha. At the end of the clip (approx.0.40) it all summed up.

Please tell me what’s wrong with being a fair or dark complexion?

A Pa. doctor and his wife are fighting deportation to the Philippines after more than 20 years in the US. The story of the Servanos started when they were sweethearts in the Philippines. After he graduated from medical school in 1979, Pedro Servano went often into remote areas to see patients, and Salvacion, a nurse, sometimes accompanied him.

While they were waiting to receive visas to the U.S., her father told them people were talking about their trips together, so the two eloped and married in 1980. Salvacion came to the U.S. in 1982, and Pedro followed two years later. He practiced medicine in Philadelphia, and she continued nursing. They had a formal marriage ceremony in 1987.

They moved to California to be close to Salvacion’s family, and in 1990 they applied for U.S. citizenship. During the process, an immigration official accused them of having misrepresented their marital status.

Photo by {Philly.com}

It’s good to know that there were no Pinoy seaman crew in a South Korean container ship which collided with a Bay Bridge tower that resulted to thousands of gallons of oil spill into the San Francisco Bay. According to Yahoo report the all-Chinese crew was being detained at the Port of Oakland by the Coast Guard as part of on-going investigations.

A language barrier between the vessel’s pilot, Capt. John Cota, and the ship’s all-Chinese crew was not likely a factor in the crash, since the ship’s captain and officers are required to speak English, officials said.

Is it true or just another unconfirmed report but according to a Yahoo news (you need a Spanish translator), Philippine president Gloria Arroyo is studying the prospects of reviving the official language status of Spanish by January after the country education system abandoned it in 1987.

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1) The Nigerian scam, also known as 419

Most of you have received an email from a member of a Nigerian family with wealth. It is a desperate cry for help in getting a very large sum of money out of the country. A common variation is a woman in Africa who claimed that her husband had died, and that she wanted to leave millions of dollars of his estate to a good business.

In every variation, the scammer is promising obscenely large payments for small unskilled tasks. This scam, like most scams, is too good to be true. Yet people still fall for this money transfer con game.

They will use your emotions and willingness to help against you. They will promise you a large cut of their business or family fortune.

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Another online petition urging Filipinos in the U.S. Call for GMA to Resign. The online petition is different from the other petition drafted by Sen. Trillianes calling for the immediate resignation of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Vice President Manuel “Noli” de Castro Jr.

To: The Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the Filipino People

Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has lost all credibility to serve as President of the Philippines.

We, Filipinos in the United States, are greatly outraged by the bankruptcy of the Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo administration. We demand her immediate resignation and support the mounting call for her ouster, if she refuses to step down.

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