Ang dalawang Manuel

Napansin ko siya ng matapos ang feeding program, habang dahan dahan ng nauubos ang mga tao sa sa covered court. Kung hindi siya sumigaw, kung hindi ko narining ang maliit ngunit buong boses ng paslit na iyon ay hindi ko siya makikita.

May dala siyang sakong puti at sinisigawan niya yung isang batang nagpupulot at nag-iipon ng plastic cups na ginamit sa kakatapos lang na feeding. “Hoy! Wag niyong kukunin yang mga baso ha! Ibibigay natin yan kay Chairman.” Sigaw ng maliit ng boses sa likod ko.

Siya si Manuel. Payatot katulad ng ibang batang nabahaginan ng creamy sopas sa Feeding caravan ni Senator Manny Villar. Pero iba siya sa ibang batang nakita sa apat o limang beses kong pagsama sa feeding program na iyon.

Kung yung ibang bata ay umalis na ang kaagad pagkatapos nung Feeding Program, si manuel bumalik na may dalang sako, kumuha ng dust pan at naghanap ng walis tingtingpara ipunin ang mga kalat na naiwan noong Feeding.

Iba ang tindig ng batang iyon sa karamihan. May authority, may liderato. Sumunod yung ibang batang maglinis, nagtulungan sila. Yung mga batang ang balak lang e maglaro sa covered court. Yung isa may hila-hila ng basurahang mas malaki pa sa kanya. May kumuha ng dust pan, may nag walis at may mga nagpulot ng basura.

Nasa lima hanggang pitong bata yung naglinis ng isang covered court, maliliit sila pero sandal lang malinis na ulit young court. Maliliit sila pero natapos nila ang trabahong dapat matatanda ang gumawa.

Nagulat ako nung tinanong ko kung anong pangalan nung maliit na batang sumisigaw kanina. Manuel. Manuel, kaparehas ng pangalan nung isang batang taga-tondo rin na nangarap. Isang batang may authority rin ang boses, responsable at may liderato.

Dalawang Manuel, isang lugar, isang pangarap.

Floods and Lameness

PNoy Floodings!!!!

Nothing to do so I visit my Facebook account only to find PNoy’s account flooding status messages about Pacquiao’s Victory. I was just stunned that the account became suddenly active.

Are they going to keep Doing the regular postings now or just making up for the lack of Aquino’s appearance on Pacquiao’s moment of victory?

Why can’t he just ask Kris to gate crash the scene of Manny Pacquiao, since she really is a good stealing scenes. She can always include PNoy’s name, like “Well Noynoy is really proud of you talaga Manny. And all of the Filipinos, talaga. Wait. I’ll just ask jinky what did she bought from the US after your fight. There is this bag kasi that I want e…” and all the blah blah blahs…

Pilipinas Kay Ganda

Game Show?

It was really a dumb slogan to begin with. So gay and it doesn’t really hold enough attention to be noticed and be taken seriously.

Twitter is indiscussion over this mostly from news and from Momblogger, Noemi Dado. I mean it conveys something else. And Since its in tagalong how would you expect foreigners to understand that we are a nice country to pay a visit.

How would the other countries lift their travel ban from us when our message is like pertaining to prostitution? What if some foreigners mistakenly replaced “P” with an “F”? then I would be like Filipinas Kay Ganda, a perfect slogan to sell our Pinays to foreigners.

PILIPINAS KAY GANDA is one stupid line to promote tourism, the Philippines.

It is very lame as if they got the line from some elementary slogan making contest. That line won’t even make it on the runner up list.

Funny thing is PNoy agreed on using that to greet people in the airport.

Oh goodness! This is all trash!!!