passive-aggresive.

iyan ang tawag dito.

iyun lang.

bow.

ang presyo ng kaluluwa: sandamukal na pera.

hindi para sa akin.

mwahaha.

ang saya.

benta.

kaluluwa! kaluluwa kayo riyan!

murang mura lang! kaluluwa kayo riyan!

ilang kilo ang gusto nyo?

nagbebenta ako.

sa napakamurang halaga lang.

kaluluwa! kaluluwa kayo riyan!

 

gulo-gulo-gulo.

minsan hindi maintindihan kung bakit ako nandito.

gusto ko ng bagong buhay.

pero hindi pa rin ito binibigay.

ang tumatatak lang sa isip ko:

sumunod ka.

alam Niya ang plano Niya sa iyo.

kahit pa nahihirapan na ako.

wala akong masabihan.

dahil alam ko rin naman ang sasabihin sa akin.

ayan ka na naman.

sa paulit-ulit mong litanya at katuwiran.

masama bang magkuwento?

kung mabibili lang ang tenga.

matagal na akong namakyaw.

para lang may makikinig.

hindi ako nanghihingi ng opinyon.

o kahit payo, kung ayaw nyong ibigay ‘to.

ang sa ganang akin lang…

pakinggan nyo ako.

NO KUBETA!

“NO KUBETA!”

I-Witness ni Sandra Aguinaldo

Ngayong Lunes: Abril 7, 2008

Bahagi ito ng ating ritwal tuwing umaga. Kubeta, palikuran, kasilyas, CR… Anupaman ang tawag mo rito, lahat tayo aminadong mahalagang parte ito ng ating pang-araw-araw na buhay.

Kaya nakagugulat malaman na marami pa pala sa mga bahay sa Pilipinas, walang kubeta!  Sa pinakahuling  sanitation survey na isinagawa ng Department of Health, lumalabas na hindi lang sa probinsya may kakulangan ng ganitong pasilidad, kundi maging sa mga malalaking siyudad sa Metro Manila at karatig-bayan nito.

Ngayong Lunes sa I-Witness, haharapin ni Sandra Aguinaldo ang bumabahong problema ng kawalan ng palikuran — at ang epekto nito sa ating kalusugan at kapaligiran.

Sa probinsya ng Rizal na kabilang sa Mega Manila, tinatayang kalahating porsyento ng populasyon ang walang CR.  Uso pa rin daw ang “hukay” system sa mga bukid, o kung hindi man, diretso na sa Ilog. At kapag inabot ng gabi ang call of nature, sa plastic o arinola na lang sila dumudumi, sabay tapon sa bukid.

Sa lunsod ng Caloocan , naging gawi na ng mga bata ang dumumi sa mga kanal at iskinita. Wala raw kasi silang perang pampatayo ng banyo. Ayon naman sa City Administrator, dahil sa itinuturing silang mga iskwater, walang dahilan para patayuan sila ng public restroom dahil gigibain din daw ang kanilang mga kabahayan.

Isang kakaibang dokumentaryo tungkol sa “No Kubeta!” ang hatid ni New York Festivals Gold at Silver Medalist Sandra Aguinaldo ngayong Lunes ng hatinggabi sa I-Witness, pagkatapos ng Saksi sa GMA-7.

“NO KUBETA!”

Sandra Aguinaldo’s I-Witness Docu

Airing Monday: April 7, 2008

In the most recent sanitation survey of the Department of Health, a huge chunk of our population still lacks a very important facility in their homes: the comfort room!

But what’s more surprising is this: majority of residents even in developed urban areas still do not have proper toilets.  Sandra Aguinaldo faces this pressing sanitation issue in her I-Witness documentary this Monday. 

50% of Rizal province’s more than one million residents do not have toilets. Sandra goes to Jalajala, Rizal and discovers that until now, locals either go to the river to answer the call of nature, or use the old system of digging their own “dump” site.

Meanwhile, children in Caloocan city’s urban poor areas have grown accustomed to defecating on the streets and in canals. Residents are too poor to finance the building of a public restroom, while the local government argues there is no point in such a project, as they are illegal settlers whose houses will soon be demolished.

This often amusing and yet disturbing documentary on the lives of Pinoys with “No Kubeta!” is brought to you by New York Festivals Gold and Silver Medalist Sandra Aguinaldo.  It airs Monday late night over GMA-7’s I-Witness.

message for you.

Got this from an e-mail:

I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked
side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels.

My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, “This is the
Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received.”
I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels
sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from
people all over the world.

Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section.

The angel then said to me, “This is the Packaging and Delivery Section.
Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and
delivered to the living persons who asked for them.”

I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard
at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being
packaged for delivery to Earth.

Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the door of a
very small station. To my great surprise, only one angel was seated there,
idly doing nothing. “This is the Acknowledgment Section,”
my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed “How is it
that? There’s no work going on here?” I asked.

“So sad,” the angel sighed. “After people receive the blessings that they
asked for, very few send back acknowledgments.

“How does one acknowledge God’s blessings?” I asked.

“Simple,” the angel answered. “Just say, “Thank you, Lord.”

“What blessings should they acknowledge?” I asked.

“If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead
and a place to sleep … you are richer than 75% of this world. “If you have
money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish, you are among
the top 8% of the world’s wealthy.

“And if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the 1% in the
world who has that opportunity.”

Also ….

“If you woke up this morning with more health than illness …. you are more
blessed than the many who will not even survive this day.

“If you have never experienced the fear in battle, the loneliness of
imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation … you are
ahead of 700 million people in the world.

“If you can attend a church meeting without the fear of harassment, arrest,
torture or death … you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion
people in the world.

“If your parents are still alive and still married ..
you are very rare.

If you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you are unique
to all those in doubt and despair.”

Ok, what now? How can I start?

If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that
someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than
over two billion people in the world who cannot read at all.

Have a good day, count your blessings, and if you want, pass this along to
remind everyone else how blessed we all are.

Attn: Acknowledge Dept.: Thank You Lord!
“Thank you Lord, for giving me the ability to share this message and for
giving me so many wonderful people to share it with.”

Blessings