Thankyou.
It's an all too familiar scene. One that makes you cringe, and one that brings you back to your senses that you ARE from a third world country.
While stuck in highway traffic, a teeny street kid (not more than 5 years old at the most) knocked on our window, begging for coins. I saw about five of them, knocking on different cars, trying their luck. All this, on a highway! Imagine. Once the traffic dissipates, and all the cars get goin, these kids could be run down just like that, and no one would even care!
Me- Manong, kawawa naman ang mga bata oh.
Driver- Onga. Pag nasagasaan ang mga yan, ang driver ang mananagot. Dapat ikulong ang mga magulang ng mga iyan eh. Gawa sila nang gawa ng mga anak, hindi naman nila kayang alagaan.
Onga naman.
On a different note, I once again realized, that we are sooo lucky. We consider not being able to go online, not being able to buy the latest cellphone or iPod, not being able to go out on gimmicks as the biggest dilemmas of our teenage lives. On the other side of the fence, where the grass is never green, there are kids our age or even younger, who worry about how much "barya" they are able to bring back home to their uncaring parents. They worry about what to eat tonight, while the rest of us spend half of our allowance lazing around Starbucks with a caramel frap.
I think I should really really REALLY be more grateful for my blessings... I have wonderful parents who provide almost everything I want, and not neccessarily need. I'm grateful that I am able to go to a good school, that I am able to eat three times a day, and that I live where I live. Heck, I'm even super grateful that we have a househelp who puts up with our demands and inabilities to do housechores on our own.
Sometimes, it's little wake up calls like these that make you think twice that even amidst all the pressures of society and school life, it IS wonderful to be alive.
RANDOM PICS OF THE WEEK.
Met up with some friends at this Chinese resto for some catching up. My good friend Jaimie's debut is coming up, so she asked us to say a few words on Video ala A.S.A.P. Haha. O diba? Ang taray! San ka pa?
 Oh, and I have a NEW crush! ;) *blush*
 
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1 Comments:
reese! ang ganda ng blogg mo ha! hehe.. well mine is cheaper kasi friendster.. hehe! ayun.. so you watched na amityville... waaha! was is that scary tlga? naks.. plano ko pa lang to watch that.. sana!.. hehe.. well till here.. mwuah... miss yah! @@ zara @@
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