This year, we’re planning to celebrate Christmas in the Philippines as we’ve been missing so much since we moved here in Cambodia for work. So we’re really hoping that Cebu Pacific Air or Air Asia will be generous enough to have a Christmas Seat Sale for us to avail. Also, I might buy a new Christmas tree soon (I just hope Pencil will have them displayed early) because I already gave my old one to my house owner. A 7 ft Christmas tree with really nice balls and garlands will do for me

I am excited for Christmas and as early as now, I am thinking of the gifts to give for my family and friends so SAVING would really mean a lot to make Christmas very meaningful and memorable for us. The kids will be making their yearly letter to Santa soon, I wonder what they’ll ask this time, hmmmm.

By the way, September is also a month for celebrations – Papa Jun, Tito Nick, and my son Aaron will be celebrating their birthdays this month. So to all of you – ADVANCE HAPPY BIRTHDAY YO! My son already made his mind to have a pizza party at school, which means I don’t need to cook and wash plates anymore. I’ll just order from Pizza World which is what he likes most.

Oh! I almost forgot!!! On the 9th, Nestle and I are going to celebrate our 3rd year anniversary, wheee! 3 years and still going strong! No calls for party yet, but he’s insisting to go to Malaysia this November for the World Cup Paintball Championship, which he really likes to watch. Well, whatever may be the decision is, I know it’ll be something fun for the two of us.

Before I end my post for the day, let me play one of my favorite songs – Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day. Enjoy!

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These days more and more people likes to have simple yet elegant style of home like rustic furniture and I am one of them I hope when I already have my own house someday, I’ll be able to invest my money in some really good furni to accentuate the theme that I want. Grrr! What a pretty!

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If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.

My mind is too occupied with many things…things that keep me awake at night. So many things that I wanna do but with so little time! I hope and I pray that as things set into their proper places, the good Lord will guide me throughout the way.

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Nestle and I decided to have a small business out of my hobby “cooking”, were we had kimchi and daing for a start. Yesterday, I was busy preparing kimchi and daing for today’s order. I would say it’s a success! naubos ang daing at gagawa ako ulet. Na-eexcite ako sa business namin kahit maliit kasi nagiging busy ako, saka every weekend lang naman, extra income din to no! pang bayad din sa paintball! hahahaha!

Anyway, hanggang dito na lang muna ang post ko, I’ll update you guys later kung ano na ang kinahantungan ng aming negosyo…stand by mode muna kayo

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As a white person married to a filipina and father to two half dutch / filipino children, I feel for Philippines. I have sadness but I also have frustration and anger towards filipino culture (in some cases, filipino behaviour is idiotic)…because I see it in my wife, in my in-laws and her relations.

To most foreigners, we see and understand the bad things in filipino culture (and yet filipinos do not understand nor see the bad in themselves, why because you filipinos think that you are good people because you are catholics or born-agains….let me tell you, there are bad catholics and there are bad born-agains).

This sad story just highlights the idiotic nature of filipino culture and how it impacts on the filipino society. This bad side of the filipino culture was displayed over the world (via cable tv and internet, however we have ABS-CBN so we watched it live). I will try and explain in english and broken tagalog:

Idiot 1: stupid filipino negotiator
The filipino negotiator only talked for about 30 minutes then gave up. That is not how you do or practice negotiation skills in hostage situations. In other parts of the world, most negotiators do it for 48 hours. They give the hostagetaker lots of food and water to drink and talk to him all the time. The logic behind this is after 12 hours (of eating and drinking), they need to pee or poo (kailangan wee-wee at tae), so he have to get out of the bus, that’s when you need to attack him. Have you tried to talk on the phone when ebs is starting to come out? Its very hard. This is a technique filipino negotiators need to learn. Yes, the hostagetaker was given food…but it should have been more over a 48 hour period. After 48 hours, susuko din ito.

Idiot 2: stupid swat team with a hammer
There was a stupid swat team who was hammering the window with a long and heavy piledriver hammer. After 3 attempts he got tired, he needed to let go of the hammer and give his gun to his partner so he can rest. Well, next time try to work out in the gym, do some weights and jog to get fit. Sobra taba pagod agad.

Idiot 3: emergency lock out on hydraulic doors
All tour buses have an emergency lock out for the hydraulic doors. It’s located under the bus near the underside of the door. I saw on TV that they were trying to find out where the lock out is…instead the tababoy swat hammered the door, what did it do…nothing, it’s still remained close and he got tired somemore. In other parts of the world, the tactical response group practice everyday on how to attack or seige a hostage situation, they study all type of vehicles (airplanes, buses, trains, boats etc) and practice how to attack these positions. They study were the entry and exit are, where emergency doors are and how to stop these vehicles (just ask the Israel Tactical response group, they do this every day). Next time, study the layout of the bus first. Filipinos tend not to worry about what may happen, they only act when it is happening.

Idiot 4: Roping the door
Another swat team (the tababoy swat team have to be substituted he got tired) tried to rope the door and pull it using the Isuzu police truck…what happened? The rope broke….hellllloooo…..hydraulic doors are designed to stand against a lot of force and pressure. A rope made of abaca won’t open it.

Idiot 5: The bystander boy who got shot in the leg
A bystander got shot in the leg. Well, what do you expect? The swat team should have quarantined and sanctioned the area. Example: put a ribbon or barracade saying “Crime Scene” just like you see in the movies….or is the PNP to poor to buy one of those. Al bystanders should realise that they are not part of the event and if something happens to them it is their own fault. Buti nga sayo, buhay ka pa !!

Idiot 6: Throwing tear gas into the bus
It is idiotic to throw tear gas into a bus when nobody knew how many people were still alive. Of those dead people, I wonder how many died of tear gas suffocation. Of course, PNP will not admit it, they will say that the hostagetaker killed them. I do not trust filipino autospy. Filipinos tend to fake documents or stories to make them look good (it’s called ‘saving face’). As far as the PNP is concerned, the hostagetaker killed them and no other investigation is required.

Idiot 7:Firing into the bus
This is one of the most serious idiotic actions they did. Firing into the bus also creates ricochet (banda-banda). I wonder how many got killed because of this? Like number 6, PNP will not admit it.

Idiot 8: Swat team entering after the tear gas
This idiotic act is the one that made me laugh (and I am sure all tactical response group in the world will be using this as a “don’t do” training video because of its ‘kenkoy’ effect). Two swat teams enter the bus after they put the tear gas…what happened…they have to asked for help from the people outide to get them out because they cant breath…why…because they forgot the gas mask. Next time do an inventory of equipment you need in case of emergency

Idiot 9: The treatment of the brother and family of the hostagetaker
It was seen on TV that the wife, daughter and brother of the hostagetaker were treated poorly. Nobody helped them, not even the media. No person tried to help the family. In most society, a group of people will form a circle around the family to help them…nobody did that for them. Where is the people power…Philippines have done it before, why didn’t they do it then? No one offered help to the wife and the pregnant daughter, they saw their father killed in front of them. That is no way to treat people….for a country who claims to be ‘mapagmahal’, catholic and christian that was an utter embarrassment.

Idiot 10: Corrupt police
The hostagetaker wanted to clear his name because he was charged with corruption. Corruption…in the Phillippines….that’s news to me (sarcastic)!!! One policeman charged with corruption is not going to make a difference. Catching small corruption is not going to make a difference….the real corruption happens at the top of filipino government (ie Marcos, Erap, Arroyo).Us foreigners laugh at filipino stupidity because you do not learn, you get rid of Marcos because he was bad and corrupt, but still vote for Imelda and her children to become congressman and governor, give them a second chance to be corrupt again……so, nothing changed. That’s Corruption….and ‘katangahan ng pilipino’. In other countries, police treat one another like brothers and help them when they need it. It did not happen here.

Idiot 11: Media and dead people
This is the most idiotic and unacceptable behaviour that was displayed to the world. Filipino media is to be blamed for this. Respect and sensitivity should have been excersised by the media. They showed (in close up), the dead body of the hostagetaker hanging from the door with blood and brains dripping from the head, the dead body of a child and other dead bodies with blood being taken out of the bus. This should not have been televised. The relatives of the dead will not want it televised but the filipino media did. This is not good. Respect for the dead should have been observed.

Idiot 12: Laughing sniper
The sniper was interviewed by the media and he seemed to be happy and laughing when he told the reporter how he shot the hostagetaker in the head and that he was proud he killed him. The wife, daughter and father of the hostagetaker (watching from their province) will obviously will not want another person to hear how proud they were when he shot their husband / father. I hope that the sniper have a son, father, brother and I hope one day someone will shoot them infront of him and I want to know how he feels then.

CONCLUSION:
This will only give filipinos a bad name overseas. It will also affect filipinos who are born overseas, eventhough they have nothing to do with this, they will be judged of what filipinos in Philippines did.

For filipinos trying to get a visa to Canada, USA, UK, Europe etc…forget it…you will be judged by their immigration office for this kind of event. They already know that most filipinos are likely to be TNT and this backlash will make it even harder for filipinos to get visa.

Ganti on DH
I am sure, that Hong Kong / China will go on a massive revenge on filipina DH in hong kong. I am sure of it. HK and Chinese only see filipinas as lowly people who’s only role is to clean houses. PS: chinese people don’t know that Europeans look at them as lowly immigrants who clean toilets in europe….ganti din.

Ganti on japayuki
Also, Japanese people will take revenge on japayukis in Japan. Japanese people already treat filipinas like dirt and they will even treat them even worse because of this. Japanese people to not take filipinos in high regard…japanese only see filipinos as dirt people who will do anything just to get money (ie be japayuki in japan).

Ganti on OFW in Saudi
I’m sure too, that OFW in Saudi will also feel the revenge of people there because of this.

I am sure that my children will be teased and bullied at school because of this. My children, regardless of being half-white are still brown in colour, with black hair (but with blue eyes) and people know they are half-filipinos.

So filipinos in Philippines, your stupidity in your country is also ‘hawa-hawa’ to other filipinos overseas…they get judged by what you filipinos in Philippines do to yourselves or to others.

Internet order filipina brides will always get foreign husbands, unfortunately for filipino lalaki, there is no such thing as internet order filipino husbands (I never seen white woman with filipino husband), as more filipina marry foreigner more filipino lalaki are left behind in philippines (my wife said she does not like filipino lalaki because they are ‘tanga’…..I know she married me for money and greencard so she can send dollars to her batugan parents and batugan brothers, batugan cousins and batugan kapitbahay)….so, the only hope for Philippines is for half-foreigner and half-filipino children, half is better than stupid full-blood filipino.

This is my opinion to your piece of sh*t.

1. If your wife is “tanga” like what you’ve said, why are you still married with her and still providing her the cash to give her batugan parents, batugan neighbors, and the rest of the batugan family she has?

2. Filipinos in and out of the country work with respect. We know how to treat our fellow colleagues and we know how to return favors. We know how to do our jobs properly that’s why many people loves to hire us. This one thing will not blow us as OFWs in other countries. I myself is an OFW in Cambodia and we’re treated nicely here, full of respect and love. There are so many things that bring us closer to our work and this never affected our performance to give quality service to our employers.

3. Yes many of the Fipinos are batugans or lazy but given a chance to work, they’ll work hard, very hard to earn some dough and provide for their family.

4. When SARS and Birdflu spread out, did we condemn CHINA for this? No right, so why do we have to bitter on one event that also happens in other nation.

5. Some parts of your letter may be true, but your conclusion is just unacceptable. I AM PROUD TO BE A FILIPINO and there’s nothing that can change that. I am proud because of so many reasons, my fingers and toes are not enough to count them all.

Last, bilang isang OFW, nakasalamuha ko na ang madaming “puti” sa trabaho. Ito lang ang masasabi ko, inde porke’t puti magaling na!. Andami kong nakatrabaho na inde sing galing natin sa grammar, maputi lang sila at bihasa sa kanilang lengwahe pero pasulatin mo, ewan na lang kung inde ka makakita ng madaming spelling and grammar mistakes! kaya pwede ba, wag nio kaming ismolin!

I will always be proud to be a FILIPINO.

Thanks Rico Martin for sharing the letter.

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we know how to hide properly

we know when to attack

and

hindi kami sugod ng sugod, me tactics kami

i am not taking this personal, ang magalit sa post ko GUILTY!

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After Venus Raj fantastically answered the final Q&A portion of the previous Ms. Universe 2010, her answer gave a major major impact to the Filipino nation.

In the pageant, Michael Baldwin asked her “What is the biggest mistake that you’ve ever made in your life and what did you do to make it right? which I think is an easy one. Easy if you want to admit that you have done something and easy if you just want to be plain simple and say you haven’t done anything regretful in your life. I find her answer a bit boring rather than truthful where she answered “Thank you so much sir for that wonderful question.  Good evening ladies and gentlemen.  Good evening Las Vegas!  You know what sir in my 22 years of existence I can say there is nothing major major, I mean problem that I have done in my life because I am very confident with my family with the love that they are giving to me.  So thank you so much that I am here!”

It could be the truth she has answered but the nation is not satisfied. Anyway I am not here to criticise her, I think despite the shallowness of her answer she still did a good job, though she wasn’t able to nail the grand title. And because of that, MAJOR MAJOR became a hit in the Philippines! talbog na ang OVER ni Melai ng Melason! ALmost everybody in Facebook were using Major Major in their statuses…just like a virus infecting everybody! Iba talaga ang Pinoy pagdating sa pag papauso!

There’s nothing major major in my blog, I just wanna say how influential people’s words are to us – Major Major effect talaga!

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In his verified Twitter account http://twitter.com/EyeOfJackieChan , the actor said, “HK is a nation built by a lot of different people…don’t worry! We do not hate!”

“This kind of things always happens around the world. It happens to HK’s people. The whole HK is talking about it. It’s really sad.”

“If they killed the guy sooner, they will say why not negotiate first? If they negotiate first, they ask why not kill the guy sooner? So sad.”

Oh ayan, galing na kay Jackie Chan mismo, inde sila galit sa tin, nauunawaan nila ang nangyare, pero sana wag naman natin ito i-take for granted, lalo na yun nasa serbisyo. Please improve your services, we can’t bear to lose face once again because of your lack in skills and the like.

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The coffins which are wrapped in transparent plastic and netting and draped with white sheets and topped with bouquets of white flowers were loaded on a chartered Cathay Pacific flight aroun 6:12 P.M.

Some of the survivors and their relatives, numbering about 80, silently boarded the plane on the other side. After the prayer, a moment of silence was observed by participants. Behind them was a large banner inscribed with Chinese characters expressing deep condolences for those who perished.

On the other hand, Hong Kong assured the Philippine government that Filipinos staying and working in China’s main region are all safe mid reports of anger and discrimination against them in the aftermath of the botched hostage crisis in Manila.

I really hope that this nightmare will end soon. Let’s all pray for the souls of the victims and for our fellow Filipinos working and living in China and Hong Kong. I hope the wound will heal faster and the friendship between the two countries will continue amidst the heartaches brought by Monday’s horrible scenario.

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pasaway kayong mga PNP! Picture Ng Picture!

heto pa ang mga studyante na pasaway!

bilib na ako sa inyo mga tsong!!! astig kayo! di ba tumaas ang mga balahibo ninyo habang nagpapakuha ng litrato? grabe sa kapal ang mga balat nio sa muka at inde man lang kayo nahiya! inde man lang ninyo naalala ang damdamin ng mga kamag anak ng mga taong namatay sa loob ng sasakyan. sino ba naman ang matutuwa na makitang parang isang magandang destination ang bus sa harap ng Quirino Grandstand na naging libingan ng ilang Hong Kong nationals!

jusmio, magbago na sana kayo!

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