25 YEARS OF PEOPLE POWER

25 taon na ang nakaraan when we successfully toppled an authoritarian ruler, but what did we get in return? Ang nga buaya, linta at buwitre ay nandiyan pa rin sa gobyerno. At dumami pa sila. Walang pinagbago. Mas lalong naghirap ang mga mahihirap na Pilipino at yumaman ang mga sakim...

PAGBABAGO

Asin

Nakakasawa ang mga pangako
Nakakapagod din ang maghintay
Ang mga pangakong laging napapako
Sa pagtitiwala ay pumapatay

Nakakapagod din ang umasa
Lalo't ang bituka ay walang laman
Napakailap sa mahirap ang hustisya
Lalo't bansa ay hawak lang ng iilan

Nag people power1 nagpeople power 2
Ang buhay natin di pa rin nagbabago
Nagpeople power 1 nagpeople power 2
Ngunit hindi pa rin tayo natututo

Maghapon-magdamag sa pabrika
Kayod-kalabaw sa bukirin
Ulan at arawin tayo sa kalsada
Maisulong lamang ang adhikain

Hinarap na natin ang lahat ng hirap
Binalikat ang lahat ng pasanin
Ngunit ang bunga ng ating pagsisikap
Sinasarili lamang ng mga sakim

Tayo ang nagtanim, ang nagbayo at nagsaing
Ngunit nang maluto ay iba ang kumain
Tayo ang nagtanim, ang nagbayo at nagsaing
Ngunit nang maluto ay iba ang kumain

Tayo ang pangharang sa tangke
Tayo ang pambala sa kanyon
Habang nag-aabang ang mga buwitre
Naghihintay ng tamang pagkakataon

Tayo ang nagtanim, ang nagbayo at nagsaing
Ngunit nang maluto ay iba ang kumain
Tayo ang nagtanim, ang nagbayo at nagsaing
Ngunit nang maluto ay iba ang kumain

Tayo ang pangharang sa tangke
Tayo ang pambala sa kanyon
Habang nag-aabang ang mga buwitre
Bantay-salakay ang mga lider ng nasyon

Kahit nag-Edsa III, kahit mag-Edsa IV
Ang buhay natin di pa rin magbabago
Kahit mag-People Power tayo ang talo
Hangga't hindi tayo natututo

THE GREATEST ADVICE - The Purpose Driven Life

(Copied from www.iluko.com)

Don't date because you are desperate. 
Don't marry because you are miserable.
Don't have kids because you think your genes are superior. 
Don't philander because you think you are irresistible.


Don't associate with people you can't trust.
Don't cheat. Don't lie. Don't pretend.
Don't dictate because you are smarter.
Don't demand because you are stronger.


Don't sleep around because you think you are old enough & know better. 
Don't hurt your kids because loving them is harder.
Don't sell yourself, your family, or your ideals.
Don't stagnate!


Don't regress.
Don't live in the past. Time can't bring anything or anyone back. 
Don't put your life on hold for possibly Mr. Right.
Don't throw your life away on absolutely Mr. Wrong because your biological clock is ticking.


Learn a new skill.
Find a new friend.
Start a new career. 
Sometimes, there is no race to be won, only a price to be paid for some of life's more hasty decisions. 


To terminate your loneliness, reach out to the homeless.
To feed your nurturing instincts, care for the needy. 
To fulfill your parenting fantasies, get a puppy.
Don't bring another life into this world for all the wrong reasons.


To make yourself happy, pursue your passions & be the best of what you can be.
Simplify your life. Take away the clutter.
Get rid of destructive elements: abusive friends, nasty habits, and dangerous liaisons. 
Don't abandon your responsibilities but don't overdose on duty.


Don't live life recklessly without thought and feeling for your family. 
Be true to yourself. 
Don't commit when you are not ready.
Don't keep others waiting needlessly.


Go on that trip. Don't postpone it. 
Say those words. Don't let the moment pass.
Do what you have to, even at society's scorn.


Write poetry.
Love Deeply.
Walk barefoot.
Dance with wild abandon.
Cry at the movies.


Take care of yourself. Don't wait for someone to take care of you. 
You light up your life.
You drive yourself to your destination. 
No one completes you - except YOU.


It isn't true that life does not get easier with age. 
It only gets more challenging.
Don't be afraid. Don't lose your capacity to love. 
Pursue your passions.


Live your dreams.
Don't lose faith in God.
Don't grow old. Just grow YOU!


When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. 
Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give to someone is your time.
Relationships take time and effort, and the best way to spell love is T-I-M-E because the essence of love is not what we think or do or provide for others, but how much we give of ourselves. 
God is good all the time!

DATING VS. MARRIAGE

(Copied from www.iluko.com. posted by Patrick Gapusan. http://www.iluko.com/forum_responses.aspx?topicid=74623)


Ladies, a word of advice, think twice before you decide to tie the knot!

When you are dating ... He takes you out to have a good time.
When you are married ... He brings you home a six-pack and says, 'What are you going to drink?'


When you are dating ... You are turned on at the sight of him naked.
When you are married ... You think to yourself, 'was he always this hairy?'

When you re dating ... You enjoy foreplay.
When you are married ... You tell him, 'If we have sex, will you leave me alone?'

When you are dating ... You picture the two of you together, growing old together.
When you are married ... You wonder who will die first.

When you are dating ... He understands if you are not in the mood.
When you are married ... He says, 'It's your job.'

When you are dating ... He understands that you have friends.
When you are married ... He thinks they are all out to steal you away.

When you are dating ... He likes to discuss things.
When you are married ... He develops a blank stare.

When you are dating ... He calls you by name.
When you are married ... He calls you 'Hey' and refers to you when speaking to others as 'she'.


(d--d-kted to Rosemarie and Marites. Mga batchmates, hindi pa huli ang lahat...)

Reyes' last statement: 'I walked into corruption'

GMANews.TV - Sunday, February 13

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"I did not invent corruption. I walked into it. Perhaps my first fault was in having accepted aspects of it as a fact of life."

These are perhaps among the last recorded words of former defense secretary Angelo Reyes, reportedly penned as rough "discussion notes" on Sunday, February 6, as he was preparing for an interview with Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism's (PCIJ's) Malou Mangahas —just two days before he killed himself amidst allegations that he and several other former Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chiefs of staff received millions of of pesos in send-off money when they retired from service.

In these terse words, Reyes tried his best to walk the fine line between admitting guilt and insisting that he pursued an honest career as a professional soldier. “I might not be guiltless/faultless, but I am not as evil as some would like to portray," Reyes wrote in his notes that a close confidante later passed to PCIJ’s Malou Mangahas. The full transcript, including Mangahas' own comments, are posted on the PCIJ website. “Tinyente pa ako, ganyan na ang sistema (i.e., “conversion" system, etc.)… ," Reyes explained in his notes. (That's the way it's always been, even when I was just a lieutenant.) “I can perhaps be faulted for presuming regularity in a grossly imperfect system. As CS (chief of staff), [I saw] a big landscape, presume regularity, convenient to ignore it, accept it as part of the system. It’s easy to say, institute reforms after the problems have erupted," Reyes continued in what Mangahas explained as still rough, unpolished, and incomplete notes.

The statement sheds light on Reyes' motives for killing himself, after it was alleged that he and several other former AFP chiefs received millions of of pesos in "pabaon" (send-off money) upon retirement from service.

In an ongoing Senate probe, former AFP fund manager Lt. Col. George Rabusa claimed that Reyes alone allegedly received P50 million on his retirement.

On the morning of February 8, Reyes killed himself in front of his mother’s grave.

He died from a single self-inflicted gunshot wound to the chest, apparently from a caliber .45 pistol, based on the findings of a special investigation task group of the National Capital Region Police Office (NCRPO).

Eyewitnesses told police that Reyes, his bodyguard, a driver, and two sons arrived at around 7:00 a.m. at the Loyola Memorial Park in Marikina City. Sometime before 7:30, Reyes reportedly told his sons and bodyguard to go ahead to where their car was parked. Then, standing alone in front of the grave of his mother, a single shot rang out and he fell to the ground. — GMA News