PAMILYADO (Para sa Fathers' Day)

(Tagalog version)

Nang umalis ako, isa lang ang naman ang gusto ko - ang ikabubuti nila. Dami ko nga naririnig na kwento. hirap, lungkot, at peligro sa abroad. Pero para sa isang ama. Lahat ng ito ay haharapin niya. Kailangan magsakripisyo magagandang bagay na iiwan. Libangan, kaibigan, tahanan, pansariling kaligayahan, para sa isang padre de pamilya ang lahat ng ito babalewalain. Ayaw ko talaga pero kailangan eh.

Ok lang sa una pero kakabaliw na kapag nag iisa kana. nakakainip talaga. Iba pang ugali ng mga amo dito. wala pwede komontra, ganun kultura nila. Subsob sa trabaho nalang para makaraos lang ang mga araw. Hirap na sa ofis, hirap parin sa bahay. Damit mo laba mo, pagkain mo luto mo, pag magksakit ka sarili mo mag aalaga.  Dito ko nami-missed ang aking asawa at mga anak.

Hanap nalang ng paraan. Laboy, kain, running at walking pampalipas oras din. Sa billiard at dart dito ako nalibang nang todo-todo. Ganito buhay dito, na ayaw kong matulad ng anak ko kaya ako nagtitiis dito upang di rin sila mapunta dito mahirap talaga ang buhay abroad. Hirap man masaya na ako ibigay ang sa aking pamilya ang magandang buhay.

Ang bilis ng panahon. Gusto ko na makaalis dito. dami ko ng nalampasanag mga panahon sa mga anak at asawa ko. Pero habang naririto ang lahat nga ito ay kinakaya ko para sa kanila.

Maligayang Araw ng mga Tatay.

(Bisaya version)

Sa akong paglakaw, isa lang naman ang akong gusto, ang matagaan ug maayong kaugmaon ang akong mga minahal.  Daghan ko ug nadungog nga mga esturya, mga kalisod, kamingaw ug kadelikado sa abroad. Ka amahan nga sama kanako... Ang tanan iyang kayahon ug sagubangon. Kinahanglan magsakripisyo..biyaan ang tanan. Kalingawan, mga amigo,pinuy-anan ug ang kaugalingong kalipay. Para sa isa ka padre de pamilya ang tanan ibaliwala. Deli man jud unta ko gusto nga malayo sa inyo pero kinahanglan man.

Ok lang sa sinugdanan pero makabuang na labina ikaw nalang isa. pagkamingaw nalang. Lain pa mga batasan ang mga amo deri, deli pwede kontrahon, mao man ang ila kultura. Subsob sa trabaho para dali rang mulabay ang panahon kapoy na sa opisina samot na sa balay. Mga saninang hinubuan ikaw maglaba, sa pagkaon ikaw magluto, kung magkasakit ikaw lang mag asikaso sa kaugalingon nimo.  Diri nako mabati ang kamingaw sa akong asawa og mga anak.

Mangita nalang ko ug pamaagi. Laag laag tapos kaon, dagandagan ug baktabaktas para pampalabas sa mga oras. Sa billiard at dart deri ko nalingaw ug mayo. Mao ni kinabuhi deri nga dle ko gusto nga matagamtaman pud sa akong mga anak. Mao nga nag antos ko deri karon kay para deli na mapariha ang akong mga anak sa ako, lisod man pero nalipay nalang pud ko nga mahatag nako ang kaginsa akong pamilya ang maayong kinabuhihawaan nila.

Ka paspas sa panahon. Gusto na nakong makahawa nako deri, daghan na kaayong mga panahon nga wala ko sa kiliran sa akong mga anak ug asawa. Pero mentras nga naa pako deri ang tanan akong kayahon para sa ilaha.

Malipayong Adlaw sa mga Amahan.

  

(Kapampangan version)

Nyang  meko ku , metung yamu naman ing buri kua: ing ikakasalese da. Karakal ku dimdam a kwentu,sa-kit,lungkut at peligru king abrod.  Pero king metung a tatang…keganagana harapan na ngan.  Kailangan y sakripisyu ngan deng  lakwan mung mangasanting a bage.  Libangan,kaluguran,bale,pansariling ligaya.   Para king metung a padre de pamilia keganagana ibaliwala mu.   Adyang eku bisa pero kailangan e.

Okey mu pag mumuna pero maka murit pag ika namung dili , talagang makainip.  Aliwa lapa ugali deng amu keni , e pwede kumontra, makanta ing kultura da.  Subsub king obra namu para miraus lamu deng aldo. Masakit na king opis, masakit mu rin king bale.  Malan mu pipi mu,pamangan mu lutu mu,pag mesakit ka  sarili mumu ing lingun. Ekula a mimis y misis at deng anak.

Mantun namu paralan gumala, mangan, mamulandit at mag lakadlakad pampalipas murin oras.  King billiard at dart ku maglibang todung todu.  Makantini ing bie keni, na eku bisang pakyapusan na ning anak ku.  Kaya mu magtiis ku keni bang ela murin mipunta keni , masakit talaga ing bie abrod.  Masakit man masaya naku na abibie ku ngan karela. 

Anakabilis ing panahun.   Bisa nakung mako keni.   Karakal kuna limpasan a panahun kareng anak at asawa ku.  Pero habang atyu ku keni keganagana paki agyu ku para karela.

Maayap Fathers day kareng Kekatamung Tatang.

EMBARRASSED BY FRIEND

Everybody has embarrassing moments.  For whatever reason that caused you embarrassed, maybe by chance, unavoidable circumstances, or by someone else deed, you will never like it.  But embarrassment is even more painful, unbelievable and unacceptable when it is caused by a friend.  Because for all people in this world, of all people you know, friend is one of the last persons you can think can able to make you humiliate.  And you would ask yourself why him or her.  That is painful because that would lead to the end.

When we thought we found a friend, we really do effort to make it grow.  We do our best to keep the good, the true and the right one – lucky to get two or more.  In every friendship, you want it to be the best.  You want to have best friend for life that will understand your personality, accept your shortcomings and faults, feel your sufferings and undergoing, support your dreams, helps you to succeed and applauses to your achievements.  We want someone who will tell our mistakes, who gives advices and wants us to succeed.  These are the best part of friendship.  And when you found the person you thought your best friend, you tried so hard and give all the best you can to keep that friend with you.  Because these make the sense that no one in this world is alone.

That is why it is hurt feeling when all the while you treated the person as friend and for all you know it was all friendship but actually no.  When during your days together, you do what your friend wants and what makes happy, every favours that told to do so and it is fine and there is no question about it.  In friendship there si no counting who demands most, who takes and gives more, who is losing or gets the less.  That what makes friendship, you do these while you are together.  Then when time comes you need to set apart, this will be the acid test to the friendship.  True, you will know the true friend when it is behind your back, out of your sight and none on your side.

While you are here and the friend you thought is on the other distant place with the new found friends laughing about you will really feel sorrow, betrayed and dumped.  After you did your share to make the friendship grown, memorable and strong, after all the efforts to save the friendship, after all those times you thought you are okay but you will realize in reality no it is not really that okay, and despite you tried your best yet the friend you thought can put you in a funny situation that made you feel embarrassed, that is the wake up call.  Until you realize and have to admit there is no friendship at all, it is all friendly user, that you are just good while you are there, while it lasts.  And you will flash back the sacrifices you made, somehow you will feel regret but you don’t need to regret for such kind of people.

Well maybe, the things you can only think of is that maybe your best is not enough, maybe it is not really meant to be, maybe that friend is not worthy, maybe there are others deserving for you friendship or maybe you just gave all yourself that nothing is left for you.  You may have faults, shortcomings and guilt.  But amidst of this laughter involving the person you considered a friend, you will not want to be defended anymore,  The least you want is that, the person you considered a friend not to take part on that laughter – then it’ll be acceptable for you.  Friendship is always two-way give and take relationship though unconditional.  You two should work for it without considering how it will benefit you.  Both have to give, to sacrifice and to work to call it true unconditional friendship.

SUPERHERO

In fantasy movies, there are Superheroes who fight to defeat the enemies, lawless and even the disasters.  Superheroes are the defender of the oppressed, savior of the universe, protector of humanity.  They are brave, they go to danger.  They are powerful who can defeat the bad elements with their bare hands.  They are fair and just, they bring justice, put everything in order and correct the wrong.  And they are so kind who choose the welfare of the humankind.    Unfortunately, Superheroes are just in the fictional movies.  In real life, there is nobody who has an extra ordinary power and strength to defeat the evil.

But I want to become a Superhero.  I want to help the people.  I want to defeat and stop the evil.  I want to save the world.  Actually it comes to my mind the possibility of becoming a Superhero when I wanted to believe the impossible is possible.  Back when I was a child, I believed I am the chosen one.  I am from poor family and occasionally bullied during my childhood.  I waited for the messenger sent to reveal that I am tasked to save the universe.  Until in my mid-twenties, I again opened the idea of becoming a superhero.  I am a simple and ordinary citizen, maybe the superhero will come from the common people that I am.  In fact in my weird moments when I tried to figure out myself as a Superhero, I have able to come up this great fictional character (later I named Super Pinoy).  The superhero I created is the epitome of greatness, nothing as fast as, as bold as and as dynamic as him.  I want a Superhero that is invincible and immortal.  I give him the combination of many powers like the power of air, water and fire.  He has a unique power of invisible man to penetrate the secret missions.  And I even created my costume wearing glossy red overall attire, with vivid blue trunks and white cape. These three colors represent my sense of Filipinism.  Complete with blue wings covering on both ears, wide blue metal wristband on the arms and blue boots. 

I am dreaming of a Superhero. In my dreams I was flying. I can fly to run after the enemies, swim at the deepness of the sea, cross the burning fire.  I fought the demons, zombies, other creepy and out of this space creatures to save the people.  I helped in the catastrophe from natural calamities.  These were some of my tasks during my early days of becoming a superhero.    Basically it was so rural, that was my idea from a young alter ego when I created the superhero.  But days have passed and things are changing, now that we’re in the 21^st century where we are living in a fast-paced and high tech modern world, my view and concern become global and my ultimate mission is to save the world from mass destruction weapons.  I will stand in the middle of the warring forces to ward off the bullets and ran after the dropped missiles, flush water to make them impotent and seize up the air borne from exploded chemical bomb.  I have to confront the leaders and persuade them to discard these weapons or else warm them they will receive their own ferocity.  Aside from world supremacy and dominance, greed destroys our world and environment.  I want to repair the damages of our nature.  I must stop the illegal environmental activities that cause severe climate change and destroy the mother earth.  And, in this high tech computerized world, I want to penetrate too the cyberspace to seize, block and hold accountable the cybercrimes, cyber bullying, trolls and fake news.  The height of the keyboard warriors must put in end and restore the values that the elders thought to us.

Despite all of these actions, ironically I hate violence.  But if I can have the power to make a change, if where and how do I get it, maybe from God or maybe from outer space, I would accept the great responsibility to become a great superhero.   All this is because of my warm desire to achieve the world peace.  Because all I wanted is just to make our world a better place to live in.