I went for novena to Mother of Perpetual Help in Baclaran yesterday, a regular Wednesday habit. The difference was I have to stroll around and look for native stuffs for my sister in law in California, today is my father in law’s flight to US, a business and some vacation perhaps.
Anyway, as I looked around, I’ve noticed that there’s a lot of ukay-ukay stores around. Do I have to mention that I am a native of Baclaran. I’m not fond of ukay-ukay and I don’t have anything against ukay ukay. I’ve been to ukay-ukay capital in the Philippines also the summer capital, its just that I dont like to wear stuffs worn by others, its as simple as that. As I passed by these stores, it made me smile, it looks like they’re giving income to the local Government. Yesterday was first Wednesday of the month, and usually a lot of people are coming over to take their devotion to Mama Mary, after novena people tend to shop around. With a lot of buyers, that means good business. But wait, is the relief goods issue resolved already?
Another reason that ukay ukay made me smile was my bestfriend. Her husband is a OFW with a two years contract, they are still paying their house at the moment, sad to say that their income is not enough. She had no choice but to stay home, her mom asked her to dispose all their old clothes and stuff from her mom’s home. The old things were just stuffed in a huge cabinet, she took them all to her house in Indang, Cavite. Although these are used items but I could say that they’re still A-OK, they are mostly branded – clothes, bags, shoes, wallets and some kitchen wares. My friend told me, “Talagang may pera sa basura”, this is a blessing already to make both ends meet especially on their situation now. She didn’t have any intention of putting up such business before but she’s blessed already that she heard what God led her to be. I’m really happy for her.
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Year 2007 is the third year since Pondo Ng Pinoy was launched. 2 years ago, I constantly asked my son why he always asked for 25 centavos coin. He said, its for his “Pondo ng Pinoy”.
Some people did think that “Pondo Ng Pinoy” was just a simple school project. They didn’t know that Pondo Ng Pinoy aims to bring about the total development of people both the giver and the recipient of assistance to be rendered by the Church to address widespread poverty caused by material, economic, cultural, political and social starvation.
Pondo ng pinoy started from the vision and dream of Manila Archbishop Rev. Gaudencio B. Rosales. It is duly registered to Securities and Exchange Commision as a non profit organization. I hope that with Archbishop Rosales’ initiative and showing success of the organization, the other 14 Archbishops of the Philippines will join and participate to Pondo ng Pinoy. After all, the sole beneficiary of the organization are the less fortunate Filipinos.
We can give our love to fellow Filipinos by sharing our 25 cents and put them in a simple container. As a family or individuals, we can give our pondo ng pinoy to our parish church. I didn’t know that at first because I always had a 25 cents piggy bank intended for my sons’ pondo ng pinoy at school. I’m planning to start now a separate pondo ng pinoy at home. Catholic schools started their pondo ng pinoy already. My children used mineral water bottles as their containers and brought them to school. Their adviser collected all the bottles and placed them on the shelf which every students may put in their coin everyday. Filipinos abroad can also share their love, to contact them, please visit the official website of Pondo Ng Pinoy.
I went to school to bring my youngest son his food share for their school activity today. They’re celebrating the Feast Of Archangels now. To those who have their angel costume may wear their costume during the celebration, they also have program and parlor games. I didn’t bother to buy him a costume, its not required anyway.
Anyway, as I went out of the school gate I saw the wrangler type jeep at the parking lot. It made me smile, looking at it brought back many memories.
I used to have the same jeep, same color, almost every detail it had. That kind of jeep was made of fiberglass, the difference was I had bigger tires. I inherited the jeep from my dad. That same jeep was like my second home, I had small bag containing extra shirts, shoes and some toiletries that was always inside it. I even had a small glass ashtray on the dashboard! Almost everyday he was my companion because I traveled a lot from Manila to Pampanga, Bulacan, Cavite, Tarlac, Laguna, sometimes Bataan… it was work related.
The only thing I regret was I haven’t got the chance to drive my dad to his regular check-ups, dialysis and his frequent visits to the hospital when he was still alive. I didn’t know how to drive when he was still alive or should I say my priority at that time was his health.
I’ve sold my jeep many years ago, my income at that time can’t cover its maintaing expenses already. Well, those were the days… Someday I will buy another one just like that, we can never tell.
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I have retrieved this site, I can’t believed that I have this account since 2004. At that time I am concentrating on mobile blogging since my only access is my symbian phone and had limited access on computer from time to time. I didn’t even know what have changed here since then. Its amusing to know that I can change my domain here and decided to change it to glitchline. I don’t know any blog that allows domain changing, that’s cool!
Time flies… I had planned to make this my personal journal before, everything changed in many ways, with many reasons. I didn’t want a journal of my personal life, after all things had move on already. I’ll be posting everything from “toothpick to spaceship”. LOL! Its just an expression, anything goes here, whatever comes into my mind.
I’ve noticed that there are a lot of free blogger themes, I got lucky to have this theme. I really love it, it blends with my extreme character. Just kidding. LOL
