Yesterday Was Emotional
Because I’ve already met one of the two children I’m sponsoring.
We both cried when we saw each other for the first time. Of course there were pictures and other stuff for the last couple of (almost 10) months, but meeting in flesh made us both speechless. It was different in a beautiful kind of way. We both felt a strong emotion that made us weak physically, but strong emotionally. I couldn’t help myself from crying on the way home. But I felt refreshed though I was extremely exhausted during the election day.
I’m hoping I can raise more money, through this blog perhaps, so I can sponsor more kids. Someone from World Vision, maybe? Does anyone know of more sponsor-a-child programs in the Philippines which isn’t too damn expensive to make me broke? I have Blog to Profit (referrer: rakshari@gmail.com), and hopefully also Google Adsense soon, to thank for this wonderful opportunity to make a difference. My volunteer teaching job in some poverty-stricken communities also continues.
why women cry?
Since before I never to distinguished these things, still wondering and I never felt cozy in my sight… that women cry for no reason…and some men didn’t know that, for being a woman, she had to be special. They made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world, yet she made her arms gentle enough to give comfort…start to experience rejection, for many times will come even from her own children, and some gave a load off to his mind that his hardness allows her to keep going and take care of his family and when everyone else’s give up, thru sickness and fatigue without complaining. She had a great sensitivity to love the one she had under any instances and even when her children has hurt him badly. She had a very special power to make children boo – boo feel better and to queer a teenager’s anxieties and fears…
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Dining at Kitchen
My work best friend was the one who introduced me to Kitchen. It first appeared in Makati when Greenbelt 1 was renovated to make way for more dining establishments. Its theme, ambience, and funky approach to dining out was what attracted many Makati yuppies.
We found the food so good that we ate there almost every week. That was years ago, and my best friend has since then moved to Hongkong to become a pastry chef.
I am glad though that Kitchen has not lost its allure.
Making Friends Understand Your Sexuality
It has been a while since I had to go through the motions of explaining my sexuality to anyone and last Sunday was another opportunity for me to do so – to straight friends. My college friends and I had a mini-reunion of sorts. We have been friends for nine years and in the first six of those years, they never knew I was gay. I came out to them some three years ago, but I haven’t really told them how it’s like to live as a gay man in this world.
It’s kind of awkward to talk about your sexuality in the midst of straight male and female friends. First, you’ll have to deal with the fact that they have a different view of homosexuality (some of them homophobic to some extent). And second, you’ll have to deal with people in total shock (no matter how they pretend they’re not) that the straight chickboy they once knew turned out to be gay.
So how does one deal with straight friends? How do you make them understand?
Myspace Brings Back Gay/Lesbian Preference
In the past few months, gay news sites and forums have been discussing the issue of Myspace taking out the Gay/Lesbian option in the Sexual Orientation section of its members profiles. While updating my not-so-updated Myspace page,
The Comment Whore Week #15
In the spirit of my blog’s anniversary, The Comment Whore also wants to be on the spotlight. She wants to splash her huge ass al lover my blog again. So please my dear readers pay attention to this whore with an ADD (Attention Deficit Disorder).
The Comment Whore will award 1 prize from Norway and an AdIcon slot or 1 blogmakeover (Blogger blogs only) for those people who had the most comments!
Back Again? Not Really
After living for a week in a hospital, finally I’ve been given a chance to sleep peacefully (without clumsy nurses waking me up in the middle of the night just to ask, “Doktora, naibigay na po ba ‘yung meds due ng 10?”) here at home. Well, it’s because I’ve got clinic hours tomorrow and I asked if I could just stay home for the night and then be back at the hospital to be Daddy’s hospital companion again after my clinic.
Daddy wanted me to be with him in the hospital as much as possible because of some bad experiences he had with the nurses in the hospital. One such experience is that when a nurse forgot to unclamp his foley catheter for 3 hours during his bladder training (weaning him from his foley catheter by clamping it so he could feel the urge to urinate). Poor Daddy, he had lower abdominal pain because of a full bladder and he can’t pass out the urine because of the clamped catheter. I wasn’t around in the hospital at that time because I was out buying medicines. He then called me on my cellphone asking me to come back because he can’t urinate and he was in pain. He really got mad with the nurse because the nurse thought he was to clamp the catheter for 3 hours every 4 hours (geez, didn’t he know that a normal adult can produce 1-2 cc of urine/kg of body weight every hour?).
Ripple of Hope
- Half the world, nearly three billion people, live on less than two dollars a day
- Over a billion people are illiterate – unable to read or sign their name
- Some 1.1 Billion people have inadequate access to water
- 2.6 billion people lack access to basic sanitation
I was aware that the internet is a medium with a large user base, but it was only when I started to blog and go blog hopping that I got to appreciate this. Through the very few months I have been at it, I came to experience firsthand and realise the potential of the internet to reach an immense number of people, and to sell anything – be it a product, an idea, a skill, even affection. Until then, I couldn’t quite comprehend and ascertain why businesses see it as an important medium to advertise in.
It is from seeing this tool’s power over both consumer and provider that the people at ripple found inspiration to get income to support its causes: access to clean water, food, education and microcredit for the less fortunate. With a click or a search on the ripple homepage, users help in generating funds for these ends, advertisers effectively reach consumers as well as contribute, and more money means more work done for the advancement of these charities. It’s a win-win scenario. It makes one feel good because he is able to get involved in something worthwhile, and there’s no catch.
click on the image to get started in saving the world
How I voted during Halalan 2007?
As a first time voter, I was excited to cast my vote in my first ever participation on a national election. Of course, I woke up early, dressed decently, and prepared my election guide. I studied all the candidate’s profile and platforms for their legislative works.Â
This is how I casted my ballot yesterday morning at Precint 0374-A
Who are your TOP 3 Senators (and you will vote for)?
Last time, I asked you who are the three senatoriables you wont vote for? Now, its time for who are those you WILL vote for?Â
Here is the list of my TOP 3 Senators:
1. Sonia Roco – Widow of the late Sen. Raul Roco. A teacher and advocate of education. She has the makings of a good leader. Knows the grassroot’s problems and has a fair idea on how to solve it.
