A SCOOP OF SPAGHETTI

Willie: Ano trabaho mo hijo?

Bata: Nangangalkal po ng basura sa payatas.

Willie: Ano trabaho ng magulang mo?

Bata: Wala po.

Willie: Ibig sbihin ikaw ang bumubuhay sa pamilya mo?

Bata: Opo.

Willie: Ilan kayong magkakapatid?

Bata: Dalawa po.

Willie: Ilang taong gulang na kapatid mo?

Bata: Patay na po. (sabay pahid ng luha)

Willie: Bakit anong nangyari sa kapatid mo?

Bata: Nagkasakit po, pero wala kaming pambili ng gamot, 3years old po

sana

siya. (pahid ng luha)

As I was watching the Wowowee show the other day, I couldn’t help crying seeing these street children tell their stories on national television. It pains me dearly hearing how excruciating their life seems to be and being able to experience it at a very young age.

Just imagine…

            You are 5 years old, your parents doesn’t have any job, and you painstakingly dig your young hands to other people’s trash wishing and hoping with all your might that maybe, just maybe, someone has thrown something which can be of use to you. At the end of the day, you’ll earn 20 pesos (50 when you are really lucky), you’ll go to your house (if you can call it as such having just “yeros” and “sako” as your walls and rooftopL) and your parents will get what you earned and buy 1 can of sardines(tuyo’, gulay, etc.) and rice for the family. After which, you’ll have to say, just as you are about to enter shut-eye town, that life indeed has been cruel to you.

….. (at nabaling c ghett sa isang banda)

            My sister parked her car in front of Westin hotel (nagtatanong ng magandang place para sa isang romantic dinner) while I was left in the car park staring with great bewilderment, a group of aristocrats wearing formal dresses (mga pang prom ba, nyahaha lakas!) bidding farewell to each other. I believed that they just had their “usual family dinner” in their favorite hotel-Westin (uhm!). I saw a girl, perhaps at the same age as mine, waiting for her “sundo” and then I saw it, a brand new white Chevrolet (halatang bago, promise). Just as I was busy looking at these people, I noticed a girl who seemed to be 6-7 years old clutching a big doll. She was so pretty that is why she had caught my attention. I thought she was lost but then I again, she seemed calm (kaya naman pala…) following her were her three maids (yaya’), pushing three wardrobe holders (lalagyanan ng damit ng models…wehehe) all of which were hers! Such a filthy rich kid, I can sense her every move telling me that “I’m-worth-a-billion-kid”, and I was sure I saw some money growing out of her hair.

            After seeing this, sadness was drowning me. I could have died right there and then (hehe), thanks to my sister who finally went back to the car. Don’t get me wrong, I was far from being jealous (promise) but the thought of having these people, living in luxury, having their usual family dinner in a prestigious hotel, seeing that well heeled kid makes me feel really sad knowing that somewhere out there, a kid in his 5 years of living, is crying his way to sleep having an empty stomach, knowing that a 3-year old baby just died because his parents don’t have any money to buy him his medicine, and knowing that someone is dying of hunger out there.

            

I couldn’t quite understand how these people manage to be happy knowing that the less fortunate ones could very well need their help. If they can just throw their old Mango tops, Burberry jackets, their old Girbaud shoes or perhaps just try to be helpful, a life may be saved.(pero madami rin akong alam na mga taong tumutulong sa kapwa nya, astig!)

Pilipinas talaga oh, makikita mo ang mga pinakamayayaman at mga pinaka mahihirap. Nandyan si Juan, sumisimbolo sa tipikal na Pilipino at andyan naman c Thomas ang aristokrato.

….

2 kids were asked what they would do if they were given a single bread. (pandesal lang ha)

Rich kid (taga

makati

): I will go home and I will ask my mommy if we have peanut butter or if we have ham and eggs in the fridge.

Less fortunate kid (taga payatas raw): Uuwi po ako sa bahay at hahatiin ko ang tinapay sa apat para makakain rin yung kapatid ko at yung mga magulang ko.

pero mas malala sagot ko..tinanong kc ako ng ate ko about this eh..tini test nya ako..

AKO: uhm, ifi-feed ko sa aso yung tinapay.
(nyahaha.mas brutal pa pala ako. at least animal lover ako dibah? hehe)

*sigh

Where is Juan right now? He has gone astray. He feels alone. He is troubled and is nearing his end

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