Minsan Parang Tanga Lang

Ang blogpost na ito ay nakasulat sa Tagalog dahil gusto ko munang tangkilikin ang sariling wika kahit sa isang sandali lamang.(This blogpost is written in Tagalog for my intention of honoring and loving my own language even for just a short while.)
MINSAN PARANG TANGA LANG - Dello of Fliptop

video courtesy of Youtube's DelloFansClub

Una sa lahat, dahil sa kantang ito ni Dello, at dahil narin sa dinami-daming magagandang awitin ni Micheal V, nais kong ipakalat na mahalin natin ang sariling atin.

Naisipan kong ipost ito dahil sobrang natuwa ako sa kanta ni Dello. MINSAN PARANG TANGA LANG. Ay, totoo. Ang tao nga naman, minsan parang tanga lang.

FLIPTOP - First Filipino Rap Battle League. Dahil dito, sumikat si Dello k

asama ng ilang magagaling na rappers tulad nila Target, Loonie, Zaito, Batas, Fuego, etc. Ito yung pinoy version ng rap battle nila Eminem sa 8 Mile.

A scene from the movie 8 mile. Audience cheering for rap battle.

Kung mapapanuod mo yung mga videos ng FlipTop sa YouTube, nakakaaliw nga naman talaga. Kaso medyo nakaka-off yung puro lang kabastusan at mura (no offense, Batas). Para di na kayo mahirapan, ito ang ilang links ng mga magagandang rap battle:
Dello VS TargetLoonie VS ZaitoBatas VS Fuego - ito yung ayaw ko.
Naalala ko yung conversation namin ni Ma'am Karen Davila (kahit di siya nagrereply para sa meeting namin tomorrow, idol ko parin sya), na maganda ifeature ngayon sa Krusada yung WORLD CLASS FILIPINOS. Naniniwala ako na world class ang ating mga filipino rappers. Hello, ang gagaling kaya. Kung barahan lang ang labanan, walang tatalo sa pinoy.

The reason why we are changing our primary photos on Facebook

am ultimately sensitive of the issue of this blog post. I had to think twice before actually posting this.

Change your facebook profile picture to a cartoon from your childhood andinvite your friends to do the same. Until monday (December 6) there should be no human faces on faceb

ook, but an invasion of memories! This is for a campaign against violence on children.

The last count of child abuse cases in the Philippines was 4,456 on year 2007. Can you imagine four thousand four hundred and fifty six children b

eaten to death, harassed, maltreated, neglected and/or threatened beyond sanity?

SEVENTY SEVEN (77%) PERCENT of child abuse cases are rooted under sexual abuse.

Just so you know, there are four main categories of child abuse:

• Neglect - Neglect happens when the responsible parent or guardian fails of his duty to provide the child the primary needs for living like shelter, clothing, food, and hygiene. A neglected child usually has these indicators: dirty skin, offensive body odor, malnourished body, tattered or over-sized clothing, and is frequently unsupervised.

• Physical Abuse - As the video suggests, a real child does not bounce back, physically abused children suffer severe aggression and injury from their own parents or guardians. It can involve kicking, slapping, punching, and its worst case, strangling and killing.

• Emotional Abuse - Emotional abuse could be defined as name calling, ridicule, degradation, and destruction of personal belongings of an adult to a child. There is a much wide range of variety categorized under emotional abuse. Thus, making it very difficult to box.

• Child Sexual Abuse - This is a form of child abuse wherein an adult utilizes a child for his/her sexual pleasure. It could involve pressuring a child into a sexual activity, touching a child's genitals, indecent exposure, and forcing a child to view pornography. Below is a video of child sexual abuse courtesy of Prithvi Ministries Activities.

I, too, have been maltreated in a way I don't ever want to disclose. At whatever cost, I will fight against child abuse and seek justice to all that is concerned. This is my crusade.
One more thing, the victim almost always becomes the perpetrator. To all parents out there, adults, and guardians, please realize that the child you have is the parent of tomorrow. Whatever example set upon him will be exemplified and executed to his future children and the children of his children. Trust me, I should know.

THE PROBLEM WITH HOUSING AND DIGNITY

Did you know that only ¼ of our entire nation population have decent shelter? The rest of the rate is living on urban slums, makeshift homes, and government owned lands. End of the day, they get demolished, deprived of a home, exiled to an unknown relocation site without the necessary means of living like water and electricity.

I have observed that slum residences almost always lack a decent toilet, a private room, or a clean kitchen. I honestly feel that dignity is robbed from them because of their situation.

Take the case of Ate Monica, a woman around her thirties. Amazingly at the size of their makeshift home which is approximately less than 20sqm [probably the size of your garage], the members of her household is the same number as her age, 30. We question their dignity in the light of not having a private area to change clothes, to pee, to poop, and to have sex. We question their dignity because only three of them have a job, a sense of responsibility in their case. We look at them as if they are also deprived of hope and respect.

HERE COMES THE PROBLEMATIC PART

But a home is still a home. No matter how small. Who are we to judge that dignity is lost without a home? Nothing is lost if we never had it in the first place. What if I’m born without a hand, without sight, without voice? Will I ever feel that I’m deprived of something? If I never had it in the first place.

It backfired to us that maybe people without a decent shelter never really cared about having one. Sure, it might occur to them to aspire. But that doesn’t mean that it makes them a lesser person. Dignity is a God-given gift, inalienable to any person.

Is it a reason then, that without a home, you lose your dignity?