My classmates/friends from the ORIGINAL 3a7 have NEVER FAILED to make me happy on my birthday last December 6.  Like they always do, they give some little "surprises" to the birthday celebratOR and because it so happened that it was my birthday on that said date, it was honestly NOT a TOTAL surprise to me hehe!!  Though I was wondering what kind of surprise they had for me, remembering my friend Karyll who also got a surprise on his birthday from US and that 'surprise' is a LITERAL one that it even made him literally trembling, hoping at that time, I'm NOT gonna get such pseudo-punishment haha!!  Well the surprise they got for me was just a PLAIN one.  Giving me a chocolate cake, with a NUMBERed candle (20) which ONLY means I have just turned 20 on that day, and while my classmates were singing a "birthday" song to me, I blew the candle and made NO WISH haha!!  Yes, you heard that right, I'm damn 20 now hehe!!  I was shy admittedly because we were all in the corridor and a few strangers couldn't help but stare at what the commotion "was" and obviously from their sight, a little young-looking man with glasses was trying to blow the candle from his rolled choco cake !!  It was TOUCHING, I don't HIDE!!  At that time, I felt so sorry that I didn't TREAT them or something (blowout), but I PLAN to treat all you soon!!  Take it from me!!  PLUS, a giant black&white card was given to me with all my friends' written "greetings" inside it, some greeted CASUALLY and some greeted that really made me INSPIRED and so I grinned !!  Really made me "special" after wondering why they had made me one!!  How did they know that my favorite flavor on a cake is actually chocolate and my favorite color combination, black&white, and that actually is the color of the giant card hehe??  So THANKS TO YOU ALL DEAR FRIENDS!!  From those friends of mine who greeted through their phones, my classmates who had that surprise, to my family, and especially to God, they are ALL the reason why I have become so "delighted" on my birthday.  The MAN upstairs, of course, who has given me another "year" to go on with this great life no matter what the hurdles that have been tirelessly coming my way, I thank you BRE!!  Aside from that so-common THANKS let me tell you something to ALL those who greeted and especially to those who still remembered my special day, my long-lost friends especially: WHAT YOU RADIATE OUTWARD IS WHAT YOU ATTRACT BACK TO YOURSELF!!

I can't really believe how time has slipped so FAST!!  I'm already 20 years old, comparatively JUST a little older than my friends, and a big farewell to my wonderful teenage years!!  Still more to come!!  Wondering still what LIES AHEAD for me!!  And a big confession for me to reveal that despite my age, I never had even a single GIRLFRIEND since birth!!  So more reason for me to say that I'm not still prepared to leave this unfair world hehe!!  Damn!  That's why in this blog, I hardly talk about love matters and how I wish I could share mine, that most interesting topic of all-time!  Partly a sad birthday due to that hehe. 

So what's my big opinion about birthdays at large??  Simple, it isn't about "celebration" it's all about simply being HAPPY despite what troubles one's mind or what physically troubles you, all about existing with a purpose, or in Calculus terms getting some value to run a function!!  It's all about commemoration of your earthly existence and getting a link to what I've just said, the default destiny to be achieved in this so-called earthly existence is HAPPINESS, plus friends that will always back you up to help you achieve it, and the deepest reason why they also come to celebrate!!  Kudoz to you all!! 

 

Check out the little album of our outing in Laguna here in the gallery section of my site ... 

It's already the 12th of December, 2 days to go before my mother's birthday and 13 days to go before the much-awaited Christmas.  Bakit hindi ko ma-feel ang PASKO??  Hindi katulad dati, November pa lang FEEL ko na kaagad ang simoy ng pasko!  Tuwing umuuwi ako nang gabi dito sa subdivision, ung mga christmas lights sa bawat bahay ay hindi na kasing BONGGA nang dati aside from the fact na "konti" na lang ang mga bahay na nag-didisplay ng christmas lights samantalang dati halos LAHAT meron na wala pang Disyembre, pa bonggahan pa ang iba, para bagang may contest!!  Pag magpapasko na, makikita ko na sa TV ang advertisement ng Coke, ung may mahabang truck na si Santa kumikindat, alaala pa ba o un ba un hehe ??  Tapos 'di ba may kanta dito na may lyrics na: "Holidays are coming??"  Siguro lang na hindi na nag-advertise ang Coke ng ganung "commercial" kasi dama rin nila ang nadarama ko, hehe kahit hindi ako "advertiser" aware ako na hindi dama ng KARAMIHAN ang nalalapit na pasko!!  Dito nga sa bahay eh, may christmas lights nga pero dun lang ginanahan ang mga magulang ko na magkabit pero hindi NA sa christmas tree sa loob, ibig sabihin lang nawalan din sila ng ganang itayo ang christmas tree, dahil nga 'di rin NILA dama ang pasko!!  Bakit ba??  Ano ba ang nangyayari??  Hindi naman "matunog" ang balita na katapusan na ng mundo sa parating na year of the Dog-2006, 'di ba??  Meron bang balita?  Tingin ko wala naman eh, o siguro "busy" lang si Madam Auring kay Archie.  I really am starting to wonder why this is happening.  HIGIT sa lahat, 2-digit date na sa December at wala pa rin kahit ISA man lang grupo ng mga carolers ang "matapang" na nangangaroling sa bahay namin, siguro dama rin nila na wala rin kaming ganang magbigay ng anumang "aguinaldo" kasi parang hindi sa 'min pasko..  Christmas is one BIG part of every Filipinos's lives!  Simula pa lang nang UTUIN ako ng mga magulang ko na "Santa's for real," kasi biruin nyo pagkagising ko meron ng sangkatutak na candies sa "sock" ko nung paslit pa ako, samantalang wala pang laman un pagkatulog ko at nagkaroon ng mga REGALO sa dalawang kambal na puno para sa 'min dalawang mag-utol, simula pa lang nun at malamang hanggang last year ng "konti", I had realized how "happy" the season of Christmas could be.  Pero ngayon bakit biglang NAWALA ang sense of anticipation???  Probably a sign that Christmas will just be an ordinary day for me instead of extra-ordinary...  Damn, how I wish this Christmas would be as "great" as the Christmas when I was on the 6th grade..  Noong mga panahong may "gana" pa akong kumanta ng "O Holy Night" sa labas ng bakuran namin at walang magawa ang pumanaw na aso naming si "Pot-Pot" kundi magtago na lang sa likod-bahay namin para bagang "firecrackers" ang turing nito sa boses ko.  Miss ko na rin ang DIVISION of PROFITS naming mag-kakaibigan tuwing Christmas eve at dahil hindi pa ako Accounting major nun wala pa akong alam sa division 2x ng profits from our "caroling" kaya pumayag na lang ako na tanggapin ang isang "Sweet Corn" na chichirya at hindi ko nalalaman na sila'y nagtatawanan at my back at siguro sinasabi nila na, "Hindi pwedeng maging Accountant 'to si RC, ang bobo eh" hehe  at sabay tumanggap sila ng 'porsyento' mula sa mga aguinaldo at ako'y isang "Sweet Corn" lamang na 'inigit' ko lang haha..  ULOL hehe, siyempre alam ko un, I just don't NEED money if I enjoyed at that time (palusot pa amp! hehe).  PRANING na ako kung bakit ko 'to nadarama na pwede naman talagang hindi maramdaman ng iba, just a little last year, Christmas was not here on my side and now I think Christmas has already flown away from me, tired maybe? hehe.  PRANING na talaga ako na kahit ultimo "parada ng mga bakla" along Espanya e ina-associate ko na sa Christmas   

Paano ba magiging masaya ang PASKO ko para man lang maramdaman ko 'to kahit unti!!  KAHIT PA sa bawat "zap" ko sa remote control ng aming TV at ipakita dun sa bawat channel ay puro "exchange gifts" ng mga mayayaman o higit na may kaya sa buhay and they exchange expensive gifts tulad ng mga iPOD Nano at lingerie (ooops mali atang channel un ehehe) o ang mayayamang pamilya na may holiday trip sa ibang bansa tulad ng Hong Kong, Malaysia o Zimbabwe, HINDI AKO MAMATAY sa INGGIT sa mga sadyang mapang-inggit sa TV hehe..  KAHIT pa bigyan ako ng DSL na internet connection to satisfy not only my WANT but NEED, it will not PERHAPS change what I feel towards a gloomy kind of Christmas..  Sometimes a feeling is indescribable, 'di ba?  Corny man sabihin, pero one can be Mary ah este "merry" during Christmas and will go 'extendedly' to the rest of "holidays" if one remembers the very essence of a Christmas celebration..  To simply commemorate the birth of my "pops" upstairs -- Jesus...  And what I like about holidays is the season of giving, sharing...  It may be a coin for the beggar, gifts to be exchanged, or even a brand-new laptop to the spoiled, it doesn't make a BIG difference really and maybe you can argue with me with the difference according to size and price JUST BECAUSE there's no need for me to argue further hehe.  But in this Christmas season, not economics nor Accounting would be applied to measure such distance of who's a happier freak, it is Philosophy, to deeply think about the very reason why this is widely celebrated across the globe...  And that philosophy is a subjective one and therefore it all lies to every man's heart, let's start to learn what has been unlearned for so long ika nga hehe...  LET ME REPEAT what I've said on my previous birthday entry: WHAT YOU RADIATE OUTWARD IS WHAT YOU ATTRACT BACK TO YOURSELF..  So if you receive even a single text message of Christmas greeting that you'll surely get from a friend or even stranger, say "THANKS" or greet her/him back, no more no less..  If you'll receive a sincere KISS from a loved one, kiss her/him no more no less plus a season's greetings of course..  But "MORE" could do hahahaha ..  Kudoz..  And enjoy the coming Christmas break and be productive!  INUMAN na hehe, Paskuhan na..  Tang 'nang singaw to, bakit pa napunta sa dila, eating is really a pain in the ass hehe (naging pwet na pala ang dila ngayon hehe), okay alas dos na naman ng madaling araw, tulog na ako, aral pa 'ko Law     

- Have just downloaded Sweet Child of Mine mp3 by Guns N' Roses wooo rock rockan na hehe.. 

BAGONG lay-out na naman!  Totoo talaga ang kasabihang: Nothing is permanent but change.  Wooo, what's up with me??  It has been a while..  Well, many things have quite changed since my last post.  And I never had chance to write them all here, writer's block siguro hehe..  I bought 3 gifts for 'exchange' gifts.  One is for the orginal 3a7, the other one is for the new 3a7, and the other is for "our" BARKADA from the original 3a7.  Well, I received a "card" with Mam Moreno's face printed on it, boxer shorts, and an inspirational book respectively hehe...  The original 3a7 got some simple 'traditional' party in Jollibee and it was FUN...  Just to celebrate this merry season, I've made myself busy by buying some gifts to be exchanged, and going to a party, and that's how I've been enjoying this season so far...  Outside's becoming a little colder now and perhaps it is now safe for me to say that I'M FEELING IT hehe..  You know what I mean hehe...  About my lay-out, I like it better if this appears "SIMPLE" and I've just removed the tag-board, wala lang, kasi meron namang "comment" feature dito, kaya feedbacks are still OPEN hehe..  Green Pasture, why did I come up with that name??  'La lang, kasi dati may napanood akong isang episode sa "Chicken Soup for the Soul" ung lola doon, tumitingin sa garden, well, ung kulay ng garden malamang berde hehe, tapos black and white ung color ng garden SA UNA, tapus todo NGITI siya, kataka-taka, tapus biglang nagkaroon ng kulay ang garden sa wakas, naging berde..  Anong ibig sabihin nun?  'La lang naman, parang 'simple' lang ang ipinapahiwatig ng mensahe dun, that SIMPLE things in life are free..  And that grandma, through her smile, utilized that opportunity of getting such "free" thing and it's great!

On buying 'exchange' gifts, I came up with this observation na bakit kung babae ang nabunot mo halimbawa, ung gift na gusto niya, super SPECIFIC!  'Lam nyo un?  Bibili ka ng "perfume" halimbawa, gusto talaga ng mga babae in general, ang perfume na galing Kamiseta halimbawa lang, ung kulay 'ganito' ang liquid, 'lam nyo un hehe??  Masyadong specific, pati pangalan ng 'store' talagang i-spespecify...  Pero kapag lalaki naman, siguro lang in general, malamang gusto rin niya "perfume" pero "perfume" lang PERIOD hehe, no need to say na dapat MABANGO, because perfumes are designed to be "that" hehe and no specific store to be cited..  'La lang hehe..  Got no problem with that, just a shallow observation..  At babae nga ung nabunot ko at isang 'pabango' ang gusto niya at sobrang specific at dalawang mall pa sa katunayan ang napuntahan ko, mahanap lang ang gusto hehe..  OK lang un, 'la rin naman akong magawa that time hehe.  Kahit ung mga sinasamahan kong mga kaibigan, kapag babae ang nabunot nila, hindi nga 'specific' pero mini-skirt, tsinelas naman ang mga HILING, what's up with that hehe??  MAHIRAP din un kasi kailangan pang sukatin ang paa, baywang, 'lam nyo un hehe??  Pero 'pag lalaki, bilhan mo ng cap o kahit t-shirt, hindi ka magkakaroon ng problema hehe...   

I'm becoming tired of blogging, it has been enslaving me..  This habit's becoming a need already which should not be.  But it doesn't mean that I'm about to quit this whole crap hehe..  Maybe, I'm not in the mood anymore of writing 'things' and perhaps this will continue for a long time.  Maybe, I've come to the so-called LIMIT already of you know, that there's no need for me to write anymore, because the world is already overwhelmed by writings obviously better than mine.  But, I still believe that this damn world is full of possibilities or shall I say pre-packed with endless possibilities.  So why talk 'bout LIMITS if there's absolutely nothing??  It is just that I have no inspiration YET for me to write 'more,' everyday has been so common to me, as if my life's IDLE, nothing's, remarkably NEW, popping to share about.  I find comfort on reading other people's lives that look more interesting though..  Every writer has no reason to write if moments are keep on repeating almost everyday..  But a good writer does, despite repetitive moments in his boring life, ONLY if he's got an inspiration to still hold on to..  In my case, I've got nothing to hold on to.  IBIG SABIHIN lang, I think nobody's reading what I'm writing about (exception to the exceptional few hehe), a good reason for me to set 'blogging' aside for a while and so I've been left unmotivated up to now.  If anything rises FRESH, I'll definitely share, but as of this moment, that's still impossible...  Before Christmas though, I'll write my perhaps last serious essay for this blog, that would be the last, and the rest is history for me to FOCUS on the career I need to build...  Got to study Accounting well, to FINALLY write what's worth writing about when the time comes I become a CPA hehehe..

Happy Holidays everyone!  

-- Who in the hell says you can't get something productive from a wrestling show?? hehe

 

"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about." -- Mark Twain 

When I was little, I chose the playground as my sole battleground.  Every game I played was a battle well-spent.  Since the playground is my chosen battleground, I played like a soldier who was meant not only to fight but to win the whole war itself.  My playmates and I played so good and in the outside it appeared childish but perhaps I was the only one, from the inside, who thinks very differently because I was perhaps the only one who took every game so damn serious as if my whole life was very much attached to it and when I lose, I immediately can conclude how unfair the Universe has been to me and blame Madam Auring for that miserable fate.  I aimed to be the best among the rest of my playmates especially in basketball and guess what?  I was never a FAILURE when it comes to winning.  Am I the best in basketball that time?  Perhaps I won that again.  Again, it was my chosen battleground and messing up with me in the playground was like messing up with the muscular wrestler Lashley and in fact I even injured myself one time just to be damn "undisputed best" in the monkey bars.  But just to clarify, I never turned into an ape then.

Did I also choose “schooling” as a battleground when I was little??  Hell NO!  Maybe our valedictorian did because if I chose it as my battleground too, I would have been the fictional one-eyed monster (got only an eye for one thing).  I didn’t link the former playground to school grounds and they are far different from each other, mind you.  Schooling can largely be linked to learning but as for me schooling as a link to winning, just like what I used to achieve in the playground?  Well, I don't think that so, it's definitely a big question.  My childhood philosophy about school continues even up to this time that school is merely an institution for us to learn things and as for now to build a career to be damn equipped for the rest of the demanding future to come.  Basically, I go to school to learn new things and ideas and as long as I can understand new things even beyond my grasp, for me, it satisfies the only purpose of why I have been going to such learning institutions for almost a whole of my life.  I compare school to nothing aside from learning and therefore I have never chosen school grounds as places of battle like the playground.  If one does so, he tends to compare works with others and after comparing, pride or arrogance might rise or the other way around--insecurity.  That's why I have never reaped any school awards (aside from Best in Conduct), but just an average student who was somewhat excelling in my own way because I was normally learning.  And that was simply it.  To tie up, I’ve been going to school to simply learn and it’s cooler than going to it to ultimately win a game.  But there was no game, thank God I don’t forget!  Besides, my school uniform is not camouflaged by green leaves as if I were going to save Private Ryan.

What's the BIG difference between the two??  Why did I choose a shallow playground as a serious battleground to ultimately win while in schooling, I just chose to fight through learning and not necessarily to grab such recognition to symbolically be a winner before the hundred eyes?  Simply because fighting is different from winning.  In the playground I play to win and in school I go to fight.  Not all fighting is aimed at winning and thus not all school grounds are playgrounds.  And forever they’ll be.  You can fight for love or can love MORE sincerely well, but it doesn't mean you can win his/her heart as a reward (don't you know you already had got a reward?).  You can live a purpose-driven life without winning Rick Warren’s best-selling inspirational book in a raffle.  You can understand deeper things than others without winning the valedictory post.  You can sing a love song deeply from heart without winning R Kelly's astounding voice.  You can be so mean sometimes since it can sometimes give glory to your 'sadistic' soul but it does not mean you can be SO evil and ultimately can win a trip for two to hell.  So much for that!  It only means that 'fighting' ONLY without necessarily 'winning' could be as fulfilling as 'winning' in itself.  You may sadly NOT get the juice, but what's more important is the squeeze.  That may sound subliminal but that's essentially true.  So what's the big difference why I chose to win in the playground and just to fight in school??

The answer is quite tricky, are there STRICT rules that govern effective learning??  Hell NOTHING!!  Yes, you can heed a great advice on how to effectively memorize generic names of drugs in Mercury Drug or nauseating ratios in Management Accounting but that would only be a helpful advice, nothing more, nothing less but collectively just the tip of the iceberg and NOT IN ITSELF "RULES."  Still deep inside, it is within one's burning passion in order to effectively learn things better.  And schooling is, in its face, NOT A GAME, NOT A PLAYGROUND where there are rules to follow and where you sometimes win and sometimes lose.  Because in school you ALWAYS win only if you choose to!!  On the other hand, to play some game in the playground is a totally different thing because in here there are strict rules to play a “fair” game unlike in school, winning could be more than an exception rather than a rule, but the very existence of these "rules" somehow make up or highlight the very object of every game -- WINNING.  You SURPRISINGLY learn even more by failing units in a curriculum but in the playground, winning is absolute, meaning if you FAIL, you LOSE.  True, You may RISE UP after losing a game, but you can't deny the fact that you actually are susceptible to losing even more.  In the playground therefore where I chose it as my sole battleground, possibility of losing is always there but in the school grounds, you may fail once, you may fail twice or may even fail in perpetuity, but don’t you ever say player that you’re one BIG LOSER or else I will kick those "words" down into your throat…  Because your mind HAD OPENED long before you surrendered a paycheck for your enrollment...  Don't tell me that's a LOSS!  Agree?

And you may actually convert school grounds to playgrounds and let me continue 'bout that at the sequel of this.

Wooo, what's up again with me hehe?  Well, Christmas day was not so ordinary and I NOW completely disagree to my previous post about a gloomy kind of Christmas then.  I'm a certified walking contradiction!  A self-confessed "man with no integrity" hehe.  Like the thing I said a couple of years back to a dear 'friend' that I will not EVER wear "contact lens" in my lifetime even though I'm the richest man alive, and when I wore those, she said, "CHARING LANG PALA" hehe.  So you may start NOT believing me when I post something a bit "oratorical" here again haha and that could be the sole price I'm willing to PAY.  Most of the time, I went bloghopping and at the same time enjoying what I've been reading (you let your 'life' OPEN to the world then that's the sole price you must be willing to pay hehe).  They USUALLY say that preparations for Christmas day (which is of course before the Chrismas day itself) were "merrier" than the "very day" itself.  I completely AGREE!  The beginnings of the chilly season when December starts are collectively 'something' that gives us this indescribable feeling of "exciting shivers" which connote sheer anticipation for what "surprises" might come...  And this kind of feeling has definitely formed part mostly before the "very day."  Some say that Christmas is nothing but an ordinary day to them except for lots of food and there could always be one thing that stands out as a BIG DIFFERENCE-togetherness.  And speaking of 'togetherness,' my father IS here again and it means one thing-laziness is creeping again on his body and he didn't mind NOT going to his work again but he's doing now something 'productive' by reading his favorite leisure book about Grammar haha, what a leisure read!!  My mother is also here "reviewing" the "Asado" recipe for our coming New Year.  My brother's still sleeping for he has just spent almost the whole morning drooling in the Net (my time haha).  Ooops, i forgot my 'little sis' is not here for she has been on my aunt's house playing with our cousins...  Big contradiction once again haha!!  What made my Christmas day a bit extra-ordinary?

"I see trees of green, red roses too " hehe..  You might have guessed it already.  I like singing bre as I've said in one of my May entries (still can remember hehe) I believe I was a singer in my past life and I was just 'reincarnated' to become just an ordinary "singing freak" for a difference hehe.  My family and the family of my aunt spent the Christmas day here in our  house and we sang all our heart out (that somehow rhymed haha).  And yes, Christmas would just be an ordinary day without an ice-cold beer, but the truth is it never went dull haha!!  "Have you ever heard the wolf cry in the blue corn moon " haha..  Still singing that last song... syndrome hehe??  Well, let me share something serious (don't worry I'll not preach haha) but somebody PREACHED because as I was bloghopping, I hopped my butt in to Fr. Stephen Cuyos's blog.  He definitely is not your ordinary "father" (still don't know if he has been a priest) but all I know is he has been travelling the road less-travelled--priesthood or ministry? (still don't have a single idea).  Not our ordinary 'preacher' who mostly talks about gospel or bible passages all the time, he is surprisingly more than that--tech-geek.  He's even more techie than me hehe (come on, I spend almost the whole day in front of the PC and that came out as a surprise bre).  Some of you may be 'surprised' and holler, "really, playah?"  Yeah playah, he, in fact, advocates the use of Linux and knows by heart what RSS(really simple syndication) is all about and only a techie may know that (if not a Computer Science student).  That's cool man.  I once encountered a priest also (who happens to be my cousin) and as we were having some beer-session (a priest who drinks, that's way cooler huh hehe), I was surprised too 'bout the fact that my priest-cousin knows the Yahoo Chat very well.  Well, what a revolutionary undertaking that perhaps will define "priesthood" in the near future and of course armed with the outstanding Christian faith in every so-called undertaking hehe.  So going back, as I was bloghopping Fr. Cuyos's blog (father?) I was again surprised on what I've just found in one of his 'educated' entries.  It's in the 'technology' category on his wordpress-filled blogsite.  The iPod shuffle!!!  Let this image speak for itself:

 

Yeah, you believe... in profits though... 

I totally agree with him!  STOP commercializing religious faith, for it is definitely NOT FOR SALE, playah!  Just like winning, money isn't everything (labo ah hehe).  No need for me to expound further, I think you already got that pretty well...  Well, you might as well read his entry 'bout that here.  So much for that, I'm out and I'll be writing my promised last (sanaysay-ish haha) entry about the Vacuum hehe..  Happy New Year everyone... 

I've just got this from my email.  Since today's RIZAL day, the day of the most popular Filipino genius for us to commemorate, let me share this HATE LETTER written against Filipinos.  This is written by a radio talk show host from Nevada named Art Bell.  Here it goes (just a part to cut the long story short) and after that would come my civilized response:

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Oh yeah, I've just thought carefully about what YOU MEAN!!  You got it right when you wrote that there is NO WAY that we can connect ourselves to Asia other than location.  You also got it right that we are DISTINCTLY Filipinos.  It goes pretty logical that we can't connect to Asia because we have our own IDENTITY.  I'm pretty sure that you just wrote that some kind of a HATE LATTER against us because you had just encountered some Filipino-Americans, who are infecting your soil, that act like they are Chinese or Japanese people who are so damn proud about what Chinese and Japanese people have done that really made an "impact" to your soil that has ULTIMATELY triggered your soil's government to move their asses.  Yeah, they are FOOLS indeed because it means that they might be projecting identity which definitely is not so "Filipino" despite the fact that they naturally or somewhat are.  Yes, we have our own identity distinctly ours and there's NO WAY we can connect ourselves to Asia other than geography that speaks for itself.  You're pretty damn right about it and your assessment could win a Nobel Prize award.  BUT one very important thing's missing before it can qualify.  Hmmm, let me think of it.  Oh yeah, I got it.  Before I forget, you're a broadcaster but you miss one important characteristic that can make one a "distinctively" good broadcaster.  Oh yeah, you tend to GENERALIZE things.  You are so right that most Filipinos are POOR and we indeed live in a 'Third World' nation BUT it doesn't mean that nothing great will 'escalate' from us.  MONEY ISN'T GREATNESS after all and it's definitely a poor generalization on your part to brand 'Third World' nations like us as TRASH!!!  Just because you encountered some Filipino-American fools who mislead their true identity as Filipinos, you'll immediately conclude we are all like that.  It seems SO wrong!  There's no such great broadcaster who has a bad mouth and only can see the "black thAngs" and not the "white thAngs" a*sh*le.  How could you win a Nobel Prize or even win listeners if you haven't started yet to build a GOOD identity on your own...  And you praise Chinese or Japanese 'economic' success, because you only can see tall buildings or technological advancement at large (white thAngs indeed).  You don't perhaps know that in China too, things don't seem to balance each other in pure economic terms, China has invested a LOT in tall buildings like the one in Shanghai but a LITTLE in hospitalization and many 'elderly' might die because of this.  You even forgot one thing: no one could wipe your ass off when you become freakin' OLD if you happen to hire a Filipino nanny.  One thing more, if you'll visit our house, I might as well offer you an ice-cold drink straight from our toilet bowl to show how HOSPITABLE Filipinos have been for many years.  And one last thing, can you write a poem in an early age like our very own Jose Rizal did?  One thing's for sure you "trash," that the taxes your soil's government collects "partially" have come from Filipinos's general INGENUITY which your soil can make a profit from and in turn can benefit you.  Damn, how could you forget those things you one-sided a*sh*le... 

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That may not be a CIVILIZED response because of the presence of dirty words but I just can't help my emotions pour...  But still on my sound mind to clear things out...  Happy Rizal Day everyone...