Top Ten from RX93.1

A lot of funny and sentimental top tens from the Morning Rush..so far, it’s been goooood…

The Top Ten Heartbreak Quotes – Astroboy, Oscar Dela Hopia, Specialist

1. Rusher Loparigno – “Sometimes the greatest enemy of our present happiness is the past happiness that is too well remembered.”
2. Aurae – “Why ruin the perfectly beautiful petals of a flower when you know from the start…that he loves you not.”
3. Aurae – “We know little about pain and regret — except that it is soluble in alcohol.”
4. Archiemon/Ivan – M. Kathleen Casey: “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
5. Rhapsody – From the TV show House: “You left her because you want to be miserable. Miserable will not make you special. It will just make you miserable.”
6. Vi – “In love, what matters is not your success, but your significance.”
7. Maomao – Peter Parker: “What’s even more painful than being abandoned, is knowing that you’re not even worth an explanation.”
8. Lea – “I cried today not because I miss you, but because I finally realized I’m going to be alright without you.”
9. RC and Cess – “Break-ups occur when an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object.”
10. Sophie – “I’d rather be healthy alone, than sick with someone else.”
11. Bards – “Sometimes, you just have to put a period on something that has to end, and not settle for a comma.”
12. Benargirl/Candies – “Trying to forget someone you loved is like trying to remember someone you never knew.”
13. Glenskie – “6 billion people in the world, and all you need is one.”
14. Breise/Shall/Natalie – “When you left me, I was the one who loved you more. But between us, you lost more. Because someday, I can find someone I can love the way I loved you. But you will never find another who will love you the way I did.”
15. Charmville – “Love and death are two uninvited guests. Nobody knows when they come, but both do the same work. One takes the heart and the other takes it’s beat.
16. Maalindog na Paruparu – “Should I die of a broken heart, tell him it isn’t because he loved me too little, but because I loved him too much.”
17. Gudeve – “Everyone says love hurts. Love doesn’t hurt. Loneliness hurts, rejection hurts, envy hurts…but not love.”
18. No name – “Hearts are often broken with words left unspoken.”
19. Phipay Phapot – “We don’t eat what we’ve thrown up.”
20. Pulanglangit – “After a break-up, we mourn not for what we’ve lost, but for what’s left of it.”
21. No name – “Love is giving him the power to destroy you, but trusting him not to.”
22. No name – “Nothing in this world is permanent. You just have to love it while you have it.”
23. No name – “They say people come and go, but the truth is, no one really disappears from your life. People never really leave…their roles just change.”
24. No name – “Love can make us inseparable, but it can also reduce us to two people trying to forget each other.”
25. B – “Love is a 4-letter word for: ‘Here’s my heart and soul, please grind them into a hamburger and enjoy!’”
26. Lesh/Temptress26 – “Sometimes you can’t let go of the hurt, because it’s all that’s left of the greatest love story you never thought would end.”
27. Eien17 – “Love is one game you lose, by refusing to play.”
28. Joanna/Astroboy – “Being brokenhearted is like having a broken pair of ribs: on the outside it looks like there’s nothng wrong. But what no one knows is that every single breath hurts.”
29. Bibimpop – “It’s impossible to find someone who won’t make you cry. So instead, look for someone who will be worth the tears.”
30. Ash – “It took years to find you, but only a heartbeat to lose you.”
31. Dementia – “You cannot judge how I choose to fix what you broke.”
32. Eien17 – “The hardest part of saying goodbye, is having to do it all over again every single day.”
33. TReiz – “Someday I will find a person who fits me so well and so completely that I will forget all my previous heartbreaks. But today is not that day.”
34. Buck – “Meant for each other, does not always mean, meant to last.”
35. Ken – Celia Rodriguez: “You don’t move on from the pain. You get used to it.”
36. No name – “The most difficult times are mornings, knowing that the man of your dreams is waking up with the wrong woman.”
37. Yen – “When giving up is less painful than holding on, then it is time to let go.”
38. Archiemon – “You love to hate the one who loves the one you hate to love.” 

The Top Ten Date Quotes – Oscar Dela Hopia/Specialist

1. Tyron – “What’s better than 12 roses on a piano? Tulips on an organ.”
2. Bernadette – I once told my date what the nuns in our school told us: “BBBBBBB – Books before boys because boys bring babies.”
3. Astroboy – “Kung papipiliin ka ng kakainin mamaya, puwede ako nalang?”
4. Taurean Tiger – My now-husband asked me on our first date: “How many kids do you want us to have?”
5. Frederique – “Alam mo ang ayaw ko sa iyo? Pag wala ka.”
6. No name – “The only thing I want to change about you…is your last name.”
7. ian024 – “My doctor gave me only 2 options regarding my heart condition: I.C.U. or you see me.”
8. Kian – “After our exam, puwede ako naman ang sagutin mo?”
9. Lovely Nuisance – “An officemate has been bugging me for a date for the longest time. Finally I agreed. At the resto, after looking at the menu, he told me: “Puwede KKB?”
10. Nobag – Laro tayo, kahit ano, wag lang taguan. Kasi a girl like you is hard to find.”
11. Jeka – “Kung aywa mo kong murahin…mahalin mo nalang ako.”
12. Frederique – “Sana dalawa ang puso ko. Para pag dinurog mo yung isa, may isa pa akong iaalay sa iyo.”
13. Pancakes – After the date. Girl: “Are you going to kiss me, or will I lie in my diary?”
14. Pancakes – Boy: “Can I borrow your cellphone? I promised my mom I’d call her once I meet my dream girl.”
15. Alias Pusa – At the movies, the guy saw that the theater was packed. He asked the girl: “Okay ka lang sa nakatayo?” The girl misunderstood the question and answered: “Kahit patuwad, puwede ako!”
16. Reggie – I told my then girlfriend (now wife) how sexy she was, but she thought I was being bolero because she was chubby then. I told her: “You’re about as perfect as I need you to be.”
17. Joao – “Don’t be late for a date or you’ll debate with your date.”
18. Boknoi – I once dated a homeless woman. She used to say: “It’s easy to convince me to stay the night…”
19. RC and Cess – “Don’t date a guy who reads the menu like the Chinese, from right to left. Because he’s checking the price first.”
20. Ang pagbAbAlik ng dating nasira at nangak0ng bAbA – “You’re like the moon; I’d like to see you tonight.”
21. Astroboy – “I’m a little bit like coffee: a litlle sweet, a little bitter, but best when hot.”
22. Carmela – “My life without you is like an unsharpened pencil: it’s pointless.”
23. Bluegrey – Babala sa mga babaeng naghahanap ng date: “Sa mga panahong ito, ruler nalang ang straight.”
24. Mr. Perk – “The best first date is a guy who touches nothing but your heart.”
25. Cecil of BPI – “Never invite last-minute invites for a date. You could simply be a last-minute replacement because the first choice turned him down.”
26. Chellix – Someone actually told me this: “Nakakahilo pala, sa iyo kasi umiikot ang mundo ke eh.”
27. Pretty Kitty/Zutil – “Sana assignment ka, para puwede kitang i-take home.”
28. Pipit – “Love isn’t blind, kasi nahanap kita.”
29. RC and Cess – “Para kang utot, tahimik pero malakas ang dating.”
30. Raxiboy – “Kung ibibigay ko sa yo ang manibela ng puso ko, ibubunggo mo ba sa pader ng kabiguan?”
31. Sponge Lola – “My favorite word for us is “united”, because it starts with U-N-I.
32. Pulanglangit – I once asked a date: “Do you have a pet peeve?” She answered: “Wala. Aso, meron.”
33. Boknoi – Took my date to McDo. When she couldn’t decide on what to order, the counter person suggested: “Fillet-o-fish?” My date answered: “Fillet o fish? Uhm…sige fillet nalang.”

The Top Ten Signs That Someone Is Single Or Taken – King Of Hearts

1. Maomao – When you say “Queensland”, ang alam ng single: butter, ang alam ng taken: motel.
2. Cheyenne – Marries OFW’s always say they’re “hiwalay” whenever they’re abroad.
3. Mulder’s Luvr – They’re single if they’re updated with all the TV shows.  They have all the time to watch TV.
4. Kayee – My friends know this: Pag sumasama ako sa inuman, I’m single. Pag di ako sumasama sa inuman, I’m taken.
5. Warriorpoet – Sa gimik, yung mga taken, tingin ng tingin sa relo.  Ang mga single, walang pakialam sa oras.
6. Lui – People who are taken move away when they text.
7. Espeks – If someone only wants to meet up with you on their own preferred time, doesn’t want anything unscheduled, always decides where you’ll go, he is taken.
8. Aelfeine – If one forearm is bigger than the other, then a guy is single.
9. Espeks/Acer – If a woman’s status is, “it’s complicated”, she’s taken. Either taken, or taken for granted.
10. Chefchefan – Single: idealistic. Taken: realistic.
11. Red – Single: always game. Taken: scheduled. Married: masuwerte na kung meron.
12. SC/Astroboy – Single: naniniwala pa rin sa destiny.
13. Bugabuga – Single: game na game! Taken: game over.
14. Ram – Ang single, ayaw sa bigote kasi madumi tignan. Ang taken, mahilig sa bigote kasi nakakakiliti.
15. Forg – People who whine about how Valentines has become a commercialized holiday for fools…are usually single.
16. Metrogirl/Abay – If he only takes your calls during office hours, he’s taken
17. Acer – People who take you out for Valentines on the 13th or the 15th, are taken.
18. Jhoy – If you borrow your date’s phone, and his inbox and sent item are empty, he’s taken.
19. Randacs8/SPY Shadow – Single pa pag ang hawak sa saging thumb at forefinger lang.
20. Macky Karabugs – Ang single pag suweldo, derecho sa mall. Ang taken pag suweldo, derecho sa grocery.
21. Purple – I learnd this from How I Met Your Mother: Single Stamina and Couples Coma. In a party, single people have the stamina to mingle. Couples sit down, wondering why they got up in the first place to go to a stupid party.

 

thoughts…

I am currently having a hard time. Not only I, but the rest of my family as well. Another challenge has been given to us. And I’m sure this is a challenge we are really hoping to win.

I’m not going to go into specifics, since I’m not comfortable talking about it. Let’s just say, one news could crash your world. And it’s been bothering me, ever since. My mind is practically occupied because of this. And I’m sure everyone is worried.

I just wish everything would end in a good way. I don’t think I can face it anymore.

run..

I’ve had this song in my head for months already. I don’t know why, but I really love this song. I was introduced to this song by a good friend of mine, who I asked for a favor to download the popular song by Snow Patrol. Unfortunately, he has mistakenly downloaded this song, I was actually looking for the song Signal Fire. Nevertheless, I kept the song because its message is absolutely nice. Basically the song is about losing with hopeless encouragement. Anyway, Leona Lewis also had a version of this song, which became #1 in the UK charts as soon as the song came out. Below is the lyrics…

I'll sing it one last time for you
Then we really have to go
You've been the only thing that's right
In all I've done

And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we'll make it anywhere
Away from here

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear

Louder louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say

To think I might not see those eyes
Makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbye
I nearly do

Light up...

Slower slower
We don't have time for that
All I want is to find an easier way
To get out of our little heads

Have heart my dear
We're bound to be afraid
Even if it's just for a few days
Making up for all this mess


Who do we blame for untrammeled mega-urbanization in Manila?

I got this from Kenneth Cardenas. I know a lot of people would want to pin someone for the devastation Typhoon Ondoy had caused us. I know it’s also not a good time for it. However, he had some very good points, so please read on…

 

We need to bring public scrutiny to bear on the big, if hard-to-answer, issues of unsustainable urbanization and land use planning.

It comes as no surprise that public anger in the aftermath of the Ondoy disaster has focused on corruption and incompetence among government officials: on how Arroyo’s Le Cirque dinner could have paid for disaster response equipment, how her son was spotted stocking up on booze even as people were dying in the rising floodwaters, and how unscrupulous politicians were taking advantage of the situation by plastering their grinning mugs all over relief goods. It is, after all, easier to lay responsibilities on names and faces rather than on structural causes.

There is, however, a critical aspect of the issue that evades easy association with names and faces, and is consequently not addressed by the public debate: the problem of untrammeled, private sector-led urbanization.

Whose face do we associate, for example, with the following problems?

1.) As Felino Palafox pointed out, large areas of the east bank of the Marikina River—the exact same areas that were subjected to a 2-meter flash flood—should not have been settled in the first place. Plans that have been drawn up in 1970 called for limits on construction in these areas and public works designed to withstand even the once-in-a-century flooding we saw last weekend.

2.) The west bank of the Marikina River, which should have been preserved as a watershed, was paved over as exclusive subdivisions (such as La Vista, Loyola Grand Villas, and Ayala Heights), schools (Ateneo de Manila and Miriam College) or settled as slums. In fact, the 1941 Frost Plan for Quezon City identified a protected area on the west bank that stretched from the La Mesa Reservoir in the north down to Libis in the south. (See figs. 1 and 2)

 

Fig. 1. The 1941 Frost Plan for Quezon City side-by-side with a satellite image of actual land use. Note the green protected area stretching from the Batasan area (military academy on the plan) all the way to Libis.

 

 

 

Fig. 2. Actual land use northeast of the UP Diliman campus. Note that in the original Frost Plan, this would have been protected parkland. Instead, it has been transformed into private subdivisions, a golf course, and slums.

Ideally, a forested catchment basin would have prevented flash flooding by maintaining soils with a high absorptive capacity, but as these slopes were graded and paved over for subdivisions, their ability of the soil to retain rainwater was severely compromised.

It is definitely no coincidence that these were perhaps the worst-hit areas in all of Quezon City, where mansions built on slopes unsuitable for residential areas collapsed and entire slums drowned in floodwaters.

3.) Further upstream in the Marikina River system, this process of paving over watersheds is being repeated by new suburban developments in the Sierra Madre foothills of Rizal. Interestingly, at least two presidential aspirants are heavily invested in this process.

I’ll leave it up to you to guess who.

4.) Last but not the least, an altogether more complex problem: a well-meaning policy requires that real estate developers allocate 20% of their “horizontal” house-and-lot developments to socialized housing. However, no such requirement exists for “vertical” condominium developments.

Since urban land prices are ridiculously high for our level of wealth, and since newly freed-up parcels (like Fort Bonifacio, Camp Bago Bantay and North Triangle) are typically privatized to the highest bidder, the tendency is for real estate developers to build condominiums for the low-risk, high-return markets of high income demographics.

There is absolutely no incentive to develop high-rise residences in the urban core for the majority of the population, effectively denying them, through pricing, the right to legitimate settlement in the urban core.

This has two consequences for how Mega Manila grows, how it is built, and how it was affected by tropical storm Ondoy.

The first is the growth of slums in core areas. Social groups that are so poor that they are not served even by socialized housing, but nonetheless depend on the city for employment, have no choice but to live in slums. As the events of the past weekend show, slums are disproportionately vulnerable to natural disasters, as they are often built on marginal land and have high population densities.

Systematically abandoned by the state and shunned by the market, a disproportionate number of poor Filipinos therefore have to live in slums. While we have roughly the same GDP/capita as Indonesia (Ph: 3,510; Id: 3,975) (PPP$, 2006), fully 44% of urban Filipinos live in slums, compared to 23% of urban Indonesians.

The second consequence is sprawl: the city grows out, rather than up. To tap demographics that are priced out of core urban lands, as well as to meet the government’s 20% socialized housing requirement, developers opt to build house-and-lot subdivisions in the urban periphery, where land is still relatively cheap, and where old landlords are eager to dispose of properties about to be subjected to agrarian reform. Thus, within the past two decades, Manila’s metropolitan area (as defined by a population density of at least 1,000 persons per square kilometer) has grown to become a 3,105 sq. km. monstrosity, with much of this growth occurring as encroachment on prime agricultural land in Bulacan, Cavite, and Laguna.

This worsened the extent of this weekend’s disaster by expanding the land areas that were affected. With a larger land area to cover, transportation and communications for the relief effort was more difficult than it should have been, and the need to coordinate between different local governments prevented a quicker response.

More importantly, most of the growth occurs in suburban and peri-urban areas that do not have the infrastructure, manpower, and equipment to address these sorts of disasters. Keep in mind that some of the most hard-hit areas, such as Marilao in Bulacan, Biñan in Laguna, and San Mateo, Rodriguez and Cainta in Rizal fit this description perfectly: suburban areas that have seen explosive urbanization but did not see a corresponding improvement in infrastructure and local government capacity.

We therefore end up with a city that is more prone to natural disasters than it should be, in a century that will likely see an out-of-whack ecosystem throwing stronger typhoons and unpredictable monsoons at us.

Now, the hard questions: given our propensity to heap public anger on Jaque Bermejos and UglyYuBins, to publicly shame Mikey Arroyos and Manny Villars, and to present Gloria’s resignation as the solution to what is most definitely a persistent, structural problem, how do we, as a public, come to terms with this situation?

If it’s a matter of laying blame, shouldn’t we also be lining up the Ayalas, the Solivens, and hell, even the Jesuits for developing on lands that should have been preserved as watersheds? If we do, how would it solve these problems?

Or if it’s a matter of pinning hopes on our politicians: would a different president, a different NDCC, a different MMDA chair, and different mayors translate to substantial changes in how we build our city?

A Benefit Concert for Typhoon Ondoy Victims

Ondoy/Ketsana Relief Centers

Got this from superbianca’s blog. Updated it as of September 29, 2009, 8:26 P.M.

LOCATION BREAKDOWN FOR VOLUNTEERS AND DONATIONS FOR VICTIMS OF TYPHOON ONDOY.

QUEZON CITY
- TIP-QC students who want to help, contact LEAH 09183822725, MECA 0908612217,NELSON 09084733842 and KENNETH 09287575652
- St. Theresa’s College QC (near Banawe) is also accepting donations 24/7 for victims of Ondoy

- go to ateneo de manila university, katipunan avenue, and proceed to the college covered courts to volunteer. shifts are in three hour cycles. you can go as early as 6AM but it goes on the whole day.
-xavier is also accepting donations..currently, they are overstaffed

- please bring packed/cooked food to 12 Denmark, Loyola Grand Villas, QC, and help @patriciahizon whose group was the only one helping the victims in tumana today.

- TULONG BAYAN, to volunteer, just go to Balay Expo Center in Cubao, Edsa cor McArthur, 8AM onwards. contact (02) 9137122 and look for Mary, May or Cam

- donations accepted in MIRIAM COLLEGE in SA office.

- donations also accepted in UP DILIMAN student council office at vinzons hall. As of the moment, they are overstaffed
- Operation Tulong Bayan Jig Abella @09202030170,Expo Centro, beside Farmers Market,Araneta Center,Cubao,QC

- for the GMA Kapuso Foundation, you can drop your donations at Samar St. cor GMA Network drive, QC. Behind GMA complex. Beside Malayan Bank. Tel # 9284299, 9289351, 9827777.

- for those who want to volunteer for sagip kapamilya: call 4132667/4160387, or go to #13 examiner st., west triangle, QC
- Soup Kitchen @ San Roque Elementary School Libis tonight. Donations and volunteers needed.
- ABS-CBN Sports will be mounting booths to receive donations in the UAAP finals game this TH & SUN

- the other address for sagip kapamilya is sct. bayoran corner tomas morato. look for Girlie Aragon or Jet at 0916-7227806 or 0929-5348176

- this is the REAL SAGIP KAPAMILYA ACCOUNT for your donations: banco de oro #56 300 20111 under abs-cbn foundation. to all those spreading fake accounts, please naman..
-Manor Superclub, Eastwood City will accept goods and other emergency items
-One Orchard Road Building in Eastwood is accepting goods

MANILA:

- DLSU along taft avenue will be accepting any and all kinds of donations starting 830AM. Animo! La Salle relief operations details: http://lasallian.ph/

- csb alumni also accepting donations at 9/f dls-csb school of design and arts building, along pablo ocampo street, vito cruz.
- San Beda Mendiola is also accepting donations thru its Community Involvement Center

- UST is also accepting your donations, proceed to the Tan Yan Kee Student Center.

- donations can be dropped off at victory church in malate, call 5221212 or visit the victory website.
- Malacañang opens as relief center
-for those near Robinsons Manila/Ermita, the Starbucks there (fronting Pedro Gil) is already accepting donations.

PASIG:
-RX93.1 is accepting relief goods in 17th floor Strata 2000 F. Ortigas Jr. Road, Pasig.

- MEGATENT, Meralco Ave, Ortigas beside Renaissance: need more volunteers and donations! Very big space! Open 24 hrs til Friday!
- La Salle Greenhills needs volunteers and donations. Feel free to drop by from 9am – 9pm.

- according to @margaga, poveda school (beside galleria) opens 9AM tomorrow and is open to all volunteers and any kind of donations.

- according to @angel21kawaii, CFC Center in Ortigas is receiving donations in cash or in kind. Call (02)7270682-87 or 09195359036.

- donations can be dropped off at victory church in ortigas, contact 6311212 or visit the victory website.
-Ortigas Area: Donations needed at UA&P. Contact the Student Executive Board: 6370912 Loc. 290 or 09178122476 (Mike)

MANDALUYONG:

- GAWAD KALINGA is accepting volunteers and donations, base is RFM gym in pioneer. Contact Raul Dizon 09178888109 and Felice Caringal 09178888304. for other GK sites you can help out, check out this blog.

MAKATI:

- White Space in Pasong Tamo ext. / Chino Roces is in need of volunteers to pack goods

- you can drop off your donations at Assumption College, San Lorenzo Village, Makati

- you can drop off your donations at the following stores in rockwell powerplant mall: aranaz, luca, greyone social.

TAGUIG or FORT area:

- donations can be dropped off at victory church in the fort, you can call 8171212 or visit the victory website.

- you can drop off your donations in embassy superclub in the fort.
-1100 Campus Avenue McKinley Hill, Fort Bonifacio is accepting donations

PASAY:

- @elizabacud shares that Manila Doctors College will also be accepting donations. Bring anything that can help at Speech Lab., Macapagal Blvd, PasayCity

SAN JUAN:

- La Salle Greenhills, Xavier School, and ICA (right beside Xavier) are also accepting donations. Xavier will be accepting goods till 12midnight.

FAIRVIEW area:

- Help needed in Fairview and Novaliches. Please send clothes, food, water, meds & blankets to the Divine Savior Parish in North Fairview.

SOUTH (alabang, las pinas, paranaque):

- drop donations or volunteer at DE LA SALLE ZOBEL. Contact Ms. Angie Brazan at the Social Action Office 0917-8597602

- you can drop donations at the ATC concierge, call 8422782 or 7721860

- san beda alabang in alabang hills village is also accepting donations

- you can help pack donations 10AM at st. james church, ayala alabang village

- you may volunteer at Red Cross Alabang – ATC along Zapote Road fronting National Bookstore call 8097131 for info

- CFC center in Las Pinas City is accepting donations. it is near Verdant and in front of the construction of SM Center Las Pinas. Contact 09174493154 / 8460809

- There are two new drop-off points for relief goods. Recipients will be various areas, including flooded Parañaque & Muntinlupa areas. You can get in touch with Jeff Tagle (09178875824) and Katrina Villareal (09175298332) respectively for details.

BAGUIO:

- donations can be dropped off at the ABS-CBN Baguio Office

- donations are also accepted at the Baguio Convention Center Executive Room from 10am til 4pm starting tomorrow til Friday. Volunteers are urged to come.

- Organizing a soup kitchen. Baguio donating vegetables to arrive via Victory Liner. Contact Dave at 09178396179.

BULACAN:

- RedCross bulacan accepts donations. It is located in Malolos Bulacan, near bulacan capitol

CAGAYAN:

- send your donations to the kkp office in xavier university, ATENEO DE CAGAYAN.

CAVITE:

- DLSU-Dasmarinas is also accepting donations, pls proceed to the 2nd floor of SBC Building

BATANGAS:

- DE LA SALLE LIPA is now accepting your donations, drop off point is at the college lobby.

CEBU:

- details on how you can donate are on noelle’s blog or the living for a cause blog.

DUMAGUETE and NEGROS area:

- People here in Dumaguete or in Negros Oriental can send their donations to Silliman University. contact @princessngaako on twitter for more details.

BACOLOD:

- For your donations, drop off center is at the Coliseum in the University of St. La Salle. 435-3857

- CAFE BREIZH wil be a drop off center for donations. text 09193651101 for details.

DAVAO:

- ATENEO DE DAVAO is accepting in kind donations for ondoy. drop off at the samahan office in jacinto campus.

- BANTAY BATA 163 davao located at matina,davao city is also a drop off point for any in-kind donations.

ZAMBOANGA:

- ATENEO DE ZAMBOANGA is accepting donations. You may bring them to the SACSI office. Look for Alma Curesma, 991-0871, loc 2224 or 2225.

OTHER FORMS OF HELP FOR YOU:

NEED TO SEND YOUR DONATIONS? Mail & More, FedEx & Air21 outlets are now accepting donations. For locations please call 8794789 or log to their official website.

PAL IS OFFERING FREE AIRLIFT FOR DONATIONS. for details, click on the pal website.

TO REPORT MISSING LOVED ONES OR AREAS IN NEED OF HELP: call the SAGIP KAPAMILYA HOTLINES at 4110011, 4110012, 4110013.

HOTLINES FOR MISSING PERSONS:
marikina – 09209389914
qc – 09216555262
pasig – 09189356318
cainta – 09175606241.
EASIEST WAY TO DONATE? VIA SMS: text RED <space> AMOUNT to 2899 (Globe) or 4483 (Smart)

FOR CAR TOWING NEEDS: HONDA and NISSAN offer free towing! call 09228504452, 09224452242, and 09228997959.

DONATIONS ON WHEELS!! if you have donations to give but no means to transport, contact 09189791229, 09177974098, 09326991794. don’t worry guys, this is not a scam! its by friends of @jiggycruz!

WANT TO OFFER YOUR MEDICAL SERVICES? please submit your name and contact details to Dr. V. Gisbert 0917-8922807 and Dr. J. Sinon at 0917-5261345
You can also drop off relief donations (except cash) during mall hours at Globe Stores in ATC, Festival Mall, Robinsons Malate, SM Southmall, MOA, SM Bicutan, SM Fairview, Trinoma, SM North, Greenbelt 4, Park Square, SM Makati, Plaridel (Walter Mart, Maharlika Highway), Tarlac (Metrotown Mall on McArthur Highway), Cabanatuan (NE Pacific Mall, Maharlika Highway), SM Clark and Marquee Mall (Angeles, Pampanga).

Please don’t forget that there are babies among the victims. Also, medicines are much needed among these relief centers.

STRANDED…

I got stranded in Quezon City yesterday.

I got up early yesterday, Saturday, at around 3 am since I can hear the rain pouring down pretty hard, and I couldn’t sleep. Anyway, since I was headed to class, I just got up, and tried watching TV, before preparing to leave. Since I was scared of traffic due to the MRT extension, I left the house at 6 a.m. I knew the village next to us would soon be flooded, but I was still adamant to get to my class.

During my class, most of my classmates were receiving some calls and I can hear their worried voices, because, apparently water were coming inside their houses. So I was already worried on how flooded Makati is by that time. I already had a heads up from my best friend that Quezon Avenue was impassable due to heavy traffic.

By 12:30 p.m., we were already dismissed, and we were already warned that Paseo de Roxas was already flooded. Nevertheless, my classmates and I tried to walk going to the MRT. I was already drenched. As we passed thru Glorietta, stores were already closing, and on the first floor, their maintenance were mopping the floor since water came in already inside the mall.

Luckily, MRT wasn’t crowded, and we were able to ride the train as soon as we arrived in the platform. And as the MRT passes through EDSA, we could see that EDSA was already flooded, waist-deep. While some parts of Edsa, only the roof of the cars could be seen, since the flood was so high. It was a scary sight. I was surprised to see that Quezon Avenue flooded. It was the first time for me to see it. By around 2p.m., I arrived in North Avenue station, and I headed straight inside the Trinoma Mall to buy slippers. My dad was already advising me to go home immediately, so I headed to the FX terminal in front of Trinoma. Unfortunately, no FX were available. They were already telling us that Balintawak was 6-feet deep already, and NLEX was closed due to extreme flooding in Valenzuela. I was standing for an hour, and luckily, one of the colorum drivers was nice enough to let us sit inside his van. And after another hour, a bus arrived, wherein they promised to drop us off in Meycauayan exit. So by 4 p.m., I rode the bus, and after four hours, 2 Van Damme movies, and 1 Japanese movie, we moved like 50m only. I contacted a good friend of mine, and asked her if I could just stay for the night, and luckily, she agreed. I got off the bus, and headed straight to MRT. Trinoma and SM North Edsa was nice enough to accommodate stranded people, and their fastfood stores were jam-packed.

My friend picked me up in MRT-Cubao station, and we arrived at her house at around 9:30p.m. I was so tired, I fell asleep after an hour or so.

It was disheartening to watch the news, and see how many people were suffering. Some were already at their roofs at noon, and were still weren’t rescued until today, Sunday. They were out cold and hungry. And I was scared for them. I know a lot of people died because of the floods and the strong current. And I do hope that they could survived this ordeal.

Despite all these, I am very proud because people were very helpful, from the government, to the mall-owners, to the bystanders.

I do hope we could find time to help them.

One Fine Day

My dad, my sister, baby Julia and I had a full day last Monday.

My sister and baby Julia went to the embassy for baby’s visa application. And while they were in the embassy, my dad and I waited for them in a nearby coffee shop. After ordering our drinks, my dad and I made a beeline for their magazine/newspaper stand. And just like my dad, I wrote some important sentences or phrases that I like while going through some good articles. There was the article about Tony Blair, whom I am now a fan of his, and some great political figures, as well as some influential people.

After our trip to the embassy, we made some stops in Crossings Quezon Ave., and another stop for some caffeine fix for my sister. We all agreed to visit St. Pio Chapel along Libis. The chapel was lovely. And it holds a lot of testimonies for all the people who were miraculously healed by St. Pio. We stayed for almost an hour, and then headed home.

Anyway, as I was saying earlier, while reading some articles, there was one that caught my attention. And that article is about Manny Pangilinan. He made a commencement speech for Ateneo De Manila University last 2006, and I’d like to share it to you guys.

“Keep it real. Trust your instincts. Believe in yourself. Engage in sports, you’ll need it as you age. Make art, or at least, value it. Be brave. Be bold. Find something that moves you or pisses you off, but do something about it. You have a voice, speak up. Take a stand for what’s right. Make a change. You may not always be popular, but you’ll be part of something larger and greater than yourself. Besides, making history is cool, isn’t it? But I also want to offer a warning: you will meet people who’ll entice you to compromise your principles. They’ll try to seduce you and distract you with money, power, security and perhaps, most dangerously, a sense of belonging. Don’t let them, it’s not worth it.

You can have genuine values and still get that job. You can have a conscience and still make money. Let me send you off with one final thought. I was born poor, but poor was not born in me. And it shouldn’t be born in you either. You can make it. Whatever you may wish to do with your future, you can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes always. Suffering breeds character. Character breeds faith. In the end, faith will not disappoint. You must not disappoint.”

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Head Over Heels

How could women wear 3-inch heels?

This morning, the rain was pouring so hard, and I needed to wear a business attire. However, the only shoes I have is white flats. Considering that I will need to do some walking, I did not want my white flats to turn brown, due to the muddy streets. I borrowed my sister’s black shoes. Unfortunately, it has 3-inch heels. I thought about it for a few minutes, and wonder how much my feet would suffer. However, I just wear some socks to ease the pain. In spite of this, my feet thoroughly suffered. Not to mention, I was having a terrible headache.

How do women do it? It was so transparent in my way of walking that I was having a hard time with the shoes I wore. I was like walking tiptoe all throughout the day, just basically putting all my weight on my toes. And when I got home, I instantly asked my sister how she does it. She was astounded with my question. She couldn’t understand why I was having a hard time wearing heels. Even I couldn’t understand why I can’t wear heels!

Well, at least, now I know, I couldn’t borrow any of my sister’s shoes. It will cause me to hate myself for even considering it. I guess I need to buy more flats. Haaay…