Basura

ARIGNA awanen ti aridenggan ti aglawlaw ti kapigsa ti stereo da Pari Badol. Apagleggak pay laeng ti init ngem napudoten ti amplipayerda no labsen ti agsao. Kadarapat ti balaymi ti bungalow da Pari Badol. Kasinsin a buo ni baket. Pari ti awagko kenkuana ta inpilitna nga inanakko ti buridekna. Adda met sadiay Hongkong ni Manang Sabel nga asawana. Umuna a panagabrodna. Addan nasurok a makatawenna ngatan sadiay.

“No arigna kaanak, anakek manen ti buniag.” Intubngarko idi ibaga ni baket nga anakek ni Santa. Ti buridek ni Pari Badol.

“Kayatnaka ngarud a kumpari. Paidam ta asawam kunananto manen.” Insumra ni baket.

“Ala, no isu’t kayatna. Ngem, ne, awan ti paipetpetko a. ‘pia isuna a ta nakatukkuong laeng.” Masemsemak iti daytoy a kasinsin ni baket. Napiaak laeng kano ta adda maganganarak nga inaldaw. Maluksawak ta no ti malem ket nakapetpet met ti Red Horse.

Napasal-itak a nangilukat ti rikep ti ridaw iti kusinami. Makarengreng a talagan ti kapigsa ti panagpatokarda. Nadanonak ni baket nga adda kiwkiwarenna iti pariok a nakatuon iti dalikan. Umasimbuyok ti asuk. Nabasa pay laeng ngamin dagiti kayo a naisungrod. Nakusep. Sinelselanna iti papel tapno dumarang. Tinarapnosko nga inamuy ti buokna saak inrakus ti imak ti nakatallikud a baketko. Tinan-awak ti kiwkiwarenna. Kinirog.

“Naimas koma, a, daytoy no saan a naassiut”, kunak a nangibbat kenni baket idi iwadagnak, “inusarmo koman ‘diay catgas.”

“Awan ngarud ti nagyannan.”

“Nangalaka koma dita ayan ti storen a.” Kunak. Ti storeda pari Badol ti kunak.

“Apay adda aya inpaidulinmo a catgas? Tapno ammom, uray lima pisos laeng a mantika ket madida met maipiaren.” Insanamtek ni Maria Sol.

“Ala, kasta a talaga ti gasat. Narigat met a talaga a piaren ti agjujunk shop laeng. Agat basura amin a ling-et. Aggapu met ti basura amin a maipauneg. Dika agsiddunget ket masayang ‘ta biutem ne.” Insurdok.

Iti 33 a tawen ni misisko, a, ket sagawisewan pay laeng dagiti saan a makaam-ammo kenkuana. Adda pay laeng ‘tay tinubtubay a bagina. Muse idi ti basketball teammi. Kabsat ti centermi idi. Awan, a, ti serbi ti center no fastbreakan ti laban kunak met, a, idi no kasta a sutilenda kami nga agkayong. No labsek ti agsarita ket agsardeng amin nga agbobola no ipagnak idiay tengnga ti plaza. Kasla saan pay laeng a nakaiyanak iti tallo.

“Biuti ta rupam! Maburo met datao ditoy balay.” Inbir-itna ket naitupak pay ti pariok nga iparabawna koma iti sagapa. “Mapullatan pay ketdin ti lapayag nga agdengdengngeg kadagita nga toktokar.”

Accountancy ti ingraduar ni baket ngem nagsardeng nga agtrabajo idi naganak. Saankon a pinagsubli iti obrana.

“Itemplaannak man ketdi ti kapek. Makapasaraaw met ti tian dagiti basura.” Sinapak nga apan insimpa dagiti scrap a mabunag itatta nga aldaw. Addaka a bote, plastic, landok, pappapel ken tanso.

“Apay tsimay? Ay, Floro, saannak nga inasawa nga agbalin a tsimaymo.”

“Ket no simmurotka koma ken Manang Sabel, e, di agtemtemplaka koma met ti kape iti saanmo pay met kapinpin-ano nga intsik.” Kunak ngem tinurongko met laeng ti lamisaan ket inkutsaraak ti kape ti nakasaganan a tasa.

“Uray a ta doliar met ti maawatko. Ditoy, uray duling a mikol, narigatko pay a maarikap.” Ket tinurongnan ti kadaklan a napan nangsirip kadagiti nakaidda pay laeng nga ubbing. Sabado ita ket awan ti basa.

Agragut met idi nga apan sumurot ken Manang Sabel idiay Hongkong. Innak uray dua a tawen laeng kunana idi. Saan kunak met. Aywanam laengen dagiti ubbing. Maisakad kayo. Saan a magatadan ti doliar ti kinaawanmo ditoy dennami. Inayon tayo laengen a pagpuonan ti gastosem.

Pirmi ket nga apalnan idi adda maidoor to door nga aplayansesda Pari Badol.

“Kita’m! Kita’m! Adda koma kasta tayon, ne!”

“Saanko nga apalan dagita. Magatangtayonto met a.”

“Ka’tnonto pay, apo?” Inngayemngemna.

“Ipapudotmo man dayta tedda idi rabii a pakbet! Lukotek biit dagitoy nagiddaan dagiti ubbing!” Inbirakak ni baket nga addan iti laem.

Agsasaruno met dagiti pinutotko a timmaog ti kusina.

Ni Uno, 10. Uno ti naganna ta isu ngarud ti umuna a bilang ti dose koma nga arapaapmi nga annak. Idi a. No babae koma a ket Maysa.

Ni Iskuat, 6. Naiyanak idi mangrugi kami nga aggatang ti scrap. Kasla kami kano ngamin adda ti kaiskuateran idi maiyanak.

Ni Ania, 2. Saniata ti buniagna ngem Ania ti ad-adda nga awagna. Ania ngata ti masakbayan dagitoy nga annak? Ania manen ti pangalaan ti ipakan, apo? Dagitoy man ti adu a saludsod idi main-inaw pay laeng ti kakaisuna a balasangmi. Isu, Ania, ti nagbalin a nagannan. Umanay laeng nga el-ellekanmi ken misisko no malagipmi no nakaalaan dagiti nagan dagitoy annakmi. Ngem, siempre a ket dakami laeng ken baket ti makaammo ti istoriada.

“Daytoy nay lechon? Igatangak met ti Mang Tomasen?” Kunak a pangsuron ken Maria Sol. Pirmi ngamin a buisitna no kasta nga ipukkaw pay met ni Balong, ‘tay 15 a tawenna nga anak ti Pari Badol ti sidada. Saanko nga ammo no isadiana nga ipangngeg kadakami.

“Lechon paksiw manen?” Kuna no kua ni Balong.

“Lechon paksiw nga. Buisit.” Iridis met no kua ni Maria Sol.

“Paspasanyo ti mangan annakko ta sabayantayo ‘ta angot ti lechon paksiwda ‘idta bangir.” Kunak met no kua.

“Agmulumogkayon annakko ta mangantayon”, inbilinko kadagiti ubbing ket rinugiak metten nga idasar dagiti plato. Apagisunto no makaidalimanek ni Maria Sol.

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Rinugian ni Iskuat ti nagantiama.

“Apo, agyamankami ti naidasar itatta ditoy sangomi…
Agbalin koma a pamigsami…
Bendisionam koma, Lord…
‘ta uray daing laeng ken naipapudot a tedda…
ti adda ket agbalin koma a kasla prito a karne…
Dagitoy ti dawatmi babaen kenni Maria nga Inami.
Amen.”

“Asus, asino man ti nangisuro kenka dagita nga lualon? Ni man ngata amayon, apo.” Inngayemngem ni baket a makael-ellek.

“Wen, Mama. Ni Papa.” Kuna met ni Uno. “Insuronakam pay ti lualo sakbay a maturog.”

“Kasano koma met deyta a lualo manen, aber?”

“’guray kayo. Mangankay pay.” Kunak a makapugpugso.

“Apo, agyamankami iti daytoy manen nga aldaw…
uray basura laeng ti pagbiagmi ket nasalun-at kami…
Agyamankami iti biuti nga inami…
Agyamankami met ti guapo nga amami…
ta uray pirpir nga ikamen ti iddami…
kutson met ti panagrikna ti bukotmi…
ket inton bigat, ad adu koma manen ti basura a magatangmi.
Amen.”

“Asus Apomi, Floro, ania man daytoyen nga insurom kadagit annakmo?” Umis-isem a nangsubo kenni Ania. “Sika, Ania, ania met ti insuro kenka daytoy nalaing ken guapo nga amayo?”

Biglaak a nakapugso ket uray la nakigtot ni Ania.

“Kit’am. Saanmo koma nga ammo dagitoy no addaka idiay Hongkong.” Insutilko idi makainumakon iti danum.

Kinusilapannak ni Maria Sol. “Kita’mto’ta ta agalad kano da Manong Badol ditoy ayan ti baet tayo. Mabain kano a makitkita dagiti sangailina dagiti nagadu a basura ditoy arubayan tayo. Pahallow blockna kano.”

Manipud ngamin adda metten aw-awaten ni Pari Badol ket umadu met ti gagayyemnan. Congressman pay ket ti awagdan a ta kasla pulitiko no kua nga agpapainom.

“Uminom kay latta. Kakaisuna a saan tayo nga ut-utangen. Kukuak met daytoy store, hik.” Kunana no kua no kasta metten a makargaduanna.

“Sabali a talaga ti adda ti abrodna aya, Cong?” Ipataray-ok no kua met dagiti kaduana.

“Wen a. Saan a kaslad’toy komparik nga agbasbasura. Uppat a tawenen a ‘tay inanakna ket uray siping ‘wan pay naipapetpetna.”

Sangkadagullitna no kua. Pasaray ipigsana pay nga ikkan ti ‘pwe’ no kasta nga asidegak iti ayanda.

“Sikanton a.” Inpatudonko ken baket. “Naikamkamangka laeng kunananto pay kaniak.”

“Ket ‘da met ‘ta masurot a mujon.”

“Sikan.” Kunak ket nagbuggoakon. Innalak ni Ania. Sinubboak ket intuloy metten ni baket ti nagkammet. “Bareng adu ti umay agilako ti bote ken landok ita.”

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“Adda manen baro a TVda sika lakay.” Intudo ni Maria Sol ti idisdissaag dagiti delivery personel ti Adessa.

“Baam a ‘ta ‘danto man burakenen ‘ta don a kasinsinmo.” Kunak. Immay inlako ni Balong idi kanikatlo a kalman daydi TVda a binurak ni Pari Badol. Insuyona iti ruarda idi saanna masurotan nga ipley idi agvideoke koma.

“Sayang daytoy TVyo barok.” Kunak kenni Balong idi umayna ipakilo. Nabtak ti kahana ngem mayat pay met nga agandar idi ipadasko.

“Bayam lattan a Angkel. Bayadam ket lattan a ti One Five ‘bagla nayon ‘toy allowanceko.”

“Apay saannaka nga ikikkan ni Papam aya ket ‘dan sa met ipawpaw-it ni Mamam?”

“Samman Angkel ngem kurang metten. Agadu metten daytoy paggastosan.” Kunana ket pirmi a mapilpil ti isemna nga immawat ti One Thousand Five Hundred nga inbayadko.

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“Oy, adda met baro a TV tayon.” Ni Uno. Pirmi ti ragsakna a nangi on. Sangsangpetna a naggapu iti eskuelaanda. Immutangak idi napanko tininnagan ti maudi a tinnagko iti daytay motorko a nakapako ti sidecar a pagbunbunagko ti scrap.

“Regalok kenka, barok, tapno aggaggagetka. Ken, tapno lalaingem pay ti agiskuela.” Kunak a kas pangpatiray-okko iti barok. Nangangato ngamin dagiti gradona. Bareng maitultuloyna nga mantineren ti puestona a maikadua kadakuada amin a Grade 5.

“Ken tapno saan a matay ti apal ‘tay biuti nga inayo.” Innayonko nga inpigpigsa idi sumirip ni Maria Sol manipud iti kusina. Kinusilapannak. Limmaem ket tinarapnosna a kinuddot ti bakrangko.

“Wen, a, Señor, ‘ta saan tayo nga agbuybuya laeng ti nagbasutan a basura.”

Immisemak ‘ta malagipko nga inpaduyakyak ketdin ni Pari Badol a daydi inbasurana kano a TV ket isu la ketdin ti maituredko nga ipaay a pagbuyaan dagiti agiinak. Apo ta pirmi idi a pungtot ni Maria Sol. Apanna winitwitwitan ti kasinsinna sadiay sanguanan ti storeda.

“Uray a Manong Badol ‘ta dimi met dawdawaten ti pagbiagmi kenka. Ginatangmi met dayti TV.” Inbasbasawang ni baketko.

“Ginatangyo a ti One Five. Inbasurak ket pinaginteresan met ‘idta lakaymon!” Kunana met nga indubsak. “Bayadanyo ngarud ti utangyo ditoy storen no kasta met gayam nga adun ti kuartayo!” Innayonna pay.

“Ay, ‘ta la ket sangagasut ti panglawanyon!” Inbirakak met ni baket ket tinarayna a kinuremes ti puonanmi.

“Ipigpigsam man met, Uno.” Kunak a manutsutil ken baket. “Bareng sumngaw met ‘ta bosesna ket ne, nagpigsa ti tokar didta bangir.”

Malagipko ta malagipko la ngaruden ti gura ni baket ken Pari Badol. Saanen a napan gimmatgatang dita store. Inanusanna ti apan agrikus a gumatang ti sabali nga storen.

“Kasta. Kasta ti maalalatayon a narigat. No pinalubosannak koma met a nagabrod, saan koma a kastoy ti biagtayo.” Kuna ni Maria Sol nga agananug-og iti karabiian ti panagsubangda nga agkasinsin. Nakaiddakami idin. Nairidep metten dagiti ubbingmi. Nalpasen ti Darna a binuyada iti TV nga alosmi kada Pari Badol.

“Ania ketdin, aya. Adda met bukod tayo a pamastrekan. Saan tayo ngamin met mapaggigiddan ti aggatang.” Inyay-ayok. “ Agurnongta ketdi para kadagita ubbing. Dumakkelda ket umadu met ti kasapulanda.”

“Isu ngarud dayta ket. No nagabrodak koma di ad-adu koman ti urnongta.”

“Iturogmo daytan. Adda met doliar ditoy ngem ti rupana ket peso laeng. Saan a magatadan ti rinibu ti panagdedenna tayo.”

“Nakurang ket a ti ambisionko kunam a.” Imbir-it ni baket ket tinallikudannakon.

“Inta ket agluton ta sapaen tayo man met ti agkaan-kaan ita. Enjoyen tayo man met a sangafamilia ti agbonding iti sango ti TV. Ikakaragtayonto met nga adunto koma ti aglako ti scrapda tapno mabawi tayo met laeng ti ibayad ti kuriente, he he.” Ket inawidkon ni misisko nga inturong iti kusina.

“Kita’m dagiti addim, Uno, ket no matnag ni Ania. Iskuat saanmo unay nga asitgan dayta TV. Madadael ta matam.” Inbilin ni Maria Sol kadagiti ubbingmi ket simmurot ti paguyod a kibinko.

*****

Agbubuisit ni Pari Badol a bigbigat.. Agbasbassawang ken kumanabtuog iti ayanda. Talaaddan sa manen ti maipurpurruakna. Sayang pay dagiti maburak.

“Alla, ni Daddyn, aya. Mabtak man ‘ta TVn, ala.” Insaning i ni Lorraine, ti maikadua a putotna, 11.

Napakietak. Daddyn ket no Tatang met nga agkanablaag idi saan pay a nakapan ni Manang Sabel.

“Ipulongkanto man ketdi no tumawag ni Mommy.” Kuna met ni Jonjon, ‘tay maikatlo ni Pari Badol, 7.

“No kiwarek, kunak, kiwarek dagitoy! ‘yanna ‘ta nalaing a kakayo. Pusiek, kunak, pusiek ‘ta pamarangna! Sapsapulenna ni Balong.

“Padasem a Daddy!” Bigla nga inkilliit ni Balong nga adda gayam iti kusinada. Uray la nagpiok. Mangrugi met ngaminen nga agbaliw baliw ti tonadana. Baro metten ti loko.

“Torpe! Agdunger dungerka ket a sumangpeten, loko! Agbaliodongka ket nga agpatpatnagen. Dayta! Dayta ti epekton ti malanglang-abyo a lati! Natetanun ti utekmo.!” Adda nanakraad ken nagangek. Ammok lattan a dinusagna ti putotna. Nakitak a simyag dagiti pinutotna a rimmuar iti inaladanda.

“Sika! Sika ti makaigapu a kastoy dagitoy nga ubbing! Daytoyen ti epekto ti lati a maang-angotda!” Intudotudonak a winitwitwitan. Addaak laeng ngamin ti ampir ti aladda a hollow blocks. Kasla siak ti lati.

“Hoy, sika!” Imbugtakna kaniak a kagiddan ti panangipir-akna ti bote ti alad nga abayko. Nakitak a bigla met a rimmuar ni baket manipud iti kusinami. Nagdumogak a masemsem.

“Di payla dagita ubbingmo ti agsakit a mangmangan iti basura.!” Imbirkaakna ket kasla napleng ti lapayagko.

“Lokditmo! Rummuarka dita ayanmo ta asitelenek ta bangabangam!” Inbuanggerko metten. “Umayka ta rangrangkayenka nga igabur kadagitoy basura a kunam.” Iti 5′10 a tayagko ken nabiskeg a bagik, awan serserbina no kunak ket. Nabaked met ni Pari Badol ngem punggek. Adda ngata met 5′4na. Ammok a napigsa ti hangoverna ta alas onse man idi rabiin a nagsardengda nga agiinum ken agvivideoke idta storeda.

“Saanen. Ay, Apo, saanen a Floro. Pangngaasim a ket…” Inpakpakaasi ni baket a nangsiket kaniak idi pidutek ti sangaagpa a tubo.

“Ikkanka ti pagnaknam no kunak!” Inriawko nga intalliaw ti awan nga ar-arimekmekna met laeng a komparik. Intulokko nga inawidnak ni baket ket simrekkami ti kusinami.

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Agalas nuebe ngatan ket matektekanakon nga agur-uray iti trak nga umay mangbunag kadagitoy nascrapmi. Adda metten nasurok nga 150,000.00 pesos ti naigatangmin. Nakissayanmi pay ket ken baketen a daytay inininutmi nga indulin idiay Credit. Napia a tarayenmi no kasta nga agkamtud kami.

No matuloy ti tulaganmi iti umay aghakot nga akinkukua ti dakkel met a junk shop sadiay San Fernando, adda met ngata nasurok a P45 thousand ti kumpet kunak kenni baket idi rabii. Adda met nasurok a makabulan nga inistakko dagitoy scrap ta nalaka met ngamin ti landok. Kastoy met ketdi ti kumittaban ti dakkel. No aglaka ti scrap ket nalaka met ti gatangmi. No adda bassit a puonan a ket mabalin ti agistak ket maiyuray ti ingangato ti presio a kas ita.

Inutangmi idi ken baket idiay Coop ti P50 thousand a nayon ti puonanmi.

Matuokanakon. Ania ngata ti nakatalaanandan aya? Pinindutko ti selponko ket intextko: wer u na?

D2 na us. Sa kanto. Kuna met ti tinexsak.

“’nak ti sal-it! ‘dakay met gayam ditan. Nagbayagkayon.” Indayamudomko ket tinarengtengkon ti kalsada nga agturong ti kanto.

“Padasenyo nga iruar dagita ‘ta burakek dagiti bangabangayo!” Inriaw ti nabaknang a kayongko. Itudotudona dagiti nakauniporme ti Adessa. Kaduada pay ti maysa a konsehal ti barangay.

“Trabajo la’ng, Sir. Awan personalan a. Tallo bulan a dikayo met nakitinnagen ket masapul a nga iyulogmi dagitoy. Iyawidyonto no makabayadkayo.” Inpatangken met ti kolektor ket binagkatdan ti TV. Sinublida pay ti DVD Home Theater ken Ref.

Nakatapaya a nakanganga dagiti pinutot ni Pari Badol iti igid ti kalsada a malabsak. Umadu metten dagiti kaarruba nga usioso. Agkikinissiimda.

“Su pay la’ng ‘tay kunak.” Kuna ti maysa a baket. “Nagpaspas ket a limmung-aw da Badolen, kunami ken Lakay ket.”

“Wen ngarud Kakang. Kaasi pay met ni Sabel.” Insungbat met ti maysa a baket a kagiddan ti panangikkatna ti tabakona iti ngiwatna. Nagpugso ket agistayanak la ket ngarud natupraan.

Nakabalandra gayam ti trak ti Adessa iti nagsulian. Isu a saan a makastrek ti trak ti umay aghakot ti basurak. Napasennaayak a nakataliaw ken Pari Badol a kasla itan nalugi a shanghai. Daytoyen ti maala ti saan a makatutor nga aglang-ay. Kasla nakaraman a baed kuna man dagiti lallakay. Awanen ti Congressman, Tukkuongresmanen ti kayongko.

“Urayenyo a malpasdan,” intapikko iti bakrang ti trak nga ur-urayek.

Agsubsubliakon iti ayan ti balay idi masabatko met ni baket. Nakatengngaag. Kasla ketdin nakakita ti artista a sabtenna ta saanak pay ket nakitan. “Papanamon?” Inkigtotko idi mabatogannak.

“Apay? Apay? Ania ti adda dita?”

“Awan. Kinadduaanda laeng ti kasinsinmo a nagibasura ti nagbasutanna,” kunak ket immisemak ti gumiges.

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Rabii. Nabilangkon ti naglakoanmi ti basura. Adda met kimpet a singkuenta mil.

“Ne, addan ti pagplacementmo. Kaanoka nga apan sadiay agency?” Insutilko ken baket.

“Ditam! Anusak laengen ti agbasbasura.” Kunana ket pinupognak ketdin ti agek.

Seminary Tales #4: The Road To Perdition

And I entered the seminary.

After seven hours ride (a bumpy, a sweaty and a tiring ride) of an ordinary– a categorized ordinary bus as if air-conditioned buses were extraordinary and I never knew, then, that there were air-conditioned buses –PANTRANCO bus and after so much pride of seeing many towns as we passed by, and in between, appreciating the green fields and oneing with the hardships of those peoples toiling in the mud, arching their backs to heaven to plant their future in the middle of June– the future of having enough rice on their tables or hoping to harvest at least, yes, they hoped, 100 sacks of palay — but not a hundred full palay sacks because I knew that almost always farmers brought home the sacks sans the palay but the receipts of paid loans, for farmers mortgaged their harvests before the planting season started– as promised by the good agriculture technicians who studied under the auspices and funding of good fertilizer companies– I arrived, culture-shocked to the eminence of the great-towering buildings of what we idolized Manila. In fact, it was Quezon City.

I was a kaibulos, a neophyte to the city or we called, at that time, as tangaw-tangaw idiay Pozorrubio– an aphorism we got when our school’s baseball team (they were called then as little leaguers) participated in IRAA and they lost all their games because they did not know what they were doing and that our teacher-coach was drunk of Ginebra San Miguel Gin during games and they always ate spoiled meals in Pozorrubio, Pangasinan, (he he he, at least, we were just kids then)–awe-struck for the second time I stepped in Manila.

The first time I visited what we called Manila, to which I learned then as a province during my Araling Panlipunan days, was when I attended the seminary get-together–a two day celebration of good life showcasing the future good days of seminary lives—one breezy, merry December before my initiation to the seminary life.

Baggage in tow, a not so big knapsack with just enough pairs of clothes, old clothes and remnants of my peasant life and a briefcase of advices from my parents, I boarded….(please continue reading at Tales of The Hill)

Nagrigat Ketdin ti Marigrigat, 1!

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Imbes a gumastotayo pay ti pannakaimprintana, idownload laengen dagiti mayat nga agbasa ket makaammodan nga agiprinta. Siempre, per print a ket adda bayadna. Saan met a maidownload no ‘wan bayadna. Kasano Ka Agca? Ka Jake? Ka Roy? Ken aminen a mayat a makigamulo. Ti maysa pay a mayat a konsepto ket daytoy a site ket aramidentayo nga online cooperative. Nalabit datayo ti umuna a Online Cooperative Publishing.

Wen, kada miembro a ket masapul met nga adda itedna a share capital. Editors? Makaammo kayon nga agbirok ti editors.

Adda koma pay ipostek ditoy maipanggep ti kinakurapay ngem inton bigatton. Kuna ti Washington Post, iti posteda idi Mayo 28, 2009: Politics of Poverty: Poor are Paying the Most.

La ketdi a. Di met?

Tingkering with Arapaap Template of Jake F. Ilac

I would like to acknowledge all people who dropped by this site.

Sorry for the No New Post. I am presently busy using the Arapaap Template of Jake F. Ilac with my new blog Money & Work @ Home. I want to chronicle my quest on how to make money online in just a click, about work and home, and of course, my rants and ramblings on politics, on cultures, on literatures and with some current events.

I just would like to test if these blogs parading slogans “Make Money Online” are saying the truth.

I will be posting some “daniw” soon. For the meantime, accompany me at Stop Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma Phils. or at Money & Work @ Home.

See you soon.

Tinkering with Tadlock’s Structure Template

I will take this opportunity to acknowledge all who passed by this site for the last previous weeks. You are all welcome and thank you.

For the past few days, I was so busy with my works and I found no time to steal for blogging. Before the onset of the Holy Days, I needed some extra time to finish some quarterly progress reports. Last April 14 and 15, I was supposed to attend a National Forum on Microfinance Innovations for Cooperatives but my mother was rushed to a hospital, and I had to attend to her.

Fortunately, all went well. She will be having her first session of chemotherapy tomorrow, April 22, 2009.

For these recent days, I was tinkering with Mr. Tadlock’s Structure Template edited and bloggerized by an Ilokano writer and web site designer Mr. Jake F. Ilac. The Structure Template was adjudged as one of the best blog templates originally released for WordPress. However, Jake Ilac saw the need to adopt this template for blogger/blogspot. Jake made a good effort with it and I was applying it in a blogger/blogspot site dedicated for my mother.

So, sorry for the ‘no new post’ here at Tignay.

My new advocacy is on stopping non-hodgkin’s lymphoma or doing something that keep the public aware on lymphoma, at least in the Philippines, through a new blog site called STOP NON-HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA PHILS. This site is still under construction with the efforts of Jake.

You may join us in this advocacy. Visit my site dedicated with this cancer. See you there…

My Mother is Sick, can anyone help?

This is my second post dedicated for my mother who went under the knives twice.

For all of you who have medical knowledge, please help.

For all of you who knows some financial remedies, please help.

For all of you who knows God, please help us pray.

Last December 16, 2008, she was operated in the abdomen. I will post here below the result of her clinical diagnosis by her first Pathologist.

Clinical Diagnosis: Colonic CA
Gross Description:

The specimen consists of a resected colon from a right hemicolectomy, with grayish serosa and attached fatty tissues, measuring 38 cm. in length and 7.5cm in its greatest width. Cut sections show an obstructing whitish mass noted at the cecum, measuring up to 16cm in tis greatest dimension, and extending into the serosa and near the proximal line of resection, and 16cm from distal line of resection.

A whitish mass is also noted measuring up to 2.5cm in its greatest dimensions and noted 14cm from the distal line of resection. The vermiform appendix measures 5 x 15 x 1 cm .15 pericolonic lymph nodes are noted and some are large and measure up to 3 cm in their greatest dimensions.

Microscopic Description:

Sections of the cecal mass show diffuse submucosal and transmural infiltrates of small and large lymphocytes extending into serosa. Similar atypical lymphocytes are also noted at the vermiform appendix, peri-colonic lymph nodes, and near the proximal line of resection.

Histopathological Diagnosis:

NON-HODGKIN’S LYMPHOMA, Diffuse, Mixed Small and Large Cell Type, Cecum, Vermiform Appendix, Peri-colonic Lymph Nodes and Proximal Line of Resection.

Comment:

Suggest Immunohistochemistry studies.

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She was operated again last February 18, 2009. This time under her arm pit. Here is the Surgical Pathology Report.

Description:

The surgical specimen consists of nodular, brownish to grayish white doughy tissue weighing 150 grams, measuring 8 x 7 x 5cm. Cut section show lobulated, grayish white cut surfaces with tiny cyst. representative section embedded.

Microscopic Description:

Sections disclose the tumor is composed of solid sheets of neoplastic cuboidal to polygonal celss infiltrating into underlying fibrofatty stroma.

Diagnosis:

INVASIVE DUCT CARCINOMA, Axillary Tail of the Breast (Malignant)

Last week of March, my brother noted again a bulging part of our mother’s abdomen. She went again to the doctor but the doctor refuses to let her go under the knife for the third time in just 3 months. He advised the family to put my mother under Chemotherapy medications.

The harder part with this scenario is that our family could not afford to have her chemotherapy.

My mother is now very thin and that she is only 59 years old. Can anyone help us please?

Chip Tsao’s War at Home: A Cheap Piece of a Junk

Mr. Chip Tsao’s War at Home is a cheap piece of a junk. Though, this could rally us to work together.

The rants and complaints by Filipinos directed to Mr. Chip Tsao’s War at Home were all useless. We must start looking deeper into the problems that caused him wrote the article. He maybe erred at some points but this article should become a wake up call for us to work together with concerted efforts to come up with solutions.

We may start with this question: What a heck a Filipina, with a degree in International Politics, doing at Mr. Tsao’s abode? Cleaning toilet bowls? Doing errands for this Chinese writer who, in some sense, does not know a bit of international politics?

Or, is she a product of our government’s program of “Supermaids”? A supermaid bearing the tag: Philippine Maid, Proudly Pinay.

It is now time to contemplate of what we must do, what we should do, what we should be doing, what could be done. We need the value of HUMILITY to accept the problem. We need the value of SOLIDARITY to put some solutions. We need the value of SELF-RESPONSIBILITY to account our state of BEINGNESS.

NOW!

My wordpresser friend, Mr. Joe Padre, stated some solutions below. (These were his comments to my previous post on this issue)

As usual the flameout has started. What is difficult to understand is why we love this kind of self-immolation with very little effort at planning a collective course of action to solve the underlying issues. The blather and posturing only serve to raise our blood pressure, which ultimately is inimical to our health. If we’re going to flame out on this issue and risk a major coronary episode, we may as well go all the way and accompany our bluster with some appropriate action, whatever it is. Else…

I heard about this as early as the mid 1950s when I first got to school. More than half a century later, we’re still in the yak-mode? Enough already, Angkuan. Let’s all get a life.

Ania ngata no adda paglintegan a mangikeddeng a 90 porsiento ti OFW remittances ti gastuen automatically iti panangipasdec cadagiti nadumaduma nga infrastructure a mangted naan-annay a trabajo cadagiti cayatna ti agtrabajo, imbes nga ag-OFW da? Tapno materred ti gutad ti corruption, masapul a maysa nga independent committee ti mangakem iti pannagplano cadagiti umno nga infrastructure, ti pannacaiwaras ti pagsayaatan iti entero a pagilian. The committee to implement this law should be composed of the Presidents of the University of the Philippines and other selected schools or universities, the head of the Department of Labor, qualified student representatives, and a reputable judicial branch representative, all working in a concurrent capacity. Don’t include any professional politician, such as any member of congress or the executive branch, except the head of Department of Labor.

Is this possible? I guess it would be like splitting hairs, or getting a camel through the eye of a needle especially if it’s Congress that will craft the legislation instead of a no-nonsense Executive Order for this purpose from the President. You can trust President Arroyo to do this?

The alternative, which has the most potential of succeeding, is for you to draft an Executive Order (you may need a legal mind well versed in constitutional and labor laws to assist you) and gather millions of signatures for a petition asking the President to sign it. Don’t be timid about revising the Executive Order when you come across significantly good suggestions to improve it along the way. I think, by George, you may be able to accomplish this thing through the Internet and the media. Build a network and a strong public opinion in favor of the Executive Order such that the President can’t refuse to sign it.

Mr. Nelson Daligcon also blew his top to our nation’s inability to create enough jobs for all Filipinos. He did it in his usual DH Lawrence style of sexually insinuated, overly naughty daniw. You may not read it if you are morally upright, he he he. Here it is.

nation of servants scandal
(bomba ni Chip Tsao)

a resolution strongly condemning the “demeaning” Hong Kong magazine article that called the philippines a “nation of servants” has been filed at the Senate…
Inquirer.net, March 31, 2009

the bureau of immigration (bi) has barred the hong kong-based magazine columnist who branded the Philippines as “a nation of servants” from visiting the country…
Philstar.com, March 31, 2009

idi pinugsitak ti kassit
sako innasnas iti rupa ni pinay
nga adipen ti naangpet a bripko,
imkiskayo, madaydayaw
ket kayatyo a tadtaden
ti gatel a butok!

ngem siasino
ti nangpauttog ken ni pinay
tapno umay agdildil iti kaperko?
siasino ti namagtulang
kadagiti pingping ti ukina?

bagas ti ukininayo a madaydayaw
a ta la mangsalsalsal
iti bukodna a buto ti ar-aramidenna,
iparamanyo ngamin, a, dagiti ganas
tapno malipatan ni pinay
ti panagbisin ti mutingna!

For all of you who failed to read the complete article of Mr. Tsao, please read through.

The War at Home
By Chip Tsao

The Russians sank a Hong Kong freighter last month, killing the seven Chinese seamen onboard. We can live with that–Lenin and Stalin were once the ideological mentors of all Chinese people. The Japanese planted a flag on Diàoyú Island. That’s no big problem–we Hong Kong Chinese love Japanese cartoons, Hello Kitty, and shopping in Shinjuku, let alone our round-the-clock obsession with karaoke.

But hold on–even the Filipinos? Manila has just claimed sovereignty over the scattered rocks in the South China Sea called the Spratly Islands, complete with a blatant threat from its congress to send gunboats to the South China Sea to defend the islands from China if necessary. This is beyond reproach. The reason: There are more than 130,000 Filipina maids working as HK$3,580-a-month cheap labor in Hong Kong. As a nation of servants, you don’t flex your muscles at your master, from whom you earn most of your bread and butter.

As a patriotic Chinese man, the news has made my blood boil. I summoned Louisa, my domestic assistant who holds a degree in international politics from the University of Manila, hung a map on the wall, and gave her a harsh lecture. I sternly warned her that if she wants her wages increased next year, she had better tell everyone of her compatriots in Statue Square on Sunday that the entirety of the Spratly Islands belongs to China.

Grimly, I told her that if war breaks out between the Philippines and China, I would have to end her employment and send her straight home, because I would not risk the crime of treason for sponsoring an enemy of the state by paying her to wash my toilet and clean my windows 16 hours a day. With that money, she would pay taxes to her Government, and they would fund a navy to invade our motherland and deeply hurt my feelings.

Oh yes. The Government of the Philippines would certainly be wrong if they think we Chinese are prepared to swallow their insult and sit back and lose a Falkland Islands War in the Far East. They may have Barack Obama and the hawkish American military behind them, but we have a hostage in each of our homes in the Mid-Levels or higher. Some of my friends told me they have already declared a state of emergency at home. Their maids have been made to shout ‘China, Madam/Sir’ loudly whenever they hear the word “Spratly”. They say the indoctrination is working as wonderfully as when we used to shout, “Long live Chairman Mao!” at the sight of a portrait of our Great Leader during the Cultural Revolution. I’m not sure if that’s going a bit too far, at least for the time being.