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If I am to believe my FB feed, people are more saddened by the passing of Steve Jobs than the effects of the Typhoon that just passed, all the people it killed & have left homeless. It’s a weird world we live in, where we have more sympathy for the smart man who sold us expensive (but useful) products than the poor people in a state of calamity. I felt really guilty when a friend said “Porke ba walang Cristine Reyes na stranded sa bubong hindi na big deal ang Bulacan?”. Indeed.

-RB

aww :)

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  Why Women Cry

A little boy asked his mother, "Why are you crying?" "Because I'm a woman," she told him.

"I don't understand," he said. His Mom just hugged him and said, "And you never will."

Later the little boy asked his father, "Why does mother seem to cry for no reason?"

"All women cry for no reason," was all his dad could say.

The little boy grew up and became a man, still wondering why women cry.

Finally he put in a call to God. When God got on the phone, he asked, "God, why do women cry so easily?"

God said, "When I made the woman she had to be special.

I made her shoulders strong enough to carry the weight of the world,

yet gentle enough to give comfort.

I gave her an inner strength to endure childbirth and the rejection that many times comes from her children.

I gave her a hardness that allows her to keep going when everyone else gives up, and take care of her family through sickness and fatigue without complaining.

I gave her the sensitivity to love her children under any and all circumstances, even when her child has hurt her very badly.

I gave her strength to carry her husband through his faults and fashioned her from his rib to protect his heart.

I gave her wisdom to know that a good husband never hurts his wife, but sometimes tests her strengths and her resolve to stand beside him unfalteringly.

And finally, I gave her a tear to shed. This is hers exclusively to use whenever it is needed."

"You see my son," said God, "the beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair.

The beauty of a woman must be seen in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart - the place where love resides."

Author: Unknown

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This is a true story of Mother’s Sacrifice during the Japan Earthquake.
After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks. But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head.

With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure.
He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reasons, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the ruin house of the dead woman. Again, he knelt down and used his had through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child! “
The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3 months old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up.
The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said,” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another. Every body that read the message wept. ” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” Such is the mother’s love for her child!!

Sam Winchester :)

my fave line from Dean, ever :)

the Winchesters :)

you'll be forever my bad boys :))

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Desperate Move

Mothers, especially, bind their stomachs to lessen hunger pangs: ‘Only the rich around here don’t tie a rope in times like this,’ says Zippora Mbungo (above) of Makima, Kenya…

“I tie this rope around my waist to hold my stomach in and avoid feeling hungry. Most of the time we have very little food, so I give it to my grandchildren first, leaving little or nothing for me. That is why I tie this rope around me. Only the rich people around here don’t tie a rope in times like this.This is one of the worst droughts I have ever seen in my life.”

-86-year-old grandmother from Makima, Kenya, told the agency’s workers..

“This practice shows just how desperately hungry women are. But it can be lethal – women have died after suddenly untying their stomachs once food is available.”

-Philip Kilonzo, of ActionAid Kenya..

Somalia Famine

 

from: aljazeera

UN urges massive action for Africa drought | Aid agencies discuss “catastrophic” situation in Horn of Africa amid calls for urgent aid at emergency meeting in Rome.

Reblog: (csmonitor)

PHOTO: A newly arrived refugee girl walks into the Baley settlement near the Ifo extension refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border, Wednesday. The first in a series of UN famine relief flights is scheduled to land in Somalia’s capital Wednesday. (REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya)

The first UN plane in two years is scheduled to go into the Somali capital’s airport Wednesday carrying food aid. Some 3.7 million people, including more than 2.3 million children under age 5, in Somalia alone need help.

The chartered aircraft will be the first United Nations plane into Mogadishu’s international airport since Islamists banned the organization from working there two years ago. It is loaded with Plumpy’nut, a patented high-nutrition, peanut-based paste designed to help children so malnourished that it is often too late for ordinary food to make any difference.

Negotiations continue between Western humanitarian organizations and Al Shabab, the pro-Al Quada Islamists who are refusing access to several UN agencies and international charities.
READ: International groups accelerate effort to relieve East Africa’s famine

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this made me teary-eyed :((

International Harry Potter posters at the Arclight :)

HP

it all ends. . .

LMFAO!

Libyan children suffering rape, aid agency reports

• Libya

Children as young as eight have been subjected to sexual assaults, according to accounts given to Save the Children

Benghazi, Libya, where children who have fled from sexual abuse are living in temporary camps. Photograph: Bernat Armangue/AP
Libyan children as young as eight have suffered sexual assaults, including rape, amid the worsening conflict across the country, a British aid agency has warned. Although Save the Children said it could not confirm the reports, the charity said the accounts by children were consistent and they were displaying signs of physical and emotional distress. The allegations come from 200 children and 40 adults who have fled from Misrata, Ajdabiya and Ras Lanuf and are now in temporary camps in the rebel stronghold of Benghazi. The families told the charity's staff that children as young as eight had been sexually assaulted, sometimes in front of their relatives. In one reported case, mothers claimed a group of girls had been abducted, held hostage for four days and raped, and were unable to speak when they were released. Michael Mahrt, Save the Children's child protection adviser, said: "The reports of sexual violence against children are unconfirmed, but they are consistent and were repeated across the four camps we visited. "Children told us they have witnessed horrendous scenes. Some said they saw their fathers murdered and mothers raped. They described things happening to other children, but they may have actually happened to them and they are just too upset to talk about it – it's a typical coping mechanism used by children who have suffered such abuse." Mahrt said some children were displaying signs of physical and emotional distress: being withdrawn, refusing to play and waking up crying in the night. The charity, along with other agencies, is conducting a 13-day assessment of the situation. It called on "the international community to ensure that all parties respect children's right to be protected from violence and abuse". The charity said it was increasing its child protection work in Benghazi, training social workers to provide youngsters with psycho-social support
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/23/libyan-children-suffering-rape

one day get-away in Camotes :))

Lake Danao

Timubo Cave

Santiago, Camotes (again) hahaha

Sto. Niño Church -- Poro, Camotes, Cebu

Camotes pathways :))

photos taken when i was having a three-days "vacation" in Camotes Isl., Cebu :)

those are the different shots of Camotes roads. . . 

i soow love their roads, promise! (well, the photos speak for itself)

A brief recap of Camotes history:

The Camotes Islands are a group of islands that form part of the province of Cebu, in the Philippines. The island group is located east of Cebu Island, southwest of Leyte Island, and north of Bohol Island.

The Camotes is composed of the following four islands and their municipalities:

• Poro: the municipalities of Poro and Tudela.
• Pacijan: the sole municipality is San Francisco.
• Ponson: the sole municipality is Pilar.
• Tulang: is part of the barangay Esperanza, which is part of San Francisco.

The islands of Pacijan and Poro are connected by a paved road called a causeway. Ponson is separated by the Camotes Sea, lying about four kilometers northeast of Poro. Tulang is located off the northern tip of Pacijan.

The Camotes are low-lying islands. There is only one hill on Pacijan and another hill on Poro. These hills are used by a telecommunications company for relay stations. Pacijan has a fresh-water lake around two kilometers in length. Palm trees are the dominant plant on the islands. There are also numerous native varieties of fruit trees and other plants.

In 1942, the occupation from the Japanese forces took in Camotes Islands in Cebu.

In 1945, the liberation was taken by the Philippine Commonwealth Army troops landed in Camotes Islands in Cebu we fronted the battles against the Japanese forces in the Battle of Camotes Islands during World War II.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camotes_Islands

front view of San Fran, Camotes :)

Poro, Camotes :)

On our way to sea port, you can see this beautiful picturesque :)

this place is part of Poro, Camotes

my Camotes escapade :)

 

my first time in Camotes Isl., Cebu

-- the island was "fuckin'-green-clean-isla" :))

06.18.11

sudden. . .

Alcoy, Cebu :)

SRP :)

. . .

miss them muchhhh :((

100 steps. . .

we are set, without further ado :)

pakshets with few of our common friends :)

 

'twas my second time, though :D

yet it thrilled me still :O cause this time, it's longer compared to the first one i've tried :)

K33 Ad, Bal. Cebu

my Balamban Liempo experience :)