Saturday, May 16, 2026

Ang hindi natin nakita.

A few days ago, nagpatulong kami magpacheck ng washing machine.

May naririnig kasi kaming kalampag sa loob… parang may nalaglag na turnilyo. As in hindi na pang “quick spin,” pang “concert tour” na talaga yung tunog.

So we called a technician. Pagdating niya, sabi ko,
“Kuya, pa-check naman po. Baka may natanggal na screw.”

Binuksan niya yung machine, tinanggal yung ilang parts, tapos sinilip nang maigi. Mga 15 minutes din siyang nagkalikot.
Then may hinugot siyang maliit na bagay.

Pagharap niya sa’kin, medyo kinabahan pa ako kasi akala ko major sira.
Pero sabi niya, “Sir, eto po.”

Hawak niya… isang bente pesos na coin.

Napakamot ako.
“Ah, coin lang pala… siguro mura lang to.”

Pero ngumiti si Kuya at sabi niya,
“Opo, Sir. Coin lang siya… pero pag ganitong kailangan kalasin para makuha, 1,500 po talaga ang service.”

Napakunot-noo ako nang bahagya, pero mahinahon kong nasabi,
“Kuya, coin lang talaga? 1,500?”

He smiled again and explained... calmly, professionally, walang yabang:

“Sir, hindi po yung coin ang binayaran ninyo. Sa inyo po yan. Ang binayaran po ninyo yung paano ko malalaman kung saan napunta, paano ko siya kukuhanin nang hindi nadadamage, at paano ko ibabalik yung washing machine nang ayos lahat ng pyesa.

At sir, kung hindi po natanggal yan, pwedeng magasgas o mabutas yung drum pag tumagal. Tingnan nyo po halos pudpod na yung coin.”

Tahimik ako after that. As in yung tahimik na tipong napahiya nang konti, pero natawa rin sa sarili.

Kasi doon ko na-realize... ang bilis nating malito between effort and value.

Akala natin pag maliit yung nakita, maliit dapat ang bayad.
Pag mabilis ginawa, mura dapat.
Pag “coin lang,” dapat “coin lang din ang presyo.”

Pero hindi natin nakikita:

Yung oras na ginugol para magkamali nang paulit-ulit.
Yung tools na pinag-ipunan.
Lahat yun para maging “madali lang” sa mata natin.

The truth?

It looks easy only because someone practiced long enough to make it look easy.

And this applies to everyone...
other technicians, artists, freelancers, carpenters, designers, marketers, photographers, writers, consultants, etc.

So next time we say,
“Madali lang ‘yan.”
“Mabilis lang ‘yan.”
“Ganyan lang yan?”

Remember:

You’re not paying for the minutes it took.
You’re paying for the years it took for someone to do it right, safely, and confidently.

At yung napudpod na coin na ‘yon?
Simple siya, oo... pero the lesson behind it?
Worth every peso.

#fblifestyle





Blood type

 ABO inheritance: blood group depends on parental A, B, and O alleles—A & B are codominant, O is recessive.


⚠️Disclaimer- For educational purposes only. Not medical advice. Blood grouping should be confirmed by laboratory testing.


#ABOBloodGroup #Genetics #Hematology #MedicalEducation #mednurseacademy




Loren Legarda

THE DAY I STOPPED BELIEVING IN LOREN LEGARDA

[An MCT Commentary]

I remember the first time I thought Loren Legarda was the real thing.

She was on television — sharp, controlled, asking the questions nobody else was asking. 

This was a woman who covered the People Power Revolution as a reporter for RPN, who sat in front of a camera when the rest of the country was running toward EDSA. 

She graduated cum laude from UP Diliman with a degree in broadcast communications, finished a master's degree at the National Defense College where she topped her class with gold medals, and then walked into the Senate in 1998 as the top vote-getter with over 15 million votes. 

Her first term was not just talk — she authored the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act, the Anti-Domestic Violence Act, the Overseas Absentee Voting Act. Real legislation. 

The kind that actually protects people.

For a blogger like me who grew up believing that the right person in the right position could change something, Loren Legarda was an easy first faith.

I was wrong. And the longer I watched, the more I understood why.

THE WOMAN SHE STARTED AS

Before any of the politics, Loren Legarda was legitimately one of the most credible journalists in the Philippines. 

She anchored The World Tonight on the reopened ABS-CBN alongside Angelo Castro Jr., hosted The Inside Story, and earned more than 30 journalism awards before she ever ran for public office. 

She won the Benigno Aquino Award for Journalism in 1995 — named after the senator who was assassinated returning home to fight a dictatorship. 

She knew what that name meant.

She was born into a family with deep roots in journalism and public service. 

Her maternal grandfather was Jose P. Bautista, editor-in-chief of The Manila Times before Martial Law. 

Her family's political history stretches back to the Malolos Congress. 

This was not a woman who came to politics by accident. 

She came from a lineage that understood what power was supposed to be for.

That context is crucial now. Because everything that came after has to be measured against it.

THE BUTTERFLY PATTERN

The "political butterfly" label is not something her critics invented. It is a pattern she built, one alliance at a time.

She ran for the Senate in 1998 under Lakas-NUCD-UMDP — the ruling party of Fidel Ramos. 

In 2003, she left Lakas after Gloria Macapagal Arroyo broke her pledge not to run for president, and joined Fernando Poe Jr.'s coalition as an independent. 

Then she aligned with the NPC. In 2009, she ran as Manny Villar's vice presidential running mate under the Nationalist People's Coalition — this was a man she had previously scrutinized in the Senate. 

When asked if she was a political butterfly, she said she wasn't. She just kept flying to new flowers.

The VP bids were their own story. 

She lost to Noli de Castro in 2004 by 881,722 votes and spent years protesting the result before the Supreme Court dismissed her case in 2008. 

In 2010, she ran again as vice president, this time under Manny Villar, and placed third. 

Twice she tried to reach Malacañang through the second door. Twice she failed.

What she did next tells you everything.

THE UNITEAM DECISION AND THE SON WHO CALLED HER OUT

In 2022, Loren Legarda ran under the UniTeam senatorial slate — the Marcos-Duterte coalition. 

She finished second overall with 24.26 million votes, her best performance ever. 

She won by going home to the Marcoses.

At the risk of being redundant, I will tell you that statement is not a small thing. 

This is a woman who as a young journalist covered the tail end of Martial Law and the People Power Revolution that ended it. 

Her grandfather's newspaper, The Manila Times, was among those censored under Marcos. 

She received the Benigno Aquino Award. And in 2022, she walked onto the stage with the dictator's son and smiled for the cameras.

Imagine that. 

Her own firstborn son, Lorenzo Legarda Leviste, could not bear it. 

In an open letter published in May 2022, Lorenzo said he was "absolutely disgusted" by his mother. 

He said she "spits in the faces of thousands of people whose lives were destroyed by the Marcoses." 

He declared that she had "lost a son forever" because of the decision. 

Lorenzo had been living in the United States since he was 18 years old. 

The Marcos alliance apparently was the line he could not forgive even from across the Pacific.

Her younger son Leandro, on the other hand, published his own letter in support of her. 

It is worth remembering who Leandro is. We will get to that.

THE ABS-CBN VOTE: “HEARTBROKEN” BUT ABSENT

On July 10, 2020, the House of Representatives committee killed ABS-CBN's franchise renewal in a 70-11 vote. 

It was one of the most brazen attacks on press freedom in recent Philippine history. 

This was the network that Loren Legarda anchored for years. The network where she built her career, her credibility, her public face.

She abstained.

Her stated reason was conflict of interest: she had filed her own ABS-CBN franchise renewal bill, and she said House rules prevented her from voting. 

But House sources told Vera Files that the conflict-of-interest rule applied only to regular committee members — Legarda was an ex-officio member as Deputy Speaker and was not covered by the rule. 

She chose to abstain anyway.

She later said she was "heartbroken" about ABS-CBN's closure. 

She said the franchise "must be refiled." 

She performed grief publicly. 

But grief without action is just theater. 

She was in that room. She could have voted. She didn't. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Now here is the part of the story that gets buried under the grief performance.

In May 2024 — three and a half years after ABS-CBN died in that committee room — Leandro Leviste's holding company purchased an 8.5 percent stake in ABS-CBN. 

By June 2024, he had raised his stake to 10 percent, making him the second-largest ABS-CBN shareholder after the Lopez family, with his holdings valued at roughly ₱688.5 million.

The mother abstained while ABS-CBN was being killed. The son bought into it while it was on the floor, cheap.

The network her family declined to defend became the network her family now partly owns.

THE SOLAR PHILIPPINES ANGLE

This is the story that took me a long time to fully piece together, and I still do not think it has been told with the seriousness it deserves.

Leandro Leviste built Solar Philippines into one of the country's most high-profile renewable energy companies. 

In 2019, during Senator Legarda's third Senate term, the Solar Para sa Bayan Corporation received a 25-year franchise from Congress to build distributable solar power systems nationwide. 

Critics from the Anti-Trapo Movement questioned the "seemingly hasty" processing of that franchise, filing complaints against Legarda over the speed at which her Senate committee cleared the resolution.

Nothing formal came of those complaints then. 

But in January 2026, the Department of Energy imposed a ₱24 billion fine on Solar Philippines Power Projects Holdings for failure to deliver on committed projects. 

The DOE then filed a formal complaint against Leandro Leviste and five other Solar executives in May 2026.

Senator Legarda's response was to file a Senate resolution seeking a probe into the DOE's actions. 

The mother is now presiding over the chamber — she was elected Senate President Pro Tempore in May 2026 — that could either investigate or shield her son from a ₱24 billion liability.

When reporters asked her about the conflict of interest, she declined to address questions.

Sound familiar?

THE DYNASTY SHE BUILT WHILE FILING ANTI-DYNASTY BILLS

This is the irony that I have to put in writing because it is almost too on the nose.

Senator Loren Legarda has now filed an anti-political dynasty bill seven times. Seven. 

The bill has never passed. 

It keeps getting filed. It keeps going nowhere. 

Sixty-four percent of Filipinos support an anti-dynasty law according to Pulse Asia, and yet it never moves forward in a chamber where Legarda now holds the second-highest seat.

Meanwhile, the dynasty she has been building looks like this:

- Loren Legarda — Senate President Pro Tempore, fourth Senate term, having bounced from Senate to House and back to Senate using term limit rules as a revolving door

- AA Legarda (Antonio Agapito Legarda) — her brother, currently serving as Antique's lone district representative, having won a second term in 2025 with 210,491 votes — the same Antique seat Loren vacated when she returned to the Senate

- Leandro Leviste — her son, currently serving as Batangas 1st District Representative, with a reported net worth approaching ₱50 billion, chairman of Solar Philippines, now facing a ₱24 billion DOE fine

The Vera Files investigation published in March 2025 documented how AA Legarda ran on the name "Inday Loren" on the official candidate list — a name that voters in Antique associate with Loren herself, not with her brother — making it difficult for voters to know the difference. 

She had to cut ties with previous allies in the province, including Governor Rhodora Cadiao, to clear the field for her brother.

The woman who files anti-dynasty bills is simultaneously managing a three-front family political empire across two provinces and the national Senate. 

Her legislation was not hypocrisy by accident. It was hypocrisy as a brand.

THE MOST RECENT FLIP: MAY 2026

As I write this, there was a leadership coup in the Senate.

On May 11, 2026, the pro-Duterte bloc engineered a surprise shakeup that ousted the sitting Senate President and installed Alan Peter Cayetano. 

Loren Legarda voted for Cayetano. In exchange, she was immediately elected Senate President Pro Tempore — the chamber's second-highest position. 

This is at least her fourth major Senate leadership alignment shift in recent years.

When reporters asked her about it afterward, she evaded questions.

She has done this so many times now that the evasion itself has become the statement.

WHAT I GOT WRONG EARLY ON

I spent years giving Loren Legarda the benefit of the doubt because of the legislation. 

The Climate Change Act. The Magna Carta of Women. The Anti-Trafficking law. 

These are real bills. They protect real people.

But the pattern I kept seeing was not the occasional bad alliance choice. 

It was the consistent subordination of every stated principle to what was good for Loren and Leandro. 

The legislation was real, but it was also never the organizing logic. The organizing logic was always the family.

The ABS-CBN abstention was not about parliamentary procedure. 

The UniTeam alliance was not about unity. 

The seven anti-dynasty bills that never moved were not about reform. 

The Senate probe into the DOE that could shield her son from a ₱24 billion fine is not about energy policy.

Each one is about power — held, transferred, and protected.

THE QUESTION I NOW ASK

I used to wonder when Loren Legarda became this way. I now think that is the wrong question.

The better question is whether she ever wasn't this way — and whether we just weren't paying close enough attention. 

The journalism career that made her famous was built on a network, ABS-CBN, that her family later acquired a significant stake in. 

The province she represented, Antique, had been tied to her family going back to her great-granduncle, who served as mayor of Sibalom. 

Even the early reform credentials were built on top of a foundation that was always partly about family name and family position.

She chose Marcos in 2022. Her son Leandro supported that choice. Her other son Lorenzo disowned her for it. 

The family fractured publicly over the decision. 

And she went to the Senate anyway — and won bigger than she ever had before, with 24 million votes.

That number is the most honest thing in this whole story. 

The voters knew. They watched the same pattern I watched. And 24 million of them said it was fine.

I am not writing this to tell you how to vote. 

I am writing this because I lost my faith in Loren Legarda a long time ago, and I think it is worth saying out loud why — and being honest that part of that loss is on me. 

I believed in someone because she looked like she believed in something.

She may have. Once.

But principles without the spine to hold them at cost are just talking points. 

And in twenty-eight years of watching Loren Legarda, I have never once seen her hold a principle when it cost her something real.

That is the faith I lost. And I do not expect to get it back.

SOURCES

1. Loren says she's no political butterfly | GMA News Online
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/topstories/nation/185793/loren-says-she-s-no-political-butterfly/story/

2. Loren Legarda fattens her dynasty - VERA Files
https://verafiles.org/articles/loren-legarda-fattens-her-dynasty

3. Legarda explains why she didn't participate in ABS-CBN franchise vote
https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/07/11/20/legarda-explains-why-she-didnt-participate-in-abs-cbn-franchise-vote

4. Legarda heartbroken over abstention on ABS-CBN franchise voting
https://politiko.com.ph/2021/10/21/i-spent-the-best-productive-years-of-my-life-in-that-station-legarda-heartbroken-over-abstention-on-abs-cbn-franchise-voting/

5. Son of Loren Legarda, "disgusted" at mother for running under UniTeam slate
https://kami.com.ph/politics/142334-son-loren-legarda-disgusted-mom-running-uniteam-slate-i-dont/

6. Leviste raises stake in ABS-CBN to 10%
https://www.philstar.com/business/2024/06/06/2360599/leviste-raises-stake-abs-cbn-10

7. Leviste buys 8.5% stake of ABS-CBN
https://business.inquirer.net/457141/leviste-buys-8-5-stake-of-abs-cbn

8. Leviste hikes ABS-CBN stake; inches closer to board seat
https://tribune.net.ph/2024/06/05/leviste-hikes-abs-cbn-stake-inches-closer-to-board-seat

9. Group questions 'hasty' processing of franchise for firm led by Legarda's son
https://www.gmanetwork.com/news/money/companies/684476/group-questions-hasty-processing-of-franchise-for-firm-led-by-legarda-s-son/story/

10. DOE fines Leviste's Solar Philippines P24-B for failed commitments
https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/business/2026/1/14/doe-fines-leviste-s-solar-philippines-p24-b-for-failed-commitments-1151

11. DOE files complaint vs Leviste, 5 other solar firm execs
https://www.pna.gov.ph/articles/1274539

12. Legarda files seventh bill on anti-political dynasty
https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2026/2/19/legarda-files-seventh-bill-on-anti-political-dynasty-1730

13. Legarda: Congressman AA's triumph is victory for Antique
https://lorenlegarda.com.ph/legarda-congressman-aas-triumph-is-victory-for-antique/

14. Loren Legarda returns to the Senate on her 4th term
https://lorenlegarda.com.ph/loren-legarda-returns-to-the-senate-on-her-4th-term-much-to-do-many-to-help/

15. Senate coup: Sotto out, Cayetano takes over
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2026/05/12/2527301/senate-coup-sotto-out-cayetano-takes-over

16. Shutdown of ABS-CBN broadcasting - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_ABS-CBN_broadcasting

17. Loren Legarda - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loren_Legarda

18. 1998 Philippine Senate election - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998_Philippine_Senate_election

19. Case Digest: P.E.T. Case No. 003 - Legarda vs. De Castro
https://jur.ph/jurisprudence/digest/legarda-v-de-castro-42390

20. It's final: Loren loses election protest case vs Noli
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2008/02/20/45743/its-final-loren-loses-election-protest-case-vs-noli

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Hernia

😣 When part of the stomach pushes upward through the diaphragm into the chest, it can lead to acid reflux, chest discomfort, and swallowing problems—this condition is called Hiatal Hernia.

🩺 Hiatal Hernia

A hiatal hernia occurs when the upper part of the stomach bulges through the opening in the diaphragm where the esophagus passes into the stomach.

👉 Medical term: Hiatal hernia

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🔹 Location
• Between the chest and abdomen
• At the opening of the diaphragm (hiatus)
• Near the stomach and esophagus junction

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🔹 What Does It Do?
• The diaphragm normally helps keep the stomach in place
• In hiatal hernia, part of the stomach moves upward into the chest
• This can weaken the valve that prevents acid reflux

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⚠️ Common Symptoms
• Heartburn
• Acid reflux (GERD)
• Chest pain or pressure
• Difficulty swallowing
• Burping or bloating
• Sour taste in mouth
• Shortness of breath in severe cases

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🧠 How It Happens
• Weakness in the diaphragm opening develops
• Increased pressure pushes the stomach upward
• Acid more easily flows back into the esophagus

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🧾 Risk Factors
• Aging
• Obesity
• Heavy lifting
• Chronic coughing
• Pregnancy
• Smoking
• Straining during bowel movements

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🚨 Possible Complications
• Severe acid reflux
• Esophagitis
• Barrett’s esophagus
• Esophageal ulcers
• Strangulated hernia (rare emergency)

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🩺 Diagnosis
• Endoscopy
• Barium swallow X-ray
• CT scan
• Esophageal manometry

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💊 Treatment Options
• Acid-reducing medications
• Lifestyle and diet changes
• Weight management
• Surgery in severe cases

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🛡️ Tips for Better Management
• Avoid large meals
• Do not lie down after eating
• Maintain healthy weight
• Avoid spicy and fatty foods
• Elevate head during sleep
• Quit smoking

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🚨 Important Note
Persistent reflux, chest pain, or swallowing difficulty should be medically evaluated.

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🔖  
#HiatalHernia #GERD #AcidReflux #DigestiveHealth #Heartburn #Esophagus #Gastroenterology #HealthAwareness #Wellness







Thursday, May 14, 2026

Thyroid

WHAT REALLY HAPPENS TO OUR BODY UNDER GENERAL ANESTHESIA DURING A THYROID SURGERY? 😨💉

Especially for those of us who went through a total thyroidectomy…

Some people think surgery is just “sleeping” while doctors operate…

But the truth is while we are unconscious, an entire medical team is working every second to keep our body safe and stable. 🥹

Before surgery begins, general anesthesia is given so we won’t feel pain and won’t be aware during the operation.

But anesthesia is not just something that “puts you to sleep.”

It’s a powerful and carefully controlled medicine that affects the brain, nerves, breathing, and the whole body.

Within seconds…

🧠 Your brain slowly loses awareness😴 You become unconscious💢 You don’t feel pain🫁 Your breathing is carefully monitored and supported💤 Your body enters a controlled sleep-like state

During a total thyroidectomy, doctors carefully remove the thyroid gland while closely monitoring your:

✔️ Heart rate✔️ Oxygen level✔️ Blood pressure✔️ Breathing✔️ Body response to anesthesia

And while you are asleep…

You don’t know how many hours have passed.

You don’t know what is happening around you.

You have no control over your body.

But somehow… your body keeps fighting to survive. ❤️

Then suddenly you wake up.

Maybe with a sore throat.

Maybe your voice feels weak.

Maybe there’s pain in your neck and a scar you never imagined having.

And for a moment, you quietly think…

“I made it… I’m still here.” 🙏🥹

Behind every thyroidectomy scar is a story of fear, strength, prayers, healing, and survival.

A reminder that we fought something hard… and we made it through. 🤍

To my fellow thyroid warriors what was the first thing you felt when you woke up after surgery? 🦋

#TotalThyroidectomy
 #ThyroidCancerWarrior 
#ThyroidSurgery 
#ThyroidectomyScar 
#PapillaryThyroidCancer 
#HealingJourney 
#ThyroidWarrior 
#GeneralAnesthesia 
#SurgeryRecovery 
#SurvivorStory



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 Get prestige card.

Suweldo

Every month, our elected officials — mayors, vice mayors, councilors, representatives, and senators — receive high salaries.

And where does that money come from? From us. From the taxes we pay.
Yes, even students, housewives, and the unemployed contribute — every time you buy something, you pay VAT.
We are the ones funding their salaries.

While many of us struggle to survive on minimum wage — with deductions and rising living costs — we must realize how critical it is to vote wisely.

Their job is to:

Represent our interests

Create laws and policies to improve lives

Manage public resources responsibly — including the money we work so hard to earn

But sadly, too often we see:
They earn more than enough, enjoy countless perks and benefits — and still, some choose to steal.
Then they distract us with dance moves or sweet promises — and we forget what’s at stake.

Meanwhile, we who pay their salaries live paycheck to paycheck.
Is that fair to you?

Choose leaders with integrity.
Leaders who understand sacrifice.
Leaders who won’t just talk — but will act for the good of all.

Your vote isn’t just for today — it will shape the next 6 years.
And it may define the future your children will live in.

Source: dbm.gov.ph – Compensation Plan under R.A. 6758
(Note: This is just the basic salary — actual pay can be higher depending on rank and years in service.

Ctto



People is watching hindi sila idiot.

 AN OPEN LETTER TO THE NEW MAJORITY BLOC IN THE SENATE



Dear New Senate Majority,


Congratulations.


You now control the chamber.


You have the numbers.

You have the gavels.

You have the committee chairmanships.

You have the power to decide which investigations live, which reports die, and which truths are allowed to breathe.


But please remember this:


Power acquired in one afternoon can also define an entire political legacy.


Because millions of Filipinos did not just watch a leadership change on May 11.


They watched a room rearrange itself at the exact moment accountability was about to enter the building.


At ‘yon ang hindi ninyo matatakasan.


You may call it parliamentary procedure.

You may call it political realignment.

You may call it stability.


But to many ordinary Filipinos, it looked like something far simpler:


SELF-PRESERVATION.


Habang paparating ang Articles of Impeachment…

habang umiinit ang usapin sa confidential funds…

habang lumalalim ang flood control controversy…

habang may partial report na umano’y posibleng tumama sa ilang makapangyarihang pangalan…


biglang nagbago ang timpla ng Senado.


And Filipinos are asking the most dangerous question in politics:


“Why?”


Bakit kailangang palitan agad ang liderato bago pa man tuluyang makausad ang impeachment court?


Bakit tila mas urgent ang pag-control ng proseso kaysa pagharap sa proseso?


Bakit parang may kailangang pigilan?


You see, the problem is no longer perception.


The problem is timing.


At sa pulitika, timing tells stories words cannot hide.


Some of you stayed inside the majority caucus until the very end.

Some smiled beside allies you had already abandoned.

Some attended hearings as if nothing was changing.

Some kept silent while negotiations were already happening behind closed doors.


Then one Monday came -

and suddenly the masks fell all at once.


Ganito kasi ang masakit para sa taumbayan:


Ordinary Filipinos are told every day to obey the law immediately.

Kapag may subpoena, sumipot.

Kapag may kaso, humarap.

Kapag may hearing, dumalo.


Pero kapag makapangyarihan na ang sangkot?

Biglang may delay.

Biglang may “further study.”

Biglang may procedural acrobatics.

Biglang may leadership coup.


The speed of justice changes depending on the power of the person involved.


At ‘yon ang unti-unting sumisira sa tiwala ng tao sa demokrasya.


This is bigger than Sara Duterte.

This is bigger than Tito Sotto.

This is even bigger than Alan Peter Cayetano.


This is about whether the Senate will still be remembered as an institution of accountability -

or merely a survivors’ club for political families protecting one another when danger gets too close.


Because let’s be brutally honest:


When a senator allegedly named in a controversial report ends up controlling the committee connected to that report…


kahit anong paliwanag ninyo,

kahit gaano kaganda ang press release,

kahit gaano karaming legal terms ang gamitin - the optics are devastating.


And deep inside, you know that too.


To the new majority bloc:

➖ The Filipino people are patient. But history is not.


History remembers who stood firm.

History remembers who stayed silent.

History remembers who crossed the room at the exact moment truth was approaching the door.


At higit sa lahat - 

history remembers who used power to protect the Republic…

and who used the Republic to protect themselves.


All credits to the original writer (Anonymous)


#OpenLetterToTheNewMajority

#SenateofthePhilippines

#SenateCoup

#PhilippineSenate

#AccountabilityMatters

#TruthMustPrevail

#NoToPoliticalCoverUp

#HistoryIsWatching

#ImpeachmentTrial

#JusticeForTheFilipinoPeople

#ProtectTheConstitution

#FloodControlScam

#BlueRibbonCommittee

#PowerAndPolitics

#HindiKamiMakakalimot

#ThePeopleAreWatching

#DemocracyUnderWatch

#SenadoNgPilipino

#RuleOfLaw

#PoliticalDynasties

#TindigPilipino

#anonymouswriter

Wednesday, May 13, 2026

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Php10 limos sa pilay
Php13 pamasahe jeep
Php30 savings naglakad lang.

Ryan Morales.


Tuesday, May 12, 2026

05132026 wed

Di pa nakadumi.

Php12 pandesal

Pogi site
Ganda office

Php12+12+30 pamasahe
Php300 grab pogi 261+39=300

Php40k budget give mama.

Php270 30 pcs egg



Excess sa binigay kay meralco.

Ito ang aming electric bill ng Meralco.

May installation kami ng solar panels na naka interconnect sa Meralco. 

Nagbayad kami ng @ 25K sa Meralco para sa interconnection fee.

Sa aming march to april 2026 bill makikita na ang na generate ng aming solar panels na naitransmit sa Meralco ay 1,308 kwh at ang amin namang consumption ay 823kwh suma total ay nakapagbigay pa kami sa Meralco ng 485kwh.

Tanong:

Bakit sa na consume namin na 823kwh ay pinatungan pa kami ng Meralco ng generation, transmission at lahat ng charges, samantalang kami ang nag generate ng kuryente at nakapagbigay pa kami ng 485kwh na naibenta nila sa ibang consumers na siguradong pinatungan ng lahat ng charges?

Tama o parehas ba yun?

Paki like and share po, baka sakaling makarating sa mga kinauukulan at mapag tuunan ng pansin.


Base po sa calculation ay tama naman po from Generation to Lifeline pagsamasamahin niyo lahat. 

Yan yung breakdown ng 823kwh ninyo which is yan naman sadya ang babayaran niyo kaya walang mali. Now you expect na dahil mas malaki ang naiprovide niyo sa grid dapat wala ba kayong babayaran, hindi po ganun kasi may sinusunod din silang pricing pagdating sa mga bagay na yan. 

So meaning yung naprovide ninyo na na 1,308kWh sa grid, may price lang siya na 8.4pesos per kW. 

823kWhx15.57pesos per kWh ay 12,814.11 kapag pinagsama niyo lahat from generation to lifeline ganyan din halos ang lalabas. 

1,308kWhx8.40pesos per kWh 10,987.2 pesos. 

Subtract those 2 results, you will get 1,826.91 pesos which is yung babayaran mo sa Meralco, pero dahil may OTHER charges ka na 200 pesos kaya naging 2k.

All in all ay fair lang yan. Baka ineexpect natin dahil mas mataas ang nagenerate ninyong kWh kaysa sa naconsume niyo ay automatic zero na. Hindi po ganun.


Monday, May 11, 2026

Can any senator be arrested inside the senate premises?

CAN ANY SENATOR BE ARRESTED INSIDE THE SENATE PREMISES FOR CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY?
YES. The reasons can easily by explained.
FIRST. Is the Senate building being rented? If yes, then the people are paying for the rental. Is the Senate building owned by the government? If yes, then it belongs to the People. There is no law expressly making the premises of the senate a safe haven for fugitives or those charged with the commission of a crime.
SECOND. No senator has any proprietary interest in that building. No senator owns it. It is not a fortress designed to protect erring people from authorities or a foreign embassy where Philippine Law has waived jurisdiction. A criminal or a fugitive from justice can be arrested inside the building. Had this been an ordinary edifice where private persons are residing, it might have been a different story. But this is a building where public interest demands that it not be used as a sanctuary for those people running from the law.
THIRD. A senator is only immune from arrest while the Senate is in session and if the penalty of the alleged crime is below six (6) years imprisonment. According to Republic Act No. 9851, crime against humanity where death occured is punishable by reclusion perpetua ( 40 years).
FOURTH. Republic Act No. 9851 provides that the Philippines can allow an international tribunal to investigate or try a persons charged of crime against humanity if it is already investigating or trying such persons and, if need be, deliver the said persons to the tribunal. ( Section 17) . This is in accordance with the generally accepted principle of international law declaring that crime against humanity is a universal crime. By the way, generally accepted principles of international law according to our constitution are adopted by our country as part of the law of the land.
FIFTH. The warrant of arrest of the ICC is valid. The bill of rights of the Constitution provides that no one can be arrested without a warrant of arrest issued by a judge. The word "judge" is not qualified and hence it can refer to a local judge or a foreign judge whose jurisdiction the Philippines has accepted.
SIXTH. Crime against Humanity involves an international element where the Executive Department must be given the greatest respect in its determination and enforcement. Foreign policy, peace and order, apprehension of a fugitive are executive functions. The Legislature should not interfere in the performance of such executive functions as this would violate the separation of powers.
SEVENTH. NBI personnel are within their rights to run after a fugitive from justice or persons charged with a crime. Also, there is a presumption of regularity of government enforcements.
EIGHT. The Senate must NOT coddle and protect a fugitive. That is obstruction of justice.
NINTH. There is no law expressly providing a so-called " Senate Protective-Custody" as an exemption to the enforcement of a warrant of arrest.
TENTH. Unless stopped by the Supreme Court, the enforcement of a valid arrest must proceed. No one is above the law.
Makakita ng Kaunti

05122026 tue phmc

Php12+12+30 pamasahe

Ganda office
Pogi site

Punta phmc whole body scan
Php206 355 grab wala kumuha ekis.

Php25+28+26+26+28+30 = 163 pamasahe papunta at pauwi phmc
Php135 lunch ulam

Php40 1/2k african mix
Punta acct para sa tseke wala pa raw sa kanilang abiso.

Kinuha namin cp number nila.

05112026 mon nakadumi.

Last day of quarantine.

Php12 pandesal

Pogi site
Ganda office

Php12+12+30 pamasahe.

Php30 pamasahe

Pogi nag gym. Php13500.00
Zapote arcade fit forge gym.

Bp

🩺💓 Ano ba ibig sabihin ng 120 at 80 sa BP Finding na 120/80? 💓🩺
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Kapag nagpapa-BP (Blood Pressure) tayo, madalas nating naririnig ang result na:
👉 “120 over 80” o 120/80 mmHg
Pero ano nga ba talaga ang ibig sabihin nito? 🤔
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🔴 Ang unang number (120) = SYSTOLIC pressure
Ito ang pressure o puwersa ng dugo habang tumitibok at nagpo-pump ang puso ❤️
📌 Ibig sabihin:
Habang pinapadala ng puso ang dugo papunta sa buong katawan, sinusukat kung gaano kalakas ang pressure sa mga ugat.
👉 Parang:
🚰 “Lakas ng buga ng tubig sa hose habang bukas ang gripo.”
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🔵 Ang pangalawang number (80) = DIASTOLIC pressure
Ito naman ang pressure habang nakapahinga ang puso sa pagitan ng tibok 💙
📌 Ibig sabihin:
Kahit nagpapahinga ang puso, may pressure pa rin sa ugat — at importante rin itong bantayan.
👉 Parang:
🚰 “Natitirang pressure sa hose kahit humina na ang daloy.”
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📖 Kaya kapag sinabi na:
120/80
Ang ibig sabihin ay:

❤️ 120 = pressure habang tumitibok ang puso
💙 80 = pressure habang nagpapahinga ang puso
📏 Ang unit nito ay:
mmHg (millimeters of mercury)
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⚠️ Kapag mataas ang SYSTOLIC (unang number)
Halimbawa:
📌 150/80
Ibig sabihin:
Malakas ang pressure habang tumitibok ang puso ❤️⬆️
🩺 Maaaring konektado ito sa:
🔸 Paninigas ng ugat (stiff arteries)
🔸 Stress o anxiety 😰
🔸 Sobrang alat sa pagkain 🧂
🔸 Katandaan 👴👵
🔸 High cholesterol 🥩
🔸 Kulang sa exercise 🛋️
⚠️ Delikado ito dahil puwedeng magdulot ng:
❌ Stroke
❌ Heart enlargement
❌ Heart attack
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⚠️ Kapag mataas ang DIASTOLIC (pangalawang number)
Halimbawa:
📌 120/100
Ibig sabihin:
Mataas pa rin ang pressure kahit nagpapahinga ang puso 💙⬆️
🩺 Maaaring konektado ito sa:
🔸 Pagkipot ng blood vessels
🔸 Obesity ⚖️
🔸 Smoking 🚬
🔸 Diabetes 🍭
🔸 Kidney problems 🩺
🔸 Hormonal imbalance
⚠️ Kapag matagal itong napabayaan, puwedeng mapagod ang puso dahil:
👉 “Kahit pahinga dapat… mataas pa rin ang pressure.”
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🚨 Kapag parehong mataas ang systolic at diastolic
Halimbawa:
📌 160/100
Ito ay maaaring senyales ng:
🛑 HYPERTENSION o HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE
😶‍🌫️ Madalas wala itong sintomas kaya tinatawag na:
💀 “Silent Killer”
Pero habang tumatagal, unti-unti nitong sinisira ang:
🧠 utak
❤️ puso
🩺 kidneys
👀 mata
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⚠️ Mga posibleng sintomas ng mataas na BP:
😵 Madalas na headache
😖 Pananakit ng batok
💓 Palpitations
😮‍💨 Habol-hininga
👀 Malabong paningin
😴 Madaling mapagod
📌 Pero tandaan:
Maraming tao ang may HIGH BP kahit walang nararamdaman.
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📌 IMPORTANTENG TANDAAN:
Hindi lang isang BP reading ang basehan ❗
Puwedeng tumaas pansamantala dahil sa:
☕ kape
😰 stress
🏃 pagod o exercise
😡 galit
😴 kulang sa tulog
Kaya mahalaga ang:
✅ regular BP monitoring
✅ healthy lifestyle
✅ check-up sa doctor
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🥗 Paano makatulong para mapababa ang BP?
✔️ Bawasan ang alat 🧂
✔️ Maglakad o exercise 🚶‍♂️
✔️ Kumain ng healthy foods 🥦🍎
✔️ Iwas sigarilyo 🚭
✔️ I-manage ang stress 🧘
✔️ Sundin ang maintenance meds kung meron 💊
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📚 Evidence-Based Note:
Ang pag-intindi sa systolic at diastolic BP ay base sa medical guidelines mula sa:
🏥 American Heart Association (AHA)
🏥 World Health Organization (WHO)
🏥 International hypertension guidelines
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💬 “Hindi lang numero ang BP — mensahe ito kung kumusta ang puso at mga ugat natin.” ❤️🩺



Saturday, May 09, 2026

How can I help.?

New Amsterdam

05102026 sun happy fiesta

Happy mother's day.
Php1k give mama

5am inom levo

Nakapagpaaraw na
Naka dilig na
Naka linis na ng bintana
Naka bfast na
Nakaligo na

Happy fiesta.
Nene namalantsa

Cris paid 
Php1k meralco with balance pa.

More

🇵🇭 MORE TAKE HOME PAY. STRONGER MIDDLE CLASS. A BETTER PHILIPPINES.

1 of 2 

The future of the Philippine economy will depend on one important question:

Will we continue overtaxing workers while allowing inefficiency, loopholes, corruption, and weak enforcement to drain national resources?

Or will we finally build a fair, modern, and globally competitive tax system that empowers Filipinos and restores public trust?

Our proposal is clear:

Increase the income tax exemption threshold from ₱250,000 under the TRAIN Law to:

▪️ ₱400,000 by 2026
▪️ ₱800,000 by 2027
▪️ ₱1 Million tax-free income by 2028

This is not merely tax relief.

It is an investment in the Filipino middle class—the backbone of our economy.

From education and healthcare to housing, entrepreneurship, and savings, more take-home pay means stronger families, stronger businesses, stronger consumption, and ultimately, a stronger nation.

Yet today, compensation income earners contribute the overwhelming majority of personal income tax collections through the withholding tax system, while many wealthy individuals, political dynasties, illicit financial flows, and large-scale tax leakages continue to undermine fairness and accountability.
 
to be continued…

Boy Abunda DJ ChaCha Bea Binene Marian Rivera Ivana Alawi Anne Curtis Angel Locsin Vice Ganda



Learn to communicate your value

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐤…

hindi sipag ang kulang mo—
visibility at positioning.

Una: Busy ka… pero hindi ka visible.
❌ tahimik ka lang, walang reports, walang updates
✔️ boss mo hindi alam impact mo
Hard work without visibility is invisible.
If they can’t see it, they won’t reward it.

Pangalawa: Task doer ka, hindi problem solver.
❌ ginagawa mo lang inuutos
✔️ wala kang initiative mag-improve ng system
Execution alone is not leadership.
Promotions follow solutions, not obedience.

Pangatlo: Wala kang communication skills.
❌ magaling ka sa trabaho
✔️ pero hindi mo ma-express value mo
Silence kills opportunities.
Your value must be communicated, not assumed.

Pang-apat: Hindi ka aligned sa priorities ng boss.
❌ ginagawa mo gusto mo
✔️ hindi mo tinatamaan ang KPI ng kumpanya
Misalignment = missed promotion.
Work on what matters, not what’s comfortable.

Ang totoo…
promotion is not about effort—
it’s about perceived value.

Sa totoong buhay…
parang negosyo yan—
kahit maganda produkto mo,
kung hindi mo marunong i-market…
walang bibili.

💡 Jeff Amurao Takeaways
✔️ Be visible, not just busy
❌ Huwag lang utos ang sinusunod—mag-isip ka
✔️ Learn to communicate your value 🔥



Kumusta si Inay?

 Kumusta na si Nay?


Because people know I spend half of the year in the US to be with Nay, the first thing I am usually asked these days is “Kumusta na si Nay?”


Nay is doing great, she is still so amazing. Paglaki ko, gusto ko maging tulad nya. How to be you po?


She is so blessed with a very strong mind. She manages her finances still. One of the places I drove her to before I left last month was to her appointment with the tax folks. She pays her bills online and would only need assistance when she needs to talk to someone on the phone. But this was before she had her hearing aid. Now she can again manage talking to people on the phone.


She finally decided to have a hearing aid. She was loving her peace and quiet and was happy enough with “selective hearing”. But she realized there would be some advantages to having an aid especially for some transactions on the phone. Bonus is she could listen in now to conversations around her, if she chooses to. We even joked about getting a hearing aid without telling everyone. We laughed so much just thinking about that scenario. 


She tells me that the world is actually noisy - she now hears the humming of the appliances in the house, she can hear when the rice cooker or the oven alarm sounds off, she can hear when someone is trying to open the door using the code or when someone has dropped a package. Even the television is noisy as she got used to just reading the captions. When the housekeepers arrive, she does not put on her hearing aid as the noise is just too much for her. The gardeners who come once a week are also noisy. Now I appreciate her love for her peace and quiet. She is actually very happy to say before the end of the day that she will remove her hearing aid already and will not be in a hurry to put it back on in the morning. Now she has an option.  


Nay has always resisted using a wheelchair and would get up on her two feet and walk, no matter how slow she gets now. She does not even use a walker around the house because she can hold on to something if she needs to - the benefit of having a small house 😉. She uses a walker when we go to the doctor, the dentist, or the supermarket. But we go more often to Trader Joe’s because it is a lot smaller than most places. And she could go browse around the whole store and see everything she wants to buy - the dutch griddle cakes, the mango ice cream, the vegetable gyoza, the fruits and vegetables, the special breads, etc. Now I see the wisdom in insisting on walking. She is 91 and she walks!


Nay decided to stop driving this year, at 91. She still has the license but she finally heeded her doctor’s advice to avoid driving already. She has always loved her independence. She told me years ago that in the US, she could just up and go - just get in her car and drive to wherever she wants or needs to go. In the Philippines, she has to wait for someone to drive her to wherever. It helps that now she can order things online and get most of the things she needs delivered right at her doorstep. Because of her very strong mind, she has kept up with technology. I remember she got herself an iPad when it was first launched and she even gifted me with my own iPad because I was already in my 60’s and I still did not own one 🤪🤪🤪. Technology has helped Nay a great deal in coping with the sense of loss of independence when she decided to give up driving.  


Nay has embraced the digital reader versus the actual book. She loves to read but holding a book has become uncomfortable already especially when she is reading in bed. She was starting to watch TV more than read a book. But with the Kindle and the ease of buying the books she wants, she reads more now. I introduced her to the ReadScripture app for her bible reading and she is now way ahead of me. She reads all the books I would recommend and even gives me reviews. Someday I hope to be as voracious as she is.


She still loves watching TV - her daily shows include the local news and the national and international news as she is very much interested in what’s going on in the world, the long running Jeopardy as it keeps her mind sharp and she loves watching the smart guys like her, her cooking shows, and whatever series she would start on. And of course, our all time favorite - hallmark movies! We still love the beautiful stories about good people in this world.


Though technically Nay lives alone, where she enjoys her peace and quiet and the familiarity of her home and her routine, she is actually surrounded by family. Her youngest son Ron lives right beside her, checks on her in the morning, has lunch and dinner with her every day and watches the news with her every night. Her grandkids and great grandkids drop by her house 2 to 3 times a week at least, and have dinner with her after school. And her other children also come and visit as often as they could. The family celebrates each and everyone’s birthday with a cake and a dinner with Nay - there’s more than enough celebration spread throughout the year. There is almost no dull moment in Nay’s house in Coney.  


And I am lucky enough to finally be able to spend half of the year in Coney and be part of all the family celebrations with Nay. On mother’s day, there will again be dinner in Coney. I will not be there, but in spirit I am. I will never tire of celebrating Nay on Mother’s Day. She is amazing - she has been a mother for almost 70 years now. She was just a kid 70 years ago - she practically grew up with us. Imagine having 9 children, 17 grandchildren, and almost 15 great grandchildren (yes, one more on the way). Add all the other children (our cousins and friends) who call her Nay because she mothered them too. Imagine what she has gone through as a mother in the past 70 years!  


Kumusta na si Nay? You wouldn’t believe how great she is, how she finds something to laugh about and to be grateful for all the days of her life, how she loves us all and prays for us all every single moment she could. We are truly blessed we have Nay.  


Happy Mother’s Day po Nay. Mahal na mahal po namin kayo.

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“Pinayagan niyang gamitin nang libre ang mahigit 600 parking slot nang walang kapalit… Pero nang raskasin ng isang hambog na intern ang bago niyang kotse at siya pa ang piliting humingi ng tawad, walang nakaalam na isang maling desisyon lang ang sisira sa buong kumpanya.”

Posted on 8 May, 2026 by mun



Noong araw na matapos ang long weekend ng Labor Day, nadatnan kong parang sinaksak ang buong tagiliran ng bago kong sasakyan.


Mahabang gasgas.


Malalim.


Mula pinto hanggang likod, halos abot primer ang pintura.


At nang tingnan ko ang CCTV, nakita ko ang gumawa.


Isang bagong intern sa kompanya namin.


Nakatayo siya sa harap ng kotse ko, hawak ang susi, tapos diretsong hinatak sa pintura na para bang may pinupunit siyang papel.


Ang mas masakit?


Nang harapin ko siya, ngumiti pa siya.


“Ako ang gumawa. So what?” sabi niya, nakataas ang baba. “Sino ba kasi nagsabi sa’yo na umasta kang special dito sa office? Parking lang ’yan. Akala mo pag-aari mo buong mundo?”


Pinilit kong pakalmahin ang sarili ko.


“Hindi ako umaastang special,” sabi ko. “Akin ang parking lot na ’to. Ako ang bumili ng lupa. Ako ang nagpagawa nito. At ’yang puwestong ’yan, reserved para sa akin.”


Tumawa siya.


“Wow. Rich girl speech.”


Ako si Lia Mercado, senior operations manager sa isang logistics tech company sa Ortigas Center.


Tatlong taon na ang nakalipas, lumipat ang kompanya namin sa bagong building na walang kasamang parking. Araw-araw, nag-aagawan ang mga empleyado sa kalye. May natiticketan. May natotow. May pumapasok nang late dahil kalahating oras naghahanap ng mapagpaparadahan.


Nagmungkahi ako noon sa head office na bumili ang kumpanya ng vacant lot sa likod ng building para gawing employee parking.


Payag na sana ang regional director.


Pero hinarang iyon ni Ms. Corazon Villena, HR manager namin.


“Hindi obligasyon ng kompanya na bigyan ng libreng parking ang mga empleyado,” sabi niya noon. “Kapag ginawa natin ’yan, lalaki ang gastos. Hindi practical.”


Kaya noong huli, ako mismo ang bumili.


Hindi dahil sobrang bait ko.


Kundi dahil araw-araw ko ring nakikita ang hirap ng mga kasamahan ko.


Naglabas ako ng halos ₱48 milyon mula sa sariling ipon at investments para bilhin ang lupa, patagin, lagyan ng ilaw, CCTV, guardhouse, drainage, at marking.


Naging 600 parking slots iyon.


Isang slot lang ang tinira ko para sa sarili ko.


Pinakamalapit sa elevator entrance.


Ang natitirang 599, pinagamit ko sa lahat ng empleyado nang libre.


Walang bayad.


Walang monthly fee.


Walang kahit anong singil.


Ang kondisyon ko lang noon ay malinaw:


“Reserved sa akin ang unang slot malapit sa elevator.”


Si Ms. Corazon mismo ang unang pumayag.


“Lia, malaking bagay ’to sa lahat,” sabi niya habang halos hawakan pa ang kamay ko. “Promise, ako mismo ang magpapaalala sa lahat na reserved ’yan sa’yo.”


Dahil sa parking lot na iyon, siya ang umani ng papuri sa management.


Sa report niya, isinulat niyang “HR successfully resolved employee parking concerns through strategic internal coordination.”


Strategic internal coordination?


Ako ang nagbayad.


Siya ang na-promote.


Hindi ko na pinansin.


Sabi ko sa sarili ko, okay lang. Basta nakatulong.


Pero noong araw na iyon, habang nakatayo ako sa tabi ng kotse kong bagong bili pa lang noong nakaraang buwan, unti-unti kong naintindihan na may mga taong kapag tinulungan mo, hindi ka nila pasasalamatan.


Aangkinin pa nila ang tulong mo.


At kapag hindi ka pumayag, ikaw pa ang masama.


“Lia,” singit ni Ms. Corazon habang nakakunot-noo, “huwag mo nang palakihin ’to.”


Tiningnan ko siya.


“Pinagsasabi n’yo, Ma’am?”


Bumuntong-hininga siya na parang ako pa ang istorbo.


“Parking space lang ’yan. First come, first served dapat. Hindi maganda na araw-araw mong inaangkin ang pinakamagandang puwesto.”


Napakurap ako.


“Akin nga po ang buong parking lot.”


“Pero ginagamit na ng employees,” sagot niya. “So practically, company benefit na siya.”


Tumawa ako, pero walang saya.


“Company benefit? Kailan naging company property ang binili ko gamit ang pera ko?”


Hindi siya sumagot agad.


Ang intern na si Jessa Ramos naman ay tumawid ang mga braso at ngumisi.


“See? Ang yabang talaga. Kaya ka nara-raket eh.”


“Jessa,” malamig kong sabi, “rinasp mo ang kotse ko. Magbabayad ka.”


Umirap siya.


“Bayad? Para saan? Dapat nga ikaw ang mag-sorry sa lahat. Ang dami mong slot, pero gusto mo ikaw lagi pinakamalapit sa elevator. Hindi patas.”


Doon may lumapit na katrabaho ko, si Mina, at bumulong.


“Lia, huwag mo na siguro patulan. Pamangkin daw ’yan ni Sir Ramon.”


Si Ramon Del Pilar ang branch general manager namin.


Bigla kong naalala ang ilang meeting noon.


Minsan, pabiro niyang sinabi, “Buti pa si Lia, may private parking. CEO yarn?”


Lahat tumawa.


Ako rin, kahit hindi nakakatawa.


Ngayon ko naintindihan.


Hindi ito simpleng intern na galit sa “privilege.”


Ito ay pamangkin ng boss na gustong makuha ang puwestong malapit sa elevator para sa tiyuhin niya.


“Hindi ko pakialam kung kaninong pamangkin siya,” sabi ko. “Nanira siya ng property. Magbabayad siya.”


Namula ang mukha ni Jessa.


“Dream on. Intern lang ako. Wala akong pambayad sa kaartehan mong kotse.”


Kinuha ko ang cellphone ko.


“Kung ganoon, pulis na ang kakausap sa’yo.”


Pagkarinig niya noon, nagbago ang mukha niya.


“OA ka! Parking issue lang ’to!”


Tumawag ako sa barangay at police assistance desk na sakop ng building.


Habang naghihintay, nagsimulang dumami ang mga empleyado sa paligid.


May nakikisilip.


May nagvi-video.


May nagbubulungan.


Pagdating ng dalawang pulis, agad kong ipinakita ang CCTV footage at ang gasgas sa sasakyan.


Tinatanong pa lang nila si Jessa, bigla siyang umiyak.


“Sir, hindi ko naman po sinasadya. Galit lang po ako kasi unfair po siya. Lahat kami hirap sa parking, tapos siya may sariling reserved slot. Intern lang po ako. Wala po akong pera.”


May ilang empleyado agad na naawa.


“Lia, baka naman puwedeng patawarin mo na.”


“Oo nga, may kaya ka naman.”


“Hindi naman siguro kailangang umabot sa kaso.”


“Isipin mo rin future ng bata.”


Then Ms. Corazon stepped forward like she was the saint of fairness.


“Lia, pakinggan mo ang lahat. Since ikaw naman ang mas nakakaangat, ikaw na ang umunawa. Hindi na kailangang magbayad si Jessa. Hindi ka na rin niya hihingan ng sorry. Simula ngayon, gawin na lang nating equal ang parking. Wala nang reserved-reserved.”


Napatingin ako sa kanya nang matagal.


“So ang solution n’yo,” tanong ko, “rinasp niya kotse ko, hindi siya magbabayad, hindi siya hihingi ng tawad, at aalisin n’yo pa ang reserved slot ko sa sarili kong lupa?”


Tahimik sila.


Tapos may lalaki sa likod ang sumigaw, “Eh kung ayaw mo, huwag mo na kaming pagamitin!”


Tumingin ako sa kanya.


Ngumiti ako.


“Good idea.”


Kinuha ko ulit ang cellphone ko at tinawagan ang property management.


“Ito si Lia Mercado, owner ng parking lot sa likod ng Northgate Building. Pakipadala ngayon ang security team. I-lock lahat ng 600 slots. Starting today, walang makakapasok o makakapag-park doon nang walang written permission ko.”


Parang sumabog ang buong lobby.


“Ano?!”


“Hindi mo puwedeng gawin ’yan!”


“Saan kami magpa-park bukas?”


“Parking benefit namin ’yan!”


Nakangiti akong tumingin sa kanila.


“Benefit n’yo? Hindi. Utang na loob n’yo ’yan.”


At habang nagsisigawan sila, biglang bumukas ang elevator.


Lumabas si Sir Ramon Del Pilar.


Nakasunod sa kanya ang regional director mula head office.


At sa kamay ng director, hawak niya ang folder na may pangalan ko sa cover.


“Ms. Mercado,” malamig niyang sabi, “ano itong reklamo na ginagamit mo raw ang company property para mang-blackmail ng empleyado?”


part2


“Ms. Mercado,” ulit ng regional director, si Mr. Adrian Villafuerte, habang nakatingin sa akin, “may natanggap kaming report na ipinapasara mo ang employee parking bilang paghihiganti sa isang intern.”


Sa likod niya, ngumisi si Sir Ramon.


Hindi niya naitago.


Si Jessa, na kanina lang umiiyak na parang api, agad na tumakbo sa tabi ng tiyuhin niya.


“Tito, siya po! Pinapahiya niya po ako. Gusto niya po akong kasuhan dahil lang sa parking!”


“Dahil lang sa parking?” tanong ko.


Itinaas ko ang kamay ko at itinuro ang kotse ko.


“Sir Adrian, bago po kayo magdesisyon, puwede n’yo bang tingnan muna ang ginawa niya?”


Lumapit si Adrian sa sasakyan.


Nakita niya ang mahabang gasgas mula front door hanggang rear panel. Napakadilim ng guhit sa puting pintura, halatang hindi simpleng aksidente.


Sumeryoso ang mukha niya.


“Sino ang gumawa nito?”


“Siya,” sabi ko, itinuro si Jessa. “May CCTV footage. Inamin din niya kanina.”


Nagmadaling sumingit si Ms. Corazon.


“Sir, may misunderstanding lang po. Emotional ang bata. At si Lia naman po kasi, matagal nang may issue sa parking arrangement.”


“Parking arrangement?” tanong ni Adrian.


“Opo,” sagot ni Corazon. “Originally, employee benefit po itong parking area. Pero lately, ginagamit ni Lia ang ownership claim para manakot. Pinapabawi niya ngayon ang access ng buong staff.”


Napatingin ako kay Corazon.


Ang kapal ng mukha niya.


Siya ang nanghingi noon na buksan ko ang parking para sa employees.


Siya ang nangakong poprotektahan ang reserved slot ko.


Siya rin ang unang naglagay sa company newsletter na “HR secured free parking for all.”


Ngayon, sa harap ng head office, ginagawa niya akong abusado.


Huminga ako nang malalim.


Hindi ako sumigaw.


Hindi na kailangan.


“Sir Adrian,” mahinahon kong sabi, “may I ask one question?”


Tumango siya.


“May hawak po ba kayong dokumento na nagsasabing pag-aari ng kompanya ang parking lot?”


Saglit siyang tumigil.


Binuksan niya ang folder.


“According to the complaint, the lot was acquired as part of employee facility support.”


“Complaint from whom?”


Hindi siya agad sumagot.


Pero tumingin siya kay Corazon.


Sapat na iyon.


Ngumiti ako.


“Good. Kasi may dala rin akong documents.”


Binuksan ko ang bag ko at inilabas ang isang brown envelope na matagal ko nang dala sa kotse—hindi dahil inaasahan kong mangyayari ito, kundi dahil ilang buwan ko nang nararamdaman na may balak silang angkinin ang lupa.


Nandoon ang original deed of sale, tax declaration, transfer certificate copy, construction receipts, CCTV installation contract, at maintenance invoices.


Iniabot ko kay Adrian.


“Ang lupa po ay nakapangalan sa akin. Lia Mercado. Personal purchase. Personal funds. Walang kahit isang pisong galing sa kompanya.”


Tahimik ang paligid.


Kahit ang mga nagvi-video ay parang napahinto.


Binuklat ni Adrian ang mga papel. Habang tumatagal, lalong bumibigat ang tingin niya.


“Ms. Villena,” sabi niya kay Corazon, “you reported this as company-supported property.”


Nagbago ang kulay ng mukha ni Corazon.


“Sir, kasi po… ginagamit naman po ng employees…”


“Use is not ownership,” malamig na sagot ni Adrian.


Si Sir Ramon naman ay tumikhim.


“Adrian, let’s not make this bigger than it is. The company benefits from that parking. Lia is being emotional. We just need to set a fair policy.”


“Fair policy?” tanong ko.


Binalingan ko siya.


“Sir Ramon, fair po ba na ilang buwan n’yo akong pinaparinggan sa meeting dahil may reserved slot ako? Fair po ba na pamangkin n’yo ang nanira ng kotse ko? Fair po ba na ngayon pinipilit n’yong palabasing company property ang lupang binili ko?”


Nanigas ang panga niya.


“Careful, Lia.”


“Careful?” ngumiti ako. “I’ve been careful for three years.”


Humarap ako kay Adrian.


“Sir, noong bagong lipat ang company, nag-propose ako na bumili ang company ng parking lot. May email thread po iyon. Initially approved by senior management. Pero si Ms. Corazon ang humarang, saying it was not a company obligation. I can forward the emails now.”


Hindi nagsalita si Corazon.


Kinuha ko ang phone ko at binuksan ang email archive.


Sa harap nila, ipinakita ko ang chain.


Subject: Parking Lot Acquisition Proposal — Employee Welfare and Revenue Opportunity


May reply mula sa dating regional director: Approved for financial review.


May reply mula kay Corazon: Strongly recommending cancellation due to unnecessary employee expectation and recurring facility liability.


May reply pa siya mismo sa akin noon:


“If you personally want to solve the problem, that will be outside company accountability.”


Binasa iyon ni Adrian.


Nang matapos, tumingin siya kay Corazon.


“Outside company accountability,” ulit niya. “Your own words.”


Namumutla na si Corazon.


“Sir, iba po ang context noon—”


“I’m not done,” sabi ko.


Binuksan ko ang isa pang folder sa phone ko.


Screenshots ng HR newsletter.


Caption: “Through HR initiative, free employee parking is now available beside Northgate Building.”


May picture pa si Corazon habang nakatayo sa entrance ng parking lot, nakangiti, hawak ang ribbon.


Ako ang bumili.


Siya ang nagpa-picture.


Ako ang nagbayad ng contractor.


Siya ang nag-credit.


Ako ang nagbayad ng security guard.


Siya ang na-promote.


“Ms. Villena,” sabi ni Adrian, mas mababa na ang boses, “did you represent this project as an HR accomplishment?”


Hindi siya makasagot.


Si Jessa naman, parang naiinis na hindi na siya sentro ng drama, biglang nagsalita.


“Pero kahit sa kanya ’yung lupa, ang unfair pa rin! Bakit siya may special slot? Dapat lahat pantay!”


Lumingon ako sa kanya.


“Pantay?”


Lumapit ako nang kaunti.


“Nang ginagamit n’yo nang libre ang 599 slots ko, pantay ’yon?”


Wala siyang sagot.


“Nang hindi kayo nagbabayad kahit maintenance, security, ilaw, CCTV, linis, drainage repair, pantay ’yon?”


Tahimik siya.


“Nang rinasp mo ang kotse ko dahil gusto mong ipagamit sa tito mo ang puwesto ko, pantay ’yon?”


“Hindi totoo!” sigaw niya.


Napatingin ako sa kanya.


“Sige. Panoorin natin.”


Nag-message ako sa parking security supervisor at pinadala ko sa kanya ang full CCTV file, hindi lang iyong clip ng pananakit sa kotse.


Pagkatapos ng ilang segundo, pinakita ko sa lahat ang video.


Una, makikitang dumating si Jessa. Nakatingin siya sa reserved slot ko. Wala pa ang kotse niya.


May kausap siya sa phone.


Dahil may audio ang CCTV sa entrance area, malinaw ang boses niya.


“Uncle, nandito na ako. Nasa slot pa rin niya kotse niya… Oo, ako bahala. After nito, hindi na ’yan magpapark dito.”


Nanahimik ang buong lobby.


Si Sir Ramon, napatingin sa sahig.


Si Adrian, dahan-dahang lumingon sa kanya.


“Ramon?”


“Edited ’yan,” sabi ni Ramon agad.


Tumawa ako.


“Sir, kung edited ’yan, puwede nating kunin ang raw copy mula sa DVR. Nandiyan ang property management. Nandiyan din ang police.”


Ang dalawang pulis na kanina pa nakatayo sa tabi ay nagkatinginan.


Isa sa kanila ang nagsabi, “Kung may complaint po for malicious damage to property, puwede po naming i-document. Kung may threat or conspiracy involved, mas mabuting isumite ang buong footage.”


Biglang umiyak ulit si Jessa.


Pero sa pagkakataong ito, walang lumapit para yakapin siya.


“Hindi ko naman po akalaing ganito kamahal ’yung kotse niya,” hikbi niya. “Sabi ni Tito… sabi niya takutin ko lang daw para matuto.”


Napasigaw si Ramon.


“Jessa!”


Huli na.


Ang isang salitang iyon ay parang martilyong bumagsak sa salamin.


Sabi ni Tito.


Takutin.


Para matuto.


Kita ko ang unti-unting paglayo ng mga empleyado sa kanila.


Kanina, handa silang durugin ako gamit ang “pakikisama.”


Ngayon, takot na silang madamay.


Si Mina, ang katrabaho kong kanina ay nagsabing umatras na lang ako, napayuko.


“Lia…” mahina niyang sabi. “Sorry.”


Hindi ako tumingin sa kanya.


Hindi dahil galit pa ako.


Kundi dahil pagod na pagod na ako sa mga sorry na lumalabas lang kapag malinaw nang talo sila.


Humarap si Adrian sa police.


“Officer, we will cooperate. Please proceed with proper documentation.”


Pagkatapos, humarap siya sa akin.


“Ms. Mercado, on behalf of the regional office, I apologize. This should never have happened.”


Tumango ako.


“Thank you, sir. But apology is not enough.”


Natahimik siya.


Itinuro ko ang parking entrance kung saan nagsisimula nang maglagay ng temporary barriers ang security team.


“Effective today, closed ang parking lot sa lahat ng employees.”


Biglang nag-ingay ang mga tao.


“Lia, naman!”


“Paano kami bukas?”


“Ang layo ng public parking!”


“May night shift kami!”


Tumingin ako sa kanila isa-isa.


“Alam ko. Alam ko kasi iyon ang dahilan kung bakit ko kayo pinagamit nang libre.”


Napalunok ang iba.


“Tatlong taon,” sabi ko. “Tatlong taon n’yong ginamit ang lupa ko. Wala akong siningil. Hindi ko kayo pinahiya. Hindi ko kayo pinapirma ng kontrata. Hindi ko kayo pinabayad kahit piso.”


Tumigil ako at huminga.


“Pero noong sinira ang kotse ko, ilan sa inyo ang nagsabing dapat magbayad ang gumawa?”


Walang sumagot.


“Noong sinabihan akong ako pa ang humingi ng tawad, ilan sa inyo ang nagsabing mali iyon?”


Wala pa rin.


“Noong tinawag n’yo akong mayabang, abusado, at nagpapakabanal, naalala n’yo ba kahit isang beses na hindi n’yo pag-aari ang kinatatayuan ng mga sasakyan n’yo araw-araw?”


Tahimik.


Minsan, mas malakas ang katahimikan kaysa sigawan.


Si Corazon, na kanina ay punong-puno ng kumpiyansa, lumapit sa akin.


“Lia, pakiusap. Huwag mong idamay ang lahat dahil lang sa galit ka sa amin. Pag-usapan natin.”


“Pinag-usapan na natin kanina,” sabi ko. “Ang sabi mo, first come, first served. Ang sabi mo, hindi ako dapat may reserved slot. Ang sabi mo, si Jessa ay ‘bata lang.’ Ang sabi mo, kalimutan ko na ang pinsala sa kotse ko.”


Namasa ang mata niya.


“Nagkamali ako.”


“Hindi,” sagot ko. “Nagpakita ka ng totoo mong ugali.”


Napaatras siya.


Humarap ako kay Adrian.


“Sir, I am willing to lease the parking lot to the company under formal terms. Market rate. Written contract. Liability clause. Security policy. Reserved owner slot. And all employees must sign acknowledgment that access is a privilege, not entitlement.”


Nagbulungan ang mga tao.


“Lease?” tanong ni Adrian.


“Yes,” sagot ko. “Hindi na libre. Kung gustong gamitin ng company, bayaran ng company. Kung ayaw, closed.”


May sumigaw mula sa likod.


“Ang swapang mo!”


Dahan-dahan akong lumingon.


“Swapang?”


Ngumiti ako nang mapait.


“Kapag libre kong ibinigay, mabait ako. Kapag binawi ko dahil binastos n’yo, swapang ako?”


Hindi na siya nakasagot.


Maya-maya, dinala ng police si Jessa para sa blotter at formal statement. Hindi siya nakaposas, pero nanginginig ang kamay niya habang hawak ang bag niya.


Bago siya umalis, tumingin siya sa akin.


“Ate Lia…” mahina niyang sabi. “Sorry.”


Sa unang pagkakataon, walang arte ang boses niya.


Pero hindi ko alam kung nagsisisi siya sa ginawa niya, o nagsisisi siyang nahuli siya.


“Sabihin mo ’yan sa korte, kung aabot doon,” sagot ko.


Naiwan si Ramon na nakatayo sa gitna ng lobby.


Si Adrian ang unang nagsalita.


“Ramon, you are relieved of operational authority pending investigation.”


Para siyang sinampal.


“Adrian, hindi mo puwedeng—”


“I can,” putol ni Adrian. “And I just did.”


Si Corazon naman ay tinawag din.


“Ms. Villena, submit all documents related to the parking benefit claim, your promotion file, and internal communications. You are suspended pending review.”


Nanginginig ang labi niya.


“Sir, please…”


“No,” sabi ni Adrian. “You turned someone’s private property into your career trophy.”


Parang doon lang talaga naproseso ng lahat ang bigat ng ginawa niya.


Hindi lang ito parking.


Hindi lang ito gasgas sa kotse.


Ito ay tatlong taong pagsisinungaling, pang-aangkin, at paggamit sa kabutihan ng iba para umangat.


Kinabukasan, sarado ang parking lot.


Eksaktong alas-siyete ng umaga, mahaba ang pila ng sasakyan sa labas ng building.


May mga empleyadong naghanap ng paid parking tatlong kanto ang layo.


May naticketan.


May nalate.


May nagreklamo sa HR, pero walang HR manager na makasagot.


Tanghali pa lang, tumawag si Adrian sa akin.


“Ms. Mercado, the company would like to formally negotiate a lease.”


“Send it to my lawyer,” sabi ko.


“Understood.”


Pagkalipas ng isang linggo, na-finalize ang agreement.


Hindi na libre ang parking.


Ang kompanya ang nagbayad ng monthly lease.


May assigned employee access.


May security rules.


May clear penalty for vandalism.


May liability coverage.


At sa pinakaunang pahina ng contract, nakasulat:


Reserved Owner Slot: Slot A-01, permanently assigned to Ms. Lia Mercado.


Hindi ko na kailangan ipagsigawan.


Hindi ko na kailangan ipaliwanag sa araw-araw.


Nasa papel na.


Legal.


Malinaw.


Hindi na kayang baluktutin ng drama, iyak, o “pakikisama.”


Si Jessa ay hindi na-regularize. Ayon sa narinig ko, binayaran ng pamilya niya ang repair cost matapos magpadala ang lawyer ko ng demand letter. Hindi ko alam kung pinagalitan siya ng tiyuhin niya. Wala na akong pakialam.


Si Ramon ay inilipat sa administrative holding role habang iniimbestigahan.


Si Corazon naman ay tuluyang natanggal matapos makita ng audit na ginamit niya ang parking project sa promotion documents niya kahit wala siyang legal authority o financial contribution.


Isang hapon, habang papasok ako sa building, nakita ko si Mina sa may elevator.


Matagal siyang nag-atubili bago lumapit.


“Lia,” sabi niya, “pasensya na talaga. Natakot lang ako noon. Akala ko mas madaling manahimik.”


Tiningnan ko siya.


Hindi na ako galit.


Pero hindi na rin ako tulad ng dati.


“Mina,” sabi ko, “naiintindihan ko ang takot. Pero huwag nating tawaging peace ang pananahimik kapag may inaapi sa harap natin.”


Napaluha siya.


“Alam ko.”


Pumasok kami sa elevator nang magkasama.


Walang ibang salita.


Minsan, ang ilang relasyon ay hindi kailangang putulin nang marahas.


Kusang lumalayo kapag nakita mo na kung sino ang tatayo sa tabi mo kapag ikaw ang ginagawang masama.


Pagdating ko sa floor namin, may bagong memo sa bulletin board.


Parking Access Reminder: Use of the Northgate Parking Facility is a privilege extended through formal company lease. Any harassment, vandalism, or unauthorized claim of ownership will result in disciplinary action.


Binasa ko iyon nang tahimik.


Sa ibaba, may maliit na linya:


The company acknowledges Ms. Lia Mercado as the legal owner of the facility.


Sa unang pagkakataon sa loob ng tatlong taon, hindi ko naramdaman ang bigat ng pagiging mabait.


Kasi natutunan ko na hindi pala kabaitan ang walang hangganang pagpayag na apakan ka.


Hindi pagtulong ang tawag kapag unti-unti ka nang ninanakawan ng respeto.


At hindi pagiging masama ang pagbawi sa biyayang ibinigay mo, kapag ang mga tumanggap nito ay sila pang unang sumira sa’yo.


Noong gabing iyon, nagmaneho ako pauwi mula sa reserved slot ko.


May bagong pintura na ang kotse.


Makinis na ulit.


Pero sa tuwing tinitingnan ko ang gilid nito, naaalala ko pa rin ang linyang iniwan ng gasgas.


Hindi dahil nasaktan pa ako.


Kundi dahil paalala iyon.


May mga taong sasabihing “para sa lahat” ang bagay na pag-aari mo, hanggang sa mawalan ka na ng karapatang protektahan ang sarili mo.


May mga taong tatawagin kang madamot kapag hindi ka na pumayag abusuhin.


At may mga taong makakaalala lang ng kabutihan mo kapag isinara mo na ang pinto.


Kaya mula noon, iba na ang panuntunan ko sa buhay:


Tumulong ka, oo.


Maging mabait ka, oo.


Pero huwag mong hayaang ang kabaitan mo ang maging susi para pasukin ka ng mga taong walang balak rumespeto sa’yo.


Dahil ang tunay na malasakit ay hindi dapat humantong sa sariling pagkawasak. At ang taong marunong magbigay, dapat marunong ding magtakda ng hangganan.


 


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