Shining Smile

This is amazing! I was in my older brothers apartment last April or May of 2009 in Ozamis City, Philippines. We went to the car park which was very near to the gate. I noticed that a street kid was running to him and hugged him, after hugging my brother he hugged me too.

The street kid was so dirty and smelly. He is about 14 years old. He is thin but with a shining smile. He asked my brother if we were twins because he thinks we have similar features. Then my brother asked him “how are you”, “who is with you”…

After the little chat with the boy, the boy said that he will go now because his friend was waiting for him. Then my brother gave him about 20-50 pesos. Then he said bye.

When the boy left us, I asked my brother who was he? He told me that he is the boy he found lying on the street with full of blood. Whom he brought to the hospital that night.

I hope you like it. If you have any some experiences like this please share it to me.

Good day!

My Little Ways

Note: This was my first blog I think it deserves to be read more. Thats why I blog it again so that it will appear on top and many visitors can read it.

This my first blog and I wanted to be sane as I wanted to be and to anyone whose heart is as not as callused as mine.


More than 6 years i have been traveling in major cities in the Philippines. As I have traveled day and night I can always see these kids, whose hearts are so innocent and pure. I can see them everywhere I go and they are always on the streets.

At daytime, I can see their dusty smiling faces. As usual, I can sense that my heart is smiling yet crying upon seeing them. Smiling because their alive and happy regardless of the behaviors we are treating them. Crying because I can feel and believed that somewhere in their smiling faces-there is something excruciating that their tears will flow on their faces without making any sound. May I ask you, have you cried without making a sound?

At night I can see them sleeping on small pieces of carton. I always watch their faces closely and I can see they are so precious and beautiful. And I wonder how they can bear the cold during nights and what if there is rain. I wonder how they managed that.

My feeling of compassion for them is great and sometimes I feel like vomiting. But after that it will be just like a normal day. Sometimes I ask myself why can I still sleep at night knowing their situations. And I also wonder how the Filipino government officials and mainly the religious people can sleep at night? Yah! i know! its because of the soft bed, hi tech airconditioner, huggable pillows and silky bedsheets.

I thought you said you are for them. Some of these kids are right at your church door sleeping or you are now hiring security guards to keep them away? I really wonder how your lifestyle affects them.

I am realy sorry that I am blaming you. I hope you do not have this blaming attitude like me. I know we are human, capable of making mistakes, capable of letting these children to suffer from sickness, capable of letting them sleep on the streets.

Let us be human, let us change to be good, a good government, a good pastor, a good priest, a good nun. Let us be a good human. And let us open our churches, our barangay halls and our hearts so that they will have somewhere to go at night.

Generous People = Good Company

Have you heard a search engine company is giving 20 dollars?

Many companies have different kinds of marketing strategies. Some are simple, some are complicated and some are different. One of the marketing strategies which I can say that has a different marketing strategy is the company named HOTELS COMBINED.

HOTELS COMBINED's marketting strategy is different, not on the negative way but on the positive. Because HOTELS COMBINED will send 20 dollars to the charity of your choice if you mention them on your blog. If you want to know more about them, click this link http://www.hotelscombined.com/

I may say it is great since the people behind it has this love for the poor. These people are saints nowadays knowing the generation we have now are not so generous.

So God bless you all!