I grew up being bullied by girls and boys who believed that someone with an olive/morena skin tone like me is ugly. I would sometimes go home crying and my father would see me. He would ask why am I crying? I’d tell him about how the neighborhood kids and my schoolmates teases me because I’m ugly. My father […]
Package of Hope: Send Relief Goods Online to Philippine Red Cross
I have discovered another way everyone anywhere can send a Package of Hope to the Yolanda survivors. This is through purchasing Relief Goods online through Goods.Ph who will in turn send donations directly to the Philippine Red Cross National headquarters. Good.Ph is the fastest-growing Philippine Online Store that offers grocery items, apparels, gadgets, etc., with their project “Package of HOPE” […]
You Are Not A Princess, Life Is Not A Fairytale
Deal with this reality and live with it. I blame the one who invented fairy tale stories for hardwiring girls around the world into believing they are princesses and that they all should wait for a prince to come and save them. Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle the Disney Princesses who made little girls all over the world wish […]
Items For Online Auction/Sale for #RebuidPh
I’m trying my best to help out in any way I can. I have let go of so many of my personal belongings and donated them to a couple of charities (Sagip Kapailya, Kapuso Foundation and Red Cross) who are always quick to do the relief operations first few days after the disaster in Visayas (earthquake and then typhoon Yolanda). […]
Fund Raiser: HELP! Re-build Homes, Re-Build Lives via Habitat for Humanity Philippines
Food, water, clothes, medicine and personal hygiene are covered mostly by the fund raisers held by charity organizations and groups. These are immediate need that needs attention and support right away. Shelter is one of the most important thing to have so the families affected by the calamity have something to start with, a roof on their heads to keep their […]
Find The Balance
“Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what he can use.”– Peter Latham Honestly, I feel guilty about spending or doing something fun today because of the recent calamities (man-made or otherwise) that hit our country one after the other. But then again not […]