BELOW DOWN

I like playing chess you know. I would like to be in the line up of Russia's Grandmaster Alexander Kotov, Yugoslavia's GM Svetozar Gligoric and Former World Chess Champion Jose Raul Capabalanca. But every time I play ... my father is scolding me. "Why don't you stay at home and study your lessons? What's that game can give to you? Can that game feed us? Can that game send you to school? Etc... etc...

When I am studying my lessons and found very hard questions, I used to ask my Father. "Dad excuse me ... what is the answer to this question?" "You know that I am very busy, why don't you study and learn your own just like your brother and sisters?" "But Dad?" This is what he is always saying until I can no longer hold my temper and I shouted to my father. "I hate you Dad. Your not helping me everytime I needed you?". "What did you say?" Then he slapped me on my face. "Damn you Emmanuel! Damn You!" I ran to the door but there came my brother and sisters throwing me their eyes burning with anger! "You Shit! You Bastard! You Fool!" I... I...just keep quiet. That was at home.

In the school... "Where is Mr. ? Hey Mr.? You were absent yesterday. You are always absent? Don't you know that?

In my love life, I am in love to someone. She is simple. She is beautiful. She's my cute little darling. In fact, she's my someone very special! The thing that matter is that - I am not her someone very special. I busted!

At home they call me the blacksheep... I just closed my ears. In the school, they recognized me as in vain ... I just keep quiet. And yet even in my lovelife ... I am BUSTED!!!

God? Why did you not create men equal? Why there are poor? Why there are rich? Why there are successful? Why there are in vain? Why is Sivester Stalone Over the Top while I am Below Down.

Sayang Na Pag-irog ...

O Amor na makapangyarihan!
Nang pumasok ka sa aking isipan
Tulog kong puso'y iyong pinukaw
Luksang mga ugat iyong binuhay!
O giliw kung tumingin akoy lihim
Kung mapupuna kunwa'y hindi ka pansin
Kapag may bubuyog sa iyong hardin
Bakit ang alapaap ay kukulimlim ?!?
Kagabing kay ginaw ikaw ay kasama
Ang piping puso ko'y anong ligaya
Subalit ng ikaw ay hahalikan sana
Biglang naputol yaring pagsinta!
Sayang ...sayang ...Sayang na pag-irog
Kay tagal ng layon ay pinutol ng lamok!

Justice In This World?

"I was a Yakuza victim...". This was revealed by a Filipina who went to Japan to be a waitress but ended up an unpaid prostitute. She went there because she wanted to earn some money enable to have some capital to be able to sell meat in the market. However, she found herself turned into a piece of meat sold into Japanese market for sex with those crooked male customers. How cruel! Every night, she and other women were brought to hotel and sold to at least two Japanese. The most courageous among them hatched for a scatch plan and through the help of a sympathetic Japanese, who happened to be a boyfriend of one of the ladies there, they manage to escape to Tokyo. They sought refuge to the Philippine Embassy, however, some embassy officials before helping this women forced them to have sex with them in return to their passports and visas back to the Philippines. Very malignant! How can our country be progressive if instead of helping one another... instead of developing courses of actions for our economic and social progress - we just preferred to jump from the frying pan to the fire.
Last year, our government was very proud. Very fortunate indeed! Imagine the Philippines had just generated morethan one million dollars from its local exports! However, Ladies and Gentlemen, the Filipina has lost her face, her dignity, her womanhood. She has become a some kind of commodity - an export product. She has become a some kind of a meat... a very very cheap meat.
For those who are responsible to this unforgiveable crime we ask these questions - where are their hearts? Where are their conscience?
To everybody - will there really be no justice in this world?

My First Love!

Believe it or not, my first love is chess! My childhood and adolescent life were full of bitterness. Though we belong to above average income families, we were not exempted from hardships as average income earners do. It was during these times that I resorted to playing chess which I learned from my twin brother Joselito. Since then we got along well and committed to be loyal to each other for the rest of our lives!