Haiyan,
Operation Sunshine,
Relief Operations,
Yolanda
Operation Sunshine: What to Donate for Typhoon Yolanda Victims
2:50 PM
With all the support and monetary help that we are getting from other countries, let us not think that our help are not needed anymore in Visayas. We all have that responsibility to extend a hand to our countrymen.
Let me just say that we are so used to giving old clothes whenever there are relief operations like this, but please let's not limit ourselves to old clothes. They also need a few things that you might be forgetting. Here's a list that you can include to your donations.
2. Water
Make that clean drinking water. You can send small water bottles. I suggest you buy from the water refilling stations because they sell it at a cheaper price. You can even do a little chit chat with the owner of the shop and maybe encourage them to donate some. ;)
If you would like to help, you can check your local government unit or NGOs if they are doing a donation drive. If you are in the Antipolo area, my family and I are doing a donation drive that we call Operation Sunshine. Please click the photo below to go to the Facebook page. It's bayanihan time!
Let me just say that we are so used to giving old clothes whenever there are relief operations like this, but please let's not limit ourselves to old clothes. They also need a few things that you might be forgetting. Here's a list that you can include to your donations.
1. Food
Let's try not to give instant noodles because hot water is needed in preparing this. Try instant food in a can like sardines, corned beef, and even meat loafs! Pick the cans that are easy to open so they don't have to think where to get a can opener. Give a pack of rice that could last a family for at least one day. Three kilograms would be great!
Let's try not to give instant noodles because hot water is needed in preparing this. Try instant food in a can like sardines, corned beef, and even meat loafs! Pick the cans that are easy to open so they don't have to think where to get a can opener. Give a pack of rice that could last a family for at least one day. Three kilograms would be great!
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Make that clean drinking water. You can send small water bottles. I suggest you buy from the water refilling stations because they sell it at a cheaper price. You can even do a little chit chat with the owner of the shop and maybe encourage them to donate some. ;)
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3. Medicine
According to the news, kids are more susceptible to disease in situations like this. So you can include a lot of fever, cough, and colds medicine for kids. Put in some paracetamol and diarrhea meds for adults, too.
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4. Blankets
Imagine losing your home and everything that you own. Offer our kababayans blankets that they can use to warm their bodies at night!
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5. Toiletries
Our kababayans need these few items to keep themselves clean. You can include bath soaps, toothpaste and toothbrush, sanitary napkins, razors, and deodorants. You can also throw in a nail clipper and comb is you still have budget!
6. Hugs
And because not everyone of us can fly to the affected areas to hug everyone who needs it, I have a million dollar idea to put an letter of encouragement in every pack of relief goods that we will be making. Sounds great? This will even be a great project for kids!
If you would like to help, you can check your local government unit or NGOs if they are doing a donation drive. If you are in the Antipolo area, my family and I are doing a donation drive that we call Operation Sunshine. Please click the photo below to go to the Facebook page. It's bayanihan time!
Haiyan,
Operation Sunshine,
Relief Operations,
Yolanda
Operation Sunshine: Bringing the Sunshine Back to Visayas
10:07 AM
I have stopped watching the news three days ago because I cry uncontrollably everytime I see how bad the situation is. Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) pounded Visayas really bad. I cry everytime I read personal accounts of people. I cry everytime I read news about millions of dollars being sent by foreign countries. I cry when I read that there are foreigners coming over to help. I cry because my heart is so broken.
I decided to stop crying (although I still cry most of the time) and start acting. Back in 2011, my sisters and I had a donation drive for the victims of Sendong in Cagayan de Oro. This year, we're doing it again! It is now bigger (naks!) as we are working with my Tita Pilar and my cousins. We are calling this OPERATION SUNSHINE! Yay!
My friend, Farah who has a printing business, pledged to print tarpaulins for the drive so we can put it up our stores in Antipolo. Yay ulet! I have the photo at the bottom of this post so you can save it and post it you your walls if you want to. We are working with our ninang, Tita Beth Angsioco and DSWP to bring your donations to Visayas.
You can drop off your donations at my mother's store in the Antipolo Public Market (Jun and Fe Store) or at my Tita Pilar's textile shop (Pilar's Telamart). They're both along F. Manalo Street, near Iglesia ni Cristo. If you can't find it, don't hesitate to message me!
Maraming salamat po!
I decided to stop crying (although I still cry most of the time) and start acting. Back in 2011, my sisters and I had a donation drive for the victims of Sendong in Cagayan de Oro. This year, we're doing it again! It is now bigger (naks!) as we are working with my Tita Pilar and my cousins. We are calling this OPERATION SUNSHINE! Yay!
My friend, Farah who has a printing business, pledged to print tarpaulins for the drive so we can put it up our stores in Antipolo. Yay ulet! I have the photo at the bottom of this post so you can save it and post it you your walls if you want to. We are working with our ninang, Tita Beth Angsioco and DSWP to bring your donations to Visayas.
You can drop off your donations at my mother's store in the Antipolo Public Market (Jun and Fe Store) or at my Tita Pilar's textile shop (Pilar's Telamart). They're both along F. Manalo Street, near Iglesia ni Cristo. If you can't find it, don't hesitate to message me!
Maraming salamat po!
November 9, 2013 was a very sad day for the Philippines. Typhoon Haiyan also known as Yolanda hit the central part of the Philippines and it did hit hard. So hard. The typhoon made a landfall at 4AM of Friday and left the Philippines on Saturday afternoon. It was the worst 24 hours that I know. I sat in front of the TV and my laptop. I kept on checking the news for updates, and checking live satellite views of the typhoon's movement. It was unbelievable. I felt so bad sitting inside the house and sitting on a comfortable couch while a lot of people are fighting for their lives.
Here are a few screenshots of the typhoon that I made and their time stamps.
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| November 7, 2013. 12:11 PM. |
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| November 8, 2013. 12:21 PM. |
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| November 8, 2013. 4:08 PM. Where's the Philippines?!? |
The extent of the damage was not known until the next day. The water from the sea was gone and all that's left were the pieces of houses, cars, and dead bodies. It was heartbreaking. My mentor, Richard Gappi and his is still missing until today. We haven't heard anything from him since he went to Tacloban last November 5 for his son's birthday. We are still praying that he gets a chance to let us know where they are.
HOW TO HELP
Antipolo
When Sendong hit Cagayan de Oro last December 2011, my sisters and I organized a donation drive. We used our mother's store in Antipolo Public Market as the drop off center for donations, and our family's warehouse to hold them. Jeff and I then took them to the our neighbor here in Tahanan Village who brought them in Cagayan de Oro. I also asked our pastor in Singapore for some help and they donated gallons and gallons of water.
The night after the typhoon, I dreamt that I asked for help from my friends overseas, specifically money to buy water for the victims of the typhoon in Tacloban. When I woke up, that was the first thing I did. I got in touch with some friends abroad and they were very willing to help.
We have again organized a donation drive for the victims of the typhoon. If you are in Antipolo or around the area, we are now starting to accept donations in kind and in cash for the victims of the typhoon. Please don't limit yourselves in giving used clothes because they also need FOOD, WATER, TOILETRIES, MEDICINE, BLANKETS, etc.
Our drop off point in Antipolo is in Pilar's Telamart which is located in F. Manalo Street near Iglesia ni Kristo. We will send your donations through DSWP or Democratic Socialist Women of the Philippines (http://dswp.org.ph/) and our ninang, Elizabeth Angsioco. We also worked with them last time with all the donations for Cagayan de Oro.
If you are sending some cash donation, you can message me so I can send you the bank details of DSWP. They will send you a receipt for the money that you will be giving.
If you are sending some cash donation, you can message me so I can send you the bank details of DSWP. They will send you a receipt for the money that you will be giving.
Here's the page for the donation drive if you are interested to donate: https://www.facebook.com/events/183315215193126/?notif_t=plan_edited
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Rappler compiled other ways to donate and you can find it HERE.
Let us all help in every possible way that we can. It's bayanihan time!!!
A few months before I married Jeff, my bestfriend Sarah asked me why I am getting married. It was a surprising question. I had two things in mind -- 1. maybe she's worried that we won't have so much time to hang out anymore and 2. why do people get married?
My college professor once told us that marriage is just a 'license to fvck". She said it's just a piece of paper that makes everything official -- couples can have sex whenever they want, they can live together, buy things and call it theirs, etc. But in today's world, people still do this even without that piece of paper. So what makes marriage different?
As Christians, our parents taught us that before the man can take you away from them, he must marry you. They also believed that God must bless your union, hence we marry inside the church. That wasn't really my reason why I married Jeff. The other night, I asked Jeff why he asked me to marry him. He just said that his life is happier since I did. I guess my reason for marrying him is a success -- I wanted to make him happy.
I remember during the early stage of our courtship, Jeff came home from an event at work and he was very ecstatic in telling me stories on what happened and what he did. I really didn't understand why he was telling me that. I'm not even his girlfriend at that time. I didn't know where he took the queue because he suddenly apologized and said that he just missed the idea of having someone to talk to whenever there's something good that happens. My heart swelled. It's good to be someone's confidant.
According to the Bible, marriage was designed for companionship and intimacy. My mother told me back in the day that I should be careful in choosing a husband. She told me that I should marry someone who I can have great conversations and not just someone who I am happy with at the moment. Let's face it, when we're old and not able to be intimate anymore, all we have left are great conversations and laughs.
I read an article yesterday which really touched my heart. Marriage Isn't for You was written by Seth Adam Smith and his father's insights were really eye opening. Marriage isn't for everyone of us, it is for the one we marry.
We marry them because we want to make them happy. I married Jeff because I love seeing him smile at me every morning. I married him because I wanted to tell him I love him even when he's inside the toilet. I married him because I want to cook for him and take care of him when he's sick. I married him because I want to make him feel complete, just as much as I feel complete when I am with him.
As for your happiness, do not worry about it. If your partner has the right reasons on marrying you, it is his or her problem to make you happy.
