Showing posts with label BUHAY OFW. Show all posts
Showing posts with label BUHAY OFW. Show all posts
Every 15th day of the Lunar year, Chinese people celebrates the Mid-Autumn or the Lantern Festival wherein a hundred colorful figures are lighted as a lanterns. But before that, a kicked off was celebrated via SKY LANTERN or the KONGMING lantern festival. In this festival, an airborne paper lanterns having a waxy flammable material inside were lighted and threw up in the air, the flame heats the air inside the lantern, thus lowering its density causing the lantern to rise. The sky lantern is only airborne for as long as the flame inside stays alight, after which the lanterns sinks back to the ground. According to history sky lanterns are used as a signalling device or spy blimp in warfare during WWII. This is also called as a balloon munitions.
Moving on to the present time, this sky lanterns was modified and considered as one of the Chinese festivities. And it is celebrated before the Mid-Autumn or the most commonly known as Lantern Festival (note: Lantern Festival & Sky Lantern are different). In this sky lantern celebration, everyone can joined by making or buying paper lanterns in different colors. If in history, it is used as for warfare, now it is used to send messages & wishes to God and yes also as a signal device or for giving hope to find someone who is lost somewhere, just like in the movie "TANGLED".
In Taiwan, this annual event was scheduled into 4 different days starting from Jan26 followed on Jan 28, Feb 4 & the final highlight on the night of Feb 6 at Shi Fen, PingXi District, New Taipei City.
This is a once-a-year event that you don't wanna missed and luckily last Feb. 6, I, together with my friends are so blessed to witness this wonderful & amazing Chinese/Taiwanese culture. We managed to endulged (endulged talaga ginamit! lol) this once in lifetime event by taking on-leave vacation, unnoticed. Hehehe.
Before we get into the place where the event is kicking off, we traveled almost two hours up north. From our place in Hukou Township we traveled by a local train, one & half hours to Taipei City. Then from Taipei City, we spent one more hour also by train going to Rui Fang, then half an hour more from Rui Fang to Shi Fen Station, where the coal mining area is located, the place where the 1600 lanterns are to be released.
Before we get into the place where the event is kicking off, we traveled almost two hours up north. From our place in Hukou Township we traveled by a local train, one & half hours to Taipei City. Then from Taipei City, we spent one more hour also by train going to Rui Fang, then half an hour more from Rui Fang to Shi Fen Station, where the coal mining area is located, the place where the 1600 lanterns are to be released.
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| Tunnel |
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| View from the train |
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| While inside the train I took a picture of a river |
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| Ping Xi District River near the Mining area |
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| A hanging bridge which I dont know the name. |
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| After taking Off the train |
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| Trying to make my best pose pero Waley pa rin. Lol. |
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| Me at the railway where some of the lantern raiser buy their lanterns |
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| Local Taiwanese posing & preparing their lanterns with written wishes to be released. |
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| Early raiser as they watch their lanterns flew |
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| The event's stage where some local artist will performed. |
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| For the experience record, we bought a lantern for $NT150 then write our wishes , hopes & dreams this year. |
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| Preparing for our Lantern's flight. |
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| Our lantern as it flew up above. |
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| Local Taiwan girl, while waiting her signal to release her lantern. |
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| Red Lantern flying |
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| More lantern's are flying until dusk. |
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| And for the highlight, the 'Sabayang Pagpapalipad' ng mga Lighted lanterns. |
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While everyone is fonded by scary and horrible stories yesterday as they celebrate Holloween & stuff, I and the whole Filipino workers of our company, GLOBAL TESTING, are suffering on the most horrifying thing that ever happened on our journey as an OFW............
......WALA NA KAMING PIENTANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, for those who dont know what pientang is, it is chinese word for, a box of food, packed as LUNCH or DINNER that can be bought in a restaurant. Usually it contains rice, veggies, side dishes & pork or chicken, just like this.
Our company decided not to continue their share in our meal allowance. Their reason is, the company is suffering and affected by the global crisis, that's why they need to cut out our meal allowance. Take note, we're on crisis since 2008! Shit!
Started yesterday, November 1, we will the one who'll gonna provide our food. Well, on the bright side we can eat whatever we wanted.
But the bad thing is...........
Im running out of budget...........
Damn!
......WALA NA KAMING PIENTANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well, for those who dont know what pientang is, it is chinese word for, a box of food, packed as LUNCH or DINNER that can be bought in a restaurant. Usually it contains rice, veggies, side dishes & pork or chicken, just like this.
Our company decided not to continue their share in our meal allowance. Their reason is, the company is suffering and affected by the global crisis, that's why they need to cut out our meal allowance. Take note, we're on crisis since 2008! Shit!
Started yesterday, November 1, we will the one who'll gonna provide our food. Well, on the bright side we can eat whatever we wanted.
But the bad thing is...........
Im running out of budget...........
Damn!
Marlene, waitress sa Guatemala,
Cora, caregiver sa Amerika,
Mylene, entertainer sa Japan...
Ito ang kanilang mga mukha.
Hanggang saan ba kailangang umabot para abutin ang mga pangarap.
Magsilbi?
Mag-alaga?
Magsayaw?
Iniwan nila ang bansa,
Pati na ang pamilya.
Ipinaluto ang iba,
Nilinis ang kalat nila.
Kung alam niyo lang, ay hindi niyo masisikmura.
Nakatali ang buhay sa isang kontrata.
Bawal tumakas...
Bawal umuwi...
Kailangang lumipad, upang ang mga pangarap ay makalipad din.
Pero sa ngayon, ang restaurant, ang kwarto, ang entablado ang kanilang hawla.
Umiyak man sa pangungulila, gabi-gabi, araw-araw, para sa pamilya ito.
Kaya tuloy ang pagsisilbi, ang pag-aalaga, at tuloy ang....... sayaw.
-Rochelle Pangilinan voice over-
Party Pilipinas-LIPAD, 10/24/10
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Cora, caregiver sa Amerika,
Mylene, entertainer sa Japan...
Ito ang kanilang mga mukha.
Hanggang saan ba kailangang umabot para abutin ang mga pangarap.
Magsilbi?
Mag-alaga?
Magsayaw?
Iniwan nila ang bansa,
Pati na ang pamilya.
Ipinaluto ang iba,
Nilinis ang kalat nila.
Kung alam niyo lang, ay hindi niyo masisikmura.
Nakatali ang buhay sa isang kontrata.
Bawal tumakas...
Bawal umuwi...
Kailangang lumipad, upang ang mga pangarap ay makalipad din.
Pero sa ngayon, ang restaurant, ang kwarto, ang entablado ang kanilang hawla.
Umiyak man sa pangungulila, gabi-gabi, araw-araw, para sa pamilya ito.
Kaya tuloy ang pagsisilbi, ang pag-aalaga, at tuloy ang....... sayaw.
-Rochelle Pangilinan voice over-
Party Pilipinas-LIPAD, 10/24/10
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Sa loob ng mahigit na limang taon kong pamamalagi sa ibang bansa, bilang isang buhay na bayani o mas kilala sa tawag bilang isang OFW, marami na akong nakilala, nakasalamuha, at nakasamang tao mula sa iba't ibang parte ng Pilipinas. Ilan sa kanila, mga bago pa lamang, mga luma o taon na ang bilang ng pamamalagi at ang iba naman ay yung mga tinatawag na mga beterano, sila yung mga OFW na ginagawang bakasyunan ang Pilipinas.
Iba't ibang istorya ng buhay, merong malungkot, masaya at merong puno ng pag-asa ang kanilang mga kuwento at dala. Pag-asang makabangon mula sa kahirapan sa bansang kinagisnan at pag-asang mapunan ang pagkukulang mula sa bansang kinamulatan... ang Trabaho.
Hindi lingid sa ating kaalaman na sa araw-araw ay may libu-libong pinoy ang umaalis ng bansa, upang makipagsapalaran. Libu-libong Pilipino, bilang Inhenyero, Guro, Caregiver, Salesman, Nurse, Doctor, at iba't ibang uri ng mga blue colored job. Mga propesyong sana ay sa Pilipinas ginagamit. Subalit dala ng kakulangan ng trabaho at liit ng suweldo sa ating bansa ay napipilitang gamitin upang manilbihan sa iba. Libu-libong pinoy na ang tanging dala-dala ay ang pag-asa para sa pamilyang maiiwan at takot at kaba sa bansang daratnan.
Libu-libong Pinoy na hindi alintana ang homesick at hirap ng kalooban, para lang mabigyan ng magandang buhay ang ating mga anak, mapag-aral ang ating mga kapatid at masuportahan ang ating mga magulang. Mga Pilipino na patuloy na naniwala at umaasang may pag-asa pa. May pag-asa pang naghihintay sa bansang sa atin ay kumalinga.
Ngunit kung anupa't anuman ang dahilan ng ating pangingibang bansa, ng ating pagLIPAD, lagi nating iisipin na may naghihintay sa ating pagbabalik, tagumpay man tayo o bigo......
"Well im going home, back to a place where I belong
And where your LOVE has always been enough for me
I'm not running from, no, think you got me all wrong
I don't regret this life I chose for me
But these places and these face are getting old
So i'm going home, well i'm going home."
-Home by Daughtry-
