Showing posts with label TIME. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TIME. Show all posts
10. MUELMAR MAGALLANES
REMEMBER THE TYPHOON ONDOY(KETSANA) THAT HIT MANILA & SOME NEARBY PROVINCES LAST OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR. THERE ARE SOME STORIES OF HEROISM THAT IS FLUSHED AWAY AS THE RAVAGING FLOOD PASSED BY & ONE OF THOSE IS MUELMARS STORY. DOZENS ARE PERISHED IN THIS CALAMITY & ONE OF BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE EMERGED...AND TIME HONORED HIS BRAVERY...
TO THOSE WHO DOES NOT KNOW THE STORY READ THIS...
An 18-year-old construction worker braved rampaging floods in the Philippines to save more than 30 people, but ended up sacrificing his life in a last trip to rescue a baby girl and her mother who were being swept away on a styrofoam box
Family members and people who Muelmar Magallanes saved have hailed the young man a hero, as his body lay in a coffin at a makeshift evacuation centre near their destroyed Manila riverside village.
"I am going to be forever grateful to Muelmar," said Menchie Penalosa, the mother of the six-month-old girl whom he carried to safety before being swept away himself. "He gave his life for my baby. I will never forget his sacrifice."
Mr Magallanes was at home on Saturday with his family when tropical storm Ketsana unleashed the heaviest rains in more than 40 years on the Philippine capital and surrounding areas.
At first the family, long used to heavy rains, paid little attention to the storm.
But Mr Magallanes and his father quickly decided to evacuate the family once they realised the river 800 metres away had burst its banks.
With the help of an older brother, Mr Magallanes tied a string around his waist and attached it one-by-one to his three younger siblings, whom he took to higher ground. Then he came back for his parents.
But Mr Magallanes, a strong swimmer, decided to go back for neighbours trapped on rooftops.
He ended up making many trips, and eventually saved more than 30 people from drowning, witnesses and survivors said.
Tired and shivering, Mr Magallanes was back on higher ground with his family when he heard Ms Penalosa screaming as she and her baby were being swept away on the polystyrene box they were using in an attempt to cross the swift currents.
He dived back in after the mother and daughter, who were already a few metres away and bobbing precariously among the debris floating on the brown water.
"I didn't know that the current was so strong. In an instant, I was under water. We were going to die," said Ms Penalosa, her eyes welling with tears and voice choking with emotion.
"Then this man came from nowhere and grabbed us. He took us to where the other neighbours were, and then he was gone," Ms Penalosa said.
Ms Penalosa and other witnesses said an exhausted Mr Magallanes was simply washed away amid the torrent of water.
Neighbours found his body on Sunday, along with 28 others who perished amid Manila's epic flooding. The official death toll stands at 100 with 32 missing.
Standing next to his coffin, Mr Magallanes' parents paid tribute to their son.
"He always had a good heart," said his father, Samuel.
"We had already been saved. But he decided to go back one last time for the girl."
His mother, Maria Luz, wept as she described her son as incredibly brave.
"He saved so many people, but ended up not being able to save himself."
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Time's TOP 10 of Everything 2009
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379_1944701_1944711,00.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mason_bl/3962716650/
REMEMBER THE TYPHOON ONDOY(KETSANA) THAT HIT MANILA & SOME NEARBY PROVINCES LAST OCTOBER OF THIS YEAR. THERE ARE SOME STORIES OF HEROISM THAT IS FLUSHED AWAY AS THE RAVAGING FLOOD PASSED BY & ONE OF THOSE IS MUELMARS STORY. DOZENS ARE PERISHED IN THIS CALAMITY & ONE OF BRAVEST OF THE BRAVE EMERGED...AND TIME HONORED HIS BRAVERY...
TO THOSE WHO DOES NOT KNOW THE STORY READ THIS...
An 18-year-old construction worker braved rampaging floods in the Philippines to save more than 30 people, but ended up sacrificing his life in a last trip to rescue a baby girl and her mother who were being swept away on a styrofoam box
Family members and people who Muelmar Magallanes saved have hailed the young man a hero, as his body lay in a coffin at a makeshift evacuation centre near their destroyed Manila riverside village.
"I am going to be forever grateful to Muelmar," said Menchie Penalosa, the mother of the six-month-old girl whom he carried to safety before being swept away himself. "He gave his life for my baby. I will never forget his sacrifice."
Mr Magallanes was at home on Saturday with his family when tropical storm Ketsana unleashed the heaviest rains in more than 40 years on the Philippine capital and surrounding areas.
At first the family, long used to heavy rains, paid little attention to the storm.
But Mr Magallanes and his father quickly decided to evacuate the family once they realised the river 800 metres away had burst its banks.
With the help of an older brother, Mr Magallanes tied a string around his waist and attached it one-by-one to his three younger siblings, whom he took to higher ground. Then he came back for his parents.
But Mr Magallanes, a strong swimmer, decided to go back for neighbours trapped on rooftops.
He ended up making many trips, and eventually saved more than 30 people from drowning, witnesses and survivors said.
Tired and shivering, Mr Magallanes was back on higher ground with his family when he heard Ms Penalosa screaming as she and her baby were being swept away on the polystyrene box they were using in an attempt to cross the swift currents.
He dived back in after the mother and daughter, who were already a few metres away and bobbing precariously among the debris floating on the brown water.
"I didn't know that the current was so strong. In an instant, I was under water. We were going to die," said Ms Penalosa, her eyes welling with tears and voice choking with emotion.
"Then this man came from nowhere and grabbed us. He took us to where the other neighbours were, and then he was gone," Ms Penalosa said.
Ms Penalosa and other witnesses said an exhausted Mr Magallanes was simply washed away amid the torrent of water.
Neighbours found his body on Sunday, along with 28 others who perished amid Manila's epic flooding. The official death toll stands at 100 with 32 missing.
Standing next to his coffin, Mr Magallanes' parents paid tribute to their son.
"He always had a good heart," said his father, Samuel.
"We had already been saved. But he decided to go back one last time for the girl."
His mother, Maria Luz, wept as she described her son as incredibly brave.
"He saved so many people, but ended up not being able to save himself."
FEED LINK:
Time's TOP 10 of Everything 2009
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1945379_1944701_1944711,00.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mason_bl/3962716650/
Three things in life that once gone, never come back:
TIME, WORDS, & OPPORTUNITY
TIME:
As they said, time is GOLD, so anything that you can do today, do it right now, not tomorrow, or the other day. Time is free, but its priceless. You cant own it, but you can use it. You cant keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it, it never comes back.
WORDS:
Watch your thoughts, for they become WORDS.
Watch your word, for they become ACTION.
So, before you act think it first, that no one else get hurt.
They said, SORRY is the hardest words to say.
OPPORTUNITY:
Times goes by so fast, people go in & out in our life.
Dont missed the opportunity to say how they are mean to you.
Actually opportunity never lost, once you missed it...
It fly to others.
So, dont waste your time, grope for the best word to say & never missed the opportunity to say 'I LOVE YOU' to our love ones & thank GOD for having a wonderful life & world that we are enjoying right now.
LIFE is too short.
