comment to junnie's blog
this is originally just a comment to junnie's blog at memento. but for some reason, it had grown awfully long that it's not an acceptable comment anymore, hence i decided to just make an entry for it here in my blog.
see memento's blog entry first, then the comment i was planning to add:
90 bucks for 2-pc jollibee chickenjoy? ang mahal na ah! last time i bought (less than 2 years ago), around 60 lang yata, one of my alternate lunch kapag nagsawa na sa pauli-ulit na menu sa caf namin sa WHO. and P31/L ang gasolina? oh my! konti na lang pala ang diprensya sa presyo dito sa canada.
wish ko para sa pinas? wala! sawa na ako ng kaka-wish! at wala rin naman itong maitutulong. di masamang mangarap, pero masama ang puro pangarap. ayaw ko na ring manisi, sayang lang energy ko, wala rin namang mangyayari kahit manisi ka magdamag. kilos na lang tayo, as in kanya-kanyang sikap, at walang hilahan pababa! we can't help everyone, so why not just try to help the people close to us. if each of us would do the same, everyone would eventually receive some form of help. this is a good time to believe the theory about the six degrees of separation. baka nga five lang para sa buong pinas eh =) i only have 81 friends on friendster, but i am related to 535,968 on "third degree", and this are only those people who have internet access, and presumably below 40 years old (more mature people consider friendster, i bet, as baduy or jologs!) i have more friends who i couldn't find in friendster, and i bet kung lahat sila mai-a-add ko, i would have more than millions on third degree, and definitely would have close to the philippine population on the fifth degree.
back to reality, we attended the heritage festival here in edmonton yesterday. it's a three-day celebration focusing on the multi-culturism of canada. at the filipino pavilion, the person behind the mic announced in passing on his intro that there are now 22,000 or something filipinos in edmonton. this led me to thinking that what if i could ask 1 buck from each and every one of us and donate the whole amount to a charity in philippines, that's a whopping 1 million pesos, without even hurting anyone's pocket. what if i could do that every month and have a different beneficiary? that means we would be of help to 12 charities in a year. what if we could give toonies instead of a loonie? that's 24 charities in a year, or still 12 but receiving 2 million pesos each! how i wish it's as easy as it sounds, but when i attended the independence day celebration last month, i saw far less than a thousand filipinos there. where could i find the other 21 thousand?
charities here in canada utilizes a call-center approach to asking for donations; cancer society, wheelchair society, heart society, children with aids are the names i remember being mentioned by someone talking to me on the other end of the phone line. and if they could ask 20 to 100 bucks from each one of us, why can't i ask one buck from my fellow filipinos?
i now wonder, is there any organization that is doing this right now in edmonton? if so, how many of them are out there? and where are they? how come i haven't heard of any? i'm sure if i could find one right now, i'd volunteer for some work. anyone listening? and if they have the same project, i would give 20 right away. that way they'd only need a thousand more 20's to raise a million peso.
i'm not really familiar with the charity organizations that exists in philippines, but i know a lot of our folks there need some help. from remote areas devastated by a recent natural calamity, to disease organizations, to hospital folks (the PGH pedia ward for example), to orphan homes, or simply groups of people finding ways to send poor bright children to school. i don't know how much work is needed to accomplish something like this, but i hope i could manage to find some way to (help) set up one. this is a very simple idea, and i know someone have already thought of this, so i hope they could just tag me to help them. i've only thought of this this morning while i'm composing this entry, so i hope it won't disappear, and this blog entry would help to remind me. i'm turning 30 this november, is it possible to accomplish (or at least start) something like this by that time? who knows? miracle happens everyday, according to junnie's comment on the same blog entry.
from chicken joy, to gasoline price, to a charity org. thanks for the inspiration, junnie. i hope something good will come out of this.
see memento's blog entry first, then the comment i was planning to add:
90 bucks for 2-pc jollibee chickenjoy? ang mahal na ah! last time i bought (less than 2 years ago), around 60 lang yata, one of my alternate lunch kapag nagsawa na sa pauli-ulit na menu sa caf namin sa WHO. and P31/L ang gasolina? oh my! konti na lang pala ang diprensya sa presyo dito sa canada.
wish ko para sa pinas? wala! sawa na ako ng kaka-wish! at wala rin naman itong maitutulong. di masamang mangarap, pero masama ang puro pangarap. ayaw ko na ring manisi, sayang lang energy ko, wala rin namang mangyayari kahit manisi ka magdamag. kilos na lang tayo, as in kanya-kanyang sikap, at walang hilahan pababa! we can't help everyone, so why not just try to help the people close to us. if each of us would do the same, everyone would eventually receive some form of help. this is a good time to believe the theory about the six degrees of separation. baka nga five lang para sa buong pinas eh =) i only have 81 friends on friendster, but i am related to 535,968 on "third degree", and this are only those people who have internet access, and presumably below 40 years old (more mature people consider friendster, i bet, as baduy or jologs!) i have more friends who i couldn't find in friendster, and i bet kung lahat sila mai-a-add ko, i would have more than millions on third degree, and definitely would have close to the philippine population on the fifth degree.
back to reality, we attended the heritage festival here in edmonton yesterday. it's a three-day celebration focusing on the multi-culturism of canada. at the filipino pavilion, the person behind the mic announced in passing on his intro that there are now 22,000 or something filipinos in edmonton. this led me to thinking that what if i could ask 1 buck from each and every one of us and donate the whole amount to a charity in philippines, that's a whopping 1 million pesos, without even hurting anyone's pocket. what if i could do that every month and have a different beneficiary? that means we would be of help to 12 charities in a year. what if we could give toonies instead of a loonie? that's 24 charities in a year, or still 12 but receiving 2 million pesos each! how i wish it's as easy as it sounds, but when i attended the independence day celebration last month, i saw far less than a thousand filipinos there. where could i find the other 21 thousand?
charities here in canada utilizes a call-center approach to asking for donations; cancer society, wheelchair society, heart society, children with aids are the names i remember being mentioned by someone talking to me on the other end of the phone line. and if they could ask 20 to 100 bucks from each one of us, why can't i ask one buck from my fellow filipinos?
i now wonder, is there any organization that is doing this right now in edmonton? if so, how many of them are out there? and where are they? how come i haven't heard of any? i'm sure if i could find one right now, i'd volunteer for some work. anyone listening? and if they have the same project, i would give 20 right away. that way they'd only need a thousand more 20's to raise a million peso.
i'm not really familiar with the charity organizations that exists in philippines, but i know a lot of our folks there need some help. from remote areas devastated by a recent natural calamity, to disease organizations, to hospital folks (the PGH pedia ward for example), to orphan homes, or simply groups of people finding ways to send poor bright children to school. i don't know how much work is needed to accomplish something like this, but i hope i could manage to find some way to (help) set up one. this is a very simple idea, and i know someone have already thought of this, so i hope they could just tag me to help them. i've only thought of this this morning while i'm composing this entry, so i hope it won't disappear, and this blog entry would help to remind me. i'm turning 30 this november, is it possible to accomplish (or at least start) something like this by that time? who knows? miracle happens everyday, according to junnie's comment on the same blog entry.
from chicken joy, to gasoline price, to a charity org. thanks for the inspiration, junnie. i hope something good will come out of this.
posted by ren at 11:36:00 AM
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