Mga Pamahiin ng Pinoy sa New Year

New year celebration in my hometown- Balungao, Pangasinan

Matagal nang naniniwala ang mga Pilipino sa pamahiin, Mas lalo na ang mga matatanda na halos i-checklist na nila ang dapat nilang gawin tuwing sasapit ang bagong taon at sa araw ng bagong taon. Mrami akong naririnig mula sa matatanda sa kanto at sa bahy namin tungkol dito. Aaminin ko na bago pa man ako mabighani sa mga slita ni John Stuart Mill, Sigmund Freud at Albert Einstein (Isali ko kaya ung salita ni Totoy Brown) naniniw ako sa mga pamahiin dahil sa nakakatakot at dahil na rin ito'y pinaniniwalaan ng nakakatanda sa akin.
Kinalimutan ko na ito ng nadiskubre kong parang joke lang ni Juan ang mga ito. Ngayon may-iian akong naalala na ginagawa ko tuwing bgong taon. At ayun gumawa ako ng isang listahan a aking pagkakaintindi sa mga ito.

Mga pamahiin sa bagong taon:
1. Maghanda ng tig-iisang dosenang bilog na prutas sa lamesa
'swerte pasok pera' yan nga ang sabi ng mga insik, nakuha ito ng Pinoy sa mga Tsino. Sabi daw nila na ang biog na prutas ay nagsisimbulo ng pera, maraming pera. At ang isang dosenang bilang nito ay nagsisimbulo sa dalawampungdalwa na buwan ng taon. Ang ibig sabihin, maraming pera sa buong taon, swerte :D
2. Magsuot ng polka-dots sa bisperas at araw ng pasko
tungkol nanaman ito sa pera at malamang alam na alam ito ng karamihan sa atin. Mabenta ang polka-dot na daster sa Divioria at sa Baclaran.
3. Huwag mag-hain ng manok 
Sabi ng tatay ko sumisimbulo ito ng 'isang kahig, isang tuka' sa buhay next year. Basta masarap ang fried chicken.
4. Magsabog ng barya sa loob ng bahay sa bisperas ng pasko.
Alam na na this!
5. Alugin ang bulsa na puno ng barya pagdating ng bagong taon.
6. Huwag itaob ang isda (kung mayroong handang isda) pagnakain na ung (lenght wise) kalahati, malas yun.
Para daw hindi tayo tataob (lulugmok sa kahirapan, either may mamamatay or may mangyayari sa inyo na masama).
7. Gumising ng maaga sa uno at tumalon para tumangkad.
Naalala ko tuloy ung friends ko sa facebook na umaasa sa pamahiin na ito, paano ba naman legal age na siya at kasing laki pa rin siya ng first year high school. Ung iba, tumatalon sa bisperas ng bagong taon, sa panahon ng putukan, kalampagan, putulan ng kamay at daliri at barilan sa labas.
8. Magpaputok para umalis ang bad spirit (pero ung iba nagpapaputok para may maalis sa kanila)
Naalala ko tuloy yug sabi ni Brad Pitt sa Ang Dating Doon. Ung nagpapaputok sa labas para umalis ang bad spirit, asaan ba sila pupunta edi sa tahimik--sa loob ng bahay. Kaya daw ang dapat gawin sa loob ng bahay magpaputok para umalis ang bad spirit.
Ung mga napuputulan ng kamay dahil sa nagpapaputok, normal lang yang at katangahan na din.
9. Bumili ng pampaswerte para hindi malasin.
Alam na siguro ninyo ito lahat, palaging tinatanung iyan at ibinabalit sa TV.
At higit sa lahat-
10. Bawal salubungin ang bagong taon ng tulog
Mamalasin ka buong taon o kaya'y magkakasakit ka.

Hindi masamang maniwala sa mga ganitong bagay pero huwag iasa sa mga pamahiin kung anong mangyayari sayo sa susunod na taon. Maligayang Bagong Taon!

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The Life of Death

Life is like a son, and death comes down in sunset
(Balungao, Pangasinan)

Death is like an oath
takes our breath in loath.
Struggles underneath
Walks alone in coat.

We die with a word
Leaving one's a curd
As we pray to lord
With aces of card

As they gone we lost
Take them back in cost
Love not comes in host
Vanished life to boost

I write this poem for everyone, wasting their life to their own sake instead of spending it in worth cost. We can do all things in life before we dies to make ourself contented, however contenment isn't gained from our own desire, the people around you will teach you how to have such life. Sometimes we didn't understand why death comes in someone's life, taking all of our love ones beside us. There is Death to remind us that we're not living forever, we're living in a one shot world that you must to things better in just single life that is given on you. This is not any simple, supermario games that we can have five lives or more to correct our mistakes. The flow is going and accept the fact that you commit mistakes.
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Just Smile and carry on

Emman De Torres, ccollege classmate.

I was listening in every piece of thing that makes someone as who they are. I've listened hundred of story that makes sense more than what we saw at them. These story back in their early days is the part of what they look as of today, the person whom you know standing in front of you. It is the process of becoming who they're right now and who will they be after another day. Listening to someone's hurt, life and anything that they say is the most greatest gift and oppurtunity to know  someone. As what i believe, to know someone is to know how they end up to be the person whom you know.

I got this story that i've learned much from it as i think what is the essentials in smiling to someone whom you never know. I asks myself, why it is necessary to smile to people that you just meet on the way to the school as you walk away in the sidewalk. The idea was nonsense if we look on that simple side (you will look like an idiot) but if we look in the deeper sense of it, it is more essential that what you think.

He told me a story once when we're on the way to Batangas State University, in Malvar, Batangas few kilometers south of Manila together with bunch of mates as we seek for our related literature source. It was in the middle of the great traffic when he told me about smiling to the people on the other jeepney. I can't take the logic, i was thinking about it ever since he told me about it, why we have to smile to the other people? so i ask, he simply reply me "It makes me feel better when i talk to someone and find a new friends with them" "I just smile at them, sometimes they smile back but the others just carry on (ignore)"

Then the conclusion runs on my mind, that the essence of smiling on someone is a sign of a great concern, the sense of individualism is eliminated between the borders of each individual in a community. I've just noticed when i walk on the busy street, people walk by and pass in front of you--they just ignore you like you're just part of the rocks on the way creating a huge border. We're millions but it makes no sense why only few people have their concern on everyone, we're worse than a greed. Smiling to someone is making a great bridge that you can walk to make a one community not a society with their own worlds.

Keep on smiling and take no day without making someone happy. Eliminate the borders of Individualism.

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