Kaban ni D_BystandeR: SULUNDON ANG MAAYONG BUHAT

This is the most "heart-wrenching story" I've ever come across in my life, thanks to the help from Sunstar news reporter Rebelander S. Basilan, this otherwise insignificant tale of the "poorest of the poor" came to light because of the reporter's personal judgment to write on this kind of event to prove that this is news-worthy after all. Right from the very beginning, the couple whose wife just gave birth to quadruplets, is a picture of how life in all its intricacies is subjected to a rigid test of fate and its ability to survive under a worst-case scenario. Leaving their three young children in one of the mountain barangays of Argao, the father's concern of their plight left with only 10 kilos rice and half kilo of dried fish is quite maddening. The emergency trip aboard the hospital's ambulance from Argao to Cebu City at VSMMC Hospital is an odyssey to tell. A doctor in Argao hospital, with a "big and kind heart" lent him P1,000 where he used P900 of it to pay for the ambulance trip. That trip alone saved the lives of four young souls who would just have to be added to the long list of "ill-fated ones" were they not able to make it to VSMMC hospital on time.

 I remember one time when our daughter in the Philippines (Cebu) was about to graduate her teaching course in USJR way back in 2005, she had a classmate who out of financial difficulty could not pay her school obligation and could not have graduated along with them, when informed  of that situation my wife told our daughter to withdraw from our savings account in a local bank to defray her school obligation so she can graduate with them. For that saving act, we received a letter from her classmate expressing her "thanks" to our kind gesture and we were already happy about it. 

There are really inexplicable things and realities in life that will challenge your conscience to do more for the good of others, if at all within your capabilities. For all the good things that you have done to your fellowmen there is Somebody up there who will give a rundown of what you have done to your neighbor in their time of need. And to think you accomplished it is most rewarding to you, the giver.

(Bug-os ang  pasalamat sa KAHAYAG ngadto sa magtatampo  nga si JOHNNY LOVE. Nagtakuban siya sa pangalan, "D_BystandeR".  Natawo siya sa Sugbo apan anaa na karon manimuyo sa Illinois sa tinipong nasod sa Amerika. Ang kusog nga koneksyon sa kasayuran pinaagi sa internet kanunayng naghaling sa iyang kadasig  pagtuki sa mga nagbukalbukal nga hisgutanan dinhi sa atong nataran. Usa siya ka magsusulat nga gradwado sa kursong komersiyo padulong sa pagka accountant sa University of San Carlos kaniadtong tuig 1961.  Nahimo siyang miyembro sa usa ka hugpong sa mga batan-ong magsusulat nga gitawag ug STUDENT PRESS.  Nahimo usab siyang   Associate Editor sa basahon  USC-JPIAN sa tuig 1962-63. Magtatampo usab siya isip magsusulat sa nasudnong magasin,  "Philippines Free Press" ug sa mga nag-unang peryodiko dinhi sa dakbayan sa Sugbo sa lunhaw pa ang iyang pangedaron. Nahimo siyang mamumuo sa usa ka pribadong kompaniya sa dakbayan sa Sugbo, ESCANO LINES, sulod sa napulo ug duha (12) ka tuig  dayon niyang tapon  ngadto sa NAPOCOR  ug nahimong kawani sa kagamhanan  sulod sa bayente dos (22) ka tuig. Niadtong tunga-tungang bahin sa tuig 2000, nilalin siya ngadto sa tinipong nasod sa Amerika ug sulod sa napulo (10) ka tuig, nagtrabaho siya sa  buhatan sa kagamhanan sa nasod sama  sa  UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE (USPS).  Karon sa pangedaron nga 67,  gihuptan gihapon niya ang walay pagkutat nga kadasig ug walay busganan nga kaikag sa pagpaambit sa iyang nahuptang abilidad  ug kabatid sa panulat.  Dili niya mapugngan ang kaugalingon sa pagpaambit sa iyang mga hunahuna labi na kon molambigit kini ug hisgotanan nga makadani sa iyang mga mata.)