Ang Kwento ng Kasuputan ni Onse (Bakit Ikaw ba tuli?)

Nang sinuntok nya ako at pumutok ang nguso, hindi ko yun ininda, hindi ko yun naramdaman. Mas masakit ang panunuksong inaabot ko kay Tony sa tuwing nasasalubong sya sa labasan.

Kababata ko si Tony, kame nila Kuykoy, J.B, Onel at Rr sa lugar namin sa Maligaya. Magkakasama kameng naglalaro ng agawan base, baseball, football at black 123 sa  bukid. Madami kameng kalokohan kapag magkakasama.

“Hoy Onse supot! Patuli ka na kung hindi mutain ang magiging anak mo.” Yan ang laging salubong saken ni Tony nitong ilang mga buwan kapag nagkikita kame.Palibhasa mga tuli na sila at ako nalang ang natitirang may lambi na nakabalot sa ulo ng aking titi. Noong nakaraang bakasyon nang silang lahat ay nagpatuli sa barberya ni Tata Deking. Tuwing bakasyon ay hindi nalang  buhok ang ginugupitan dito kundi pati narin titi ng mga nagbibinata tulad ng mga kababata ko.

Malas lang dahil hindi ako nakasabay sa kanila noon sa pagpunta sa barberya ni tata Deking. Katwiran ko sa edad  kasing 11 ay hindi pa ako tagpos kaya hindi pa dapat tuliin. Ngayon ay nasa kalagitnaan ng taon sa eskwela, hindi magtutuli si Tata Deking. Ang kahulugan noon ay ilang buwan ko pang titiisin ang kantyaw ng aking tropa.

“Supot na Onse! Mutain ang magiging anak mo nyan. Patuli ka na!” kantyaw muli ni Tony habang naglalaro kame ng basketball nila Kuykoy, J.B, Onel at Rr. Napahiya ako. Nawala ang konsentrasyon sa paglalaro. Hindi gumana ang aking mga peydawey, hook shot at jump shot. Lalong nawalan ng bisa ang aking mga lay-up dahil kahit mga tropa kong sila Kuykoy ay sumasama na rin sa pagtawang pinasimulan ni Tony.

Minsan sa tindahan nila aling Iska habang bumibili ako ng softdrink, kinantyawan nya ako ng ganito sa harap ng maraming tao. Para akong nanliit sa gitna ng halakhakan at hiyawan ng mga tambay na mga binata sa amin. Nakakagalit lalo tingnan ang naglalawa sa laway na bunganga ni Uman habang pinagtatawanan ako. Sa inis ko ay kumaripas na lamang ng takbo pauwi sa amin.

Ilang araw akong nagmukmok sa bahay. Pinagtyagaang sabayan ang trip panuorin na palabas sa t.v ng nakababata akong kapatid-  ang Heidi(anak ng kabundukan) at Sarah( ang munting prinsesa) sa gabi ay ang drama na Ezperansa at Mula sa Puso.Kating-kati na ang paa ko na tumakbo sa  bukid at manghuli ng mga nagliliparang subsob-tae(maliliit na salagubang) sa paglubog ng araw. Hindi ko muna yun magagawa dahil kapag nakita ako ni Tony ay tiyak kakantayawan muli nya ako ng mga katagang nagpapapanting sa aking pandinig.

Akala ko magiging mapayapa na ako pagdating sa eskwela. Ilang lingo na ring bahay-eskwela nalang ang mundo ko dahil sa pag-iwas sa mga kantyaw ni Tony. Pero nakalimutan yatang sa paaralang pinapasukan ko, ay doon din pumapasok si Tony at ang tropa kong sila J.b, Kuykoy, at Onel. Lamang lang sila ng isang taon saken, grade 5 ako at grade 6 silang apat.

Tinakpan ko ang aking mukha at nakayukong sasalubong sa dagsa ng papauwi nang mga grade 6 na sina Tony. Papasok palang kame na mga grade 5. “Hoy Onse supot! Akala mo hindi kita makikita ha. Patuli ka na kung hindi mutain ang magiging anak mo”, bulyaw muli ni Tony sa akin.

Halos gusto ko nang mamatay nung oras na iyon. Gusto kong biglang maglaho, mag-teleport gaya nang ginagawang technique ni Son Gokou. Gusto kong maglaho sa sobrang kahihiyang supot pa ako. Hindi pa ako tuli at baka maging mutain ang magiging anak ko balang-araw.

Pero teka bakit ko ba ito dinadamdam? Ano ba kung hindi pa ako tuli? At ano ba ang kinalaman ng pagiging supot sa pagiging mutain ng magiging anak ko? Sabi ni Kuykoy nung nagkukwentuhan kame isang gabi, habang naka-upo sa mga manhole na nagpapabigat sa poste ng ring ng court, na kailangan daw matuli ng isang nagbibinata para maging malinis ang katawan. Marumi daw kasi yung mga puti na tinatawag na kupal na nasa ilalim ng mga lambi. Kaya para mawala yun ay dapat matuli para maging malinis.

Sabi naman ng cathecism teacher naming  si Sis. Susan, nagsimula daw yung tradisyon ng pagtutuli na tinatawag na “Rite of Passage” sa mga hudyo noong panahon ni Abraham nang tinuli nya si Isaac. Hudyat ang ritwal na ito na maaari nang hanapan nang mapapangasawa ang binatang edad 12. Tulad ng sa ngayon, ang dahilan nya ay para maging malinis si Isaac.

Kung ganun dahil supot pa ako ay marumi na ako? Paanong yun ang naging pamantayan? Araw-araw akong naliligo bago pumasok sa eskwela at nagsisipilyo ng ngipin, hindi tulad ni Tony na inirereklamo ni Titser Ongchangco ng pagiging dugyutin. Pumapasok  nga ito  na may panis na laway pa ang bibig at gulu-gulo ang buhok na hitik sa lisa.

Napanatag ang loob ko. Dumerecho ng paglalakad papuntang klase. Hindi ko na pinansin ang walang patid na tawanan ng mga kamag-aral pang-aasar sa akin ni Tony. Nagtatawa ang ilan sa kanila kahit tulad ko din namang supot pa. Natatawa sila dahil hindi sila yung inasar pero kung sila yun ay baka sobra pa sa reaksyon ko ang gagawin nila.

Habang nagtuturo si Ms. Pillo ng aralin sa HEKASI(Heograpiya, Kasaysayan at Sibil) kaugnay sa katangian ng Bansang Pilipinas (Likas-Yaman at Yamang-Tao) ay naglalaro sa isip ko ito…

At sino ang supot sa amin? Sila na natatawa dahil mayroong isang bata na supot pa. E sino ba ang sinilang sa mundo na tuli? Sila yata itong supot ang isip. Kapag hindi sumabog ang paputok, tinatawag na supot. Kapag  hindi lumipad ang space rocket ni Dexter sa kanyang laboratory sasabihing supot din. Lahat ng palpak ay supot!

Kung ang kahulugan ng supot ay palpak, e kung ganun ay supot din si Pangulong Ramos at Erap na sinundan ni Gloria at ngayon ay si P.NOY. Dahil lahat sila ay kasuputan ang naging programa at polisiya. Hindi pa rin natatagpos ang pagiging supot sa kahirapan ng mahigit kalahati ng mga Pilipino. Supot ang mga senador at kongresista dahil puro budyet na lang nila ang pinagdidebatehan sa halos buong taon imbes gumawa ng batas. Supot ang Korte Suprema dahil usad pagong pa rin ang pagresolba sa mga kaso tulad ng nangyari sa kapitbahay kong si Mang Ed na pinatay ng isang pulis dahil napagbintangang drug-pusher.

At supot ang ekonomiya ng bansa dahil hindi pa rin ito makaigpaw sa utang panlabas at pag-asa sa pag-iimport ng mga produkto base sa napag-aralan namin sa HEKASI kanina. Higit sa lahat ay supot ang kamalayan ng mga Pilipino. Dahil nananatiling kolonyal, materialistiko, at tatak alipin ang madami sa mga ito. Parang si kuya Cesar na kapitbahay namin na naniniwalang  wala nang pag-asa ang Pilipinas. Mabuti pa daw sana kung hilingin sa U.S na gawin nila tayong probinsya. Nasa Maligaya lang sya buong buhay nya at naghihintay ng kung anong swerteng dadating. Katwiran nya ay wala namang pinag-iba ang pananatili sa paglayo. Huwag nalang daw kumilos. Huwag nang gumalaw.

Pagka-alas-6 ng gabi, tumunog na ang buzzer. Oras na ng uwian. Tumakbo ako ng pagkabilis-bilis pauwi ng bahay. Hindi dahil may hapdi at humihilab ang aking tiyan kung hindi gusto kong makaharap si Tony, ang tuli kong kaaway.

“Hoy Tony tama na ang pamamahiya mo sa akin. Supot nga ako pero ilang buwan na lang ay matutuli na rin. Ikaw tuli ka nga pero parang supot ka pa rin!” sigaw ko sa kanya nang maabutan ko syang naglalaro ng luksong baka sa bukid kasama ang katropa nyang sina Harlo at Mamong.

Sinuntok nya ako bigla sa nguso. Agad itong sumabog at nagdugo. Siniko ko naman sya sa likod at sinuntok sa sikmura. Napaluhod si Tony sa sakit ng masikmuraan. Tumalikod ako para umuwi ng bahay. Kampanteng matatapos na ang pangangantyaw dahil mayroon akong napatunayan ngayong gabi. Supot nga ako pero mayroong lakas. Mayroong lakas ng loob na makakayang harapin ang labahang puputol sa sobra kong lambi.

Sinuntok ako ni Tony. Sabog at nagdudugo ang nguso sa lakas ng kanyang suntok. Pero hindi ko yun ininda. Hindi ko yun naramdaman. Mas tumimo sa akin ang mga salita nyang ako ang pinatatamaan. Supot nga ako, e ano naman? Bukas makalawa haharapin ko si Tata Deking at puputulin itong sobrang balat sa gitna ng aking katawan.

Kung gusto mo Tony, titingnan ko pa habang ito ay nilalabaha ni tata Deking.

At mula sa leksyong natutunan ko kay Ma’am Pillo ngayong araw tungkol sa katangian ng Pilipinas, susubaybayan ko rin ang kasuputan ng lipunan. Pag-aaralan ko kung saan at kung papaano ako maka-ambag para mapatagpos ito mula sa kanyang kasuputan.

At pusta ko wala akong aray na ibubulong sa hangin. Mas masakit ang salitang binitawan kaysa sa suntok na bumasag at nagpadugo sa aking nguso- na nagpatuli sa akin. ###

Maikling Kwento

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How Do You Turn Garbage Into Hundreds Of Thousands Of Dollars? This Man Found The Answer!

THIS! This right here is what happens when recycling meets brilliant creativity! John Lopez is a sculptor from South Dakota and he takes pieces of farm scrap metal and turns them into magnificent artwork. His massive sculptures, which include a horse and a Texas Longhorn, are inspired by the American West. The attention to detail is nothing short of spectacular!

Symptoms and Signs of Diabetes

Detecting diabetes early is essential to starting a person on the path to better health. Many of the signs and symptoms of type 1 diabetes are the same as type 2 diabetes even though the reasons the person develops the diabetes are different. This is due to the ultimate effect of having extra glucose or sugar in the blood stream. Both type one and type 2 diabetes can be diagnosed in all age groups. Type 1 diabetes is usually detected in children and young adults and type 2 diabetes usually is diagnosed at an older age. (1) This essay is to help you understand the signs and symptoms of diabetes and why they occur.

As mentioned above, many of the signs and symptoms of type 1 and type 2 diabetes are the same but it is relevant to itemize them in two separate lists. Some of the entries will be duplicated due to the effect of extra glucose in the blood steam. In type 1 diabetes, in some people, extremely life threatening symptoms may be detected very early. This is due to the fact that it is an autoimmune disease and destroys the beta cells which produce insulin needed to keep blood glucose stabilized. Due to the lack of insulin, the person must learn the skills to replace insulin the rest of their life. The onset of type 2 diabetes usually takes more time and is insidious.  It may sneak up slowly with a gradual elevation of blood glucose over a longer period of time. 

What are the symptoms of type 1 diabetes?

The symptoms of diabetes that are learned by most professionals include polydipsia (increased extreme thirst), polyphagia (increased hunger), and polyuria (increased urination).  
Glucose or sugar in the blood stream needs insulin for uptake into many of the cells of the body. When insulin is not available, glucose builds up in the blood. The kidneys which usually function to prevent glucose from leaving the body through urination will not be able to work properly due to the increase concentration of glucose. Excess sugar or glucose draws fluid out from body tissues and is excreted in the urine. This causes a dramatic increase in urination (polyuria) which causes dehydration. The body tries to compensate with extreme thirst (polydipsia). The body’s cells also need to be fed which causes extreme hunger (polyphagia). This cycle is known by some as “starving in the land of plenty”. The glucose is in the body but it can’t get into the cells to be used for energy. This is an urgent dangerous situation!
It is important to know that approximately 90 percent of children diagnosed with type 1 diabetes do not have a family history of the disease. (2) 

Signs and Symptoms of Type 1 Diabetes for quick reference

According to the JDRF (formerly called the Juvenile Diabetes Research Fund), the signs and symptoms of type 1 diabetes must be taken very seriously. Many times the signs and symptoms are similar to having a severe cold or the flu. Call your doctor immediately if these are displayed. The signs and symptoms are referenced from the JDRF (3) If you do not have a doctor or can’t get ahold of yours, call an urgent care center or go to the hospital to get care.

1. Extreme thirst
2. Frequent urination
3. Sudden vision changes (increased blood glucose causes the lens of the eye to change in shape and swell. This causes vision changes) (4) 
4. Glucose or sugar in the urine
5. An odor found on the breath that is sweet and fruity (this is a sign that the body is using fat as energy since the glucose is not available for the cells. The term for this is diabetes ketoacidosis and can be life threatening. (5)
6. Increased appetite with sudden weight loss
7. Sleepy, drowsy and lethargic (the body is not getting enough glucose in the cells which may lead to this symptom)(6) 
8. Breathing that is heavy and labored and going into a stupor, lethargic and perhaps unconsciousness (these are signs of ketoacidosis. See number 5). (3)

What are the symptoms of type 2 diabetes?

Type 2 diabetes is different than type 1 diabetes. It is not an autoimmune disease and usually develops slowly. The body still produces insulin but the insulin may not be effectively used or is “resisted” by the cells of the body. This is why many people with Type 2 diabetes are told they’re “insulin resistant”. Medications may be needed to decrease this resistance. Over time in many people with type 2 diabetes, insulin may be needed. The body may not be able to make enough insulin or the insulin that is made by the body is not effective. As mentioned above, many of the signs and symptoms of type 2 diabetes are the same as type 1 diabetes because the net result is having excessive glucose in the blood. 

Signs and Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes for quick reference

As type 2 diabetes develops gradually, many people with type 2 diabetes do not have any symptoms. It is important to go to your physician on a regular basis to be evaluated for diabetes. The Canadian Diabetes Association lists the following symptoms for type 2 diabetes. (7)
If these occur, call your doctor for an evaluation. Refer to the type 1 diabetes list of signs and symptoms for the reasoning of some of the symptoms. In some cases, they are the same because of the net result of increased glucose in the blood.  

1. Extreme thirst
2. Frequent Urination
3. Weight change (for type 2 this could be a weight loss as in type 1 or a weight gain. People with type 2 diabetes increase their resistance to insulin when they gain weight. This will decrease the ability of cells in the body to use insulin and the result is an increased blood glucose.)
4. Fatigue 
5. Vision changes and blurring of vision
6. Frequent infections (bacteria tends to thrive when blood glucose is high, this may include urinary tract infections and yeast infections)
7. Wounds and cuts that take a long time to heal 
8. Tingling and numbness in the extremities (fingers and feet) High blood glucose over time can lead to damage to the nerves. This is a type of neuropathy common in diabetes.
9. In men, trouble with erections. See my past blogs on erectile dysfunction and diabetes. 

As you can see, it is important to know the signs and symptoms of diabetes. Do not delay in calling your physician if you think you may have diabetes. The only way to be sure is to be tested. Talk to your health care team and get further guidance about this very important issue. If there are signs and symptoms of type 1 diabetes, treat this as a medical emergency. Get help immediately!

If you're exhibiting symptoms, fill out our Am I at Risk for Diabetes Calculator to see how high your risk is for developing diabetes.

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HISTORY'S MOST SADISTIC SERIAL KILLER

Carl Panzram — a tattooed, 6-foot-tall giant of a man with cold gray eyes — stowed away on a ship bound for Angola around 1920 to work as a merchant seaman. After arriving in Lobito Bay, he hired a half-dozen local guides for a crocodile-hunting expedition. But Panzram had other prey on his mind. As their canoe wended its way down the river, he shot each crew member dead before feeding their corpses to the hungry crocodiles lurking below.

That was just one of many crimes, including 21 murders and more than 1,000 rapes of young boys and men, Panzram admitted to committing. Unlike charming and cunning serial killers Ted Bundy or Rodney Alcala, Panzram remained brutally honest. “For all of these things, I am not the least bit sorry,” he seethed in his autobiography, penned from his prison cell. “I hate the whole damned human race including myself.”

But could he really be that bad? Yes, at least according to experts who have studied him and found that the roots of his evil could be traced back to his childhood. Born in 1891 to a poor farming family in Minnesota, Panzram’s father abandoned his family when he was about 8 years old. Soon after, Panzram landed in a reform school called Red Wing for a string of burglaries. Red Wing schooled Panzram in sadism, punishing him with beatings and rapes, which led him to a realization: “‘The world is this shithole, and I’m going to go through the world and wreak havoc in it,’” said Harold Schechter, a true-crime writer specializing in serial killers.

“Hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard!” he sneered at the executioner. “I could kill 10 men while you’re fooling around!”

After graduating, he spent years sleeping on freight trains. During one ride in a boxcar, he was gang raped by transients — leaving him “a sadder, sicker but wiser boy,” Panzram wrote. In 1915, he traveled through Idaho, California and other states along the Columbia River, burning and burglarizing buildings and raping countless young men and boys. Around the same time, Panzram was sentenced to seven years at the Oregon State Penitentiary for burglary. To punish his unruliness, the wardens hung him from the rafters for hours, turned a hose on him, and kept him in solitary confinement for weeks, leaving him to feed on cockroaches.

Not long after escaping in 1918, Panzram committed his first murders. In New York, he hired sailors to work on a yacht bought with his robbery bounty, lulled them to sleep with alcohol and shot­­­­­ them dead — all 10 of them. Soon after, he set sail for Angola, raping and killing a young boy before the crocodile-hunting expedition. About a year later, he hid aboard a Lisbon-bound ship, only to find that the police there were on the lookout for him, aware of his crimes in Africa. So, soon after, he stowed away on a ship to the U.S.

In 1928, Panzram was arrested for a series of burglaries and jailed in Washington, D.C. After a warden found out that he had tried to escape, the guards handcuffed and suspended him from a beam, beating him unconscious. Feeling sorry for Panzram, 26-year-old prison guard Henry Lesser handed him a dollar to buy food and cigarettes. “No one had ever been kind to him in his life,” said John Borowski, who directed the 2012 documentary Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Vengeance. Over time, the two became friends. Each day, Lesser slipped him a pencil and a few sheets of paper, convincing him to write his life story.

Panzram was sentenced to 25 years at United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth in Kansas. There, he crushed laundry foreman Robert Warnke’s skull with an iron bar, landing a spot on death row and refusing human rights groups’ efforts to spare him from the gallows. After years of abuse, “it was his form of suicide,” Borowski said. Panzram got the death he craved in September 1930. “Hurry it up, you Hoosier bastard!” he seethed at the executioner — “rage personified,” as he referred to himself, until the end. “I could kill 10 men while you’re fooling around!”

Lesser kept Panzram’s writings, but publishers weren’t comfortable with the graphic manuscript until 1970, when it was published as Killer: A Journal of Murder. “The guy was really quite an amazing writer,” said Joe Coleman, who painted the cover art for the book, and who was “struck by the intelligence and the things [Panzram] could have been capable of.”

Beyond helping criminologists better understand the minds of killers like Panzram, Borowski said the autobiography serves as a lesson — one that still holds relevance amid recent reports of inmate abuse at Rikers Island and other prisons. “He tries to teach our future generations not to create more monsters like him,” he said, adding that Panzram, “above anybody else, should be listened to.”

Community

• Synonyms
• Examples
• Word Origin

noun, plural communities.

1.

a social group of any size whose members residein a specific locality, share government, and oftenhave a common cultural and historical heritage.

2.

a locality inhabited by such a group.

3.

a social, religious, occupational, or other groupsharing common characteristics or interests andperceived or perceiving itself as distinct in somerespect from the larger society within which itexists (usually preceded by the):

the business community; the community ofscholars.

4.

a group of associated nations sharing commoninterests or a common heritage:

the community of Western Europe.

5.

Ecclesiastical. a group of men or women leading acommon life according to a rule.

6.

Ecology. an assemblage of interacting populationsoccupying a given area.

7.

joint possession, enjoyment, liability, etc.:

community of property.

Barangay

A barangay (Brgy. or Bgy.; Filipino: baranggay, [baɾaŋˈɡaj]), formerly calledbarrio, is the smallest administrative division in the Philippines and is the native Filipino term for a village, district or ward. In colloquial usage, the term often refers to an inner city neighbourhood, a suburb or a suburban neighborhood.^{[citation needed]} The word barangay originated from balangay, a kind of boat used by a group of Austronesian peoples when they migrated to the Philippines. Municipalities and cities are composed of barangays, and they may be further subdivided into smaller areas called purok (English: zone), and sitio, which is a territorial enclave inside a barangay, especially in rural areas. As of September 30, 2012, there were a total of 42,028 barangays throughout the Philippines.

Speech

Full Definition of SPEECH

1

a :  the communication or expression of thoughts in spoken words

b :  exchange of spoken words :  conversation

2

a :  something that is spoken :  utterance

b :  a usually public discourse :  address

3

a :  language, dialect

b :  an individual manner or style of speaking

4

:  the power of expressing or communicating thoughts by speaking

See speech defined for English-language learners 

See speech defined for kids 

Examples of SPEECH

1. She has to make a speech at the convention.
2. a graduation speech about embracing future challenges
3. I was so flustered that I momentarily lost the power of speech.
4. Slang is used mostly in informal speech.
5. Many words are more common in speech than in writing.

Origin of SPEECH

Middle English speche, from Old English sprǣc, spǣc; akin to Old Englishsprecan to speak — more at speak

First Known Use: before 12th century

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18 Year Old Woman, Forced to Marry a Dog to Break Curse! When the wedding starts, find out how the dog reacted!

Marriage is one of the most precious and unforgettable moments of one's life - especially for a woman. It is the sanctity of marriage that is bound through a wedding, accepting their partners for all they are. But this marriage ceremony in India will definitely blow your mind.

Meet this 18-year-old woman who was ordered to get married with a stray dog so she could revert the curse cast upon her. The tribal ritual was utilized to fend off evil spell reigning over Mangli Munda in Jharkhand, India. The lavish wedding was organized by the elders of the village who influenced Munda's parents to think that she's ill-lucked and that the community and her family would suffer if she ever marries a man.

That is the reason why, the girl's father looked for a stray dog and he found Sheru, which was brought to the marriage ceremony through a chauffeur car. Uneducated Mangli told she doesn't want to get married with the dog but if it would take her out of the misfortune for her family and village, she'll oblige. Hesitant, she said:  ‘I am marrying a dog because the village elders believe that my evil spell will be passed on to the dog. ‘After that is done, the man I will marry will have a long life.’

Part of the ritual of the wedding between Mangli and the stray dog, Sheru. Around 70 of their relatives attended the wedding where people danced through traditional drumming.

According to Mangli, the said ritual have become a tradition for their village. In fact, this is not the first time a local girl has to endure wedding ceremony with a dog. An elder said: added: ‘Many weddings like this have taken place in our village and also the other neighbouring villages. This is a custom that we thoroughly believe in.’

Mangli's mother, Devi, also said: ‘Apart from the fact that the groom is a dog, we followed all customs. We respect the dog as much as we would respect a normal groom. We had to spend money on this wedding in the same way as we would in a normal wedding. But that is the only way we can get rid of her bad luck and ensure the benevolence of the village.’