*Awww*

We cannot blame someone if he or she has become jaded and cynical about the world. After all, he or she has compelling reasons to feel so. In the Philippines alone, there are numerous and escalating cases of rape, theft, robbery, murder, among others, what more across the globe.

Last year, I posted a blog comment (Malady) about how a Chinese girl was left unconscious in the middle of a busy street after she was hit by a motorcycle. The street was brimming with passersby yet, nobody cared to help the little girl. She died afterward.

However, there are moments that will bring you back to the realization, that somehow, there are still good Samaritan out there. Below is a re-post from Cavnews.wordpress.com (21 Pictures That Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity).

I felt so good and touched to find out that the world is not as wicked as I thought it was. Cheers to brotherhood and universal love. After all, amid a number of seemingly different world religions, we all long for the same thing: love and world peace.

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1. This picture of Chicago Christians who showed up at a gay pride parade to apologize for homophobia in the Church.

(Michelle Gantner / Maladjusted Media) 

… and the reaction from the parade.

(Michelle Gantner / Maladjusted Media)

2. This story about Japanese senior citizens who volunteered to tackle the nuclear crisis at Fukushima power station so that young people wouldn’t have to subject themselves to radiation.

Source: bbc.co.uk

3. This picture of two Norwegian guys rescuing a sheep from the ocean.

4. This sign at an awesome bookshop.

Source: helsinki-syndrome.tumblr.com

5. This poll about what Snooki should name her child.

6. The moment in which this Ohio athlete stopped to help an injured competitor across the finish line during a track meet.

17-year-old Meghan Vogel was in last place in the 3,200-meter run when she caught up to competitor Arden McMath, whose body was giving out. Instead of running past her to avoid the last-place finish, Vogel put McMath’s arm around her shoulders, carried her 30 meters, and then pushed her over the finish line before crossing it.

Image by The Daily Call, Mike Ullery / AP

7. This exchange between a 3-year-old girl and a shopping center.

8. This note that was handed to a waiter along with a $20 bill by an elderly lady in his restaurant.

9. This sign at an awesome Subway restaurant.

10. This picture of a villager carrying stranded kittens to dry land during floods in Cuttack City, India.

Image by Biswaranjan Rout / AP

Image by Biswaranjan Rout / AP

11. This sign at an awesome drycleaner’s.

Plaza Cleaners in Portland, OR, helped over 2,000 unemployed workers who couldn’t afford dry cleaning. The store’s owner estimated that it cost his company $32,000 dollars.

12. This photograph of a man giving his shoes to a homeless girl in Rio de Janeiro.

13. This picture of a firefighter administering oxygen to a cat rescued from a house fire.

(TOM BAUER/Missoulian)

14. And this one.

Image by Chris Butler / AP

15. This interaction between a Guatemalan girl and a tourist she just met.

16. This gesture from a neighbor.

17. These photos of two children collaborating to rescue a dog who had fallen into a ravine.

18. This note on a young family’s check.

19. This exchange between a protester and a soldier during a protest in Brazil.

(Imagens/ TVBA)

20. These pictures of a man jumping into rough waters to rescue a stranger’s Shih Tzu in Melbourne.

Sue Drummond was walking her beloved Shih Tzu, Bibi, on a pier in Melbourne, when a fierce gust of wind picked him up and hurled him into the rough waters of the bay. A passerby, Raden Soemawinata, who happened to be on the pier that day to scatter his grandmother’s ashes, wasted no time in stripping down and diving into the bay to rescue the animal.

(Photos: Chris Scott)

Via: news.com.au

21. And this photograph of two best friends on a swing.

Source: volobuev.me

cannot understand queue

Queue –(n.) line ; (v.) to line up and wait your turn

Beyond the difficulty reading this British English word, Filipinos cannot seem to understand the meaning, more so, the essence of queue. Pinoys do not know how to form a line, at least, in their own country. On one hand, we follow every rule when outside Filipinas or Pilipinas. (There’s a petition on changing the name of the Philippines, by the way.)

What ‘s up with getting ahead of other people, at the dispense of physically hurting them? Witnessing cat fights and hearing curse words in LRT and MRT stations have been a constant scenario that foreigners find amusing. 

Hordes of passengers trying to get in and come out alive from these trains that will take you to destinations at faster rates; men and women elbowing one another just to get in even before other passengers have come out—these and more are welcoming scenes in a nearby train station. 

I’ve experienced how it is to be pushed over by throngs of Amazonas who of course aim to get a seat or a strategic spot (near the entrance). And it’s not good. Why can’t we just peacefully let the outgoing travellers out first before we get in? 

Getting ahead of someone on the dispense of hurting him or her is also noticeable in elevators. Everybody’s aiming to push that floor number before anybody else as if it the elevator will go to a specific floor that’s buzzed first. 

Lahat naguunahan. 

Why do we do these? Perhaps, these seemingly simple, mundane things are one of the easiest ways to feel triumphant over a stranger. It’s that or we simply don’t know how to pay respect.

early bird catches the, what?

I won an award--- for being an early bird. Just recently, I received a facial GC from the Asian Stem Cell Institute (ASCI) because apparently, I was very early --- again. 

I arrived at the venue 30 minutes earlier than the supposed call time. I don't know why I arrive ahead of schedule in most of my coverages even if I know that most of them start at least an hour late. It's just that I either don't want to miss anything or want to look very haggard, a mess, if don't follow the call time. 

But I do mind waiting, of course, especially when the event turns out to be a... so-so. 

The Philippine time has recently been unified and standardized in the hopes of abolishing the habit of coming late. But I guess to no avail.