Best mama in the world!

Today August 14, 2009, I asked my son to greet his Lola Happy Birthday. He's a bit surprised to know that today is the exact day. And then he replied: “Poor lola, it’s her birthday today and she's got injury." I said why did you thought about that? Lola is doing well now that the wound on her foot was stitched properly by the premium doctors in the finest hospital in our country, and one of the most expensive too.
Yes, that's how we love mama; we always give her the best because she deserved it, since mama is always giving her best for us.
That night when she got wounded, was one of her effort not to disburb me on my sleep. She was trying to fix/ reach the light herself instead of waking me up and ask me to do it; sadly she fell off the chair and stepped on a sharp and corroded object. I felt guilty about it actually, but I finally realized…that's mama. I mean she would do anything herself and try not to be a burden to others. At her age, she still clean the dishes, wash the cloths, take care of our kids, go to palengke provide our every needs, instead of actually being pampered and everything.
I said to my son, I believe that mama is not in poor condition. She’s got the best and most loving 8 siblings in the world, she’s got so many good-looking apo that I can’t count on my fingers, even those who were not with us anymore and those who are living abroad. She also managed to see her cute “apo sa tuhod” at mga “bibo at biba pa”. Mama is so lucky to have also the sweetest and caring “manugangs” in the world, and also to have the friendliest biyenans, so friendly that they visit and talk to her, watch “Eat Bulaga and Wowowee” almost everyday. She’s so lucky to have kins nationwide and worldwide that still remember and greet her even thru email. Not all moms get in the same situation as her.
I appreciate all of you who are showing your love to mama the best way you could, I can see all that because at my age I still have the priviledge of living beside her and I am so thankful about that. We did our best for the best mama in the world, and I supposed that if there is such thing as “better” than “the best” we will as well give it to her.
Let’s continue our effort, I know mama appreciates it and I know mama is happy with it. And this time, we can without a doubt say… “Happy Birthday Best Mama in the World!” "Happy Birthday Mama Elena Barcena!"

Sayang natakpan si Tonad sa Pic, tapos nasa Japan ng time na to si Kuya Jun at Ate Marie, ito kasi pinaka cute na picture ni mama eh.

Bayan DSL Turtle Net

It's been a month now or more I think that we are having trouble with the speed on our internet connection. Believe it or not, it's slower than the time when I was using that noisy ancient modem.
Well I was supposed to be doing my work by this time but I cant. I cant even check my Yahoo email:
My clients is loosing patience with me because they might be thinking that I was just making some excuses as if this is one on my many delaying tactics.
And you know what? That's not the only case...

"I can't even download Images from Flickr," my goodness it's just JPEG! My dinosaur modem during the early 90's can even download BMP "FAST".

Now?... What do I get?...

How is this possible? I can't even count the times I contacted their Customer Service and discuss my problem. Though in fairness to them they were taking some actions on their part like restarting the server and something like that, changing connections, changing the splitter and they even change my Modem into a brand new one?

BUT... What seemed to be wrong?

They often ask me to check the speed on "speedtest.net" and the result is always like this:

Well, according to them this test result is fast, I actually have 781KB/s Download speed and 745KB/s for upload.

But in reality, that's not what's happening to me.

So for the 4th time they asked me to Print Screen a speed diagnostic by running CMD.Exe just like this one:

This is to prove that I'm really geting a very very slow speed. They asked me to type "tracert www.yahoo.com "and email the result to them which I did, to my surprise on how stupid I am... I realized... how am I supposed to email this to them while the "email" itself is my problem?

So while waiting for my "yahoo email" to connect, I decided to write my rant about this. You know, It's not that I'm so against Bayan DSL, but you have to understand, I'm going to loose so many clients if this would keep on happening to me.

In fairness to Bayan DSL, they are accommodating unlike other internet customer service "based on others testimonies." But as of now, that's not what I needed, "I need internet connection". Ok I'll be patient on the speed for while, but my golly it's not even loading.

"Sigh" now that I'm finished Blogging about my madness, I actually checked if I could access yahoo mail which is loading for about 15 minutes now, and here's what I get:

If somebody out there knows the reason why this keeps on happening to my connection, feel free to comment below. I'm having trouble connecting on the following sites, Yahoo, Yahoo Mail, Flickr, Getty Images, Twitter, Facebook. Other than that, it's okay, "JUST Okay". YouTube is surprisingly fast though.

If this would keep on happening to me until after a week or so, I think I'll try another Internet Service Provider.

Bayan DSL, don't take this personally, I was just sharing my experience, and at the same time asking for help about my Internet problem that you yourself cannot pinpoint why.

I'm a paying customer, and I should get what you promised in return.

Help! I need HELP!

It's 12:49AM I can't work anymore, I need to sleep, Well I'll just post this Blog and hope that tomorrow will be a different kind of day, where every site is just one click away...

...Dream on!

Paalam tita Cory Aquino

Paalam tita Cory Aquino. Kalilibing lang niya kanina (August 5, 2009) kung saan pumunta ako mismo at sumalubong sa kaniyang parada.
Lilinawin ko lang muna ang lahat bago ko magsimula. Sa tutoo lang hindi ako maka Cory talaga, lumaki ako sa pamilya na malalapit ang puso sa mga Marcos. Wala ring direktang naitulong sa akin ang dating Pangulong Aquino, ni hindi ko siya nakita sa personal, at madami ding mga desisyon ang kaniyang administrasyon na hindi ko ganap na sinasang ayunan.
Pero sa hindi inaasahang pagkakataon. Simula ng nalugmok sa karamdaman ang Dating Pangulo sinama ko na siya sa panalangin ko at sa tutoo lang nailalagay ko na rin siya sa pang araw araw kong post sa Twitter, hanggang sa hindi ko namamalayan na ang dati kong pulang sumbrero ay unti unti nang nagiging dilaw.
Ano ba ang magic na mayroon si tita Cory. Palagay ko hindi habag ang nararamdaman ko sa kaniya kung bakit unti unting napalapit ang loob ko. Marahil ang isa sa unang dahilan ay ang pagiging matibay niya sa pakikipag laban, sa lahat ng uri ng laban. Sinaliksik ko maigi ang buhay ng Dating Pangulong Aquino. At habang nakikilla ko siya lalo akong humahanga sa kaniya. Marahil ang mga dati kong nalalaman patungkol kay Pangulong Aquino ay udyok ng Media na kumakalaban sa kaniya. At tuluyan na ngang naging dilaw ang kulay ng lahat ng channel ko sa internet. Sa kantunayan Ito ang kauna unahan kong Blog, at si tita Cory ang aking inspirasyon.
Hindi sa tinatalikuran ko ang pag hanga at pagkilala ko sa mga Marcos lalung-lalo na kay Apo Ferdinand na kamakailan lang ay dinalaw namin sa Ilocos, bagkus pa nga lalo ko silang dinakila nung araw na makita ko na nag bigay ng respeto sina Aimee at Bongbong, lalo pa ulit nung marinig ko ang Dating Unang Ginang Imelda Marcos na nagsalita ng pakikipagkaisa para sa mga Aquino. Sana lang hindi lang ito umpisa, bagkus magpatuloy at tularan ng iba pa nating mga leader na walang ginawa kundi ang mag away. Kung mayron man kayong hindi pagkakasundo alalahanin niyo lang na mas malalim ang mga sugat ng hidwaang Marcos at Aquino.
Tama nga si Mikee Cojuanco Jaworski sa sinabi niya: " Tita Cory has her way of uniting people!" Ang kamatayan niya kagaya ng kamatayan ni Ninoy ay may dalang malaking epekto sa kasaysayan natin.
Ito na rin ang dahilan kung bakit sa halip na magpahinga ako sa bahay sa araw ng bakasyon ay mas pinili kong pumunta at magpakitang suporta sa Pamilyang Aquino. Hindi nasayang ang pagod ko nung nakita ko na tuwang tuwa sila sa amin at nagpapasalamat sa aming ginawa. At isa sa pinakahahangaan kong pangyayari ng araw na iyon ay ang pag baba ni Noynoy sa van upang harapin at makipag usap sa mga tao. Nandun ako, naranasan ko kung gaano ka sikip ang kinalalagyan namin, umaambon, maputik ang kalsada, sari saring amoy at ingay ng mga tao ang nasa paligid. Bagay na para sa akin na ordinaryong tao ay mahirap matagalan. Sa kabila non nakihalubilo sa amin ni Noynoy bago siya bumalik sa Van at ihatid ang kaniyang Ina sa huling hantungan.
Isa itong araw na ito sa mga araw sa buhay ko na hindi ko malilimutan, lalung-lalo na nung makita ko,makatabi, makamayan at maka picture taking ang Dating Pangulong Fider Ramos V. Ramos. Punung-puno ng putik ang pantalon at sapatos ko pero umuwi akong masaya.
Yun nga lang minalas at dahil na rin sa katangahan ko, nadukutan ako. Kaya yung init ng saya ko sa pag uwi ay nabuhusan ng malamig na tubig nung oras na nalaman ko na bukas ang bag ko at wala na ang wallet ko. Maliit na halaga lang ang dala ko nuon, pambili ko sana ng memorabilia kung meron man, pero ang mas pinanghinayangan ko ay ang mahahalaga kong ID, at nakakalungkot na sa mga ganung pagkakataon ay may mga kababayan pa rin tayo na nangingibabaw ang kasamaan sa isipan..
Kaya ayun, kasabay ng pamamaalam ko kay tita Cory sa maikling panahon ng pagkakakilala ko sa kaniya ay namaalam din ako sa aking wallet.
Ngayong gabi, sinuma ko ang lahat ng pangyayari sakin sa nagdaang araw. Oo nalulungkot ako pero sa kabila nuon, hindi ako nanghihinyang dahil nasulyapan ko ang ataul ng Dating Pangulong Aquino. Pumanaw na si tita Cory pero ang aura ay naramdaman ko pa rin lalung-lalo na nung nakalapit ako ng husto sa kaniya. Kamalas malasan lang o tinadhana na rin ng pagkakataon dahil sa sobrang pagka mangha ko sa pag tanaw sa truck na kung saan naruon ang kaniyang labi, hindi ko napansin na ang hawak kong video cam ay hindi pala nag re record. Madalas mangyari sakin ang ganito. Minsan inaakala ko na nakakuha ako sa video ng isang bagay na sobrang importante, pagkatapos nun at panunoorin ko na, di ko na makita. Isa lang ang laging nasasabi ko sa sarili ko, "Ang Tanga ko talaga!"
Ganun pa man may mga magagandang shot din naman ako na nakunan yun nga lang hindi kasing lapit nung nakunan ko sana nung una.
Para sa mga interesadong makita ang video na ito, bisitahin niyo ang YouTube channel ko na "RomiBarcena". Duon ko ia-upload lahat. Maging ang pagsasalita ni Sen. Noynoy katabi si Mayor Alfredo Lim.
Parang naging napakahaba ng linggong ito sakin at halos maubos ang panahon ko kay Pangulong Aquino, pero gaya nga ng sinabi ko nung una, hindi ko ito pinanghihinayangan. Natuwa rin ako nng makita ko ang Twitter account ko sa GMA 7 sa isa sa mga coverage nila para sa pangulong Aquino, nakakatuwang isipin na may nagbabasa pala ng post ko at may nag a appreciate dito.
Anyway, Salamat Tita Cory sa mga bagay na ginawa at tinuro mo sa amin. Alam kong masaya ka na ngayon malaya ka na sa sakit at higit sa lahat kasama mo na si Sen. Ninoy Aquino.
Paalam tita Cory Aquino, hindi kita tita pero tita ka at ina ng bansa kaya proud ako na tawagin kang tita Cory.
Sana ang pangyayaring ito sa bayan natin ngayon ay magsilbing paalala ng tunay na diwa ng EDSA na ipinaglaban natin nuon. Wag nating sayangin.