anecdote 11 – SANTA KULAS christmas trilogy #1
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SANTA KULAS
Pamaskong kuwento #1
Sinulat ni Bernie Lopez
eastwind@motherignaciahealingministry.com
ENGLISH SUMMARY AT THE END.
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EKSENA 1
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ALAS OTSO NANG GABI. PLAZA FERGUSON SA ERMITA. PASKO. MARAMING CHRISTMAS DÉCOR SA PALIGID. ANG MGA PUNO MAY CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. SI MANG KULAS AY 55 NA TAONG GULANG. HINDI NAMAN GULAGULANIT ANG DAMIT NGUNIT SIMPLE LANG. NAKATAYO SA LABAS NG BANGKONG SARADO, MAY MALIIT NA LA MESANG PUNO NG TSOKOLATE. SI JOSIE AY BIHIS NA BIHIS, SEKSING SEKSI ANG DAMIT, ISANG G.R.O. NA PAPASOK SA NIGHT CLUB NIYA. HUMINTO SI JOSIE SA HARAP NI MANG KULAS.
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JOSIE
O, ano, Mang Kulas, nasaan na tsokolate ko?
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INABOT NI MANG KULAS ANG ISANG BAR NG TSOKOLATE KAY JOSIE.
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MANG KULAS
Maaga ka ata ngayon.
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JOSIE
Pasko e. Maraming biyaya ngayon. Ano ba talaga ang gusto mong mangyari? Tatlong taon ka nang tumatambay dito sa teritoryo ko, namimigay ng tsokolate tuwing pasko, pero sa batang grasa lang at sa mga seksing GRO na katulad ko.
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MANG KULAS
Sila … kayo … ang nangangailangan ng tsokolate at konting ligaya, di ba?
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JOSIE
Sabagay. Ano ba talaga ang nakukuha mo riyan?
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MANG KULAS
Wala lang. Masaya lang ako pag nakapagpapasaya, di ba? Nawawala ang lungkot pag pasko.
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JOSIE
Ewan ko nga ba. Sa akin, may konting sayad ka na yata.
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MANG KULAS
Si Josie naman. Ayun, ayun ang may sayad.
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TINURO NI MANG KULAS ANG ISANG BIHIS NA BINATILYONG MARAMING REGALONG DALA. TAWA ANG DALAWA.
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JOSIE
Tingnan mo ha. Dyanitor ka lang dyan, uubusin mo ang sweldo mo (biglang malakas na boses) SA WALA!!
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MANG KULAS
Hoy. 13th month pay (pasigaw rin).
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JOSIE
O sige na, 13th month pay. Tsokolate para sa mga taong ni hindi mo kilala, di mo ka-ano-ano. Yan ang may sayad.
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MANG KULAS
Oy, oy. itto kilala kita?
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JOSIE
Oo naman. Ako lang.
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MANG KULAS
E si Buknoy, Pitong, Andres … si … si … yung mga batang natutulog sa film center … si …
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JOSIE
Oo na nga.
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MANG KULAS
O etong tsokolate para kay Ester, kay Rose, kay Julie, at kay Remy. Saan itto sila?
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SABAY ABOT NI MANG KULAS NG APAT PANG BARS NG TSOKOLATE KAY JOSIE.
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JOSIE
Luneta beat. Akala nila mas okay doon kasi maraming tao. Hirap pumulot doon, panay lovers o bums, chess player. Walang kostumer. Di nila alam itto sa Ferguson, mas okay. Tahimik. Di sila nahihiyang lumapit.
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MANG KULAS
Dahil diyan. (Sabay palo sa puwit ni Josie)
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JOSIE
Di katalo, Mang Kulas. E kung seksi ako, what can I did? In demand ito, oy.
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MANG KULAS
What can I do. Ulol.
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JOSIE
Me sayad ka pa rin. E kung bumibili ka na lang itto pang noche itto para sa pamilya mo.
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MANG KULAS
Wala akong pamilya.
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JOSIE
Oops sori. Oo nga pala.
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MANG KULAS
Nag-iisa ako.
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JOSIE
Gusto mo reto kita. Di ka pa naman above the hill, itto?
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MANG KULAS
Over the hill, ulol.
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PINALO RIN NI JOSIE SA PUWIT SI MANG KULAS. BAGO MAKASAGOT SI MANG KULAS, MAY DUMAANG AMERIKANONG TURISTA, MGA 50 ANYOS NGUNIT BIHIS NA BIHIS. HUMINTO SA HARAP NILA.TUMINGIN SA TSOKOLATE.
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TURISTA
How much?
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JOSIE
Ten dollars. (Napaatras ang kano). Joke lang. One dollar. (Inabot ng turista ang one dollar. Inabot ni Josie ang isang tsokolate at binigay ang pera kay Mang Kulas.) I have something better than chocolate. (Sabay kembot).
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TININGNAN SIYA NG TURISTA NANG MATAGAL.
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TURISTA
You know a nice restaurant around here?
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JOSIE
You like Chinese food?
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TURISTA
Sure.
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JOSIE
Me too. Okay let’s go. (kay Mang Kulas -) O sya. Trabaho na ko. Dollar na ito, baka makaalpas. Eto ang tatlong daan (sabay abot ng pera kay Mang Kulas). Pasayahin mo ang buong mundo. Medyo maganda kita ko kahapon. Arabo.
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MANG KULAS
itto. Okay lang ako.
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JOSIE
Ulol. Tinatanggihan mo ang grasya? Baka sapukin kita. Hindi para sayo yan. Para sa mundo. Pasayahin mo silang lahat. Magsawa ka. Bye!!
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INIPIT NI JOSIE ANG PERA SA MGA TSOKOLATE SA LA MESA. PINALO ANG TURISTA SA PUWIT, UMAKBAY AT SABAY SILANG UMALIS. DUMATING SI BUKNOY AT PITONG, DALAWANG TEENAGER NA BATANG KALYE, MADUNGIS, NAKA TSINELAS.
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BUKNOY
Tsokolate po itto, Mang Santa Kulas.
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BINIGYAN NG TIG-ISA ANG DALAWA. SIGAW ANG DALAWA AT NAG-GIVE-ME-FIVE SA ISA’T ISA.
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MANG KULAS
Bantayan nyo to sandali.
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BUKNOY
E kung itakbo itto?
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MANG KULAS
E di puputulan ko kayo.
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PITONG
Si Mang Santa Kulas naman. Nagbibiro lang, e.
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UMALIS SI MANG KULAS. BUMALIK SIYA MAY DALANG DALAWANG SUPOT. INABOT KAY BUKNOY ANG MAS MALAKING SUPOT. TINABI SA ILALIM NG LA MESA YUNG MAS MALIIT.
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MANG KULAS
O yan, hapunan natin. Bigay ni Josie.
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PITONG
Bait talaga ni Josie. Di nakakalimot. Pero mas mabait kayo, Santa Klaus ng mahihirap at nang mga seksi. Kelan kaya ako pagbibigyan ni Josie?
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BUKNOY
Neber. Pangit mo.
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PITONG
Nagsalita ang di pangit.
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MANG KULAS
O sya. Lakad na kayo. Walang rugby ha! (sabay salat ng mga bulsa nila).
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BUKNOY
Wala po. Pass na kami diyan buhat nang pinabugbog nyo kami sa pulis. Buti nga di kami binilanggo. Wala itto sa amin.
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MANG KULAS
Yung construction diyan sa may Adriatico. Pinuntahan nyo itto yung hepe?
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PITONG
A, si Mang Boy. Opo, opo. Umpisa na kami bukas. Mababa ang sweldo.
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MANG KULAS
Kesa wala. Wag na kayong umangal. At pagnagluko kayo roon, puputalan. Naintindihan?
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BUKNOY
Oo na. Mang Kulas. Tuloy itto kami.
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PITONG
Kawawa naman si Josie pag naputulan ako.
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BUKNOY
Ulol. Fantasy ka na naman.
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UMALIS ANG DALAWA. BUMUKAS ANG ILAW SA BANGKO. LUMABAS SI PETE, MGA 25 TAON, NAKAKURBATA, LUMAPIT KAY MANG KULAS.
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PETE
Pabili po ng tsokolate.
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MANG KULAS
Hindi ako nagbebenta.
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PETE
Ows naman. Pinamimigay mo? Gaya nang sa mga batang grasang mga yon? (sabay turo kay Buknoy at Pitong na malayo na). Nakita kong may inabot ka. Kanina pa kita pinagmamasdan doon sa bintana ko (sabay turo sa pangalawang baiting ng bangko). Seksi naman ng girl pren mo, pre.
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MANG KULAS
Huwag mo akong ma-pre-pre. Baka pre-hin kita. Mukhang ober taym ka ngayon ano? Ako si Mang Kulas.
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PETE
Ako si Pete. Oo nga, e. Naalpasan na nga ng hapunan, e. Mawalang galang. Totoo ba? Pinamimigay mo lang yan? Ang martir mo naman. Santa Klaus kunu.
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MANG KULAS
Masaya akong nagbibigay kaysa tumatanggap. Para lamang ito sa mga nangangailangan.
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PETE
E ako, nangangailangan din.
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MANG KULAS
Excuse me, no. Nakakurbata ka, may trabaho ka. Hindi ka nangangailangan.
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PETE
Yan ang mali. Hindi lang ang mga batang kalye ang nangangailangan. Ako rin nangangailangan.
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MANG KULAS
Oo, pero ang pangangailangan mo hindi malulunas ng tsokolate. O ano, itto? (Matagal na tahimik. Tiningnan mabuti ni Mang Kulas si Pete.) (Pasigaw) Aha! Malungkot ka, ano?
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PETE
Galing mong manghula, mister Santa Klaus. Baka yung girl pren mo may kaibigan. Hanap mo naman ako, o. Paskung pasko, wala akong sweetheart. (Inabot ni Mang ittogg isang tsokolate.) O akala ko ba e pang batang grasa lang yan. (Tinanggap ni Pete).
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MANG KULAS
Nangangailangan ka, itto?
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PETE
Oo, pero hindi tsokolate.
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MANG KULAS
Sa tingin mo tsokolate lang ang binibigay ko?
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TUMAWA SI PETE, SABAY NGATA SA TSOKOLATE. BUMALIK BIGLA SA BANGKO. KUMATOK. BINUKSAN NG SECU. PUMASOK. LUMABAS MAY DALANG DALAWANG MONOBLOC. NAUPO ANG DALAWA.
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PETE
Alam ko naman yon, e. Hindi talaga tsokolate ang binibigay mo. Magandang loob. Nakakahawa yan, itto? Parang trankaso. Nakakahawa ang magandang loob. Yon ang pinamimigay mo. Parang virus. Ako nga gusto atang mahawa.
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MANG KULAS
Masyado kasing ang pang aginaldo natin ngayon puros na lang yung mamahaling bagay. May regalo rin itto ispiritwal hindi material, itto?
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PETE
E hindi ba mahal din ang tsokolate, at material yan?
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MANG KULAS
Kaya nga pinamimigay ko lang sa mga nagkukulang ng … hindi sa bulsa … kundi sa diwa. Gaya mo, itto? Qualified ka na rin.
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PETE
Saan ittog ang perang pangbili mo nyan.
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MANG KULAS
13th month pay.
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PETE
Saan ka ba nagtratrabaho.
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MANG KULAS
Dyanitor.
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MATAGAL NA WALANG NAGSALITA.
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PETE
Salamat Mang Kulas at binigyan nyo nang konting ilaw ang pasko ko, gaya nang sa mga batang kalye at dalagang kalye. Naiinggit ako sa iyo. Ang tagabigay ng ilaw ittog may ilaw, itto? At siyempre mas maliwanag … May request sana ako.
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MANG KULAS
O ano?
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PETE
Bisperas ngayon. Pwede ba kitang imbitahin kumain? Pavor yon sa akin, hindi sa iyo. Kelangan ko ng ilaw.
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MANG KULAS
Okay, basta yung simple lang. Chicken Joy, okay na yon. Two pieces. Extra rice. Extra gravy. Tara.
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KINUHA NI PETE ANG LA MESA AT TSOKOLATE, BINIGAY SA SECU NG BANGKO. SINOLI ANG MGA MONOBLOC SA BANGKO. LAPIT ANG ISANG MADUNGIS NA BATA, TATLONG TAONG GULANG, WALANG PANTALON, MAY MADUNGIS NA T-SHIRT BUTAS BUTAS.
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BATA
Sarado itto kayo, Mang Kulas? Tsokolate ko.
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PETE
Gusto mo ng chicken joy.
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BATA
Ano po yon? Di itto alam yon.
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MANG KULAS
Hindi pa yan nakakapasok sa restawran buong buhay niya. Ikaw ngayon ang Santa Klaus. Ha ha.
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PETE
Yung prayd chicken sa restawran.
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BATA
Talaga po. Sige po, pero pwede ho bang magbaon para sa nanay ko? Gutom din sya, e.
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PETE
Oo ba. (Humawak ang bata sa kamay ni Pete.) Mang Kulas, ang sarap palang maging Santa Klaus. Pag nagkasakit kayo, take over ako sa inyo itto, ha?
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MANG KULAS
Isang kondisyon. Tsokolate lang ang ibibigay mo sa mga GRO.
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PETE
Si Mang Kulas naman. Anong kala mo sa akin?
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MANG KULAS
Manyakis. Ano pa.
TAWA ANG DALAWA. TAWA RIN ANG BATANG HINDI NAKAKAINTINDI. PALAYO ANG TATLO. KINARGA NI PETE ANG BATA.
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EKSENA 2
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LUMIPAS AND MARAMING TAON … 1989 … 1993, 1995, 2001, 2005, 2008.
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PAREHONG ORAS AT LUGAR. SI MANG KULAS, PUTI NA ANG BUHOK, UUGOD UGOD, NAGBIBIGAY PA RIN NG TSOKOLATE SA IBA’T IBANG TAO, MGA BATANG KALYE, MGA G.R.O.S. SI PETE NA KANYANG ASSISTANT SANTA KLAUS AY LAGING NAROROON.
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DUMATING SI JOSIE. MAY EDAD NA RIN PERO SEKSI PA RIN. MAY KASAMANG POGING ITALIANO MAS BATA SA KANYA. HINILA NIYA ANG DAMIT NG ITALIANO. NAPILITANG BUMUNOT NG WALLET AT BINIGYAN NG DOLLAR SI MANG KULAS. SINOLI NI MANG KULAS SA ITALIANO. INAGAW NI JOSIE, SINAKSAK SA BULSA NI MANG KULAS, SABAY HILA SA ITALIANO AT NAGPAALAM.
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MADALING ARAW NA. SI MANG KULAS AT PETE AY NAROROON PA RIN, NAG-UUSAP. WALA NANG TAO SA PLAZA. MAY DUMAANG PULIS. BUMUNOT SA SAKO SI PETE UPANG BIGYAN NG TSOKOLATE ANG PULIS, NGUNIT IISA NA LANG PALA. NAGTINGINAN ANG DALAWA, SABAY HALAKHAK NANG MALAKAS.
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PULIS
Oy, oy. Lasing ba kayo? Magsiuwian na kayo, pwede ba?
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LALONG LUMAKAS AND HALAKHAK NG DALAWA.
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PULIS
Aba, aba, kinakalaban niyo ba ako?
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MANG KULAS
Oy, hindi ka pa pulis, nandito na kami taontaon tuwing pasko. Bakit, bawal ba? Plaza ito, maski sino pweding tumambay.
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HALAKHAK ULI ANG DALAWA. BUMUNOT NG BATUTA ANG PULIS. LALONG LUMKAS ANG HALAKHAK.
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MANG KULAS
Kilala mo si Lieutenant Joe Cruz?
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PULIS
Bos ko yon. Bakit?
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MANG KULAS
O eto, bigay mo tsokolate niya. Buti umabot siya. Last na yan. Tuwing taon meron siya. Pag hindi niya ito natanggap, patay kang bata ka.
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TINANGGAP NG PULIS ANG TSOKOLATE, SABAY ALIS NANG WALANG IMIK. HALAKHAK ULI ANG DALAWA.
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PETE
Napakasaya ng pasko natin, ano. Hay naku, makauwi na nga.
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HALAKHAK ULI ANG DALAWA.
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EKSENA 3
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LOOB NG BANGKO. SI PETE, NAKABARONG, AY NAKAUPO SA DESK NIYA. MAY NAKALAGAY ‘PETE DE LE FUENTE, MANAGER’. TINAWAG ANG SECURITY GUARD NA NASA PINTO.
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PETE
Jerry, nasaan na si Mang Kulas.
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SECURITY GUARD
Ewan ko po. Hindi na pumupunta rito. Wala siya buong pasko.
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PETE
Sabihin mo kay Efren sunduin.
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SECURITY GUARD
Opo.
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EKSENA 4
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DATING LUGAR SA BANGKETA SA HARAP NG BANGKO. GABI. MAY CHRISTMAS LIGHTS. NAKAUPO SI PETE SA MONOBLOC, NAGHIHINTAY. MAY PANGALAWANG MONOBLOC NA WALANG NAKAUPO. NAIINIP SIYA, TINGIN NANG TINGIIN SA RELO. MAY TSOKOLATE SIYA. LAPIT ANG ISANG GRO, INABUTAN NIYA NG TSOKOLATE, AT UMALIS. DUMATING AND KOTSE NI PETE. BABA SI MANG KULAS. TUMAYO NANG MABILIS SI PETE, INAKAY SI MANG KULAS. NAUPO SA MONOBLOC. UMALIS ANG KOTSE.
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PETE
Ano bang nangyari sayo. Daming dumadaan dito.
MANG KULAS
Di ko na kaya, Pete. Ikaw na lang ang Santa Klaus.
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PETE
Wag mo kong iwan dito. Di ko kaya ito mag-isa.
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MANG KULAS
Kaya mo yan. Retired na ko.
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PETE
Alam mo, marami kang tinuro sa akin na hindi ko natutunan sa kolehyo.
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JOSIE
(Hindi nakikita, boses lang.) Pati ako, marami ring natutunan. Retired na rin ako, pero kaya ko pang maging Santa Klaus. Pero rellyebo lang ako sa iyo, Pete.
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SI JOSIE NA MAY EDAD NA RIN, BUKNOY AT PITONG, MGA BINATA NA, PINAIKUTAN SI PETE AT MANG KULAS. TUWANG TUWA SI MANG KULAS. INAKAP LAHAT SILA ISA ISA.
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BUKNOY
Ako rin, Santa Klaus no. 3. Palitan tayo. Hindi pwedeng mamatay ang ilaw niyo, Mang Kulas. Kami ang mga disipulo mo.
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MARAMING BATANG KALYENG MADUDUNIGS AT BABAENG KALYENG SEKSI BIGLANG SUMULPOT, BIGLANG NAGSISIGAWAN NG ‘SURPRISE!!’. NAGLABAS NG MAHABANG MESA ANG SECU NG BANGKO, DUMATING ANG MARAMING PAGKAIN. MAINGAY SILA LAHAT, TAWANAN. IMPROMPTU CHRISTMAS PARTY SA BANGKETA NG PLAZA FERGUSON. ANG SINUMANG DUMAAN O HUMINTO, INIIMBITA NILANG KUMAIN. DUMATING ANG ISANG POLICE PATROL CAR. BABA ANG PULIS.
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PULIS
Oy, oy. Ano, ano ito. Uwi na kayong lahat. Bawal yan. (Lapit si Josie, binulungan ang pulis.) A ganoon ba? O sige. (Sa drayber ng patrol car) – Jessie, parada mo muna. Kain tayo sandali. (Lumapit kay Mang Kulas ) – Aha, ikaw pala si Santa Kulas. Marami na akong naririnig tungkol sa yo. Sa presinto dos at kwatro, tanyag ka. Ano ba talaga ang sekreto mo ha?
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MANG KULAS
Simple lang boss. Tsokolate.
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WAKAS.
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ENGLISH SUMMARY.
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For the last 20 years, Ramon has been spending the day before Christmas at Plaza Ferguson along M. H. Del Pilar street in Ermita. He buys a sack of chocolate bars from his 13th month pay and gives them out, but only to children and prostitutes, no one else.
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Once, Pete, a well-dressed teenager came up to him, asking for a candy. Ramon apologized, saying the candies were only for those who were ‘in need’. Pete said, “That prostitute over there, is she in need of a candy?”
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Ramon’s terse reply was, “She is in need of a little joy.” Pete countered, “But I am also in need.” Ramon smiled and decided to make an exception, giving him a candy. Every year, Pete would pass by on Christmas eve for his candy, and have long talks with Ramon, pouring out his heartaches on him, whose wisdom was precious Gold. They became good friends.
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Twenty years passed. On Christmas day, Ramon was not at the plaza. Frantic and worried, Pete, who was now a bank manager, got a dilapidated calling card he kept in his wallet all these years, and phoned Ramon. Ramon said he was sad because he was now too old and weak to play un-costumed Santa Klaus. So Pete bought a sack of chocolate bars, picked him up, and got a monobloc chair from the bank.
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The two were on the plaza, the aging Ramon seated on the monobloc, while Pete gave out the candies. By midnight, just about time for mass, the sack was empty except for one last bar. They looked at each other, laughed so loud that a policeman came over, asking if they were drunk. They laughed even harder and gave the last bar to the policeman, who nodded in disbelief. This is the first story, the gift of Joy. Strangely, the giver of Joy receives the gift of Joy ten fold. THE END.
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Articles26 Dec 2011 02:01 am
article3 – A PROPHECY FOR THE NEW DECADE
A prophecy emanating from the mystery of the healing oil
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Edited version of an article published
in the Philippine Daily Inquirer
Front page, January 10, 2010
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by bernie lopez
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This article describes messages to the world that Sister Raquel says she has received in the last few months.
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In 1991, Sister Raquel Reodica, RVM, received her gift of healing a week after the Mount Pinatubo eruption, one of the biggest disasters in Philippine history. A typhoon scattered the volcanic ash in the stratosphere all the way to the Antarctic, disrupting data of a US global-warming research station there. The station reported that the effect was so immense that there was a momentary cooling of the Earth.
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During that week, a woman she had never met, approached her, and, claiming to see visions, told her she would eventually receive a second gift, the gift of prophecy, or the ‘third eye’. First, she found the notion preposterous, then later scary. In September 2009, close to two decades later, this gift of prophecy began to manifest itself during an equally-deadly disaster period – three consecutive typhoons, Ondoy, Ramil and Pepeng, which rendered hundreds of thousands homeless in Metro-Manila, Baguio and Pangasinan.
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On September 25, 2009, one day before Ondoy swept through Metro-Manila, Sister Raquel unlocked the gates of the adoration chapel of the Mother Ignacia Healing Ministry at 6 a.m., and discovered pools of oil which mysteriously appeared on the marble floor. She collected the oil in a towel and used if for healing. There were dramatic cases of instant healings. For one, Edwin Reyes, afflicted with brain tumor, within days, stood up from his wheelchair and started jumping and dancing, which was caught on camera. See part 2 below.
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Youtube video part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owykGkNCpIg
part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlREzytKuSg
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When typhoon Ramil threatened Ilocos days after Ondoy, Sister Raquel and chaplain Father Tiofilo fell on their knees in prayer, pleading to the Lord to spare the Philippines. Curiously, two high pressure areas sandwiched Ramil, which weakend into a tropical depression and veered towards Taiwan.
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During the Pinatubo eruption, the situation was exactly the same. Philvolcs reported that a second eruption was imminent when steam vents were increasing at the crater. Sister Raquel and a handul of RVM nuns prayed for the Lord to spare the Philippines. That second eruption never occurred. Skeptics, of course, argued it was not prayers, just Nature. But other believed prayers pre-empted a second disaster. The power of prayer is the theme of Sister Raquel’s messages described here. Was it an odd coincidence that Ondoy unleashed was followed by Ramil averted, just like the first eruption unleashed and a second averted? Does this reveal a God of mercy and punishment all at once?
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On November 6, 2009, a First Friday, oil appeared once again, more profuse than ever. This time the pools of oil were neatly positioned in nine equidistant lines from the back of the chapel to the altar. High resolution photos were taken by the Sisters before the oil dried up.
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See link http://www.sisterraquel.com/2009/12/poster37-40-my…healing-centerposter37-40-mysterious-oil-and-cloud-at-healing-center/
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This healing oil became the basis of Sister Raquel’s claim of messages from the Lord for the world. She did not hear ‘voices’, she simply ‘felt’ the messages overwhelm her consciousness, which she found hard to described.
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It must be clarified that in 2001, Sister Raquel spoke of impending earthquakes in the Philippines. She gave a broad time period, not an exact date. But by the time the news hit front page, an exact date given by a woman who frequented the healing center, was erroneously attributed to her. When no earthquake came on that date, she became the subject of criticism. Her published reply was too late, the damage was done. Today, she is willing to take the risk of facing critics because she says the Lord wants these message conveyed.
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Sister Raquel’s emerging messages are as follows. First, the nine lines of oil refer to nine years (2009 to 2018) that the Lord is giving mankind to change its ways. This a ‘deadline’. Second, Sister spoke of the urgency for the rich, comprising 3% of Philippine population to give to the poor which comprises about 70%. This virtue of sharing is not an option, it is an obligation. Sister says the Lord is not requesting but demanding that everyone must start helping others, praying harder, and renewing lives in Him. She cites the gentle and harsh words of Jesus in Matthew 25:35 – “Come, blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom, for I was hungry and you gave me food … Depart from Me, you accursed, into eternal fire for I was hungry and you gave me no food.”
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Third, Sister cites the third secret of Fatima, mentioning a ‘global earthquake’ occurring worldwide simultaneously if man does not change his ways. She cautions that her aim is not to sow panic but to sow prayer. It took the Church decades to finally reveal the third secret in fear the harsh predictions would sow panic. Alas, there was no panic. We have all but forgotten the terrible forewarnings in the third secret.
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Fourth, sister spoke of the power of prayer which can avert disasters. Disasters are ‘negotiable’. We can bargain with prayer and good deeds. She cites how the Lord spared the affluent city of Nineveh because it repented in its decadent ways. She cites how the Lord would have spared Sodom and Gomorrah if one holy person there was found there. Alas, they were burnt to the ground.
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She also cites the story of how a small Jesuit resident just a few hundred meters from ground zero of the Hiroshima nuclear blast in World War II remained mysteriously untouched. At that time, the residents were praying the rosary.
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Fifth, certain pools of oil were shaped like the map of the Philippines. But the Visayas was oddly found separate from Luzon and Mindanao. Sister says this means the Visayas could be spared because the Lord is pleased. Is this because of the annual celebration of Sinulog dedicated to the Santo Nino or Holy Child?
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Sixth, Sister Raquel explains that there were ‘three rays of light’ falling on the Philippine map (the pools of oil shaped into its map). She says, “It is not an accident that we have millions of OFWs scattered worldwide. The Lord will use them to evangelize the whole world. The have a role to play.” Filipino priests among OFWs have ‘a challenging work’.
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Sister clarifies that people are not obliged to believe her. Faith is a gift and belief is of the free will. But there is nothing to lose in listening to the warnings, old warnings we have forgotten (the third secret) and everything to gain in renewing life in the Lord.
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Today is an era of global warming, intensifying typhoons and hurricanes, earthquakes and tsunamis, forest fires and floods, droughts, and swine and avian flu. Legalized abortion is now financed by governments. Materialism has intensified into a plague that haunts rich and poor countries. Corporate greed has triggered a global financial meltdown. It is in this backdrop that these messages of prayer and renewal are being conveyed.
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eastwind journals 15 – TAAL LAKE FISHKILL
eastwind journals 15
eastwind journals are the media writings of Bernie Lopez, which reflects his personal views and not of the healing ministry.
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THE TAAL LAKE FISH KILL
Greed as the Mother of Man-made Disasters
By Bernie Lopez
redgate77@gmail.com
The Philippine Daily Inquirer
Front page, Dec 2011
PART 1 – What happened at Taal?
This article is an attempt to pinpoint the causes of the fishkill in Taal Lake, the social forces and technical reasons behind the carnage. It is based on a group interview of three residents from two Taal towns, who have all requested anonymity.
Let us first talk of the carrying capacity of the lake. According to the residents interviewed, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) set a limit of 10,000 fishcages which the residents said was very arbitrary and had very little scientific basis. Thy claimed that the actual figure is in the vicinity of 15,000, by broad estimates, or 50% more than the BFAR limit. The number of fishcages is actually not known because when BFAR takes a regular count, shrewd fishcagers tow their mobile cages to areas where the count has been done. There is also an existing practice of duplicating the fishcage license for other cages, so a true count is impossible. BFAR cannot be blamed totally as it does not have the funds for enough boats and personnel to do proper monitoring. So, there is a dangerous free-for-all in Taal Lake.
Overfeeding is one of the major causes of the fishkill. There are two types of feeds, the floating kind and the sinking kind. Fishcagers mostly use the sinking kind because it is cheaper. It is made up of sticky pellets which break up into fine powder when they hit the water. The main ingredient of the feeds is chicken manure. Let us say that a cager uses 20 kilos of feeds per day, only about half or even less is consumed. The other 10 kilos sinks to the bottom of the deep lake.
I pushed some figures with the interviewees. One said that in a seminar, he wasa told that the rough estimate was one ton of feeds per cage per month. Due to overfeeding, let us say the cagers use two tons. Let us take the conservative figure of 10,000 cages, which translates into a total lake input of a staggering 20,000 tons of feeds a month, half of which, or 10,000 tons sinks to the bottom of the lake. Let us say the fish defecate half of the 10,000 tons of feeds. So that is a total of 15,000 tons per month at the bottom of the lake. This translates into 180,000 tons of waste per year at the bottom of the lake. This is an alarming figure but cagers do not know and do not care.
The feeds are rich in nitrogen, triggering a rapid bloom of lake weed at the surface (called ‘digman’ in the local dialect). According to one resident, 10 years ago there were no weeds at all. When it started to proliferate, cagers sold it to Bio-research which uses it for aquarium decor. Today, the weeds are so profuse, that its price is too cheap to bother selling. Today, the weeds are so dense that boats can hardly navigate Taal Lake.
When the plentiful lake weeds die and are replaced by a new bloom, they rot and sink to the bottom, joining the manure-rich unused feeds at the bottom. Because the lake is deep, this invisible time bomb takes time to explode through gradual decomposition. The rotting feeds and lake weed sucks up the oxygen at the bottom. In time, waves, currents, and wind, especially during a storm, churn up the lake and brings the bottom water with little oxygen up to surface and the fish die of suffocation. The weeds moved by current and wind also acts as a powerful mixer.
BFAR has constantly warned the cagers not to overfeed as they are in truth poisoning the lake that gives them livelihood. But no one listens. Greed is the mother of disaster. The vengeance of Mother Nature is the karma for greed. Cagers want their stocks to grow fast. The feed cost is a trifling compared to the windfall of selling large fish. A resident reported that BFAR admitted that there was pressure from the Local Government for them not to report their findings, to protect the industry. This is because there are mayors and town officials who are themselves fishcagers. This unholy alliance of government and private sector based on greed is the social force that has killed Taal Lake.
The number of cagers grew rapidly from 100 to 15,000 in ten years time, by broad estimates of the residents. Talisay, where fishcages is gradually killing the tourism businesses, is dominated by rich Taiwanese and Koreans. Because they have the money, suspected by residents to be ‘hot’ laundered money from Taipei and Seoul, they improve on the fishcages, replacing bamboo floaters with circular steel pipes, so the storms can no longer smach the cages, like before. It was a Filipino invention funded by foreigners. Today, an average size cage will easily cost a million pesos, making it a big time industry out of the reach of locals, encouraging the ‘invasion’ by foreigners. A resident ventured to say about 30% of cages in Taal are now owned by foreigners.
The next question I asked the interviewees was – what do we do to save the lake? One suggested it is beyond saving. Anoter suggested to regulate sinking feeds. Setup a clearing house where all feeds have to pass. This is impossible because there are many access roads to the lake perimeter road. This is also impossible to control even at the source, the factories making them. It would be easy to smuggle in feeds. Perhaps the only way is a total ban on sinking feeds.
Another suggested to regulate the producers. This will not work as long as there is a partnership between local government and fishcagers, which can pressure the regulator, BFAR, to look the other way. There was a time when an army-navy consortium burned illegal cages. This ‘victory’ was short lived. They were replaced by bigger cages owned by richer and more powerful cagers. Also, most of those burned were rotting cages, saving the cagers from the cost of dismantling them. The army navy did them a favor.
Added to this mix of social forces is the violent politics during election for a perfect environmental broth. Incoming officials will need to get fishcages to pay for campaign funds.
The final solution is obviously a total ban on fishcages for a given period, say of two years. But it is not known if Taal can be rehabilitated, and at what cost, and for how long. In truth, is Taal Lake dead and beyond resurrection? The ‘final final’ or ‘major major’ solution will have to come from the fishcagers themselves to rehabilitate the lake, and regulate themselves not by law but by initiative. They have learned their lesson from this sudden lightning bolt out of nowhere that hit them, where they have lost millions.
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Part 2 – Taal Lake Geological History
By Bernie Lopez
‘eastwind journals‘
Opinyon Magazine, Dec. 18, 2011
This is Part 2, a sequel to last week’s Part 1 – ‘What happened at Taal?”, based on geological research and interviews of two ex-fishcage owners.
When the Sumatran tiger gorges on an adult male deer, he can easily consume 15 kilos of meat and not eat for the next three weeks. The Taal fishcager is very much like the Sumatran tiger, gorging on profits today in anticipation of a looming famine. Greed fuels the destruction of the very lake that gives him nourishment. BFAR Director Asis Perez says the fishkill could have been prevented if cagers followed rules on fish maintenance.
The problem with the fishcagers is they are so powerful, having connections in local government and congress, that they can defy the whole world in their environmental crime. They are so rich that they can launch their own media blitz. In their greed, they are begging for the imposition of a moratorium on fishcaging. The powerful fishcagers had their day, a media blitz through a front page article where they showed their powerful political friends feasting on bangus from Taal Lake. It was a futile attempt to save the day, because everybody knew it was all for show. The problem persists and will not go away, until the fishcagers undergo a spiritual transformation.
About a million years ago, Taal Volcano was as perfect a cone as Mount Fuji in Japan. An explosion ripped the entire volcano apart, one of the largest in prehistory, easily matching 10,000 Hiroshima bombs. It would make the volcanic explosions in Krakatoa in East Java or Mount Saint Helens in Washington, USA, look like firecracker affairs. What was left is the present-day caldera whose rim extends through Cavite, Laguna, and Batangas.
Through time, rain water accumulated in the caldera, forming the present-day Taal Lake. A small crater within the big crater (the caldera) formed, which is now Volcano Island. The entire Tagaytay area, with its scenic view, is one of the higher rims of that caldera. Mount Makulot in Cuenca, Batangas, is a ‘bulge’ on that rim.
Taal Lake, although much smaller in area than Laguna Lake, is theorized to have just as much water, if not even more. Laguna Lake is the largest nationwide but is extremely shallow, having an average depth of only eight meters. Taal Lake is much smaller but extremely deep, considering that water filled up a portion of the original magma vein that has cooled off (see graphics). So Taal Lake dives down deep vertically through this vein and was somehow connected to an underground river that emptied to the sea. No one knows how deep Taal Lake is or where the mouth of the underground river is, perhaps somewhere deep in Balayan Bay or even the South China Sea. Lunar tides do not affect Taal Lake, perhaps because it is so deep.
The geological theory of Taal Lake connected to the sea is based on the fact that the native tawilis is nothing but a mutant, the only evolved fresh-water sardine in the world. The succulent maliputo is nothing but a fresh-water version of the salt-water talakitok. It is theorized that these fish migrated to Taal, and adapted to fresh water. Perhaps the connection to the sea is now closed, no one knows. The tawilis ‘disappears’ in December because it goes down deep to spawn. By March, they come up with their fingerlings. The tawilis is an endangered exotic species because of over-fishing. Also, the carnivorous tilapia which are released from cages by typhoons, eat the tawilis.
If the lake has lost its connection to the sea, then sunken excess feeds and rotting lake weed accumulate forever at the bottom. If there is no outlet there, it is a dead end. If there is an outlet, it would be too narrow and would theoretically clog up anyway as it goes horizontally towards the sea. No one knows how the heavy waste churned upward from such low depths. Could it have been some volcanic rumblings? Pagasa should be able to give us some readings in the last few weeks before the fishkill. There were three simultaneous minor earthquakes before the fishkill, in Leyte, Isabela and Mindoro.
No one knows if Taal Lake can still be rehabilitated. Part 1 estimated 180,000 of waste per year before the fishkill. In a rapid growth situation since 1995, the accumulated amount of waste at the ‘bottomless pit’ may be circa 1.7 million metric tons. At extreme depth, we are not sure we can siphon that much, and even if we can, the staggering cost will rival the total profits from the lake since cages were born. The only outlet of Taal Lake is the Pansipit River, but this is only at the surface. Former President Ramos had the river mouth to the lake dredged, which was clogged by solid waste and silt, but only for a while.
The Taal Lake fishkill involved 2,056 metric tons of fish from 339 cages worth P144 million within 12 days. The reason greed is hard to resist is because of the staggering lake profit of about P19 billion a month, estimated broadly from the above figures.
The fishcage industry had good and bad effects. The bad effect was it suppressed the local duck industry by killing the shells which the ducks ate, according to fishcage owners. It is also killing the tourism industry by inhibiting access to Volcano Island. Foreign fishcagers were actually tourists who saw the profit potentials of fishcages. That is why they are today concentrated at Talisay, the tourist staging area to Volcano Island.
The good effect was the fishcages were a truly poverty alleviating force. The income from fishcages stopped the illegal logging in Mount Banaga, which started turning green once more. At the start, there was a 50-50 sharing among cage owners and fisherfolk as laborers, who were able to send their children to school, who have become OFWs, especially in Italy.
At the peak of fishcage growth, labor was imported from the Visayas, triggering a denser population. To this day, these outsiders remain and have mingled with the natives. If the fishcage industry goes down, a lot of people will go hungry. The key is the synergy between Man and Nature. Nature can nourish us as long as we respect and dialogue with her. The question is – are we too late in saving Taal Lake? Can we stop powerful forces from continuing to raped her?
Unlike Laguna Lake, which has planktons, Taal Lake has none, inducing more imported chemicals for intense feeding. One feed supplier reported bad debts of P2 million during typhoon seasons. In the beginning, the accepted stocking density per cage was 10,000 fish. Greed has increased this to a staggering 50,000. The super-greedy have dared to go up to 100,000. They simply overfeed and those which die are sold anyway. Because cages were near the shore areas for easy access, crowding and intense concentration of feed chemicals were inevitable there, while the center of the lake was clean and unoccupied.
Laguna Lake had retired generals as fishcagers, spawning armed guards and violence. Taal Lake is fortunate to not have such armed personnel. Laguna Lake has hundreds of factories spewing more deadly toxic chemicals, including heavy metals. These factories pay an environmental fee which keeps the LLDA alive, but is ironically helpless to police the factories in fear of losing income. Nowhere in the world does environmental fees cause more environmental damage. Taal Lake is fortunate that there are no mushrooming of factories. A disaster in Laguna Lake will dwarf the Taal Lake fishkill, the next that needs to be featured in print.
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About the Author
After finishing MA Communication Arts at New York University in 1980, author Bernie Lopez drifted across Europe for two years in his adventures dubbed eastwind, hitchhiking 25,000 kilometers across 18 countries. He will soon launch a book on eastwind, “Discovering Your Inner Self”. Returning to the Philippines in 1984, the drifter evolved into a journalist/columnist, television documentary film producer, and professor at Ateneo’s graduate school. He is the administrator of the blog site of Sister Raquel Reodica, RVM, cancer healer of the Lord. For those who need healing, visit our site at –
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