Are We Poor?

"Hey papercrazy! How's yr wekend?" A friend asked yesterday...."weekend?" I replied.....For once in many many years, I have nothing to brag about my weekend...

I was sent to Obedience School for the whole of Saturday and Sunday...learning the ways to say bad words and can get away with it...Heheh....Attended a Seminar on poverty organised by SSVP and the speaker was air flown (sound so like sausages and hams and wat nots that was airflown from australia) from the Philippines... His talks were good and enriching, the only problem we had was his pronounciation....I seriously hope the native members understand what he was saying throughtout the 2-day seminar...All our meals for the 2 days were taken care off, from breakfast to tea breaks to lunch to tea break again to dinner.....

At the end of the day, this is what we have learnt:

1) Our hardcore poor is far more fortunate than the poor in the Philippines...

2) We don't get to see people living at the Trienekens dumpsite or along the railway track....

A boy walking along the rubbish at the Payatas dumpsite

3) We don't get to see squatters building at the cliff, or alongside a river....

4) We don't get to meet people whose job is to savage whatever is in the dumpsite and sell them to earn a living...

5) We also don't get to see the children turning the dumpsite into a playground

6) We don't get to hear a landslide caused by the stacks and stacks of rubbish

Aren't we fortunate?? So, the next time we complained about what we dun have, think about the poor in the Philippines....

On a lighter side of things, all these above are FUCK oopsss...sorry, FACT (You would know what I mean if you are well versed with the Philippines' pronounciation...:-)

Shucks....Toopid Blogspot...Doesn't allow me to post some more pictures....Sori guys, just have to make do with this few...