BAYANIHAN ALIVE AGAIN BECAUSE OF ONDOY---

Typhoon Ondoy has hit the country so hard damaging so much properties and lives that even winning billions of pesos in Casino Games can not easily restore what has been taken away from the victims. Whew.. Times like this, imaginary wealth in Yoville, Farmtown and Farmville can never really ease up what misery typhoon Ondoy has brought.. After all, it is real life tragedy.. It will take years and time and lots of helping hands to rebuild lives.. It entails actual sincere efforts from those who are not in anguish, or whose loved ones and properties are intact.

It's about time we set aside our not so important priorities, like the facebook apps we endlessly enjoy such as the harvests and the plow jobs at Farmtown. Or the poker games we so dearly focus on when online. Not even a glance at Europa Casino even if it means winning some shots when some Play slots for real cash. Quite frankly, this is the time to get our hearts and minds to focus on what is important...

Truly, Ondoy has brought so much devastation and suffering. But if there is one good thing about this test of life, that is the fact that we Filipinos have awakened our sense of the bayanihan spirit once again.. Before, it is solely expressed by helping our neighbors carry the bahay kubo when moving house.. Now I guess, it's carrying each and everyone in our shoulders, in our prayers, in our hopes and aspirations as they helplessly rebuild their lives from the muddied pits of agony and grief..

I am very far from the victims, but I am one with them and I pray that however difficult, a light will be shown for them to see clearly... God works in mysterious ways.. we just have to believe..


By the way, if you are from Cagayan de Oro City, we have OPLAN ONDOY

For CDO and XU-based, you may channel your donations to XU KKP Office, Room 102, Agie Bldg, 858-3116 or 72-3116 local 3210 or 3215. You may also deposit your cash to XU BPI Svngs Accnt, Dvsoria Brnch-CDO: 9331-0133-63, pls indicate in your check/deposit slip: Xavier University c/o OPLAN ONDOY...then, let us know for verification...

SALAMAT!

Ermin Pimentel

CHEAP CARS...

Wanna buy cheap wheels? I know I would.. In fact, I wanna buy cheap anything and everything.. wink..wink.. Guess you can call me the "cheap queen".. yeah, cheap, without sacrificing quality that it---  I guess I got that attitude from my father. He is never really mindful of brand or status quo or peer pressure when buying stuff. And proof of that are the cars that we have. We have three now. All of them bought as second hand because my father says it is cheaper to buy second hand cars. But of course, having known different kinds of vehicles and modes of transportations, I trust that my father really knows what he is doing. In fact, as proof of the worthiness of such second hand vehicles comes when they are tested on the rode, whatever the weather. Our white Ford pick up truck weathers any stormy weather. In times of waters rising and most cars' engines die on the rode, ours survives and ultimately becomes the rescuer of other unfortunate souls from the cold and hard rain... Ahhh.. And in times like that, I could not help but be awed about the price of our handy dandy pick up truck if we compare it with those that didn't survive the battles of the rode in a storm.. Surely, that alone is proof that cheap wheels are never really cheap.. They are in fact priceless, when their purpose is discovered, lol..

Online, there is a site that caters to cheap and affordable wheels, regardless of the brand and without sacrificing quality.. If you are interested, please go to www.wheelfire.com to find out more about this... and when you are done, do share it with me...hehehe