Got food on your plate?

"Pagkain ng Gulay Ugaliin, Araw-araw itong Ihain."

Don’t you just love to eat? Children have grown to the habit of being engrossed in the world of indulged sweets that they seem to forget that what they’re taking in is not always that nutritious. We can’t escape the fact that we used to be kids running around with no hint of thought to what is going around our little environment. Now that we do, reminiscing back to the old days, don’t you think that it’s only fair to let our children be what they are? To let them eat their luxury and to indulge themselves in their world of chocolates and candies?

             Amongst the odds today, the mere are getting sickly by the minute wherein their bodies are lacking of ample energy to do their daily tasks. Now, in celebration to this year’s Nutrition-Month, on the month of July, individuals of every age are accounted for being involved in the activities held in the very four walls of their school.  Simply these activities will serve as a wakeup call for those students sleeping in class with degrading nutritional status. Digging deeper with this notion, as of today, seven out of ten young Filipino citizens at the ages of four to seven have been proven to be overweight and are in dire need of excessive exercise for a healthier and wealthier lifestyle.

          One thing I can say to mommies out there, if your son or daughter is indulged in the guilty pleasure of chocolates ad candies, make vegetables a whole lot of fun. Make them snacks that says; “I’m yummy and I’m also healthy!” so come one, come all! It is never too late to turn away from your cravings. I’m not saying that you totally give up on your chocolates, but I’m here stating that with these indulged sweets whole way through, life is too short to live it shortly. Sweets may be that good, but life is better if you live it the way it should be.

           Expand your options. Make life a better living.

Chasing Pavements

                                                                                                          June 19, 2012


Dear President Benigno Simeon Cojuanco Aquino III,

                  Greetings to you sir! The republic has yet spoken, and so they have. Some time ago, we have come to the conclusion of putting you up as the brain of the embodiment of our country. 

Many Presidents have been elected time after time, and still i haven't seen any change. Frankly, what I mean is that, our country still endures the dirty clutches of poverty. And what I would like to see under your administration, sir is change and immediate actions unto these circumstances.

                   I don't mean to prod on such a delicate and complex issue, sir, but here's what I'm saying sir; in order for the growth of our economic status, our country's economic status, I would prefer you sir to clean the government itself free from the filthy hands of insignificant Lords that graft and corrupt on such unnoticed circumstances on the wealth of our country, so to speak, to lessen the what we call our fall, our flaw; which is poverty.

                  I've seen many Presidents before you try but they seem to be incapable of such change. So now, we're already on the year 2012 which means new hope and which also means you sir, our firm foundation of hope for the change we cling to. 

                 Change is not that possible if not for you, sir. The country have chosen you to lead them. And in the midst of all of this upheavals, we'll rise up to the affair and there will be no more kid in any or every vicinity, without  food on his plate.

                                                                                                            With all respect;

                                                                                                            Patrick Jan Raquel Reyes