wasteful spending!
just this morning, i met a woman who didnt have enough money to pay for an ultrasound to check the status of her post-term baby who probably be already dead…just outside the health center, i saw an old woman begging for some coins in order to buy breakfast…just this weekend, i saw a mother of three sitting by the bridge near usc-bhs at night, she was breastfeeding her baby while her two other children slept on the ground…walking home, i met some little kids–maybe some of them are barely 5–selling candles and begging for alms…and on the news, a family had just lost their father after he dided in a ‘garbage slide’–he was collecting trash so as to earn a hundred pesos in order to feed his family–and elsewhere, another family will be driving to a certain town somewhere in central luzon to pick up their 6-yo daughter’s dead body who got washed up by the river…
and here in our school, we are obliged to pay 1000 pesos and another 50 pesos, most of which are spent for utterly trivial and unnecesarry things–except perhaps for those proposed learning materials for the students and the faculty development, which would indeed be beneficial–imagine, 15,000 pesos all for snacks! and take note, i highly doubt that we the ‘common’ students would be able to partake of that 15,000 pesos worth of snacks–except for water perhaps…god!god!god!
i guess, we should redefine the meaning of budget friendly!
July 13th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
hi nito… Veigha!!!!!