Ang Arko ni Noah

Ang Arko ni Noah

Noong unang-unang. panahon ay marami raw masasamang tao sa mundo. May nagsasabing ayaw sila sa Diyos. Ang Diyos ay may isang anak na mabuti. Ang pangalan nito ay Noah. Siya at ang kanyang pamilya ay nagmamahal sa Diyos. Hindi sila gumawa ng mga diyos na yari sa bakal. Sila ay tapat sa Diyos. Isang araw si Noah ay tinawag ng Diyos.

"Gumawa ka ng isang arko," ang utos ng Diyos kay Noah. "Doon mo isilid ang dalawa sa bawa't uri ng hayop sa mundo. Kapag umulan at bumaha ay pumasok ka sa arko. Isama mo ang iyong angkan. Kayo ay aking ililigtas."

Ang mga tao ay nagtawa lamang nang makita nila si Noah na gumagawa ng arko. Hindi sila natakot. Sila ay hindi naging mabuti. Lalo silang.naging masama.

Natapos ni Noah ang malaking arko. Pinuno niya ito ng mga pagkain para sa lahat. Kumuha siya ng dalawa bawa't hayop sa lupa. Gayon din ang halaman. Lahat nito at ang kanyang pamilya ay lumulan sa arko.

Isang araw, ang buong kapaligiran ay nangulimlim. Biglang bumuhos ang napakalakas na ulan. Walang patid ang patak ng malakas na ulan hanggang sa magbaha.

Ang ulan ay nagtagal ng apatnapung araw. Tumaas nang tumaas ang tubig. Nangalunod ang mga tao sa lupa. Ang buong kapaligiran ay nagmistulang isang malaking dagat. Ang malaking arko na dating nakasayad sa lupa ay nakalutang na ngayon sa tubig ulan si Noah at ang kanyang pamilya pati na ang mga hayop at halamang isinama niya.

Napalis lahat ang dumi sa mundo. Nais ng Diyos na linisin ang mundo. Alisin ang mga maruruming gawain at mga makasalanang tao. Ang masasamang tao na noong una ay nagtawa lamang kay Noah ay pawang nangalunod na. Wala nang makitang isang bagay sa mundo kundi tubig at ang arko ni Noah.

Nang huminto ang ulan at bumaba na ang tubig ay sumikat na ang araw. Tuwang-tuwa sina Noah. Napakaganda ng sikat ng araw. Ito ay waring nag bibigay buhay sa kanila. Nag-awitan ang mga ibon at nag-ingay ang mga hayop. Silang lahat ay nagalak.

Muling nagbalik sa dati ang kapaligiran maliban sa mga taong masasama. Lumitaw ang mga bundok at ang mga halaman ay muling tumubo. Lumabas si Noah kasama ng kanyang pamilya at mga alagang hayop. Nagkaroon muli ng buhay sa ibabaw ng lupa.

Sina Noah ay tuwang-tuwa. Naghandog at nagpasalamat sila sa Diyos.

"Mula ngayon," ang wika ng Diyos," ay hindi Ko na muling pauulanin nang matagal. Hindi na muling babaha. Hindi ko na gugunawin ang mundo. Kapag nakakita kayo ng bahaghari ay maaalaala ninyo ang Aking pangako."

by:gintongaral.com

Military: A beautiful true love story

Military: A beautiful true love story

One day, a young guy and a young girl fell in love.

But the guy came from a poor family. The girl’s parents weren’t too happy.

So the young man decided not only to court the girl but to court her parents as well. In time, the parents saw that he was a good man and was worthy of their daughter’s hand.

But there was another problem: The man was a soldier. Soon, war broke out and he was being sent overseas for a year. The week before he left, the man knelt on his knee and asked his lady love, “Will you marry me?” She wiped a tear, said yes, and they were engaged. They agreed that when he got back in one year, they would get married.

But tragedy struck. A few days after he left, the girl had a major vehicular accident. It was a head-on collision.

When she woke up in the hospital, she saw her father and mother crying. Immediately, she knew there was something wrong.

She later found out that she suffered brain injury. The part of her brain that controlled her face muscles was damaged. Her once lovely face was now disfigured. She cried as she saw herself in the mirror. “Yesterday, I was beautiful. Today, I’m a monster.” Her body was also covered with so many ugly wounds.

Right there and then, she decided to release her fiancé from their promise. She knew he wouldn’t want her anymore. She would forget about him and never see him again.

For one year, the soldier wrote many letters—but she wouldn’t answer. He phoned her many times but she wouldn’t return her calls.

But after one year, the mother walked into her room and announced, “He’s back from the war.”

The girl shouted, “No! Please don’t tell him about me. Don’t tell him I’m here!”

The mother said, “He’s getting married,” and handed her a wedding invitation.

The girl’s heart sank. She knew she still loved him—but she had to forget him now.

With great sadness, she opened the wedding invitation.

And then she saw her name on it!

Confused, she asked, “What is this?”

That was when the young man entered her room with a bouquet of flowers. He knelt beside her and asked, “Will you marry me?”

The girl covered her face with her hands and said, “I’m ugly!”

The man said, “Without your permission, your mother sent me your photos. When I saw your photos, I realized that nothing has changed. You’re still the person I fell in love. You’re still as beautiful as ever. Because I love you!”

by: UNKNOWN AUTHOR

Story of a legend “Aswang” in the Philippines

Story of a legend “Aswang” in the Philippines




”Maria Labo” Old story: Here is a common version of the Legend of the “Aswang”:


Maria Labo is from the province of Capiz. Maria Labo have a happy family she had a kind and loving husband and one son. Maria Labo was decide working abroad in England, for the sake of her family.


She had a good employer, who treated her well, but she did not know that here employer was a vampire. In the months she was employed, Maria was a combination maid and care giver to here employer. The employer of Maria would always provide her with half-cooked liver to eat.


After months of working for him, Maria began to feel sick. She did not know that she had ingested some blood of her vampire employer. Due to her unkown illness, Maria decided to return home to the Philippines, to live with her family.


The husband of Maria was a police officer. One day, after the husband returned home from work, Maria told her husband that she had already prepared dinner. Upon which time the husband of Maria sat down to the table and asked Maria, “Where is our son?“. To which Maria replied, “Our son is right there!“. The husband of Maria did not know what she meant. He was unaware that the meat he had eaten that day, was in fact their son!


Upon opening the refrigerator box, he was shocked to see the head of their son in the refrigerator. The husband of Maria was so angry, he picked up a big knife and slashed the face of Maria. Maria had big scar on her face, which is why she was called ”Maria Labo”.


From that day on, Maria would stalk or hunt in many different locations within the Philippines, but her husband continued to hunt for Maria because he wanted to kill her. Whenever Maria was known to be in any place within the Philippines, all or the people tried to find and kill her, to save their own children. From those days till the present, the Filipino people gave Maria the nickname of the “Aswang”, meaning Queen of the Vampires.


OLD BELIEFS


To this day, when Filipinos attend Fiestas in their province, they will not eat Dinuguan or Bofia or Atay (Liver). Or if they choose to eat, they will first put calamansi juice on the meat because it is believed you can see the true texture of the meat. They believe that the “Aswang” may trick them into eating Aswang or human blood and apply calamansi juice to the meat first so that they cannot be tricked, as Maria Lobo was by her vampire employer did to her. *Another belief is that if you look directly into the eyes of the vampire, and they will not look directly back into your eyes, that the individual may be an aswang.


aswang afraid in tail of pagi


aswang is also afraid of, and/or avoids calamansi, the case of a bullet, salt (asin), garlic (bawang), charcoal (uling), coconut stick (buko) or walis ting ting (bamboo broom).


It is also said that the Aswang is afraid of oil from the province. That they have use leaves and some natural woods that scare the aswang. If you use the oil you will see and know that they have Aswang in their place because the oil will boil right in the bottle.


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Manhid Ka by Vice Ganda lyrics

Manhid Ka by Vice Ganda lyrics

Di mo ba alam na may

Nagmamahal sayong tunay

Ako… wooooh

Di mo ba naririnig

Sinisigaw ng puso kong ito

Pangalan mo

At kahit na anong gawin

Binigay ko nang bituin

Di pa rin napapansin ang puso ko

Dahil manhid ka , manhid ka

Walang pakiramdam

O babe manhid ka, manhid ka

Puro deadma ka na lang


Bet na bet pa naman kita


Laman din ako ng tiyan


Syonga ka ba talaga o manhid ka


(Di mo ba alam may nagmamahal sayo)

Di pa rin tumatalab

Gayuma na pampa-love sayo

Woohooo (in love sayo…)

Kahit na isang ngiti

Pinagkakait mo pa sakin ito

Kahit sagasaan ka


Kahit na pakulam ka


Di pa rin tumatalab sayo… oohh

Dahil manhid ka , manhid ka

Walang pakiramdam


O babe manhid ka, manhid ka


Puro deadma ka na lang


Bet na bet pa naman kita


Laman din ako ng tiyan


Syonga ka ba talaga o manhid ka

Kahit sagasaan ka


Kahit na pakulam pa


Di pa rin tumatalab sayo… oohh

Dahil manhid ka , manhid ka

Walang pakiramdam

O babe manhid ka, manhid ka

Puro deadma ka na lang

Bet na bet pa naman kita

Laman din ako ng tiyan

Syonga ka ba talaga o manhid ka

(Manhid ka, manhid ka…)

Walang pakiramdam

O babe manhid ka, manhid ka

Puro deadma ka na lang

Bet na bet pa naman kita


Laman din ako ng tiyan


Syonga ka ba talaga o manhid ka

(Manhid ka, manhid ka

Walang pakiramdam)


Syonga ka ba talaga o manhid ka…