Distancia Amingo Essay

It was mid-afternoon. I could unwrap faces along the road. I knew they were Iskolar ng Bayan I assumed. They be for sure approaching from different Bicol provinces. I was in a hurry to cross the lane. I was nearly bumped by a jeepney. Ano, magpapakamatay ka na? The number one wood shouted. Aw nano na costumbre, I murmured. I did not know whether he got the right soul or I got a wrong way, either. After I crossed the pedestrian lane, I stop and thought it over. Suddenly, a tricyle passed by. Distancia Amingo, as I have infer the inscription on the board of its back. harbour distance, I told myself.I, most of the successions, was waiting for and taking a ride in a jeepney every time I am going to office, church, mall, and even bar hopping. Jeepney get goings a public transportation of Legazpenos and other close places. We are comfortable to call it as dyip or jeep. Indeed, my previous experience constructs a new creation that helps me out to observe, describe, and take note its technical and cultural background. What can you say? Jeepneys are originally do from US military jeeps, which military left them behind after ended the World War II instead of paying to ship the vehicles to America.A jeepney is a 12- to 16-passenger vehicle fashioned from second-hand military Jeeps used in the Philippines as public transportation. The term comes from a combination of the words Jeep and jitney, meaning small private instructor following a flexible schedule that carries passengers on a regular route. Over the years, the jeepney has grown to become one of the most prevalent means of transportation in the Philippines, said Jacob Hendriks, eHow contributing writer. Today, it becomes the most normal means of public transportation among provinces in the Philippines.Indeed, its name tags the Filipinos culture. If you could notice before you step up at that place are some slogans down the stair. Take note you forget perhaps frown or trick at after reading it. Basta driver, sweet lover, this is an authentic example. It is not doubtful if passengers got smile when they have pleased to seat on the tukawan, I connote. On the other hand, this slogan simply speaks of machismo. In contrast, drivers could be describe as polygamous by nature aside from being gentlemen to passengers.Perhaps, the status of their employment would attest that in some cases they coincidentally found women at night while they went to driving. I dont cogitate if some of them got concubines, which could be the cause of love quarrel in the midst of him and his wife. I think this is the reason wherefore some of them had encountered accident that is suicidal. Forgive me if I got the wrong concept. At the back of the driver seat, you can read, Barya lang po sa umaga. We cannot deny that many times we forgot to pay our fare using coins early in the morning. Dai akon sensilyo thats it when driver asked.We cannot deny that we never allow ourselves to follow this simple rule yet , when we demand good services from the potency basically our blood pressure seems to explode. High blood? so to speak. On the other hand, there are drivers who cheat. When you handed him more than the expected fare sometimes they forgot or meant not to return your change. I did not say that they are all cheaters because there in any case some of them who are honest. The moment you forgot, they screeched their wheels back. I also did not say that they are not angry when passengers count their change.Maski arog ako kaini, dai ko kaya manluko nin tawo, one time a driver murmured towards me. Feeling close, my flirt mind commented. Fasten your seat belt you can read this draw when you sit beside the drivers seat. Sometimes, it is written as, fasten your sit belt. At first, I was annoyed but, at the end, I significantized that this line is the result of linguistic imperialism. We should forgive the perpetrator. We should not point our fingers to the driver because the nature of his w ork does not qualify to plead him guilty instead we will blame his teacher. It could be his parents as first teachers at home.It could be his teachers in the school, where learning takes place. Exactly, his learning experience constructs meaning as bewitch of constructivism. The good side is he is not just a driver, but a skilled worker. This is the real substance of education shaping a person to be productive developing his potential to a defined skill. I was already inside the jeepney where I listened to the song entitled, Jeepney by Spongecola. What a coincidence, I said. Hush. try to the song. Bumaba ako sa jeepney/Kung saan tayoy dating magkatabi/Magkahalik ang pisngi nating da law of naturea.The verses describe how the lovers explicitly unveil their relationship. Public display affection (pda) they said. Yes, it is expected that this is between man and woman. It could possibly be a man with a queer wo(man). Thats true we do not impose racism here. You can laugh, but do not j udge. Just say this is the law of extreme reality. Pues, I cant bear the moment without looking into the trend of courtship nowadays. I tell you I am not against with them. I really feel sad when I see lovers in the jeepney showing inhuman behavior.We cannot blame older than us if they cant tolerate themselves to fix up them into gossip because they destroy our good tradition. So, it is not surprising if women are being brutalized and raped because they become topic of original sin. Siisay su relihiyoso an padi o an drayber? It becomes a joke but, if we look at it as new perspective, tambay or bystanders would answer us, of course, the driver. If you can observe the driver will not drive the jeepney without signing a cross. Yes, I agree, but he cannot do it without prior knowledge about his religious ways without the priests.When we destroy our conscience, our conviction will be at stake. Faith in our people and faith in god, said Sen. Benigno Ninoy Aguino, older In front of th e jeepneys mirror, you can see a small altar with an image of arrant(a) Mary. It becomes the icon of their salvation. Sometimes, they hang above it a bunch of fresh and fragrant flower, sampaguita, which they bought three for ten pesos from the materialization vendors. These vendors could be young boys or girls who seemed to be unfortunate. No child shall be left behind, as picture by the DepEd.Yet, the more the children are unfortunate, the more they are not able to go to school. I am sure there is something wrong in their home. I am sure there is something wrong in the system of the government. Along the front window you can notice the drivers prayer embroidered as, divinity fudge bless our trip. With this, I can say that the driver is a symbolic for hard work and these quaternary words represent for prayer. This entails that when we work we should never forget to pray. Ora et labora in English means, pray and work. This simply reminds us that we should balance our material n eeds and our spiritual need.When I got down the stair another jeepney passed by. I could read the inscription, In God We Trust. I cant imagine how Bicolanos survive amid scarcity as a result of natural calamity. I presume Bicolanos ways of living unfold the profound relationship with God. antediluvian patriarch times indeed reflect how our ancestors passed on our good culture that defines our Bicolano identity. So, we have no reasons to smile. Starting today, we will keep distance when jeepney stops, but we will never lose hope when sudden misfortune comes because God never keeps us apart. He is just in our heart.