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    Year In Review: Your Stories

    Supporters celebrate the victory of Philippine boxing champion and Congressman Manny Pacquiao against Juan Manuel …
    As we end 2011, we thought of giving you, our readers, the opportunity to share your own stories. We would like to thank all the users who contributed for this and the following are some of the posts that stood out.

     On the tragedy that struck Japan and Cagayan de Oro

     Rene

    I was in the office in Pasay when the big one hit Japan. Almost instantaneously, videos of the great quake and the killer tsunami flooded the internet. It was jaw dropping and amazing at the same time to see devastation of this magnitude, thousands of miles away, unfolding before your eyes just mere minutes after it happened. A display of nature's wrath and technology at its best. 

    IssayT

    I was inspired by how the Japanese people conducted themselves so honorably during the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis in their country.

     Toting (Brgy. Balulang, CDO)

    I was shocked when my dog woke me up last Dec 16, 2011 @ 11:45pm. When i stood up, the water was just almost knee-level. A few seconds I was struggling and swimming inside my house to get out. I was at the roof top under the heavy rain and strong wind. But thank God that im alive.

     Albert Chan Paran

    I was emotionally devastated seeing our fellow brothers and sisters in Cagayan de Oro and Iligan Cities on Cable TV when they lost their lives and everything they have owned especially their homes as well as their loved-ones in an instant out of the blue from the deadly typhoon Sendong a week before Christmas day. Tragedy struck us once again after what happened in Ormoc and Guinguinsaogon of Southern Leyte many years ago. This is a call of unity and peace among us to help each other make our land a better place to stay than quarreling over one’s selfish interest in National Television.

     Aivie Marie

    "I was stunned when I heard about the flood that struck CDO and Iligan. It's so rare that the area will experience such big flood...there response to the disaster shows how unprepared they are. Indeed, expect the unexpected. Nature will really get back on us."


     The stories that makes us proud to be Filipinos

     PHILIPPE

    I was awed when Timothy Richard Tebow, a Filipino by birthright and a NFL Quarterback, announced the Tebow CURE Hospital of the Philippines, the first project of the partnership between the Tim Tebow Foundation and CURE!

     Lionwarrior1221

    I was relieved when the referee announced the final decision of the Manny Pacquiao and Juan Manuel Maruez fight. This is the fight that brought so many questions on who really won the fight. The fight, that the camp of JMM wants another rematch....that decides Mayweather to fight MP because he thought that he could get Manny easily because of the outcome of the fight that Manny shows.

     Mark Jason Bernadas Garcia

    I was so elated when our very own, unequalled, Puerto Princesa Underground River made it to the New 7 Wonders of Nature, so very, very proud to be Pinoy!

     Ranty

    I was elated and proud when Charice makes waves as a singing sensation in the international arena. Shes a certified pride of the Philippines

     Belinda

    I was so proud when our very own Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago was elected as judge in ICC! The very first woman Senator to be given such opportunity to represent the Philippines in the International Criminal Court...salute!

     

    On politics and the government

     Raul

    I was very happy when the House of Representatives approved the Impeachment of CJ Corona. With the kind of CJ in our Supreme Court not only criminals will be more encouraged to commit more crimes but also victims of crimes because of the slow disposition of cases and corruption in court. Our Supreme Court is worst than most dreaded criminals because their victims are those who were already once victims of crimes.

     Jherone

    I admired Ms. Leila De Lima for fighting what is right even if she broke the rules by not following the order of supreme court with regards to TRO. Now former president Ms. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo is sentenced for what she have done.

     Reinier

    I was so irated and at the same time threatened when China ignored the Philippine government's plea to postpone/reconsider the death penalties on some Filipinos accused of drug trafficking. China has grown really big this year and they won't be moving any step backward either in grabbing Spratly's Islands.

     ROY

    I was disappointed when the president was in some sort of taking/doing/influencing the powers of the three most respected bodies (Executive, Legislative and Judiciary).

     Grace

    I was so touched after hearing the 1st SONA of PNOY earlier this year. I realized his quietness but seriously working, after all. Working on accomplishing tasks that he promised to his people. What he needs now is our support!

     

    And of course, there are some comments that always make us smile

     Seven

    I was reading these comments when I really started to feel sorry for the editors who have to choose the "best of" from this list. – Every comment from our users count and we appreciate the time you spend writing them.

     Vhan

    I WAS two steps behind our Filipino athletes when they delegated our country to the 26th SEA Games however disheartened with the result of our 6th place finish because of primary reason – sports politics. – Very witty indeed!

     RukAgi KaeMichi

    I was nagulat when Mr. Greatmind posted a comment in lower-case characters..=) – We bet most readers are now familiar with user Mr. Greatmind. For those who are not, user Mr. Greatmind is known for his comments with characters in all-caps.

     Takumi

    Masaya kasi pwede na ulit mag comment dito. kala ko tatangalin nyo na eh... – Our community comes first and that was a temporary technical issue.

     Lucy

    I was so grateful to the Yahoo Philippines for giving me the chance to be a part of your story. Without you I will never know what's going on in our beloved country. You have done a WHOLESOME job. – This is the reason why we’re still here and we’re grateful for all the conversations that we’ve had throughout the year. Thank you for sharing your stories with us. We look forward to more in 2012.

     

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    24 comments

    • Patrick C. Aquino  •  Manila, National Capital Region  •  1 month 24 days ago
      Therefore if I may suggest yahoo should organize an awards night to acknowledge their readers.

      Here are the awards
      1. Most replied comment
      2. Most popular comment
      3. Funniest comment
      4. Scariest comment or commentator (nominees are MR. GREATMIND, mr.GM, mister grytmaynd. and the winner is ............. I know right!)
      5. Most informative comment
      6. Most encouraging comment
      7. Most inspiring comment
      8. Most hate comment
      9. Most popular commentator
      10 Most hate commentator (nominees are MR. GREATMIND, mr.GM, mister grytmaynd. and the winner is ............. U know right!)
      11. Best commentator
      12. Best out of this world comment.
      13. Most dramatic comment
      14. Best comment of the year

      so just during the awards night all your faces would be revealed to know who you really are and eventually meet and greet.

      I guess the awards are all complete.
    • reinier  •  Manila, National Capital Region  •  1 month 24 days ago
      Wow! My comment is chosen! So happy. Thanks Yahoo! (Though I occasionally scrutinize some of your articles.) ^_^
    • RukAgi KaeMichi  •  Manila, National Capital Region  •  1 month 24 days ago
      I'm happy. Napansin pala yung comment ko about Mr. Greatmind. I thought mga seryosong comment lang ang ipopost. Salamat po =)
    • BITTER EVEN BITTER  •  Manila, National Capital Region  •  1 month 24 days ago
      Thanks yahoo! for hearing our voices.
    • Meg  •  Fort Myers, United States  •  1 month 22 days ago
      I BET HE THINKS GABE IS UBE
    • Meg  •  Fort Myers, United States  •  1 month 22 days ago
      HEY THEY LIKE MR. GREATMIND THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING BUT READ AND WRITE MAKE YOU WHIP IT GET CREDIT FOR IT.. LIKE GOD IS AN ALIEN THEY BELIVE THAT.
    • Meg  •  Fort Myers, United States  •  1 month 22 days ago
      LATHEDHA IT MEANS THEY ENJOY IT
    • MR. GREATMIND  •  1 month 24 days ago
      I WOULD LIKE TO POST THEM HERE AND COMPARE THEM WITH THESE ''CHOSEN'' ONES AND BE THE JUDGE AND NOT THESE YAHOO WHO KNOWS!!!

      1.) i WAS feeling and acting high and mighty because of my achievements in my young life and because of my superior physical attributes and material privileges bestowed upon me WHEN the death of kim jong il got a hold of my consciousness and this news cut me to the core and its significance has percolated to the deepest nucleus of my being and to the innermost recesses of my mind which brought me to an edification that success, material wealth and physical superiority are of no consequence all along when death knocks at the door like what happened in the case of kim jong il who bowed down to death despite his immense power and wealth evident to a fact that we are all mere specks of dusts in the universe under the sovereignty of the most supreme being who created everything and who is the true king and ruler to whom everybody must yield and serve to because every living creature is under his subjection including the most powerful, most feared, most rich and most beautiful of men and therefore pride and arrogance should never live and thrive in the hearts and souls of mortal men!!!

      2.) I WAS aghast, my heart was rent, my soul was shattered, my body shook, shivered and stiffened and sweat poured out from every pore of my skin, tears welled in my eyes and flowed like the river of euphrates and my world seemed to cease from existence and my consciousness was suddenly gripped with indescribable feeling, gradually all these physical and emotional manifestations came to a halt but my soul started to wail and bellow out of wretchedness and desperation WHEN tragedy that struck cagayan de oro and iligan got hold of my sensibility and i realized that indeed ''calamities take from those who have the least'' but the only consolation for them is that god is with them as long as they follow him for god listens to the poor ones(psalms 69:33) and he would never forsake them and the more privileged ones must go to them and help them because as the good book says, ''he that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the lord'' and blessed are they for theirs is the kingdom of god(luke 6:20) and who are we to disobey that command when the poor are always with us(matthew 26:2).

      MR. GREATMIND!!!

      1 Reply
      Wonderful words. You certainly have flair for writing. I wish that more people would live by the bible. They do not even have to believe, just use it as a handbook for how to be a person.

      3.) I WAS seething and disappointed because of relentless deletion of my comments on yahoo by insecure and envious commentors who have no regard whatsoever to freedom of expression which is one of the most basic and most essential rights of man which was even substantiated and bolstered by an adage that says, '' i may not agree with what you say but i will defend to death your right to say it'' WHEN i read on yahoo news about the uprising of egyptians against their ruler hosni mubarak because of abuse of power and corruption and my thoughts about freedom was validated by this incident that in fact freedom is a greatest gift from god which is considered free will but man himself stifles and suppresses it for his own selfish interest but humans who crave for it and who long for it always find a way to regain it just like what the egyptians have shown in their uprising against their abusive and corrupt leader by utilizing and expressing their freedom even in exchange for their lives just to depose their corrupt and abusive leader who stifled their freedom and it was an act of mercy that they won their battle, as patrick henry says: ''give me liberty or give me death'' and in this uprising, liberty achieved her victory!!!!

      MR. GREATMIND!!!
    • Mark Jason Bernadas Garci ...  •  Quezon City, National Capital Region  •  1 month 24 days ago
      awesome! a great start for 2012! ;^ )
    • WeiWuShu  •  Nonthaburi, Thailand  •  1 month 25 days ago
      "You have done a WHOLESOME job." (???).

      - "My boss was happy with my work and congratulated me for having done a very WHOLESOME job". That's well and good if you were working as a fairytale writer or a milk delivery boy, LOL!
    • IAN CAMU  •  Manila, National Capital Region  •  1 month 24 days ago
      BAKET WALA ANG KUMMENT KU SA LISTAHAN?
    • Ninijerome  •  Manila, National Capital Region  •  1 month 25 days ago
      Kababawan! Proud pinoy daw. Utang naten 68.5 billion na. Pano ka maging proud sa sarili mo?
    • Darna  •  Manila, National Capital Region  •  1 month 24 days ago
      Yung picture sa taas ay kuha after manalo si manny paquiyao MUKA BANG NAGCOCOMENT D2 YUNG MAMANG nakanganga na kala mo eh kumakanta ng metal rock na MAY KATABING BATA. he he he you gotta be pulling my beautiful and sexy legs, ang yahoo talaga may mailagay lang na photos na medyo mukang related he he he he. DARNA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    • MR. GREATMIND  •  1 month 21 days ago
      BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
      THIS IS THE HEIGHT OF ANOMALY, CORRUPTION, CHEATING AND ENVY!!!!
      WHERE ARE MY 4 COMMENTS?
      WHY WERE THEY NOT CHOSEN!!!
      THEY WERE FLAWLESSLY WRITTEN AND WERE WRITTEN FROM THE DEEPEST CORE OF MY HEART AND SOUL!!!
      THEY EDIFY AND INSPIRE AND I EVEN QUOTED PASSAGES FROM THE BIBLE TO ENLIGHTEN THE READERS.
      BUT YOU WILLINGLY AND KNOWINGLY DISREGARDED THEM BECAUSE OF YOUR ENVY!!!
      INSTEAD, YOU CHOSE AND PUBLISHED THESE MORONIC, IDIOTIC, IMBECILIC AND FOOLISH COMMENTS IF NOT TRASHY!!!
      NO WONDER, YOUR ARTICLES ARE ALWAYS IDIOTIC AND FULL OF GRAMMATICAL ERRORS!!!
      AN INVESTIGATION MUST BE INITIATED TO EXPOSE YOUR CORRUPTION AND ANOMALY!!!
      AND EVERY YAHOO STAFF WHO PARTICIPATED IN THIS ANOMALOUS FIASCO MUST BE FORCED TO RESIGN!!!
      SOME OF THESE CHOICES DID NOT EVEN FOLLOW THE RULE YOU GAVE THAT STORIES MUST USE THE FORMAT:
      '' I WAS ---- WHEN''
      THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN DISQUALIFIED OUTRIGHT BUT YOU EVEN CHOSE THEM.
      YOU JUST BROKE THE RULE AND MADE FOOLS OF YOURSELVES AND SHOWED TO THE WORLD HOW CORRUPT AND ANOMALOUS YOU ARE!!!
      WHEN THIS ARTICLE WAS FIRST POSTED LAST FRIDAY, IT GAINED 2I REPLIES INCLUDING MY 5 REPLIES.
      ALL THOSE REPLIES EXCEPT MINE TALK ABOUT ME AND NOT ABOUT YOUR ANOMALOUS CHOICES!!!
      SOME ARE EVEN SEETHING AND LAMBASTING YOUR CHOICES AND AGREEING WITH MY SENTIMENT.
      THE NEXT DAY WHICH WAS SATURDAY, EVERY COMMENT WAS GONE!!!
      AND ON THE COMMENT BOX APPEAR THE WORDS ''NO COMMENTS YET.''
      A NEW SET OF COMMENTS WERE POSTED AS YOU CAN READ THEM NOW, BUT STILL THEY TALK ABOUT THE MOST FAMOUS AND MOST INTELLIGENT COMMENTOR MR. GREATMIND AND NOT ABOUT YOUR CHOICES!!!
      WHY DID YOU REMOVE ALL THE FIRST SET OF COMMENTS?
      BECAUSE OF MY 5 POSTS EXPOSING YOUR CORRUPTION AND ANOMALOUS CONDUCT AND BECAUSE OF THE LETTER I SENT TO YOU LAMBASTING YOUR CHOICES!!!
      YOU CANNOT FACE THE TRUTH DO YOU?
      ALL THOSE COMMENTS ARE GLARING PROOFS OF YOUR ANOMALOUS CHOICES!!
      YOU MADE THE GREATEST MISTAKE OF KNOWINGLY DISREGARDING MY STORIES!!!
      YOU ARE SCUMBAGS!!!
      CORRUPT!!!
      ENVIOUS!!!
      CHEATS!!!
      YAHOO STAFF SUCKS!!!
      RESIGN!!!!
      BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
      nevermore!!!
    • Evenstar  •  Manila, National Capital Region  •  1 month 25 days ago
      ung nagiikot nga ng petition laban kina Mr. GM at iba ang nag rereport abuse. pati sakin dinelete.. huhuhu :( bad ka kuya... ano ka dictador?...
    • lia  •  Manila, National Capital Region  •  1 month 23 days ago
      A night before New Year when i watch the news on tv panay pampaswerte ang binanggit tulad ng mga lucky charms, 13 fruits na handa sa New Year atbp. Nakalimutan yata ng mga tao na ang lahat naman ng bagay ay biyaya sa atin ng Poong Maykapal. Ang lahat ay galing sa Kanya. All material and spiritual blessings comes to us through the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. God is continually blessing the earth through the Holy Masses celebrated each day by our priests. As St. Padre Pio said that we dont know the power of the Holy Mass and how much material and spiritual blessings we get from it. He said that it is easier for the earth not to have the sun than not to have the Holy Mass.
    • Giselle  •  Manila, National Capital Region  •  1 month 24 days ago
      sayang nahuli ako, but I like the tragedies that struck the world, this means kahit kanino mangyayari sa kahit saan when mother natures strike it will happen. So always be prepared and lets do our own to save mother earth. Big things, always start in small things.
    • WeiWuShu  •  Nonthaburi, Thailand  •  1 month 23 days ago
      @YAHOO

      Yo' mama so fat,
      when she jumped we had solar eclipse!
    • Ma. Katrina  •  Cabatuan, Cagayan Valley  •  1 month 26 days ago
      hay puno ng MR. GREATMIND. cool ka lang diyan.
    • WeiWuShu  •  Nonthaburi, Thailand  •  1 month 24 days ago
      Mr. Greatmind, may I offer a few observations on the plain of constructive criticism?

      You have a mind and vocabulary enriched by readings of lofty literature that embrace notable and noble/demi-noble philosophies. Your syntax may indeed be admirable to a certain extent and when you switch from prose to poetry, the weaving, though not exactly flawless, is acceptable though not by publications standard such as Bloomsbury or Random House and worthy of stock in Barnes and Noble. Nevertheless, they are acceptable in a forum such as this.

      But given the artistic constructs, the impressive array of words and the almost pictographic scale of your prose, your works are still not Shakesperean enough to shake some literary coffee tables and meetings, not philosophical enough to challenge the Voltaires, Jean-Paul Marats and MarquisDeSades of contemporary writings, no sufficient scientific content to send Hawking back-checking his notes and not religiously nor spiritually inspiring enough to reanimate the pantheon of dead gods in the RCC.

      I have the agreement of the sages when I say that your writings actually lack sincerity. Logic alone doesn't make for a literary opus. Outrageous cake designs that are your renowned megalocentric statements or pretty icings/decors on the cake that are your prose and 'words of wisdom' do not necessarily constitute outstanding literature because the lack of 'soul' in a man's existence signify a lifeless form or a corpse with no utter consequence. Sincerity is not Soul per se but it gives definition to soul. Depth of sincerity defines the depth of one's soul which can be transliterated into literature as emotions, hurt and despair, desolation and joy and so forth.

      These are my honest notes on your prolificacy as a writer and no denigration nor condescension were intended. In fact I would rather turn to admonition and encouragement by saying that a private and sincere admission of your deficiency would be a leap of progress towards ethereal achievements. Why settle for earthly praises when you can beat Hawking to the farthest universe? That's a pun.

      Reform now otherwise you can't hope to make your cake and eat it too. Cheers and Happy New Year!

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