Sadyang Hind Ako (Indi Gali Ako)

Sadyang hindi ako

By Louie John M Salda

(Indi Gali Ako)

Translation by ABV

Ang aking lubos na kaligayahan,

ay napalitan ng mapait na karanasan.

Mula ng ako’y iyong iwan at saktan,

ng iyong pusong sadyang salawahan.

(Ang kalipay ko tani nga matuod

Sa mapait nga kalisod ini nalunod

Halin sadtong nagbiya ka sa akon

Daw nadunot na akon tagipusuon!)

Sa tuwing ika’y namamasdan,

bumabalik ang hapdi ng nakaraan.

Pagkat ako’y lubusang iniwan,

sa ere ng walang kaalam-alam.

(Kon kis-a nga indi gid malikawan

Nga makita ka, nagabalik ang tanan

Kay daw sa ano bala ikaw nagbiya

Sa akon nga maskin wala sang sala!)

Tila sadyang mapagbiro ang tadhan,

tayo ay sadyang pinagkikita.

Ngunit puso mo’y walang kasing tigas.

Ni kahit pangalan ko ay di mo mabigkas.

(Masakit kay daw ginahampangan

Ang ginabatyag, sang kapalaran

Kay maskin pirmi pa magkit-anay

Indi ka man lang makasiling “hi!”.)

Hanggang saan susukatin?

Hanggang kailan bubuhayin?

Ang puso kong ikaw lng ang hiling,

Sana pag-ibig ko ay iyong dinggin.

(Ang pagsukat, asta diin makadayon?

Mabuhi pa ayhan ining tagipusuon?

Tagipusuon nga ikaw ang ginapangita –

Tani pamatian mo, akon nga palangga!)

Sadyang hindi ako!

Ang laman ng puso mo!

Ikaw nga ay lubusang ngbago.

Sana’y malama’t maisip mo,

Na ikaw ay minahal ko ng husto.

(Indi gali ako….!

Unod sang kasingkasing mo!

Indi na ikaw ang akon nakilala

Pero itanom gid sa imo hunahuna

Sadto pa, ikaw gid…akon palangga!)

 

TESDA Trainings should include Resourcefulness

TESDA trainings should include

Resourcefulness

By Apolinario Villalobos

The trainings of Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) are geared more towards jobs overseas. But there is one particular training that should be injected with resourcefulness – baking. The training agency should not only expect that graduates of the seminar are bound to fill up jobs in hotels and restaurants in the country and abroad, or embark on a business complete with baking equipment, but will also start a small home-based business, or just bake cakes and bread for the family. Regarding the latter option, trainors of the agency should include in their module how to be resourceful in case a “standard” sized oven is not available in the homes of these housewives.

This observation is based on TESDA training in the barangay level in which participants are simple housewives most of whom do not own a standard-sized oven, and whose interest is to bake bread for the family. The TESDA should have a module for this particular of group.

In the internet, some shares on baking are about those done on top of stoves using the iron pot. Another is even about baking cakes with the use of rice cooker. But since most wives do not even touch a computer or much more, have computer at home, these knowledge should be shared by the trainors, themselves in seminars. TESDA should get trainors whose knowledge on baking is not limited in the use of the standard oven.

The TESDA training programs are allotted with substantial budget. In this regard, the agency should see to it that the modules of their trainors are not coped within the western-type knowledge, but should also cater to what the Filipinos need aside from landing a job in big companies in the country or abroad, or a big-budgeted family business. Knowledge learned from the agency should also be geared towards its usefulness in the Filipino home.