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Monday, October 15, 2007

Blog Action Day: Preserving Our Mother Nature

Naruto Shippuuden officially became part of Blog Action Day September 9th. Since then, I am so excited for this day to come. And now the “Blog Action Day” part. I grew up in Anilao Mabini, Batangas a countryside where trees and mountains are just few meters away from our doorstep, where pollution is a no-no, and you are pretty much sure that you’re breathing in fresh air, add to it the fresh breeze from the sea, the typical rural life. My memories with my childhood are that rich that until now it makes me proud for actually having that experience. During my grade school, after my 30-minute habit of watching my favorite anime of the 90’s like BT’X, together with my brother, we head to our little farm full of crops and there we feed in some of our goats and cows. We are very handy there, from planting of the crops until the harvest time. Back home, we have this piggery which houses hogs, some are new breed of piglets, and man, though they have this smell that’s really nuts, cleaning the piggery house was a riot, chasing the pigs to move away and have their poop taken out --- that was hilarious. Ten years later, though the city had some face-lift to be competitive with nearby barangays’ I am proud that we had preserved our mountain, hillside, the beaches --- well, almost everything! And there’s this mountain that has resemblance of “ladies frontal asset” --- standing still for hundred years now. We’re not that very prefect place to live because I admit that there’s also a quarrying site on nearby places, but so far that “mountain with the resemblance of the ladies frontal asset” luckily was still intact, hopefully, it’s for good for the next generation to come. Now that I have my work here in the metro which is miles away from my hometown, I seldom visit Anilao, only if there are family gatherings – Christmas, New Year, graduations, special birthdays, Holy Week and Lenten Season. And every time I visit, I am making sure that I have the photos of the mountain, the farm, taken even thru my mobile phone. Bottom line is, let us work closely in preserving whatever is left of the pristine environment. Let’s aim to call people to come together for a common goal and that is to stand for Mother Nature.

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