Nothing ruins a wonderful day of shopping other than reaching for your pocket and realizing your leather wallet was lost and your back pocket was ripped. Desperate people with evil minds have roamed around the streets to get the money you worked very hard on. In times of poverty, despair, and misery, people will do anything to have cash for food or for drugs, maybe, we don’t know.
Thieves and snatchers usually target big places with tons of people so they will stay incognito and unnoticed. They’re like evil ninjas but they target our hard earned pesos. I myself got a taste of these evil ninjas’ evil ways. I got my wallet filched out of my pocket without my awareness and it pissed me off.. a lot.
SO here’s some tips to take care of your beloved leather money holders.
1.Keep your wallet in front of your pocket
Since we cannot see our own behinds and have very little sensory nerves back there its advisable to keep our wallets on our front pockets. If you sensed a pretty brave stranger reaching out for your wallet while its on your front pocket, you have all the rights to punch that person on the throat. That would hurt and it will teach him a lesson
2.Don't thicken up your wallet
Putting a lot of things on your wallet seems pretty usual for most people. Receipts, cards, condoms, those little things adds up as time goes by and before you know it you've got more crap on your wallet than actual money. It's become very hard to fold and will cause a bigger bulge on your pockets. Remember: that the bigger the wallet, the easier it is to see. It will act as a signal for those evil ninjas who wants your money.
Keep your wallet thin. Throw away all the receipts you don't even know why its in there, dispose all the business cards of people you don’t even talk to and dump that condom because you aren’t gonna get laid anyway if you got your stolen by these snatchers.
Be Alert, Be Awake.
A thief would not target a person who gives full attention to his valuables and surroundings. Keep a good posture, walk with fast enough, scan the place left to right be confident and blend in.
Its also advisable to touch the pocket which holds your wallet from time to time for the assurance of it not being stolen.
4.Think like a criminal
I will not judge any of you but if you think like a criminal it will be easier for you to take care of your valuables. Always ask yourself “If I’m a thief, how would I make this hard for myself? What if someone put this here?” Put yourself in the mindset of someone looking to snatch a wallet not to do what they do but to make it difficult for them.
5.Your life is more important than your wallet
There’s a thin line between bravery and stupidity. If there’s like five guys with knives and guns just give the wallet to them. Don’t fight back unless you’re Batman.
It is more important to be safe, alive and awesome rather than to lose some money.
Nowadays, every time you go to Divisoria or any other tiange or nearby market you probably seen the overflowing number of Angry birds merchandise which are sold in stalls, kiosks, and boutiques. These birds are in a bunch of different stuff - shirts, toys, pens, tumblers and other items that have weird cartoon of an angry bird on it. But aren’t you just getting tired of these items?
Angry birds is a game developed by Rovio which was originally an application for the iPhone and iPad and lately became a computer game too due to insistent public demand and probably because not a lot of people can afford an overpriced smart phone. The objective of the game is to kill all the sneaky green pigs who stole the birds’ eggs by throwing a bunch of these colorful birds by a interactive slingshot. If you haven’t played this game yet, I am congratulating you.
The game gained so much fame that entrepreneurs, shirt makers and other businessmen thought that if they have items that have these birds on them it might sell and people would love it. And as we can see now, markets and stalls, even some church and of course - the one, the only Divisoria has all these items all over the place.
At first, these merchandise looks fun. Witty shirts, colorful stuff, cute birds - who wouldn’t like that, right? But time quickly killed the angry birds fever. Its becoming old and overused. Even people who haven’t even played the game yet have these items because they think its cute. In a Filipino slang, it looks so “jeje” na..
When I asked a vendor in Divisoria about the sales of the angry birds items she claimed that when these things first got out a lot of people really craved and bought it. They think its cute and colorful that’s why they keep buying these things. But lately, angry birds merchandise buyers are not showing up in their shops anymore. The items remained to be in their shops wanting to be bought.
This kind of phenomena also happened years before. Do you guys remember Plants vs. Zombies? Yeah. You used to play that game right? Like last year yeah you remember.
There are also a bunch of people who made Plants vs. Zombies merchandise because of the game’s popularity a couple of years back. Same thing happened – it was sold, people bought it, time made it old, became over used and later on sales just went down.
Well, there’s nothing wrong with buying Angry Birds stuff but people will get tired of it easily, it will be out of fashion and later on it will be just another statement killed by the fast pace of time.
Why didn’t they make merchandise from Snake, Space Impact or Tetris? Retro games had more impact to us until now. These are the prototypes of almost all modern games.
So I’m going to make a business proposal that will blow entrepreneurs’ minds! Make merchandise with retro games theme.
Make a Sonic the Hedgehog pen, Mario tumblers, Pacman shirts or Pokemon stuff toys. That would be really cool. It will not go old easily and its more creative.
Again, there’s nothing wrong with buying Angry Birds stuff but it will become dead and old just like other time-kill, easily-finished, modern games. So let’s revive the video games that made our childhood fun and frustrating- the ones that really capture our minds and help made us solve the most ridiculous puzzles.
Kids of all ages will surely love it. It will make them curious and play these retro games that their kuyas and ates or even their parents loved as a child.
Let’s remember the time when Mario search and destroyed different castles to save his beloved Princess Peach, that annoying sound Pac-man make when he swallows pills on a maze while being chased by a bunch of weird looking multi-colored ghosts, and Link saving Hyrule and rescuing his beloved Princess Zelda which, unfortunately, friendzoned him after all his struggles. Bring back the awesome 8-bit animation and soundtracks.
On March 5, 2012, The advocacy group invisible children released a 30 minute video as part of campaign to raise awareness about Kony and his evil doings in Uganda and seek his capture. The video quickly goes viral and taken the internet by storm.
Invisible children?
Invisible children is an American NGO mainly composed of Filmmakers whose special advocacy are to inform people around the world know the chaotic world in Africa.
According to their website, “Half our work happens on the ground in Central Africa, and the other half happens in the United States.
In Central Africa, all of our programming is a partnership between Invisible Children and LRA-affected communities. We focus on long-term goals that enable children to take responsibility for their futures and the futures of their countries. Our programs are carefully developed initiatives that address the need for quality education, mentorships, the redevelopment of schools, and financial stability. In areas where the LRA is still active, we focus on civilian protection and rehabilitation.
Our work in the United States focuses on advocacy and inspiring America’s youth to “do more than just watch.” We believe that by uniting our voices we can use the systems, influence, and resources of the United States to expedite an end to the conflict.”
Who’s Joseph Kony and what in the world is the LRA?
Joseph Kony, a Ugandan Born leader of the Lord's Resistance Army. The video KONY 2012 by Invisible Children alleges the rebel group of kidnapping, rape and slavery of the children in Uganda. The boys are given guns and trained to fight against their own will. The girls are turned into sex slaves
According to Discovery News, since he was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Court in 2005 on 33 charges including murder, enslavement, rape, pillaging, and forced fighting, he has left Uganda for the bush; his whereabouts are unknown. The LRA now operates in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic, and may now number in the hundreds.
The Lord’s Resistance Army began life in the early 1980’s as the Holy Spirit Movement, led by a woman called Alice Lakwena who claimed the Holy Spirit had ordered her to overthrow the Ugandan government, which was accused of treating the Acholi people of the North unfairly. As resentment towards the Ugandan government intensified, supporters flocked to Lakwena and the Holy Spirit movement gathered momentum, until a battle won by the government led to Lakwena’s exile.
With no clear direction for the movement, a man claiming to be Lakwena’s cousin, Joseph Kony, took over as leader and rebranded the movement in 1986 as the Lord’s Resistance Army. Kony initially stated that the LRA’s mission was to overthrow `the government and rule Uganda based on the Ten Commandments. He rapidly lost support, however, and in frustration Kony began abducting thousands of children to swell its ranks, turning them into killers and unleashing them on villages.
The LRA, a sectarian religious and military group that has operated in northern Uganda and Southern Sudan since 1987. They have since spread their operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic. The U.S. Treasury has Kony on its list of “Specially Designated Global Terrorists.”
Make Kony Famous?
The Kony 2012 goal is to increase awareness of Kony - make him famous. As they said on the video "not to celebrate him, but to raise support for his arrest and set a precedent for international justice"
As Jason Russell says that less than one percent of the world knows who Joseph Kony is. If people knew what he had done the American people and the whole world would lead them to do some action.
“The dream would be for Kony to be captured, not killed, and brought to the International Criminal Court to face trial
"The world would know about his crimes and they would watch the trial play out on an international level, seeing a man face justice who got away with abducting children, raping little girls, and mutilating people's faces for 26 years," says Russell.
The American government would send troops in Uganda and assist the Ugandan army in capturing the notorious leader.
The goal of KONY 2012 is for the world to unite to see Kony arrested and prosecuted for his crimes against humanity.
Judel Arugay's Views
It’s funny how my friends and other people suddenly turned into social activists after they watched the Kony 2012 video. In a drop of a hat they cared about these poor abducted kids in Africa and sickened by this Joseph Kony guy. And now they think they’re doing something good and helping by sharing this 30 minute, well-edited, brilliantly explained video by Invisible Children.
Well, guess what? The internet is mightier and more powerful than they thought it will be. The medium that made it famous is also the thing that will destroy this scam!
Yes, it is a scam. And people from the internet, including me, quickly figured it all out.
People who made this documentary pockets 8 million dollars - 30% goes to Africa and 70% on their wallets.
America wants Africa’s Resources!
Kony 2012 has nothing to do with saving children, nothing to do with getting rid of a warlord, its about getting Africa’s resources. What does Africa got? Oil, Minerals and whole lot of resources and America wants it.
Do you guys really think America can just go to Africa and arrest one warlord? There are thousands of other warlords in Africa more brutal than Kony! Why don’t they show this?
Don’t get me wrong, Joseph Kony is not a good man. What he did to Ugandan children is just disgusting and evil. But do you know that the video is made from 2003? That was nine years ago when Joseph Kony is still strong and in the height of his power. Now he's in an African Rainforest not doing anything and just holding on for dear life. There are even rumors that he is now dead. So what the hell are these American troops doing in Africa if Kony is not a threat anymore? Military intervention seems to be America's solution to problems that have little or nothing to do with them.
And look closely, KONY 2012 is pro-war propaganda film. Do you guys really like another war? Are you freaking crazy? Sending US troops to Uganda for what? Get their resources, have their oil, WAKE UP AMERICA! Don’t make this country turn into another Middle east. It doesn’t work! Its stupid, racist, and pro-war. READ A BOOK! USE YOUR COMMON SENSE!
Here's a video of a ugandan girl talking about this brilliant Kony 2012 scam.
Here are some articles and videos from other people regarding this issue.
Keep your wallet thin. Throw away all the receipts you don't even know why its in there, dispose all the business cards of people you don’t even talk to and dump that condom because you aren’t gonna get laid anyway if you got your stolen by these snatchers.
It is more important to be safe, alive and awesome rather than to lose some money.
