10-08-2006, 03:54 PM
Rant: My aunt sent in a balikbayan box from Australia... supposedly it was as big as 1 and 1/4 of a regular sized balikbayan box, due to a promo they had over there from what I understand. Anyway, it was supposed to be filled to the brim with all kinds of foodstuffs and other goodies. When it came to us though, the box was small. And tampered with.
Regularly my aunt writes the receiver's address on the packaging tape itself, in black marker pen. This one had new packaging tape plasetered on it, and the address typed out in a teeny computerized font, on the bottom side of the box. And as I said, the box was smaller than what we expected; it was old and used and crumpled in places.
Usually when relatives send balikbayan boxes, the tape is hard to remove by hand, you have to use a knife or some other sharp object to slice through the thing. The tape placed on the box however, we were able to remove by hand. And the very worst part was the inside: things were jumbled all over, halatang hinalungkat. And the stuff inside didn't even fit the box to filling point, unlike previous boxes we received.
Yeah, so if you've figured it out by now, nanakawan kami ng stuff in transit. Grabe talaga buhay... people will do anything to survive, even if it means a little crime.
It's a little saddening to see what people (and specifically Pinoys - we know it was Pinoys that did this) can do. Right now, the material loss, like I said, is a little saddening, but that doesn't even matter much anymore, I mean I have good food here at home, and a roof over my head, so taken from that perspective, it's not a big deal. Nakakalungkot lang talaga ang kayang gawin ng mga tao.
So yeah, kung paulit-ulit at paikot-ikot lang ako sa mga sinabi ko, it's mostly because I just typed it out how I felt.
Regularly my aunt writes the receiver's address on the packaging tape itself, in black marker pen. This one had new packaging tape plasetered on it, and the address typed out in a teeny computerized font, on the bottom side of the box. And as I said, the box was smaller than what we expected; it was old and used and crumpled in places.
Usually when relatives send balikbayan boxes, the tape is hard to remove by hand, you have to use a knife or some other sharp object to slice through the thing. The tape placed on the box however, we were able to remove by hand. And the very worst part was the inside: things were jumbled all over, halatang hinalungkat. And the stuff inside didn't even fit the box to filling point, unlike previous boxes we received.
Yeah, so if you've figured it out by now, nanakawan kami ng stuff in transit. Grabe talaga buhay... people will do anything to survive, even if it means a little crime.
It's a little saddening to see what people (and specifically Pinoys - we know it was Pinoys that did this) can do. Right now, the material loss, like I said, is a little saddening, but that doesn't even matter much anymore, I mean I have good food here at home, and a roof over my head, so taken from that perspective, it's not a big deal. Nakakalungkot lang talaga ang kayang gawin ng mga tao.
So yeah, kung paulit-ulit at paikot-ikot lang ako sa mga sinabi ko, it's mostly because I just typed it out how I felt.
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