Comments on: A brother’s defining moment.

By: balowen

balowen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 09:25:09 +0000

ure welcome iv! i think, this usually happens only to second citizens like us working in different countrie.
It always feels good to be working in our homeland where everyone, even the boss respects and acknowledges our rights as humans.
ure still lucky having that dignified job of urs!
this got me to thinking all the words uve written in tale spinners spot.. hehehe!

By: iva

iva — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 03:45:18 +0000

dear owen..tq for sharing such a heart-break story..

i jst know how demeaning the employers are to the workers..

By: balowen

balowen — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:06:48 +0000

Thanks for sharing yel and understanding that even great and strong men fell meek when it comes to family and living away from home caused it.

I see in ur posts that ure very attached to your family, the more when you have ur own, ull sure feel like not wanting to leave Phils anymore.

Im just praying that all our presendentiables are not corrupts so we can have a better chance of having a great country in the years to come.

By: humpydump

humpydump — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:07:43 +0000

Hey, this is a very touching story. I can very well relate to this piece, especially his line “hardest work of an OFW is not the work at all, its living away from home”. I’ve been away from home sincce college, but i can’t last a year without seeing my family. It never happened that i was away for one full year! The most was 10months when I was in Bahrain. I’m willing to spend and have a one-week vacation, if the company allows, just to be my family.

I’ve been to two countries already, as an OFW. I worked in Bahrain for a year, which is just very near to Saudi A. Presumably, Bahrain has a better working conditions than SA. I heard about bad stories; on how they treat not only our compatriots but as well as the other people especially those coming from Third World countries. The middle east is one of my dreaded places. But in search of greener pasture, I went there. Fortunately, i was with a British company that time and it was a white-collar job. And it mattered a lot that my boss was an English.

It really annoys me that people think that an OFWs live a good life. They don’t know that going abroad, leaving the family behind, entails lots of sacrifices.

May God be with us always..