Simply Belle

I miss my guitar. I feel like playing this song right now but my guitar is lacking a string. Bummer! Anak was very popular in the Philippines and in Asia when I was young, and even to this day. I’ve translated the lyrics into english for the benefit of non-tagalog speakers.

Nang isilang ka sa mundong ito
Laking tuwa ng magulang mo
At ang kamay nila ang iyong ilaw
At ang nanay at tatay mo’y
Di malaman ang gagawin
Minamasdan pati pagtulog mo
At sa gabi’y napupuyat ang iyong nanay
Sa pagtimpla ng gatas mo
At sa umaga nama’y kalong ka
Ng iyong amang tuwang-tuwa sa iyo

Ngayon nga ay malaki ka na
Nais mo’y maging malaya
Di man sila payag
Walang magagawa
Ikaw nga ay biglang nagbago
Naging matigas ang iyong ulo

At ang payo nila’y sinuway mo
Di mo man lang inisip na
Ang kanilang ginagawa’y para sa iyo
Pagkat ang nais mo’y
Masunod ang layaw mo
Di mo sila pinapansin

Nagdaan pa ang mga araw
At ang landas mo’y naligaw
Ikaw ay nalulong sa masamang bisyo
At ang una mong nilapitan
Ang iyong inang lumuluha
At ang tanong,”anak, ba’t ka nagkaganyan”
At ang iyong mata’y biglang lumuha ng di mo pinapansin
Nagsisisi at sa isip mo’y
Nalaman mong ika’y nagkamali
Nagsisisi at sa isip mo’y
Nalaman mong ika’y nagkamali
Nagsisisi at sa isip mo’y
Nalaman mong ika’y nagkamali
Nagsisisi at sa isip mo’y
Nalaman mong ika’y nagkamali

English version

When you were born into this world
Your parents were all thrilled
And their hands served as your light
And your mother and father couldn’t hold still
Watching you even in your sleep

In the evening, your mother was sleep deprived
Preparing your milk
And during the day, your father was fond of you
While you you sat on his lap

Now, that you’ve grown
You wanted to be free
Despite of their objection
There’s nothing they could do
You suddenly changed
And became hard-headed

And you didn’t heed to their advices
It didn’t even occur to you that what they were doing
Was for your own good
Because all you wanted was to satisfy your own caprices
You then chose to ignore your parents

And time has passed
you’ve suddenly gone astray
And you succumbed to evil things
And the first person you got in touch with
Was your crying mother
And she asked, “my son/daughter, why did you end up like this?”

And unaware, tears suddenly came rolling down your face
you felt remorse, and finally realized that you have done wrong (4x)

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My daughter’s birthday is coming up and since she made the Dean’s list this year, she wanted us to get her a special present for her birthday.  And so we bought her a keyboard through target.com.

It was my husband who placed an order. He filled out the needed information on the billing list including the billing and shipping addresses.  For some reason, it wouldn’t accept the shipping address he provided.  Instead, the target.com picked another address where she used to live, and whether the address was correct or not, we just had to take it.  My husband tried mightily hard to change the shipping address to the correct one he initially filled out.  Strangely, it wouldn’t accept it.

We tried to cancel the order, and again, it wouldn’t let us. I’ve never heard of such policy that you can’t cancel or make changes minutes after you placed an order. It said that the order was being processed and no changes were allowed. It would not even give us the shipper’s name, for heaven’s sake.  I wouldn’t be surprised if  Target online will be out of business in the near future.

Are we dealing with US business or some backward foreign business? Who is in charge of order online at target.com? It The site is definitely not user’s friendly. If target.com doesn’t accept PO delivery (where my daughter gets her mail), at least, let us know and give us an option to provide alternative shipping address.  It wouldn’t. It  just took the order with the address it preferred, and processed it.

I went to target.com site and found some phone numbers to call. It was some foreign girl with an accent who was on the other line, and my husband couldn’t understand a word she said. She hang up on him!  The nerve of her!!

I called the same number but tried different option. Again, a guy from some foreign place  answered the phone.  Geeshh, he wasn’t much of a help either.  He said, there was nothing much he could do once the order was being processed.  The only info he was able to give me was the shipper’s name.  UPS.  Just what I thought. How will the UPS know my daughter is no longer residing in that address? They don’t have the system like USPS that keeps forwards of the people moving out except in some cases when customers move leaving no forwarding address.

I told the guy that unless the UPS asks for signature, most likely, the delivery person will  leave the package outside the front door of her old residence thinking that she lives there when in fact, she had moved out 7 months ago. If the residents are honest, they will notify the UPS of the wrong delivery or they can take the package and pretend they know nothing about it.

That is what we get from shopping at target.com. Don’t know what is going to happen on that order.  Any help?

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