HW8: Filipino Gamblers

Filipino hobbies are playing cards, bonding with their friends, neighbors and family. And it's normal for us to see them in streets, playing cards like; pusoy way, pusoy dos, tong-its, lucky9 and bingo etc. For others they just play these games just for fun, or to have bond with their friends. But for the gamblers, they think that there is no sense in playing those games without betting.

Filipinos are good in inventing new things and even games to play on. So that, we have a lot of card games that other countries do not have. And Filipinos are attached to those games because there are some occasion that they play those games. Like in the wake of a departed ones.

While I was surfing the net, I came an across an article entitled Sugal Pinoy it talks about the different card games and some gambling games that the Philippines have. And the Culture of the Filipinos about Gambling. The author said that "Sugal, sinong pinoy ang di marunong magsugal? Naku, kultura na to ng mga pilipino simula pa lang ata dumating ang mga kastila. At tila hinding hindi na ito mawawala sa atin. Bata pa lang ako ay mulat na ko sa mga sugal na ito. Di nyo na itatanong na parang casino lang naman ang bahay namin dati sa malabon. Sa loob ng bahay may sugalan, sa labas g bahay may topadahan (sabong) at may nagkakara cruz. Sinong hindi matututo sa sugal na yan? Pero syempre nasa tao na ang desissyon kung magpapadala siya sa kademonyohan ng sugal. Ako, halos lahat ng sugal alam ko pero hindi ako adik sa sagal. Yung paggising pa lang sa umaga eh sugal na agad ang hinahanap bago pa magkape. Hay, ganyan talaga ang mga pinoy, sabi nga ng marami "pang pa ubos oras lang, libangan lang". Libangan na minsan nagiging sanhi ng pagkawasak ng buhay at ng pamilya." 

They said that Filipinos are born to be a Gambler, but it doesn't mean the negative side of it. In fact, we can compare Life into Gambling. In life we fight for what we want to have, sometimes we got it and sometimes not. Like in gambling we play because we want to have more money, and sometimes we got the big pot but not all the times that we are winning, there will be times that we are losing.

Also if you want to have something, you will take risk just to get it. Because there is no easy way to have the precious things in this world.