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A couple of street kids in Chinatown puts together some cloth and wood and made up their own lion to do their lion dance. Listen to the kid playing the drum on a can. Sounds really really good.

Here's a video of a couple of street children who were begging outside the mall at SM North EDSA. The security guard had ask them to go somewhere else and the kids started to be aggressive and shouted abuse to the guard and even tried to physical harm him. The composure of the guard is admirable. These kids should be taken by the DSWD.

Street kid Gerald who's an expert at math. ABS-CBN did a feature on him and found out he has a friend who's also a wizard at math.

I would like to share this video I saw. It's a sad story about the state of the street children in our society. Here's the description of the video from Youtube. For further information visit www.joeyvelasco.net On the Canvas of Society While you watch this video, allow me to share with you some words as a backdrop or background of this video. What follows is an excerpt from Joey Velasco's speech at the start of his Book Launching and First Solo Exhibit in Art Asia. His book is entitled "They Have Jesus: The Stories of the Children of Hapag" and was launched on Oct. 13, 2006. -excerpt starts- Jesus Christ never wrote a book. The only scene in the Gospel where we saw him write was on the sand. But what he wrote was blown by the wind. What was etched in our minds forever in history and in eternity was his preference for the outcasts and rejects. In the future, I will be like the sand that will be blown by the wind. I will remain an unknown artist and writer. I will ...