TAMARES, Alysan L.

January 31, 2020

Fables
Title:The Lion and The Mouse

A Lion lay asleep in the forest, his great head resting on his paws. A timid little Mouse came
upon him unexpectedly, and in her fright and haste to get away, ran across the Lion’s nose.
Roused from his nap, the Lion laid his huge paw angrily on the tiny creature to kill her.

“Spare me!” begged the poor Mouse. “Please let me go and some day I will surely repay
you.”

The Lion was much amused to think that a Mouse could ever help him. But he was generous
and finally let the Mouse go.

Some days later, while stalking his prey in the forest, the Lion was caught in the toils of a
hunter’s net. Unable to free himself, he filled the forest with his angry roaring. The Mouse
knew the voice and quickly found the Lion struggling in the net. Running to one of the great
ropes that bound him, she gnawed it until it parted, and soon the Lion was free.

“You laughed when I said I would repay you,” said the Mouse. “Now you see that even a
Mouse can help a Lion.”

A kindness is never wasted.

Short Story
Title: A friend in need is a friend indeed

Once upon a time there lived a lion in a forest. One day after a heavy meal. It was sleeping
under a tree. After a while, there came a mouse and it started to play on the lion. Suddenly
the lion got up with anger and looked for those who disturbed its nice sleep. Then it saw a
small mouse standing trembling with fear. The lion jumped on it and started to kill it. The
mouse requested the lion to forgive it. The lion felt pity and left it. The mouse ran away.

On another day, the lion was caught in a net by a hunter. The mouse came there and cut the
net. Thus it escaped. There after, the mouse and the lion became friends. They lived happily
in the forest afterwards.

Moral : A friend in need is a friend indeed

News
Travel ban to US? Bar Chinese from infected areas instead–Pangilinan

MANILA, Philippines — Instead of barring Cabinet officials from travelling to the United
States, the government should ban the entry to the Philippines of Chinese from virus-
infected areas, opposition Senator Francis “Kiko” Pangilinan said on Thursday.

President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday ordered his Cabinet officials to refrain from flying
to the United States, a week after he threatened to scrap the Visiting Forces Agreement
(VFA) with the US after Washington cancelled the visa of Senator Ronald “Bato” dela Rosa.

“I will not allow any Cabinet member to go there at this time. No Cabinet member should be
allowed to go to the United States,” Duterte said.

Sought for comment, Pangilinan said the President should have instead ordered the banning
of Chinese nationals from areas infected by the 2019 novel coronavirus.

“Sa halip na barring Cabinet officials from going to the US, dapat barring Chinese nationals
from coronavirus cities from entering the Phil ang inaasikaso ng Malacanang,” he said in a
text message.

(Instead of barring Cabinet officials from going to the US, Malacanang should focus on
barring Chinese nationals from coronavirus cities from entering the Philippines.)

The novel coronavirus, which has reportedly killed 170 people and infected over 7,000
others, was first detected in Wuhan, China and has spread to other parts of China and the
world.

Despite the coronavirus scare, Duterte said the government would not yet ban the entry of
Chinese nationals to the Philippines.

“Bakit mukhang mas matimbang sa inyo ang interes ng China kaysa sa kapakanan at
kaligtasan ng mamamayang Pilipino?” Pangilinan, president of the Liberal Party, wrote on
Facebook Wednesday.

(Why is China’s interest seems to be more important to you than the welfare and safety of
Filipino people?)

“Unahin dapat ang kaligtasan ng taumbayan hindi ang interes ng iilan sa pagkansela ng isang
visa,” he further said in the text message.
(Let’s prioritize the welfare of the public, and not the interest of a few as an offshoot of one
cancelled visa.)

On January 22, Dela Rosa confirmed that his US visa had been revoked and Washington did
not tell him why.

As then police chief, Dela Rosa oversaw Duterte’s war on drugs that resulted in the deaths of
thousands drug suspects.