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      The "Salbabida" story is a very meaningful story. The English term for salbabida is a float that serves as a life-saver in cases of someone drowning in any types of bodies of water. A person being a salbabida means that that person is a life-saver in the perspective of the specific person he/she saved. With a simple act of kindness, we can change other's lives and how they perceive the world. The video attached states the salbabida story of Efren Penaflorida, KB Manalaysay and Kesz Valdez.     When Efren Penaflorida was young, he was being bullied by other kids and all he could think of is getting revenge. KB, being a compassionate friend, offered Efren a help, by which Efren thought that KB was gonna help him fight back on the bullies. Instead, KB taught Efren how to let go of the grudges he holds. That way, Efren saw KB as his salbabida for helping him look at a different perspective. Through KB's help, he learned how to be a salbabida to others as well....

     According to the video, Ang Pipit (The Pipit) is a popular Filipino song about a bird that is known in Tagalog as a Pipit. It is also said that many Filipinos don't realize that is an English word too, so they force-translate the song's title as My Sparrow .      Levi Celerio (April 30,1910-April 2,2002) was a Filipino composer and lyricist who's earned a lot of achievements during his time. Celerio is probably famous for his unique ability in playing music with the use of a leaf. This gave him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records as the only man who could play music with a leaf. According to the video, his citation read that his music "was a perfect embodiment of the heartfelt sentiments and valued traditions of the Filipino." One of his compositions is the song "Ang Pipit".     "Ang Pipit" (The Pipit) is a song that has an inward significance. If we translated some of it's lyrics in English, one of the most intriguing lines ...