Team DailyPedia
Many Filipinos are so talented that we can even encounter them in very unusual situations, take for example, this smart young peddler who sells food around the university belt in Manila.
Thirteen-year-old Mudjur Clemente roams around the streets of the university belt to sell packed goods, asking law students and passersby to buy his products. He offers students a recitation about an article of the preamble (in all its full details) to them, whenever they make a purchase.
The internet has been abuzz with netizens sharing their experience with the young prodigy. Last September 11, 2015, San Beda law student Franchezca Sudla posted a video of Mudjur Clemente reciting the preamble. The video has gone viral as netizens learn more about the young outgoing seventh grader from Jose Abad Santos High School.
Watch Clemente recite the Preamble here:
Alphi Magdaluyo, an accountancy student was also approached by this smart and young street peddler. At first she refused to buy anything from him until the young peddler offered an interesting deal to her. He said ” Ate gusto nyo po irecite ko sa inyo ‘yung Preamble?” Since Magdaluyo was intrigued and amused about his offer she asked the kid, “Ano pa ang alam mo?” unexpectedly he said, “Preamble, national territory, declaration of state policies, citizenship and suffrage, legislative, revised penal code article14 aggravating (circumstances), article 11 justifying circumstances, family code -what is marriage, saka po ‘yung civil code article 1920.” She was impressed with what the young man can do.
Here is Magdaluyo’s post:
Magdaluyo was truly impressed by how the kid recited the Preamble. She said, “This generation was not that hopeless as I imagined it to be after all.”
Since his story has gone viral online, netizens learn more and more about Clemente’s touching story. It turns out that the young man actually plans to be a lawyer someday. Another netizen reports that he has been peddling goods to help his family, and that he has dropped out of school to help his grandmother who is suffering from cataracts.
