Filipinos at Pacquiao weigh-in

So many Filipinos attended the Pacquiao-Cotto weigh-in, most of them waving the Phiippine flag. Filipino pride. But it only makes it look like only Filipinos are on the Pacquiao wagon.

I think it’s also time Manny also take on the Asian mantle and mention Asian pride as well. He’s a truly Asian hero.

New Tax Codes: Are we on crisis management or what?

Through pretty self-congratulatory announcements, some local government units in Cebu have recently let us suffering citizens know that these LGUs have just approved new tax codes.  These codes (read complex vs. pedestrian laws) were filed and passed in a jiffy, letting everybody in that our local legislators are not only super-intelligent but hyper-efficient beings cut for their jobs.

But pretty cut off from reality and from the rest of the people on earth they’re sworn to serve.  The governments of the world, ran by lesser beings, are still debating which industries and sectors to help and how best to help (i.e., where to get the money?).  These governments understand they face the dilemma of needing money and not squeezing it from the already suffering taxpayers. After all, who suffers really? And the US seems to be taking the bull between the horns by just concentrating the attention on their popular president and what his wife may be wearing.

But here in Cebu, are we in crisis or what?  If what, well and good–bring on the taxes.  But if we’re in a crisis, Lord, who can really pay higher taxes?  If we’re in a crisis–heck, do they even know we’re in a crisis?

David Foster Wallace at 46

How do you write about the news that a great writer, a much more keener and much more vibrant observer than you, decided to end his own life, and he was ten years younger?

High school formal writing themes starting with… 2

The illusive serial killer strangled all his victims in a breath-taking sort of way…

High school formal writing themes starting with…

I will be presenting the following play in the school auditorium this month and you can show your support by sending in your contributions, which I can assure you is money well spent. Meaning the money will all be spent.

My first hand experience with sex…

Just to enroll me here, my parents had to forego…

Do I know how to make a takyan, a top, a kite…

Freud help me here, but are my strongest fantasies of sex, or of fame or power…

School has just started but Christmas is only 6 months away…

Nurses

Congratulations to the new-again nurses who had to retake the board examinations. They were made to retake the exams, purportedly to regain the reputation of Philippine nurses which had admittedly been hurt by the cheating scandal. But while the new nurses may now appear to really have “earned” their new credentials, buttressing the reputation of Philippine nurses and the integrity of their licensing examinations will take no less than the overhaul of the entire PRC section for the nursing board.
All of them should be kicked out, and their nursing licenses revoked, and they should have been the ones ordered to retake the examinations to get back their licenses. If not bar them for the rest of their lives. The leakage and cheating originated from their end, and so the scandal involved them more than it did the thousands of board takers. The fault was called on the wrong court.

comic moments

This is to file away really intolerable comic moments.

QUOTABLE MISQUOTES

If there’s a will, there’s a wealth. I’m willy-nilly.

The early bird misses the late worm.
Oh no, there is always a late bird, too.

When in Rome, do as the Romans do, but nowhere else.

Blessed are the poor for they shall inherit the earth,
From the rich.

Tired of apathy?

I want to sing or make a speech or harangue my audience while on an airplane flight. Nobody can walk out.

bloodline

I suppose when it dawns on me I had a past life, I’d first like to find out what I had looked like. Damn if we’re not supposed to know but the internet would have changed all that.

And the families with claim on my blood–do their blood go on to our next lives?

PATERNAL:

Aleonar – (Bohol via Carcar, Cebu)
de Veyra – (Tanauan, Leyte)
Tegley – (Barili, Cebu; now spelt Tigley)
Rodecindo – (Cebu City)

Alegado – (Carcar)
Alo – (Cebu City)
Barceló – (Carcar)
Benedicto – (Leyte)
Campugan – (Carcar)
Dandan – (Barili)
Estrada – (Barili)
Lauzón – (Leyte)
Mercado – (Barili)
Ricaplaza – (Barili)
Tamaca – (Leyte)
Vergara – (Barili)
Villahermosa – (Barili)

MATERNAL

Yap – (China via Cebu City)
Tapia – (San Nicolas, Cebu City via San Fernando, Cebu)
Castillo – (Bohol)
Gerasta – (Boljoon, Cebu via San Fernando, Cebu)

Alía – (Tagbilaran, Bohol via San Fernando)
Florido – (Cebu City)
Geniblango – (Talisay, Cebu)
Duterte – (Spain via Cebu City)
Salamoren – (Boljoon)
Sacel – (Dauis, Bohol via San Fernando; now spelt Sasil)
Suárez – (Cebu City)