Bad Pinays in Bangkok flee to Kuala Lumpur

There's a controversy going on over a water project. It's a big controversy, not just a drop in the bucket. Let's watch who's gonna end up dripping wet.

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This water controversy is attracting much attention. It's being a splashed on the front pages.

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Osama bin Laden dead? They must be kidding. As the Tagalog saying goes: "Ang Osamang damo ay hindi mamamatay."

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Bin Laden is the only man I know who's got no heart but lives.

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"Undesirables in the government will continue to be driven out of the service," says a key man in the national government. So, the shoo must go on!

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It says here that the number of widows in the country has increased by some 10 percent since five years ago. I heard it said once that widows are divided into two classes - the bereaved and the relieved.

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San Juan Mayor JV Ejercito was in town "to unite the local opposition against GMA," according to news reports. Does it have to take an outsider to unify the Cebuano opposition?

"Don't tell me," says a true-blue Cebuano oppositionist, "that we can't unite by ourselves if there's an urgent need for us to put our acts together."

The same oppositionist adds: "Who does Ejercito think he is? He's only a mayor of no consequence in Metro Manila." Ugh! * * *

I met a long lost friend there the other day. Nestor Mande was at home for a brief vacation from his work in Kuala Lumpur.

"Naapektohan gamay ang atong bad girls sa Bangkok tungod sa martial law didto," Nestor said as we talked about the military takeover in Thailand, where he had worked for 10 years.

"In what way?" I asked Nestor.

"Gipanirhan man gud ang mga bars sa Patpong where our bad girls worked," he said. (Patpong is a "red light" area in Bangkok.)

"So?" I sought elaboration.

"So kadaghanan nila nanglayas sa Bangkok, ang uban naa na ron sa KL. Gihugtan man gud ang kampanya batok prostitution sa Bangkok."

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This reminds me of martial law in the Philippines when the dictatorship introduced what was known as the New Society. Bars were closed (for a while) and there was an effort to wipe out prostitution (for a while also).