A Tondo laundrywoman when asked what she’d do with her P300 million if she won the lotto jackpot, wondered for a while and then said: “Makakabili na ako ng color tv.” Asked how many color tv sets she would buy, the laundrywoman replied: “Isa lang.”
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The laundrywoman did not realize that the P300 million could enable her to put up a tv factory if she wanted to.
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The Department of Education is banning the wearing of togas by graduates. This will fall on Dep ears because the wearing of togas has already become an academic tradition in the Philippines. Would you believe that in some schools even kindergarten kids are made to wear togas?
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Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile is seeking to regulate herbal drugs/medicines and food or dietary supplements that are flooding the country’s medicine market. Some of these herbal medicines do not live up to the claim of their makers.
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I have a friend, a few years younger than I am, who has been taking a herbal food supplement that can enhance, according to its maker, a man’s libido and sex drive. “Asa ka enhance,” said my friend. “Nauwawan lang ko sa bag-o kong girlfriend...” Hehehe.
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I heard someone say he was disappointed with the performance of Gerry Peñalosa, even if he won, against his Mexican opponent last Saturday night at the Cebu Colisem. It was because of Gerry that the coliseum was filled to overflowing (“Nisugwak sa tawo,” according to former GAB official Daido Angel). To the well-meaning critic, Gerry could have said: “Ikaw diri o sayon ba.”
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E-mail trivia from Samuel (no family name given): “The military officers should teach President Arroyo how to make a hand salute. I saw her execute a salute and she looked funny. Mora siya’g nanalipod sa kasuwaw sa adlaw. Haha.”
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We are producing thousands of nurses every year (as if you don’t know, no?). I think we are the world’s most prolific nurse producers. Just like our families in the slums who produce babies by the dozens.
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Many nurses are jobless. Only a few can go to America or Europe for better-paying jobs. “Don’t you think there is need for our students to redirect their career priorities?” a reader asked me. I said yes, maybe, they should also think of other courses which are not yet well saturated. They might find easier employment in other fields.
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A former neighbor in Mambaling had three children. One of them took up nursing, the second took up education, the third took up a vocational course in welding. The first two don’t have permanent employment. The welder is earning big money in Germany as head welder in a car factory.
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