Let them play football in Spratlys

Someone sent me a promo card that says: “Bedtime is not for sleeping.” So what is bedtime for?

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For one thing, I guess, bedtime is for thinking what lies tomorrow. And how one could pay one’s long overdue bills.

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 No, bedtime is not for spending the whole night counting sheep. Bedtime is a chance given us to remind us seniors that the spirit may still be willing but the flesh is no longer what it used to be.

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 Say, who was it who said that sports can be the key to world peace? If so, let there be peace in the Spratlys through sports. Yes, why not?

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 Let’s start with football. Let the FIFA organize a tournament with the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei vying for the championship.

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 Football is suggested so as to give the teams the chance to kick the football instead of the players kicking each other. It is also suggested that the Chinese team be called Bullies while our team be called Doormats.

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 By the way, the Phl Azkals home game against Sri Lanka is set on July 3. The organizers are limiting the fans to only 13,000. Expect those who could not get in to do a lot of kicking.

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 “I can’t understand the way our world has been behaving lately,” says Julyito Cuna, an official of his Parish Council. “Events that never happened before are happening today.”

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 He cited as example the misbehavior of the water lilies in Cotabato. “Since when,” he said, “did you hear of water lilies causing massive floods?”

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 The water lilies — also called hyacinth — that have grown old and untouched in Cotabato’s Rio Grande River turned into a solid blockade preventing the flood water to flow out through the Moro Gulf, for centuries the waterway’s exit.

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The lilies covered 320-km of the Rio Grande with at least two backhoes needed to uproot them. And they’re only water lilies!