After the rains and flash floods in Davao, someone said: “Chin up, Davao, behind the clouds is a silver lining.” A killjoy interposes: “Oh, yeah? Behind the clouds are more clouds.”
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Asking for birthday gift is not an improper or unethical thing as I have always thought. If you want a car, you don’t have to wait for someone to give you one. Ask to be gifted with it. One churchman did and got it.
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We are celebrating National Nutrition Month. This is one area where our millions of undernourished and malnourished people should be made to win the Sweepstakes without buying a ticket.
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Star of this celebration is the Kamunggay (Malunggay in Tagalog, Balunggay in Ilongo). I have already heard a number of nutrition experts extol the virtues of this vegetable.
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I heard a gardening schoolteacher tell her students — in connection with the National Nutrition Month celebration — that: “Kon wa pa ang kamunggay daghan nang mga pobre ang nangamatay.”
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Despite the effort of those slimming clinics to encourage women to come to their parlor and get their body slimmed or trimmed, my friend Nelson Sy recently said to me: “I have observed that many of the women I see passing by are potential customers of those slimming clinics.”
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I said to Nelson: “Let them be... They’re having good nutrition that’s why they look healthy. No they’re not fat. They’re just healthy.” A businessman friend agreed with me. Da missus is “that healthy.”
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I read about some policeman having been lectured on good nutrition. They were made to understand that a bulging belly is not a reflection of good nutrition.
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Speaking further of good nutrition, I kind of stumbled into this quote attributed to Samuel Johnson...
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“Some people have a foolish way of not minding, or not pretending to mind, what they eat. For my part, I mind my belly very studiously, and very carefully. For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.”