Grader's lovelife

There's a new warning to chickboys by their indignant parents: "May you marry a woman like Yolanda."

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Last night I heard on TV a politician say: "I love the working man." He loves to see him work, zat it?

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Another Pinay beauty, Angeli Dione Gomez, won in Malaysia as Miss Tourism International 2013. It was the nth time we won in beauty contests last year. When it rains, it pours among our beauties.

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It says here that about 20 percent of the women "married within a period of three years since saying I do" said they regretted getting married.

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Reminds me of my good friend Daido Angel who is still enjoying his single blessedness. Just for the heck of it he asked a lady friend at what period of her married life did she first regret. "Unsay regret? Regret gud tawon," the lady friend said. Joke, joke lang Daido laughed.

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Still in the mood for joking, Daido asked his lady friend: "Of course, wa kay regret and you know it. Pero segurado ka wa mo-regret imong mister?" again Daido, seeing his lady friend irked, assured her joke, joke lang.

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A concerned citizen says he has "a possible way" of controlling gun-firing on New Year's Eve celebration. How? Give cash reward to "actual witnesses" of gun-firing. "Hatagi'g cash reward ang makatudlo sa tawo nga iyang nakitang nagpabuto sa pusil," he said.

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I have copy-edited many letters from lovers in trouble seeking help from our love counselor and how shocked I was to learn that girls as young as 13 have problems in their lovelife.

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And they are problems you can't just sneeze at. They are serious problems. One girl in the elementary grade, for instance, is pregnant and can't tell who of her three boyfriends is the father.

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Another elementary school girl wanted to commit suicide because she discovered that her two boyfriends have girlfriends other than her. I don't know if our love counselor solved this girl's problem. My job was only to edit the letter.

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OVERHEARD. Some Americans married to local women have learned the ways of the locals. Like this Kano seen selling old newspapers to a woman buyer by the kilo. He was also seen once selling empty bottles to a Chinese junk shop. Said an observer: "Kun wa pa na siya nahimong Filipino citizen angay nang himuon."