Teach our cops arnis, not dance?

"If PNoy would get married this year he will have good luck," according to master geomancer Joseph Chau. He said this Year of the Horse is a "very romantic year."

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So, Sir PNoy had better hurry up while it's still the Year of the Horse or before the horse starts to kick.

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"Finger Pointing On Power Rate Hike," says this headline here. Did you know that, literally speaking, finger pointing is an indecent act in Brunei unless the thumb is used to point?

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The PNP will bring back the martial arts to the cops. Don't you think this is a better idea than letting the cops dance?

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Cebuano arnis or eskrima master Cacoy Cañete had suggested long ago that arnis be made a self-defense training regimen for our policemen. I wonder what happened to Sir Cacoy's suggestion.

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Maybe the suggestion just fell on deaf ears judging by the news reports that there had been some cops disarmed by goons and some beaten up by thugs.

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"You see," said Manjo Sanchez, "an eskrima practitioner, if he had been taught, even just the fundamentals of arnis, those victimized cops could not have been put to shame by those goons."

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Which reminds me of a news story I read in a Hong Kong newspaper. A Pinay domestic helper, while shopping in Mongkok, was held up by a robber armed with a jungle knife. She wrestled with the robber, disarmed him, and turned him over to the police.

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The Pinay DH happened to be a student of an eskrima club in Cebu before going to Hong Kong as an OFW.

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Before I run out of space, let me congratulate our Ramesh Rosillo for winning the grand prize in the 450th Kaplag logo contest sponsored by the Archdiocese of Cebu. Ramesh does our daily editorial cartoons.

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The bookkeeper of a general merchandise store complains about the computerized cash receipts of some supermarkets in Cebu which have faded ink. "Lisud basahon ang mga resibo kay hanap ang tinta," she said. She sent me some samples of the unreadable receipts.

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OVERHEARD. Thousands of tons of smuggled rice are said to be in the government's warehouses. Said one slum dweller: "Daghanang bugasa oy, unsaon na man lang na nila?" Reply: "Ayaw kabalaka, Bay, kay di na mausik. Makaon man gihapon na." Reply: "Bitaw, Bay, sa mga tawong abtik ug sa mga ilaga nga dagkong ulo."