Go signal

After some years of all talk about the Cebu Bus Rapid Transit, they'll walk the talk at long last. The NEDA has given the BRT the green light.

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My friend Drigs Teves Sr. after reading the news story about the NEDA finally giving the BRT the go signal could only heave the sigh: "Whew!" Then whispered: "Got to stick around a bit some more." He's now 88.

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It takes all kinds of people who make this world an interesting place to live in. In Tokyo, for instance, the cops are hunting for a man who splashes his urine on women's faces.

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Years ago in Manila, there was someone who would leave his home at dawn and splattered human waste on as many padlocks of as many stores on Avenida Rizal as he could manage. He was never nabbed. Until he just vanished from the newspapers' front pages.

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A member of our Octogen Club says he has stopped counting sheep when he can't sleep at night. I said, for a change, try counting his blessings. If any.

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Former Vice Mayor Renato "Nato" Osmeña has passed away. God bless him. And condolences to his family.

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My good friend Daido Angel is sad about Nato's passing away because the former vice mayor was his "igso." I feel kind of bad too because Nato was one of the new Osmeñas I could call a friend and me he considered a friend too. I join Daido in wishing his "igso" a peaceful rest.

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Art Linkletter's book "Kids Say the Darndest Things" which sold over 4,000,000 copies worldwide, marked its 25th edition recently. It's my favorite book in my little home library. Problem about this book...It has rubbed on me making me write the darndest things too sometimes.

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OVERHEARD. A news story said that prisoners in our Bilibid prisons are not given special treatment. They are treated the same. Said an ex-con from Labangon: "Way problema basta pahikap-hikapon lang ang guwardiya sa inyong uyab inigbisita niini."