Thanking God

It says here that the lotto jackpot is expected to hit P200 million. That's tougher to hit than the billions some people found easy to hit from PDAF.

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A man stabbed his pregnant lover (puyo-puyo) because she refused to have sex with him. Failure to insert, er, assert his manhood was the reason.

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Ten seamen were nabbed for barging into a brothel in Tokyo. What's the matter guys? Long time no she?

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A priest said in his homily: "We must thank God for answering our prayer." But someone I know says she thank God that not all her prayers have been answered.

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Rajah Lapu-Lapu will go home to Cebu from the Luneta, says this news here. "Truth to tell," says a Cebuano friend in Ermita, Manila, "Lapu-Lapu is not going home on his own wish. "He is going home because the Manilans do not want him there, to share the land where Jose Rizal also stands."

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That Lapu-Lapu monument in the Luneta was the subject of controversy in Manila. It was, in fact, removed from the Luneta but was returned upon the insistence of  former Senator Dick Gordon. Some so-called historians who have no love for the Mactan hero created the controversy.

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They say Luneta is not the proper place to erect that Lapu-Lapu monument because he is not properly dressed. "Hahaha:" laughed my friend who lives not far from the Luneta. "How would Lapu-Lapu look in barong tagalog?"

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OVERHEARD. Many are asking the City Mayor to put up bike lanes along major city streets. A reader's comment: "Bike lanes, bike lanes, basi'g mapareho ra na sa pedestrian lanes nga wa gamita sa pedestrians ug wa respetohi sa mga jeepney drivers." Another reader: "Your streets are not suitable for bike lanes." (This reader is an Australian who planned the bike and motorcycle lanes in Melbourne).