Foreigner hails Pinoy’s benevolence

“Among the dead were two barefoot rebels,” says this news item. They died without their boots on?

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ABS-CBN and GMA-7 both claim being No. 1 in the same newspaper article. One of them must be joking.

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A government official said there would be zero casualty as the recent super storm loomed. God proved him wrong, didn’t He?

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Super typhoon Pablo is called “she” in some news stories. The reason why Pedro didn’t like “her”? He he.

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The Association of Barangay Councils (ABC) chief is seeking Hizzoner’s suspension for technical malversation. That’s not politically motivated, is it? That’s any citizen’s right to accuse, isn’t it? The coming electoral exercise has nothing to do with it, has it?

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Hizzoner doesn’t care, or so it seems. He wants to give City Hall workers P20,000 Christmas gift each. No politics here. It’s the season for giving, right? Never mind the 2013 election five months away.

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There’s money for everyone at the City Hall. For the department/section heads, for the clerks, for the janitors, even for the lolos and the lolas. But why this news story?: “City fails to give allowance to cops.” Let’s remember the cops before they remember the self-help way of earning their allowance.

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The City has started to clean and beautify the Tejero creek (some call it estero). Noy Temiong is happy to know this. When he was a little boy he floated paper boats on the clean water of this creek. That was more than 70 years ago. He looks forward to seeing his great-grandkids playing in the creek like he did.

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“You are a benevolent people.” I heard a Caucasian woman say this in a fleeting statement on TV. She based her “judgment” on what she said she learned about cash gifts public and private employees and workers receive every Christmas.

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She said she had lived in three different Asian countries but she never heard of Christmas cash gifts for workers. “Overtime bonus, yes,” she said, “but only when one works overtime.” Our government is more “benevolent”. Wonder if she heard about financial perks our lawmakers get in and out of the Christmas season?

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OVERHEARD. There was a time when some stores in Cebu would not allow a customer to use their comfort rooms (CRs) unless the customer could show an official receipt for something he or she had purchased in the store. A lady medical sales rep said: “Napugos gud ko’g palit toothpick para lang maka-resibo ug makagamit sa CR. Replied her companion” Naka-experience sad ko ana diha sa Colon. Gipa-EAR ko bitaw sa Freeman, da. Nausab lagi ilang policy.”