Blackout na pud?

IT’S raining, aren’t we? So, why are we having blackouts? Because the usual reason for blackouts is no rain, right? So, how how the carabao? Batutin?

The Pinoy is forever and hopelessly confused. Blackouts when there’s no rain. Blackouts when there’s rain. Traffic jams when there’s a mall sale. Traffic jams when there’s no mall sale. Graft and corruption for those closer to the national treasury. Graft and corruption even for those far far away from the national treasury. How will he now distinguish right from wrong, right from left, and where to turn right? Tsk tsk. So confusing.

Good thing that on Wednesday afternoon, the blackout here lasted for only one hour. I didn’t notice it was shortened from the scheduled four hours to one hour until a neighbor told me that night when I began complaining about the blackouts and the humidity and the corkage for the biko. And was that a waterfall?

Then, he said, But our ‘brownout’ was only one hour. Me: One hour? It seemed like it lasted till 5pm! Oh, could be my hot flashes lasted till 5, and I thought that was the result of the blackout.

What’s the correct term, by the way? Blackout? Brownout? Our EIC Herbie Gomez knows the answer. Please insert smiley here. Hehe.
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Now, let’s go back to the biko. A friend called me up that she’s giving me biko. I was then rushing through work before the scheduled blackout, and since bringing the biko here would be too far for her, I suggested for her to leave it at the resto where we have our weekly meetings.

I arrived at the resto hours later and was preparing for the meeting when this young charming lady approached me to say, Our corkage fee for food not bought here is P250 but since you’re a suki, we’ll charge you P150.

What to do to someone who tells you that? Especially if it happens after a hard day of working around the blackout? And you’re now about to start on the later part of your day with a meeting for a whole year’s plan of action? Hmmm. Pulverize her head with the logbook?

Well, since I’m somewhat good with words, she became the recipient of a verbal opinion column. Then, once she had left the function room, I threw the logbook on the table. Better that than making hampas that logbook on her face.

This is the resto where we’ve been having our weekly meetings since last year. Although we had not been there lately due to no meetings, we’re back there again now that a new year for the organization has begun. I conducted a survey on where our members want to have the meeting, and this resto had the biggest number of votes.

And there it was, punishing me for a biko that was given to me as a gift. So, I told the charming young lady, Should I now call the friend who gave this to me and ask her to pay for the P150 corkage fee?

Then, she replied, We have desserts, too. I asked, Do you have biko? She said, No. Me: So, why the big deal with this biko?

I had already ordered dinner by the time she was there, but I lost my appetite and decided to take the food home after the meeting.

Other members of our club were the ones who asked if the corkage fee could be waived. And it was.

As for the waterfall, raindrops were falling on my head during the meeting. I noticed they were also falling on my tote bag a few hours later. What a night.

But one has to learn to move forward without making hampas the logbook on anyone.

The biko was one of the few yummiest biko I had ever savored, as yummy as the one that our yaya used to make way back when. I should order one for next week’s meeting to see what the resto will do: To corkage or not to corkage, that’s the question.

For PNoy, however, the question is, To Mar or not to Mar. And, To Grace or not to Grace. The best team can be Poe as the presidentiable, with Roxas as the vice presidential candidate again. But surely Roxas won’t bow down again to another presidentiable after allowing PNoy to shine in the 2010 election.

Thus, Pinoys will be more confused next year as they choose from a list of at least five presidentiables. If only the administration can have Poe as its candidate and ask one of the other presidentiables to run as her vice, then the Pinoy’s brain will be reduced to its usual level of confusion.

Having too many presidentiables will make Mr. Frozen’s victory as sure-na. If they don’t want him to win, then, the feeling-winner-lang presidentiables should choose the best candidate among themselves and allow him/her to shine.

But they all want to shine. Can’t wait for the next chance to shine. That’s a sure recipe for Mr. Frozen’s victory.
If only all that “shine” can be used to light our way through these blackouts, then this world will be a better place.