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A STAYCATION at home is now the preferred getting-away-from-it-all for long weekends.
The vacationer stays home, wears pajamas all day, reads books, eats, sleeps. Four straight days of that and he’s ready to face the world again by Monday.
Today is that Monday. Ready ka na ba?
It’s the first Monday of November, Halloween is so over, there’s no more excuse to ignore Jose Mari Chan’s “Let’s sing Merry Christmas and a happy holiday.”
Stores and malls in Pinas began to play Christmas carols in September, and at least one Pinoy now has had it up to here—saturation point—with “Whenever I see girls and boys/Selling lanterns on the streets,” “My idea of a perfect Christmas/Is to spend it with you,” “Sing a Christmas carol,” ad nauseam.
Still, if that corner in the living room looks dark and gloomy, perhaps it’s begging for a Christmas tree.
Yes, ilang tulog na lang, Christmas na. Make a list, check it twice. But the Election 2019 candidate can’t limit his list to the “naughty and nice” since he needs all the votes he can get.
The Christmas before an election is the merriest of all, with every candidate pretending to be Santa Claus as he showers all potential voters with gifts pa more—red wine, ham, queso de bola, to name, uh, a few.
Prepare the body then for the expected onslaught of calorific goodies. You may try intermittent fasting, keto or whatever the appetite can tolerate before the first Christmas party comes knocking down your diet.
Have you tried an apple and sardines for breakfast? No rice, no egg, no coffee. In this age of rising prices, treat the diet as some sort of cost-cutting measures as the Philippine economy adjusts with the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion and other factors that are being blamed by President Rody Duterte’s critics for the hard life in Pinas. The dilawan will always be against Duterte and his team and what they have accomplished. That’s called friendly competition. Hehe.
But Forbes recently reported that Pinas has reached an “all-time high” per-capita gross domestic product of US$2,891.36 in 2017. “That’s well above the average” of US$1,627.98 for 1960-2017. And a Philippine Daily Inquirer (PDI) piece referred to the Social Weather Stations survey in September which revealed that “75 percent of the 1,500 respondents believe the country was moving in the right direction, up 5 points from the 70 percent in June.”
If only that can be truly felt by the madlang pehpohl. And if only the dilawan and the Duterte team can work together for a common goal, every Pinoy will be happy, eh?
The movie, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” may also make him happy if he’s a fan of Queen and Freddie Mercury or at least likes their songs.
In the film, Queen bass guitarist John Deacon (Joseph Mazzello) plays that familiar bassline for “Another One Bites the Dust,” which he composed, but the band doesn’t burst into song. Darn.
It was LSS—last song syndrome—for Queen’s hits after watching the movie which opens and ends with their performance at Live Aid, a benefit concert in July 1985 for Ethiopia. 1985. 33 years ago. Where were you then?
Ferdinand Marcos was the president of Pinas, People Power would happen seven months later in February 1986. Duterte probably had no idea then about becoming the country’s president in 2016.
And Duterte still has no idea how to be president now that he’s president? Hmmm. That must be the dilawan’s line of thought, with his war on drugs as the primary target of his critics.
Thus, when Tokhang was chosen as the 2018 “Salita ng Taon” in the “Sawikaan,” a linguistic conference held at the University of the Philippines Diliman on Oct. 26, the dilawan didn’t protest, and even Senator Sonny Trillanes remained silent and didn’t insist that it should be rebellion, coup d’etat, revocation, amnesty, or CPD a.k.a. the Continuing Professional Development Act which he authored.
Per a PDI piece, the other hopefuls for “Salita ng Taon” were “dengvaxia,” “quo warranto,” “federalismo,” “foodie,” “dilawan,” “train,” “fake news,” “DDS,” “troll,” and “resibo.”
Former Supreme Court Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno would have picked “quo warranto.”
For party-list representative wannabe Mocha Uson, the word of the year could be “federalismo,” “fake news,” “DDS,” or “troll.”
As for me, it’s “foodie,” of course—the perfect word for a staycation. Yum! Burp.
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