‘Eeny, meeny, miny, moe’

Netnet Camomot

I WILL be a happier matrona, er, person after September 5. The last two months have been a series of busy kunohay and I’m now looking forward to Saturday since that and this Friday are the days I’m preparing for.

But after the team building last Monday, I now have fully accepted that my life has to revolve around Rotary till June 2016. Before that, there was only partial acceptance, thus, the, hmmm, senior-moment symptoms.

Thanks much to Maria Christina Itchon Concepcion, who was our Team Building facilitator, for helping me accept. I will now savor every moment of this one-year challenge and everything that’s attached to it.

I gotta feeling Tina reads our hearts and minds even before we could say or write anything. Feeling ko lang. Hehe. That’s probably why we were able to blurt out how we really felt, because she was there.

More on that seminar in a separate piece that I will write.

Meanwhile, the busy sked has kept me from reading the news or watching TV. Thus, I wondered what those Facebook posts were for. Posts on a certain group that was demanding for Justice Secretary Leila de Lima to step down.

Whenever someone is asked to step down, that means he’s now at a higher level of his career. If the position is still in the rank-and-file level, he’s merely asked to resign.

But I don’t think de Lima now feels happy that some Pinoys are asking her to step down despite the hidden meaning that the privilege is only for those who are at a higher level of their career. Higher nga, pero gaipanaog man.

There’s chika that she’s running for senator next year. Or has she declared that as the truth and nothing but, but only me has not heard of the news yet? Tsk tsk.

But the way she reacted to their demand kind of hints she has ditched her plans of running next year. For this is the group that a politician has to convince to vote for him, a vote that’s one-for-all-all-for-one and lucky is the candidate who can get that precious yes from them.

The “ber” months have begun. It’s now September. Even before you can say Kris Kringle, it will be December and you’re buying Christmas gifts again. As Ferris Bueller said once upon a time, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

Candidates for next year’s election, however, are thinking of May 2016, although they’re also considering December 2015 as the season to spread the love in the form of Christmas gifts with their faces on it instead of Santa’s. Imagine Mr. Frozen in a Santa costume–that kind of face. Or his other declared presidential rival touring the palengke in a yellow Santa costume. Or the yellow candidate’s wife donating yellow tsinelas. Political candidates will do anything in order to inspire people to remember them and therefore vote for them.

But if ever there’s a sure-na winning team in these 7,000 or so islands, it’s not Mr. Frozen and his yet unnamed vice-presidentiable, nor Mr. Palengke and his reluctant vice-presidentiable. The team to beat is–tsan tsan tsa ran!–Yaya Dub and Alden Richards!

I used to watch “Eat Bulaga” where the couple’s love life is told through the kalye-serye. But now, sinaw. Hehe. One year of commitment up to June 2016 so no TV allowed? O my gas.

Anyway, there was Yaya Dub fainting during her wedding. No, the groom wasn’t Richards. For a while there, people thought it was part of the script. It was revealed later that she did faint and was rushed to a hospital to recover. But then, it could be part of the show’s PR machinery, to see if that would register in the concerned-citizen scale of Pinoys.

Politics is like show biz, you don’t know which is true or false, right or wrong, real or fake. That’s why on Election Day, you end up playing “Eeny, meeny, miny, moe” with the sample ballots. Shuffle them, or you can vote for the surname whose first letter is the same as that of your surname, or for the candidate whose initials are same as that of your crush. Anything goes since they’re all the same kuno. And then, there are people who vote for the lesser evil. Hmmm. Why not vote for the one who’s not evil at all?