BINIGNIT season is so over but I’m still craving for binignit. So, there I was ordering bilo-bilo at Fat Chef on Monday. And halo-halo at Fat Chef again on Thursday.
Bilo-bilo is the simpler version of binignit which has more ingredients. Halo-halo is the icy version of binignit. There’s something about the mix and match of their ingredients that’s making me crave for them. The lack of variety in the carnivore diet must be the culprit? Ah, nope. It’s the glucose spike from the carbo-loading at an event — hello, Big Bite — that awakened this craving.
Yeah, blame it on Big Bite — oops, sorry po.
The Big Bite: Northern Mindanao Food Festival ended on April 6. Three weeks later and here I am, still craving for carbs.
Of course, the carbs’ side effects have been coming back, and I always wonder if it’s worth it. Ah, nope. Tama na, sobra na, palitan na.
So, back to carnivore again.
A diet is much like choosing the country’s future leaders. Voting for the wrong ones will surely result to side effects for the country.
How to know if you’re voting for the right candidate? Let’s calculate the ways. He can sing. He can dance and his sexy choreography has gone viral on social media. His favorite expression is “Ouhahay!” Wait, that’s Elias.
The ideal political candidate is one who doesn’t belong to a political dynasty. He’s not running to protect his wealthy family’s business. He has no history of VAWC — violence against women and children. Operative word: ideal.
Since ideal doesn’t exist in Pinas’s political climate, the Pinoy has learned to vote for the lesser evil, preferably the candidate who can give at least P6,000 per voter.
There’s chika that the bribe in Cagayan de Oro for Election 2025 will be as much as P15,000 per voter. That means the desperate CDO candidate will need at least P5 billion. And of course his main goal if he wins is to recoup that amount through commissions or even ghost projects.
So, does that make commissions as the compassionate way to regain the P5 billion? Because commissions mean there’s a project. A ghost project, on the other hand, is a ghost.
And please take note that the P5 billion is only for the CDO political candidate’s bribe budget.
Try to imagine the bribe budget of a presidential candidate for Pinas’s more than 68 million registered voters. 68 million multiplied by P15,000 each. Juice colored. That is, if the presidential candidate is desperate.
A politician can now joke in public about the bribes he generously gave on or right before Election Day. Despite that candid admission, no one will dare file a case against him for admitting that he bought votes which the Pinoy now sees as just another day in paradise. Ho-hum.
Vote buying, vote selling — which comes first? If political candidates are not buying votes, no voter will sell his vote?
I remember a barangay chairman candidate giving me a bag of raw cashew nuts. Bag as in eco bag. I could almost hear that “Mission Impossible” line then: “Your mission, should you choose to accept it…”
…was to vote for him. Hmmm.
