Netnet Camomot THIS could be your busiest month. Accomplishment report deadline, seminar, business trip, concert, organizing a club for young ones, charter anniversary, surgical mission. As usual, the secret is one day at a time for it’s never possible to do all these in one day. The other secret is to start working at 5 am. Or even 3:30 am if you’re already awake way ahead of the alarm clock’s ringtone. Some politicians have also become busier since Feb. 9 when the campaign period for president, vice president, senators and party-lists began. But that means happy days are here again for them, their teams, and the pehpohl who are hoping they can also steal, er, serve the country once their favorite candidates are winning. The magic word is “win.” One has to win in order to steal, er, serve his country as a public servant. There’s no place in the stealing, er, public serving industry for those who merely reached second place, third place, fourth place, unless they're appointed by the winner to steal, er, serve the country, too. There are many vacancies in the stealing, er, public serving industry once the old winners are replaced by the new batch. Even the janitorial job is left vacant if the new winner doesn't like the way the old winner's janitor cleaned the restroom. Notice how the city's garbage collection changes bosses once city hall's highest throne has a new color? And, yes, we're still talking about toilets. The election is supposed to give you new hope for new beginnings. And, no, we're not talking about cigarettes--Hope? But each election tends to produce the same kind of public stealers, er, servants. Of a different theme color, but still... There are people who say you should stop complaining about things you can't control--like the government, and the graft and corruption that seem to cling to it. And they could be right, because the change should start with you. If you're behaving like a saint, you can only hope--no, not the cigarette--that your behavior will have enough impact on the government, with that sufficient amount of conscience sprinkled all over their brains. The campaign season will be filled with hope, care of the door-to-door delivery of promises that political candidates blurt out whenever and wherever they find an opportunity to share their vision for the country. It's an empty hope on top of empty promises but Pinoys are willing to be deceived, er, convinced so they can push themselves towards polling places on Election Day. Guns, goons and gold push Pinoys, too, to those same polling places. Or make them stay home so they can't vote for their favorite candidate who, by the way, can be as corrupt as the candidate who has the guns, goons and gold. You'll never know who among the candidates has a good heart. Good as in kind, loving, thoughtful. Hehe. Cute, no? Have you ever seen a political campaign tarpaulin with those three words? Vote for Juan Pedro as president! Kind, loving, thoughtful! You see an image and can tell what parts don't belong there. For example, if Ronald McDonald is the mascot in a Jollibee party, you can immediately tell what doesn't belong in that picture. And there are many other similar pictures. Grace Poe as a presidentiable--should have run for vice prez instead. Miriam Santiago and Bongbong Marcos campaigning as a team--she as prez, he as her vice. In the local arena aka Cagayan de Oro's rainbow colors, the yellow and orange teams are not campaigning for one goal anymore, making yellow-orange as the most unlikely pair for the local 2013 political fun run. They used to have one goal way back in 2010 when the violet team was their common enemy. Now, there's chika it's violet and orange versus yellow. In 2016, will the city have new colors like pink? Politics is like a relationship: strangers today, friends tomorrow; friends today, lovers tomorrow; lovers today, strangers tomorrow. You can go full circle in 3, 2, 1... Napakasakit, Kuya Eddie. But politicians are already manhid. They don't feel pain anymore. They simply move forward to the next and the next and the next. That's how to win the game in politics. If one potential team member says no, Next! If the ratings are going downhill, Next! If a main source of funds has fled to the other side, Next! The secret is to keep moving forward until the politician wins the game, becomes No. 1, and stays there till forever. Yes, naay forever sa politics--look at Erap. Well, he may not be the country's prez anymore but at least he's the No. 1 guy in Manila.