EACH morning upon waking up, one of the first things I see is the glass closet that has my white, beige, pink, peach, and gray tops for the outside world, plus the post-gym tops.
The rest of the tops—red, black, and blue—are in another closet. The gym OOTD—outfit of the day—are in closet number three. The pants are in closet number four.
There are four closets in the bedroom and one in the bathroom. These may sound like I have many clothes but I simply want everything to have its own place so I’ll know where to get them once I need them.
There was that time when someone put the washed and ironed clothes according to what she believed were their respective closets: gym OOTDs in the closet for outside OOTDs, black tops in the closet for light-colored tops, retro pants with the current pants.
I had to tell her that all she had to do was to put all the clothes on my bed, and to allow me to find the closet where they belong.
There are people who always behave like they have to do more than their job description. To make themselves look good perhaps.Having people who accomplish more than their job description does have its perks.
There’s the office’s newbie who can be requested to please order coffee and donuts for everyone.
There’s the government contractor who’s giving commissions to the other district’s congressman even if the flood control project is not in that district. There’s the congressman asking a government contractor for commissions even if the flood control project is not in the former’s district.
The last two sentences may mean the same thing but they don’t.
And there are people who do way much less than their job description. And they can be government contractors again. Thus, there’s the Pinoy swimming in floodwaters, no thanks to flood control projects that are made of cartons. Oh.
That cardboard dam was featured in a funny reel created by funny people who were trying to make fun of Pinas’s controversial flood control projects.
The controversy surrounding flood control projects has been exacerbated by the suspicion that the floods resulting from Typhoon Tino and Typhoon Uwan were caused by graft and corruption.
If the Pinoy was not convinced yet that flood control projects should be as strong as his muscles, swimming in floodwaters will hopefully convince him that honest and trustworthy contractors should be the country’s new heroes.
Uwan could be the most appropriate name for a typhoon. That’s the term for rain in Bohol and Cebu. But Tino and Uwan were not just rain. Both typhoons also accomplished more than the usual job description for a typhoon.
They should have been named Bagyo and Baha instead. The flood survivor has his list of lessons learned: don’t live near creeks, rivers, and the ocean; don’t live in flood-prone areas, meaning, if a particular area was flooded before, it could be flooded again and again; don’t live near mountains and hills, or on mountains and hills because of landslides.
If you live in an area that has all these, good luck na lang.
