Time to lift our spirits up

I was absent from this space last Friday. There was a state of personal emergency.

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So Proclamation No. 1017 has been lifted. There's one more job left to be done - face lifting.

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After the lifting of the State of National Emergency proclamation, let's all lift up our spirits. OK?

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Ate Glo says there is now less threat to national security. Because the Five Big threats are now in Kuya's Big House.

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When the US called on Ate Glo to lift the State of National Emergency, I didn't hear the anti-US cause oriented groups, the militants and the leftist sector, shout "Intervention!" Why? Gone tuta ng Kano?

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An opposition leader says the proclamation of a State of National Emergency has not been able to sew the nation together. In fact, it tried to saw the nation apart.

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It says here that two sailors have been accused of stealing kisses from two waterfront women up their arrival at the Pusan port. What's da matter, sailors? Long time no she?

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A news story says a Pinay schoolteacher will soon be married to an Iranian sheik. Asked how she got to be the sheik's beloved, the Pinay said, "By accident." Or maybe she followed the biblical injunction that says: "Sheik and you shall find."

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A South American agricultural economist says RP economy will look up if the government gives added boost to the country's banana industry. What's he trying to do - make us a banana republic? He must be going bananas!

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The University of the Visayas (UV) alumni whose number is legion have come to the aid of the landslide victims is Brgy. Guinsaugon, St. Bernard, So. Leyte. Upon the call of UV Executive Vice President Dr. Jose "Dodong" R. Gullas, the Visayanian alumni association recently launched a massive campaign to help survivors of the tragedy. The campaign is tagged "Bunga sa Gugma." If your pronounce it "Bongga sa Gugma" it's still ok. Because there's no holds barred in handing out the fruits of love.

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This is not the first time that UV has responded to the need for every Filipino to help brothers in areas hit by calamities. Which is the reason why people have been calling this school a "university with a heart."