More Korean men getting cosmetic surgery - report

The daughter of my high school classmate Nerio Pique has opened an eatery named “Our Pride.” The specialties include Pride Chicken and Fried Rice.

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I recall another classmate who years ago also went into the resto business. He lasted for only about a year. Not that there were few eaters. “My profits,” he said, “were eaten up by relatives and friends who took my restaurant for a refugee feeding station.”

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Got an e-mail from my friend Ben Ypil, erstwhile Transco spokesman, who’s vacationing in Indianapolis, Ind., USA. Ben immediately got a job upon his arrival although his visa is B1-B2. His job? Baby-sitter.

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Ben says he’s baby-sitter for his three-month old grandson Rafael whom he calls his bundle of joy. He loves the job. He calls it his apo-stolic mission.

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Ben extends his best regards to friends at home including old TF colleagues like Loy J. He closed his e-mail with a heart-touching “Kaninyo kanunay’ng naghandum.”

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Anti-communist fighter Jun Alcover’s ANAD party-list has been proclaimed by the Comelec and that makes Jun a congressman now. The leftist and left-leaning party-listers in the House will soon have Congressman Alcover from Cebu a tough foe to contend with.

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E-mail from Paco: “I agree with Mar Roxas that there’s nothing wrong with infomercials ... Like his driving a trisikad to boost the poor man’s transpo, or Manny Villar’s helping a duck raiser, or even Ping Lacson’s batting for a beauty clinic that drove away his wrinkles ... Presidentiables against infomercials are just envious, na-S lang.”

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Some interesting things I wouldn’t have known had I not read the South China Morning Post, a leading Hong Kong daily, given to me by Bobit Avila:

 l Chain store ‘bargains’ are dearer. This according to a watchdog group which has discovered that big supermarkets raise their prices, then discount them to appear cheap. (This is in Hong Kong. I don’t know if this is also true in the Philippines. — JVJ)

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 l More and more men in South Korea are spending lots of money on facial uplifts through plastic surgery. The reason for this is not vanity but survival. The men just want to better their career and social prospects by getting cosmetic surgery, say journalists Chinye Kang and Kevin Cho.

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A reader who gave his name as Greg Luciano of San Fernando called up to report that: “Overloading of mini-buses and overspeeding have not been curbed in the South Cebu highways. Simbako lang, another highway tragedy is waiting for its chance to happen again.” Oh, well, let’s just pray it won’t happen again, Greg.

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