Unlucky winners

A virtually unknown US-based Pinoy actor is doing well as featured artist in Hollywood and Bollywood. He’s getting the best of both woods.

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President P.Noy has named Butch Abad as budget secretary. Butch should prove P.Noy didn’t make Abad choice.

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It says here that a motorcycle collided with a carabao. One was killed, another was injured. The motorbike driver said it was the carabao’s fault. The carabao said nothing.

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A traffic education officer has been quoted as saying: “Many serious traffic accidents involve hard-headed unschooled drivers.” Maybe these drivers are alumni of the School of Hard Nuts.

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I have always questioned the correctness of that phrase “lucky winners.” Because my argument is, all winners are lucky. But I have not come to realize that not all winners are lucky. There are unlucky ones.

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If you’ve been reading the papers after the May 10 elections you must have come across stories about a lot of “unlucky winners.” There are election winners who, until now, haven’t yet been allowed to sit on the seats they worked hard to win in the last polls.

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My friend and tocayo Johnny Seguenza called me last Sunday to greet me on TF’s 91st anniversary. “Sorry, I’m a little late,” he said. “OK lang,” I said. “At least, you remembered.” My tocayo is 82 years old.

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In his column last Monday, JST, my editor-in-chief, said something about the press card which he said “cannot empower anyone to barge in uninvited anywhere, including government buildings and offices.”

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 Jerry was talking about newspapering in the US. Here in RP, many members of the press still hold on to their belief that the press card is “high and mighty” to use Jerry’s words.

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Some years back, a man I didn’t know from Adam, approached me in my office to apply for a reportorial job. He was jobless for sometime now, he said, and he got a wife and two kids to support. I said there was no opening and no budget for additional reporter.

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He said: “OK lang, Sir, bisan way suweldo. Tagai lang ko’g press card.” I got what was in his mind. I said: “Mapakaon ba nimo’g press card ang imong asawa ug duha ka anak?” After a while he decided to leave.

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