Here the fortune-tellers go again

A friend texted me this: “If it were not for the scientists there would be a lot of unfilled holes in this world.”

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I don’t get what this means, sorry. But allow me to quote someone named Michael Pupin: “Look at cows and remember that the greatest scientists in the world have never discovered how to make grass into milk.”

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Do you believe in Angels and that Angels can come to your aid and help you get out of a fix? I do. Last Tuesday I was flat broke. Suddenly an Angel came to my aid and got me out of the fix I was in. He was my good friend Leonardo Angel.

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Seriously speaking, Daido Angel is a true-blue Cebuano based in Manila. He is a nephew of F. Ramos after whom a street in Cebu City is named. Daido’s mother is a sister of F. Ramos the patriot, not the street. He is the only Cebuano with the map of Cebu on his shirt.

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Everytime my friend Daido comes home for a visit he talks to me about two things, one good, the other bad. The good: Formo at Banilad Town Center which he says can perhaps be equalled in fun but never surpassed.

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And the bad thing Daido never fails to talk about are the squatters somewhere in the vicinity of the Capitol. “I’ve been living in Manila for over ten years. Everytime I come home the squatters are still there untouched,” Daido says.

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Everytime the Miss Universe pageant approaches, predictions appear in the papers, usually in entertainment columns, that Miss Philippines is leading in the race. Again, this year some fortune-tellers are giving the crown this early to our best bet.

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That’s OK. Even my favorite sidewalk philosopher Noy Temyong believes so too. But he tries to secure his guess by saying: “Puwera buyag.”

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Which brings to mind one fortune teller in Manila who was, still is, the favorite of the showbiz personalities. She fearlessly came out with the prediction that Miss Valenzuela would wrap up the title. There was no Miss Valenzuela in the competition but Miss Venezuela, who won third place in that pageant.

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Reader Nonie Alvares (with an “s” not a “z”) says he appreciated the concern shown him by the doctors (interns) and the nurses in the hospital he had been confined in for a couple of weeks. “Ok lang. No problem,” said he.

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But he was just being polite. Actually, it was not OK lang. He said: “Why do these interns and nurses enter my room in droves in the unholy hours of the night just to see if the dextrose was flowing well? One nurse can do the checking,” he said. “Maglisud pa ta’g katog unya makatog na ta, pukawon,” he lamented.

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