Trivia: I heard a radio disc jockey say: “Mactan City, Lapulapu.” If it’s wrong, never mind. As they say: “Sayop man gani kabaw upat tiil.”
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A high society lady has been reported as filing a petition in court for the annulment of marriage after more than 20 years of wedded life. I like to believe that this is proof of the saying: “Love is blind and marriage is the eye-opener.”
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They call this month (February) love month. The TV hosts and radio DJs are now blurting out love fillers (which they also call ad-libs) when they run out of things to say. They all pay tribute to this thing called love. And I heard one of them say something that didn’t sound like a tribute. He said: “Never was the owl more blind than a lover.’’
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Lovers who are worse than the owl — or “blinder” than the owl — are the lovers who end up knocking at the court’s door seeking annulment of their marriage.
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I heard someone say on TV that the jeepney as a cheap mode of transportation has come a long way. Yes, indeed, it has. When it first started serving the poor commuters, the fare was only 10 centavos. Now it’s P7.50. And it will continue “to come a long way” until the much talked about mass transit like the LRT and the BRT come out from saliva to reality.
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Trivia: My friend Daido, who is now a senior citizen, says he hopes to still be around when the mass transit, either the LRT or BRT, becomes a reality, adding: “If ever.”
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Hagar, The Horrible, my favorite comics character, is trying to encourage his son Hamlet to become a politician when he grows up. “Politicians fight injustice, work for the good of the people and serve society unselfishly,” he tells his boy.
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Then he clenches his fatherly advice: “Plus they always seem to retire wealthy.” Just like some smart military people, right Hagar?
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Noy Temyong asked me over a cup of coffee: “If you retire with P50 million ‘pabaon’ and P5 million a month for 15 months what would you do with all those money?” I said “Shut up!” He’s insulting the SSS who can only afford to give me a retirement pension of a little more than P3,000 a month. Pero as the saying (among us timawa) goes: “May nalang kay sa wa.”
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Trivia: Our caption writer calls the Mandaue-Mactan bridge “Bridge of Signs.” I once called it “Bridge of Broken Dreams.”
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