Still on Azkals

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 The Pinoy Azkals are showing their teeth, as it were. To prove that they’re not all bark. They can also bite.

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 Oh, yes, the Azkals are doing good so far and they’re whooping it up. Which is only natural. It’s not everyday that the dog has its day.

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 Many, if not most, Pinoys hope to become great basketball players — even if they’re only five-footers which makes them suitable unta for football. But basketball is their cup of tea.

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 Hosni Mubarak of Egypt has fallen. Autocracy in Egypt may soon be replaced by democracy. Cleopatra must be turning in her grave, not in anger but in disgust that it took centuries before the dawning of democracy in her land. “Pero ganahan kaha to siya og democracy?” asked Noy Temyong. “Mura’g may pagka-diktador man to.”

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 The new leadership in Egypt, reported to be a military junta, has promised to pave the way for democracy replacing Mubarak’s autocratic rule. Let’s hope this promise will not take another 30 years to be implemented.

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 A casual study of Asian political history shows that many of those who have taken over the leadership of their country by non-election have assured the free world that they would adopt the democratic way in exchange with the autocratic or dictatorial rule they had toppled. But it took some of them many years before they did so.

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 My friend Noy Temyong agrees with me. Says he: “Nganong i-democratize man dayon? Pahimudsan una ang mapupo nga bunga sa diktadorya.”

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 Trivia: A Boeing 767 airliner is made of 3,100,000 separate parts. Count ‘em. — From Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader.

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 E-mail from Eddie Principe: “The most terrible mistake we committed in an election was our voting for one Antonio Trillanes.”

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 It says here that the inventor of the paper clip has more millions than the inventor of the thumb tack. Why didn’t I think of these little inventions first!

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