Some beggars can send their kids to college

“Workers’ Wages Too Low For Comfort” – Headline. How about the wages of sin?

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Vogue magazine has banned fashion models who are so skinny they look like victims of anorexia or some kind of eating disorder.

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If you’re a regular reader of this column you’ll recall that I once wrote about some governments in Europe banning fashion shows where the models are super-skinny.

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Also some columns back, a reader e-mailed: “Haven’t you come to wonder why fashionistas prefer ramp models who look emaciated?” I replied that I have come to wonder, too. But a fashion designer of my acquaintance said I should not touch an area where I’m ignorant about.

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Would you believe that there are beggars who could afford to send their kids to college? I learned from a TV documentary that there’s one beggar in Manila who has managed to send his children to private schools.

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Actually, this beggar is not really a beggar in the strictest sense. He plays music on the streets with a musical contraption consisting of a guitar fitted with a harmonica and a drum made of empty gasoline container. So it cannot be said that he’s begging because he’s entertaining people who hand him not alms but talent fee.

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Ma’am Anita P. of Punta Princesa says she doesn’t welcome the resumption of the CJ Corona impeachment trial. “Naputol nasad ang paborito kong teleserye,” she said. “Kanus-a pa na nila humnon ang impeachment trial? Gasamok-samok ra na sa TV.”

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I was listening to a local radio station one evening when suddenly I heard my friend Boyet Cortes talking about his intention to try his luck in politics. Boyet is toying with the idea of running for governor hoping he’ll get the support of his “classmates”.

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Boyet Cortes is known to TV viewers as everyone’s “classmate” in the poultry and hog feeds industry. Here’s wishing you the best of luck in your political try, Boyet.