Pinoys don’t grumble

A livelihood program for the so-called commercial sex workers “failed to take off,” says this news item here. The girls should have supported the program. They don’t have to live by bed alone.

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PNoy said some gifts could not be wrapped, true. Like the visit to Guvnor Gwen on Christmas eve by Erap, JPE and Binay which Gwen’s supporters consider a gift to their idol.

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The Pope has reiterated his opposition to gay marriage. Come to think of it, if more gay marriages happen, population may be controlled somehow.

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A priest said in his homily that some politicians “refuse to eat back” their words even if they turn out to be wrong. They haven’t heard what the famous Winston Churchchill once said: “I do not hesitate to eat back my words ... It doesn’t give me indigestion.”

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Oh, well, that is understandable. In our political world, you don’t see the likes of Sir Churchchill, except his build and his bulging middle.

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This New Year’s eve, those who want to enter the year 2013 with complete body parts must steer clear of Bin Laden and Super Lolo (the senior citizen to be feared).

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Other firecrackers to be kept away from are Goodbye Philippines, Pla-pla, Kabasi and the latest threat to good health, Goodbye Bading (goodbye for a good, let’s hope).

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A kasambahay or housemaid in Manila has accused her employer of dipping her in a tub of icy cold water, which resulted in her chills and fever. The employer is now in hot water.

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“Filipinos grumble a lot about life’s hardship,” says a pastor of a foreign Protestant church. Wrong. Pinoys living in hardship do not grumble. They accept the hard times smiling and making the “V” sign in front of the TV camera.

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Pinoys know how to take it easy even when there’s a typhoon battering their homes and they have to contend with knee-deep floods. So much so that they — we — had been voted “happiest people” in the world. “They laugh a lot even during a natural disaster,” says a journalist from The Mainichi of Japan.

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Personal. Thanks to ... Mohd. Ahnari my broadcaster friend in Singapore; Noel Landrito, a Banat News reader in Ormoc City; R.P. Phelps of Automotive Trade Journal; Rose Vallecera of Mabini Bohol ... for remembering.

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OVERHEARD. While people were joyously celebrating Christmas eve in a village in Banilad, a husband and wife were heard fighting in their home. The gossip in the village as reported by a chicadora: “Dunay package si Sir nga gisudlan og mga imported nga pahumot, silk panties, ug imported branded panyo para babaye.” Neighbor: “Nasakpan ni Mam?” Chicadora: “Sakpan mo lang ... Nadunggan pa si Mam nga nagsige’g pangutana ngadto ni Sir: “Hayman ang condom? Hayman? Kun di nimo itug-an buwag ta ning paskuha.”