Ten: If students are given the liberty to choose their
schedules for the school year I’ll bet 10 Million Dollars that 97% will choose
the PM shift.
Aside from the fact that they don’t have to wake up at 5AM
to listen to the early morning news they also gain benefit from the late
advisory of DepED and their respective Mayors who have made it a habit to
declare suspension of classes after lunch time.
Nine: Typhoons bring out the Kuya Cesar in DepED and Local
Government Units. They take their
time before they announce with finality if there would be suspension of classes
but they would be quick as thunder in pointing fingers on who should have
done it in the first place.
Eight: It only takes one mayor within the vicinity to
declare ‘no classes!’ and the rest would follow. I don’t know if they are
playing ‘pass the message’ or they just have the mentality ‘pag hindi nag
suspend, hindi ka IN!’
Seven: Listening to AM radio stations 5AM in the morning is
so primitive. Updates from twitter are now more reliable than PAGASA, DepED and
Metro Mayors combined.
Six: Students who insist on going to school are either
determined, determined to go the mall or determined not to lose a day’s worth
of allowance. So, mom and dad, please stop the 'no school no pay' policy!
Five: Typhoons make Madam Auring more reliable compared to
PAG-ASA.
If PAG-ASA forecasted a typhoon to hit an area you could
almost be certain that it would be sunny the entire day. Consequently, if they
announce that there is no typhoon you could bet your retirement fund that Metro
Manila would be flooded in just a few hours which makes you wonder if sarcasm
is a basic requirement in weather forecasting.
Four: Typhoons like Manny Pacquiao bouts make primetime news
telecast predictable. The headlines would all be uniform: a teenage boy drowned
in the river while swimming with friends, terrible flooding and traffic in
EDSA plus landslides in some provincial areas. Of course the star of the season: Malabon, Marikina and Angat, La Mesa Dam and the legendary Espana.
Three: Typhoons bring out the ingenuity and business acumen
of the Pinoys.
Who in the world would have thought that stones and wood
planks can be made into makeshift bridges and that pedestrians who don’t want
their feet get wet should pay a minimum of 2PhP?
Two: Typhoons are not only made up of strong winds and heavy
rains; they also help forge stubborn citizens.
As soon as the government organizes and calls for evacuation
efforts only 10% will oblige, the other 90% would rather blame the government
if something bad happens to them and to their family.
One: Typhoons are a painful reminder that you are a part of
the income-generating workforce of this country and as such you have no right
to stay at home even if it means you have to go through flying billboards, chest-deep
floods and riding rubber boats just to go to work.
Hazard is a word reserved
for those who enters school and those that work in government office.
Post-Script: In the Philippines, a typhoon is a political opportunity.
For the incumbent to distribute noodles and sardines and be perceived as helpful and for the hopefuls to start their campaign via relief good operations.
Post-Script: In the Philippines, a typhoon is a political opportunity.
For the incumbent to distribute noodles and sardines and be perceived as helpful and for the hopefuls to start their campaign via relief good operations.
I sooo love points number 10 and 3!
ReplyDeleteHaving to commute from Bulacan to España forced me to be wide awake by 4am back in the day. Traversing the length of Commonwealth and Quezon Avenues took a good hour and a half, making me one of the first persons in the campus and last to know about the suspension of classes!
Then the painstaking bout to get a ride going back home! Enter the wooden planks laid on the gutter to protect my well polished Mendrez heels, the brand was big my time. Once the sound of coins hit their "latas," you'll be a princess for a second or two - having escorts take you by the hand so as not to fall in the floodwater!
Thank God for the all lugawans and gotohans within the vicinity that kept me warm in such drenching days... Before my long commute going back to the north of course. I MISS COLLEGE!
shoot! i forgot to include the world-famous ESPANA-USTE area! hahaha!
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