Ah, the cherished tradition of water-dousing during the feast of St. John the Baptist—an age-old ritual where merriment meets mayhem, and unsuspecting pedestrians meet unexpected drenchings.
In this era of acute water shortages and skyrocketing utility bills, one must ponder: is it time to retire this aquatic assault? While it’s undeniably a splash of cheap fun for the dousers, the drenched might find their wallets drying up faster than their soaked clothes.
Consider the hapless jeepney passenger whose laptop and smartphone met their untimely demise under a deluge of unholy H2O. Important school papers and official documents? Also casualties in this hydro-havoc. Let’s face it, no amount of praying to St. John will bring those waterlogged gadgets back to life.
Perhaps it’s time for the church and local governments to innovate—a mandatory shower day, promoting hygiene without the collateral damage. After all, cleanliness is next to godliness, isn’t it?
Government leaders, businesses, and industries have joined forces to protest the imminent closure of the Kalangitan sanitary landfill inTarlac. Their newfound camaraderie, driven by the looming specter of a massive garbage crisis, is nothing short of heartwarming. After all, who would have thought that mountains of trash could bring people together?
Enter Mark Anthony Lopez, the pro-Duterte, anti-administration blogger, affectionately known as the “kuryente king.” His impassioned long letter to President Bongbong Marcos was a masterstroke of digital activism.
Marcos, always a man of the people, responded with a heartfelt “Who you?” proving once again that our leaders are ever-attentive to the voices of concerned citizens.
It’s reassuring to see that when it comes to trash, whether digital or literal, there’s always room for more in the conversation.
In a stunning display of cosmic irony, Mother Nature decided to take a firm stand against the wild conspiracy theories peddled by Duterte supporters about the cancelled Maisug Prayer Rally in Tacloban City. Allegations ranged from flight cancellations and fare hikes to a total airport shutdown, all purportedly orchestrated by the Marcos administration to silence the people’s right to protest.
But then, as if answering the prayers of Filipinos suffering from relentless heat, a torrential downpour drenched not just Tacloban but the entire country, providing a much-needed reprieve.
One wonders if Atty. Glenn Chong will now claim that First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos ordered emergency cloud-seeding to sabotage the rally. If only manipulating the weather were that easy! The rain, a divine intervention to cool tempers and temperatures alike, seems a more plausible culprit than any political machination. Mother Nature, it appears, always has the final say.
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