This Holy Week, Baguio braced for the annual tourist invasion—130,000 strong, armed with selfie sticks and strawberry taho cravings. The city prepared for gridlocks, snaking queues, and the great SM Mall stampede. But alas, Baguio waited… and waited. Streets were so empty, even the pine trees looked confused. Famous eateries had no lines—waiters stared out windows like forlorn lovers. PUJ drivers wept gently into their steering wheels, their jeeps echoing with emptiness.
Meanwhile, somewhere in La Union Zambales and Batangas, chaos reigned: sunburned tourists crammed into resorts like sardines with Instagram filters. It seems everyone tried to avoid a crowded Baguio by going anywhere but Baguio—only to crowd the same beach. Irony called, and it’s wearing flip-flops and holding a cooler. Perhaps Baguio finally achieved peace… by being too predictably chaotic to actually visit.
Maybe next year, we’ll expect nobody and end up with a hundred thousand again. Reverse psychology is powerful.
MANILA—In a surprising executive order, President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. has declared April Fools’ Day a regular holiday nationwide.
But don’t be fooled. It is not in recognition of the day of the naive and vulnerable, but rather to commemorate the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr.
Nevertheless, it will give Filipinos a much-deserved extra day of shopping, beach holiday, or for some, doing their dirty laundry, literally and figuratively!
In an ironic twist worthy of a sitcom, a CEO of a research firm and a professor—titans of intellect and critical thought—found themselves in the crosshairs of online ridicule after calling out the Marcos administration for declaring a Sunday a special non-working holiday.
Their scorching critique of what they deemed as “pointless politicking” was met with an unexpected rebuttal: a glance at the Official Gazette. Surprise! Not one, but two national holidays were declared on Sundays during Duterte’s administration in 2018. The plot thickens.
One can’t help but marvel at the poetic justice of it all: champions of research caught red-handed for failing to do exactly that—research. It’s a classic tale of “glass houses” meets “throwing stones,” reminding us that irony, much like holidays on Sundays, doesn’t discriminate between administrations.
Perhaps the real special holiday is the one we take from fact-checking before tweeting, right? Malou Tiquia and Anna Malindog-Uy?
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