My April's Fools Day List

Planking, out!  Noynoying, in!

Filipinos have this unexplainable penchant for making lists. There's wish list during the traditional monito-monita. There's the so called New Year's resolution list which is, more often, a useless and futile exercise.

For whatever their worth, making a list will forever be "In" in Filipino culture.

Not to be outdone, I made my own April's Fools Day list. Here is what I've come up with:

1. PeNoy proves to be the most hardworking Filipino president. Moreover, he's te hands-on type; one you can rely to be where the action is. Remember the Luneta hostage-taking? The numeruos tropical storms? And most recently, the social unrest brought about by skyrocketing prices of fuel.
2. Philippine economy has taken off! All one needs to do is glean on the figures - employment rate, growth rate, business confidence. Remember, numbers don't lie.
3. Due to the transparency and positive investment outlook, foreign companies are lining up to place money and set up business in the Philippines. If you want the facts, go straight to the library of the Department of Trade and Industry. Apparently, the said library has a Fiction Section.
4. PeNoy's crisis management council is composed of able and professional practitioners. It is not true that PeNoy employs sister Krissy and his not so appealing girlfriend, Grace Lee, to take care of crises.
5. Food shortage, especially rice, is a thing of the past under PeNoy's administration. From now on, there will be bumper harvests that will enable the country to export to China, the world's largest consumer of rice.
6. PeNoy will lead the Cojuangco clan in distributing Hacienda Luisita to the suffering and hunger-stricken tenant-farmers. As a token of goodwill and generosity, the farmers will also be paid Ps. 1 milliion per hectare.
7. And finally, Krissy will enter the nunnery. She has chosen to join the order of the Pink Sisters.

Welcome to My Corner

Hey, it's me!  Ingkay Garutay

It's a lazy April Sunday.

I've got nothing to do.

Somehow, I've gotten tired battling it out with brainless Noytards in various Facebook groups. Each time I argue with them, I see the pointlessness of bringing truth to them who have chosen to blindly follow their equally useless leader, PeNoy Aquino.

Offline, the information and persuasion of yellow media gives me nausea. But I refuse to spit out even a speckle of what's left of my previous meal. For even at the advanced state of decay, my "tinga" is far more precious than what ABS-CBN, Inquirer and Philippine Star are hard-selling to the public.

Then there's those senseless surveys showing PeNoy still enjoying sizable support despite the fact that unemployment, poverty and hunger rate are at their highest levels. Baliw na lang siguro ang maniniwala sa Pulse Asia at SWS.

Back in the 80's, a starlet took her life and left a suicide note that rings true to this day:

"It's a crazy PLANETS!"

Imagine, a bunch of 15 million idiots electing a psychotic man to the presidency??!! What could be crazier than that!

I gotta insulate myself from all this craziness, hence, this little shining, shimmering, splendid corner of mine.