Bright Nights
Ayala is replete with lights! Ayala has become my boulevard, the boulevard of lights.
Its nights are as bright as day. It springs of hope for a bright tomorrow, an ebullient future. Sadly that is not the case. The truth about the matter is it is…
Dark Days
These are truly very dark days. It’s less than a month before Christmas, but Zamboanga suffered a bombing attack. The government attributes the explosion to the Juma’a Abu Sayyap or Abu Sayyaf Group. The PNP asserts that they arrested the main suspect in the bombing. The family of the captured suspect denies the government’s allegations. Meanwhile, the bereaved of the victims are suffering from the loss of their loved ones at this time when Christmas is fast approaching.
Another Philippine national is scheduled for hanging in China for drug trafficking charges. (I wonder what happened to the Mainland China nationals in death row that were previously at the top of the list of those to be hanged?)
Vice President Jejomar Binay is scheduled to appeal with the government of China. We hope and pray he succeeds.
A stupid legal battle is going on between the legal people of Pres. Benigno S. Cojuangco Aquino III and those of former chief executive now solon, Cong. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo while a hollow word war is raging between the two camps. What is the agenda behind this? Then there is the senseless murder of RamGen Bautista – the brother of Sen. Ramon Bautista (Bong Revilla). I’m not sure if it darkens your mood to know that KC Concepcion and Piolo Pascual are separated, but it certainly matters to me. I’ve been KC’s fan since she was at International School. Humph!
A good friend, the regional chief of the PNP in Western Visayas will be the subject of a case filed by politicians in Escalante, Negros Occidental Province. Just because he relieved policemen from doing duty for a former Mayor of that town. Goodness gracious!!!
The media bannered this feature story: Hail the New Dictator!!!
These aren’t only dark days, these are shocking times! And my friends always thought, I wasn’t shockeable anymore, tsk! Tsk!
The Philippine Government has enormous problems with money matters. Someone said, they have a huge fund that was gestated for several years before being released to the country. However, now that it is in the hands of the government economic managers, the President doesn’t want to have anything to do with it just because of the previous administration’s link to the fund.
What happens now to Mang Milenyo?
And now my cousin is working for a company contracting out services to Philippine Air Lines (PAL). In Pasay City, on the way to work he was surrounded by a group of men and one tomboy in shabby clothes who said they needed him to join the BMP or Buklod (for Bukluran ng Manggagawang Pilipino). The Shabby Men and Lesbian proceeded to corner him and explained the benefits of joining their organization. My cousin said that he will think about their suggestion. He thought they looked like members of a local Mafia group and appeared no different from hoodlums who kill, rob, maim, con people and commit other crimes.
The Shabby Men and Lesbian told him, it was not a suggestion! It was an order and if does not follow the order, they will do something to him.
And if he continued to do work for PAL without cooperating with them, serious misfortune will befall him (cousin) and his co-workers. My cousin said, can he go near the sari-sari store to buy some cigarettes? Reluctantly, Shabby Men and Lesbian allowed him but he escaped from the area by running as fast as he can and reported the same to one of our friends in the PNP at Camp Crame.
Since then, my cousin did not report back to the service contractor company and has applied with two call centers. Hopefully, he might land a call center job before or after Christmas. But right now, he’s terribly lonely, nursing a mild shock and could not believe what happened to him.
This used to be the way the New People’s Army recruited its fighters during the experimental urban insurrection campaign in Agdao, Davao del Norte. Nothing good came of that campaign, forcing the Communist Party of the Philippines to break in half.
If this is now the way that the PALEA’s allies will conduct their business, I would not be happy for the fate of the other workers of PAL’s service providers.
While my boulevard of lights Ayala is full to the brim with bright lights each night until the end of Christmas Season, these are truly dark days. Who knows how long they will last?
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