Father talking to his playful 8-year-old son.
Dad: What do you call that game that you throw a dice and conquer properties and assets of your enemy until the enemy ends up bankrupt?
Son: It’s called monopoly dad.
Dad: Wrong. It’s called West Philippine Sea.
Son: It’s a board game dad that is called monopoly.
Dad: Okay, if you insist son. I agree it’s a monopoly because that’s what would happen in the West Phil Sea. The Chinese will have monopoly.
Son: WHAT?
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Is it true the intelligence officer who submitted a report on the community pantries to Lt. Gen. Antonio Parlade, Jr., failed in his reading classes in school?
“This is a case of poor reading,” my neighbor said. The IO (intelligence officer) reported “communist party sprouting in many corners in the country.”
I can’t blame the IO as even my neighbor said, at first look he thought it was community panty.
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News: AFP chief pushes Pinoy structures in West PH Sea.
Expect a brisk sale of those nipa huts ubiquitous in our lowly local resorts.
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Experts cannot find answers to the question: why PH has the second-highest rent prices in South East Asia? Singapore has the highest. But Singapore is a rich country.
What these experts do not know is Filipinos are rich pretending to be poor.
What country can be richer than the Philippines?
Each congressman in this country gets a minimum of P2 Billion a year in funds for their district’s development. The lucky ones get P20 Billion.
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My favorite quotes: “Every man should have a wife —- preferably his own” by Benjamin Franklin.
This one by Bernard Shaw, “Marriage is like a fortress. Those who are in want out. And those who are out are rushing in.”
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The latest survey on “presidentiables” still has ‘Daughterte’ leading the pack. Two leaders in surveys keep denying they are running, Inday Sara and RSA.
But my kapitbahay keeps asking me to write about this retired army general who is now in Malacanang who he says can save the country from disaster.
My kapitbahay was quoting this army general.