Some readers of this blog may well wonder about my unabashed hatred for the man named Bayani Fernando. Hatred may not even be the precise word that describes the knit of my eyebrows and the rise of my blood pressure whenever I hear anything about the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) and its reigning despot.
First [...]
*This poem is written in Tagalog, the language of the man on the street in Manila. If you are looking for the connection between “Urbanidad” and the man Bayani Fernando commonly known as “BF” click here.
Quota na kaya si BF
ngayong hapon
Ilangpung pushcart na ba ang
tinangay ng
kampon ng MMDA sa
mga sidewalk
kung saan nagaalmusal
si Manong Joe
ng chicken [...]
People base their opinions of other people from what little they know. Even I admit to doing so. Here is “the little I know.”
I had been a Makati resident/worker since 1999. I have lived in that area two blocks away from the MMDA office at Orense, so in a sense I have been under the [...]
On my way to work this morning I received a text message from one of the engineers on my team:
“Ma’am I will be late all train stuck due to an ongoing suicide attempt in Guadalupe MRT station. The person is in the middle of the railway said to be waiting for Erwin Tulfo a media [...]
