Balay ni Bambit

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A cursory look at this pay period’s payslip reminded me of how much this government is making out of MY hard earned pesos. Rough computations led me to conclude that in the two years that I had been working since we came back to Manila from Mindanao, I had given the government no less than [...]

People who regularly commute by bus in Metro Manila like myself have encountered these individuals a few times while enroute. The ubiquitous peanut vendor, the junkfood/chicharon/bottled water vendor. There’s the young girl who gives you a slip of paper that tells you her name and how she’s sending herself to school by selling sweets at [...]

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.
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*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 [...]