Tidings it Brings
By: Seph Ramos
(March Blog)
By May 07, National Election for another time will be held in  the Philippine’s thousand Islands & the fever is on! Thanks to The Filipino Channel’s recurring updates  on latest breaking phenomenon that made us dynamic viewer-critics from here in the Mid-East.  There we are with the “Good News” -
PROGRESS DRIVES: On its advent, sleepy towns are enlivened with sudden mushrooming of beautification, livelihood & infrastructure projects.  At last, soiled streets are lighted & well paved,   walls dented with unpleasant graffiti’s are retouched, weather-beaten daycare centers, waiting sheds, & barangay halls are refurbished  to name a few – all made  possible by incumbent official’s sacrificial thinning of their pork barrels. As a package deal in such monumental endeavors, the heroes title are then stamped  alongside those.
AN INCOME OPPORTUNITY: Attn able in/out-door Tambays: roll-up  your sleeves, grab-in your Barkada’s & jump-fast  to your town assembly for a cash-earning Gimik. Ensure your  Team Captain has had your name registered & yahoo! You’ve got your free snacks, campaign cap or shirts & more interestingly, your mobile as well as your belly can be reloaded for the ff: day. Just be safe. Hired goons with guns might be snooping around so  your  “lagare” idea between two rival Party is not clever. You might lose thy gold, worst   your life (awful).
SPONSORSHIP POTENTIAL: Wishing for a Fairy GodParent to spell magic for your wedding & children offerings? Perhaps, your organizing a beauty pageant, fiesta celeb, sports fete but short with funds? Your having bright offsprings yet can’t further their schooling as you’re from the poorest of the poor class. Congratulations, the right season’s here to win a “willing” sponsor for that crucial event & scholarship. Easy term apply: Forget-Not your Patron’s pseudonym in your troop’s portfolio, streamers, player’s apparel &  in  each secret ballot for upcoming poll.
CLOSED-UP ENTERTAINMENT: From giant reels  & small tube, they came out in open to your crowded neighborhood waving, greeting with their fair hand reaching yours,  - their presence so tender, smile so loving, purpose so caring.  T-L-C from flawless celebrities & legendary TraPo’s?  Ghee, whose common Juan won’t say they’re not heartrobbing, captivating, …& vote winning?  
Natural Attraction
My  index finger have not long-time been stained by Comelec’s indelible ink, yet the political scenarios I grew-up with  lingers. It has daily signs, because. I can equate my experience to the magnificent Mt. Mayon in her ever-increasing smoke that vapors fervently in the sky – an  apparent symbol of a would-be emission. It is breathtaking & entertaining from afar  causing throng of starving & ignorant  on-lookers to flock, feast  & unearth together what it can bid. She’s smart enough to wow her mainstream audience.  Personally, its more of a sorry state to stay nearby. With pain & scars it engraved in my whole-being, I should be wiser & wary now.  I won’t let her charms  mesmerize  & hurt me again.  I’d   rather be away.