RajahJun

On December, every Filipino employee is looking forward to the 13th month pay, including creditors & "inaanak." A good magician can never beat an employee with 13th month in his hand - making money disappear instantly. An excellent magician can never beat an employee with 13th month in their hands - disappear in front of creditors and "inaanak." The Christmas wish list is always 10 times longer than the 13th month payslip. The husband explaining to wife the mathematics of the 13th month payslip: 5+5 = 5 January is the hangover month for the 13th month pay. Employees are already eagerly waiting for the 13th month pay on January 1. The usual remark of an employee who waited for the 13th month pay for 12 months and walks a few steps inside a department store - Is that it? The 13th month pay to an employee  is like a fireman trying to save a burning house. Like the miracle of multiplying the bread in the Bible, the miracle to multiply the 13th mont...

Moving forward in EDSA traffic will take an eternity, unless you travel back in time. Traffic in Manila is getting worse, Jose Rizal would have decided to relocate his monument in Dapitan. Driving a manual transmission car in traffic always give you numbing leg cramps. In no time you will be driving a wheel chair. Driving in Metro Manila using automatic transmission car will put you in the same class with professional tennis players. The tennis elbow class. Motorcycle riders weaving in and out of traffic is one way of saying to car drivers that they are stuck. Traffic light in a rotunda just like the one in Taytay is like building a dam that stores water. It's one way to build traffic. Road rage is prevalent during traffic. MMDA should show anger management sessions in digital billboards in EDSA.  Motorist can surely finish one whole session in traffic. Don't get caught in traffic with a bad stomach, the car air freshener won't be of help. The urge to pee in...

There are so many ways to get a ride in Metro Manila.  It's like a buffet but a wrong choice will give you heartburn. Metro Manila commuters are one of the toughest commuters in the world. They are like athletes in contact sports like basketball with its body slamming, swinging elbows and jockeying for position. To win the championship, basketball coaches should include commuting in their training program. Commuters get their daily physical work-out riding in buses, light rail transits and running after jeepneys. They belong to the biggest gym club membership around and its free. They just have to pay the miscellaneous fee - the fare. Because of the long hours in commuting to work and back, commuters lack sleep.  They make the transport that they get into their second bed. They sleep better because they won't be late. Imprisoned felons feel happy when the judge commute their sentence. Commute feels like a sentence to commuters. LRT and MRT commuters standing near tra...

October 31 ushers in All Saints Day and the day of the dead which falls on November 1&2. Trick or treats are held in neighborhoods and offices with parents and kids in tow who are dressed in hideous and scary costumes to harvest bags of candies. Kids and their dentists look forward to this occasion. Hersheys, Kisses and Reeses are top choices. Discrimination is not limited to people it also applies to chocolates. Unbranded chocolate eggs wrapped in tin foil will definitely spend a year in the refrigerator. Parents with money to spare proudly buy pricey eerie costumes that makes heads turn, elicit wows and envy. Other parents surviving on shoe string budgets make do with black colored dress and mom's cheap face powder and lipstick. Zombies and vampires are favorites, but parents put on sloppy make-up on their children.  Pre-schoolers can do a better job. The moms on budget, hope against hope and believe that their little ones will win the first prize pitted against kids ...