POOR

[November 15, 2014 at 7:12pm]

Here’s a plain plane tip: if you’d like to grant your desire to hear, without asking first, the voice of that pretty flight stewardess, you better wait when she passes by and disconnect that thing on your waist, and surely she’d sweetly say: “Fasten your seatbelt please.”

But I tell you, it’s a cheap trick. It simply is a poor gimmick.

It’s as poor as my shooting percentage in basketball because of lack of practice or desire to shoot the ball which is understandably pathetic. But it’s not as poor as the missed shots records of Kobe Bryant who was told by someone that the only shot he did not miss is the shot he did not take.

Just like the small claim—no pun intended there, as I always swore—of the Vice President that, despite his second-best government position and glaring possessions, he allegedly is also poor. Oh, boy, I was so ashamed of myself upon hearing it because if he considered himself poor, then that makes me a scum of the universe like a rat or a vulture. My bleeding apologies to all innocent rats and blameless vultures, I don’t mean to degrade you, please, just take it as the Veep’s poor attempt at humor.

I’d like to think that he unintentionally forgot that one can never be mayor, congressman or senator, anywhere in this country, in all candor, if he is truly honestly legitimate poor. Unless of course, he has the charisma of a Monching Magsaysay, the principle of a Rene A.V. Saguisag, an ex-senator, or the previously different Joker Arroyo, not the one who’s Gloria’s defender/mitigator.

Therefore I don’t understand why Binay retreated and canceled his debate with Trillanes, when the veep was the one who courageously posed the challenge to the senator in the first place. In my own humble opinion which majority of the public could concur, that is Binay’s second error. The first one is, he being a lawyer, in challenging a non-lawyer to a debate, his judgment is poor.

I mean, not in financial matters but on those two instances only. As, if he’s not clever and smart, he would not be what he is today. For, compared to Binay, when it comes to generating power and riches, he could say it anytime that I am financially if not mentally retardate. Or simply, in the world of fast-making ventures and adventures to hoard it, I may be called too so very poor in spirit.

Just like when even of your own mother’s birth date, you irresponsibly did forget. That makes you an ungrateful person, if not an insensitive poor son with poor spirit. But know ye that if you’ve settled all matters with your God, you don’t care about society’s judgment, although knowing that so long as only to Christ you put trust and confidence, you believe that “Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:3).

So be it.