And so the circus begins

When I was a kid, there used to be a circus that would arrive every year and perform at the Araneta Coliseum. And this was a real circus with elephants and lions and clowns. I remember that this usually happened around the months of December and was looked forward to by my entire family.

These days, the circus usually arrives around the time of July 25 or 26 depending on whether you asked Albay Rep. Edcel Lagman, the vice chairman of House committee on justice or Maguindanao Rep. Simeon Datumanong, the chairman. This circus, ostensibly called the impeachment complaints, seems to surface around the the start of the first semester and continues till the impeachment is found to be premature or later dismissed for lack of merit.

This year the start of the annual filingfest began with the discussion of when the 1 year protection of the president really ends with the pro administration congressmen salivating on the fact that the opposition filed the complaint prematurely.

A quote from Rep. Lagman seems to signify the administration's battle plan.

"It is clear that they were introduced while the President still enjoys her one-year protection from a new impeachment initiative. I hope to convince my chairman and the members of the committee and the House on this"

Meanwhile, the opposition plans to inundate the Congress with complaints as its answer to averred battle plan. This is evidenced with the 8 complaints of substantially the same content which has so far been filed.

However, even if they succeed in filing the complaint, there seems to be no doubt as to the ultimate answer of the president to the ever persistent tries of the opposition to unseat her.

Pimentel says it succintly:

"they will use their huge parliamentary majority in the House to kill it in one second. Hindi na rin kailangan pahabain yon"

And so the circus begins anew.....

The fury that is Glenda

As the storm lashes out at the walls of the hospital, there is a familiar ring to the complaints that is voiced by the patients who come in to the emergency room. Stories of flood and power outtages in their homes and villages, stories of stalled cars and fears of leptospirosis or other flood and rainy season associated disease.

Interestingly enough, this is the background as we were listening to the sugar coated, tonsillitis causing speech of the president. Promises of infrastructure and super regions collide with the reality of a strained response to Typhoon Glenda.

Of course, I have no right to complain as I'm just happy that property class was suspended.

Pregnancy and stupidity

I don't know what it is about pregnancy. It never seems to occur with the one that wants it but always occurs with the one's who want to avoid it the most.

Case in point:

This patient comes in telling me that she hasn't had her period in 3 months and that she thinks she has some kind of uterine cancer. She said that she read over the internet that it is one of the symptoms of this type of cancer. So after the physical exam and lab results come in, I say to her that she's pregnant. Hence the conversation:

"Doc di ako pwedeng mabuntis! It's just not possible."

"Bakit naman?"

"Kasi we used protection."

"Talaga? What kind of protection?"

"ah...eh...yung kwan po yung...withdrawal po."

"ay pwede ka pa ding mabuntis doon."

"di po talaga pwede kasi nilalabas naman namin after sex"

"Huh?"

"di ba ganun ang withdrawal? Ilalabas after sex?"

Haay naku naman talaga! Kung di naman makurta ang isip mo dito!