With the 2010 presidential pot beginning to stir, the best place to smell what’s cooking is at the local inuman joint. Well this time, I was with a friend and one UP law grad who is with Bayani Fernando’s team!
Let’s be realistic Bayani’s 1% rating makes him “dehado”. The problem is how to convince the other 99% to vote for him. The UP law alum admits that they face an uphill struggle. But of course we all HAVE TO agree that Bayani has done good (or else who will pay for our beer!) :-)
Like when UP alums get together and politics and literature is in the menu, we can talk about Marx, Lenin, Mao, Marcos, GMA, Deng, Gramsci, Tolkien ad nauseum. So the conversation focused on what does Bayani need to win. Obviously winning at Celebrity Duets isn’t enough. Excerpts from a drunken conversation
Me: Bayani needs a name for his ideology. Any suggestions?
Drinking buddy1 (DB1): Ka-Bayanihan!
Me: Di ba ma-confuse yon kay Noli na tinatawag na Kabayan?
DB1: May point ka doon.
Me: ok Atorni, anong say mo?
Atorni: Sa totoo lang mga “pre “masyadong image conscious” si Chairman! Akala nya sya ang palaging panalo.
DB1: Eh talagang hanggang sa kantahan lang sya!
Me: Oo nga. Bayani needs an ideologue. Kaya lang sino?
DB1: Wala akong alam?
Atorni: Ako rin wala ma-suggest.
So the conversation went on with a Marcos and Bayani comparison. The Apo spent a lot of cash to hire UP ideologues to give flesh to his “Revolution from the Center”. Malabo yan kay Bayani.
Me: Oo nga. Tikoy!
Atorni: Ideologically bankrupt na ang UP! hahahahahahahaha!
DB1: “What is to be Done?” (Pa impress ang gago, Nagbasa ng kanyang Lenin)
Atorni: Ewan! Waiter! Pa-order pa nga ng squid sisig!
Me: Let’s drink to that!
Anyway to end this post, Deng became a commie in a Paris cafe eating croissant, Lenin plotted with drinking Bolshevik buddies and we obviously flopped at scheming Bayani’s rise to power. :-)
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Of all the Gloria-men, tell me who work like Bayani Fernando? Or name any mayor who measure up to what he has done to his city as Bayani did?
The Cubao-Edsa junction, has for a long time, has been a hub of crossing pedestrians resulting into long start-stop traffic commotion. Bayani put an interconnecting overpass to lessen the jam.
For a long while, many PINOYS urinate in public like an DOGS (its almost like a national character) – now you know what Bayani did.
BF is shooing the sidewalk vendor like langaws, which they are. He is returning the sidewalk to the people but its not yet appreciated.
We booo him while he sing, but we have forgotten how we applauded when Gloria was dancing with Winnie Monzon in Edsa Shrine.
BF is an engineer and a manager who roll up sleeves when needed, who look for solution and willing to change when proven ineffective.
We dont like him, I dont like him because he is identified with the much hated administration. But among many, opposition included, he is one who get his ass moving.
I have the pleasure of knowing young engineers who has worked with BF when he was still an emerging name in the contruction industry and this is what they have to say, “At that time, I wish Bayani dead, but once we leave the project and the jobsite, I feel proud in my firm and myself”
To them, Bayani is a heartless boss, but when BF give orders and you look into his eyes, you will sense that he means business.