In a nutshell

In this thanksgiving week, Manny Pacquiao put the pride back in every Filipino by giving us catharsis in Cotai. The government thanked him profusely by asking the BIR to lead in the welcome reception.  But instead of a parade, the agency presented a freeze order of his assets. This gave new meaning to the term "cold shoulder treatment."

Meantime, in a chamber where dignity and honor are supposed to be personified by stately legislators, the most senior of them all disses and dished a plethora of vituperative venom against his alleged psychiatric colleague. It was a thinly veiled tactic to distract the people. And right on cue, his nemesis, who happens to be his godchild, promises to return a bigger favor by December 4.  Bob Arum, forget about Pacquiao-Mayweather.  This is better than boxing. This is the fight of the millenium, all sanctioned and paid for by the Filipino people.

At the Palace by the river, the occupant is still busy tallying and forming committees to address the aftermath of a super cyclone that happened 20 days before.  He wants an investigation on why typhoons can cause deaths and destruction, and why local governments were not at their stations when the storm surged. He wondered why the mayors, councilors, police, tanods were not able to deflect a storm packing 300 kms of gustiness, and why they were swept by waves. He actually sought an explanation in writing. And while the entire world banded together to give aid and support, he was wondering what else could he have done while his Interior secretary is hiding under the coattails of his prima donna wife who is now considered to be the joke of journalism.  BTW, CNN is now thinking of giving an anti-hero of the year award, and the nominees are BS Aquino, Palengke Roxas and Tsinelas Sanchez-Roxas.

Relative to this, his budget secretary is now at a loss for acronyms since PDAF DAP SARO are soon to be declared unconstitutional by the SC.  It wont surprise a few if Butch becomes the scapegoat Bitch.

In the Cocomut Palace, friends of the VP are busy repacking and re-labeling relief goods while keeping him in the dark, literally and figuratively.  They dismiss the outbursts of netizens against the VP tagging him as EPAL as simply "white propaganda."  They call it white because they want to use the term "black propaganda" as their campaign theme for the 2016 presidential election.

Meanwhile, Christmas is nearing and Eastern Visayas is still full of dead bodies while scores are either still missing, injured or simply running out of time and patience.  Haiyan (Yolanda) is already history, but in ground zero, people are still hysterical and hungry. And not just for food. They are hungry for hope.

Come to think of it, it's really more fun in the Philippines.