Iloilo - The Queen Shitty of the South

This post is a copy of my now defunct Friendster blog. Friendster blog just isn't good, so I migrated all my posts from there to here.

Today, I spent P 22.00 for my fare from Alimodian to Mandurriao (beside the old Carlo’s Restaurant at the corner of the airport road and the Benigno Aquino Highway), and another P 7.00 from there to the University of Iloilo.

Today, I ‘m supposed to do overtime work at the office. Today would have been my first day of officially doing overtime work. As mentioned in a previous article, we have heaps and piles of faculty evaluation to encode, and that’s what I came back and do overtime work for.

But not until 9:30 am this morning.

Nag-brownout na naman.

And after writing those few lines, I realized that writing (read: complaining) about brownouts will not get me (or anyone in the Philippines for that matter) any further. And so I’m stopping. Brownouts are a reality of life for Ilonggos. Oh, it should be "reality for Filipinos"? I’m sorry for understating. So it’s a fact. As factual as everybody shitting everyday.

Maybe I’ll continue the stuff I wrote above next time. I don’t feel good anyway.

And here goes the continuation:

(Added on 04-22-2007 at 2:21 pm)

So why is this article titled "Queen Shitty of the South"? It’s plain and simple. I was annoyed by the brownout yesterday. What I was trying to establish in my unfinished and incoherent babbles above is that I spent money to go to the city and do overtime work. But, because of the morning brownout, I had to leave the office at 10:00 am. That’s 2 hours after arriving at the office; that’s a little over 3 hours after leaving my house, which is around 30 kilometers from the office. And that’s goodbye overtime work pay for me.

Think expenses. Think ROI. Think big. Think Iloilo?

And so to bluntly put into words what I’m trying to connect here, it is that the Iloilo City (and the whole Philippine Government) could NOT provide me — one of its peoples — with enough electricity for me to be able to do my work. Just what can I do about that?

And Jerry Treñas has the guts to put up billboards all around Iloilo City pronouncing his dreams of making Iloilo "The Next Big Thing" and the "Premiere City by 2015." Yes, mayor. Dream on.