The Wandering Savant

Baguio Skyline Good day! I believe it’s a very good day for almost everything, especially for our country. I have read a couple of good news stories in our national paper. Noticeable among these is the news referring to the apparent confidence that some multinational corporations placed in the Philippine economy. This is a far cry from the news about Italian credit downgrade by credit-rating agency Standards and Poor’s that sent indices in the Eurozone stumbling yesterday. All in all, this would send shivers worldwide in as economies are threading a precarious economic path these days. But, let me go back to the Philippines first.  The Philippine president is in the US for a working visit and according to the news, several American executives paid the president of the Philippines a courtesy call, “expressing enthusiasm in his effort to create a new business environment” and signifying their respective companies’ intention to expand presence in the country. Jeffrey Fox, preside...

The President in Pensive Mode I sorely miss our president! I'm sure that the huge media enterprises that helped catapult him to office could not tolerate this brewing boredom. Save for a few rather inconsequential pronouncements and scandalous indiscretions, like the "used Porsche" hulabalo, the Philippine president has been enjoying his presidential life in dreamlike obscurity, in as far as public policy is concerned. The president, who calls himself P-noy (I still don't know the significance of the name is and I am not expecting to find any), has been a fixture in the presidential office for quite sometime.

(This is an exposition of my liberty. I don't know what's going to happen next.) Wasting an opportunity, for me, is worse than plunder. Plunder is just money lost while wasting an opportunity means lossing the future of the next generation.  The much-vaunted 1986 EDSA Revolution, which everyone thought was the final salvation from the evils of the Marcos administration, tossed Ninoy Aquino's "housewife" Corazon Cojuangco-Aquino to the seat of power. As the head of a revolutionary government, the then president was bequeathed with vast amount of power that she could have used to change the course of our destiny as a nation. Amidst that power, the then president lay powerless. What an irony!