Rotting rice

The No. 2 graduating PMA cadet may not be allowed to graduate for being late by 2 minutes in reporting to class. Two minutes can make or break a dream. Don't belittle the 2 minutes. In basketball, it can cause a team to win or lose.

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In the case of this PMA cadet, 2 minutes can be his Waterloo. His becoming or not becoming a cavalier depends on those 2 minutes.

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But they say that being late by 2 minutes is not the only reason why the cadet cannot graduate. He lied kuno in giving his reason for being late. Oh, well, in that case he should make a career shift -- forget being a soldier, be a politician.

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It says here that most girls go more for men with a sense of humor than with the serious looking guys. You don't have to be a clown to have a sense of humor.

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A beauty queen was shot to death in Venezuela. That country has been producing beauty queens left and right. One less queen doesn't matter? "It matters, Pre," says a friend known in our community as a-man-about-town. "This ugly world we live in needs more and more beauty queens."

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I read an article that criminals are going abusive even imprisoned. Like this mass killer in a Norwegian jail. He demands many things from his jailer.

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He demands to be given a video game for men, not for kids. He wants a comfortable sofa in his cell. He demands to be given a gym that is well-equipped. If his demands were not met, he would stage a hunger strike and starve himself to death. My friend Noy Temiong calls this prisoner "suberbiyong piniriso."

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OVERHEARD. The papers say tons of rice and rotting in government warehouses in Cebu and Subic. One comment heard: "Samtang libuan sa mga pobre nangamatay sa gutom, naghinakog ang gobyerno." Another comment: "Maypang udlon ang bugas kay sa kan-on sa pobre. Mortal nga sa'a (sala) kana sa Ginoo." One more: "Sige lang oi. Naanad naman sa pagpakasa og mortal ang atong mga opisyal sa gobyerno."