Happy Mother’s Day!

Today is Mother’s Day.
Happy Mother’s Day!

I woke up this morning seeing my brother, who was about to play the guitar, smiling like a madman… I had no idea why. But it was freaky.

I’ve watched a fair number of advertisements involving election seasons, and most of them just suck. In the blue corner, “Team Unity” created an acronym containing the first letters of their last names and came up with “Mas Para sa Kidz Mo!”; I thought it sucked. Inevitably, they spelled the word “kids” as “kidz” so that Zubiri (famous for his somewhat incredibly annoying advertisement) could be included in the party’s tagline. It’s a pretty valid excuse for misspelling the word, if you ask me, but it still sounded silly especially because it was in Taglish. Then again, who am I to say that it sucked when I couldn’t even think of a better slogan than that…

In the red corner, “Genuine Opposition,” or “GO” for short, comes up with their own slogan which was “Plan Co Revolt.” Again, these candidates deliberately misspelled the word “ko” to accomodate candidate Coseteng in the slogan. What really bothered me was the message itself — I don’t see why revolting should be their primary concern. I raised my eyebrow when I first heard this advertisement because the message was simply stupid. Sure, the government could possibly be corrupt, but… I dunno, it really sounded dumb to me. Although it’s probable that they only came up with such a slogan to give voters a memorable mnemonic.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not siding with the administration, nor am I siding with the opposition just because almost everyone hates the administration (which is a completely lame excuse). I just felt the desire to… make fun of their taglines.

The streets look like everyone was having a fiesta with all those “banderitas” hanging around. The Quezon City Circle (we usually pass here when going to Pisay, SM, Bulacan, etc.) looked really, really ugly hands down. The whole circumference was incredibly ugly with all those posters with faces printed on them. It sucked, big time. I wish someone would just burn all these faces down, it’s too bad arson is a crime.

Tomorrow is election day. To all voters, I hope you all vote wisely. And I also hope that you would think about how your ballot could change the country

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