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Atchara Na!

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During the eighties, the “Litson Manok” was a hit. It became so popular that everyone on the block started their own business. There was a shortage of Chicken at that time, so the farms had to increase their production to supply the demand. But when the big supply came, the demand decreased rapidly. Apparently the businesses closed down because there were fewer and fewer consumers who were buying the chicken. Everyone had hopped in the bandwagon of the Litson Manok so the result was an economic suicide. During the Japanese occupation, the Peso was devalued so severely that it became useless in the market. It was coined as the “Mickey Mouse” money due to its insignificance. It was said that the Philippine Peso at that time can be gathered as sack-full due to its proliferation and excessive production. Even that kind of amount cannot buy you a can of sardines. That’s how devalued the peso was. Same with the internet Dial up connections. The internet has become a necessity already that every Filipinos use the internet as their alternative window to the world. This was exploited by entrepreneurs and had created so many internet cards in the past that you only have to choose between the speed limit and hours of the card. But eventually, the dial-up internet cards gradually phased out in the advent of the “Broadband” which is undeniably much cheaper and faster to acquire. The point really is that when something is too excessive, overexposed and overly used, the value and sense depreciates. It lacks strength of convincing power and becomes an overnight failure and an annoying novelty. The fate of these novelties will be the same fate of the so called Malacañang “Unity Walk“.

Malacañang Unity Walk started in 2005 just after the Hyatt 10 resigned from office. The Hyatt 10 consists of ten Arroyo Cabinet members including then DBM Secretary Boncodin and DSWD Secretary Dinky Soliman. All of them resigned because they said that they cannot anymore stomach the morality and political convictions of the President. It was a big surprise but was later upstaged by the so-called “Unity Walk”. On February 18, after the La Salle 70 announced their manifesto and their call for all cabinet officials to resign, at the gates of La-Salle Greenhills just after the Mass for Jun Lozada, Malacañang wa very quick to reply by repeating that sameold trick again. Critics of thre President said that it was just “for-show” and had no bearing at all. True enough to the axiom that ‘Excessiveness brings oblivion”, The President once again staged another “Unity walk” with the Governors. And on February 25, 2008, at the anniversary program of the People Power Revolution, The AFP and PNP also made their own version of the Unity walk from the People Power monument down to Camp Aguinaldo. As if it wasn’t enough to saturate the people with this cheap show of solidarity, the United opposition imitated the stupid scenario on February 26 (?).

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Whoever invented this unity walk should be grilled alive because it is a cheesy way of saying “Hoy united kami!“. Paki naman namin! A stupid walk does not say anything. It is in the political will to change the corruption-driven government that best exemplifies unity. It is in the will to bare all truth amidst mountain full of lies and deceit. Dun pa maniniwala kami na United ang mga “unity walkers”.

Sana next time they would do a different gimik naman. Pwede ang “Unity Cartwheel” o kaya “Unity Tumbling“, “Unity Hurdles“, the best if may “Unity Head Stand” at “Unity Head Spin“, o kaya kawala-walaan, “Unity Kandirit” at “Unity Hoola Hoop“, maiba lang. Kasi yang Unity walk nyo, kakasawa na talaga. Atchara Na!

(Note: Atchara is a Filipino side-dish and is a variation of the German’s Sauerkraut that is served to desaturate the taste buds from an overwhelming taste of a certain food. Photos courtesy of Inquirer.net and Viewfromthepalace.Net)







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