Why I Live in the Philippines

1. Every street has a basketball
court.

2. Even doctors, lawyers and engineers
are unemployed.

3. Doctors study to become nurses for
employment abroad.

4. Students pay more money than they
will earn afterwards.

5. School is considered the second
home and the mall considered the
third.

6. Call-center employees earn more
money than teachers and nurses.

7. Everyone has his personal ghost
story and superstition.

8. Mountains like Makiling and Banahaw
are considered holy places.

9. Everything can be forged.

10. All kinds of animals are edible.

11. Starbucks coffee is more expensive
than gas.

12. Driving 4 kms can take as much as
four hours.

13. Flyovers bring you from the
freeway to the side streets.

14. Crossing the street involves
running for your dear life.

15. The personal computer is mainly
used for games and Friendster.

16. Where colonial mentality is
dishonestly denied!

17. Where 4 a.m. is not even
considered bedtime yet.

18. People can pay to defy the law.

19. Everything and everyone is
spoofed.

20. Where even the poverty-stricken
get to wear Ralph Lauren and Tommy
Hilfiger (peke)!

21. The honking of car horns is a way
of life.

22. Being called a bum is never
offensive.

23. Floodwaters take up more than 90
percent of the streets during the
rainy season.

24. Where everyone has a relative
abroad who keeps them alive.

25. Where wearing your national colors
make you baduy.

26. Where even the poverty-stricken
have the latest cell phones. (GSM-
galing sa magnanakaw)

27. Where insurance does not work.

28. Where water can only be classified
as tap and dirty.

29. Clean water is for sale (35 pesos
per gallon).

30. Where the government makes the
people pray for miracles. (Amen to
that!)