Good: Happiness can nowadays be bought. Bad: For one-night-stands, with you your own pimp imposing the price. Good: Friends can nowadays be bought. Bad: They can buy you too when you go broke and they go lonely. Good: Money can’t buy me love said the Beatles. Bad: What’s the opposite of money? Shit? Can it buy me love? Good: All your money won’t another minute buy, sang Kansas. Bad: All your minute won’t another peso bring, sang the bum.

 

If I have the money, I am eating a chocolate cake now beside the keyboard. If I have the money, I am phoning Julie in Dubai . Or  I’ll fly to Dubai. Then  I’ll take her to Greece. We will fly by the hot-air balloon. See, only money and vehicular
accidents make people fly. Oh, catapults too. But then again, you also
pay for vehicle and catapult rides. Money is not happiness itself;
instead, it is a potent vehicle towards achieving happiness. You know
what? If I have the money, I’ll pay you for reading this.

 

I haven’t got any money right now. But I am expecting a shower of it next week. Well, I have to make good use of it since I am now counting down to the last few months of my stay in office. I am not always an SK Chairman who receives honoraria without burning calories. Someday I’d be a prince or a pauper, depending on how I make use of my life. I can’t tell what kind of life awaits me in the future. But I am sure it would be less happy without friends, without money, without somebody.

 

Good: I am happy being a bum. Bad: I am a bum.

 

 

Finally, here are the things that made me happy early this year without money’s help:

 

 

10. Ronato Alcano following his 9-ball world title with another championship in world        8-ball open.

 

9. Wowowee beating Eat Bulaga in noontime ratings game.

 

8. The Leyva kids.

 

7. Mike Defensor’s self-incriminating campaign advertisement.

 

6. Kim learning Beatles’ Blakbird

 

5. The mockumentary film Borat.

 

4. Democrats finally taking over the  US legislature.

3. My nephew Bonbon’s first year.

 

2. Rep. Alan Peter Cayetano’s consistent good standing in 2007 senatorial surveys.

 

1. The sugarfree experience.

 

 

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