The Year of Living Dangerously

Words by: Lourd de Veyra

Artwork by: War Espejo

It’s the start of the New Year so here, in no particular order of importance or notoriety is the obligatory list of people and events that made 2011 a year we’d rather forget:

THE PRESIDENTIAL PORSCHE. Happened at the start of 2011. Oh, all the jokes and the puns involving the “Daang Matuwid” slogan. But in the face of P-Noy’s miserable romantic life which he had so lyrically compared to Coke Light first then to Zero, I say: bring back the damn Porsche.

THE LIGOTS AND VALIUM. Especially Mrs. Erlinda, who demonstrated to the Senate blue ribbon committee and the rest of the world the limitless pleasures of diazepam. “Naka-Valium po ako” will forever resonate throughout the Senates hallowed history.  It would be on the same exalted plane as Hayden Kho’s “Super hawwwwt!” and Sen. Lito Lapid’s noble question in the RH Bill debate: “Bakit noong nagkaroon ng family planning, nagkakaroon ng triplets, four-plets?”

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