Hi there! It’s another weekend; ngan patrun yana sa Brgy. San Policarpo, the biggest barangay in Calbayog. Well, aside from May 1 being just that, a time for house-hopping for feasting, drinking and what have you, the 1st of May (hmm, love that Bee Gees song) of course is Labor Day.
Just curious, why do we have to refrain from work (or labor if I may say) on the day that is designated for labor (redundant ba?). Anyway, if my memory serves me right, my soc sci lesson taught me that a good number of countries are into Labor Day today (May 1), save for some countries, the U.S. of A included (which celebrates Labor Day in September?).
Today’s commemoration stemmed from a picket or workers’ strike which was violently dispersed. And this happened in the country which supposedly stands for democracy a.k.a. the land of Uncle Sam. Be that as it may, the first day of May also ushers in the fiesta season in the country.
The merry month of May is always made colorful by the décor; made heavy by the loads of cholesterol and alcohol; and made especially more exciting every three years thanks to the election, which incidentally will happen in a year’s time. Yes, fiestas also mean novena masses and sponsors and what have you. Hmm, happy days are indeed here again.
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A week ago today, the City of Calbayog received a check amounting to 9.750 million pesos from the Department of Agriculture. The amount represents the first tranche release of the 20 million-peso assistance for concreting / asphalting of the Brgy. Villahermosa - Brgy. San Jose Farm-to-Market Road. Said amount was committed by Secretary Arthur Yap made during the 60th Calbayog Charter Day celebration.
Vice Mayor Ronald Aquino who represented Mayor Mel Sarmiento received the check from DA-8 Regional Director Leo Cañeda. The turn-over was held during the PalayCheck Field Day Celebration & Farmers / Fisherfolk Forum in Brgy. Carayman.
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Mayor Mel Sarmiento is expected to be back today from Rosario City, Argentina. He was invited by Rosario City Mayor Roberto Miguel Lifschitz. The City of Rosario played host to the 17th Congress of the Iberoamerican Center for the Urban Strategic Development (CIDEU) of which Mayor Lifschitz is the Vice President.
Mayor Sarmiento participated in two events during the Congress. First was the meeting of the Commission of Urban Strategic Planning (USP) of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG). The second event where he was one of he speakers was at the intercontinental roundtable event which is part of the technical seminar organized within the framework of the CIDEU Congress.
Mayor Sarmiento’s expenses for this trip were paid for by the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) Organization.
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This is it for now. Let me give you something to smile about this weekend. It’s a list of definitions which I got via email:
- School: A place where Papa pays and Son plays.
- Life Insurance: A contact that keeps you poor all your life so you can die rich.
- Nurse: A person who wakes you up to give you sleeping pills.
- Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor degree and a woman gains her masters.
- Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine willpower is defeated by feminine waterpower.
- Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the Lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through 'the minds of either'
- Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present.
- Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody believes he got the biggest piece.
- Dictionary: A place where success comes before work.
- Conference: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens and everybody disagrees later on.
- Father: A banker provided by nature.
- Boss: Someone who is early when you are late and late when you are early.
- Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your Confidence after.
- Doctor: A person who kills your ills by pills, and kills you by bills.
- Classic: Books, which people praise, but do not read.
- Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.
- Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life
- Yawn: The only time some married men ever get to open their mouth.
- Etc.: A sign to make others believe that you know more that you actually do.
- Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.
- Experience: The name men give to their mistakes
- Atom Bomb: An invention to end all inventions.
- Philosopher: A fool who torments himself during life, to be wise after death
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This is it for now. Have a nice weekend everyone! Ciao!
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