Commentaries: BBM Jokes

I am apolitical, an outsider looking in.  I am a Filipino from America who just like the newly registered voters this year are barely educating ourselves with six or so candidates who are applying to be the next President of the Philippines.

Bongbong Marcos's absenteeism has already been the butt of jokes when he was a no show in a hearing with the Comelec regarding his disqualification case.  I have read in Manila and I am reprinting it in toto ...

Liberation from Guanzon vs liberation from Covid. This put some creative minds to work. One of the jokes was on Marcos Jr.'s campaign slogan. "Babangon Muli ang slogan pero hindi makabangon para mag-Zoom (The slogan is 'Will Rise Again' but [he] can't get up for Zoom meeting."

Others jested about a new Covid-19 variant that can be transmitted through visual tools and it's called "Bongbongicron," a play on Omicron, the currently dominant Covid-19 variant that has been infecting thousands of people with mild symptoms every day.

Yet another said the new variant may be termed "ZOOMicron," to refer to Marcos Jr.'s unavailability to join the proceedings via the videoconferencing application.

Some posted captioned photos showing the late president Elpidio Quirino on one side, saying that he delivered his second State of the Nation Address from his hospital bed in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1950, and Marcos Jr. on the other, saying he cannot be on Zoom because "he might cause the spread of the virus."

And with his non-participation in Jessica Soho's interview and his snubbing the Panata Sa Bayan forum of KBP similar jokes are mushrooming:

-Mabuti pa ang lugaw ... may itlog.

-Eh paano niya matulungan ang Pinas niyan ... interview pa lang nagtago na?

Your thoughts?

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Commentaries: BBM Absent in The Forum: Good Move or It Will Backfire?

Two important interviews/forums:  

First, the Interview of GMA's Jessica Soho last January 22, 2022, with all the presidentiables and everybody was invited to attend.  This was done to help Filipino citizens make an informed choice for Eleksyon 2022. In this must-see special, Soho boldly asks the presidential aspirants the questions that need to be asked – their intentions behind running for the position, the controversies thrown at them, their stand on pressing issues, and their concrete plans should they be elected.  Unexpected and revealing questions will also be asked for viewers to get to know the aspirants in-depth. Unfortunately, BBM declined to be a part of the show for personal reasons.

Second was the Kapisanan ng Broadcaster sa Pilipinas Prexy forum ("Panata sa Bayan) in cooperations with CNN Philippines last Fenruary 

4, 2022. It will be the first time for the five presidential candidates to appear together in live nationwide radio and television broadcasts. 

The event had given the candidates the chance to present their qualifications and platforms of government to the people. BBM also was a no-show due to a hectic schedule.

It seemed as though Bongbong Marcos was copying Joseph Estrada's strategy of snubbing the interviews/forum two decades back. That scheme worked in Estrada's favor when he won that year.  What makes people wonder why the frontrunner of the race kept on absenting himself from these opportunities to showcase himself and further cement his lead. As one analyst said being available for interviews or dodging the interviews will either reinforce or discredit a candidate's narrative and chances.

"it might even backfire" the analyst warned.

It looked like BBM abide and is loyal to the,  "less talk, less mistake; no talk, no mistake" doctrine.  However political pundits are worried, "This strategy can fall flat and misfire. 

Those who live on social media can perish on social media. It remains a question whether it is actually a good strategy at this point 

in time to actually skip these interviews and fora,"

Your thought guys?

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If You Feel Something Is Wrong Seek Professional Help

Everybody has to take care of their own side of the street and make them clean. It means being clear and self-responsible in your life and cleaning your emotional state up when you mess up. Just like dog owners, it’s best not to leave your emotional poop stinking up the sidewalk for others to step on. Scoop the poop out right away and move on.

So when you realize something is wrong you should know how to act when depression hits. When you get in that space, you recognize it, and when you identify what’s going on, and what needs to be done by all means do it right away. Seek help and make it your first option.

You can always argue that it is easier said than done. You see when (a voice from within) your inner demons and personal struggles are whispering to you, that it is A-OK to harbor anger and resentment or deny or deprive someone of your love and the other voice (your conscience) castigate you for it, this is where the conflict and the battle from within starts.

But somewhere amidst the noise and the cacophony of your internal combat, there’s is still YOU, the final arbiter, the final judge, the voice that chooses which road to tread. You can’t tone down which voice was deafening but you have the option to follow the clearest one and teach the others to back off.

After that, you seek help from professionals.

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Happy Faces Is The Real Face of Depression

  Mostly depressed patients has these hallmark signs:

Feeling sad or empty

Having little interest or pleasure in doing things

Experiencing a change in appetite with weight loss or weight gain

Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much

Being tired, fatigued, and having no energy

Feeling worthless or guilty that you have let yourself or your family down

Moving slowly or the opposite – being overly fidgety and restless

Having difficulty thinking or concentrating on things such as reading the newspaper or watching TV

Letting personal hygiene go – not bathing or dressing well

Recurring thoughts of hurting yourself or thinking that you’d be better off dead

But there are people who manage to show the world a happy facade.  And you know the reasons? They don't want their loved ones to worry. Maybe the situation is too much for her to share with anybody. Or the situation is too personal that confiding it with a family member is adding more stress to the person. 

Some doctors are calling it a smiling depression. Although this is still not a clinical diagnosis per se, it is very common. Smiling depression happens when the patient masked her symptoms. They hide behind a smile to make loved ones feel that they are okay ... that they are happy.

This type of depression sometimes remained undetected as the patient make all the effort to make her symptoms obscure. To the untrained, a depressed person is somebody who is very sad and has crying spells, & are unable to sleep or eat.

Individuals with smiling depression make use of her defense mechanisms as they often look happy to the outside world and keep their emotions bottled up.

Indeed the mind is difficult to understand, not to mention its complexities.