08 july monkey bus

2008 june monkeybus

I did not mean to trend set but after the comic strip below was published in the edgeDAVAO, some local politicians picked the "riceless campaign" and was bannered headline in another local newspaper. It's confirmed. Monkey Business Davao got followers and the issues tackled every strip were ,aside from being amusing, worth musing too. Thank you, thank you!!

A well said campaign to dupe the public. Less rice, less expense.For a government that cannot provide its people affordable and quality staple food, now is the right time to drum up this campaign. Hunger renders people deaf, numb, disorganized and confused that they accept whatever explanation is serve. On the bright side of the issue, who knows, this might really minimize, if not totally eradicate obesity. Hopefully.

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Loading stations are lucrative businesses. Text messaging, just like rice has become basic commodity of many people. One example is my helper. She spends half of her salary for loads. She texts like there's no tomorrow. Texts while she cooks, while she irons, cleans our home and even in between her laundry chores. She texts after she wakes up, and texts like crazy before she sleeps.Her hands developed a "textinitis" syndrome, meaning "napas-mo" na. Faint vibrations of her phones triggers her hands on impulse and draws faster than a cowboy in flicking, pressing, and typing on her cellphones. A sure winner in any texting dueL. FUEGO!!!!!

Remember the famous fable of Dr. Jose Rizal about the monkey and the turtle? This is the monkey's constant struggle when he's with the turtle. He's always outwitted with flair by the turtle. In this race, the turtle is a sure loser. Read well their condition.

When insurance companies offering educational plans folded up, many people panicked. Their panic was genuine. "Dili ma-fake ug dili joke" coz thousand of hard-earned pesos were paid and lost. CAP-pait!!!

Deadma, then..sigaw na. This is the normal reaction of the public everytime another round of power or oil price increase happens. It's been a well rehearsed reaction done and repeated OWver and OWver again. Duh!

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They say the number one killer disease in the Philippines is Cardiovascular disease.I disagree. It is Selective amnesia.It kills people's hope, pride and patriotism. It doesn't only kill people, it kills a country. (march 28,'08)

Spratly Islands consist of more than 100 island or reefs are basking on rich fishing grounds and potentially veeery rich gas and oil deposits. These islands are the subject of disputes among asian countries where about forty-five islands are occupied by relatively small numbers of military forces form China, Malaysia, Taiwan, Vietnam and the Philippines. Brunei has established a fishing zone that overlaps a southern reef but has not made any formal claim.
Why are these islands disputed?
Spratly Region is one of the busiest shipping lanes with rich oil and gas deposits.
How much is the deal for Spratly?
How about 2 billion dollars a year. this is the said commitment of the Chinese government as a development assistance to GMA government until 2010 where her term ends.
If she steps down.(march 13,'08)

Apologies to the pigs, crocs and serpents squirming and dissenting with rage crying "UNFAIR!!"for comparing them to the crooks sitting comfy in those offices. For the truth is, nothing could be worse than government officials who advertise themselves as savior of the poor,get themselves elected into office, and in the end, rob the people in broad daylight.(march 09,'08)

Enrollment woes greet parents during months of June and October. annual tuition fee increases, expensive school supplies and books eat most, if not all, of the month's budget. It is also during these times the long queues of "loaners'"at t GSIS and pag-ibig offices are observed."loan loan kalipay...human likay-likay"

President GMA was in a molar to molar smile when she announced that the first round of salary increase (after six years of DROUGHT i mean, on terms of salary hikes) will finally take it toll. The people, especially the government employees felt otherwise. The much ballyhooed salary increase is long overdue.. no wonder, the recipients (which i am one of them) remain stoic. To receive is to believe, eh?

This cartoon was never published in the edgeDAVAO. its size does not fit the format of the edgedavao layout. this was the format i used when i was with the Mindanao Daily Mirror. I was the editorial cartoonist of mdm for 18 years. It was my home. It still is. (april 24, '08)

Wasting two to three hours every morning just waiting to buy a kilo or two of NFA rice is sure very unproductive. But this is the usual scene we see every morning when we pass by Milan area in Buhangin market. (april 11, '08)

Ironic. Our state universities used to teach those guys from our asian neighboring countries agricultural technologies. We did not only export rice and other agri produce to their countries, we also export technology and knowledge. After three decades, the scenario backtracked 180 degrees. Once a leader, now a tailender. (april 04, '08)