freedom of spit

Filipinos are gross.

Alright, not all but some.

And I have loads of evidences to confirm my statement.

Clogged-up drainages and stinky trash cans are already a given and a common sight but I, myself have experienced petty stinky behaviours that may seem insignificant to some but are actually foul when one comes to think of it.

Barbaric bloke

My mother and I were waiting our order of grilled sweet corn when a potential customer started to touch them using his bare hands because he was choosing what size to order. IT WAS SO GROSS! URGH. I mean he could have chosen his pick just by looking at them, or if he couldn’t help it, he could have touched the stem of the corns and spare their bodies. What a barbaric act!

The vendor, my mom and I ended up looking at each other and silently cursed the gross, uncivilized and disgusting man.

(Good thing our orders were right off the grill and were spared from the gross man’s hands!)

Candy wrappers, spits etc.

While some may think that small candy wrappers are nothing but small and will not eventually clog our drainages, others seem to neglect the idea even though they know that these ‘insignificant’ wastes add up to our environmental problems.

The issue of candy wrappers improperly tossed may not be gross enough, but the following will surely be: discharges of all kinds—spit, urine, booger, saliva, snot and what have you.

Some men have become too comfortable with themselves that they do not mind picking their noses in public, spitting their phlegm’s and turning the country into one big comfort room.

A matter of discipline

The too lax and carefree disposition of the Filipinos, I think, roots in the lack of authoritative discipline. Our local and national government are not stern enough to implement strict laws and thus discipline the people.

If Filipinos abroad could show great respect to foreign rules and regulation, why not in their own country? If they have restrained themselves from spitting bubblegum in Singapore, have learned to personally clean up their meals in McDonald’s Los Angeles and have educated themselves to patiently fall in line while waiting for a bus in Tokyo, why not in the Philippines?

Conceal the deal

The decision of the Metro Manila Development Authority (MMDA) to temporarily conceal the houses of the city dwellers in time for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) meeting, which involved foreign delegates, have gained split opinions.

The Filipinos as hospitable people only wanted to serve and provide quality services to the visitors, but I think, that to cover up the blemishes of the country is too much and obviously superficial. We are not fooling anybody but ourselves.

The meeting ended last Friday and for sure, the impermanent barricades will, in time, be put down. Those barriers would not be built if there were no flaws to correct in the first place.

The growth and development of the Philippines may seem to be an impossible dream, but the cliché cleanliness is next to godliness, may ring a bell.