Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Barrita: Broken vows By Eddie O. Barrita Small Bites
THE Office of the Solicitor General (OSG), tasked to challenge every petition for annulment of marriages, has noted a surge of annulment cases in the past two years from 7,138 in 2006 to 7,753 in 2007.
A slew of broken vows.
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In a traditional Catholic wedding, couples vow "To have and to hold, from this day forward, for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness or in health, to love and to cherish 'till death do us part."
Now, they might as well add the phrase “till annulment do us part.”
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I wonder if the hasty marriages officiated by some judges who were suspended by the Supreme Court for what became known as the “marriage scam” were also the subject of annulment cases.
As the Bard said in Henry VI, Part III, “Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.”
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It’s Valentine’s Day on Thursday.
Have you heard of the world’s shortest fairy tale?
Here it is: Once upon a time, a guy asked a girl "Will you marry me?" The girl said, "No!" And the guy lived happily ever after.
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No more tears, vows Senate witness Rodolfo “Cying Boy” Lozada Jr., consultant of the scrapped $329-million ZTE national broadband deal.
“I won’t cry anymore, I’m tired of this,” he said.
He should learn from the “Uma-ay,” the laughing, red-faced monkeys recently spotted in the wilderness of Mt. Sal-dab, a sacred mountain in Northern Mindanao.
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According to local folklore, whoever sees the “Uma-ay” will lose his way in the jungle or may encounter misfortune, accident or even death along the way.
Lozada wouldn’t have a problem of death threats hounding him or government agents abducting him.
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Filipino inventor Billy L. Malang has bared his inspiration behind his gold medal-winning invention Vitamin Beer--the Pinoy’s love for drinking.
“Filipinos,” he said, “drink only on three occasions--when they are sad, when they are happy and in between.”
Vitamin Beer will just be another excuse for Pinoys to take a swig.
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The Philippines will ban incandescent bulbs by 2010 as one of the steps in saving electricity.
No, you won’t we watching television by candlelight just as yet.
You can switch to energy-saving fluorescent lamps.
