Early Window Into Politics...

I continue to have vivid memories on how, as a 4-year toddler... and not being tall enough to look out the window on my own, I would slide open the

wood-turned-railings protected lower section, so I could observe how outside my "world"then in Hinatuan, Surigao del Sur... was moving along. The house we lived in was facing the town square... where the church was on a side facing directly across the municipal hall... and the commercial section on the other side from ours. In the middle of the plaza was a covered kiosk, where a town fool would usually lay claim to.

It was through this window where I would draw my formative impressions from said observations coupled with conversations randomly heard. In retrospect, I did have an early exposure to such political circus... as the exchanges were usually about the priest, the mayor, the businessmen and noted residents... pitted among each other depending on who were engaged on these conversations... the "common tao" generally left off the loop. With the just concluded elections... it really is funny, or perhaps not... how, for better or worse... so negligible the changes in Philippine politics continue to remain.