Yes. Like you I’m irritated with the poker-faced tarpaulins of Bayani Fernando. If he thinks that his poor mimicry of the signature pose of Ninoy Aquino in the 500-peso bills embody “kagwapuhan” (being handsome), then he’s dead wrong.
This PDA Public Display of Atrociousness over the metro is not just irritating, it’s infuriating. Bayani Fernando thinks that he owns the metro and that everything he does is acceptable. First, he painted the metro with pink. Then, he barricades EDSA with pink fences—which brought nothing but accidents. Lately, he paraded his face all over the metro with a “bossy” face as if saying, “Big brother is watching you!” Most recently, his “BAYANI” stickers are stuck on the windshields of buses—just as he is stuck on Gloria’s ass—and worse, he even joined Celebrity Duets. Celebrity, yeah that’s him…that’s what he thinks he is, and he’s nothing more than that.
But the country is not a TV show. He’s not supposed to act as the protagonist, when in fact, he’s the opposite.
When asked to react about the BAYANI stickers, the megalomaniac chairman boastfully answered, “e wala naman akong nakikitang mali doon [I don’t see anything wrong with that]”
What more can I say? This answer is a clear example of “KAGAGUHAN” selfishness, narrow-mindedness, and nothing more than self-praise. Bayani thinks he’s the hero, but I think he’s the ANTI-hero. (N.B. Antihero shouldn’t be taken as the antihero in literature.)
Let me check if I’m making sense.
USLI, which MMDA defines as anything stemming out of an establishment and affects the “beauty” of the sidewalk, BAD.
VENDORS making a living along the sidewalk, BAD.
BUSES loading and unloading anywhere, BAD.
But uhm…
BAYANI posters, BAYANI stickers, and Pink fences…GOOD?!
I say they’re “badder” and more unacceptable than the USLI, VENDORS, and BUSES, because these contributors to the ugliness of the metro are surface problems—which can be solved using ample approaches and political will—whereas his ugly face and bureaucratic aura stinks to the core, and can never be solved except through divine intervention.
Is Bayani the prospective president in 2010?! If he thinks that the approach he implemented in Marikina is applicable in Metropolitan Manila and more broadly, the whole country, he is disillusioned. If he thinks singing his heart out in broken notes will entertain the Filipinos, he must be dreaming.
If he can’t handle the metro and transform it into his idea of a METRO GWAPO, then I don’t see any reason for any rational Filipino to vote for this person who has merely turned the metro, and the people living in it into a community of METRO GAGO.
P.S.
Oh, and by the way Mr. Fernando, as much as I understand it, your domain is in the METROPOLITAN, hence the name Metropolitan Manila Development Authority. I don’t see any valid reason why your posters, campaigns, trucks, and personnel are spreading the GAGOness in Cavite…
