A - For my country:
1) An honest, peaceful election this May 14 (Sigh! I have accepted this can never likely happen, but I can still wish, can’t I?)
2) A more intelligent and wiser electorate (“Kunin ang pera, iboto ang kursunada.” Translation: Take the bribe money, but vote for the candidate of your choice.)
3) A Noynoy Aquino who relies on his own merits, not those of his dad’s.
4) Fast recovery for First Gentleman Mike Arroyo (Not a very likeable fellow, but can you imagine the effect to the President if something happened to him? A shaken president, a shaken country!)
5) Richard Gomez and Cesar Montano accepting the fact that they are not tailored fit for senatorial slates. They are more effective as actors in films, not actors in the Upper House. And to Goma - naku, ha! There are more than enough airheads in the Senate already, please lang, huwag ka nang dumagdag pa (don’t add to their roll anymore)!
B - For my community:
1) For the tribikers on the street where I live to refrain from making ‘istambay’ (loitering around) and trading barbs in front of our house. My daughter is getting scandalized with their foul mouths. I was so pissed off one time that I intentionally aimed the water hose at them, pretending to be watering the plants. “Ay, sorry po, ma’am, nagdidilig pala kayo!” (Sorry ma’am, we didn’t know you were watering the plants) hehehe.. If only they knew…
2) More ‘pagmamalasakit’ (concern) for each other in our neighborhood. Sometime ago, a neighbor’s house was looted of appliances without anyone noticing. Well, some tribikers did see, but they thought the occupants were making ‘lipat bahay’ (transferring to another house) as there was a jeepney on stand by where the thieves loaded their loot. And it happened during daytime!
3) Efficient drainage system for a neighbor. They have two maids, but I don’t understand why they have to set their wash schedule only once a week. And they do their washing in the garage where there is no built in drainage, so that the water flows and deluges the street! Nuisance talaga!
4) An ordinance penalizing, upon complaint, those who rudely post election materials on private property without seeking consent from the owners. Besides, aren’t there designated places for such, as prescribed by the Comelec?
5) Preservation of historical landmarks, and not outrightly tearing them down without thought just to erect commercial buildings.
C - Personal
1) Good health for family members
2) For hubby to pass the rigid test period involving his new assignment
3) For Marco to learn how to save. His salary is higher than his dad’s, not to mention his ‘rackets’, but he always goes down to zero. I don’t understand why he never seems to get done with upgrading his gadgets. Sigh! It appears he has fetish for techno-gadgets.
4) For Aypee to graduate this October and not to marry yet, and for Gem to finally find the college suitable for her.
5) My own MacBook … 
We all have such wishes, don’t we?
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It is good to list down your wishes. The cosmos listens and makes them all come true. I also want my own MacBook.
I noticed that you put your wishes for the country first. If more people were like that, our country would really develop.
May all your wishes come true Rhodora!
How I wish that I would never have to underrgo any surgical operation because of a disease. Grabe, muntik na ko kahapon.
“I don’t understand why he never seems to get done with upgrading his gadgets.” - And yet you wanted to own a MacBook, hahaha. May pinagmanahan…
Good to know that your eldest is earning well. It’s like that naman talaga, when you’re young and has a steady cash flow you tend to splurge on things that make you happy. I went through he same phase too…
You know what they say, “You work hard, you play hard”.
As for that meatheads Gomez and Montano, if they so want to prove their mettle, why don’t they challenge, say, Joker Arroyo to a debate? Ooops, out of their league yata… Sige, silang dalawa na lang ang mag-debate…
For my country:
Most of your wishes about Politics, I believe we already accomplished or almost there. Our elections are honest and clean in general and a few who are dirty are usually disgraced and forever faded.
Money we don’t get any, but instead it is the other way around. We contribute to our favourite candidate’s or party campaign funds, but up to about $500., we get 75 % in tax credit, make you participate in the process for a very little cost.
For the Montanos and the Gomez, we have only one bonafide “celebrity” member of Parliament, a billionaire heiress, who hub hub with Bill Clinton and the rest of them big names and yesterday announced she’s going back to work for her Father business again. And her name is Belinda Stronach, a very good MP and can sling mud with any of her fellow MPs. She wanted to be a PM but her private adventures (what those wealth can do to an only child) may have prevented her first attemp. But she’ll be back and she’s starting cultivating a good mother image (twice married and few more BFs).
For personal wishes; we all do and we can work towards them, only I go the opposite way. hehe
For my niece Bibs to make to Stanford U in San Jose, Ca after another year in High School.
for community:
political campaign materials are only allowed in property with owners’ permission and an owner can only display his/her very own choice. and clean up must be done in time (3 days after election). nothing on hydro post or bus shelters (minimum fine $300) or walls. only easily remove posters and recyclables. and the electoral body is very serious.
So I guess all your wishes are with in Grasp. They all seem reasonable and it is just a matter of good wishes from all others and you’ll get there..
Hope, even desperate hope, never hurt nobody. And I guess if we lost even that — HOPE - magpatuka na lang tayo sa ahas. So, you and I are going to vote (still) and will continue to wish (still) that our countty and people will still progress. And also at our own personal and family level do all the right and exemplary things. Yung lang naman talaga and within our control and hindi wishful thinking.
Hey Rhoda, I got a new look sa site ko. Tingnan mo — dali.
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I left a comment dun sa recycled firday the 13th piece mo .. i dont know what happened.
Hi Rhodora! Halos pare-pareho ang dasal ng bawat Pilipino para sa darating na elections. Sana manalo yung talagang makakatulong sa pag-unlad ng bansa.
Dun sa iba mo pang wishes, sana matupad
Happy weekend!
Very good wishes Rhodora.
Ay naku. I also know someone who who’s obsessed with updating his gadgets. It’s a very expensive hobby. Hay!
seconding everyone’s hopes that all wishes will be true.
sana din magkameron ako ng macbook hehe. tsaka aypad. tsaka a trip to UAE for free para makita ko na mahal ko…ops blog mo pala to…hehehe
hi Rhodora,
Let’s just hope that your all your wishes come true. For the betterment of our country and our people, hope that the right candidates win with help from above.
I say amen. May your wishes come true.