Elton John sang “Sorry seems to be the hardest word”. I would say that it runs in tandem with Thank You seems to be the most underrated word.

Thank you are merely two monosyllabic words and it would spring from the kindred words, Love You. That goes to prove what any psychologist would attest to – that every human action or reaction is associated.

It’s just plain and simple – Thank You. I’d understand if it is omitted because it’s SUPERCALIFRAGLISTICEXPIELIDOCIOUS for thank you.

We have reached a sorry stage. Man has to return basics. Basics in this instance would be to learn from the animals. You know like how a dog wags his tail after being given a bone. Or like how my pet rabbits lick my hand or my foot when given food. It’s such a basic gesture in the animal kingdom.

Now, consider how this comes across when a Blogger is able to write like there is no tomorrow, Post after Post, and elsewhere Comment after Comment, but this simple expression, Thank You is not within the Blogger’s vocabulary.

Okay, I will have to accept it is beyond the Blogger’s natural ability to wag his tail or to lick my hand or foot. It would be nice though if the tail wagged the dog to remind that if not for gratitude at the least, gentlemanly decorum should prevail. Even boxers handshake before they punch and bloody each other silly.

And after all, he is not an animal but a person of considerable education.

But then again, the Blogger has no tail. Definitely an undeniable specimen of Darwin’s theory for the Evolution of Man. But even so, one would expect the Ape to raise his eyebrows and scratch his underarms as an Ape would when displaying surprise and pleasure. Alas! the Ape can only do that when given peanuts.

I speak of one who is neither human nor animal. Just a zombie floating around in Blogosphere pretending to be what he is not.

One of the many precious moments I’ve shared with my brilliant blogpal Windy was everytime I reach home and I do my dropping chores. I used to do it like crazy in the past, and everytime I reach his blog, I would often post a shout:

Hi Windy ! Im dead tired but still managed to walk thru ur blog, arrgh!

I have to admit I was always in the state of physical exhaustion and I tend to push myself to the hilt- diving straight into the blogosphere even without having had dinner.

He had me laughing my heartout when after posting that shout at his cbox, he has this wheelchair ready for me. You can just imagine my amusement! Windy did what a man ought to do! Right on. So he got that state-of-the-art Electric Wheelchair you see above for me so that the next time I’m dead tired, I have to plonk my behind on that electric wheel chair and hit the button. No more walk-thru; ride-thru!!!

The Background briefly: In 2002, a former supplier of Computer items approached me on two separate occasions to give him support as he had recently begun a new business.

After recommending him an Indonesian customer who wished to start a Computer center in Indonesia, the supplier began supplying and exported Computer parts to Indonesia for this Indonesian.

The Indonesian ran into financial difficulties and was late on payments for half of the supplies he received. The Supplier turned to the local mafia to recover payments from the Indonesian. Fearing for the safety of his family and himself, the Indonesian fled to Indonesia.

The Supplier had a lawsuit brought against my wife, accusing that he sold the Computer items to her and she had failed to pay.

Incredulous

Not only is the matter that this blatant lie was permissible for a Court hearing (despite hard evidence given to the Court to refute such allegations), this Court case was postponed for 8 years!

Even more incredulous

When there was enough proof during the cross examination of the plaintiff that he was misrepresenting and blatantly lying under Oath, the Judge did not dismiss the case as a mistrial.

The Final Showdown

On June 24th, my wife and I took the stand to be queried by our own legal Counsel as well as to be cross examined by the prosecution.

That was preceded by uncertainty whether our case was to be heard by a different Judge (something that we learned on that morning while waiting in Court) or it would continue with the previous Judge.

This 11th hour uncertainty and inconsistency sent several mixed signals to me.

Our legal Counsel finally managed to reverse the hearing back to the Judge who had been presiding over our case.

The Prosecution failed to discredit that the forgery of my wife’s signature was a mistaken understanding.

As witness in the lawsuit, against my legal Counsel’s belief as well as my understanding, the Prosecution cross examined me for less than 15 minutes. I expected it to last for more than two hours because I had produced the bulk of evidence to refute the plaintiff’s accusation. Strangely, my cross examination was that short.

Judge’s verdict

After receiving written submissions from the Prosecution and the Defence Counsellors, the Judge will give his verdict on July 21st.

For my part, I think that I made it very clear to the Judge that the plaintiff did business with the Indonesian who fled the country, that the plaintiff had falsely accused my wife, lied and that none of his allegations carried any semblance of truth.

It is comforting that the aged Judge took time to question me and get the facts clearly understood as he wrote down every answer that I gave him.

8 years of this charade and I lost the count of how many times we went to Court only to be told to return at another appointed date for hearing.

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So screamed the headlines at Philstar dot com and reported by Joanne Rae Ramirez (The Philippine Star) Updated June 20, 2010 12:00 AM.

On June 30th, President-elect, Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III will be sworn into Office by Associate Justice Conchita Carpio-Morales of the Supreme Court. He publicly avows “he wouldn’t let him (his late father) down in unfinished quest for true democracy in the Philippines.”

Bravo – Clap! clap! clap!

More time will tell on how he will pursue this quest and not so much from a personal motive not to let his father down, but much more expediently for the emancipation of all Filipino fathers, mothers and children from the clutches of poverty, greed, corruption, cronyism and organized crime throughout the land.

More time will tell whether Noynoy will be able to surpass not only the hopes of the Filipino populace, but even surpass his own dream and fortitude to lead his countrymen into the dawn of a brave new Phillippines.

More time will tell when as President, whether he will be able to preside as an able Statesman, effective with programs and political clout to drive a collective effort and steer the country from political unrest and uncertainty, the latter which for several decades has undermined the Philippines into protracted retrogression.

Yes, only time will tell and not avowals.