Nothing has changed since People Power 1 (anonymously written )
- Every street has a basketball court.
- Even doctors, lawyers and engineers are unemployed.
- Doctors study to become nurses for employment abroad.
- Students pay more money than they will earn afterwards.
- School is considered the second home and the mall considered the third.
- Call-center employees earn more money than teachers and nurses.
- Everyone has their own personal ghost story and superstition.
- Mountains like Makiling and Banahaw are considered holy places.
- Everything can be forged.
- All kinds of animals are edible.
- Starbucks coffee is more expensive than gas.
- Driving 4 kilometers can take as much as four hours.
- Flyovers bring you from the freeway to the side streets.
- Crossing the street involves running for your dear life.
- The personal computer is mainly used for games and Facebook.
- Where colonial mentality is dishonestly denied!
- Where 4 a.m. is not even considered bedtime yet.
- People can pay to defy the law.
- Everything and everyone is spoofed.
- Where even the poverty-stricken get to wear Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger (fake)!
- The honking of car's horn is a way of life.
- Being called a bum is never offensive.
- Flood waters take up more than 90 percent of the streets during the rainy season.
- Where everyone has a relative abroad who keeps them alive.
- Where wearing your national colors make you baduy (dorky) and wearing any semblance of the flag is punishable by law.
- Where even the poverty-stricken have the latest cell phones. (GSM-galing sa magnanakaw, in English, stolen from other people)
- Where insurance does not work.
- Where water can only be classified as tap and dirty.
- Clean water is for sale (35 pesos per gallon).
- Where the government makes the people pray for miracles. (Amen to that!)
- Fast food is a diet meal.
- Traffic signs are merely suggestions, not regulations.
- Where being mugged is normal and It happens to everyone.
- Rodents are normal house pets.
- The definition of traffic is the 'non-movement' of vehicles.
- Where the fighter planes of the 1940s are used for military engagements. The new fighter planes are displayed in museums.
- Where cigarettes and alcohol are a necessity, and where the lottery is a commodity.
- Where soap operas tell the realities of life and where the news provides the drama.
- Where actors make the rules and where politicians provide the entertainment.
- People can get away with stealing trillions of pesos but not a thousand.
- Where being an hour late is still considered punctual (it's true!)
- Where the squatters have more to complain (even if they do not pay their taxes) - than those employed and have their tax automatically deducted from their salaries.
- And where everyone wants to leave the country!