On Sunday, August 10, 2014 3:28 PM, linggoy de la Cruz <[email protected]>
wrote:
“August – The Ghost Month for the Chinese and the Aquino
Cojuangco Reyes Families!” by Linggoy Alcuaz in OpinYon’s Yesterday, Today and
Tomorrow, August 4 – 10, 2014.
I always thought
that there was only one month for Ghosts – November, as in All Souls Day on
November 2. It was only two or three years ago that I learned from GMA 7’s “I
Juander” Monday night TV program, that the Chinese observe August as the Ghost
month. “I Juander” had heard of my November 2010, OpinYon “Yesterday Today and
Tomorrow”
column about the White Lady of Balete Drive. They were researching on the
background and identity of the White Lady for a TV production to be aired
within the month of August 2011 or 2012. They not only wanted to interview me,
they also wanted to meet the White Lady and use our Alcuaz – Araneta Family’s
1920’s American Style Ancestral House as the setting for their encounter with
the White Lady.
There are many
Urban Legends about a Female Ghost that hitches rides with motorists along
Balete Drive, the boundary between the Rosario Heights and the New Manila Upper
Class Subdivisions, in what was formerly San Juan, but since President Manuel
L. Quezon carved out his namesake city from the adjacent LGU’s of San Juan,
Marikina,
Novaliches and Caloocan, is now Quezon City. The major versions are:
* The Pre – American Colonial, late nineteenth
century Spanish period, White Lady whose reasons for staying and wandering on
earth are not clear;
* The Japanese Occupation White Lady who was raped
and killed by Japanese soldiers. During the Liberation of the Philippines, in
particular Luzon aand Manila, the Japanese occupied the Religious of the Virgin
Maary (RVM) and St. Paul College, Quezon City (SPC QC) compounds aand/or
convents, along Aurora Blvd. corners Balete Drive and Gilmore Ave;
* The Post WW II White Lady who was a UP student.
She took a taxi home to New Manila and was raped and killed and dumped by the
taxi driver;
* Finally, the best documented and most credibly
confirmed by credible witnesses, early 1950’s White Lady was Maria Cristina
Recto
Garchitorena. She lived on Bouganvilla St. corner Balete Drive and Hibiscus
Streets.
All three major
TV Networks have shot many “Undas” scenes at our eighty seven year old home
whose address is curiously # 13 Campanilla St., corner Balete Drive, Baranggay
Mariana, District IV, Q. C. My eldest and only married son’s street no. is also
# 13 in a different Subdivision as well as District, the III rd, of QC. Our
immediate Alcuaz Ahorro Family as well as our extended Alcuaz Araneta Family
feel friendly and safe with all the neighbourhood ghosts.
By contrast, how
does our President and alleged Servant, Benigno “Noynoy” Sumulong Cojuangco
Aquino feel about the Ghost Month of August?
* His grandfather, Don Jose “Pepe” Chichioco Cojuangco,
(born on July 3, 1896 in Malolos, Bulacan.) died on August 21, 1976;
* His uncle – in – law, Nicanor Reyes, Jr., died
on August 21, 1982. Nicanor Reyes, Jr., is the son of the founder of the Far
Eastern University, Nicanor Reyes, Sr. and the husband of Cory’s elder sister,
Josephine S. C. Reyes. The latter died during the Funeral Mass of her elder
brother, Don Pedro S. Cojuangco, the eldest son of Don Pepe;
* His father, Senator Benigno Aquino, was
assassinated on Sunday, August 21, 1983;
* His mother, Corazon “Cory” Sumulong Cojuangco
Aquino, died on Saturday, August 1, 2009.
* The RAM Coup Attempt that caused his ambush on
J. P. Laurel St. (formerly Aviles St.) very near Malacanang Palace was launched
and defeated on August 27, 1987. During that incident Noynoy and his security
aide
were hit and his lady date and a security aide were killed;
* The Luneta Hostage Massacre on August 23, 2010
ended in eight (the HK guide and seven tourists) out of twenty one Hong Kong
citizens (Including four Filipinos - the driver, a tour guide and two others,
there were twenty five occupants in the tourist bus in all.) dying in a botched
ten hour hostage crisis at the Luneta in Manila;
* The
biggest anti government rally, the One Million People March to the Luneta,
during the Aquino administration (And the biggest since either EDSA II or the
Cory C. Aquino and Susan Roces Poe led rally at the Batasan in August or
September 2005.) was held on Monday, August 26, 2013 at the Luneta.
To the Chinese,
the implications of the Ghost month of August go beyond Spirits and Souls. The
month of August is fraught with the Bad, the Negative, the Ugly for business,
career and family. Thus, it is not the time to start new activities, projects
and ventures.
Immediately, what
strikes us, is that the 1987 Cory Constitution caused the filing of the Annual
Budget by the Executive with the Legislative every year in the month of August.
The newly elected President, Vice President, Senators, Congressmen, Governors,
Mayors and other local government officials above the Baranggay level, take
their oath of office at noon on June 30. The two Houses of Congress convene on
the fourth Monday of July. Thus, there is not enough time to finish the Budget
Preparation and to file it with Congress in the month of July.
Maybe, we should
suggest to the A Bad DBM Secretary to take his time and file the last two
Aquino Budgets in September. That way, they will have less of an excuse to have
too many big lump sums in the sloppily prepared Annual Budgets. Finally, they
should also not hurry in submitting the supplementary budget.
We should take
note that after Cory died on Saturday, August 1, it took Noynoy forty days to
decide and announce that he would be running for President in the May 2010
Elections. Thus, although plagued by many problems, the Aquino – Roxas Campaign
was not under the shadow of the August Ghost Month Curse.
However, not all
the “Malas” are on the side of Noynoy and the Administration. The Coup Plan,
Plot and/or Recruitment that Magdalo Senator Antonio “Sony” Trillanes (author
of both the July 2003 Makati Oakwood and November 29, 2007 Manila Peninsula
mini Coups.} revealed last week, was probably scheduled for August. The first
big RAM Coup attempt that actually took off was the August 27, 1987 attempt
that killed many civilians in Santa Mesa and ambushed Noynoy at J. P. Laurel
St. Although that one was a failure, the Cory Administration’s Victory came at a
high economic cost. The earlier attempts either, did not take off, were not
full blown or did not appear serious enough. Among these were the Sunday, July 3
or 4, Manila Hotel Incident, the November 1986 “God Save the Queen!” Plot and
the January 1987 siege of the GMA 7 Radio TV Network on EDSA and Timog Ave. by
a group led by Col. Canlas. Aside from the above, there were many other plans,
plots and actual attempts – the 1987 or 1988 Black Saturday at Ft. Bonifacio,
the biggest Coup attempt, the December 1, 1989, almost week long RAM-SFP-YOU
joint attempt, the March 1991 Cagayan Province siege by Gov./Col. Rudy
Aguinaldo and the 1990 or 1991 October Northeastern Mindanao Cavalcade of Col.
Oscar Noble.
In my opinion,
neither a Coup Plot nor another EDSA will succeed in the remaining two years of
Noynoy’s term. The only thing that will make the Aquino Administration and the
Liberal Party Fall and Fail is Arrogance, Carma, Hubris, Pride and Utter
Stupidity. All of these, they seem to be well supplied with. If they have the
good sense and humility not to bully Erap and the Supreme Court, they may and
might survive until June 30,2016. After that, it will be another ball game
altogether.
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