First, I take this opportunity to thank all those dudes and
dudettes who had laid their trust in me in the recently concluded PF election.
A thousand thanks to each and every one of you.
Congratulations to Kiko and Rose, it is surely well
deserved. Also to Bhen, what a terrifying and gruelling experience, bro.
And then some…
I am a curious person, which is to say I am always a curious dude since I
was just a kid. My curiosity is so overwhelming that I can't sleep for days when the curiosity groove hits me.
There a kid I was, always wondering about the stars. As I’ve
grown I wonder about this guy who has an uncanny behaviour of picking his nose,
whenever, wherever. It is not the nose-picking I am curious about, but what
will happen to him in the future. Will he somehow erode his nostrils walls? Will
his nose’s bridge become translucent and then transparent and then there’ll be
four holes on his nose some day? After 20 years of observation, this did not
happen.
And then some…
Chicken. Why don’t they become extinct by now? Here are some
facts. KFC has 22,000 outlets worldwide, McDonalds has 33,000, Jollibee has
2,500. Search Wikipedia for Fast Food Chicken and you’ll get hundreds and
thousands more specialty stores that serves chicken day in and day out. So
where did all those chicken came from what is their birth/death ratio? Or is it
that somehow the chickens are mutated breed? I mean a chicken with four wings,
four legs, two breast or more.
Worldwide? According to the CIA World
Fact Book, the global birth rate is 20.18 births per 1000 population. The
global death rate is 8.23 deaths per 1000 population (2008 est). So, the World
Births to Deaths ratio is about 2.452:1.] which means two chicken eaters are
born when one chicken eater dies.
Now that I have established my unquivering and resolute curiosity, I go back to the subject of this piece.
During our General Assembly, I had prepared a note for
clarification by those in front of us. But then I became a little itty bit
pusillanimous in doing so, ostriched my head in the sand. Now, I just want to know the event timeline
of what happened during and after the counting of ballots. As I was told by
somebody privy to this, this is what happened.
1.
Ballots are counted. Sir Kiko had the highest
votes, Sir Bhen have the second highest and Mam Rose got third.
2.
Ballots are later recounted on the same date and
Mam Rose became second and Bhen became the third placer.
3.
A day later the ballots are recounted and it was
a draw between Rose and Bhen, while Kiko got at least seven more additional
votes.
4.
The tie was settled with a coin toss. Mam Rose
won.
5.
End of story. Note quite.
If that is what exactly happened, I have no qualms about it.
For me, it would be just fair that Mam Rose and Sir Bhen serves concurrently.
I mean, 112 warm bodies voted for Rose. 112 warm bodies
voted for Bhen. Human beings actually, as I was told. And then, this inanimate
object, a Five-Peso Coin decided their fate. It’s 2001:Space Odyssey solution
in which a human implement becomes a fate-changer.
Argue me, that this is what other entities do when there’s a
tie. Argue you, that it’s in their documents, argue you that this is not in our
documents. Because…
Here’s the curiosity part:
Is the coin toss ever allowed in the Provident Fund’s
Constitution and By-Laws? Or was this just mutually agreed by Mam Rose and Sir
Bhen? If this is not in the CBL, then it should be reconstituted within it, or to
make it somehow far more fairer to both, I proposed my above statement, that
both of them should serve a) concurrently b)half a year each c) re-election for
the two parties. Take your pick.
Also, is there some procedural protocol or something in lodging a recount or the conduct of such? I have more question in my pockets but for now, I have to leave it at that.
Also, is there some procedural protocol or something in lodging a recount or the conduct of such? I have more question in my pockets but for now, I have to leave it at that.
As Sir Glenn says, the Provident Fund is now on its
Fourteenth Year. That statement also holds true for the Constitution and
By-Laws. Times had changed, don’t you agree then that somehow some changes
should be incorporated in the CBL? And you know what? After Fourteen Years we’ll
have a collective glimpse of the CBL?
Salutes to all.
18k?Huh
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