Bizarre facts about the Philippines!
1.Even doctors, lawyers and engineers are unemployed.
2.Doctors study to become nurses for employment abroad.
3.Call-center employees earn more money than teachers and nurses.
4.Everything can be forged.
5.All kinds of animals are edible.
6.Starbucks coffee is more expensive than gas.
7.Crossing the street involves running for your dear life.
8.People can pay to defy the law.
9.Everything and everyone is spoofed.
10.Where even the poverty-stricken get to wear Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger!
11.Where everyone has a relative abroad who keeps them alive.
12.Where wearing your national colors make you baduy.
13.Where insurance does not work.
14.Where the government makes the people pray for miracles.
15.Traffic signs are merely suggestions, not regulations.
16.Rodents are normal house pets.
17.The definition of traffic is the 'non-movement' of vehicles.
18.Where the fighter planes of the 1940s are used for military engagements and;
19.The new fighter planes are displayed in museums.
20.Where alcohol and cigarettes are a necessity; and where the lottery is a commodity.
21.Where soap operas tell the realities of life and where the news provides the drama.
22.Where actors make the rules and where politicians provide the entertainment.
23.People can get away with stealing trillions of pesos but not a thousand.
24.And where everyone wants to leave the country!
25.Where electric posts are placed in the middle of the streets.
26.Where lots of people know a little of everything, yet when asked to discuss to a group, are mum to say what they have to say.
27.An actor who pretends to be a doctor, makes more money than a real doctor who treats real patients.
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