[ read this on my Opera Journal ]
The Intramurals has just got over and I'm picking up pieces of confetti on the floor. Looking closer, of course, it wouldn't be confetti but cement sacks torn into bits!
Oh no, not my room again. This time the Public Works are totally bombarding my room with a smear-up campaign. But anyway, it's for my students own safety. You see my classroom is part of a 4-room edifice who seems to be a good example of how Corrupt Projects always happen in constructing Public Buildings. I could easily apply for the "2005 Search for Leaning Towers" with my classroom. This is why I am always worried. Inside the classroom, you'll easily sense that somehow the room is like inclined to the left in a few degrees. Hopelessly I just tell my students to refrain from jumping.
Seems like the cavalry has arrived. Our congressman funded for the repair (I could label it as a scaffolding! anyway thanks.) of the 4-room building. This time, they are making it right. My older co-teachers once explained how the funds for the old building got corrupted. It works like a simple subtraction to me:
Government will hire Contractor A for the job for x pesos;
Contractor A will hire Contractor B to do the job for him for the amount of x - a pesos;
Contractor B will hire Contractor C to do the job for him for x - a - b pesos;
Contractor C will hire Contractor D to do the job for him for x - a - b - c pesos;
God knows what's next.
It's a great formula for "corruptive engineering", I should say and here is the negative slope function f(x) = -x^2.
It's a bit comforting they're doing it right this time and I'm hoping so. I just don't want to get into delivering lessons and suddenly finding ourselves falling and crumbling down into debris and dusts like the WTC. For the student's sake, do your best this time!
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