Archive for October 30th, 2009

The woes of last-minute registration all have to boil down to a simple act of pasensyahan. The bureaucracy isn’t as efficient as it should be, and last-minute registration shows that people can push citizenship to the very last minute.  Last-minute registration, in many ways, is a window to last-minute citizenship.

There was a time in Philippine basketball that all plays were made on clutch: “last two minutes.”  Unfortunately, that kind of mindset does not translate to something that should be sustained, and something that, for all intents and purposes, should be done on reflex.

Maybe the Commission on Elections has issues to resolve on its own when it comes to registration and information dissemination.  Yes, we all need to make a living, we all need to go to school, and many things can get in the way of us registering anyway.  Yet our insistence – perhaps even penchant – for being citizens at the very last minute can be a good reason why, in many ways, we get what we deserve.