More efficient ATMs: The long, unmoving queue to the cash machine poses a definite threat to civilization as we know it. Diebold, Triton, IBM, Wincor Nixdorf, et al can make all the most advanced automated teller machines in the world, but they will all remain useless and primitive in the hands of users with, uh, marginal educational attainment. Let's face it: there are people for whom the words "current" and "savings" and "This ATM is unable to issue receipts. Would you like to continue?" are frightening hieroglyphics. You'd offer help, but then again a sign on a wall warns them not to accept help from strangers.
Solution: voice-activated cash machines that just asks one simple question, "Magkano kelangan mo, 'Dong?" Dudung answers and out comes the money. Next, please.
Trial judges with cojones the size of Mt. Mayon: And one was found in the quiet person of Jocelyn Solis-Reyes of Quezon City RTC Branch 221, who even initially did not ask for PNP security escorts. As for Judge Luisito Cortez, who declined the case out of fear of a possible threat to his and his family's well-being...we offer him the peace sign, otherwise known as the international symbol of the chicken.
A bomb on the Comelec office: Specifically on the office of the second division, otherwise known as the tenth circle of hell swirling with bigots.
For Wowowee to take things a step higher: Keep the dancing girls, their karnabal atmosphere, and the loud, tactless, and obscenely overpaid host. But after giving the audience what they want, it's probably time to give them what they need. Your kid wants hamburgers, chips, chocolates, and ice cream, but what he needs is broccoli, lettuce, bananas, apples, and grains.
Earlier timeslots for nighttime news programs: You're tired, you're sleepy, and you want to know what's happening in the world around you. But it's already an hour before midnight and all you see are Korean dramas dubbed in Tagalog and fantaseryes with stupid special effects.
A bottle of single malt Scotch whiskey: Macallan, or just about anything prefixed with "Glen-." Goddamit, no wonder those British writers became such alcoholics. This shit is so good it's frightening. Please send bottles to Summit Media, 6th floor, Cybergate 3, Pioneer St., Mandaluyong City.
For the Ampatuans to be hanged by their testicles: If only for their palaces of tacky architecture.
A big box of Valiums: Enough to get me through the hell that is the 2010 elections.
A longer-term collective memory: To never forget this wild, ugly year: the Con-Ass of June 2, 2009, Hayden Kho at the Senate, Ondoy, and the death of close friends and heroes. But if I take Scotch with my diazepam for extended periods of time, what would happen to my brain? Then I'm a happy, happy man.
