Expiry Date

Dear insansapinas,
A person I know donates canned goods which have already expired. My mother-in-law used to take the meds beyond one year expiry date. She said that it was still good a year after.


I was eating my steak the other week when I noticed that the steak sauce has a 2009 expiry date. Masarap pa rin but the mere thought  that food that had expired could become poisonous or toxic, I developed a stomach discomfort. If it was toxic, I could have been vomiting and feeling red and hot all over.


But the idea of the blog is not to brag that I-am-making-dildil of steak with some mashed potatos, green beans and yellow corn. Sabihin pa ninyo ang totoo na mayabang ako.


The point is the proposed expiry date of marriage proposed by a party list group of women. 
Like my usual question to my students, I would also like to ask the group, why ten, why not one, why not five or 8 or 9? Where did the number come from?


If it is trial marriage, ten years is too long for both couple to know what's wrong with their partner and why the idea that one can change the other is just a "love-niya-ako-and-he will-change-so- as- not- to- lose-me" is only a fraction of an inch true.


If this law is approved, the couple would not be able to remarry not until their church marriage is annulled too assuming that they also had walked the aisle lined with thousands worth of flowers and covered with red carpet. .


When the marriage "catastrophe" happens (definition: when every time, the couple communicates and there is an exchange of thuder and lightning; when UFO like round plates invade the kitchen, dinng room, living room as the couple try to hit each other and when the house became a traffic less street between rooms, years before the expiry date a year or two of their married life, should they wait for 10 years to move on with a new legal partner?


What about those couple who have lived happily ever after? 




Pinaysaamerika