The State of the Nation from a jeepney

Last night, I happened to come across a very interesting jeepney (also called PUJ) while on my way home.

Typical of other Filipino jeepneys, this one is as flashy as can be. There is the customary blinking lights. A 20 watt flourescent lamp keeps everything as bright as day inside. The usual boom box blasting incoherent tunes. The difference would be a fully functioning portable dvd player inside.

It was a quite weird yet humbling experience considering the car I was in only had a casette/radio player. No CD playing knicknacks. No MP3, DVD, VCD or any other D's there are. Not to mention that the system itself has seen better days with some of the buttons not working anymore. To illustrate the situation better, I am usually stuck at the AM band because of a certain unworking button and I can only tune the radio backwards, again because of a certain uncooperable button.

If we are basing the current State of the Philippine nation based on this certain jeepney, all I can say is that we are not in a bad state at all, but my living experience here tells me the truth better :P