A Day in the Life...

Re-invigoration of the Public Sector I do not mean re-engineering or even re-structuring . Maybe all we need is merely to invigorate the government system in order for it to achieve  the  maximum efficiency that is expected  of  it. We have tried such modes  of  re-invention as re-engineering and re-structuring, at great cost in time and money, and yet improvements have not been substantial or palpable. The  public  continues to languish in long queues every time a license or a passport is needed. Bribes are ever pernicious, and even more open today, like it is not anymore a secret that should be tucked inside the pocket or a key thrown into  the  deepest ocean. Sadly today, the  public continues to encounter lazy faces of  public  servants seemingly tired of their day job and daydreaming  of  life in beaches almost all day long. At the slightest error, the public who is merely seeking public service ...

(A story from 2007) By tomorrow or a day after that, as I am estimating in my mind, I might be packing my bags and bundle some important things as I would be heading for some place else, somewhere that I have been to before but somewhere not many have seen yet or have known previously. I have decided to leave the city for good. This plan had been in my mind for sometime now and I must assure you that this very drastic move on my part is far from being hasty—-in fact it is to be done with very deep contemplation and scheming that I have etched in my mind for so long now. I have learned before how to drive nails effectively into wood and I reckon now that I have learned such task fairly well. My grandfather used to do some carpentry work and I used to have observed him so closely doing woodwork when I was so little, putting in mind every phase of the activity, from handling so tightly the wood to be nailed and towards the part when finally the nail is about to be hammered with ...