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An 82-year-old Philippines man complained to the police after he was beaten up by his 76-year-old wife.

The Sun.Star reported Friday that the seething Harding Velez was threatening to file criminal charges against his wife Gloria, who used a bamboo stick to beat him several times.

According to police, Velez was hit in various parts of his body while drinking coffee in a store in the early morning of Oct. 9.

“It was so disgraceful that she has to beat me in public,” said Velez, who sought assistance from authority, as he could no longer bear the spousal abuse.

Before Tuesday’s incident, he claimed his wife had previously thrown stones at him and strangled him.

When asked, Gloria said she has had enough of her husband “who does nothing but hold his cellular phone.”

“I was so mad because early in the morning he was out there again doing nothing,” she added.

In a radio interview, she even reprimanded her husband for his alleged philandering ways and for calling their children asking for gambling money.

Police are now in a quandary as to how to deal with the complainant and the suspect because they are both senior citizens.

Source: WayOdd

A mayor in the Philippines’ financial capital on Thursday issued a threat to dump the city’s garbage in front of the Metro Manila Development Authority, the agency tasked to dispose trash of the metropolis.

An angry Makati City Mayor Jejomar Binay told the MMDA to solve Metro Manila’s garbage or its office would have its own stinking problem.

Binay told reporters, “If nobody accepts our garbage, I might just order our garbage trucks to dump the waste at the MMDA building.”

He said he would send the city’s dump trucks in front of the MMDA office unless it solves the garbage crisis after the landfill where the garbage were used to be dumped, was closed Monday.

Binay said the city is already stinking with uncollected garbage that litter the streets.

At the same time, he also dismissed the suggestion of the MMDA for the public to “hold on to their garbage.” He describe the idea as ridiculous.

“That will only cause rat infestation in households, and we’ll have a public health issue [on] our hands,” Binay said.

Source: WayOdd

Family, health and religion - and not sex - make Filipinos most happy, according to a new Philippine Happiness Index.

The index, crafted by Dr. Romulo A. Virola, Secretary General of the National Statistical Coordination Board, was posted on the Board’s website on Tuesday.

Family ranked first as the most important source of happiness, with a score of 9.45 on a scale of 10. Health came next with 8.95, while religion ranked third with 8.59.

Other important sources of happiness include friends (8.57), financial security (8.3), education (8.25), love life (8.2) and work (7.94).

On a list of 95 countries, the Philippines is on the “middle-range” of the World Database of Happiness Index.

From 1995 to 2005, the country’s average rating of 6.4 placed it in about the same bracket as India (6.2), Iran, (6.0), Poland (5.9) and South Korea (5.8.) The world index is currently topped by Denmark, with a rating of 8.2.

The Philippine Happiness Index is not easily dismissed, coming from someone who holds a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, United States, and who has taught mathematics and statistics at the University of the Philippines. Virola is also a past president of the Philippine Statistical Association.

Co-written with Jessamyn O. Encarnacion, the index was based on a nonrandom poll of 167 respondents conducted during the National Convention on Statistics held on Oct. 1-2, according to the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

It was “quite surprising” that sex was not an important source of happiness, and that at 14th place, it was ranked among the five least important, said Virola who is also chairman of the Statistical Research and Training Center in Manila.

The Philippine Happiness Index is based on the premise that economic progress and happiness are not synonymous, Virola said. But along with standard statistical queries, the index factored in friends, love life and sex life.

According to the index, politics is the least important source of happiness. Other unimportant domains are cultural activities, community and volunteer work and government. Leisure and sports - also surprisingly - is the 6th least important domain.

“Respondents derive very little happiness, or maybe much unhappiness, from politics,” Virola said. “Politicians may be amusing but they apparently do not make people happy.”

Other findings: many consider the enjoyment of sex not bad. Six out of 10 respondents think that progress is synonymous with happiness. Women are happier than men. And happiness rises with income.

Virola now wants to link the Philippine Happiness Index with a Philippine Economic Index and come up with a Philippine Gross National Happiness Index.

Source: WayOdd