When I started wearing eyeglasses to correct my astigmatism and near-sightedness, my ophthalmologist told me some people are just “fortunate” to have this defect. I asked my eye doctor for an explanation as I’ve always had this notion that those of relatively young age, are supposed to have good vision?
I had these thoughts about vision as we bade 2020 goodbye at the stroke of midnight just a few hours ago. The year that was, did not give us a clarity of vision but was mired with man-made along with natural calamities.
Just before the year was over, I went to my ophthalmologist to have my eyes checked. Lo and behold, both my eyes are now at par. Prior to the pandemic, I had to wear a thicker lens on the left. The pandemic did this to me. Work-from-home, more soft copy reading, and longer time in
front of the computer must have caused the change.
I am not complaining.
Now, is the horizon clearer or more muddled than it was before? What’s up? What’s in store for us? I’m no soothsayer and I cannot predict what 2021 will bring us. Like everybody else, I pray for better vision, a better view of the world than the view I had that was blurred by the dust of 2020.
Before the end of the year, there was this rollout of the vaccine - a positive thing, a life-changing event, which we, the citizens of the world, are all waiting for.
Will this lessen our paranoia on COVID-19? Or we will slacken a bit in health protocol compliance? Infomercials replete with graphical illustrations are not wanting.
They’re all over radio, social media, and television. Authorities keep repeating the need for social distance, face mask, face shield. This has become part and parcel of our daily existence. These three, we have to comply with, if we care about our health and those around us. These are necessities of our new life if we come out of the comforts of our abode.
Friends with analytical minds have dissected 2020 developments here and abroad and their effect on us. Some foresee that US president-elect Joe Biden, increased infrastructure spending, benign inflation environment, and the vaccines will help the US economy recover from the deepest slump it suffered in 35 years.
I always look forward to predictions on the peso-dollar exchange rate and the stock market. With more and more of our neighboring economies opening up, plus Biden’s presidency, the value of the US dollar is expected to inch up to P49.70 or slightly higher or back to P50 levels, which to most is very acceptable.
The bourse will recover from its slump. It skidded to 6,200 mark but watchers believed the stock market will regain its composure to hit the 7,000 mark an uptick in the stock market recovery is what I need to pull up some of my investments.
I’ve suffered paper losses in most of my stockholdings except for Megawide.
While the price share of Megawide slackened before the end of the year following the news of its removal from its Original Proponent Status (OPS) in the airport rehabilitation project, my holdings now are actually earning, as the shares I purchased during the IPO I’ve already cashed in. The shares I’ve right now are stock dividends of my original holdings. In other words, it’s the
anak,” the sprout!
Although, acting Socio-economic Planning Secretary Karl Chua was quick to deny any involvement in the ouster of Megawide, my muted source said the National Economic Development Authority had finished with its due diligence on the project and was ready to hand over the OPS notice to Megawide but somewhere along the way, the message changed, I can only surmise somebody crossed, tweaked the vision a bit, and instead of green light, it turned red.
What gives?
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