2013... Para sa mga taga OLLA

D’Great predicted that the world will end on December 31, 11:30PM in the year 2012. Nobody doubted her when she made that prediction back in 2009. After all, she correctly predicted that Kris Aquino will be the first senator of the republic to be voted out of the Pinoy Big Brother’s house. TWICE. She accurately predicted that Korina Sanchez will seek annulment of her wedding to former Senator Roxas so that she can marry Willie Revillame instead. She was instrumental in the capture of Usama Bin Laden-- the US government gave her the Presidential Medal of Freedom for that impossible feat. And on the day she saved the world from economic meltdown, the Dow Jones industrial average climbed to 20,000 points in just 30 minutes. That very day she was immediately given two Nobel Prizes: 1st in Economics and the second, for PEACE.

D’Great was so heartbroken when she made the prediction of the world ending in 2012. According to her closest confidante, Fr. Nicholas Regino, S.J., she decided to enter the convent of Mt. Zion. She can not give any more specific details about her prediction because according to Zion’s Mother superior, Sr. Marydor Somerset, she decided to take a lifetime vow of silence together with the other novices.

And so the whole world was left with no choice but to wait for its coming end which everybody thought was irreversible.

D’Great was NEVER WRONG in her predictions before.

And so, on the last day of the year 2012, the countdown for the end started… Everybody was resigned to their common fate. They have been shedding tears for years and months now, when December 31 came, there were no more tears left for anyone in the world to shed.…

By 11:00 PM… every body in the world came out of their houses to look at the night sky for the last time.

11:15 PM… there was complete silence.

11:20 PM…

11:25 PM…

11:29 PM… Everyone held their breath, their last breath before everybody dies.

10 seconds...
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5…
4…
3…
2…
1…

11:30 came and went. But… EVERY ONE WAS STILL ALIVE!!!








By 11:34 PM, December 31, 2012 , everybody realized that for the first time, D’GREAT screwed up. The whole world was shaken by ecstatic shouts of joy by the living who couldn’t contain their emotions for surviving the predicted end..

By 11:40 PM, Radio, TV and the Internet came alive again, everybody was mocking the once infallible seer for the prediction that didn’t come true.

And so everybody was drinking champagne, celebrating being alive when the END of the world came on

12:00 AM, January 1, 2013…

It was as if God just snapped his fingers and the whole Earth suddenly vaporized, leaving nothing but cosmic dust in its place in the space between Venus and Mars.

D’Great was indeed wrong for the first and last time. The prediction was 30 minutes too early.


(Author’s Note: The Great Seer spent her High School days as a protégé in the prestigious Our Lady of Lourdes Academy, TagKawayan or TK, where students were taught the value of punctuality. They wear time pieces adjusted to be 30 minutes earlier than real time. That’s why even though their classes start at 7:30AM, any one who comes after 7:00AM is considered LATE. Hence, in making the prediction for the end, D’ Great Seer didn’t bother to make the proper adjustment because she has been trained to be VERY PUNCTUAL.)

(Author's Note: the story is just an adaptation of one of the short stories in this book of Isaac Asimov et al. My apologies to those who thought it was an original.)