Selective Memory, Ligot Kayo, Kaha De yero ng Bayan

Dear insansapinas,

photocredit: ABS CBN

Ngayon naniniwala ako na ang maraming pera ang naging dahilan ng maagang dementia. Yong mga nakakalimutang ang dapat kalimutan.

Sa Imbestigasyon sa Senado:Ito ang nabuong how-to-acquire properties in the US for DUMMIES. 

Estrada told Ligot that he had gotten word that Erlinda was used as a “dummy” for the retired general, who allegedly owned the Buena Park property. He said he was also told that the wife was fronting for Teresita Reyes as the real owner of the Anaheim house.

Hello, Alzheimer's

“I would like to invoke my right against self-incrimination,” Ligot replied, saying the houses and travels were the subject of a pending case against him in the Sandiganbayan anti-graft court.

Ligot said he learned about the houses only after they were included in the charges in the anti-graft court. He recalled asking his wife in Filipino: “What happened?”

When shown pictures of the houses, the former military comptroller said it was the first time he saw them.

Hindi namimiss: Ligot ka

In the 13 times that Erlinda and Teresita traveled together in five years, a seeming destination of choice was Los Angeles.

Bureau of Immigration records made available during the hearing showed that the two wives visited LA seven times, San Francisco and Singapore twice each, and Hong Kong on six occasions.

“What is there in Los Angeles, if I may ask?” Estrada asked, to which Ligot again invoked his right against self-incrimination.

The first travel was to San Francisco on Philippine Airlines flight PR104 on Sept. 4, 1999. The wives returned three months later on Dec. 4 from Kuwait.

“When your wife was away for a month, you didn’t look for her? Didn’t you care that she was missing, that you just found out that she would not be beside you when you got home?” Estrada asked Ligot.

Kaha de Yero ng Bayaan. Ginawang kaha de yero ng bayan ang budget ng military, tapos sasabihing kulang ang budget. Tseh.

Rabusa said the amount of shopping money he gave to Reyes’ wife depended on the trip and the size of the entourage. He said a foreign trip could include a party of more than five people, usually composed of wives of other military officials and civilian friends.

Housewives and Mistresses

Dear insansapinas,

Sa previous blog entry ko, isinulat ko kung saan napupunta ang mga kinurakot ng Generals--sa mga mistresses, girl friends at asawa.

Hala, ipapatatawag na rin ang mga kabit. Awayan na ito. Pero ang mga legal wives naman alam din yan eh. Kaya nga binibigyan sila ng pang shopping para di sila pumalag. Sino ang mga kabit? Merong mga naging beauty queens, mga laos na sexy stars at ang iba naman social climbers na mga babaeng empleyado. Ang huli ang nagiging dummy nila sa mga companies/suppliers na sila rin ang may  pag-aari.

Housewives

Retired Lt. Col. George Rabusa, a military budget officer from 2000 to 2002, said he used to hand out shopping money whenever the wife of Reyes traveled in the country and abroad. He said airfare and payment for accommodations were shouldered by the Office of the Chief of Staff.

“The money coming from me was only for shopping,” Rabusa told senators, recalling that he once gave the generals’ wives $10,000 in pocket money

Mistresses may be invited 

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/02/07/11/generals-mistresses-may-be-invited-corruption-probe

MANILA, Philippines - The House of Representatives justice committee may investigate the mistresses of allegedly corrupt military officials  as part of their probe into military corruption and the Garcia plea bargaining deal.

Manny Pacquiao Goes to Washington DC

Dear insansapinas,

Soshyal si Manny Pacquiao. Mismong si Presidente Obama ang nag-imbita sa kaniya sa White House. Sa February 15 ang schedule niya sa Presidente.

Ito ang balita:

Kinumpirma ni Manny "Pacman" Pacquiao na natanggap na nila ni Jinkee ang imbitasyon sa White House na makipagkita kay US  President Barack Obama at First Lady Michelle Obama.

"Oo, may invitation kami mula sa White House at ngayong February na yan," nakangiting sagot ni  Manny sa tanong ng PEP (Philippine Entertainment Portal) nuong Sabado, February 5, during the 10th birthday party of  Pacman's eldest, Jemuel, at the Palms Country Club in Alabang.

Buti pa si Manny Pacquaio, napansin ni Obama. hehehe 
Pinaysaamerika

Afterlife, Unfinished Business and Reincarnation

Dear insansapinas,
Lately, old movies that I watched in the TV are those which delved on afterlife. (Tinutukso talaga ako. Parang nang-iintriga).




Always
My favorite among them is ALWAYS, a romantic-comedy film directed by none other than Speilberg and starred by Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter. The song featured in the movie was Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by the Platters.


Dreyfuss as Peter died when he tried to save his friend Al. He left behind a girl friend (Holly Hunter) who was devastated by his death. 
In the afterlife, he met his spirit guide (Audrey Hepburn) who told him that his new role is to guide the living. She said that people hear the spirit's voice inside as if it were their thoughts.


It turned out that he was going to guide the new pilot who replaced him in his job as well as in the heart of his girl friend. He selfishly tried to sabotage the relationship. It was when his girl friend almost died that he released her memory of him so that she can move on.


Call me whatever but I like the scene when Dreyfuss as a spirit danced with her in her moments of melancholy. Kaiyak. Tissue nga.


Heart and Souls-Unfinished Business


Heart and Souls is a 1993 fantasy/comedy film about the souls of four deceased people who are trapped on earth and can only be seen by a single living human being who is recruited to help them take care of their unfinished business.


Robert Downey starred as the banker who was supposed to be the instrument of the four ghosts who were his invisible companions from the time he was born. Roaming as lost souls  after they died the bus crash, they did not know that the 20 years that had elapsed were supposed to be enough to put a closure in their unfinished business with the help of Downey. They were give a few more days by the driver who was fetching them for their final destination. The first soul was able to return the rare stamps that he stole from a family; the other male ghost was able to perform in a stage as a singer. The black lady found her long lost son who was put into adoption. It was the cop who they encountered all the time when Downey violated traffic rules.


The last soul would like to meet his boyfriend whom she liked to marry when she met the death in the fatal crash. She never told him how much she loved him when she was still alive. The boyfriend died seven years ago, lonely and never recovered after her death.


After the unfinished business, she was picked up by the ghost bus.


Made in Heaven-Reincarnation


A movie which starred Timothy Hutton. The film was marketed with the tagline "How in Heaven did they meet? How on Earth will they find each other?"

Big Bad Blogger Identified - Not

 Dear insansapinas,

For days, the big bad bloggers held their breath. What if the columnist-blogger starts naming names.
Now they can say Whew, that was close. Kaya tuloy na naman ang kanilang racket. 


Margaux Salcedo wrote in Sunday Inquirer magazine: 
An excerpt of her article on February 6, 2011 is published below. For the complete story, refer to the link above.

Our food columnist’s exposé of the “Big Bad Blogger” has created quite a stir in the country’s blogosphere. Here’s her response:
THE piece “Please Don’t Give Blogging A Bad Name” (Sunday Inquirer Magazine, January 23, 2010) received an overwhelming response. On the upside, we were flooded with “thank you” e-mails, texts and calls from restaurateurs and bloggers alike who shared or had heard of or encountered similar experiences and were relieved that someone had finally spoken out about the practice of pressuring restaurateurs to pay for a good review. On the other hand, there were also demands to reveal the identity of the story’s participants. Some, in an effort to compel this writer, even resorted to name calling and personal attacks and intrigues against me. (Copy of the piece and e-mails to us re the article at margauxlicious.blogspot.com.)

To those whose curiosity as to the identity of the “Big Bad Blogger”—be it out of anger or outrage, the desire to condemn, the need to be defensive, or just plain curiosity—has caused them to miss the point, the objective of the exposé was only to reveal the existence of the practice not just of giving a good review for a fee, but posting a bad review to pressure payment out of the subject/s.
The column was also written using anonymous names specifically to protect the source of information (“Georgia”) from the risk of retaliation by the “Big Bad Blogger” and “The (PR) Firm.” Retaliation in this case can be in the form of negative comments on the web—Twitter, Facebook, the blogosphere—and in the form of badmouthing the restaurant to other possible diners.

 One thing I learned from Boston is not to mess  up with people in the restaurant business. 

Heidi Mendoza is accused by COA of giving misleading information and the hold-upper

 Dear insansapinas,

Nagsimula na ang pagdiscredit kay Heidi Mendoza--nanggaling pa sa mismong agency na siya dapat sumuporta sa kaniya. Demolition team anyone?

Ito ang balita at ang aking open-yon in my experience as an auditor.

The COA said Mendoza has been giving the public “misleading information.” It did not refuse any audit report since Mendoza’s team is supposed to submit the reports to the Office of the Ombudsman, where they were seconded for an inter-agency investigation, the COA added.

Hellow, is somebody there? Hello, this is not a telemarketer. If you are an auditor or group of auditors you submit your finished report to your superior before it is forwarded to the party that requested for an audit.
Siyempre gustong malaman ng iyong superior kung may ginawa kayo at ano ang  resulta ng audit. Yong sinabi na Carague na hindi na kailangang magsubmit ng report dahil wala na naman si Simeon Marcelo is crap.
We auditors do not submit the report to a specific person. It is addressed to the Board of Directors if it is a corporation or the agency itself if it is a government institution. Auditors want everything on records.
If there is no report submitted, it means, the audit was not concluded. Whether it is perused or not, it is our responsibility to deliver the finished product.

Villar said Mendoza and her team received P198,940.77 in financial support during their 14-month investigation of Garcia.
Villar said records show that Mendoza and 10 state auditors under her supervision had the COA’s support to build up a plunder case against Garcia through an inter-agency investigation spearheaded by the Office of the Ombudsman.
Mendoza could not have uncovered all the supposed evidence by herself, he added.
Villar said from November 2004 to January 2006, the audit team received P160,149.60 in travel expenses, P21,146.30 in representation allowances, P6,100 in communication funds, and P11,544.87 in gas allowances.
He said that showed COA supported them.

Hindi ako basta nagugulat sa amount. Kailangang himayin ko. Ang ibang ordinaryong tao siguro (remember superheroine ako na nawawalan ng powers pag hindi ka nakaplugged sa aking laugh top) ay mapapabulalas ng Wow, laki naman. Saan dinala ang pera?


Himayin natin na parang isda. Fourteen months ang inabot ang audit, sampung auditors ang nagtulong-tulong. Tingnan natin ang average, isang tao sa isang buwan.


Travel expenses 160,149.60/14 months= 11,439.26 divided by 10 people = 1,143.93 aba eh kung magtataxi ka ng sampung araw, ubos na ito. Siyempre kakain pa sila. P 1,143.93 patuka sa manok.


Alam ninyo ba pag nag-aaudit ang mga auditor, parang dala nila lahat ng filing cabinet? Ako noon hindi kita pwedeng icar-pool, puno ang aking trunk at upuan sa likod ng mga files, documents na dala-dala ko kahit saan ako magpunta. Ang biro sa akin ay dala ko raw ang opisina ko. Mali sila, isang filing cabinet lang yan. Isipin mo na lang kung sasakay ka ng jeep at dala mo ang mga documentong ito. Pero may kwento ako diyan. Cool lang kayo.
Sira yong kotse ko. Kailangan kong mameet ang aking client kaya marami akong dalang mga papeles. Ito yong may holdaper sa loob ng jeep. Susme, minsan akong makasakay, naholdap pa. To cut the story short, ako ang tinututukan ng balisong ng holpdaper na wapo pa naman. Tseh. Instinct ko talaga lumaban. Superheroine kasi ang feeling eh. Ibinalya ko sa kaniya ang aking punong-punong attache case na parang laman ang Library of Congress sa bigat. Nabukas ang attache case ko. Sambulat ang mga papel. Hindi siya makalapit sa akin kasi nadudulas siya sa kapapelan. Nasaan na ang ibang pasahero? Nagtalunan na. Isang pasahero na lang ang kasama ko. May payong siyang ginamit niya sa pagdudotdot sa holdaper. Yong driver, wala siyang kebs. Malapit na kami sa police station sa Pasay. Ginamit kong shield yong aking attache case na wala ng laman habang ang isang pasahero ay para siyang si King Arthur na ginagamit ang payong pakikipag-espadahan. (Sayang walang camera). Tumalon na lang ang holdaper. Yong pasaherong di ako iniwanan ay istudyante ko pala sa Graduate School.


Tuloy tayo sa tuwid na daan bago tayo natraffic ng holdaper.

Obama's Office Internet Outage

 Dear insansapinas,

Akala ko kami lang ang madalas mawalan ng internet. Mga ilang minuto lang naman pero talagang nakakalurkey.
Ngayong hapon, pagkatapos kong magblog doon sa laugh top ko sa sala, nagpadala ako ng e-mail ko sa sarili ko na may file attachment, isisave ko sa aking laugh top sa bedroom. Ganiyan ako kasira.  Binuksan ko ang aking e-mail sa bedroom, wala pa ang aking e-mail. Lintek, saan pa kayo dumaan yon? kita ko yong aking icon para sa aking internet connection, wala. Sus. kaya pala.  Pagkatapos biglang nagkaroon. 

Pero di na masama ang loob ko kasi pati pala si Presidente Obama, nagkakaroon din ng power outage.

White House, Un-Wired: Obama's Office Suffers Internet Outage

There's no time quite like a revolution happening on the other side of the world when the e-mail decides to go down. But that's what happened yesterday at the White House.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/02/04/white-house-un-wired-obamas-office-suffers-internet-outage/

Ngayong gabi ay balak kong makinig ng music sa youtube. Kinabit ko ang aking earhpones. Walang sound.

Check ko yong internet, meron naman. Baka kako yong earphone ko. Bali na kasi, pinagdugtong ko lang ng

safety pin. bwahahaha.

The Before and After Photos -Sharon Cuneta and other Celebrities

Dear insansapinas,
There is a raging controversy that may require the PANA's  (Philippine Association of National Advertisers) attention, according to some sectors--the before and after photos of Sharon Cuneta. I remember PANA when I was a student being interviewed by a panel. I cannot remember why--must be a scholarship or a study grant. Anyhow, I did not make it. I said something that they did not like. I still have to bite my tongue to remember the word.


Anyhow back to the controversial billboard. Some people are of the opinion that the "after photo" was photoshopped.


Look.

Aside from photoshopping, the person can be made to appear slimmer with the right hair style, fashion style and to make the before photo looked bigger in size in all dimensions.


Notice the hair, it was combed to partially hide most of the cheeks, the bangs removed and it was parted in the middle.


The blouse top has a V-shaped neck compared to the round neck in the before photo. The belt also contributed to the slimmer waist look because of the black band and the silver combination design.

But then nowadays, you will not be able to know what is the truth and what is not.


In some  fastfoods where they have photos of the menu, there is a disclaimer, that the photos are enhanced to make it bigger for  better views.


So kung makita mo ang burger ay malaki, don't expect to get the same size. Toinkk.


Parang where's the beef and the where is the pork in the pork and beans. Yong pork sa label, ang laki, pag binuksan mo ang lata, parang mongo lang ang laki, kung minsan di mo pa makita. Truth in Advertising.


Before and After Photos of Celebrities.


Rustom Padilla- Before

Rustom Padilla after as BB Gandanghari

O walang photoshop yan.


Bella Flores- before

Bella Flores-after


Except for the big mole na lumipat yata ng pwesto, walang kabago-bago ang kaniyang anyo kahit ilang bata na ang kaniyang "Inapi" magmula kay Tessie Agana hanggang sa mga bagong kabataan ngayon. Walang kakupas-kupas. :)

Mommy Dionisia Pacquiao before- simple lang siya

Mommy Dionisia Pacquiao After - O kita ninyo, tinubuan na siya ng mga halaman.

Where have all the cash gone-The Case of the General and the High Fashionista Son

Dear insansapinas,

MANILA, Philippines – During the first Senate hearing on the plea bargain deal between the Office of the Ombudsman and retired AFP comptroller Carlos Garcia, one of the senators asked Garcia to explain the source of funds stashed in his family’s US bank accounts.

Garcia at the time claimed that he could not answer because the US accounts belonged to his wife and sons, not him.

He said that his son is a fashion designer in New York. 

Humaba ba ang ilong niya? 

Baka ang ibig niyang sabihin, fashionista ang kaniyang anak. 

The excerpt of the article about ex-Gen. Garcia's son: (For the entire story, please go to

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-09-11/fashions-night-on-probation)

Marc by Marc Jacobs publicist Tim Garcia, under house arrest because of a criminal investigation, spent the night in a Gucci jacket and YSL boots.

Timothy Mark Depakakibo Garcia, a 25-year-old publicist for Marc by Marc Jacobs, has a court-ordered Fashion Week curfew.

Perched on a sleek white Armani Casa chair in his apartment in the modern, gilded Trump Plaza at 502 Park Avenue, Garcia is decked in head-to-toe designer: a supple caramel leather Alessandro dell’Acqua jacket, Alexander McQueen jeans, a thin white LnA tee shirt and YSL boots. His wrists are adorned with a big Cartier gold and silver Tank watch, a Cartier Love bracelet, a white enamel Hermes bangle and a $1000 dollar large gold plated spiked Hermes cuff called the Collier de Chien.

The ankle bracelet limits Garcia’s fashion choices. “I can’t even wear my knee high croc boots by Sergio Rossi for the fall,” he laments.

Then Garcia daintily rolls up his jeans to reveal one accessory he’d rather not be wearing: an electronic monitoring house arrest ankle bracelet, code number “HGM94472.” The thick plastic black box, the size of a pack of cigarettes, is snug up against his tiny ankle. Garcia’s movements are recorded by Homeguard 200, a big black machine connected to his angular, futuristic Bang and Olufsen phone.

The Ripple Effect, Miriam Santiago, Reading People and Where have all the Cash Gone?

Dear insansapinas.
The Ripple Effect


After Tunisia and Egypt, the people of Yemen and other Arab countries are staging demonstrations
to protest against their governments.


I really have to don my costume as X-Woeman. Padalhan ko kaya ng cyclone? o ng landslide ang mga depu*** na mga mang-aapi ng kapwa. TSEH.


Miriam Santiago and Reading People

Miriam Santiago and  Lt. Col. G. Rabusa
photocredit: Malaya

The other night, I watched The Good Wife. It is about politics, trial attorneys and the legal system in the US.


The lead attorney was surprised to meet a man who was introduced as jury consultant. Ano ang gawa niya? He reads people particularly the micro-expressions of the jurors in the gallery during the trial . After every hearing , he tells the lawyers the sentiments of the jurors whether they are for the prosecutors or for the defense lawyers. What affected them? What they believed in and what they dismissed as not significant.  By their reactions through their facial expressions like knotting of eyebrows, movement ot non-movement of eyes, the jury consultant advises the lawyers to what kind of questions should be asked and to whom it should be addressed to specifically. He charges 60,000 per hearing. Grabeh. 


After the trial, the accused was found guilty. No refund of the consultancy fees. Hahaha


For people under investigation of the Senate or House of Representatives, this kind of consultant is not needed. The persons of interest are very transparent. Generals or ordinary people are not ashame to shed tears to make their point and earn sympathy (?) Whoa.


Lalo naman si Miriam Santiago,  talagang sinasabi niya ang nafifeel niya.

 As expected, Santiago said a mouthful: “It is contemptuous, a revelation of utmost ignorance. That kind of ignorance can only come from a one-celled amoeba. Wag akong ginaganyan ha.”

Where Have all the Cash Gone?

Piolo Pascual, KC Concepcion, Merceditas Gutierrez versus Leila de Lima and the Pirated DVDs

Dear  insansapinas,

Ang haba ng title ko anoh?

Mauna tayo kina Piolo Pascual at KC Concepcion na alam ko maraming nadismaya nang malamang at last mayroon ng girl pren si Papa Piolo.(Biyay, wala ka ng pag-asaaaaa). Pero totoo kaya ito? Sila kaya itong bulag na bagay? (blind item, lady gagah.); 

Gorgeous couple’s engagement rumors suspicious

MOLE INSISTS that this gorgeous couple will announce their engagement anytime soon.

Hunky Actor has allegedly purchased a three-karat diamond ring for Lady Love.

Then again, the timing of the revelation is quite suspect. HA is in the middle of a big promo blitz for a new project, while LL’s career is in limbo.

Kung hindi sila  ito o gawa-gawa lang ito ng mga nasiphayo sa puso, marami ang aasa pa. Ako hahabulin ko na lang si Apl de ap, para magpapirma ng autograph.

Merceditas Gutierrez versus Leila de Lima

MANILA, Philippines—Ombudsman Merceditas Gutierrez Wednesday assailed Justice Secretary Leila de Lima for making “unprofessional” comments on the plea bargain forged by her office with plunder suspect Carlos Garcia.

“Magtrabaho ka at wag kang daldal nang daldal (Do your work and stop talking too much). 

Ang taray mga teh. Humphh.

Don’t criticize us ... You’re being unprofessional,” Gutierrez said of De Lima during the weekly Fernandina Forum at Club Filipino in San Juan City.

Gutierrez had been asked to comment on De Lima’s statements about her performance as Ombudsman and on the disputed plea bargain with Garcia.

“This is the problem with our justice secretary; she comments so fast without knowing what is really happening,” Gutierrez said in Filipino.

Noong isang araw, sabi ni Gutierrez, wala raw involved na pera sa plea agreement. Kung meron daw, tamaan na sana ng kidlat. Hinintay ko siyang lumipat ng upuan. hehehe.  


Pirated DVDs
Tumawag ang nurse sa aking ospital. Sabi eh pag nagpa MRI ako, kunin ko ang disc. Siguro para di mapirate. mwahaha.

Egypt's Uprising

Dear insansapinas,

photocredit

Hindi ako tulog ngayong araw na ito na nakasabit ang paa sa kisame ala Batwoman. Pero gusto
kong suotin na ang aking superheroine costume, lumipad sa Egypt at pagtatapilukin ang mga 
kabayo at nga camels na sakay ang mga thugs ni Mubarak at sinasaktan ang mga anti-government
protesters.


Parang nanonood ako ng EDSA 1 na ang mga tao ay nag-oofer ng mga bulaklak sa mga sundalo
at nagyayakapan nang biglang magfastforward ang screen. Eeek Naging EDSA 2/ 3 kung saan naglaban
ang mga pro-government at mga protesters. Pati si Anderson Cooper a binatukan, ang kaniyang producer 
at cameraman ay sinaktan din. 




Biglang press conference sa Washington DC. Kailangan daw hintuan ng mga gobyerno ang violence.
Sabi mi Mubarak, hindi siya natatakot sa US. Haah.

Heidi Mendoza and Rabusa

Dear insansapinas,

In my blog Forensic Accounting: The case of the Missing 
200 million check, I saluted the  brave state auditor Heidi
 Mendoza who insisted that there is enough evidence against
 ex-General Carlos Garcia.

I was about to write that the bus bombing may push the
 case of  Garcia to the dust  bin when she surfaced again, 
in the media;this time with the challenge that she would walk 
naked if the case is dismissed. 

Here is an excerpt of the news:

 A former auditor of the Commission on Audit was confident that she had a tight case against the former military comptroller whom she had investigated for alleged

corruption and even vowed to walk naked if the case against him would be dismissed.

Whoa. Palakpakan. Ang Babaeng may B*y*g.

Hindi lang yan, hindi siya natakot banggitin ang mga taong pumipigil sa kaniyang ilabas ang katotohanan.

Standing ovation. Palakpakan.

After the report was completed, Mendoza said her COA boss said they weren’t interested in the report. Instead, she was told to submit it to the Ombudsman.

She was told by then COA chair Guillermo Carague to just return all the documents she recovered. “[He said] 'Wag ka na sumulat ng  report nag-resign naman na si Ombudsman [Marcelo]',” she said.

Carague later offered to name her to a foreign post after she manifested she wanted to resign.

Obvious ba na sinusuhulan siya ng position? 

Sana ito ang i-blog din ng mga Big Bad Bloggers ang support nila kay Heidi Mendoza, hindi lang yong mga resto na nagbibigay sa kanila ng payola. Uhmm.

Rabusa

Hindi ko ginagawang hero ang mga whistleblowers na dati na sangkot din sa corruption na kanilang ibinibilad sa publiko. Karamihan sa kanila ay mga kumakain ng maasim na ubas kagaya ni Venecia at ni Lozada.

Pero gusto kong nababasa ang kasamaang ginawa nila at ng mga taong nasa puwesto pa rin. 

Kagaya ng rebelasyon na ito ni Rabusa. 

Meanwhile, Rabusa disclosed in the Senate how he and his former seniors in the military allegedly amassed wealth, with the big bulk of the loot forked out from soldier's wages.

Ang mga walanghiya. Pinagpasasaan ang malilit na suweldo ng mga sundalong siyang pinambabala nila sa mga pakikibaka sa mga insurgents. Nasaan ang kaluluwa nila?  Dutdotin ko kaya para maging palaka sila.

Official Statement of the UP College of Mass Communication Graduation Committee 2011

Dear insansapinas,

A week ago, I blogged about the article of Jojo Robles of the Manila Standard who wrote: 

These MassComm students were more interested in awarding the deal to the supplier who could promise them the best “under the table” deals, who would wine them and dine them and who would take all the “test shots” of their faces that they wanted. In the end, one losing bidder told us, they ended up awarding the contract to someone who reportedly promised them a car, apart from what all the other bidders gave them—free booze, food and endless studio pictures of themselves in various poses.

Frankly, even if I did not write it in m original blog, as an accountant, the abacus lodged in my brain started crunching numbers. How many graduates are there?  If indeed there is a car, who is getting it? Paghahati-hatian ba ito ng mga members? Parang o itong steering wheel, para saiyo, itong chassis ay para saiyo at ang gasoline tank ay para saiyo. Pwede namang ipagbili at hati-hati di ba?

But will the profit from the business transaction too huge to afford the photo studio to buy new car for the members of the committee? For a state university which produces a small number of graduates in every department, would this financially feasible? My sister who graduated from College of Nursing belonged to a group of less than a dozen nursing graduates. My sister who was enrolled in the Graduate School of Mass Communications before she migrated to the US belonged to a small class. 




Below is the official statement of the UP College of Mass Communication Graduate Committee as sent to pinaysaamerika by F. J. dela Fuente.

Official Statement of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication Graduation Committee 2011 (UP CMC GradCom 2011) on the Manila Standard Today column “Convincing Noynoy” by Jojo A. Robles (Jan. 28, 2011) 31 January 2011 To All Concerned: This official statement is in response to the Manila Standard Today column of Jojo A. Robles entitled “Convincing Noynoy” (http://bit.ly/fpqbZ6) published last Friday, Jan. 28, which the Committee believes to be a defamation of the College of Mass Communication, its students, and its Graduation Committee for 2011. We demand that the Manila Standard Today publish this statement in its entirety. No actual bidding process, in the strictest sense of the word, took place for the batch’s yearbook photo studio selection. The graduating batch selected its yearbook photo studio of choice between two candidate studios. This number was determined through Committee meet-ups, as well as reasonable and meritorious consideration of objective feedback from the studios’ own clients, previous and current. The Committee declined certain studios because of their failure to meet certain deadlines and standards (professionalism: deliveries, deadlines, accessibility, quality of output) that were set to ensure efficient Committee operations. As an ad hoc committee organized for the duration of a single academic year, the Committee reserves the right to implement its own guidelines, in this case by presenting prospective studios to the graduating batch for all students to vote upon. Although the Committee considered these studios’ packages, it was primarily negative feedback from their clients that drove the Committee to decline them.