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BREAKING NEWS: Fifth draft letter of Philippine apology to Taiwan found

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It appears that not just four versions of the Philippine apology to Taiwan exists.

A fifth one has been found.

My hubby Alan writes about it:

Secret apology draft required Philippines to explain to Taiwan how Nancy Binay won

Hot Manila – by Alan Robles

Posted at 05/25/2013 4:35 PM | Updated as of 05/25/2013 4:35 PM

A recently discovered discarded draft apology would have obliged the Philippines to explain to Taiwan just how Nancy Binay became a senator.

Manila also would have committed itself to “immediately” finding a way to resume airing Willie Revilliame shows on a major TV network.

To read the rest, please click on this link.

 

Comments

  1. OFF TOPIC

    But may Trigger or Live your sense of Blank humor.

    Perhaps you may ask, what am I driving at?

    The photo featured in the following news link first appeared in another mainstream news to highlight the end of the PH-US Balikatan 2013 military exercise (drill) last 17 (18 ?) April 2013.

    Today’s news –

    US reaffirms defense treaty with Philippines

    By: Agence France-Presse
    June 1, 2013 2:22 PM

    SINGAPORE — The United States on Saturday reaffirmed its commitment to a defense treaty with the Philippines, which is currently embroiled in a territorial dispute with Beijing over the South China Sea.

    The pledge came as US Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel met his Philippine counterpart Voltaire Gazmin on the sidelines of an annual security forum in Singapore set to be dominated by Beijing’s growing might.

    The Philippines, a former US colony, is involved not only in a row with China but also Taiwan over the recent killing of a Taiwanese fisherman along their sea border.

    READ the complete news article at http://www.interaksyon.com/article/63047/us-reaffirms-defense-treaty-with-philippines

    Foreign Ground troops on a body searching and checking for?
    What was being inspected for? And whose ground were they searching on?

    The background or environment from where & when the photo was taken after a live drill fire arms practice participated on by balikatan forces (does ‘green on blue’ sound familiar?)

  2. {{{BREAKING NEWS}}}

    Gates of Hell News – A sixth, carefully drafted apology letter was recently delivered, heard, and posted on the Internet. The transcript started with this…

    I just want to make things right and I want to make this day a beautiful one, and let’s start this right. Alam naman po natin yung mga isyu. May mga malaking isyu at may malaking malaking isyu na lumalaganap ngayon.

    May 17, 2013 naganap po ang “I-vice ganda mo ko” sa Araneta. It is a comedy concert; it is a comedy show. It is an enlarged comedy bar show kasi naganap po sa Araneta.

    After 11 days, kahapon, may mga lumabas pong isyu, na may mga na-offend, may mga ibinato saking isyu na meron akong nalampasang linya, na meron akong sinabing hindi maganda, na meron akong mga taong sinadyang saktan, may mga tao akong natapakan.

    xxxxx

    Reports revealed that the Wan-Tai Dynasty rejected the apology letter. Apparently, the letter, coursed through Mekong Channel’s Basil Yo, was wrongfully sent to the said Dynasty.

  3. OFF TOPIC

    UPDATE to relevant news headlines back in January 2013.

    P200M pork barrel, fake NGO disappear

    by Jojo Malig, ABS-CBNNews com

    Posted at 05/29/2013 8:38 PM
    Updated as of 05/30/2013 1:19 PM

    ZREC fails to act on COA recommendations

    MANILA (UPDATED) – Almost P200 million in pork barrel funds of 3 senators and a party-list lawmaker have gone missing, along with a fake non-government organization (NGO) that received the money.

    The Commission on Audit (COA), in its latest audit of ZNAC Rubber Estate Corp. (ZREC) released Tuesday, revealed that officials of the government-owned and -controlled corporation (GOCC) have yet to account for the priority development assistance funds (PDAF) from the 4 officials that went to Pangkabuhayan Foundation Incorporated (PFI) in 2009-2010.

    The 2012 audit of ZREC showed that the corporation has not acted on 24 various recommendations made by the COA to show where the money went.

    COA’s findings in 2011 implicated Senators Jinggoy Estrada, Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile, Senator Bong Revilla, and Buhay party-list Rep. Rene Velarde in the alleged fund misuse.

    The 4 lawmakers’ PDAFs were released by the Department of Agriculture to ZREC, which then appropriated the funds to PFI.

    READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE AT http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/focus/05/29/13/p200m-pork-barrel-fake-ngo-disappear

  4. Off topic…marines’ incident – acc to Ellen Tordesillas “Why didn’t their intelligence network know about the planting of the landmine in the middle of the road by the NPA?
    Failure of intelligence.”

    Failure of intelligence…in the military? Geeeee shucks!

    These soldiers & officers should learn again this lesson: Wearing those military uniforms is already telling to BE PREPARED for anything…anticipate 24 hours for engagement & combat.

    Intelligence one has not, should wear civilian attire moving along unfamiliar grounds.

    All muscles but without brains…is disaster! Our military command NEVER LEARNS until disaster takes place. RIP to our soldiers then.

    But some officers should be made to answer for this disaster. Will there be an investigation without pakikisama attitude? Wag na kung kung ‘we are all covering up’ this thing.

  5. Allan

    What a superb post, absolutely hilarious, fantastic, LOL. Have you ever thought of doing a comedy bar?

  6. Today, Taiwan and the Philippines sent their respective representatives and exchanged official letters to their hosts. Hopefully, no drafts this time.

    The Phils’. representatives were heavily guarded at their arrival in Taiwan.
    That says a lot of maturity among its edgy population.

    While Taiwan’s representatives are ushered & keen to watch a video in the Phils.

  7. …what is the small distance between Taiwan & ‘Pinas? So small! Big CHINA still claims the former as “a renegade province.”

    …in the near long run “We too” will be the second renegade province, long before Magellan discovered US!…CHINA will produce a “old map” that OURS used to be called by ancient Chinese as “BAIWAN”…buy one take WAN free!

    …it’s already about to happen…buy BAIWAN and tik TAIWAN !

    …just a kornie juk!

    • how about a swimming contest, leona? first one to step the opposing nation’s shore – wins. no cheating. contestants will be tested for performance enhancing drugs. winner takes all, islands and fishing grounds included, ha, ha,ha.

      • @moonie…talo tayo dyan! HIDE ‘n SEEK na lang!…PANALO TAYO…marami tayo magaling dyan!…hahaha

    • Hi Leona,

      I have a joke for you (dahil hilig mo ‘to)…
      Here it goes…

      Who is worse than MMDA C/m F. Tolentino?

      • @santiagok…i-Wan ko. MMDA [about road traffic issues, etc.?] headed by F. Tolen matino?

        …sagot ko siguro…yun MGA PUJ at BUS DRIVERS! hahaha…these bunch loves to OWN THE ROADS!

        i-KAW, sino ang ‘worst?’…pls share it naman…

        • DISCLAIMER: Ang mababasa nyo ay tanging biro lamang. Nagkataon lang na malapit sa katotohanan.

          Leona, bago ang lahat pki-sambit ang oremus sa baba nang 7 beses at magwisik ng asin sa bandang kanluran — pangontra sa mga malignong epal.

          <blockquote cite "purya buyag… purya sinda… purya hilanat“>

          ___________
          Bueno, eto ang sagot ng 9.2

          Dalawang Francis Tolentino

        • di po yan tagalog…

          actually, broken Spanish + visayan yang oremus… mostly used in select regions of Visayas and Mindanao to ward off unwanted elementals.

          I learned that phrase from a friend…

          effective indeed!

  8. Har…har..har :D . There you go again Alan. Who knows, one of the things Ignacio would investigate next is the hypothesis that the Philippines is on the way to having her first “black” president… Deja Vu :-)

    • black – who? ah, him. he’d roll himself in cake flour, then put on green tights and be robin hood, his family jewels glued in place.

    • @Baltazar.

      That is if Ignacio is color blind. Heh he he. Black is still a type/kind of color, right?

      Here (sa ilalim) and around social circles, Filipinos are often times ‘labeled’ as chocolates (brown skin).

      People love chocolates – brown is tastier and sweeter.
      Black chocolates are a bit different, it has a bitter taste. Makes you puke.

  10. From the grapevine, Ignacio Dimakaporma had an accomplice!

    Inday Dimapakali was the source of the crumpled draft.

    The bin’s trove of intel was due to be recycled, and Inday Dimapakali by chance saw the Fifth draft letter. And so he texted Dimakaporma, as a scoop, to improve Dimakaporma’ public profile as “…100 times better than anyone.” sort of an investigative journalist.

    —

    Nice one @Alan, I had a laugh!

    COMELEC’s Chairperson Sixto Brillantes’ ficklemindednes on the recent election is a good subject though.

    What’s the real score, Chairman?

  11. {{{BREAKING NEWS}}}

    MANILA, Philippines — Read Alan Robles’s latest Breaking News.

    (With Crispin Teco and Narcisa Meco reporting)

  12. well written, sir alan… you are the pinoy version of Jay Leno…

    I wish that the news are delivered this way – laugh trip… it’s so maddening to watch evening newscast (and recycled soap opera included) — I’d rather listen to the soothing voice of Sarah Brightman and Andrea Bocelli.

    ___

    special request lng po… on your next piece, place make a parody about dan brown’s reply to the clueless rant letter of mr. tolentino.

    looking forward to read it and ROFL afterwards…

    • Salamat Alan~!

      @santiagokatumbal
      Bakit si Jay Leno e diba tinanggal sa trabaho yun recently?

      • whatever reason they gave, it simply points back to ratings game… sapagkat matindi ang competition ng ‘the big four’ – ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX

        kahit yung mga TV series na maganda ang concept ay biglang ika-cancel kung bagsak sa ratings… :-(

        nyways, Leno will still be on air until Spring of 2014… you can still enjoy his monologues for the mean time… :-D

    • Re: Dan Brown’s Inferno

      The Sydney Morning Herald featured a story on the Philippine reaction the other day, “Gates of Hell : Dan Brown Enrages Philippines”.  

      Mostly talked about the letter from MMDA Chairman Tolentino to Dan Brown. Ho-hum.

      What caught my attention and had me ROFL were two reactions on the comment section:

      “He enraged me too when I read that abysmal Da Vinci Code”
      -Corporal,  Sa Kaeo, Thailand, May 24

      “hmmmm, I thought the crappy writing and 1 dimensional characters would be greater cause for rage.”
      -Ox, May 24

      To be fair, there were also two commenters agreeing with Dan Brown’s description of the place.

      But the point is, Dan Brown’s book and writing has actually been widely panned by critics. That’s the other equally amusing side of this story. Here’s one example: 

      “As a stylist Brown gets better and better: where once he was abysmal he is now just very poor. His prose, for all its detailing of brand names and the exact heights of buildings, is characterised by imprecision. It works to prevent the reader from engaging with the story.
      This mattered less in his previous novels, but with Inferno I sense for the first time that Brown is aiming at a tauter, better book, one more interested in the real world, longing to escape from the prison of his pleonasm.
      But in the end this is his worst book, and for a sad, even noble, reason – his ambition here wildly exceeds his ability.”

      -Jake Kerridge , The Telegraph
      http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/10053517/Inferno-by-Dan-Brown-review.html

      • when my teacher in literature first read dan brown’s da vinci code, sabi niya, dan brown is sloppy writter daw. with so many misplaced adjectives at hanging modifiers, the first few chapters appeared stilted.

        • Those who take their literature seriously aren’t really impressed with Mr. Brown.

          Ewan ko nga ba dito kay MMDA Chairman, bakit sineseryoso masyado yung mga sinaibi sa libro. Binigyan lang ng free publicity ang Inferno. Daming diyaryo sa ibang bansa yung nagdala ng istorya tungkol sa sulat niya kay Brown.

        • dan browns ought to have paid more attention, the horned one struck closer to home. let the gates of hell opened in oklahoma. mega twister left debris 27kms long, 1,200 homes were ruined with 24 dead. luckily no pinoy casualty, even boy bawang was saved.

        • Ahaha! Thanks Rene, this made me laugh so hard.

          Love in the Time of Cholera is actually a good book and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, a respected author. Mahihirapan akong ihanap ng kakampi si Chairman dito. :)

        • @Rene…ang ‘Pinoy na ROOSTER, nakita ko na sa sabongan ilan beses…’di matapang…gas/gas lang sa leeg, TAKBO NA! AYAW NA! tusik maN lingon nalang…AYAW!

          …subalit yun rooster galing sa BAKOLOD, yan YAN yan…patay ‘kin patay! Taya ka na…LO DIYES!

  14. That’s the best satire Alan’s done. He’s really creative to make up such wild material as one sovereign state suggesting that another sovereign state manipulate who is in congress and what’s on TV. Is that the way they do it in Taiwan? That must be why Ma’s approval ratings are at about 13%. Lousy TV shows and stupid pawns in the parliament, or whatever cast of Taiwanese fools is sitting on their brains and letting the President and Prime Minister make such asses of themselves. Are the Taiwanese people laughing, too, I wonder.

  15. …it appears we actually have a MECO CULPA representatives in Taiwan!

    …electing Nancy is insulting me! What can I do? What can YOU do too?

    …we have a democraziest system…putting up MONARCHIES in the form of dynasties!

    …even conbicts are elected too! What more can we do?

    …please inform Taiwan Ma…Wa Ka Nang Tse! hahaha!

    • …the big surprise is Grace Poe…Ako si Po Anak ni Poe!

      …millions like me went for her [ took the advice of @baycas! ] but not dble salin…