Because of the bomb threat in Ateneo de Manila University this morning – which locked down the entire campus for the whole day – the university is implementing new security rules which make it difficult, if not impossible to hold the launch of my book there this Thursday, March 31.
We are therefore moving the launch to another location at a date that we will announce later.
It will probably be next week.
Meanwhile, here’s my book.
Raissa
Rene-Ipil says
Eighty-eight percent (88%) of Filipinos prefer to work in the Philippines and yearn for SECURITY in the place they live.
“MANILA, Philippines – Most Filipinos (88 percent) aspire to obtain gainful employment in the country instead of going abroad to work.
“This was according to a nationwide survey conducted by the National Economic and Development Authority (NEDA).
“Completed last February, NEDA’s Ambisyon Natin 2040 survey also shows that Filipinos aspire to eventually live in a country that can guarantee their security in their respective communities.”
http://www.philstar.com/headlines/2016/04/01/1568181/most-pinoys-do-not-want-work-abroad
Parekoy says
Super Heroes and Villains – Philippine Edition!
If your candidate is a Comics Superhero or Villain…
Binay – BadMan
Duterte – Licks Utong (Lex Luthor)
Santiago – Typhoid Miriam
Poe – Wander Woman
Roxas – SuperMar
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BadMan
BadMan has superpowers in amassing ill-gotten wealth. Envious towards SuperMar for SuperMar does not rely on gadgets. BadMan uses Makati as his Bad Cave in World Class Bad Parking Building. He likes to hide his identity that is why he wears a mask. BadMan has different masks to hide his loot. Sometimes he wears a Baloloy Mask, and sometimes a Limlingan Mask. Before BadMan used a Mercado Mask, but he found this Mask too ugly and ambitious for his taste, that is why he threw this Mercado Mask in the dustbin. BadMan did not realize that Mercado Mask has a life of its own and likes to sing in Karaoke Lounges: Mercado Mask sings a lot, especially in the halls of the Senate and likes unmasking BadMan’s other identities and BadMan’s other enclave in Batangas.
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Licks Utong (Lex Luthor)
Licks Utong (Lex Luthor) is diabolically evil and a sociopath who reaches orgasm whenever he kills! He is a coward. He dislikes directly fighting other villains or superheroes and only good at killing the helpless. This villain likes women. He likes to sexually harass women. Likes the feeling of pressing their nipples and groping their privates. Since he is a coward himself, he relies on his army of Death Squads to spread his terror. His protected enclave is located in the City of Davao, where he also rents out to other famous villains like the Backwhores Ampatuans, the Talibans MNLF, the Sexy Hijab MILF, and the Red Army. He does not like a man who wears a long gown and claims to be the Prince from the Vatican. He likes his childhood friend the Charlatan PaQui-Abuloy.
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Typhoid Miriam
Typhoid Miriam is a rabid sick villain who likes to spew her venom by spitting while eloquating. She likes to spew tirades but not good at receiving one. She claims she has a genius mind but others disagree for they see lunacy. I would not like to split hair with them for there is a thin line between genius and madness, in her case the genius is absent while madness is abundantly present. Her power increases whenever attention is given to her. She laughs on her own jokes which do not add any power. She is enterprising and a mercenary. She is now under contract with the son of the Zombie to try to make Philippines the Zombie Nation.
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Wander Woman
Wander Woman is a foundling. She wanders a lot. She was found on the step of the church and later adopted by a Philippine Superhero Panday and his Sterile Rose wife. Before she wondered who her real parents are but meeting her aunt, the Virile Rose, she knew what her heart was telling her. Though the adopted Family has secrets, she honors it and promised to keep. In her teens she rebelled for her Hero Panday Dad was so strict and always provided a bodyguard to watch her every move. She decided enough is enough and wondering became wandering. She rebelled, and decided to wander like a lost child and went to the Land of Satan according to the Talibans.
Wallow on her newfound freedom. She hopped from college party to college parties. She whetted her appetite for brews and weeds in Boston College and also likes Tufts for more raucous atmosphere. She also crashed the uppity Harvard parties and offered her petite self to some ivy nerd, but had been refused for the white nerd likes Asians with tan complexion unlike her natural white skin.
She settled to go back to her Boston College dorm, horny and would like to release her anxiety and craving, she eyed a black stallion and experimented with her dark skinned brawny classmate. She experimented and discovered the different worldly pleasures brought by the stallion. She can attest what the Khardasians have been enjoying all along, but her being a Filipina overpowered her urge to continue the experiments and be a part of the clan of Khardasians.
She wandered and found a new relationship in the person of Neil. She claimed on her first night with Neil that she is a virgin and she fooled Neil. Her vaginal exercises paid off having healed the ripped tissues that gargantuan of that Black Stallion rammed without mercy. She was able to deceive his boyfriend, by skillfully closing her pelvis and narrowed Neil’s passage.
When her graduation was already near the horizon, she decided to stay in the Land of Honey according to the Bees, but how? She no longer wanted to wander and wanted to live permanently in the Land of Honey and not back to godforsaken filthy Philippines, thus she decided to hook Neil for Neil is her ticket to the American Dream. Neil is an American Citizen and marrying Neil is convenient to live her dreams. She did and she stopped wandering, for a moment. When her petition to become an American Citizen came, she was ecstatic and in a heartbeat abjured and renounced being a Filipino Citizen! But reality set in and realized that the American Dream is elusive. She was doing menial employment and unhappy with her dire situation and derailed her ambitions.
Back in the Philippines, Wander Woman’s Hero Panday Dad’s took a stab at the presidency. She did not approve and lack the energy to support him She failed to campaign for him and that act of betrayal made her an ingrate. Panday was doubly heartbroken when he was cheated and his adopted daughter did not show any feigned enthusiasm to support him sunk him deeper to sadness. Panday was dead and heartbroken.
She went home to pay her respects and wept knowing she failed him. But Wander Woman is born lucky too. Opportunity knocked when Aquino offered her a job in MTCRB. She reluctantly accepted knowing that the Aquinos dumped her dad Panday in favor of InGloria. But she gave it a try anyway for what is there to lose? – she was having a dead-end job anyway back in the Land of Honey, why not try her luck in the Land she once renounced! So she wandered and wandered and passed the time at MTCRB. Then in 2013, she once again offered a great opportunity by Aquino to run for the Senate, and her luck turned favorable. She was also adopted by UNA and she liked the attention. Her instincts were correct and reinforced by her Political Science American education she used the two parties to her advantage. She wandered from LP and also wandered from UNA. She hit the jackpot and, voila! She was the number one Senator!
With her newfound popularity, she became more confident and she saw herself as a person of destiny and power. She was offered the VP slot by her benefactor Aquino, but an ingrate is always an ingrate for ambition mired her judgment. She learned how to dupe herself and convinced herself that she is the rightful messiah of this country. She decided to do the pilgrimage toward the Jerusalem located in Manila Bay.!
A wanderer she is. She wants to have it all! She wants the support of everybody, thus she wanders from one party to another. To disguise her wanderings, she claims that she is running as independent! But in reality she wanders from LP, to UNA, to NP, and to NPC.
She is really wanderful. A true American Super Heroine – Wander Woman!
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SuperMar
SuperMar is…
Hey CPM, why don’t you get hold of the KOMIKS and read about SuperMar, instead of me retelling his exploits!
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Parekoy
03-31-16
PS
On Wonder Woman in Superman vs Batman Movie, I don’t like her skinny frame and costume which shrunk into petite trainer bra. I like the original Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter. I spilt and aborted many potential Presidents of the Philippines on the tiles of our bathroom and on my blankets when I was in my puberty. I love Lynda Carter, the mother of my unborn spawns!
Mary says
Am not for Poe but your dig on her sexuality is way too much…can’t you post on issues, say..the coco levy fund distortion of truth and facts onstead of personal attacks?
M C says
Speaking of coco levy funds, we should all pressed Frank who crafted the sale documents of San Miguel Corp when he was with ACCRA to supposed buyer, Dan Dean to reveal who the real beneficial owner of those shares held by Dan Dean. I do not think Dan Dean has the legal acumen at that time to have thought of the inter-locking corporate layers nor how the corporate structure should be to mask the sale.
If the urban legend that Marcos IS the real beneficial owner of SMC, it stands to reason that it is Mr. Marcos who is funding the candidacy of Ms. Grace. On the other hand, if Mr. Marcos owns SMC, those big ticket infra projects that SMC is pursuing is just one way of Mr. Marcos bringing in his funds back to the country. By the way, Petron just completed its refinery in Bataan and we should be able to have Euro 5 compliant fuel soon.
leona says
source: FB
– OSI has documentary evidence that in 1998 Grace Poe earned a salary of $1,666/month. A year later, she bought the million dollar house in Herndon.’
– Grace Poe’s story about her hard life in the US is false. In fact, for four years, from 1991 to 1995, Grace Poe was an American housewife. She finally took a job in 1995 and in 1999 she purchased a house worth the equivalent of her 50 years’ salary.’
– Hiding the truth is the same as lying
– Grace Poe claimed that she could perfectly explain herself about the million dollar mansion in Herndon, Virginia. But she didn’t.
What were her IRS Income Tax RETURNS in all the years she was in USA?
– . . . in 1995, that she started her first job in America.
– In May 1997, the U.S. Department of Education published the “1996-97 Montessori School Salary Survey”, carried out by NAMTA (North American Montessori Teachers’ Association). According to the survey, a newly trained primary (preschool) Montessori teacher’s salary was $17,900/year. A preschool teacher with 1-5 years of experience earned a salary of $20,000/year.
$20,000.00 a YEAR salary. A miLLion Dollar Home in Herndon.
– So, according to her own employer, Grace Poe was paid $1,491/month in 1995-1996 and $1,666/month in the next two years. [Minus withholding taxes?]
– You would think that it was Grace Poe’s husband who earned the money to pay for the Herndon mansion. But it wasn’t. Teodoro Llamanzares has a secret too.
So, where did her money come from? Someone/somebody sending her the money?
Who?
leona says
Link from FB
http://www.opensourceinvestigations.com/philippines/grace-poes-secret-buy-million-dollar-home-no-money/
kalakala says
@ leona,”where did her money come from? “WHO?” is GRACE SONORA (MARCOS?)POE LLAMANZARES to: D COjuangCO is the King of MARCOS CRONIES
the grandfather of her husband was one of the cronies of marcos too.
the adopted parents are closely knit with the marcoses.
anybody out there, correct me if i’m wrong: the ex husband of sheryl cruz is connected with USA government. fire brigade yata or military. before fpj run maganda ang relasyon ng mag-asawa (according to the showbiz write ups) bigla nalang nag divorce. sheryl doesn’t like to brag her mother sa issue ni grace poe. itong scandal or issue ay may connection sa pag divorce ng half-sister (?) ni grace dahil govenrment employee ang kanyang husband?
Kalahari says
IMHO, being the rumored daughter of the hated martial law dictator whose estimated loot amounted to $10 billion (Jakarta Post), it won’t be surprising if poe was given some sort of inheritance – “hating kapatid sabi ni BB” –
moonie says
yeah, she could have come into the bulk of her inheritance, age stipulated yata yan, not given to her when she was younger, baka iwaldas, at maluho ng drugs. though she might have been given basic living allowance for day to day expenses like food and clothing. and when she reached the age stipulated – bingo! she’s in.
Rene-Ipil says
Hating kapatid tulad Kay Annalisa Josefa Hegyesi.
M C says
Your figure is too low. According to Jovy, it is USD13B. But the assets are more that USD100B. So can you “loot” something of that amount where there is nothing of that magnitude in the country during those years? Just like in the Philippines where “reporters” and pseudo journalists are dime a dozen who have no inkling about economics or finance, those reports from newspapers don’t even mean anything. Surely, they can not even stand in any court of law.
raissa says
And we should be believe you because?
Mary says
She is a rich heiress of the Poe millions…her claim of going to the US for better opportunity like the orfinary OFWs is but pandering to them.
mooniese says
poe millions might have lessened. fjp spent big on his failed presidential bid for malakanyang. kinapos palad. I doubt if fpj was able to recoup the money.
M C says
In fairness to the guy, wala naman dapat recoup si FPJ. As a friend to Joseph, he did it because he was duped into thinking that it was the only way to get a pardon for a friend. He does not want to receive contributions because he does not want to owe anyone. Yun mga binigay na ibang pera ay napunta yata dun sa tatlong ASO. They even have to sell their building at Wilson Street.
I have a recent lead that somebody slipped something to the beer he was drinking causing him to go to the toilet and rest is history. The lady who did it is now in Singapore. But I still am pursuing more info on this.
leona says
. . . the hint(ay) is
WHO loves HOUSES/HOMES?
tsk tsk