FUNNY is the joke that the re-appearance of Virgilio Garcillano was purposely timed for Southeast Asian Games so he could rig the scores for the Philippines so that Gloria Arroyo would have something to brag about again.
What is not funny is the insinuation by Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra that there is some rigging of the games to favor the Philippines, the host country.
These are some of the quotes by Thaksin as reported by The Nation, a Thai newspaper: “Why do results turn out that way? I don’t know what to say… I have been following the SEA Games closely and believe that the SEA Games should exist to help athletes, lift their standard. It should not be about winning gold medals”
“If the SEA games continue to be like his, then it will become less popular because they have put a priority for medals over athletic spirit.”
“It’s normal to win or lose. But it’s not nice if we host such Games and do this to other countries. In sports, I believe we have to develop athletic skills and good sportsmanship. We should not focus only on medals and forget about being good sports.”
Thaksin suggested that the issue might be included in the Asean Leaders meeting which will be held on Dec. 12 in Kuala Lumpur. “We may have to have an unofficial summit among leaders to discuss how to uplift the spirit and standard of the Games, otherwise the SEA Games will no longer be of interest for the region.”
As expected Philippine officials involved in the SEA Games all denied that there is something irregular in the winning of Philippine athletes. Gloria Arroyo ordered “a thorough and impartial investigation” and for the submission of an “impartial report within 24 hours.”
Why even specify that the report should be “impartial”? Doesn’t it go without saying that a truthful report is impartial?
The Thai premier’s insinuations may be baseless, but the fact that the country has a president who is a cheat makes it easy for everybody to believe that there is cheating in a contest being supervised by the Arroyo administration.
Thaksin’s comments show the depths that Gloria Arroyo has brought the country down with her lying and cheating. Arroyo and her people know it. A marginal note in the Political Security Situationer presented to the Cabinet last October said “Indifference of international community to GMA leadership (Japan, China, Germany, EU and Muslim countries.” That’s in addition to “poor acceptability of GMA in Bush administration.”
They will now have to add Asean countries. A few months back, a Malaysian parliamentarian compared their trade minister, Rafidah Aziz, who was involved in an irregularity, to Gloria Arroyo. And now, Thailand.
Foreign leaders don’t respect Arroyo. This was most evident in the recent APEC leaders meeting in Busan, South Korea. Not one of the 20 leaders agreed to have a one-on-one meeting with her. The Department of Foreign Affairs tried to arrange one-on-one meetings for her with a few leaders, notably US President Bush. They were all too busy for her.
In diplomacy, a one-on-one meeting is where two leaders sit down together with some members of their staff to discuss issues common to both countries. A variation to that is called “pull aside” meetings. The two leaders agree that during a break in the summit, they go to one side of the room and, together with their respective staff, talk. There were also no takers for even a pull aside meeting with her.
As a good host, South President Roh Moo-hyun of Korea, was agreeable to a meeting with her but since he will be coming to Manila on Dec. 14, it was decided that their bilateral meeting would be held in Manila.
Yet, back in Manila, Press Secretary Ignacio Bunye claimed that Bush and Arroyo had a one-on-one meeting. A Malacañang release said, “She held one-on-one meetings with US President George W. Bush, South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, Malaysia’s Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and other APEC leaders on the side of the summit meeting and discussed issues of mutual interest to their respective countries.”
In his column, Bunye said,” At the sidelines of the APEC summit, President Gloria met with US President George W. Bush.” He mentioned other APEC leaders.
Bunye continued: “President Bush expressed concern about the situation in Myanmar and President Gloria agreed to support efforts in the United Nations, particularly in the United Nations Security Council, where the Philippines is currently a non-permanent member, to help spur democratic reforms in Myanmar.” He mentioned other topics like avian flu and terrorism.
DFA officials said Bush discussed those things with Asean leaders during the ASEAN-US meeting, also in Busan. To say that Bush told those things in a one-on-one meeting with Arroyo is like a reporter who reported statements made during a press conference as an exclusive interview. It’s misrepresentation. It’s dishonest.
E-mail from Joey Dimaandal:
Today’s stories about Thai PM Thaksin Shinawatra’s remarks on alleged biased officiating in the SEA gamesabsolutely spoiled my day. This is the consequence of having a president who is a big-time cheater. Now we are being branded as a nation of cheats. Let us kick Gloria out of office now! She is dragging us all down to hell.
However, what makes me really angry is the fact that the accuser himself, Thaksin Shinawatra, is a loathsome, human rights violator in his own country. He is hated by Muslim Thais because of his murderous repression of legitimate dissent in the southern part of that country. His family, who owns the mammoth Shin Corp, is persecuting freedom of speech activist and journalist Supinya Klangnarong. Clearly, Thaksin has no business lecturing us about fair play!
I think we should boycott the Asian Indoor Games in Thailand next month. To our athletes, we throw our full support to all of you, with or without medals. And thank you for making Filipinos proud.
Sincerely yours,
Joey Dimaandal
Tandang Sora, Quezon City
If GMA really had a one-on-one with Bush, where are the pictures? Bunye is, should and will not be believed. His biggest problem is that he tries to put a spin to events even when there is nothing to spin, except lies. Even if Ate Glo and Dubya just bumped into each other in the corridor, Bunye would still have tried to sell it as a one-on-one. Well he should tell his story to the marines.
On the subject of clever or misleading wordsmithing, I remember seeing a tabloid headline during the Reagan presidency that proclaimed “Reagan Sleeps With Thatcher.” What followed was a photo of President Ronald Reagan seated on one side of a conference table next to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Reagan’s eyes were closed, apparently from being tired or sleepy. I chuckled. The headline was clever, but not maliciously misleading. Yung example above na ibinigay mo from a Malacanang release, yan ay deliberate na misleading, IMHO.
My 15 yr old daughter was peering behind my shoulders while I was reading the news on the net. The headline was about the alleged cheating in the SEA games. Her reaction was “What? They cheat in sports too?”
I don’t know if the sportspeople cheated, I don’t know if there is any truth at all about the allegations but what I do know is that Gloria has made it easy for people all over the world to believe that the Philippines is a nation of cheats.
Appaling, really, terribly, incredibly bad image.
The thing is that Thailand is one of the biggest cheaters in sports, particularly boxing. A Pilipino amateur boxer has to knockout his opponents to win in Bangkok.
They know how to do influence foreign boxing judges and has been habitually doing it in competitions that they host. Now that they are losing in the Philippines they are not attributing it to the questionable abilities of their athletes but to our allegedly influencing the judges to favor our athletes, “kasi gawain nila, kaya suspitsoso si Thaksim.” “Ang nang-iisa ay ayaw maiisahan.”
But in fairness, Thaksim is not attacking the Philippines particulary but the whole SEA Games where the host somehow come on top of the heap, almost always. If these games is being held in Thailand, they will be on top, Thaksim and his Olympic Committee will see to that.
I think Bush didnt say anything like what Bunye said.
Ellen, A very interesting article on the role of the FG in the SEA Games HAS DISAPPEARED from the Inquirer Website OVERNIGHT from yesterday. But I found it on Google Cache and have republished it…checkout Philippine Commentary
I am as proud as the next guy when Filipinos are winning medals in the SEA Games. I am hoping that whatever compaints other countries may have would be resolved honourably and to the satisfaction of all parties.
I must draw attention, though, to the practice of drawing political dividends from the SEA Games. Just when one columnist (in another paper) is giving credit to certain characters, The Nation (a Thai daily) headlined PM Thaksin’s very carefully-crafted comments regarding the outcome of the games.
Too quick in trying to get attributions, they get the well-deserved and embarrassing retribution!
Dean, it’s a good thing you were able to retrieve the article on FG’s magnanimity to the athletes as revealed by Eric Buhain.
Unlike Midas that turns into gold everything that he touches, Mike Arroyo turns gold into mud. Bumabaho.
A DFA officer who was in Busan was trying to justify the use of the word one-on-one saying there were occassions that GMA and Bush really talked. His words: “There was one time, he pulled her aside and he bent to kiss her. He nearly toppled.” That’s his idea of one-on-one which Trade secretary Peter Favila described as “fruitful and meaningful.”
Or they could have also had their one-on-one moment during the break when they were on their way to the rest room.
Ellen, Alam kaya ni veronica…?
Veronica who?
I think the author of the article was a veronica uy. Also, just now, the article has reappeared on the INQ7 website, but it has changed! i guess like weblogs, they also update their stories (of course), strange thing is it has the same time stamp as the original article and Google cache also has the new version. i guess i will chalk it up to “editorial prerogative” which we as bloggers also exercise. I
won’t read anything sinister in it. Just recalling what happened to PCIJ and that TRO
that disappearing article is much ado over nothing, rizalist. i wouldn’t get too excited over it. 😉
delete pls.
Ellen,
Our DFA colleague who tried to redefine “one-on-one” was engaging in sophistry. A one-on-one is actually a bilateral meeting with the close aides and note-takers of the top honchos present. It is arranged well in advance and an agenda is previously set. From what I gather, this did not happen between GMA and Bush at the APEC meeting in Busan.
Our dear colleague was just doing his job though by giving his own definition. To him or her, I say “nice try.”
E-mail from Stravinsky:
It’s not just the Thais and Malaysians who have complained. The Vietnamese earlier have done so (you have to correct your editorial
writer) and the Indonesians also have complained. That makes four.
Enforcer,you are right. They were able to sell that to some reporters who didn’t know any better.
It all boils down to dishonesty.
Oh migosh! This is just unbelievable.
Philippine credibility is down to ZERO. Our poor athletes who must have worked hard to get to where they are have just been stripped of their gold, morally speaking.
Ellen is absolutely right! Gloria’s stigma is Filipino stigma.
I have always been ashamed that we have such a pretender and usurper in Malacanang, who goes to international meetings to represent us. I am ashamed of the fact that when she shakes hand with world leaders, they all look down at her with her pygmy size and all. It would have been better perhaps if she has great statesmanship and moral character that can cancel out the shortness of her physical stature. But as it is that woman GMA has really nothing to show for herself. Not any height of mind or body. Nor even honesty.
Before, I used to be proud of being a Filipina and earned the respect of my international friends. Now, I am terribly ashamed to get questions like, “how could the Filipinos have chosen someone like that woman for president?” My reply of course was and will always be, “We did not choose her; she just climbed into Malacanang and refused to get out. She is not our president and will never be.” She just enjoys parading herself before an international crowd who in turn enjoy looking down at her. For this I am utterly ashamed. She should never represent a people who have not chosen her and who desperately want her out of the position she usurped.
Ito ang masakit. Ina-ani natin ang kapalaluan ni GMA. Kaya simula na ito na tuwing magkakaroon ng kompetisyon sa ano mang larangan at Pinoy ang magwagi malamang ay pagdududahan ito. Ohhh Gloria, ang lakas ng iyong kamandag.
Referring to another high public official, it was Bill Bennett, I believe, who said that such person was not just “corrupt” but also “corrupting.” Sa opinion ko ay uGMAng-uGMA kay GMA.
To be LOVED is to be FORTUNATE, but to be HATED is to achieve DISTINCTION..
Ellen, I got a nice email and visit from JV of INQ7.net on the “disappearing” article on FG. I posted it last night, and yeah karl, there wasn’t anything to get too excited about. Nice probe of how newspapers edit their stories and the daily publishing cycle. Basic lesson is: Google never forgets and no one publishing on the web can hide anything, (not that INQ7 was, just my overly skeptical antennae)
Talk about stigma – GLORIAHAN will be tops on Arroyo legacy. This latest imbroglio on sports cheating casts a not so pretty picture of the pinoy on the international scene. It is very much indicative of the cheating cancer that started from the top. The only other activity I know that starts from the top is digging holes.
Alitaptap
I Agree Alitaptap… and there seems to be no cure for cancer. There will be a lot of holes to dig it seems.
That’s a good allegory, Alitaptap,an activity that starts from the top–digging holes.
Here’s the latest garci-gma-sea games joke:
RP:What is your proof that we cheated at SEA games?
Thailand: We have a CD copy of your president taking with sports officials saying “Hello GarSEA”.
hahahah! that’s a good one.
re: penoybalut Says:
December 3rd, 2005 at 6:19 am
To be LOVED is to be FORTUNATE, but to be HATED is to achieve DISTINCTION..
Yeah, yeah, yeah! Hitler achieved DISTINCTION.
Thai-nang THAILAND ‘yan!!!! Thai PM ThaksiT Shinawatra…ur full of s-h-i-t…just like GMA…… a-s-s-h-o-l-e….
We are the Champions!!!! Take that Thai’fuckin’Land!!! In your face losers!!!!
GOLD SILVER BRONZE
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TEAM PHILIPPINES – 2005 23rd South East Asian Games Champion
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That’s why for our Filipino athletes triplehin nyo na ang pageensayo at tiyak ngaun pa lang pinaghahandaan na tayo ng Thailand! Remember sila ang next host of SEA Games 🙂
Much as I wanted to see the Philippine flag being risen and the Philippine anthem being played at international sports competition, I never bothered counting Philippine medals in the recent SEA Games. Why? It’s just so suspicious considering the poor performances of Filipinos in other games, even the bigger Asian Games participated by biggies like China, Australia and Japan, especially outside of the Philippines, and with no world record set, the SEA Games looks more like a competition of losers! And with the GMA stigma, I can’t blame the Thai PM to make sure his country’s athletes are treated fairly especially with the possibility of another “Hello GarSEA”! (I just loved that text joke!)
I’ll start counting Philippine medals in the Asian Games, Beijing Olympics and other international sports competition outside of the Gloria-Garci territory.
Yuko has a very good point. There’s nothing to be excited about in the SEA Games because the standards are much lower than the Asian and Olympic Games.
The SEA Games are a consolation round for countries that in general have not made the grade in the Asiad and Olympiad.
Yuko and Enforcer
YUKOSAYO and Enforcer d’LOSER
YUKOSAYO and Enforcer d’LOSER – IMHO, KAYONG DALAWA ANG LARAWAN NG MGA NOYPI NA SALA SA INIT, SALA SA LAMIG, MAGSAMA KAYONG DALAWA SA BUWAN…. BINIGYAN N KAYO NG MEDALYANG GINTO NG MGA KABABAYAN NATIN, KAHIT REIGONAL LANG YUN AT WALANG JAPAN, CHINA, KOREA, ABAY MATUWA NAMAN KAYO!!! DAHIL KUNG DITO N NGA LANG SA SEA GAMES AT DINAIG P TAYO NG THAILAND S SARILI NATING BAYAN, KAHIYA HIYA N TALAGA TAYO!!!!!HINDI NYO P RIN YATA MA-APPRECIATE YUNG HIRAP AT PAGOD NA INALAY NUNG MGA KABABAYAN NATIN PARA SA BANSANG DAIG P PINAGSAKLUBAN NG LANGIT AT LUPA DAHIL SA GMA NA YON…..113 GOLDS!!! KULANG KULANG P SA PONDO YON!!!! DI KO ALAM KUNG MATAAS LANG TALAGA IHI NYONG DALAWA O MANHID KAYO AT DI P KAYO MATUWA DAHIL KAHIT PAPANO NAG-CHAMPION N RIN TAYO SA WAKAS SA SEA GAMES!!!!! ANONG SPORT B KAYA NYONG LARUIN??? BAKA LIGA NG BARANGAY LANG DI NYO P NATIKMAN, MAHIRAP RIN UNG KALABAN ANG IBANG TAO N GALING P SA IBANG BANSA KAYA WAG NYONG MALIITIN YUNG SEA GAMES!!! DAHIL KAHIT PAPANO HINDI NAGPUNTA D2 UNG MGA YON AT HINDI GINASTUSAN NG GOBYERNO NILA PARA MATALO!!!! KAYA DAPAT BILANGIN NYO UNG GINTO N NAPANALUNAN NATIN DAHIL SA PAHIRAPAN NG LABANAN LAHAT GALING YON!!! (KUNG MAY DAYAAN, WAG KAYONG MAGTANONG SA AKIN, ASK GMA AND GARCI) PILIPINO B TALAGA KAYO????? NOTHING TO BE EXCITED…YUKO HAS A VERY GOOD POINT….PWE!!!!!! UNG COMMENTS NYO ANG NAKAKAPAGPAKULO NG DUGO KO NGAYON, AT NAKAKA EXCITE BANATAN, KUNG NASA PINAS KAYO NGAYON, MAHIYA KAYO SA BALAT NYO AT KUNG WALA KAYO JAN SA PINAS NGAYON, MABUTI NAMAN, DAHIL HINDI RIN NAMAN PALA KAYO MAASAHAN NG MGA KABABAYAN NATIN AT ALA NAMAN PALA SILANG MAPAPALANG SUPORTA GALING SA INYO…..
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PARANG SILA HINDI MARUNONG MANDAYA…E PAG NASA THAILAND UNG LABAN, EX: BOXING, KAILANGAN MAPATULOG NG KABABAYAN NATING PINOY UNG THAILANDER PARA MANALO AH, KUNG HINDI MAPAPATULOG, MALAMANG TAYO MAYAYARI SA SCORE .I BELIEVE WE WON FAIR AND SQUARE AND THESE ATHLETES DESERVE ALL THE CREDITS THEY CAN GET OR THEY SHOULD GET FROM THE PHIL. GOVT….MABUHAY KAYO!!!! THANKS GUYS!!! JOB WELL DONE!!! TO ALL OF THE STAFF AND COACHES OF OUR RP TEAM, GOOD WORK MGA KABABAYAN!!KEEP IT UP!!!! PRACTICE ULIT KAYONG MABUTI AND TAKE YOUR GAME TO THE NEXT LEVEL, PARA IPAMUKHA NYO SA DALAWANG SA TAAS N KAYA RIN NATING MAKIPAGSABAYAN SA MALALAKAS N BANSA NA YON…
Dennis,
Kung ikaw ay tuwang-tuwa sa consolation round ng mga talunan, ng mga walang binatbat sa Asian at Olympic Games, huwag mo kaming pilitin isama sa pagkakamali mo.
Ikaw ang LOSER dahil ang baba ng lipad mo!
Walang sinabi ang Southeast Asian Games mo pero kung akala mo na saksakan na tayong magaling bahala ka sa sarili mo. Pagdating ng susunod na Asian Games makikita mo ulit kung gaano ka baba ng lipad mo at ng mga athletes na pinagmamalaki mo.
Enforcer d’LOSER – DI KO ALAM KUNG MATAAS LANG TALAGA IHI NYONG DALAWA O MANHID KAYO AT DI P KAYO MATUWA DAHIL KAHIT PAPANO NAG-CHAMPION N RIN TAYO SA WAKAS SA SEA GAMES!!!!! ANONG SPORT B KAYA NYONG LARUIN??? BAKA LIGA NG BARANGAY LANG DI NYO P NATIKMAN????
PARA SA AKIN, ONE GAME AT A TIME LANG….THIS COUNTRY, OUR PEOPLE NEEDS SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF AT THIS TIME OF CRISIS EVERYWHERE!!! POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, ETC….UNG SINASABI MONG OLYMPICS, KELAN P UN??? SA 2008 P B????? TAGAL P NUN!!!! ANG IMPORTANTE UNG NGAYON N KAHIR PAPANO MAKABASA AT MAKAPANOOD NAMAN TAYO NG PINOY N NANALO NA WALANG DAYAAN!!!! UNG KAHIT PAPANO MABAWASAN UNG PURO N LANG PAGKATALO NAKIKITA NG MGA PINOY!!!! KE SEA GAMES O ASIAN GAMES YON, I KNOW THEYRE TOTALLY DIFFERENT COMPETITION, DE LALO NA TALAGA PAG OLYMPICS, PERO ITS JUST MAKE ME HAPPY TO SEE US ON TOP OF THE SEA GAMES MEDAL COLUMN, FINALLY!!!!! PASENSYA N MABABA LANG TALAGA LIPAD KO, SANAY KASE AKONG SA MABABA MAGSIMULA, GOING UP…..SIGURO DI MO NATIKMAN MANGGALING SA IBABA KAYA GANYAN ANG PANANAW MO SA SPORTS O SA BUHAY KAYA DI MO NAAPPRECIATE UNG HIRAP AT PAGOD NG PAKIKIPAGLABAN…I THINK ITS A BIG STEP TOWARDS THE ULTIMATE GOAL, TO WIN IN ASIAN AND OLYMPICS..IT TAKES A LOT FROM OUR ATHLETES AND GOVT TO ACHIEVE THOSE…BUT WE’LL GET THERE..WHEN? SOON!!!..KEEP THE FAITH…PEACE BROTHER!!!!!!
While we may hate Gloria, her phone pal Garci and Mike Piggy Pidal Arroyo and all the guys who connive to keep Gloria, the cheat, the liar, the thief in power, I still believe that the Philippine athletes who went through the rigours of competing must not be slighted.
They exerted efforts, sweated blood and tears to compete with other athletes who exerted similar efforts, similar tears.
Those efforts should to be commended.
Our athletes may be considered substandard in comparisson to the athletes of nations who give them better food, pay, housing but these Philippine athletes did their best. I don’t think any of us here could have fared better.
I agree that Gloria’s stigma as a cheat rubbed on our athletes but that isn’t their fault. It is my belief that these athletes and what they have achieved don’t deserve to be denigrated.
If we cannot give them the accolade that they deserve, or the encouragement that they need, the least we can do is to keep quiet. It is only fair to do so.
Gloria’s fault is hers alone and not that of our athletes’.
During the SEAGames, we saw how our athletes worked so hard,they drove themselves to the limit for a few seconds of glory. It wasn’t the incentive of money that they were going to get, but the honor they can give to the country and that it is i believe is the true essence and idea of sports. These athletes were able to lift the sagging morale of the Filipinos, kahit ilang araw lang nagkaisa tayong mga Pilipino bilang isang bansa. Sana magpatuloy ang kanilang tagumpay at mawala na ang “crab mentality” ng karamihan sa mga Pilipino na siyang pumapatay at sumisira sa maraming buhay…
Nobody is denigrating the achievements of our athletes. What we are simply pointing out is that their accomplishments during the SEA Games should be taken in their proper context: those games are simply not up to the standards of the Asiad or the Olympiad.
We realize the need for good news to feed the feel good factor. But we think this should be balanced off by some realism and humility.
The idea is for us to aim higher.
The idea is for us to aim higher. – enforcer d’loser
do u hav any other good or better ideas u can share to all of us other than saying “There’s nothing to be excited about in the SEA Games because the standards are much lower than the Asian and Olympic Games.” – enforcer d’loser
wala p sayo yun??? uulitin ko….baka liga lang ng barangay di mo p natikman kaya kala mo kung sino kang magsalita ng aim higher…u cant just aim higher kung sa sea games lang nga di p tayo manalo nalo…kya pala natin magchampion sa sea games after all those years, now we can start believing more in our athletes, but if u will say theres nothing be excited about sea games to an athlete /to a player in any sports after winning in a competition, baka masapak k lang non….(i will, if i were one of those gold medal winner or even bronze, siguro masasapak kita para lang magising k sa bangungot mo at sa kayabangan mo n di k p matuwa kahit konti dahil kahit papano nagchampion na tayo sa SEA GAMES….for me its a good sign and its something to be proud of!!!!
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Dennis,
Ikaw ang dapat masapak dahil bastos ka at hindi ka marunong mangatuwiran.
Isa pa, hindi mo maintindihan na dapat umasinta tayo dapat ng masmataas.
Kung hindi mo pa ma-gets, ang gustong kong sabihin – siguro dapat i-drawing ko ito – na ang mga kailangan natin at dapat natin ipagmalaki ang mga tulad ni Anthony Villanueva na nanalo ng silver sa Tokyo Olympics noong 1964, o ang mga pre-war sporting heroes natin tulad nila Miguel White, Yldefonso, Toribio o ang basketball team natin na nag-fourth place sa Berlin Olympics. O ang ating mga Muslim na swimmer at basketball team na nanalo ng gold sa mga Asian Games after the war.
Ang mahal na mahal mong SEA Games ang laruang barangay na pinagsasabi mo.
Hindi kita makausap ng matino kaya maghahanap na lang ako ng ibang makausap.
Uy, walang sapakan, ha.
Anthony Villanueva na nanalo ng silver sa Tokyo Olympics noong 1964, o ang mga pre-war sporting heroes natin tulad nila Miguel White, Yldefonso, Toribio o ang basketball team natin na nag-fourth place sa Berlin Olympics. O ang ating mga Muslim na swimmer at basketball team na nanalo ng gold sa mga Asian Games after the war.
aherm….sila talaga ang mga tunay n BAYANI kagaya ni Rizal, Aguinaldo, etc…pero no offense dun sa mga nabanggit mo kapatid…panahon p ni kopong kopong mga yun, ibang generation sila, iba ung ngayon, ung present, at ang sa akin naman e those athletes’s achievement on sea games (our athletes) is something to be excited about as well…you cant just compare then and now…..una, i guess noon hindi ganito kagarapal ang mga pulitiko sa atin kaya ung pondo para sa sports na-nanakaw….and secondly, i still believe our athletes then were more disciplined and more focused to WIN!!!!!! japan, korea and china’s economy has been moving up!!! up!!! up!!! and away!!! e ang pinas??? down!!! down!!! down!!! pababa ng pababa sabi nga sexbomb girls …kidding aside, i just dont understand people like you and your point na theres nothing to be excited…our athletes need support from the govt!!! and from us!!! i know i cant give any financial support, pero they can have my prayers and support and my faith in our pinoy athletes that we’ll get on “that” level….i guess your standard is just way too high for people like me who appreciates the effort from an athlete winning in any kind of sport or in any competition….sabi ko nga b4, in times like this, malaking bagay sa mga pinoy ngayon ung kahit papano makatikim naman ng panalo na walang dayaan and makapanood naman ng iba aside from garci and gma…
Cheer up Bro. Enfo!!!! 🙂
Hi Mam Ellen!!! i’ll behave na po….
“I AM SORRY”
– GMA
Ang pilyo mo talaga, Dennis Rodman.
Paging Atong Kuliglig, paki pacify nga po ang ating mga brotherhood bka nga magkapasapakan na ng tuluyan,hectic na schedule ni Ellen para mag referee pa sa kanila 🙂
Hey folks, useless fighting each other. Reserve your ammos for D Day!
Everyone should concentrate on getting rid of Gloria and her husband. While they are usurping Malacanang, the country will have no first class athletes to speak of.
What I suggest is to force Mike (P)iggy Arroyo to run around the Rizal statdium for a few hours till his tongue hangs. Then make his glorious election cheat and thief of a wife to swim the full length of the sea separating the Babuyan islands and Luzon.
That will teach them.
somehow, someone has to tell her that something’s wrong.