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This video was shown at the Makati rally last Dec. 12 while the message of Col. Ariel Querubin was being read by his son, Martin.
There is now a Magdalo restaurant.
It’s on A. Luna st. in Pasay City. I’m not sure now if it’s 2175 A. Luna.
From Buendia (coming from Roxas Blvd.) , it’s the street right before PAGCOR. It’s on the right. From the corner of Buendia and A. Luna, the sign of Magdalo can be seen.
Magdalo Kitchen is owned by Jeane Monteverde.
Last Dec. 17, the office of Sen. Antonio Trillanes IV, held its Christmas party at the Magdalo Kitchen.
It was fun. Here are a few pictures:
Noong Martes, pang-apat na anibersaryo ng pagkamatay KC de Venecia, ang dalagitang anak nina dating House Speaker Jose at Gina de Venecia. Namatay si KC nang masunog ang kanilang bahay sa Dasmariñas Village noong Dec. 16, 2004.
May misa sa Santuario de San Antonio at may almusal sa bagong bahay ng mga De Venecia sa Forbes Park.
Pangalawang taon ito na nagkaroon ng pagtitipon sa bahay nina JDV sa pagala-ala sa pagkamatay ni KC. Natuwa naman ako makita na naka-recover na ang mag-asawa lalo na si Manay Gina. Nang unang dalawang taon kasi, hirap na hirap si Gina. Siyempre mahirap tanggapin ang ganoong pagkamatay ni KC.
GMA, Dureza play Santa in Xmas party for media; ref, TV raffled; gift certificates given
MINDANEWS
ALABEL, Sarangani (MindaNews/5 Dec) — President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is apparently trying to woo the provincial press, holding her first Christmas party ever with provincial reporters and their families from this province, as well as those in General Santos City and other neighboring areas.
She raffled off a refrigerator, colored television, video player, cellular phones and MP4 players during Thursday’s party at Isla Parilla, an upscale scenic resort of floating cottages owned by tuna tycoon Marfenio Y. Tan. Children were handed out paper handbags containing candies and toys.
Press Secretary Jesus Dureza distributed KCC Mall gift certificates worth P1,000 each to local media practitioners after the President left for the municipal gymnasium to distribute rice, sardines and noodles to the thousands of poor people waiting.
‘Yan nagkakandabuhol-buhol na ang utak ni kilay-less Golez.
by Sophia Dedace
GMANews.TV
MANILA, Philippines – Thailand’s ambassador to the Philippines on Wednesday said he was slighted over Deputy Presidential Spokesperson Anthony Golez and Senator Richard Gordon’s statements on the Thai people’s degree of “maturity.”
In a media briefing, Ambassador Kulkumut Singhara Na Ayudhaya expressed “great concern” that Golez and Gordon’s statements could imply that the political turmoil in Thailand reflects the Thai people’s “lack of maturity.”
“That statement is not based on fact at all and may have some indication of hidden agenda why they have to criticize us like that. In fact, the protest is only indication that Thai people are free to exercise their political right based on democracy,” he said.
See statement of Rep. Teofisto Guingona, Jr. on his vote in the fourth impeachment against Gloria Arroyo in comments.
Palace guards have sewn up tight all access to Malacañang. Nothing new. For all we care, they could build a wall around the Palace if they want to. It would be a physical monument to how isolated Gloria Arroyo has become from the people.
What made us laugh was the statement of Executive Secretary Eduardo Ermita that tighter security is part of standard operating procedures every time the President is out the country. Ermita’s statement simply isn’t true. On the contrary, Palace guards used to take a mini-vacation of their own when their boss was away. They even used to open Jose P. Laurel, the street that fronts the Palace, to motorists wanting to take a shortcut between Ayala and Nagtahan bridges.
Are they perhaps afraid that protesters would take a page from the playbook of Thai activists and occupy Malacañang while Arroyo is in Hong Kong to prick the world’s conscience about the lot of the downtrodden and the poor (that’s according to the press release of Malacañang) at the Clinton Global Initiative?
Destabilization talks are getting louder and louder as Gloria Arroyo and her henchmen make the final push for her staying in power beyond 2010.
Last Tuesday at the 58th anniversary of the Scout Rangers at Camp Tecson in Bulacan, Armed Forces Chief Alexander Yano, assured the public that the military won’t be involved in any destabilization plots.
It’s significant that Yano’s audience were the elite Scout Rangers, whom its much-respected commander, Brig. Gen. Danilo Lim and 19 other officers, were implicated in the alleged plan to withdraw support from Gloria Arroyo following in February 2006 following the surfacing of the “Hello Garci “ tapes that validated Arroyo’s primary role the tampering of election results in her favor.
We are a nation divided. Peace, unity and development continue to elude us because we have a president bereft of moral or legal authority to lead. She had, in fact, become the greatest continuing threat to the security, cooperative spirit, well being and sense of Nationhood of the Filipino people.
A true leader is a symbol of unity and a rallying figure especially in difficult times. A bogus leader is divisive and stays in power to the detriment of the common good and the National interest.
Marlyn Divinagacia, 32,wife of Capt Ervin Divinagracia, one of the 28 officers detained in connection with the February 2006 non-event,was laid to rest yesterday. (Click here for brief background info).
At the necrological rites for her at St. Ignatius church in Camp Aguinaldo, Aloy Lim read the following message of her husband, Brig. Danny Lim, (also in detention) formerly the commander of the First Scout Ranger Regiment where Ervin belonged:
When I first heard the final diagnosis that Marlyn’s condition was acute myelogenous leukemia and that she was slowly slipping into coma, I asked God to remove the working tools from those weary hands so her whole being may find final rest, and not long after, when I got word that her mortal remains are all we have, I asked God, why the tragedy?