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‘Kung nahuli mo ang karelasyon mo na nagtataksil sayo, saang SM branch mo sya babarilin, and why?’

Published by Ellen on September 24, 2011

Nilagay ni Joey Reyes, direktor ng pelikula, sa kanyang Facebook wall ang natanggap niyang text tungkol sa magkasunod na barilan sa magkaibang branch ng SM at patok na patok. Ang daming nag-repost.

Ito ang nasa FB status ni Direk Joey:”Miss Universe question: Kung nahuli mo ang karelasyon mo na nagtataksil sayo, Saang SM Branch mo sya babarilin? and why?

Sumakit ang tiyan ko sa kakatawa. Pamatay talaga ang sense of humor ng Pinoy.

Hindi ko tinitingnan itong mga nakakatawang kumento na pinagtatawanan natin ang trahedya ng mga nawalan ng mahal sa buhay. Nakaka-shock ang nangyari at nakikiramay ako sa mga namatayan.

Presence of mind

Published by Ellen on September 22, 2011

Hold-up — Thanks to mylot.com for photo.

My sharing of my experience as a victim of snatching last month elicited amusing ways to deal with the petty crime which is alarming in the boldness of the criminals. They choose no time and it seems they are everywhere.

My earrings were snatched by a woman, in her thirties, who held my ears hard simultaneously from behind, while I was flagging down a bus on Taft Avenue last Aug. 19, at about 3 p.m.

I was so shocked by the incident. I had been a victim more than once of a pickpocket and it was always emotionally unpleasant, aside from the financial loss. But the experience of being touched by a criminal was more traumatic.

I was thankful though that I was not hurt. Anti-crime crusader Teresita Ang-See said a staff member of the Kaisa, an organization of Filipino-Chinese, was also a victim of earrings snatching, also along Taft Avenue, in front of the Philippine General Hospital where Kaisa members do weekly assistance to charity patients.

An afternoon of Laughter Yoga

Published by Ellen on September 18, 2011

Laughing with RRR — This was not the Laughter Yoga session. But we were laughing and having a good time.

I came across two articles on the benefits of laughter last week.

One was through e-mail about a study conducted by the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine which was presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress in Paris last August 28.

The article written by Rick Nauert PhD, senior news editor of psychcentral.com, it said volunteers watched segments of a funny movie, such as “There’s Something About Mary” on one day and on another day watched the violent opening segment of the stressful movie “Saving Private Ryan.”

The study revealed that when volunteers watched “Saving Private Ryan,”, their blood vessel lining developed a potentially unhealthy response called vasoconstriction, reducing blood flow. “This finding confirms previous studies, which suggested there was a link between mental stress and the narrowing of blood vessels,” the article said.

Minsan lumalabas ang katotohanan sa bibig ng sinungaling

Published by Ellen on September 18, 2011

Hindi natuwa si Senate President Juan Ponce-Enrile at Sen, Jinggoy Estrada sa pasirko-sirko ni Judge Nagamura Moner ng Shariah Court tungkol sa kanyang papel sa dayaan noong 2004 eleksyun.

Noong 2005 kasi, na-interview ng Probe TV ni Cheche Lazaro si Moner at marami siyang kuwento tungkol sa ginawa niyang pandaraya sa 2004 na eleksyun sa utos ni Mike Arroyo, asawa ni Gloria Arroyo. May mga papeles pa siyang pinakita at ang isa nga doon ay sulat ng pagpapasalamat galing sa chief –of-staff ni Mike na si Juris Soliman.

Nang mag-imbistigasyun na sa Senado, aba, ay sinabi ni Moner na nagsinungaling daw siya sa Probe. Bola lang daw ang sinabi niya sa media. Wala naman daw talagang dayaan.

Tatlong salita lang –solb na!

Published by Ellen on September 17, 2011

Dennis Garcia writes for Abante every Friday. Enjoy ako sa kanyang column tungkol kay Manny Pacquiao. Minsan nanggigigil ako sa pangulo natin. Pagka’t, tapos ng…

Former Abra municipal officer takes on the powerful Luna family

Published by Ellen on September 17, 2011

One brave soul has mustered the courage to bring the powerful Luna family to court.

Bernadine S. Joson, concurrent secretary to the Sangguniang Bayan of Lagayan, Abra

and until recently municipal planning and development coordinator, filed before the Ombudsman charges of plunder, graft and corruption, technical malversation, unethical conduct, and violation of the government procurement reform act against former mayor and congresswoman Cecilia Seares-Luna and her eldest son Jendricks, who is president of the Lagayan Association of Barangay Captains.

Also charged were Mayor Purificacion Blaza Paingan, aunt of Cecilia; Vice Mayor Lara Haya Seares Luna; Marissa G. Donato, relative of the Lunas who is the municipal treasurer; Meno C. Dickenson,municipal accountant and Osborne P. Dolaoen, municipal engineer.

In the complaint, filed with counsels Harry Roque and Romel Bagares of Center Law Philippines, Joson said: “The plunder committed by mother and son take together from the years 2003 to 2010 amounts to total of at least Php133,907,142.”

Azkals play to kick breast cancer

Published by Ellen on September 13, 2011

All the more that I love the Azkals.

Not only have they brought honor to the country and revitalized football in the Philippines without depending so much on the government, we are about to experience their concern for others.

On the third week of this month, there will be a 3-team friendly soccer tournament at the Rizal Memorial Stadium featuring the Azkals, Kaya Futbol Club, and Global Futbol Club for the benefit of IcanServe Foundation, a non-stock, non-profit organization composed mostly of breast cancer survivors who are into information crusade about breast cancer and the benefits of early detection.

On Sept. 19 (Monday), it’s the Azkals vs KayaFC ; Sept. 21(Wednesday), Azkals vs GlobalFC , and on Sept. 24 (Saturday) KayaFC vs GlobalFC. The two-hour games will start at 3:00 pm.

Lagayan, Abra: ‘Big-time corruption in a small town’

Published by Ellen on September 12, 2011

By Luz Rimban,VERA Files Two prominent members of a powerful political family in Abra are facing plunder charges for allegedly embezzling more than P130 million…

Variation of Wikileaks info re SC corruption

Published by Ellen on September 11, 2011

Letter of Court Administrator Midas Marquez to Malaya re Wikileaks report on SC justices and Mariano Nocom.

I’ve been trying to call Edu Manzano, former chairman of the Optical Media Board, who was the source of former US Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Paul Jones in his report about Supreme Court justices giving protection to businessman Mariano Nocom, in whose malls many pirated goods are sold.

This was in his Sept. 2006 cable which was one of those recently released by Wikileaks website.

I didn’t get a response to my text messages to Edu. I was told he is out of the country. Maybe he does not want to be disturbed.

The reason why I was calling Edu was because a friend in the Supreme Court told me that true, Nocom has protectors in the High Court, but as far as he knows it is not former Chief Justice Artemio Panganiban.

Sana hindi maging Bonayog si Fiala

Published by Ellen on September 11, 2011

Mabuti naman at sinabi ni Metropolitan Manila Development Authority Chairman Francis Tolentino na magsasampa sila ng kaso laban kay Edward John Gonzales, ang 30-taong gulang na nambaril sa MMDA traffic enforcer na si Larry Fiala, na ngayon ay nasa-ospital pa rin.

Dapat talagang panagutin si Gonzales sa kayang ginawa. Dapat maparusahan ang mga taong kapag nakakotse ay akala mo hari sila.

Sana hindi matulad itong kaso sa nangyari sa security guard na si Ricardo Bonayog na takot ipagpatuloy ang pagsampa ng kaso sa abusadong kongresista ng Lanao del Sur na si Rep. Mohammed Hussein Pangandaman.

Kung sabagay, iba ang sitwasyun ni Bonayog dahil opisyal ng pamahalaan ang kanyang nakabangga at hindi sigurado kung susuportahan siya ng kanyang kumpanya.

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