Now What, Cat ?

Salamat aa

2005-06-10T12:10:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Salamat aa sa e-mail. Makakaasa kang ikaw ang unang hahagisan ko ng sipi pag ako ay tuluyan mo nang maitulak sa bangin ng pangarap ng lahat ng may hawak ng lapis. Mula sa isang magaling na manunulat, ako ay naaba (may kasamang tulo ng luha dahil sinisipon) saiyong mga sinabi. Kulit mo. hahaha

The Ca t

Naging Promdi rin ba kayo?

2005-06-09T10:43:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Sa aking pong sinulat sa blogkadahan, Salamat sa Diyos, Ako’y pinoy, (kung hindi pa kayo nakapunta, tanggapin ninyo ang aking matalim na irap, hehehe), may remarks po tungkol sa dyipni.

Akala ko biro lang hanggang mabasa ko ang Blog ni bugsybee ang A Promdi in Manila.

Ito yong comments ni retz.

Pasahero: mama` bayad o (abot ng pipti peysos)

Tsuper: san galing toh?

Pasahero: sa bulsa ko!

Tsuper: nde ang kako, san ka sumakay!

Pasahero: dito sa jeep niyo! sanpaba? aysus

ito naman po ay totoong pangyayari ayon kay bugsy tungkol sa isang bagong salta sa pinas at hindi marunong magtagalog..

"Mama, bayad ko" What will I say when I want to get down?

"Mama, para." Okay, that's easy, she said, so off she went. When she reached a certain point, she wanted to pay her fare so she said, "Mama, bayad ko." As usual, her fare went from hand to hand to hand until it reached the driver. When the driver got it, "Saan galing?" Her answer: "Sa akin po." This sent everybody around her laughing.

O di va, kahit hindi nagpapatawa ang pinoy, nakakapagpatawa. hekhekhek

Basahin ho ang kabuuan dito.

The Ca t

Nang Mapunit ang Pantalon ni Neneng

2005-06-09T07:51:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Kararating lang ng nanay ni Neneng galing sa Pinas.

Unang napetition si Neneng ng kaniyang ama na nag-asawa na ng iba.

Tapos penitition naman niya ang kanyang ina.

NENENG: Anong ginawa ninyo 'Nay?

NANAY: Bakit, anak, tinagpian ko lang yong butas mong pantalon.

NENENG: Pero FCUCK ito.

NANAY: Huwag mo akong murahin kahit sa Ingles. Naintindihan ko yan.

NENENG: Hindi ko ho kayo minumura. Tatak ho ng pantalon ko yan. $ 34 dollars ho yang bili ko.

NANAY: Kamahal naman, marumi na, butas pa sa tuhod.

NENENG: (Bulong sa sarili)Pwede bang magpadeport ng nanay?

Mwehehehe

The Ca t

BAKA PAGTULOG KO BUHATIN NILA AKO

2005-06-09T07:01:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Baka ilipat itong bahay ko sa kabila habang tulog ako at makalimutang mag-iwan ng direksiyon. Nagbabalot-balot na kasi ang aking mga dwendes. Kaya panay ang blog ko eh.

Pareho pa rin naman ang url. cathcath.com pa rin.

Pero sakaling matagalan sila, makikibahay muna ako sa iba ko pang condominium. Ang dami ko kasing junk.

Journey of the Soul

pinay sa amerika

Meow

The Ca T

Nang Lumuhod ang Tala

2005-06-09T06:18:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Sabi ni Rusell "Gladiator" Crowe"

"I'm in a lot of trouble. I'll do my best to solve the situation in an honorable way. I'm very sorry for my actions. "One thing that I don't want to do is imply that I'm trying to make out it's somebody else's fault," Crowe told the paper. "It's not. I know it's my fault. I've got to face up to it and deal with it. I'll cop whatever I cop.

Focus ang camera sa local eksena. Balita tungkol sa actor na nambugbog at halos patayin ang gerl pren.

Ito na ang mga nakakalokang "TESTESmonial" ng mga kamag-anak

Ina: Hindi maaraing gawin yan ng aking anak. Mabait siya...blahblah.

Kulang na lang na sabihing consistent awardee ang kaniyang anak sa MOST BEHAVED sa klase. Hindi lang kasi pwede kasi parang hindi naman yata pumasok sa iskwela yon.

Mga kaibigan: Hindi niya magagawa yon.. blah blah...

Ama: Ganyan talaga ang sikat, laging ginagawan ng intriga.

Hindi na lang kasi batukan at paluhurin at sabihing, I got a problem in anger management. DUH.

The Ca t

Fear of Boycott ?

2005-06-09T05:21:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Kala ko sa Pilipinas lang nangyayari ang loyalty ng mga FAAAAANS.

O di va kaya si Cindy Kurleto, may i frozen beauty siya as a love interest of ECHO CHO CHO CHO (jericho) dahil love team niya si Kristin Hermosa noon.

Dito rin pala, bawal kay Brad Pitt at Angelina Jolie ang magsama kahit sa promotion ng kanilang pelikula.

Ito ang balita.

Magagalit ang fans ni Jennifer Aniston.

Sa Forbes Mags pala, si Jennifer ang nakalistang may pinakamalaking kinita sa pelikula at TV. O day isnabin, marami siyang tagahanga na maaring magpataob ng tambalang Brad at Angelina.

At ang paborito kong si Bruce Willis ang may pinakamalaking kinita sa isang pelikula lang, his fee and his percentage in the gross earnings ng The SIXTH SENSE.

Talagang it pays if you can see dead people. Nyahahaha

Talagang producers na ito, bulsa muna pago pag-ibig anoh?

Except for her lips na gusto ko talagang lagyan ng tape sa ilalim para siya huwag lumaylay, I like Angelina sa action movie at si Brad Pitt naman sa Ocean 11 and 12 at Spy Games.

Ayoko na rin si Brad, gusto ko na lang si Val Kilmer. Kita ko yong old movie niya na The Saint at Batman. Galing ng emote niya.

Bakit post ko ta-artits ? Syempre naman anoh, sino ba ang di nanonood ng movie para sa ilang minutong pagkalimot sa mga palabas sa Kongreso diyan. Babaw na ng story plot, yon din at yon din ang mga gumaganap. Sa katagalan nga napansin ko parang tumanda na yata ang mga mukha nila.

The Ca t

Orgasm and Mental Disorder

2005-06-08T20:03:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Don't worry, there was no study about the correlation of the two. However, this article is about two studies that raised my one eyebrow to perfect arc and the other one to knit for disbelief as in what? I am sitting next to a mentally unstable person?

Recent study conducted showed that United States is leading in mental illness.

ACCCCCCCCCKKKKKKK

Here is the news:

WASHINGTON, June 7 The United States leads in mental illness globally with 46 percent of Americans suffering mental disorders ranging from anxiety, depression to substance abuse in their lifetime, The Washington Post reported Tuesday. Within the past year, about 25 percent of all Americans met the criteria for having a mental illness, and fully 25 percent of those had a "serious" disorder that significantly disrupted their ability to function day to day, according to a one-year-and-a-half survey of the country's mental health, conducted by the University of Michigan.

This news was responsible for the arching of my brow. Blame your mother if you do not have orgasm.

MMMMMMMPPPPPPPP

A new study conducted on more than 4,000 women determined that heredity is the most important factor in determining how easily a woman achieves orgasm. In other words, if you’re having problems obtaining sexual satisfaction, it might just be your mother’s fault. The results were published in Wednesday’s issue of the British journal 'Biology Letters.'

Do I hear why momma ?

The Ca t

Deep Throat and Sore Throat

2005-06-08T19:39:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Was the wiretapping incident inspired by latest news about Deep Throat ?

Deep Throat is the pseudonym that was given to a secret source who leaked information about the involvement of U.S. President Richard Nixon's administration in the events that came to be known as the Watergate scandal. Deep Throat was an important source for Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who together wrote a series of articles on the scandal that played a decisive role in exposing the misdeeds of the Nixon administration.

If it is, then the scandal should be labeled, The SORE THROAT.

DO I NEED TO TELL YOU THAT WHOEVER CAME UP WITH THE TAPES (ORIG AND altered must be very SORE.

The Ca t

In case you do not find me

2005-06-08T08:37:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Some people are gifted and some are not.

Here are two who are lucky to have those gifts.

This is not a photo. This is a painting done by a friend. It so lifelike that I urged her to share her gift. So in their blog, she may be publishing tutorials for drawing or tips on painting.

This is a painting by Mev, a painter-architect friend of mine.

In case you do not notice, my header is new. It is just a preview for my new cathcath. So in case you do not find me, I might be doing some relocation.

The template is designed by another gifted artist, retz.

He is giving new templates for free. Those who are interested, here is the link.

The Ca t

Poetry is the food of the soul

2005-06-08T07:34:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Body needs nourishment so is the soul.

Allow this Ca t to feed its soul by publishing some poems that should be in my menu for these trying times.

Nobody Walks Alone

Oft' times when the highway of life seems rough and all of your dreams have flown, Just remember, wherever your road may go, Nobody walks alone.

When everyone has let you down and under your sins you groan, Just keep reminding your burdened heart, Nobody walks alone.

Then suddenly you'll feel His hand in yours, And His eyes lifting up your own, And you'll hear His gentle, forgiving voice: Nobody walks alone.

by Nick Kenny

Only to Ask

All alone, I plodded upward, not asking aid from anyone, I alone, would be the victor, 'till the battle that would be won.

Oh the roads were rough and rocky and the hills were tough to climb, All alone-towards the summit, just a little at a time.

But I failed to climb my mountain, Oh, so close, I had to stop, And I hung my head in sadness, for I hadn't reached the top. And I wondered why the Master had not aided in my task, And I heard a soft voice answer, You had only but to ask.

Bill Carr

The Ca t

A tail of two tapes

2005-06-07T13:09:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

The controversy of the "doctored" and "undoctored tapes is the subject of the story in the Inside PCIJ:Stories behind our stories.

Entitled:

A tale of two tapes

Here is one statement from the original and the spliced tapes.

Original tape

Gary: Sige sir … talaga namang aming inaalalayan si Bobby eh… talaga namang siya yung atin

Spliced Tape

O sige basta kwan, talaga namang aking inaano si Bobby e, talaga namang siya naman ang atin.

The Ca t's version of tale of two tapes.

Speaker 1: Kumusta na ba yong pinaano ko saiyo sa kuwan?

Speaker 2: Ah yong ho bang kuwan. Ano na ho yon. Nakuwan ko na ho.

Speaker 1: Kung gusto ko tulungan mo si kuwan para sa ano niya.

Speaker 2: Huwag kayong mag-alala, ngayon din ho ay ipapakuwan ko na kay kuwan ang ano.

And here is the tail.

Updates :

A former lawyer of deposed President Joseph Estrada said Tuesday he edited the tape of conversations between President Arroyo and a still unidentified person in which they discussed rigging the 2004 election.

Allan Paguia, who had defended Estrada before the Sandiganbayan and the Supreme Court before being suspended by the Supreme Court, also admitted in an interview over DZMM radio that he even made the introduction heard in the audio recording

The thickens the plot. (garbled)

The Ca t

Update on Kris Aquino and Nora Aunor

2005-06-07T08:06:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

May kasabihang, all's fair in love and war.

Pero hindi yata sa kaso ni Kris Aquino. Sa kanyang balak na pagpapakasal sa bago niyang boy friend, may isang babaeng nagdadalantao ang magsisilang ng anak na walang ama.

Kalungkot ano?

Hikbi, Boy Abunda.

Naurong ang araw kung kailan dapat humarap si Mora Aunor sa kaso niyang ilegal na droga. Nagahahanap ng maaring depensa sa pagkakaaresto niya nang hindi nararapat sa tinakda ng batas dito sa Estet.

Hindi kagaya diyan sa Pinas na kahit hindi sapat ang ebidensiya ay ipinangangalandakan na ang kasalanan ng nahuli, dito sa Estet, kahit matibay na ang ebidensiya, kung mali at labag sa batas ang pagkakuha ay maari itong pawalang halagahan.

Hindi rin masyadong dinaluhan ang kaniyang konsyerto, kahit nga ba kasama pa niya si Tirso Cruz III.

Nakakaawang katapusan ? ng buhay na publiko ng minsan ay naging idolo at simbolo ng pag-asa ng mga Pilipinong nasa pinakailalim ng baytang ng hagdan ng buhay.

Isang magaling na artista na masasabing isa ng alamat ang buhay para sa mga mapanga- raping Pilipino.

Hikbi ni Boy Abunda.

Ang balitang ito ay hatid sainyo ng sitemeter na nagsasabing marami kang hits na naghahanap tungkol sa dalawang artistang ito.

I love you Lucky ,

hehehe

The Ca t

Citizen journalism

2005-06-06T21:09:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Have you heard about citizen journalism?

This is the concept of average people writing the news in the internet.

In some parts of the United States, the idea of citizen journalism is boosted by the widespread popularity of blogging and the series of scandals by well known journalists that destroyed public confidence to the mainstream media.

Although there are questions as to its business viability as regular source of income some advocates of this non-traditional journalism have already put up companies that promise payment for article submitted.

For more of the news, read this.

In a way, we Pinoy bloggers can also become citizen journalists without having to go around for scoop news. We can write about our neighborhood, such as away ng magkakapitbahay, busted street lights, illegal parking, baradong manholes and even huweteng.

The global pinoys can write news about the host country.

The Ca t

The Masters of Disguises -liars and cheaters

2005-06-06T05:45:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

If you think that my cable TV is tuned in the TFC 24/7, you're wrong. 23 1/2/7 lang.

That is for my TV in the living room. In the bedroom, no TFC. Pa-intellectual naman kuno ang dating.

Last Sunday, my idea that chameleon is the only animal that can quickly change in appearance and color to fool predators vanished when I saw a documentary about animals that are masters of disguises to protect themselves from enemies. Spy agencies may have been able to get some bags of tricks from these inferior creatures but definitely they could not duplicate the Nature-endowed abilities for animals to drive away unwanted companies.

Not all snakes have venoms. Snakes that you may see in the backyard may not be venomous at all but they have a way to fool a dangerous adversary, the domesticated cat. The small snake may try to pose like a deadly cobra,ready to strike but cats cannot be fooled easily not unless they encounter the type of snake that can cheat them by posing as if it were dead. DEAD as it looks like it is dead and smells like it is dead that even the flies are attracted to it. So the next time, you see a dead snake in your yard,check if it is really dead. Ooops, don't, it may not be dead at all.

Butterflies are beautiful but before they became one, they have to undergo series of disguises in order to finally metamorphose into one beautiful winged art of nature.

As a caterpillar, it can go to the most extreme disguise of looking like a bird dropping. Some animals cannot be fooled however, so it can switch to disguises including that of a small snake .

As a last trick, it can change its body form into a coccoon that can adopt shape and color to its environment. It can look like a green leaf or a small fruit hanging from one of the twigs.

The leafy sea dragon is not a dragon and not a sea weed either but it looks like one with its green tentacles attached to its sea-horse body.

It's really a sea horse but it looks more like a sea weed especially when the male carries the eggs of the young. The part of the body where the eggs are deposited by the female to the male partner becomes sticky that some sea stuff attach to it and conceal the eggs from the predators.

The master of disguises however is the mimic octopus. It can disguise as a snake, a flounder,a sea weed all in a few seconds because of its capability to change colors, shapes and movements when it mimics a particular animal of its choice.

Interesting. In the spy world, this is the ability to be invisible, to adapt and be among the enemies without being detected. These animals have their ways to teach us something that humans can not do even with their superior brain.

Excuse me while this Ca t changes to a human disguise. Ahem.

The Ca t

Cerebral malaria

2005-06-06T05:30:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Americans who planned to travel in areas where there are disease-carrying insects are required to have their shots.

This news should have made the people aware of the danger in going to places unprotected from the deadly malaria.

Reyster Langit, son of veteran radio broadcaster Rey Langit, died Friday in a US hospital, according to reports reaching The Manila Times.

Reyster, 33, died from heart failure in a hospital in Los Angeles, California. He was diagnosed with cerebral malaria, a disease he contracted in Palawan while o n assignment for the public affairs program Kasangga Mo Ang Langit.

His companions, DWIZ reporter Jesus Christian Macadaeg and cameraman Arnold Tanare, also contracted cerebral malaria and died from complications from the disease.

When I was in high school, we climbed a mountain in Bicol, if I remember it right, it was Mt. Bulusan.

We reached the part of the mountain where clouds just get past us that visibility became zero. The climate was so cold that the hot soup turned cold with the "sebo" on top.

After two nights in the camp, several of my companions fell ill that they were rushed to the provincial hospital.

It was due to intestinal flu.

There were no mosquitos up the mountain may be because of the wind but when we came down to pass the night in one of huts, grabe...ang mosquitos, para silang mga hayok sa laman.

Thank God, walang carrier ng malaria.

In college, my friends and I went to Zambales for a volunteer work in the forest nursery.

Somewhere, looking for some wild berries,"duhats", we lost our guide and our water supply too.

We're so thirsty that we were thankful to see a little stream (bukal) with clear water. My companions were about to scoop some water to drink when I saw "kiti-kiti". The water was not muddy. It seemed, it's clean but, the flow was so slow that it became a breeding ground for mosquitoes." During the evening, we slept in a rundown nipa hut. It was our choice. It did not have a roof so we can see the beautiful sky and the stars. Then mosquitoes started buzzing and biting us. I remembered my brother wrote from Australia that he contracted malaria but he was luckily treated at the earliest symptom when it manifested.

I can't sleep. So I feigned illness. I need to go to the doctor. The nearest clinic was 4 hours away.

One of the senior members of the team applied first aid by using her knowledge about survival in the forest. She looked for a banana tree and cut the unopened small leaf. She heated it over fire and slowly opened the leaf while applying it in my tummy.

Araaay, init.

She said that I was just pretending that I was sick, because, if not, the leaf was going to give me relief instead of burning my skin. Quackery ?

Ah ewan.Wanna go home and that was all I wanted. I know these stingers were disease carrying insects.

The Ca t

Humor-don't leave the house without it

2005-06-05T17:09:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Sabihin na ninyong mayabang pero this brother of mine is the brainiest in the family. He was in the the top ten who made it to the Philippine Science High School among the 40,000 hopefuls and was a scholar at the UP Diliman when he was made to choose between going abroad and finishing his course.

Kung ako ang pinakabobo, siya ang pinakamatalino. Ito ang tinatawag na bloggadocio.

Pero we have one thing in common. Humor.

Pictures he took in Italy.

Men in Contemplation 1

What are these men thinking about ?

See the next picture.

Men in Contemplation 2

Don't know, go back to the previous picture.

The Ca t : Ang may marumi ang pag-iisip ay hindi nakukuha ang humor. hekhekhek

The Ca t

Ikakasal na si Kris Aquino?

2005-06-05T15:45:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Nag-uusap kami ng kaibigan ko tungkol sa concert ni Sharon Cuneta. Hindi ko kasi ginamit ang dalawang ticket na ipinadala sa akin para sa konsyerto sa Reno, Nevada. Ano baliw, lilipad pa ako, kukuha ng hotel reservation para lang magamit ang ticket.

Iniimbita niya ako sa LA naman daw. Bago ako mnakasagot nakita ko ang close-up na mukha ni Kris Aquino. Ikakasal na raw siya kay James Yap. Pareho kaming baba ng phone. Parehong nasa The Buzz ang aming TV.HAAAA?

Masaya na rin ako kay Kris kung totoo ito

Sana hindi ito kagaya ng mga nakaraang naging karelasyon niya na galing sa mga second hand store.

Marami nang palit-palit na gumagamit bago napunta kay KRIS.

Isa pa pareho-parehong mga pabling na hindi yata mabubuhay kung walang babaeng magsasabi kung gaano sila kaguwapo at malakas ang sex appeal.

Sino kayang babae ang makakapagmalaki na siya lang binigyan ng tunay na pagmamahal. Gusto ba niyang naririnig ng I love you all kaysa I love only you ? Pero si Kris Aquino siya. She may have everything except a man who will truly love her as she is, a woman who has a lot of love to give but receives nothing in return.

tulo ang luha ala Boy Abunda.

Hikbi

Ewan ko ganyan talaga ang mundo kaya ako isa lang ang minamahal ko, i love you M...ouse, don't freeze, papalitan kita.

ahek

The Ca t

Nagseselos ako...

2005-06-04T19:09:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Naramdaman na ba ninyo ang magselos ?

Hindi ako selosa. Pwere pag gusto ko ang isang tao, selos ako.

Nakita ko kahapon ang pinagseselosan kong babae.

Bumalik muna tayo sa nakaraan.

Napanood ko ang Ten Commandments noong ako ay maliit pa. Rerun na yon at hindi ko alam matagal na palang ginawa yon. Sa akin ang mga actors doon ay mga bata pa. Crush ko si John Derek na gumanap na Josuah. Batang-bata pa siya doon. Tuwing rerun pag Holy Week pinanood ko. Sekreto ko yon. Hanggang makita ko ang retrato niya sa magasin. Matanda na pala siya. Kurap ako.Siya ba yon ? Pero ang crush ko ay yong bata niyang anyo.Kasama niya ang kaniyang asawang si BO Derek.

Kagabi palabas ang isang lumang pelikula ni Bo Derek.

Patay na si John Derek. Ewan ko kinurot na naman ang puso ko. Parang inagaw niya sa akin ang isang iningat-ingatan kong crush na hindi ko man lang pinaalam kahit sa malapit kong kaibigan. Pagtatawanan kasi ako.

Kaya Angelina Jolie, galit din ako saiyo dahil inagaw mo si Brad Pitt.

Pasensiya kayo, minsan kabaliwan ang nasa isip ni Pusa. Sinong makakapagsabing wala tayong dark side na minsan nagwiwish tayo ng mawala na sana ang kinaiinisan natin.ooopsie

The Ca t

I dreamed of being Miss Universe

2005-06-04T06:52:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Walang tatawa. walang tatawa. Ipapasumpa ko kayo sa anghel ko sa kaliwa na maging palaka kayo pag lalaki at kampanerang kuba naman pag babae. Pag may mga nagsabing babayes, na hindi man lang nila pinangarap yon, loud laffter ang aabutin sa akin..

Hekhekhek

Sa dadsy ko kasi, ako ang Miss Universe. O di va, sa mga ema at epa natin, tayong mga little goirls ang pinakamaganda. Kasabihan nga pag ang ema mo ay di matanggap ang kasabihang, a face, only a mother could love.. Day, its time for you to choose from options to say goodbye to this cruel world. In short, pangeet ka talaga.

Sa akin, motivation yata ni mader para hindi ako masyadong makabawas sa family budget ng pagkain, she asked me to watch my waist line. Kaya naman, bata pa ako ay conscious ako sa aking baywang at ang mahilig tirhan ng bilbil, ang sikmura. Kailangan, maliit siya. Kaya minsan, nagparetrato ako sa Luneta, kasama ang aking mga kaibigan, stomach in ako para ipakitang flat ang tummy ko. Tagal ng retratista, buti di nakita ang aking bluish na kulay sa pagpigil ng hininga.

Pinaiinom rin kami ng Milkmaid para raw tumangkad. Bakit si Nino Muhlach, di lumaki?

Hindi dahil paborito ko ang pelikula ni Sandra Bullock na Miss Congenialty pero, wala na talaga akong bilib sa pageant.

Ito ay mula nang malaman ko na sa Latin countries kung saan ang mga kandidata ay palaging nanalo, karamihan sa mga napipili ay pumupunta sa mga cosmetic surgeon para alisin ang mga hindi kanaisnais at pagandahin ang di maganda. Kung ganito ng ganito ay palitan na lang ng titulong Miss Universe:Makeover.

Kahit ang competition nila sa best national costume. hindi ako bilib. Para kang nanonood ng mga showgirls sa Vegas at Reno.

Huwag ninyo akong pansinin. Asim-ubas lang yon sa akin, dahil hindi ako tumangkad at ang aking harapan ay hindi lumaki kaya muntik na akong napagkamalang plantsahan ng aming katulong nang minsang ako ay natutulog ng nakatihaya. Saka litro na ang uso sa coke at hindi na yong classic coca-cola bottle.

The Ca t

It's great being pinoy--blogkadahan series

2005-06-04T06:45:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

The fifth round is on for blogkadahan.

Since independence day is just around the corner and the birthday of our national hero is in June 19, the group feel that we should talk about what it is in the pinoys that makes us proud.

Though my piece is funny, I wish I was able to drive home a point,i.e. why Filipinos are among the happiest people in the world despite calamities, corruptions, coups and the Buzz.

Sampol lang ho ang sumusunod. Ang kabuuan ay nandito.

Drop a coin if you like the article; drop a bill if you don't(parusa saiyo noh) and drop a message at the end of the beep. BEEEP.

Kahit sa publiko lang nag-aaral ang anak mo, alam mong walang masisirang ulong bata na kukuha ng baril at papatayin ang mga kaklase at titser niya. Walang mga gang na bubugbog sa anak mo pag sila ay lalampa-lampa. Kahit pa nga shoklai ang anak mo ay hindi matatakot lumabas. Pumupunta pa kay Boy Abunda para sabihing bakla po ako. Mayron ngang nagba-blog na sistah talaga siya sukdulang malukreng kang magbasa. Ahahay. Chos.

Who needs rehab, special ed classes and child therapy?

Sa sasakyan naman ay may dyip. Dito sa Estet, pag namiss mo ang bus, mangangaligkig ka ng ginaw sa bus stop. At libre musika pa ha. Kahit ang mga ear drums mo ay magkalasog-lasog dahil sa lakas ng mooosik.Ang drayber natin puwedeng ilaban sa Math Quiz. Biruin mo ang galing niyang magsukli sa dami ng pasahero ng walang kalkuleytor. Pwede mo rin siyang isali sa Double Jeopardy. Mahusay ang kaniyang memory. Alam niya kung saan ka sumakay at saan ka bababa. Tipong, HOY Hindi ka pa bayad. Sagot ka naman na parang inatake ka ng dementia, Ah hindi pa ba? sabay bigay mo ng Pepty peysos. Susuklian ka naman niya. Kahit nga isandaan pa eh.

The Ca t

Sandali break muna tayo

2005-06-04T06:34:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Aantok-antok ako nang makita ko sa TV ang Dong Puno, live kung saan ang guest ni Dong ay si Archbishop Oscar Cruz. Kahit na nakamute ang TV at hindi ko ako lip reader. alam ko ang pinag-uusapan nila, HWETENG.

Pero bakit yata nasa loob sila ng simbahan o katedral nag-uusap. Namalikmata ba ako o

1)sadya yon para ipaabot sa mga manonood na hindi capable magsinungaling ang mga tao pag nasa loob ng simbahan?

2.Takot si Archbishop, lumabas ng katedral o simbahan?

3. padrama effect?

HOLYY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIrt

The Ca t

Jose Rizal, the first Filipino blogger

2005-06-03T08:42:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

I should have written this in our blogkadahan but I chose to present something else, a humurous one.

If May is the month of festivities in the Philippines, June is the month to celebrate the greatness of Filipinos, not necessarily the national heroes.

A blog, as many agree is a journal or a diary on line, whether it is about oneself or about the current events. As people, we make history and now we write history from our journal.

More than a century before blogs became popular, we have already a blogger, a diarist-- someone who took notes of his travels, his observations and maybe if he were alive today, he would be blogging too.

Read some of his "blogs" ermm diary entries.

1. blog about what he ate:

I have eaten luncheon for one mark, tip and beer included.

2. blog about the sunrise

Today I see clearly the sunrise. One can look at the red disk without hurting the eyes. It rises little by little in the horizon.

3. about one of his travels

At 7:15 we left Dinynnau. The Merkens is an old steamer with two chimneys. In front of the national monument is a sunken ship.

4. about his observations

Many German women and above all English women wear their hair short like men. There was with us a young woman with short hair and without holes in her ears.

5. blog about his feeling

I took refuge at the University from the shower and there on the bulletin board I read a sad thing: A very severe decision against a student announcing to the public that the young Frederick Wensel is forever expelled from all universities because his conduct makes him unworthy to attend classes.

6. blog to inform and warn

Notice to Girls, etc.

In German newspapers it is usual to find announcements for housekeepers, companions, maids, servants, etc. The interested parties are requested to present themselves at certain stations in Holland, France, or England. The Rotterdam Association, in order to abolish prostitution, warns women and girls to be very careful with such advertisements. I return to Leipzig in an express train.

Meet the first Filipino "blogger", Jose Rizal.

For more of his diaries, visit this.

The Ca t

Teodoro Benigno 1923-2005

2005-06-03T07:00:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Sa blog kong Hula ni JOJOKE ACURIN, noong buwan ng Enero, nagsulat ako ng mga prediksiyon na dinaan ko lang sa patawa pero totoong lahat yon ay vision ng isang Pusa. Yon lang marahil ang paraan upang maipadala ang mensahe nang hindi pagkakatakutan ng mga magbabasa.

Isa doon ay:

Acurin: May isang kilalang mamamahayag ang babawian ng buhay dahil sa isang sakit.

Sa panahong ang mga mamahayag ay pinapatay, parang malayong mangyari. Pero sa dami rin ng sikat na mamamahayag, ang posibilidad ay malaki, kasinrami ng pangalan ng mga sikat na mamahayag.

Ito ang balita na siguro dito pa lang sa blog ko unang mababasa.

Journalist Teodoro Benigno, 81, passes quietly into history 06/03 4:44:09 PM MANILA (AP)

Teodoro Benigno, a former presidential spokesman and popular political columnist, died Friday, his family said. He was 81.

"He died quietly," said his wife, Luz Palacios. He was diagnosed with liver cancer a month earlier, she said.

The Ca t

Si Bunsoy

2005-06-02T14:33:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Ang bilis ng panahon na nagdaan, ako pa si bunsoy, nakikitula-tula, nakikinig sa mga palitan ng mga batikan. Nakakahiya nga pero ito, hinalukay nila. Kahit matagal na rin akong nawala ay naalala pa rin nila. Kakukulit ng ilang buwan, ang aking mga ateng na mga manunula at pintor ay nagsama-samang magsulat upang magturo ng pagpipintor at paghahabi ng tula.

May bago na rin silang bahay. Inyo pong dalawin.

Yong nga tatang at kuyang ko po ay nawala na sa eksena. May mga kaniya-kaniya na ring pinagka- kaabalahan.

Pakipasyal lang po.

Trio raw silang tatlo?

Sa maliit na tinig ako ay sisigaw

Ako ay tutula, ikaw ay sumayaw

Biglang iiyak at maglulupasay,

Nakuha na ang barya saka aayaw.

ehe

BUNSOY

The Ca t

A pic for Sassy's blog

2005-06-02T10:12:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

I was about to blog about the student protest ala Baywalk bodies au naturel.

But I saw Sassy's blog, bare protest.

Something is missing from her blog though.

Here it is.

photo from BBC

Hiya tingin si Ca t.

The Ca t

A prayer from a friend

2005-06-02T05:04:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Akala ko kaya ko. Tinanong ko ang aking kaibigan, bakit?

Ito ang ibinigay niya sa akin.

Along Life's Way

Lord, lead me to a quiet place,

And softly close the door,

So in this perfect solitude

I can learn to love You more,

I'll speak to You as would a child

Of my failures and triumphs each day.

I'll ask for Your forgiveness

For my errors along lfe's way,

To contemplate your love for me

And the sacrifice You've made

Fills me with assurance

That I should never be afraid,

My life is yours to lead, my Lord,

Let me listen to Your voice,

So when temptation comes my way,

I will make the perfect choice,

As I slowly leave our quiet place,

And start my busy day,

I know you will walk beside me,

Every step along the way.

(Shirley Hile Powell)

The Ca t

SO YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING?

2005-06-01T16:44:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Ever wonder why you can do this to your cat?

Because a cat has 32 muscles in each ear.

1. It has also over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.

MEMEMEMEMEME

2.A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.

And I was very guilty then when i found them dead a few hours after i tied their tails with thread.

3.A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.

Magandang tuksuhing BELAT...

4.A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.

Meron pa palang masahol sa akin.

5.A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/ 100th of a second.

Now that was unrealistic when they tell me to do a sandwich in a jiffy. (kamot ulo).

6.A snail can sleep for three years.

Kaya pala sila may cover. Para di sila maistorbo.

7. An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

Hmmmmm. maraming ostrich sa Congress.

8. It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.

ACHOOOOOOOOOOOOO

9. Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.

Mahaba kasi buhok niya.

10. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.

And I am not even lying.

11. Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

Uhmmmm, I am must be a walking dynamite, I ate a lot of peanut butter.

12. Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.

And I thought they are noodles.

13. There are more chickens than people in the world.

And people eat chicken everyday.

14. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.

I am wondering what was his mother dancing ?

15. Women blink nearly twice as much as men.

Got to try.

via email from brother.

The Ca t

Senator Resigned Due to Corruption

2005-05-31T11:47:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Aside from John Grisham and Patterson, I also like Steve Martini when it comes to Mystery suspense thriller.

I will not be discussing with you how good he is as a writer. I will not be discussing with you the novel. I am just curious of the story plot of one of his novels made into a movie for TV where one of the main characters, a Senator whose wife was murdered was being protected from being subjected to investigation by no less than (the lawyer found later) the FBI).

Thru his sleuth, the defense lawyer of the accused found out that the Senator was under investigation for corruption. Silent, closed door investigation.

I thought, that this is fiction. Not in real life maybe. Then I read this news:

The Senator is a real person. The corruption is real.

The news said:

The fallout has led to multiple arrests, and state Sen. John Ford has resigned from office after more than 30 years in the Senate. Besides Ford, Sens. Kathryn Bowers and Ward Crutchfield; Rep. Chris Newton; and former state Sen. Roscoe Dixon were charged with taking bribes from a phony company created by the FBI.

This is getting more interesting as we can relate the jueteng to their illegal bingo operators greasing the pockets of the officials.

A two-year FBI sting operation nicknamed the "Tennessee Waltz" has led to the arrest of several lawmakers. But the probe isn't the state's first dance with scandal. Government corruption cases dot the past three decades of Tennessee history. In the 1970s, the "TennPar" investigation found that associates of then-Gov. Ray Blanton were selling pardons, while another corruption probe in the late '80s and early '90s broke up illegal gambling rings run by bingo operators

The Ca t prays:

Sana ganoon din sa atin, closed door,gather evidence muna (not only based on the testimonies of whistleblowers)that there is indeed corruption going on bago ilabas sa media.

Siste, pati yong hindi naman artistang Senador at Congressman, gusto palaging nasa limelight at posible nasa TV kaya probe ng probe kahit ang mga ebidensiya ay hindi sapat ipako ang mga may kasalanan.

The Ca t

A Hoax is a Hoax

2005-05-31T07:29:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Another hoax puts the Philippines in the world map. The news about the Japanese Soldiers who allegedly hid and survived in the mountains after the World War II turned out to be a mere hearsay or a concoction of some people whose motives are still questionable.

Judiel Nieva and his claim of receiving messages from the Blessed Virgin was the hoax of all hoaxes as far as I can remember. For a sixteen-year-old teenager who was able to fool not only well-known government officials, socialites, media people, he must have congratulated himself for a great performance.

After several years of hiding he came out of the closet and pursued his dream of acting. So that miracle in Agoo was just a mere screen test for himself.

Nobody applauded for an encore.

Of course who will forget the Faye story where this Ca t was put in the limelight (ilaw sa kalamansi) months ago.

Question is what motivates these people to stage these hoaxes?

Haddock has this interesting article about hoaxes.She wrote:

We are most susceptible to hoaxes that exploit our anxieties: abduction, terrorism, corporations putting profits above safety. Our fears provide fertile soil.

The Ca t

Leonardo da Vinci and Cinderella

2005-05-30T18:53:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Well, that was one movie where Da Vinci was depicted as Cupid and was actually the Fairy Godmother of Cinderella. I am talking about EVER AFTER featuring Drew Barrymore.

And this drawing of his entitled LEDA

was supposed to be Cinderella who married the Prince despite the manueverings of the Wicked Stepmother portrayed by Anjelica Huston.

What was funny in the movie was when Da Vinci helped the other servants to free Cinderella/Danielle when she was locked up by the stepmother so she would not be able to attend the ball.

While he was removing the bolts, he uttered, I will go down in history as the Man who opened the door. Funny and prophetic.

This time Cinderella was presented without magic, without the beautiful carriage and horsemen from the rats. But still with the glass slippers and the wings given to her by Da Vinci.

It was not her beauty that captivated the prince but her brain,a peasant who discussed issues with the prince according to what she read from the book THE PRINCE and other scientific books that his father hoarded for her when she was just a little girl. It was her love for books that gave her the confidence to criticize the prince for being coward to admit the obligations of a privileged royalty.

Intellectual approach of presentation of the fairy tale but I still love the romance element-a love story that ended happily ever after. And if the fiction is to be believed, the University where the portrait hung was the brainchild of Cinderella.

It is a fairy tale where there is no fairy and for adults who love to read history.

By the way the setting is France, where Da Vinci was invited by the King to be the resident painter of the Palace when he left Italy.

The Ca t

Mayroong HIMALA

2005-05-30T08:42:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Namamalikmata lang ba ako nang aking napapanood ang mga Autoridad na Jueteng Free na ang Metromanila at iba pang sulok ng Pilipinas ?

Parang gusto kong tumayo sa bantayog ni Bonifacio at sumigaw ng MAYROONG HIMALA.

@#$%^&*Toingkalabog pakpikboom

Tunog ho yan ng mga pambabato kay Pusa sa mga hindi naniniwala sa Himala.

Makatakas na nga.

The Ca t

The day when ...

2005-05-30T07:51:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

According to Conrado de Quiros:

THE GOOD news is that President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo has sworn before a council of Protestant bishops that she hasn't gotten a centavo from jueteng. "I can assure you," she said fervently with eyes closed while the bishops raised their hands over her in blessing, "that I am one president that did not receive any payola." Bienvenido Abante Jr., a bishop of the Metropolitan Bible Baptist Church was sufficiently impressed. "We believe that. I don't think that the President would lie before all the bishops."

Yep, Protestant bishops against the word of one Catholic Archbishop,Oscar Cruz, the chair of the Kilusang Bayan Laban sa Huweteng, what sez thou mga anak ng jueteng?

The Ca t

Filipino and AMerican Guerillas, Boondocks and Jazz

2005-05-29T18:24:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Tomorrow is Memorial Day-- a holiday to celebrate the bravery, heroism and sacrifice of people who fought for democracy and freedom.

In AMC,a TV channel that shows old pictures, really old...they have the MEMORIAL MOVIE MARATHON since yesterday. I did not like the movie about Mac Arthur. It's obvious that the shooting was not made in the Philippines. Mukhang Spanish ang mga Filipinong extras.

Today, they showed American Guerilla in the Philippines starring Tyrone Power.

Before I watched this movie, I came across the aarticle of Rodil Rodis, a Filipino lawyer who is in the Board of the San Francisco City College.

All along, I thought guerilla warfare started only during the Japanese period.

This is what he wrote:

The dictionary defines "boondocks" as "hinterland, remote and underdeveloped area." Derived from the Tagalog word bundok, meaning mountain, it became part of the American lexicon during the "Philippine Insurrection" that followed the Spanish-American War of 1898.

The Filipino "insurgents" resisted the American occupation of the Philippines but could not engage the superior American forces in conventional warfare. They had to wage a guerilla war mostly in the mountains as the rugged terrains offered the only strategic advantage to the Filipinos fighting for their country's independence.

Patrolling the boondocks in search of Filipino "insurgents" became the everyday assignment for US soldiers who were tasked with eliminating opposition to US rule.

Having worked in San Francisco, a stone throw away from the Union Square, this fact about how jazz originated from the Philippines also caught my attention.

I first heard about the Philippine origins of jazz from a newspaper editor named James Finefrock. I had written an op-ed piece about the Dewey Monument in the center of San Francisco's Union Square ("To the Filipinos, Dewey was no hero," San Francisco Examiner, October 30, 2000). Mr. Finefrock called to tell me that there was once a street by Union Square called "Manila Street" until a jewelry business named Shreve & Co. successfully lobbied San Francisco authorities to rename the street "Maiden Lane" after the London street where jewelers hawk their merchandise.

And I have been stopping that place to admire the jewelries in the display windows.

So back to the movie, these are the things I learned:

1.When the Filipino guerilla built the communication system, it was received by the military headquarters in San Francisco.

2.Para bang e-mail ngayon. Then they were asked of information to verify their identities.(Parang password ngayon).

3.The message was intercepted by the Japanese.

Sila yong mga hackers.

4.The Filipinos, despite war, were depicted as fun-loving and musically inclined people and good dressers as well. During parties, the gentlemen were either wearing the barong, a suit with matching black and white shoes while the ladies wore kimonas or sayas.

5.The Makapilis can be male or female. Hiding their identities from the people they betrayed, they wore the "bayong". They pointed to the Japanese authorities the traitors to Imperial Army. No question asked.

6.They had brothels were the mamasan offered Filipinas in Japanese kimonos in exchange of rice and other goods.

7. Before Mc Arthur came for liberation, there were already goods distributed to people marked with I SHALL RETURN, with the sig of the general. Talagang malakas ang ARRIVE ng heneral. In the other movie which was his story as the Liberator of Asia, he had always a cameraman in tow.Para bang o pose muna.

I did not finish the movie again. I have to get an important call.Di bale pagdating na yon ni Mac Arthur.

The Ca t

Isang PARK, isang araw

2005-05-29T05:22:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Noong Biyernes ay pumunta ako sa isang park. Hindi maalis ang aking ubo kaya niyaya ako ng isang kaibigan para suminghot ng tubig dagat.

Ang park dito ay hindi kagaya diyan sa Pinas na may monumento, may swing at may mga magagandang bulaklak. Meron pang relos. (Buhay pa kaya ang relos sa Luneta?) Dito ay park dahil puwede kang magPARK ng kotse mo ng libre. (hehehe)

Sa baba ay ang Pacific Ocean. Napakataas pala ang aming kinalalagyan. Kaya ang mga batang naglalaro sa dalampasigan ay parang sinliliit lang ng mga ibong lumilipad-lipad at manaka-nakang dumadapo sa buhangin.

Sayang nga lang at di ko nadala ang aking camera.

Ang mga ibon ay parang nagpapasikat paglipad sa mga taong naroroon sa park.

Minsan ay anim sila na para bang mga eruplanong naka”formation” at biglang Maghihiwalay na dalawahan, isahan at muling magsasama-sama.

Napapalakpak ang batang hila-hila ng aso ang taling hawak niya.Sabi siguro ng aso, ano kaya kung bigla akong tumakbo?

May lalaki ring sinusundan ang kaniyang aso. Pahinto-hinto ang aso na para bang nagsasabing—Tagal naman maglakad ng amo ko.

May babaeng dalawa ang kasabay na aso. Isa ay may suot na damit.Kakulay ng damit ng suot ng babae. Greyhound ang aso kaya matulis at payat ang mukha nito.

Parang gusto kong lapitan at tanungin kong mag-ina ba sila ?

Lumapit sa akin ang kasama ko. Maamo ang mata niya. Hinalikan niya ang kamay ko. Sa isip ko huwag mo akong tuksuhin. May nag-aari na saiyo. Pagod na ako nang pagmamahal sa hindi sa akin.

Tumakbo siya na parang nagpapahabol. Kinuha niya ang isang bola ng tennis na Ang pagka-akala ko ay bulaklak ng mga damong makakapal.

Humiga siya sa damo at parang nagsasabing, halika. Kalimutan mo ang iyong lungkot. Tingnan nating ang bughaw na langit.

Lumayo ako at lumakad sa may bangin. Tinanaw ko ang lalaking nagsisimula ng Tumalon sa kabilang gilid ng park. Hang glider siya.

Mga ilang saglit lang ay kasama na siya ng mga ibon sa kalawakan.

Malaya, masaya, malapit sa langit.

Sumunod siya sa akin. Tinitingnan niya ako at tila nagtatanong kung may balak akong tumalon.

Minarapat ko nang umuwi. Nilalamig na ako.

Tahimik siya sa sasakyan. Nangiti ang nagmamay-ari sa kaniya.

How are you love? Tanong sa kaniya.

Bow wow wow. Lakas ng tahol niya.

The Ca t

What’s wrong with some people’s blogs?

2005-05-28T08:19:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Nothing.

Ow kala ng iba, intriga na naman ako.

Sa isang seminar na aking napuntahan, isang speaker ang nagsabi ng: When writing an article, be sure that your title will catch the attention of your readers. But also see to it that the essay itself is not a disappointment just like the news stories in the tabloids that have misleading headlines.

kagaya ng...

Bat like boy prowling the neighborhood. Pag bukas mo ng balita, gusto mong puntahan ang publisher at isalaksak sa kaniyang lalamunan ang dyaryo dahil bata lang pala talagang nakacostume ng Batman. Di kaya si Batjay yon?

Pero balik tayo sa titulo ko.

Maraming mga bloggers ang nagcritisize ng blog ng may blog kasi hindi kagaya ng sa kanila.

May nagkicriticize na bakit pati naman ang paghinga ng kanilang pusa ay sinusulat pa sa blog o kaya ang kanilang pag-utot.

Sabi nga kanya-kanyang diskarte lang yan.

May mga bagong blogger na nagsisimulang parang diary-like ang kanilang weblog. Normal, kasi pag nagsisimula ka pa lang, mas alam mo ang sarili mo.

Sabi nila :

1. Oweno kung nakakita ka ng ibong patay sa daan?

Ang iyong nararamdaman ay maaring nararamdaman din ng ibang tao,ibang lahi, ibang relihiyon. Ibig sabihin ang pakiramdam na yan ay pangkatauhan, bahagi ng inilagay sa ating kaluluwa Ng isang Kinapal. Bahagi niyang magkaroon ng pagdamdam Ng sakit para sa ibang nilalang.

Ang aking blog entry tungkol sa dove with a broken wing ay kasama tungkol sa paksa ng ibon, tungkol sa dove, tula tungkol sa ibon at mga kuwentong bata tungkol sa ibon.

Ito ang goggle link.

Google: morning dove with broken wing in yard

Hindi ko pinagmamalaki na itong entry lang ang galing sa isang Pinoy na humalo sa mga iba't ibang klaseng wbsites, weblogs ng ibang lahi.

Pero, maipagmamalaki ko na ang blog ko ang may puso. Tingnan ninyo ang sabi sa isang weblog.

"Yes, there is this dove, and it's walking away from me but not flying, I think its wing might be broken or something." "No," she responded. "Dove's sometimes choose not to fly." I laughed and this and answered, "Haha. . .Dove's are pretty stupid."

Ito ang aking blog:

I saw a pigeon in the middle of the road. It won't fly. It won't move. It was just there. It seems saying, kill me. It was looking at what appeared to be the remains of another pigeon that might have been run over by a car, as to when, who knows.Only a few feathers left. The pigeon looked like, it cannot get over the death of a friend or a lover

2. Oweno kung ang almusal mo ay tuyo at kanin?

Maaring ang makabasa nito ay isang successful na overseas Filipino na dahil Sa kaniyang pagkamal ng salapi at katanyagan, nakalimutan na niya ang Kaniyang pinagdaanan. Ang mga araw na kasama niya ang kaniyang Magulang na kumakain ng tuyo bilang pamatid gutom.

Sa akin ay nagpaalala ng mga araw na nagsisimula pa lang kami ng buhay naming Na wala na ang aming ama.

Madalas ay tuyo ang aming ulam sa dahilang ayaw ng aking inang maubos ang kaunting perang naiwan ng aking ama upang kami ay makapagtapos ng pag-aaral.

Sa halip na magreklamo ang aking kuyakoy, siya ay sisigaw nang malakas.

Oy kain na tayo. Sarap ng litson uhhmmmyumyum. Parinig sa kapitbahay.

Saan kaya nakakita ng nakakubyertos with matching napkins pa pagkain ng tuyo na may kamatis. Onli in our household. Pero ako nakataas ang isang paa na madalas pitikin ng aking kuya na may kasamang laki ng mata. BABA.

3. Oweno kung may nakakita lang nangulangot sa teren o kaya may nagmemek-ap kang nakasabay.

At least alam mo na hindi lang ikaw ay pakiramdam na kung maari lang Na buhatin sila at pangaralang huwag mong gagawin sa publiko, Yan o kaya tatawa ka at magtatanong…gawa ko rin ?

Habang tumatagal, nag-iiba ang inyong weblog dahil sainyong pagbabasa ng iba pang blog.

Ang iba ay nagiging parang media na may balita at may opinion.

Ang iba ay ayaw ito dahil daw kailan man ang nagkokopya lang ng Balita ay hindi naman journalist.

Kaya nga yong iba tumataas ang kilay ng style ni Sassy at iba pang blogger na sumusulat ng balita at nagbibigay ng opinion. Ayaw din nila ito dahil anong karapatan daw Niya ang magbigay ng opinion.

Ito nga ang style na ginagawang participatory ang media. Hindi media kung hindi ang laman ng media, ang balita.

Kung magbabasa ng dayaryo, ito na rin ang istilo ng mga online dailies. Ang naghihingi ng opinion.

Ang iba naming blog ay ginagawang dingding ang kanilang blog. Sabitan ng kanilang Mga certificate. Walang problema yan. Yon ang comfort zones nila. Yon ang nagbibigay sa kanila ng confidence. Hayaan natin.

Ako, may mapatawa lang akong isa, kuntento na.

Ganyan lang ako kababaw.

Mas malalim ang pilosopiyang nakasandwich sa patawang iyan. Kung hindi niya naarok, mabuti dahil hindi ninyo ako kamumuhian dahil nandoon ang pilantik ng buhay.

Sa mga magaling sumulat na nagbabasa ng aking walang 'wenta-wentang blog. Salamat sainyo. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

The Ca t

Panatang hindi para sa bayan...

2005-05-28T07:03:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

1. Sumumpa na po ako sa harap ng aking keyboard na madalas nagiging biktima ng init ng ulo ko lately dahil wala talaga akong pasensiya sa mga....ang mga sumusunod:

2. Hindi na po ako makikialam sa usap- usapan ng iba kahit ito ay nararamdaman kong walang pakundangang pananakit sa kalooban ng kapwa nila.

3. At hinuhubad ko na po ang uniporme kong Darna na laging tagapagtanggol ng mga naaapi, mga nagagamit, mga naiinsulto. (bakit nga ba ako ang nasasaktan minsan)

4. Alalahanin ko pa rin ang sinabi sa akin ng aking mentor. In this world, there are no permanent friends, only permanent vested interests.

At ang aking paborito:

If you love something very much, let it go free...

If it does not return, baka naligaw...

If it does...

Sabihin mo lang, bakit ngayon ka lang... sabay ang bugbog...

Yon pong huli ay patawa lang.

Sa akin po kasing blog. dalawa ang klase ng audience, yong tahimik na nagbabasa lang at mag-eemail..hindi nakakatawa ang article mo ngayon.. at ang ibang matiyagang naghihintay lumabas ang aking comment box pagtakapos ng ilang minuto. Mas marami ho yong una.

The Ca t

Steganography, what ? Virtual cybersex ?

2005-05-27T15:36:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Yesterday , I blogged about sex offenders charging their prescriptions of viagra to the medicaid.

But in my mind I was asking" why do these sex offenders need a miracle drug for erectile dysfunction?"

As if an answer to that question, the Law and Order episode for the night was about the murder of an eight year old kid by a convicted pedophile.

A few years ago, the criminals accused of sex perversions such as rape/abuse/murder of adults and minors alike, were punished by chemical castrations. The libido is still there but the erectile function of the male organ is no more.

Thus rehabilitated felons who wanted to have normal lives and have families use viagra.

But where does steganogprahy come in the picture?

(ste-g&n-o´gr&-f?) (n.) The art and science of hiding information by embedding messages within other, seemingly harmless messages.

The paroled felon claimed that upon release from prison, he received e-mails fron a certain entertainment company urging him to browse their website that promises sexual gratification

The website contained innocent pictures of kids, landscapes and skies using steganography.

Hidden behind the picture of a rainbow is a nude picture of a child.

Through the instruction of the DA office, the police authorities raided the sex den but found no minor working in the establishment. The girls in the pictures were those of young women whose pictures were technologically enhanced to make them looked younger.

It is a virtual cybersex website.

The DA office had the diffulty convicting the porn site owner as a FACILITATOR of the crime who thru his lawyer (the professor of the ADA ) invoked the freedom of speech under the Bill of Rights. Don't ask me why. I got no clue, except for the lawyer's statement that laws should be updated with the advancement of the technology.

To cut the story short, the accused was convicted guilty of being a facilitator, simply because despite the repeated requests for opt-outs of the pedophile, the e-mails of invitations kept coming in.

Why do I have to devote a blog for this mouse?

Among the reasons are:

Because of the recent news of the death of the cybersex den owners,Deutschland brothers, who exploited the girls, most of the are minors, I came up with the ff:observations.

1. In the US, operation of cybersex dens are protected by Consitution.

2. The operation of the cybersex dens in the Philippines is being protected from the prying eyes of the neighbor by high wallfence of rented house in upscale subdivion .

The raid yielded the arrest of the minor children who dressed and undressed in the camera.

3. The cybersex website owners were of Dutch nationality; one of whom was married to a Pinay who did not care if it is her young kababayans are being exploited. Since time immemorial, the Pinays are seduced to marriage to give these foreigners the opportunity to operate a business, legal or illegal.

4. Big time criminals engaged in drugs, in cd piracy and now operation of the cybersex dens are foreigners.

Why do we let this happen in the country ?

The Ca t

Abortion Pills, Black Candles, Condoms

2005-05-27T08:32:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Learn your ABCs dahleengs.

Let it be written that one mayor of Manila, Mayor Atienza in the year of the Lord 2005 declared war against ABC; abortion pills, black candles and condoms that he ordered the confiscation of the black candles (via Click-mo-mukha mo) from the Quiapo vendors and the arrest of vendors of contraceptives and abortion pills.Atienza also said he will revitalize a program against the selling and use of condoms.

Pakisabi nga sa mayor na ang malakas mag-abortion ay yong mga manghihilot.

Ang mga tinitinda sa Quiapo na sabing pampalaglag ay minsan pangparegulate ng mga may abnormal na reglatic kagaya rin ng contraceptive pill na minsan prenipriscribe ng doctor para maging 25 to 30 day- cycle yong mga babaeng minsan "naglalayag" sa PAcific Ocean ang kanilang buwanang dalaw, hindi dahil sila ay may biik na dinadala.

Tungkol sa condom. May bagong saltang pinay galing sa pinas na medyo may katangahan at ang concept nga niya sa condom ay para hindi mabuntis. May nakita siyang Filam na laging may dalang condom sa kaniyang bag lalo pag may date sila ng boyfriend niya. Tanong niya: bakit ayaw mong mabuntis?

Sabi ni Filam: and who gave you the idea that condom is only to avoid being preggy?

Sa akin naman ang concern ko ay yong pagpakumpiska niya sa mga itim na kandila.

Takot siguro siyang tirikan ng kandila ng mga vendor.

Sana pinakumpiska na rin niya yong mga kandilang pormang tao, babae at lalaki.

Yon din ay pwedeng sunugin para gantihan ang mga kinaiinisang tao. May nagdala sa akin nyan galing sa Quiapo, para daw sa mga Puting kinaiinisan ko.

Kala niya sa akin Mangkukulam. OOPs nahulog ang crystal ball. Mwehehehe.

By the way dito po sa US ay may mabibilhan ng itim,puti,pink,blue,green, purple candles of different shades sa isang tindahan na maari ka ring bumili ng mga kulam, anting-anting.

'No kanyo magdala kayo ng crucifix pagpasok. Huwag na dahil makakabili rin kayo ng mga krusipiho na galing sa iba't ibang bansa, mga Christian articles, buddhism and isms reading articles.

Meron din silang crystals at meron silang mga pendulum.

Pag pasok mo ay ibang feeling sa loob siguro dahil iba't ibang materials na nag-aatract ng forces ang nandoon. Nang dumaan ako sa hanging crystals ay nagsway sila. Tiningnan ako ng may-ari. You got something in you that made the crystals move. Sabi ko sa kaniya, you want that angel crystal to fly.

Ngeeee, naniwala naman siya.binigyan ako ng discount.

Sandali bakit tayo napunta sa CRYSTAL?

By the way bago ako lumabas, nahulog yong angel na nakasabit.

hihihihih

Tsarot ko lang yan.

The Ca t

Beware of Zombies

2005-05-26T17:40:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

You do not have to be a geek to have a love affair with a zombie. It may be with you, 8 hours a day and another 2 to 4 hours in your own bedroom or study room in the evening.

Operation Spam Zombies

Hacker-controlled computers are on the rise, according to research.

The average number of new computer zombies created each day in May increased almost 10 percent from April, according to a report released Thursday.

Zombies are personal computers controlled remotely by hackers. An average of 172,000 computer users lose control of their machines each day, according to a report by anti-spam company CipherTrust.

The zombie computers can be made to attack web servers, collect personal information, or send spam emails.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission went on the z ombie warpath Tuesday, announcing a campaign to educate Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on anti-zombie techniques.

The commission has called on more than 3,000 ISPs to limit the rate at which emails may be sent and be vigilant for users who send abnormal amounts of emails. It has also asked ISPs to help their customers understand the threats and to provide them with zombie-killing software upon request.

The Ca t

Graduate ka ba sa University of Claro M. Recto?

2005-05-26T16:06:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Before the different foreign consulates/ embassies imposed the authentication of college diplomas by the Department of Education as a requirement for valid documents and before birth certificates/marriage certificates have to be secured from the National Census and Statistics Office only, many Filipinos became instant accountants, enginyers and other professionals as graduates of universities of their choice through the courtesy of the master forgers at the University of Claro Recto. You can add years to your age or reduce the years with the faked birth certificates.

When I was a student in the university, I was surprised to hear that one dean of the college was dismissed due to forged documents of his doctorate from an American university.

So fellow Filipinos, forget the saying "ONLI IN THE PILIPINS.

Alvarado Street Corridor ID theft probes

Alvarado Street in Downtown Los Angeles is notorious as a haven of forgers and people looking for fake IDs for various purposes—employment, immigration, bank loans, etc. According to the task force statement, this is an ongoing operation which has been targeting numerous counterfeit identify document plants which manufacture and distribute false documents—driver’s license, birth certificates, school diplomas, etc.—in support of various identity theft and fraud schemes. The counterfeit documents are manufactured using highly sophisticated computer templates.

The Ca t

*BOBBIT PILL instead of V-iagra for Sex Offenders

2005-05-26T14:46:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Our own SS Medicare in the Philippines is alleged to be being bled dry by unscrupulous people using their brains to deceitfully avail the sick benefits for non-existent pensioners. On the other hand the US SS medicare and medicaid was found to be reimbursing drug prescriptions for V-iagra for sex offenders because of bureaucratic mental dysfunction.

"how in heaven's name did it take so long? "for somebody to figure this out?"

As Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., observed, "giving convicted sex offenders government-funded Viagra is like giving convicted murderers an assault rifle when they get out of jail.

"Give the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services credit for acting just one day after the New York comptroller's office revealed audits that found nearly 200 rapists and other high-risk sex offenders received taxpayer-reimbursed Viagra after their convictions.But seven years?

For seven years, convicted rapists, pedophiles and other high-risk sex offenders have been strolling out of pharmacies clutching little bags containing erectile dysfunction drugs that were purchased with taxpayer dollars.

Such "unintended consequences" make it easy to understand why many Americans regard the federal government in general, and vast entitlement programs such as Medicaid in particular, with such distrust. In any government agency, there are bound to be occasional abuses. But Medicaid-paid V-iagra for convicted sex offenders? For seven years? Perhaps its time for the pharmaceutical industry to develop a new miracle drug that treats another distressingly common malady - the one called bureaucratic brain dysfunction.

The Ca t sez: Why don't they come up with BOBBIT pill. One pill taken would automatically cut a piece of the pe... giving out sensation that would make the sex offenders crave for more until the whole part is cut clean from the roots preventing these felons to commit another crime.

For the bureaucrats, another V-iagra like drug but this time, it will give a hard on to the brains to become active.

The Ca t

BLOGGING

2005-05-25T15:36:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

IT is a waste of bandwidth when a blogger spent one whole blog to speak ill of other people.

There are a lot of topics to explore and to record for posterity about you, about the country, about what you see and observed.

Sassy wrote:

Blog about you, what goes on around you and how you perceive events and issues.

A.BLOG ABOUT YOU :

You do not have to present your resume.

The people will be more interested in your characters to which they can relate.

THIS IS ME according to my blogs when I started less than two years ago; half of which was just blog- blog- no links, no sitemeter and no photos.

1.I should congratulate myself. The carpet in the bedroom is still clutter free. Whoaaa. Must be that I am not reading. The books are in the shelves. Oops, there are two under my pillows. Must be that I am on-line most of the time. . Not into chatting. Like a cigarette, this is habit-forming. I AM BLOGGING.

2. Indeed, it is nice to have a CAT as a friend, a friend who will simply walk away in order to pave the way for a complete reconciliation of friends whose relationship suffered a crack, as to what caused it is entirely beyond the Cat's comprehension.

3. I cannot use a stronger word than STUPID and I do not want to use more derogatory word other than SH… I can blame my family’s stickler for moral uprightness for my inability to use an F word…There, I let it go.

4. Ako ay patron ng Art of Being Vague. Yon bang I VAGUE YOUR PARDON and your point is?

5. When I am pissed.

They say hatred is self-punishment. I am consumed by hate since last night. I punished myself by washing the refrigerator inside-out. I scrubbed, rinse and wiped until it is sparklingly clean. I learned a lesson today. The color of my refrigerator is WHITE and not cream. By the way, my hatred is directed to my mouse. I was copying some posts and the mouse just went into a shock and froze.

6. I am not religious but I do believe in God.

There is no act of lovingkindness that is too small or inconsequential. A flower picked from the roadside and is given to a depressed friend. A thank you note for a gift that was received in any occasion. A call to ask how is one doing when the person feels so alone. A 100 bill from a brother while in-between jobs. A touch to an ailing person and soothing sssssh for those in pain. Yes, dear mouse, all these acts have only one message. I love you LORD.

7. My short term lapses

Now where is it ? I probably put it my coat’s pocket.? Or in my tote bag? Or in my purse ? I better call myself. Ringggggggggggggggggggggg ggggggg Got it. It is under the heap of clothes lying around my hamper for laundry. My cell phone. Now where is that darn TV remote. These are reminders to jolt my memory that I cannot write in the post it notes. BTW, where did I put that bright chatreuse-colored post it notes ?

8. When I am on a pensive mood , I try to recall happy errrm funny moments in my life

a. Nawala pati ang mga malalaking serving spoon sa lamesa.Kinuha ng ibang guests na katulad ko ay gutom na. Lumaki sana ang kanilang bibig. Ang tao pag gutom, nawawala ang pagkasibilisado. Ako, na tagahanga ni Mc Gyver ay alam ko ang gagawin ko sa sitwasyong yaon.Kumuha ako ng tahong, kinain ko ang laman, mayroon na akong kutsara. Wala pang limang minuto, ubos ang tahong.Wala na namang kutsara. Problema na nila yon, basta ako busog na. burppp.

b.Kindergarten class. I found my classmate’s long braided hair beautiful and a good pencil holder. She sat in front of me. The two braids can hold two pencils. Cool. Then she stood up. Her mom was picking her up early. My pencils. They’re gone.

c. ouch

I remembered my MCGyver-mom putting cigarette to an open wound minus the wrapper to stop the bleeding. My bro used to tease me that the food I eat would come out of the wound leaving me weak and hungry all the time. I imagined myself emaciated and dying because of the small wound. I got scared. Kids...they are cute and silly ...even during the fearful moments in their lives.

8. My dad

I have no photo of my dad. Somewhere in between changes of residence, the albums of the family were misplaced and never were recovered. From my mom’s description.. he looked like a movie icon, tall, dark and handsome. He got high bridge nose and deep set eyes. In my memory, I would imagine him as the tall guy who would put me in his shoulder in order to cross a stream or to reach a fruit in a tree; a tall guy who stood in the crowd waiting for me to appear in stage with my awkward dance costume of a duck or balancing lights in my head and my hands while dancing in the tune of Pandanggo sa Ilaw. A tall guy who would stoop to pin my first medal and the other medals to come. A tall guy who would appear in my dream to pin my medal from the battles of life that I have won. Looking back and looking forward, there are challenges and difficulties to overcome but my father left us values that we can use to emerge victorious.

MORE....

The Ca t

Mona Lisas, Mona Liza, Mona Liza

2005-05-25T11:08:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Valferno kept everything on a tight schedule. He was going to meet Perugia, an Italian who had worked as a glazier in the protective glass of the "Mona Liza."

At the appointed time, Perugia swaggered into the office followed by two men dressed in uniform of workmen of the museum.

Valferno continued to observe the three men as they grabbed their seats in front of the big desk. Each looked like your average Joe but in truth, they were the most notorious robbing crews recommended to him. TO STEAL THE MONA LISA.

On August 21, 1911, after hiding inside the storeroom,the gang casually walked out the museum with the 18 pound portrait.

This is not a page torn from a paperback. I just like to present a novel-like story about the forgeries of the masterpiece of Leonardo Da Vinci.

The master forger, Yves Chaudron was a former picture restorer specialized on copying paintings of famous artists which his accomplice self-styled Marquiz de Valfierno sold to the rich art patrons showing faked newspaper clippings on the report of theft of paintings from the museums.

After selling paintings "stolen" from Louvre Museum, Valfierno convinced an American that they could steal the Mona Liza for him. But to them the stealing was just a means to produce more fake paintings and sell them as the original. With the real Mona Liza stolen, who would not believe that it is the original?

Six Americans became proud possessors of nothing more than a clever fake of the painting.

It was only when they surrendered the paintings,when they learned that they were duped for 300,000 dollars for a poor reproductions of the smiling maiden.

Valfierno could not sell the original. It was too risky. Perugia stole it from him and tried to sell it to a Florentine art dealer. He got caught and the painting was returned to the Louvre where it had been smiling mysteriously to the visitors since 1911.

Similar crime was committed in San Francisco according to the wife of my former boss. She owned an art gallery which she sold after the husband died. So I was not surprised to see walls of the daughter's lving room covered by paintings of known artists; some original and some are repros. They cost a lot of money but are considered investments as they grow in value thru years.

I asked the old lady as to how they detect if they are not fake.

She said that it is not easy to tell if they are the original or mere reproductions.

She told a story about an artist who was caught faking old masters and selling them to rich patrons of the gallery.

The buyers of the fake paintings did not dispose of the fakes because the discovery of the fraud, brought greater value to the fake paintings.

Why am I telling this story? The last time, I visited her, the caregiver was too careless to bump the hundred year old clay sculpture of her grandmother displayed in her coffee table causing a big dent on the shoulder. I saw the old woman winced but did not utter a single word of disgust to the young lady.

That art of work for her is priceless.

The Ca t

A New Software

2005-05-25T04:57:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Only a few people in the blogosphere understand the Ca t.

Don't blame them. I don't either.

This is how jobert sees me as a software.

If you do not get the message of the comic strip, you need an upgrade.

Bwahahaha

The Ca t

IPod

2005-05-24T14:58:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Jobert of World Famous of the Philippines, quoted:

IPod Plug-In Sets Music Free "IPod users are raving about a plug-in that makes the Winamp digital jukebox a better way to manage the iPod than Apple's iTunes.

The plug-in, called ml_iPod, allows iPod users to bypass iTunes and manage music collections in Winamp instead. The iPod is supposed to work with iTunes only. A new version of the software was released Monday..."

Then he wrote:

Let's do the math:

Memory used by iTunes= 40mb

Memory used by Winamp= 130kb

The Cat sez: Let's do the math:

photo from the web from fwded mail

The Ca t

Fight POVERTY- donate please

2005-05-24T11:49:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

The most wasted of all days is that on which one has not laughed. Yesterday was that day for me. I have to make up by being charitable. Join me in the crusade of fighting poverty. DONATE TO THIS POOR MAN.

photo from the web courtesy of polo

The Ca t

Nostradamus-believe him or not

2005-05-23T20:43:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

The wife of the Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels drew attention to a set of prophecies made by Nostradamus.

The prophecies included the rise of Hitler.

It was so precise that the name of the German leader was mentioned with just one letter missed, HISTER.

Unfortunately, no one can interpret the verses that would give them the prophecy about the success of the Third Reich.

So the Propaganda machines composed fake verses prophesying the victory of Germany over the Allied power.

The British intelligence also made up "Nostradamus writings" that predicted the Allied victory over Germany.

Sabi nga ganiyan lang. kanya-kanyang diskarte.

The Ca t

Ang Parabula at Salawikain

2005-05-23T10:44:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

I like Juan Flavier. I like his column where he writes parables.

Ako rin may parabula.

Isang garapata ang gustong makilala bilang pinakapopular na garapata sa kaniyang mga kasamahan.

Nag-isip siya kung sino sa mga aso ang kaniyang aatakehin. Nakita niya ang maliit na aso. Sabi niya sa sarili, ayaw ko ito, maliit, baka pag kinagat ko, hindi pa marinig ang tahol.

Nakita niya ang magandang aso na alagang- alaga ang kaniyang sarili. Hinahangaan tuloy siya ng ibang aso at ginawa siyang parang idolo pamarisan upang sila rin ay maging malinis at maganda. Hindi naman siya naging maramot. Binigyan pa niya ang ibang aso ng magiging laruan nila para sila ay magkasama-sama.

Pag ito ang aking inatake, magiging sikat ako. Yon ang inisip niya.

Ayaw niyang madumihan. Tiyak itong sisigaw at makikilala ako kung sino ang GARAPATANG ITO na nagpabagsak sa sikat na aso.

Pero, hindi siya pinansin ng Magandang Aso. Humingi siya ng tulong sa iba pang garapata. Mga garapatang galit sa mga ibang aso dahil hindi nila mapasok ang katawan. Hindi kasi ugali ng mga asong ito ang siraan ang kapwa nila aso. Naging paninindigan na nila na malinis ang kanilang laruan at walang mga duming kutyaan, sa katawan man o sa kanilang buntot.

Ngayon gusto ba ninyong sumama sa mga garapata ?

Ang ningas ng apoy, nasa uri ng kahoy.

The Ca t

It all depends on whose ox is gored

2005-05-23T09:42:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

This is the proverb used by Martin Luther (1483-1546)which is the view of the justness of the outcome of a dispute depending on which side you are in.

Garapata: Hey, Ca t, masyadong malalim. Pakibaba para makuha ko.

The Ca t: Simple lang yan, sa mga away-away kahit sa blogosphere, kakampi ka kung saan nakita mong ikaw ay nasama sa isang naapi.

Garapata: Paki isplika nang medyo maliwanag.

The Ca t: Kagaya nang mga awards at mga titles. Kung kakampi mo ang blogger, hindi mo papansinin yon, pero sa inis kang blogger, yon ay pagyayabang.

The gain is not worth the effort

2005-05-23T04:22:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

I love this blog entry of Jobert of the World Famous in the Philippines about Donna Cruz, being a buttered errrm battered wife.

I really have no clue why it seems that the publicity gimmicks of the pr managers of these people are the physical abuses that these movie stars/starlets/soon to be stars endure for the purpose of putting them in the front page.

Don't they have some sort of evaluations if these really work for the stars? Do they court sympathy for the persons at the expense of the relatives?

Lowlife gimmicks. Nakakasuka.

So they have this new champion from the singing contest "SEARCH...whatever.

I could not imagine why his father has to agree to appear with BOy Abunda and admit that the one-time scolding and physical punishment for the refusal of the boy to join a contest is considered child battery.

The impression left to the viewers especially to the parents who dream to have succesful kids is to abuse them.

Isang beses lang ginawa and then ipinaliwanag pa niya ang dahilan, so why make it controversial as if the child was so abused that he struggled hard to win.

Ginagaya ba nila ang Michael Jackson's story?

Then, there is this nymphet, a former sexy movie star who must have employed Abunda or his other cohorts to give her another shot in the movieworld since her marriage to another bitplayer was going nowhere.

She claimed she is a battered wife again!!!!!

Sinampal siya, tapos naghiwalay sila.

Kawawa naman....When Abunda asked her to send the message to the husband...Sabi niya... I love you and that four year-marriage was a bliss (hindi exact words).

Noong tinanong kung gaano na katagal silang hiwalay. Sagot...three months.Toinktoinktoink

Cheap publicity. Kung pwede tigilan na nila. Hindi naman nakakaiyak. Nakakainis lang. Makita mo ang mga battered wives na sinasabi..nakahighlight pa.. nakalowneckline. Sheesh.

Battered wives such as Melissa Martel showed telltale signs of the abuse.

Battered wives usually endure the abuse for years and deny it.

The Ca t

Strange Stories, Amazing facts

2005-05-22T08:45:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

When I am not in the internet, I am reading books and when I am not reading books, I am watching TV.

For the last few nights, I have been dozing off ...would you believe...the last five minutes of the movies I was watching.

Parang sino pumatay, ano ang nangyari?

Feeling ko gusto kong i-rewind ang palabas.

Last night, and the other nights, I watched very interesting and intriguing movies for TV.

One was the "The Princess and the Marine".

Yes, Virginia, it was a love story.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOO.ano kanyo mahilig ako sa love story?

Batuhin ko kaya kayo ng sandwich na ang palaman ay penaut butter na may jelly.

Sa totoo lang. I did not see the first few minutes of the movie.

Ganyan naman talaga ako. I never sit down to watch TV not unless, I find the program interesting.

May nakita kasi akong mukhang Pilipina doon sa movie.

Pilipina nga. Ang role niya ay isa siyang sales associate sa mall na naging tulay noong Princess na taga Middle East at noong US marine. They communicated thru letters kahit na mayroon na ngayong internet at cell phone. Pilipinong pilipino. Naalala ko tuloy noong high school ako at ginawa rin along tulay noong dalawa kong teacher. Hindi ko alam sulat na pala ng pagtatanan ang dala-dala ko sa kapitbahay kong titser.

Anyway, so the plan of elopement and bringing her out of the country was mapped out.

The marine forged a mission order and produced a fake id for the princess as a marine.

Being an eighteen year old lady, first time to fall in love, she agreed to go with him.

She talked to her mother not to tell her about the plan to run away but to ask her if she loved her father when they got married.

Their marriage was fixed and she has never seen him until their wedding day. Now she is living in luxury and she thinks that she is blessed. Happy? happiness is relative.

That night after her talk with the mother,she run away.

Upon landing in the US, she was nabbed and detained in the US immigration using the no relative, no lawyer, no judge excuse for the speedy deportation.

At first, the authority would like to deport her but another INS guy who must have took pity on her, interceded on her behalf.

They tried to dissuade her to give up the plan of settling in the US because she had no right to be in this land where her family and sources of livelihood as "nourishment" is back home.

Writer's line or not, I like this dialogue:

Back home, we have a tree in the middle of the desert. People said, it has no right to be there since there is no water, the place is dry. But the tree lives.

Here, I am the tree and your land is my desert. I think I am going to live.

When she was told that the marine-boyfriend abandoned her, she did not believe them. According to her boyfriend, marines do not leave their posts, they wait, so she believed that he is just waiting for her call.

After meeting with the officers during her detention, she is brought back to the small detention cell where all she had was a small bed and a lavatory.

The agent asked one time, in your country, you are a princess living luxuriously, here here,it is all what you have, to which the princess responded. It is the same, I am still locked up.

What is very intriguing is the fact that the princess revealed when she was being convinced to go home.

She was seeking asylum for fear of being punished according to their laws, marrying a foreigner.

She told them the story of a woman who married a Briton.

Convinced that her family already accepted her marriage with the foreigner, the woman came home with the husband.

While the couple was in the country, the Briton was deported, woman was locked up in her parents' home and was sent to the doctor for a surgery to make her virgin again as if nothing happened.

This was a fact based story. The princess was able to marry the Marine who was demoted to corporal and was made to work with hard labor for 2 years because of the forgery he made.

Huwag muna kayong umiyak sa love story.

After five years of marriage, they divorced.

Pakisampal nga ako mouse. Sayang din ang mga sacrifices nila. Oh well. strange story indeed but amazing facts.

The Ca t

Never on a Friday

2005-05-22T00:02:00.000-07:00

Dear Ca t,

You read it right. It is my mouse writing me a letter to clarify about superstitions.

The Mouse: How come humans believe that cats bring bad luck ?

The Ca t: Where did you read that ?

Only if a black cat crosses your road.

In ancient Europe, black cats are believed to be guarding the door of hell.

The Mouse: Ngeeeee

The Ca t: Humans would adopt defenses in order to protect themselves from perils of the unknown or for the sake of luck.

The Mouse: Like what ?

The Ca t:

1. To some people, the home should be blessed with kindly spirits.

2. It is still traditional in some parts of Britain to take the embers from the old fireplace and burn them in a new one. HOUSEWARMING parties are a development of this old custom.

3. One of the most widely known superstition is the one about not walking under a ladder in case a tool or a can of paint falls from above. It was believed that walking between the ladder and a wall is breaking the triangle--the early Christian symbol for Holy Trinity.

Some superstitions transcended national boundaries. For example, in the Philippines and Nigeria, it brings bad luck to sweep the house at night.

The fear for 13 is manifested in many countries by their avoidance to the use of the number 13 in building storeys or number in the houses.

Christians associated the unlucky 13 to number of people in the Last Supper-Jesus and the twelve apostles.

In Norse mythology, the feast of the 12 gods ended in a tragedy when the 13th god, Loki provoked a fight resulting in the death of another god.

Many people dimissed superstitions as absurd.

One attempt to disprove a superstition cherished by the British Admiralty-- that of sailing except Friday was the launching of a ship.

The ship was called Friday, commanded by Captain Friday, sailed on a Friday and never came back.

The Ca t: What about you mouse? Do you know that humans think that you gnaw the dress or clothes if you hear them curse you?

The mouse:Don't know about my colleagues and cousins in the boondocks and cities.

The Ca t

Balitang Artista muna

2005-05-21T23:35:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Headline: Echo gagawa ng "soap" sa Malaysia."

The Ca t sez: panlaba o pampaligo.

Ann Curtis Ba yon? "Panoorin ho ninyo ang KAMPANYERANG KUBA ?

The Ca t sez" Ano nakuba sa kakakampanya?"

Bakit kaya ang mga TV hosts at ang mga nagiging bisita sa noontime show palaging sumisigaw?

Mga bingi ba ang mga Pinoy ?

Ito talagang mga survey survey ay ikinapuputi ng aking kilay sa konsumisyon.

Tanong: Sa pagtaas ng tuition fee, palagay kaya ninyo ay nakukuha ang dapat na kalidad ng edukasyon?

Okay ang tanong. Ang maling pinili ay ang mga respondents. Mga taga public schools.

'NO BA KAYO?

Wala bang mga Accountant ang mga artistang nasasangkot sa tax evasion?

Dapat pasagutin din sila sa kasong yan.

Sila dapat ang nag-iisplika sa kanilang kliyente kung ano ang dapat ireport, ano ang dapat ibawas at magkano ang babayaran.

Wala namang garapalan para sa mga kapatid ko sa profession. Alam naman nila na pag may withholding sa mga kinita ng artista, dapat ideclare ito at bayaran ang anumang kulang sa ibinawas.

The Ca t

Darth Vader vs the Ca t

2005-05-21T04:24:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

When 'Sith' sticks to Darth, it's brilliant. When it doesn't, it lacks luster.--Mick LaSalle, Chronicle movie critic on Star Wars Episode III "Revenge of the Sith."

When Darth "sticks" to the Ca t, it's disaster!!!

graphics by retzwerkfor the Ca t.

The Ca t

Si Pinay at Pinsan ni Kabalay

2005-05-20T16:40:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

UPdate ni Pinaysaamerika.

Sa Pagbabalik ng nakaraan

Work to death ako. Five days a week nga pero 5:30 pa lang, alis na ako ng bahay. Ang balik ko ay alas diyes.

Ang aking kasama naman ay pasok siya ng alas 2:30 ng hapon at ang uwi rin niya ay alas 10. Sabay kaming kumakain ng hapunan. Hati kami sa gastos.

Minsang umuwi ako ay may naabutan akong isang babae sa aming kusina. Kumakain. Pinsan daw ni kabalay. Galing sa Pinas, turista.

HMMMM

Sohgal na shogal ang dating niya, mamah. < Nagkakadatikwas ang mga daliri niya sa paggamit ng kubyertos. Maliliit din ang subo niya. Malamya siya kung magsalita. Ang ulo niya ay gagalaw-galaw na tila yong asong plastic na dinidsipley sa kotse, tatango-tango, iling-iling pag gumagalaw ang sasakyan.

HMMMMMMM

Kung hindi lang sinabi siyang BABAE PO AKO, mukha siyang shukling. Laki ng Adam’s Apple. Parang gusto kong pangangahin at ipaluwa ang mansanas.

Cashier daw ito sa isang hotel.

HMMMMMMM

Mukhang may kaya. KAYABANGAN.

Ikaw anong trabaho mo sa Pinas ? Pinipilit niyang kutsarain ang spaghetti. Mangani-nganing agawin ko ang tinidor, paikutin ang spaghetti at sabihing NGANGA. Pagkain ng spaghetti, tinidor ang ginagamit ano. SUYA.

Hingang malalim, hingang mababaw.

Bakit ba mainit ang dugo ko sa kaniya.

Antibiotic ang dating niya sa akin kaya lumabas na naman ang aking dugong Berde. Si Santa Inez kaya ay patrona ng mga naiinis na tao?

Ikaw anong trabaho sa Pilipinas? Tanong niya sa akin nang walang kagatol-gatol, walang preno, walang beep beep.

HMMMMMMMM

Ayyy,Ginaya ko rin ang paggalaw ng kaniyang leeg . Pati pagtikwas ng daliri. METRO AIDE.

Ay ganda mo namang METRO AIDE.

AY Ganda ko raw ow. Kung hindi doon sa ganda, siguro kinurapan ko siya nang walang tigil at Sabihin sa kaniyang GAGAH,naniwala ka naman.

Kaya lang magmumukha naman akong si ATE VI. niyan.

Basahin po ang KARUGTONG.

The Ca t

Nothing human is alien to me

2005-05-20T03:54:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Nothing human is alien to me--Tenessee Williams, The night of the Iguana.

Heavy ba ? Bigat nga. Parang hindi ko rin maaccept na masyado akong SERYWUS.

As they say, it is human nature to be imperfect. I am human and therefore I am imperfect. This is not the type of Sapagkat Kami ay Tao Lamang excuse to transgress one of the Ten Commandments, but it is rather the ability to control one's temper.

This I learned from two women.

One is not actually a woman yet, she is just a tiny four year old kid and the woman is the 84 year- old Caucasian living in the retirement home.

Last Tuesday, I helped out my friend to connect her high speed internet.She was the friend whom I helped order the computer.

While assembling the unit, I found out that the floppy disk drive was missing. I called the DELL that advertises 24/7 operation via phone calls.

I asked my friend to dial for me since I was installing the cd of the SBC dsl and it will take some time before the dsl lights go green.

So, we got a live customer service representative.

CSR: hewwo. (Intsik ang dating sa akin.)

Me: Is this Dell?

Isip ko kasi baka yong restaurant ng intsik na inoorderan namin ng food-to-go ang tinawagan ng aking kaibigan.

CSR: Yes (accent pa rin ng intsik).

Pagkatapos ng isang oras na pakikibaka sa pagreklamo na kulang ang ipinadala nilang components ng computer...

Pagktapos insinuate niyang hindi ako marunong kung ano ang floppy drive na muntik kong sagutin... HOYYYYYYYY IBM ang ikalawa kong desktop at TOSHIBA Ang aking laptop, lahat may floppy at CD/DVD anoooooooooooooooooo.

Hindi ko po sinabi yon.

Ito sabi niya sa akin.

CSR: I cannot solve the problem so I want you to call this extension number.

Me: Why did you not say so the first few minutes that I was talking to you?

Ma'am please dial this extension.

Me: Can you not just direct my call or transfer my call to whoever can solve this issue for me? You see, my knee hurts and it would take another 30 minutes just to follow all the instructions in your trunk line.(anong kinalaman ng tuhod ko sa pagtawag? NAKALUHOD ako noong kausap ko siya noh.)

By this time, Tumataas na ang aking blood pressure. Before I made another call, I remember that I have to call the old lady at the retirement home to make her feel that she is still remembered. I told her that I was talking to some CSRs and that I am pissed off. Before I hung up, SHE REMINDED ME this. JUST THINK THAT THESE PEOPLE NEED A JOB and the language barrier indicates that he is coming from a non-English speaking country. IF YOU HAVE BEEN STRETCHING YOUR PATIENCE BY A FOOT, STRETCH IT FURTHER BY A MILE.

Para akong sinampal ano. plak, plak, plak.

So I dialled the number again. This time, the CSR with the same accent offered to solve the problem for me. That time that I may be off the phone, he must have consulted the supervisor or the supervisor must have reprimanded him.I need not shout or complain for his inability to handle a problem brought to his attention.

While waiting for the dsl to be activated, my friend served a merienda.

The boy-from-hell dipped the dsl cd in the water. The mother screamed.

I rolled eyes.

The little girl was blessing me with her coke.

I feel that I am a saint.

DApat sagutin ko siya ng Amen. But I asked her mother to tell her, IT's BAD.

The little girl said, COKE IS NOT BAD. You are lying.

Napatingin ako sa nanay. Sabi ko mali ka nga.Ito ang dapat sabihin.

Coke is not bad but spraying me or someone with COKE is bad.

(

The little girl said nothing but stopped whatever she was doing. She mused.

I said, you can say sorry and I will give you another can of coke.

Hindi na niya ako winisikan.

Dapat ieexplain pala sa kanila what is bad. hindi lang yong That is bad, kasi confuse sila.

Sabi ko sa nanay niya, ayan tandaan mo yan. My Child Psychology 101.

The Ca t

My Prayer and Angels' Prayers

2005-05-19T18:51:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

What is creative writing ?

For me, creative writing is when I do not have time to think what to blog?

Let this Ca t pray.

Give me a sense of humor, Lord,

Give me the grace to share a joke,

To get some humor out of life,

And pass it on to other foke, ermm polk erm poke...!@#$^&*** crash, bang , pwong, @#$%

Nothing to worry folks, my keyboard is a Dell quiet keyboard.

I will let my angels pray for me. The angel on my left and the angel on my right. Yes folks, now you will see those little winged creatures that I talked to in some of my blogs.

Here they are.

Thought zoomed out:

GOD grant me the serenity to accept things I cannot change, the courage to change the things, I cannot accept,and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I killed today because they pissed me off.

Thought zoomed out:

And help me remember when I am really having a bad day and it seems that people are really pissing me off, that it takes 42 muscles to frown and only 4 to extend my middle finger and tell them to bite me.

Ooops, I do the praying myself.

The Ca t

Monster-in-law ?

2005-05-18T13:08:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

The movie Monster-in-law of Jennifer Lopez and Jane Fonda is now showing.

But that is not what my blog is all about.

Via my brother.

You don't have to own a cat to appreciate this one... A couple was dressed and ready to go out for the evening. They turned on a night light, turned the answering machine on, covered their pet parakeet and put the cat in the backyard. They phoned the local cab company and requested a taxi. The taxi arrived and the couple opened the front door to leave their house. The cat they had put out into the yard scoots back into the house. They don't want the cat in the house because she always tries to eat the bird. The wife goes out to the taxi while the husband goes inside to get the cat. The cat runs upstairs, the man in hot pursuit. Waiting in the cab, the wife doesn't want the driver to know the house will be empty for the night. She explains to the taxi driver that her husband will be out soon "He's just going upstairs to say good-bye to my mother." A few minutes later, the husband gets into the cab. "Sorry I took so long," he says, as they drive away. "Stupid bitch was hiding under the bed. Had to poke her with a coat hanger to get her to come out! She tried to take off so I grabbed her by the neck. Then I had to wrap her in a blanket to keep her from scratching me. But it worked. I hauled her fat ass downstairs and threw her out into the backyard!" The cabdriver hit a parked car...

BEEEE

The Ca t

StrangeLoves 2

2005-05-18T09:39:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Continuation of the compilation of Harvey Barkin in this newspaper.

1. An old British custom was to throw the wedding cake at the bride so that she would be fertile and blessed with luck.

The Ca t sez: Parang pie-throwing. SPLAT, SPLOINK. Yon pala may kasamang bato. TOINK.

2. In northern Siberia, the women are said to throw slugs at men whom they think are cool dudes.

The Ca t sez: BUTI HINDI UNDIES.

3.In old Greece, a Spartan who didn’t get hitched by age 30 lost his right to vote.

The Ca t sez: OWENO ?

In 1288, a Scottish law fined a man one pound if he refused a woman’s offer of marriage during a leap year.

The Cat sez: Mura naman.

4.Some guys never forget their lady love. King Edward VII drank champagne only from a glass molded exactly to his first mistress’ bosom.

The Ca t sez: Ano kayang shape? Arenola?

5.Louis X made love to Maria Leszcynska seven times on their first night and he told the graphic account to Premier Duc de Bourbon. In 1499, servants applauded Cesare Borgia making love to Charlotte on their honeymoon night.

The Ca t sez:Hindi kiss and tell, f...k and tell.

6.And then there were guys whose only love was to sell their wives. In Medieval Europe, many guys sold their wives for the very valuable . . . pepper. Understand this: in A.D. 476 to A.D.1453, people usually cooked rancid meat (no refrigerators, hardly any salt in the continent and most had to hunt to get meat) and only the rich remedied the situation by cooking the awful meat in musk, violets, roses, primroses and hawthorn flowers. But no spices. In the 1700s, an Englishman pawned his wife for a quart of gin. In 1803, an Australian bartered his wife for six bushels of wheat and a large pig. In 1832, Cumberland farmer Joseph Thomson sold the wifey in Carlisle market for 20 shillings and a Newfoundland dog. Another Australian bought a wife for £5 cash and a gallon of rum. Brides in the United Arab Emirates could cost up to $50,000. So some Arabs outsource their wives.

The Ca t sez: May nagbenta ng asawa sa e-bay di ba?

7.Some guys would really go to greater lengths just to satisfy their women. The Malays of Borneo used ampallang. Meaning, they perforated their penises with brass wires spread out at the ends. The poor ones used bamboo; the rich ones, ivory or silver rods with metal ball endings. The Bataks of Sumatra, disliking the feel and look of a TV antenna for their private part, wounded their penises and inserted layers of stones instead. When the wounds healed, a monster was born supposedly for the greater thrill of their women.

The Ca t sez: Ano raw?

The Ca t

Strange Loves

2005-05-17T22:06:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

You must have heard already about the Runaway Bride that baffled many for what she did in order to avoid being hitched forever to her fiance. Baffling but not strange.

Compiled by Harvey Barkin, here are some selected strange loves that you can read from this newspaper.

The best wedding any guy could ever go to is a Nasamonian ceremony. All the male wedding guests are invited to make love with the bride as a matter of courtesy.

The Ca t sez: Instead of kiss the bride... its F..ck the bride.Kabaliw.

In pre-communist Russia, the apple was a sex sign. Nothing biblical, really. When a couple got married, the peasants tied an apple by its stem to the honeymoon bed. The string connecting the apple to the bed was thrown over the lovers’ window where a hushed crowd waited expectantly. A sure sign that the lovemaking had begun was the motion of the apple. If the apple swung or shook vigorously, the crowd cheered at the robust quality of the lovemaking. If the apple broke from its stem because of violent tremors from the matrimonial bed, the earth moved for the honeymooners and the peasants found the epitome of the Russian bear.

The Ca t sez: MGA TSISMOSO.

In feudal Japan, the Samurai sent the bill to his wife after enjoying the services of a courtesan.

The Ca t sez: KABWISET

Louis XII of France annulled his marriage to Queen Jeanne because “she was excessively ugly.”

The Ca t: Hmm reminds me of someone.

Henry VIII of England played cards during his first night of marriage to Ann Cleves because she had body odor. B.O. was brought about by excessive sweating when she was nervous.

The Ca t: WALA PANG ANTIPERSPIRANT

Marie Antoinette and King Louis XVI were in no hurry. They consummated their marriage seven years after their wedding.

The Ca t sez: ALA eh, KATAGAL NAMAN.

Cesare Borgia (1475-1507) was the victim of a most cruel joke. On his wedding night, a prankster substituted laxatives with his normal medication. Frustrated was the foremost of the Hapsburgs. In the middle of the 10th century, he had to get drummers to imitate thunder while the servants on the roof poured water. You see, Mrs. H was a moody wife who did not like making love unless it rained.

The Ca t sez: KAARTE naman. hmph.

Doesn’t matter if the bride was a virgin or not to men in ancient Rome. After the marriage ceremony, she ran home and sat on the statue of Mutunus Tatunus. He is the Roman god of sex and fertility. After sitting on Mutie’s mythical endowment, the bride was ready for the real thing from her groom.

The Ca t sez: WALA NG ARAY ?

In English King Canute’s time (1016-1035), adulterous women had their noses and ears cut off.

The Ca t sez: MAy narinig ba akong Aray?

To be continued...

The Ca t

Meet the Ghost Buster

2005-05-17T13:13:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Welcome the ghostbuster errrm graft buster.

Hong Kong's former graft-buster Tony Kwok said Tuesday he had begun a European-funded project to fight corruption in 16 key government offices in the Philippines, promising dramatic results in 20 months. (hige nga ).

Named as President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo's chief adviser on anti-corruption earlier this year, Kwok said he believed the president was sincere in changing the country's reputation as one of the most corrupt places to do business in Asia.

"Corruption can be eradicated," the retired Hong Kong official said, citing the experience of the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in the territory, which he described as "probably one of the most corrupt places on earth" in the 1960s.

The Cat sez: Can he bust the ghost purchases?

You know, when there are innovations made to mouse traps to enhance their efficiency in catching mice, the rodents become innovative too to outsmart the gadgets.

When stick ons are used to catch these little mighty mice, the usefulness of sticky stuff lasts only for a day or two. The following days and thereafter, either the mice increase their running speed or they change their "paper routes" of the day.

Then the genius product developerslashinnovators launched the sound-emitting gadget that shoo away the relatives of Mickey Mouse.

Was it my imagination, when I saw mice with ear plugs circling the lighted gadget.

Sa Graft Buster, ano naman kaya ang laban ng mga Corrupt na Officials.

The Ca t

Did you get this notice from g-mail?

2005-05-17T11:45:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Our system indicates unusual usage of your account. In order to protect Gmail users from potentially harmful use of Gmail, this account has been disabled for up to 24 hours.

If you are using any third party software that interacts with your Gmail account, please disable it or adjust it so that its use complies with the Gmail Terms of Use. If you feel that you have been using your Gmail account according to the Terms of Use or otherwise normally, please contact us at gmail-lockdown@google.com to report this problem.

Since I use mozilla, i have never used my other e-mail accounts.

For those who are e-mailing me, be informed that I cannot receive your e-mail as cathy.Arggghhhhhhhhhhhh

The Ca t

Witness to a crime

2005-05-16T09:58:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

It has been a long time since I visited an old friend in her small boutique.

It was just across the beauty parlor which I visited regularly for my hair grooming.

My favorite hair dresser was out for lunch, so I decided to cross the street to say hi to my friend.

The cardboard sign "out for lunch/be back after an hour" was taped to the glass door from outside.

The boutique owner does not drive. She relies on her husband every day to get to the boutique from her home at the suburb.

Some friends must have picked her up ?

Or she had ambled down to the nearest Pinoy restaurant two blocks away?

An hour? What time did she leave ?

I started to walk back to the beauty parlor then stopped. Isn't that stupid thing to do? Taping the sign outside the glass door?

Did she have that sign coming from inside the shop, walked out and taped it outside?

Why not just flip over her clock sign which indicates what time she was out and what time she expects to be back?

Some nuts may just rip it off and throw the sign to the street for the fun of it.

I retraced my footsteps, inspected the sign and peered within.

The curtain that gives her privacy from the customer was half-drawn towards the right. Uhmmm.

I tried the door knob. Strange. It turned easily. I opened the door a few inches and called out her name.

No answer but there was movement behind the curtain.

I entered cautiously still calling her name.

I am afraid that she must have suffered a stroke and could not speak.

I immediately rushed past the rows of dresses displayed in the middle of the shop, stepping carefully not to topple any of the glass figurines on top of the glass showcase that serves as a divider between her private office and the store.

She was lying on the floor. Her skull has been bashed many times and a pool of fresh blood has been formed under her head.

Fresh blood. As a CSI fan, I thought that she was just murdered in less than an hour.

Fear gripped me with this thought and the realization why the door is opened.

The murderer could still be inside.

Is he crouched behind the desk ready to leap out and say BOO?

Then a hand covered my mouth from my behind. I saw the knife.

I was not able to shout.

I was awaken by the noise coming from the TV. I searched my body for wound. I looked around. I am in my living room and the cable is back.

Arraaay, nambatok na naman kasi.

Nanaginip lang ang Pusa noh? I was watching Law and Order when the cable service was interrupted. So i dozed off.

Then fell asleep again.

I was able to wrestle with the murderer.

He was not alone. He had three more companions who just appeared to the view.

They aimed their guns to my direction as I shield my face with my two hands.

Then with a lot of courage, I blurted out, "I can see dead people. I can make them come and save me especially my mother." (sabi siguro ng mother ko, bakit pati sa panaginip mo sinasama mo ako, buti sana kung comedy).

An empty threat.

But they did come not to kill my pursuers but to lift me high up on the air so the bad guys can not reach me.

Weird. My continuation yong nightmare ko.

Makapaligo nga.

The Ca t

(Note from the Ca t: this is not story-telling- a-lie. It really happened. My dream).

Ransom or Donation -Case of Australian hostage

2005-05-16T08:45:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

In my blog entry entitled "Australian foreign minister downer" I quoted his reaction on the Philippines' withdrawal of the Philippine troops in exchange for the freedom of Angelo Reyes.

This was his statement :

"This is the problem with the Filipino decision, you see," Downer said. "They’ve acceded to the demands of terrorists and within a day or so of the Filipinos doing that, six more people were taken hostage in Iraq." He said "these actions have encouraged terrorists to continue these threats, so now we are subjected, as the Italians are and the Poles and the Bulgarians, from this particular group,to further threats."

Now they have a new definition for ransom or for anything that may be traded off to free the hostage.

Read.

NATIONAL NEWS

16/05/2005 11:45:18

AMHoward backs Wood family's Iraq donation Prime Minister John Howard says a donation to the Iraqi people from the family of Australian hostage Douglas Wood does not amount to a ransom payment.The family of Mr Wood has promised his Iraqi captors what it calls a generous donatio n if the 63-year-old engineer is released unharmed. The Australian has been in captivity for more than two weeks, held by a rebel group calling itself the Shura Council of the Mujahideen of Iraq.The last official word from Mr Wood's captors was over a week ago, when they demanded the withdrawal of Australian troops from Iraq and issued a DVD showing Mr Wood battered, bruised and pleading for help.When Mr Howard was asked on Monday whether he thought the family's donation offer could be seen as a ransom payment to the hostage-takers, he replied: "No I don't, it is a desperately sad situation," he told Southern Cross Broadcasting."What I've tried to do in this case is to see that everybody is working together, that everybody knows what the other person's doing."He said the family was acting admirably given the tragic circumstances."So dignified, obviously very concerned about their brother, but understanding the broader issues at stake," he said."

Pardon me, sir?

Pakisabunutan nga ang buhok ko.

The Ca t

Who is Vivian Alvarez?

2005-05-16T01:36:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

I blogged about the journey back home of the "wrongly deported woman" Vivian Alvarez to Australia after staying in the hospice in Olongapo, Philippines for four years.

According to the news article, she figured in a vehicular accident, suffered memory loss, got no papers to show that she was an Austalian citizen, so she was deported to the Philippines in 2001.

Being left brain domninant, I could not resist asking many questions while reading the story about this poor woman.

I was reading the news about Australia's efforts to free the Australian hostage in Iraq, (this is a separate blog) when I came across another news article about Vivian Alvarez Solon, aka Vivian Young, aka Vivian Wilson.

Who is Vivian Alvarez?

The news said that she will be reunited with her sons.

How come, the husband's whereabouts were never mentioned?

How come one son was in the foster care and one son was in high school; are there no immediate relatives of the husband ?

How come, she has had no contacts with her relatives in the Philippines ?

How did she become an Australian citizen ?

How come after 18 years in Australia, she was reported to be unable to talk in English?

Who was looking for her or who reported that she was missing?

How did they find out about the blunder of the Immigration department of Canberra.

This is one news that says who Vivian Alvarez is.

Vivian Alvarez, a dual Australian-Filipino citizen, was injured in a car accident and mistakenly deported from Australia after she told authorities - apparently because of memory loss - that she wasn't Australian and had been kept as a sex slave in Brisbane, according to Australian media reports.

So yeah , we know that, it is all over the newspapers, local and international.

I tend to believe this version.

The woman, who gave her name as Vivian Alvarez and spoke little English, had married an Australian and become an Australian citizen. However, he later abandoned her, after which she said she was imprisoned and forced to act as a sex slave in a Brisbane suburb. She escaped, only to be arrested after being injured in a traffic accident in Lismore, NSW.

Her story was so confused and appalling that she appears to have been deemed either mentally unwell or untruthful by officials prior to her deportation. And now, despite extensive (and belated) investigation by Australian officials, she has disappeared altogether.

It answers several questions that I raised about the woman, especially about her husband.

This news tell another story that supports the sex slave issue.

Betty Graham-Higgs, a former social worker at Lismore Base Hospital in northern NSW, told ABC TV, Ms Alvarez had been brought in to the hospital by a passer-by who found her "lying in a sort of gutter", contradicting reports that Ms Alvarez had been injured in a car accident before her deportation."She couldn't walk and she never walked when she was in Lismore Base Hospital," she told ABC TV."The only way she could have been injured like that is if she was beaten up."

Interesting ,isn't it?

But wait,this story was about her last few hours before she was deported.

Vivian Alvarez's last hours in Australia before being deported four years ago were at a Brisbane motel guarded by Immigration officials, a group of Filipino and religious workers say.She was shaking, complaining she had no money or clothes and that her passport had been taken, the group told ABC TV.Two members of the group spoke to her through the door of the motel room, which was blocked by the officials who ordered them to leave.

So what drove the Government to look for Vivian Alvarez, when a statement was made by Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone that her department has no responsibility to people who have already been deported.

Only after a review prompted by the revelation that mentally ill Australian woman Cornelia Rau had been held in the Baxter Immigration Detention Centre for months did the Department realise its mistake.

Immigration officials were unable to locate Ms Solon, and her whereabouts were only discovered when a priest at the convent where she was being cared for saw a news report on the case.

The last question is how come she has no contact with her family in the Philippines?

Horror stories about interracial marriages between Australian men and Filipino women revealed that mostly these women were kept apart from their families back home by severing the communications.

The racist issue is going to be brought out as an issue in the effort to demand for compensation from the government.

But Alvarez is not only the victim of the ineptness of the commission.

The ABC TV's Lateline program has revealed that more than a hundred people have been wrongfully held in Australian detention centres over the last three years.

The figure has been leaked from the government's secret inquiry into wrongful detention, which was prompted by the shocking case of German-speaking Australian Cornelia Rau. A schizophrenia sufferer, Ms Rau was discovered wrongfully incarcerated in Baxter Detention Centre last year by her sister, who had searched for her since her disappearance nine months earlier.

Pinag-isip ko ba kayo ?

Ang lagay ako lang.

The Ca t

Tula para sa isang Kaibigan

2005-05-15T09:48:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Paminsan-minsan po ako ay humahabi ng tula. Alam kong hindi kasing galing kagaya nina Angelo, Jardine at iba pang mga manunulat ng tula dito sa cyber world (huwag babatuhin si Pusa. toink) subali't pinapalagay ko na sapat naman upang ibahagi ang aking ibig ipahatid.

Sa isang kaibigan na ngayon ay naghihirap ang kalooban sa pagkaawa sa kapatid na maysakit. Frat, para saiyo.

Guhit ng liwanag galing sa taas, Bigay niya sa taong madilim ang landas na tinatahak. Parang nagsasabing hindi ito ang wakas. May naghihintay pang pag-asa at sa lungkot ay may lunas.

Nang gunawin ang mundo, bahaghari ang dumating. Parang nagbabadyang pangamba ay alisin. Kagaya rin ng taong sukdol ang hilahil. May bukas pa, kahit gabi ay madilim.

Hirap ng loob, lahat ay nakakaramdam, Pagpatunay na tayo’y may pusong nilalang, Sakit ay nagpapagupo sa mortal na katawan, hindi sa kaluluwang buhay ay walang hanggan.

cb2005

The Ca t

Ang Mamamatay

2005-05-14T20:35:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Karamihan sa nakakita ng pumatay sa isang mamamahayag, pulitiko o kaya isang sikat na tao, ay nagkakasundo sa kanilang paglalarawan sa kriminal.

Tahimik pagdating at pag-alis, walang mababakas na takot, lungkot o awa sa mukha. Tila isang rebulto; malamig, walang puso.

Ang kinaiiba nito sa ibang kriminal ay hindi sila pumapatay ng ibang tao kung hindi ang binayaran lang sa kanila.

Sa dami ng pinapatay na mamamahayag ngayon, hindi ko maiwasang maalala ang nakaraan.

Umaga noon nang nasa opisina na ako at nakikinig ng balita. May pinatay malapit lang sa aming opisina. Binaril habang nakaupo sa kotse subali’t ligtas ang asawang kasama.

Parang kilala ko ang pangalang binanggit. Kilala ko nga. Kausap ko silang magkikita kami sa opisina nila para sa isang pinag-uusapan naming proyekto.

Dali-dali kong tinawag ang driver upang dalhin ako sa opisinang nabanggit. Wala na sila. Dinala na sa pulisya ang bangkay kasama ang maybahay.

Naging kaibigan ko sila dahil sa aking boss. Paborito akong alaskahin noong matandang lalaki pag tungkol sa gobyerno dahil siya ay Marcos forever. Hindi niya matanggap na wala na ang kaniyang dating amo. Ako ang pinagbubuntunan niya ng inis dahil nabalitaan niya na kasama ako sa EDSA. Nang nagdaang gabi ay naanyayahan kaming dumalo sa kaarawan ng isang kaibigan nilang consul.

Masama ang aking pakiramdam kaya kahit anong tampo ng kanilang anak sa akin Ay hindi ako napilit na sumama.

Dumating ang kaniyang anak. Sinabi niya ang sama ng loob niya sa akin. Kung sana raw ay sumama ako ng gabing yaon, marahil daw ay hindi makapasok ng maaga ang mga magulang nila dahil magsasaya kaming magkakasama bago umuwi.

Ugali na kasi naman ang dumaan sa isang kapihan bago tuluyang umuwi, saan mang kami nanggaling at kahit madaling araw na.

Nagkausap kami ng maybahay ng pinatay Isa siyang manananggol at naging Bise Presidente ng isang bangko.

Hindi siya umiiyak. Shock pa siya.

Yumakap siya nang ako ay makita. Ako ang unang-unang dumating dahil malapit nga ang opisina niya sa amin at talagang dapat kaming magkita ng umagang yaon.

Hindi niya makakalimutan ang ilang minutong iyon sa kaniyang buhay.

Nakaupo ang kaniyang asawa sa harapan ng kotse, katabi niya, nang isang lalaki ang yumuko sa may bintanang nakabukas at sinilip sila. Ilang saglit lang ay pumutok ang baril at lumungayngay ang katawan ng kaniyang asawa.

Tiningnan niya ang mukha ng pumatay. Mapula ang mata, makapal ang labi, walang damdaming mababakas sa pagkatao nito. Sumigaw siya ng bakit. Hindi niya naisip na baka naman siya balikan. Tiningnan lang siya at tahimik na lumayo.

Isang bala lang binayaran, isang katawan lang ang nalugmok.

Sa kanila, hanapbuhay lang yaon. Ang pagkaalam namin ay mula limang libo pataas ang bayad sa ganoong gawain.

Patuka sa manok kung ihahambing ang mga matatakpang katiwalian sa pagpinid ng bibig ng mga mamahayag.

Ikanga weatherweather lang. Noon ang lucrative cottage industry ay pagkidnap ng mga Intsik na mayayaman. Ngayon naman ay mga hired assassins.

Ang tanong, may big boss ba sila na siyang nagbibigay ng proyekto o kusang palo lang sila?

Kung baga sa marketing, word of mouth promotion.

The Ca t

Why did the chicken cross the road ?

2005-05-14T18:56:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

I saw this question posted in a forum, several years back with dozens of possible answers.

Now I know why, the chicken crossed the road.

Linc and Helena Moore may have finally learned the answer to that age-old question: Why did the chicken cross the road? Because the chicken doesn't know jaywalking is illegal. Kern County Sheriff's Deputy J. Nicholson does know, however. The deputy issued a ticket March 26 because one of the couple's chickens allegedly impeded traffic in Johannesburg, a rural mining community near Ridgecrest, some 220 miles northeast of Los Angeles. The Moores were in Superior Court on Friday to plead not guilty. A trial was scheduled for May 16.

Sa Pinas naman, bakit tumawid ang manok sa kalsada ?

Posibleng mga kasagutan.

1. Kasi alam niyang bawal ang tumawid doon. hahahaha , this is not a joke.

2. Kasi may makakasalubong siyang nagtitinda ng lechong manok.

The Ca t

Tattoo

2005-05-14T07:55:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

ANG AKING TATTOO

Fourth round sa blogkadahan. Tinggggggggg (bell ho yon). Hindi ho mahirap ang topic ngayon.

Ang love/hate kong body part.

Ang mahirap lang ay kung paano ko susulatin ng may humor.

If eyes are windows of the soul, then my eyes are the Windows XP of my being. ehek.

Sabi ng isa kong kaibigan, ang mata ko raw ay dolorosa. Malungkutin. Akala mo naiiyak palagi. Lalo pag gutom.

(ang larawan pong ito ay kinunan habang tinitigan ko ang pagkain).

So nasaan ang titulo kong tattoo?

Basahin po dito.

The Ca t

Hiram na Kultura ?

2005-05-14T00:41:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Nanonood ako ng noon time show kung saan ang unang number ay rap music at "New York street dancing". Yong paikot-ikot at pasirko- sirko sa lapag.

Sa audience ay may naligaw na mga Puti.

Ano kaya ang nasa isipan nila?

Na ang ating kultura ay gaya sa mga Itim na nasa kalsada ng magulong lungsod ng New York?

Ano rin kaya ang nasa isip nila na habang sila ay manipis ang suot dahil sa init ng panahon sa Pilipinas, ang mga artista naman natin ay naka snow cap, nakaleather jacket at nakalong boots ?

Hindi ko sinabing magsayaw sila ng pandanggo o itik-itik pero marami naman sa ating mga dance groups ang magagaling sa choreography na nakakaimbay ding sumayaw.

Marami rin sa ating mga banda ang magagaling kumanta ng Pinoy music na masisigla ang kumpas.

Palagay ko hindi naman ang mga tinedyer na mahilig sa rap music ang target ng programang ito dahil karamihan na nandoon ay may mga edad na.

Mula nang maglagay ng rapper sa Dong Puno sa programa niya noon, hindi na ako sumilip ulit.

A ewan ko. Ang alam ko ang mga has-been na mga entertainers diyan sa Pinas ay pumapatok dito sa Estet.

The Ca t

Happy Birthday-George Lucas

2005-05-14T00:31:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

George Lucas the American film director and producer of Star Wars is celebrating his birthday today, May 14. He was born in Modesto, Calif. in 1944.

Lucas's first film, THX-1138 in 1970 was not successful, but his next two; American Graffiti in 1973 and Star Wars in 1977 set the course for filmmaking in the next decade.

The first made song scores an acceptable alternative to symphonic orchestrations; the second presented a simple action scenario bolstered by amazing special effects. Both were tremendously successful, the latter becoming the first film to top \$200 million at the box office. Lucas then formed Lucasfilm (which has since become a business conglomerate) and produced two further installments of the Star Wars tale, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). In both films he promoted a special effects-driven aesthetic through the formation of Industrial Light and Magic, a company that produces state-of-the-art effects for films.

Lucas also produced the popular Indiana Jones trilogy, which mixed spectacular stunt work with a seriallike content of inescapable traps from which the stalwart hero escapes.

The Ca t

The Empire that Star Wars built

2005-05-14T00:07:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

George Lucas, the producer of the most popular film series in history, Star Wars is moving the Headquarters of Lucasfilm from his Skywalker Ranch to the 350 million Golden Gate home in Presidio, San Francisco.

Who would not remember Presidio?

When my lady boss picked me up from San Francisco Airport that day of Wednesday and welcomed me to the Golden State, she jokingly told me that I need to kiss a stone in a park near the Golden Gate.

That was Presidio.

She got lost in the winding roads of the place that we had to stop and asked some joggers in order to find the exit.

The next time, I heard about Presidio was from an office temp. She was a wife of a military guy and the family used to live in the military barracks inside Presidio. Her autistic son died in the apartment that he set on fire while the mother was out for a few minutes to get some goods from the nearby store.

When the place was up for sale, my former employer who had lived in the vicinity for 40 years made his last stroll to show me where he taught his son to ride a bike; where they jogged in the morning or merely looked up at trees that had been there for centuries, it was their playground. Now, it is George Lucas'.

Yes the empire is not in the universe, it is just a few minute- ride away.

The Ca t

The Journey back home at ang Bakal na Puso

2005-05-13T19:21:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Parang teleserye. Wala lang iyakan at OA ng mga artista. For four years, Australian government deprived her of her life, her children and her home.

Ito ho ang excerpt ng balita.

Vivian starts journey back to family in Australia

Wearing a pink dress and a shy smile, wheelchair-bound Vivian Alvarez left her hospice home of four years yesterday to begin the journey back to her family in Australia after a deportation bungle that has embarrassed Canberra.

"I had an accident, I told them I was an Australian citizen and that my passport was not with me," she told reporters here.

She said she was to have picked up one of her sons at a day care center that day, but was instead detained by immigration authorities. Reports from Australia said her first son had been in foster care for the past four years, while another son was to set to finish high school.

Ang mga Pinoy talaga, mapagpatawad. Mag banyaga, magkababayan, mag sundalong mga nag-alsa. Napapatawad pa rin.

Pero iba si Cristina Decena.

Sino siya mama ? Siya ang sinaktan, niloko at iniwan ni Philip Salvador.

Kahit si Raul Gonzales ay kaniyang haharapin.

Philip Salvador's ex-lover files case vs DOJ chief

Cristina Decena, former live-in partner of action star Philip Salvador, filed a case before the Commission on Appointment against Justice Secretary Raul Gonzales.The complaint was made following the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) dismissal of estafa charges Decena filed against Salvador.Decena claimed Gonzales hastily junked her case against Salvador when it usually takes 10 months to review such petition.The review on the estafa case against the action star took only two months.Decena also accused Senator Ramon "Bong" Revilla of exerting his influence on the DOJ.She said she is planning to file a case against Revilla at the Senate Ethic Committee.

Nakakuha kayo ng babaeng di umuurong. Buti nga.

The Ca t

WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING

2005-05-13T03:04:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

I’ve got a friend who is enjoying his granddaughter immensely that everytime the little angel has new gimmicks and new words, he would come and happily tell me about them.

Remember this blog of mine about lolo and apo-baby talk.

He availed of early retirement from the State so he is now enjoying his pension while he's active in his Church.

Before, we used to talk about politics, religion and other stuff. He has been here in the States so long that he tells me every bits of information that a not so new-babe-in-the-block like me find useful. Now we talk about the APO. He was busy working when his children was growing up that he did not have the chance to enjoy his kids.

Much of his observations about his grown up kids are expressed in this poem sent to me by my brother.

Each of us (parent, grandparent, aunt , uncle, teacher or friend) influence the life of a child.

SO TO ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO DO SO MUCH FOR OTHERS AND WHO THINK THAT NO ONE EVER SEES AND CARES, REMEMBER THAT LITTLE EYES SEE A LOT.

WHEN YOU THOUGHT I WASN'T LOOKING

(Written by a former child)

A message every adult should read, because children are watching you and doing as you do, not as you say.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you hang my first painting on the refrigerator and I immediately wanted to paint another one.

When you thought I wasn't looking I saw you feed a stray cat, and I learned that it was good to be kind to animals.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you make my favorite cake for me and I learned that the little things can be the special things in life.

When you thought I wasn't looking I heard you say a prayer, and I knew there is a God I could always talk to and I learned to trust in God.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you make a meal and take it to a friend who was sick, and I learned that we all have to help take care of each other.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you give of your time and money to help people who had nothing and I learned that those who have Something should give to those who don't.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw you take care of our house and everyone in it and I learned we have to take care of what we are given.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw how you handled your responsibilities, even when you didn't feel good and I learned that I would have to be responsible when I grow up.

When you thought I wasn't looki ng, I saw tears come from your eyes and I learned that sometimes things hurt, but it's alright to cry. When you thought I wasn't looking, I saw that you cared and I wanted to be everything that I could be.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I learned most of life's lessons that I need to know to be good and productive person when I grow up.

When you thought I wasn't looking, I looked at you and wanted to say, "Thanks for all the things I saw when you thought I wasn't looking."

The Ca t

God's Blog?

2005-05-12T05:12:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

TOOOOOOT TOOOOOOT TOOOOOOOT TOOOOOOT

I' ve been dialing the number and all, I get is a busy line.

TOOOOOOT TOOOOOOT TOOOOOOOT TOOOOOOT

If you are not going to pick up the phone, I am going to hung up.

Suddenly, I got an instant message.

G: you got a question ?

Me: I do not know u. U r not in my buddy list. I do not talk to strangers online.

G: But you have been calling my phone. I've got this caller id now.

Me: Huhhhhh ? Are you one of my chatmates? But i do not chat with anybody anymore. Besides, I had this server disconnected already Weird. Bye.

G: Wait, here see my pic. I am sending you thru e-mail.

Me: How did u get my e-mail address?

G: I have also your ICQ.

Me: But I do not have an ICQ.

G:HA hahaha, Intelligent Cat Quotient, I mean.

Me: Bwahahaha

G: open your e-mail.

Me: Which e-mail address. I got several that I forgot some passwords.

G: all your e-mail addies.

Me: Ow, so you are a spammer.

Curiosity kills a cat. I opened my e-mail.

(pic via forwarded e-mail)

G: See I am always on line now.

ME: Hmmm impressive. You go with the times. Unlike some of your church leaders who are still centuries backwards when it comes to role of women in your organization.

Just one advice, GOD, if you take one from a clueless Ca t.

G: What is it ?

Me: Get a cable or a high speed internet so your phone is free for callers like me.

G: but don't you want to chat with me online or via e-mail.

Me: Honestly, no. with G-mail, I cannot delete messages. I am not a good typist, either that I hate instant messages.

Me: Errrm , do you have also unauthorized blog like your pope? You want me to set up one for You?

The Ca t

MOE

2005-05-11T14:26:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Today is the birthday of my twin brothers.

Happy Birthday to YOUS.(plural di ba?)

My brother sends me e-mails (like what you will find below) that friends of his friends of his friends of his friends forward him.

This one is for a very loyal reader/slash e-mail forwarder too, bayi from Malaysia who is the HR head of their company.

Date: May 12, 2005

Re: Mandatory Office Equipment (MOE)

Effective immediately, all employees will be required to maintain in their workplace the following mandatory office equipment, ("MOE") and shall become familiar with its proper use.

The intent is to relieve stress, promote a friendly work environment and assist employees in generally coping with their co-workers and supervisors.

All employees are to keep with them MOE consisting of two (2) paperclips and two (2) elastic bands. See Figure 1 below.

Fig 1: MOE - Paperclips and Elastic Bands.

If you do not already have access to this equipment, please get it from the supply cabinet. All MOE shall be assembled and kept ready as shown in Figure 2.

Whenever an employee deems it necessary, or if your supervisor drops off a ton of work on your desk at 4:45 pm on a Friday, place MOE on head as illustrated in Figure 3.

We hope that this will help you and promote a friendlier work environment.

Enjoy your day.

The Management

PS May also be used at home on weekend.

The Ca t

Friends where art thou ? Boy from hell part 2

2005-05-11T07:09:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Parang binabad sa suka ng mukha ng aking kaibigan. Para tuloy ayaw kong maniwala na ito ang maton sa Pinas na minahal at pinaka salan ng aking kaibigan. Siya yong tatay noong boy-from-hell.

Hindi niya maesplika na knee-jerk reaction ang pagkakasipa niya sa bata.

Kinunan nila ang retrato ng tuhod ng bata na may bruise.

Parang nakita kong kumumpas ang anghel ko sa kaliwa.

May kalokohan na naman itong gagawin.

Digital camera. Hinintay nilang lumabas ang image, pagkatapos nakita sa screen ang gusto nilang retratuhin.

Hindi lumabas ang tuhod. Yong video game na pinaglalaruan niya ang lumabas. Napa ahhhh ang SW.

Tumaas ang aking kilay.

Ulit. Ganoon din. Focus, click and wait.

Iba naman ang lumabas.

Uhmmm... Salbaheng anghel ko sa kaliwa talaga.

Ikatlo, lumabas din pero malabo ang bruise. Parang drowing lang.

Paalam na sila. Wala naman daw silang findings na magiging basehan para siya ikulong. Pero isang buwan ding dadalawin ng SW ang bahay para mamonitor ang progress ng disiplina sa bata.

Niyaya ako ng batang maghalo-halo.

Pero dumating na ang computer na inorder ko para sa kanila. (Bayad nila ha. Hindi nga lang sila marunong makipag-usap). Wala po silang mataas na pinag-aralan at ang trabaho nila ay hindi nagbibigay ng pagkakataon para sila ay matutong makipag-usap sa banyagang wika.

Assembler naman ako ngayon. Ala ,ayaw umilaw ang monitor. Yon pala hindi ikinabit yong plug. Tsee. (Bulong noong aking anghel sa kaliwa. Technologically challenged).

Order na rin ng internet high speed para sa kanila.

Pinay ang kausap ko. Mabait siya.

Pero ibinigay niya ako sa isang palagay ko ay call center. Para raw bigyan kami ng temporary internet connection habang nahihintay ng modem.May accent.

Tech: What's the dsl phone numbah please.

Me: You mean the phone number.

Tech: The dsl number.

Me: we got no dsl yet. what we need is a temporary internet connection while waiting for the modem.

Tech: But you have to set up an account with the ....

Me: Now you listen (Moron...hindi ko sinabi yan, sa isip ko lang). I (para sa kaibigan ko) have already an account with the phone company, i just made an order for the high speed internet; it was confirmed BUT it will take them 4-5 days to deliver the modem and other equipment needed for connection. so the lady suggested that we can ask you guys to have a temporary internet connection.

Techie: How can i do that, if you have no modem.

Me: Don't know. If it is not possible why did the lady made the suggestion. Anyway thank you. Blammmm

Ringgggg.

CSR: Maam, hindi pala kayo nagkaintindihan noong techie.

Me: Hindi naman Tagalog ang salita ko.

CSR: Three way calling ho tayo, ieexplain ko na dial up connection ang ibigay sainyo.

ME: Wag na. Gagamitin ko na lang itong mga libreng internet connection dito sa computer. tenks. makakalbo ako.

Pero dapat pala natanggap ko na kasi ang mga libreng aol at iba pang servers ay wala naring dial-up. Arghhhh.

Natapos kong i-connect pati printer, Office 2003. hmmm mahiram nga pero student and teacher version. Noon binili ko nga tinanong ako noong pinay sa sales associate kung teacher ako.

Wala na yong magulong bata sa tabi ko na pumasok sa kahon ng computer. Sinarhan ang sarili niya at nagsisigaw ng let me out.

Sabi ng anghel ko sa kanan. Buksan mo.

Sabi ng anghel ko sa kaliwa. I-shipback mo sa Dell.

Pagbaba ko ay may mga nag-iinuman sa baba. Barkada noong asawa. Malaki na ang ngiti niya ngayon, hindi kagaya kanina na hindi mo halos makausap.

Sabi nga ni Macabenta, Filipinos metamorphosed when they migrate to the US and other parts of the world.

Sabi ko sa sarili ko. OO nga pero may dala pa rin silang masamang bisyo. Ang hindi nga lang nila nadala ay yong kanto at ang mesa na puno ng beer at marka demonyo.

Dito ay formica table ang nasa harapan nila at mga malililiit na bote ng mamahaling alak.

Pinakilala ako ng kaibigan ko. Ako raw ang anghel niya. Sa isip ko at kayo ang mga demonyo.

Tanong ko, anong okasyon ang selebrasyon.

Sabi birthday pero alam ko selebrasyon yon dahil di siya nakulong.

Nasaan sila nang siya ay iniimbestigahan. Kasama silang nanakot sa kaniya at pinapayuhan siyang umuwi na sa pinas.

Buti na lang nakinig siya sa payo ko na harapin ang problema imbes na iwanan.

May mga kaibigan talaga, kasama lang sa sarap, hindi sa hirap.

Tseee. sabi ng anghel ko sa kaliwa. Tsee, sabi rin ng anghel ko sa kanan.

Himala, nagkasundo sila ngayon.

The Ca t

Bloggers beware according to titorolly and bat

2005-05-10T13:10:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

No call from my friend. Memya siguro ang feeback kung ikukulong ang father o hindi.

So iba naman ang pinakialaman ni Pusa.

Blog ni Batjay tungkol sa blogger sa Singapore na isinara ang kaniyang webblog dahil sa bantang legal action dahil sa defamatory statement. Sinundan ito ni titorolly ng kaniyang blog na bloggers beware.

Hindi ko malaman kung alin ang nakakainsulto o nakakasirang puring sinabi niya kaya ito ako, hanap ng balita at ang statement ng Singaporean na nakakasirang puri.

Ito po ang balita na ngsasaad kung ano ang kaniyang kasalanan.

Ano nga kaya ang masasabi ng ating mga lawyers- bloggers?

A Singaporean graduate student has been forced to close his weblog under threat of a potentially ruinous defamation suit from the government A*Star agency for science, research and technology.

Chen Jiahao, who goes by the online name AcidFlask, closed down his weblog caustic.soda after A*Star threatened legal action. Chen had revealed the unfairness of the system of state loans for undergraduate studies – appropriately known as bonding - in comments to the media and on his blog. He had also commented on publicly accessible statistics that showed that Singapore's investment in research produced much paper, but little result in terms of peer review credit. The site has now closed and links to an apology to A*Star and its chairman Philip Yeo that reads in part: "The price of maintaining the content which used to be accessible at this URL has become too high for the author to afford."

At ito naman po ang kaniyang statement.

Anong masasabi ng Pusa? Dito sa atin, ang presidente tinatawag na pandak, pinaaalis sa Malacanan, nakatawa pa.

haay buhay, pag lukso, hipon.

The Ca t

The Boy from Hell (Again)and Halo-halo

2005-05-09T16:45:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

My purpose in writing this incident is to inform the peeps in the Philippines how they take the child abuse seriously in the the United States that a teacher is required to report any incident that may indicate of physical abuse by the parents.

Yon hong mga singit na little angels is to break the monotony. Hindi lang ho ako talaga makapagsulat ng seryoso).

In one of the noontime shows in TFC, I watched the host ignored the small girl's statement that her brother is not only requiring her to work but he is also hurting her. Diba kainis yon?

Ito ang kwento ko.

The telephone rang as I was drying my hair.

It was my friend.

Phone: Got a problem.

The Ca t: What's new?

Phone: Got this phone call from school. Teacher asked me to explain the bruise in my boy's shin. He told the teacher that his father kicked him when he refused to clean his room.

The Ca t: Is that true ?

Phone: Partly true.

The Ca t: Which is the truth and which is the lie?

Phone: It was not a kick, it was merely to stop him from pouring the soda on the carpet.

He was not asked to clean the room.

The Ca t: How did the teacher see the bruise. Was he wearing short pants?

Phone: He showed to the teacher.

The Ca t: How can I help you? I am not a lawyer.

Phone: The teacher told me that cops and a social worker are coming to our house to interrogate us about the incident and I am afraid that they may take my boy from us.

The Ca t: You were in this situation two years ago and this is the second time. Frankly, I do not know what to say.

Phone: My husband left the house and I do not know where he is. He's planning to go home to the Philippines with the kids and never come back.

The Ca t: Let me browse in the internet and see what information I can get to understand better this situation.

A few minutes after, the phone rung again.

Phone: They're here, the cops and a social worker. Can you please come? I want somebody with me. You know I hardly can express myself.

The Ca t: I know you got that insurance in your company which gives you a free few hours to consult lawyers on a retainer about legal issues.

Phone: I do not have time right now. I even call in sick because I am afraid they might get my children when they do not find any of us.

The Ca t: Okay, I'll be there.

(I asked my two little angels jumped inside my tote bag. Isa sa kanan kong balikat uupo at ang isa sa kaliwa).

When I came, the cops have already left because the camera malfunctioned and they decided to come back tomorrow. It was the social worker, a Filam married to a Japanese who was there.

SW: So why didn't you insist to the doctor of the case that you think that the boy has ADHD?

Friend: She said that the behaviour is normal for his age.

The Ca t: If I may butt in. She is a friend of mine and I was there when this boy was born, I saw him when he was growing up and I attended family celebrations.

I did not totally agree with the doctor that it is a normal behaviour, hurting other children without provocation, spitting to people and grabbing toys of children he hardly knew.

(The little angel on my left said, dagdag mo tinawag kang stoopid. The little angel on my right said. Huwag kang makialam).

SW: Hurting other children without provocation may stem from disability to express. He was considered slow in development.

The Ca t: Yep so that makes him a special case and not normal. Besides, as you can see, he can already talk and yet he still loves hurting playmates including his sister. A few days ago, he gave her karate chops. He got lots of citations from the school bus driver that he was put into a harness. And he considered this normal ?

(The little angel on my left made an akimbo and blurted out...galing bata. )

This time, the boy was pounding on the table glass. I looked at him and he stopped.

(Little angel on my left: Pitikin ko kaya ito)

SW: It seemed he is afraid of you?

The Ca t : Yes, I made him understand that when he is in my house, I do not want him to break my glass display. My house is not child-friendly. Every time, he misbehaves, I give him that do/not/mess/up/with/me/look but I have never touched him even when he was in that Christmas party where he gave that little girl a big blow on her stomach.

(Litte angel on my left: Kumg hidi ko pa alam na gusto mong ihagis sa labas.) (Little angel on my right: SSSSSHH).

SW: It must be the consistency in the discipline. If one parent is strict and the other is not, the boy is going to be confused. With that story of yours, I can see that young as he is, he can already recognize people who means business.

After lengthy conversations dealing with child discipline,(Bakit ba ito pinakialaman ko rin). (Litte angel on my left: Pakialamera ka naman talaga) I asked the social worker what comes next after that interview with the mother (Ako pala ang sumasagot).

SW: My role here is to see if the boy is safe from this time up to tomorrow until we come for the police officers to conduct forensic investigation about the reported child abuse.

The Ca t: What does that mean?

The mother was worried because she was insinuating that she is taking custody of the boy.

SW: It is just a matter of documenting the case by taking pictures and interrogating the father with regards his ways of disciplining his children.

The Ca t: Look, I can understand your concern and your responsibility as a social worker but let the mother assure the safety of her kid.

I know these people are not violent people to kill their boy out of rage.

Little angel on my left: Paano ka nakasiguro?)

SW: But a child does not tell a lie. So when he told his teacher that he is being punished by his father physically, we are afraid that it could risk his safety.

The Ca t: I do not think that children do not tell lies. They do, to save their butts. But as you can see , the bruise does not show any injury that needs medical attention. It is simply a discoloration because the boy easily bruises.

I can understand the system and we are grateful for that concern. But observing the little boy while you are here, what can you say about him, honestly.

(Little angel on the left: He is a boy from hell. Magandang kampon. hihihihihihi).

SW: Well, there are indications that there may be personality disorder this early and the parents have to advocate for that with their doctor so a program can be prepared for his therapy.

The Ca t: Does this need to separate him from the parents. Isn't it more effective if this is going to be done in the home environment where the boy is not going to be alienated that would make him act negatively towards the parents.

SW: Frankly, what I can do is to talk to the doctor and make the recommendation.

The Ca t: What about the father? Can you give me a worst scenario while this is being investigated?

SW: The worst scenario is he may be imprisoned.

The Ca t: What's the crime?

SW: Child abuse.

The Ca t: Don't they see the gravity of the case. Like,there are no evidences that this child was really abused. This is a matter of disciplining the kid.

SW: Yes, but we would also like to see how the discipline is being carried out. Was the spanking at the height of his anger or was it when he already cooled down and can explain to the boy, why he is being punished?

The Ca t : I will advise the father to make himself available tomorrow. You see his problem is more on communication. He cannot speak English and has inferiority complex.

SW: I can translate for him.

The Ca t: Nakakapagsalita ka ba ng Tagalog? Bakit pinahirapan mo pa ako.

(Little angel on the left: Pahiya ka no. Bigla siyang hulog. Sinapok ng aking little angel on the right).

She left without taking the boy. My friend, the mother took the boy, the little girl and me to Red Ribbons for halo-halo.

Babaw ng kaligayahan. But I can see the mother felt a temporary relief.

Will you be there tomorrow? she asked.

I think, what they need is to talk to your husband. This is some sort of knowing him personally thru his responses.

I should not be around. You just tell him to ask for translations if he cannot understand.

My friend said thank you.

The Ca t

Pahabol ng isang Asawa para sa Mother's Day

2005-05-09T09:14:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Natuto po akong sumulat ng tula sa pakiki- sama sa mga magagaling na humabi ng tula.

May isang grupo ho akong nasamahan na halos ang miyembro yata ay tumutula. May seryoso, may tungkol sa pag-ibig at karamihan ay nakatututuwa. Isa ho ang nasa ibaba na kinatha ng isang kaibigan na masyado hong maloko pagdating sa kaniyang asawa.

Pangalan ho niya ay ROLLY, hindi po si titorolly ng blogkadahan. Ang initial po niya ay RPA. Kapangalan lang ho niya ang pangulo ng Pilipinas.

Sa ARAW NG MGA INA (nagtipid ho ako)

Haay, salamat at natapos din ang araw ng mga Ina,

Biro mong magmula sa umaga ako ay nasa kusina,

Hugas ng pinggan at lampaso ng baldosa,

Kapag bubulong-bulong, may kasamang batok pa.

Pagkagising sa umaga, kape niya ay handa na,

Breakfast in bed medyo, ika nga,

Sinangag at tuyo at itlog na nilaga,

Hanap pa ay pakaplog..at kulang pa raw ako baga.

Kinatanghalian kaharap ko ay labada,

Habang nireready niya ang vacuum sa sala,

At huwag ko raw kalimutang diligin ang garden niya.

Pagkatapos kong plantsahin mga uniporme niya. Whew.

Alas tres ng hapon nang ako ay mapaupo.

Nang biglang umusok ang aking niluluto,

Huwag ko raw sunugin ang kaniyang paborito,

Na daing at laing at baka siya magalboroto.

Salamat at maghapon ay lumipas na rin.

Pangakong ang trabaho’y aangkinin ay di na uulitin,

Sapat na siguro na sa labas ko siya ay pakainin.

Para pagdating ng gabi’y may lakas pa mandin. hehehe

The Ca t

THE TECHNOLOGICALLY CHALLENGED

2005-05-08T18:29:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

I really admire the patience of the tech support or anybody in the department who takes the call of a dissatisfied customer, a confused customer or a technologically challenged CUSTOMER like me.

One time, my laptop’s power just turned off without me touching anything, so I called the TOSHIBA tech support.

This is how the conversation went.

Techie: Can you check the small lights in your unit.

Me: They are on except for the battery indicator.

Techie: Your battery is low. No wonder, you lost the power.

Me: No, my unit is plugged in the power surger thru the battery.

Techie: Uhmm. That’s strange. Can you check again please.

Me: I can see it is plugged in.

Techie: Is the power surger plugged in the power outlet?

ME: Yes, it is. It got light in it.

Techie: How many are plugged in the power surger?

Me: Two only. The unit and the printer.

Techie: Can you check again?

ME: Okay. ( Found out the computer is unplugged for more than two days and it was operating on the battery that run low. Instead the cell phone charger was plugged in its place).

Hehehe I said thank you.

But there are worse than I am as a client. Read.

Customer 1

Customer: I'm trying to connect to the Internet with your CD, but it just doesn't work. What am I doing wrong?

Tech support: OK, you've got the CD in the CD drive, right?

Customer: Yeah....

Tech support: And what sort of computer are you using?

Customer: Computer? Oh no, I haven't got a computer. It's in the CD player and all I get is weird noises. Listen.....

Tech support: Aaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!

Customer 2

Tech support: What kind of computer do you have?

Female customer: A white one...

Customer 3

Customer: Hi, this is Celine. I can't get my diskette out.

Tech support: Have you tried pushing the button?

Customer: Yes, sure, it's really stuck.

Tech support: That doesn't sound good; I'll make a note.

Customer: No .. wait a minute... I hadn't inserted it yet... it's still on my desk... sorry....

Customer 4

Tech support: Click on the 'my computer' icon on to the left of the screen.

Customer: Your left or my left?

Customer 5

Tech support: Good day. How may I help you?

Male customer: Hello... I can't print.

Tech support: Would you click on start for me and...

Customer: Listen pal; don't start getting technical on me! I'm not Bill Gates, damn it!

Customer 6

Customer: Hi, good afternoon, this is Martha, I can't print. Every time I try, it says 'Can't find printer'. I've even lifted the printer and placed it in front of the monitor, but the computer still says he can't find it...

Customer 7

Customer: I have problems printing in red...

Tech support: Do you have a color printer?

Customer: Aaaah....................thank you.

Customer 8

Tech support: What's on your monitor now, ma'am?

Customer: A teddy bear my boyfriend bought for me in the supermarket.

Customer 9

Customer: My keyboard is not working anymore.

Tech support: Are you sure it's plugged into the computer?

Customer: No. I can't get behind the computer.

Tech support: Pick up your keyboard and walk 10 paces back.

Customer: OK

Tech support: Did the keyboard come with you?

Customer: Yes

Tech support: That means the keyboard is not plugged in. Is there another keyboard?

Customer: Yes, there's another one here. Ah...that one does work!

Customer 10

Tech support: Your password is the small letter a, as in apple, a capital letter V as in Victor, the number 7.

Customer: Is that 7 in capital letters?

Customer 11

Customer: I can't get on the internet.

Tech support: Are you sure you used the right password?

Customer: Yes, I'm sure. I saw my colleague do it.

Tech support: Can you tell me what the password was?

Customer: Five stars.

Customer 12

Tech support: What antivirus program do you use?

Customer: Netscape.

Tech support: That's not an antivirus program.

Customer: Oh, sorry...Internet Explorer.

Customer 13

Customer: I have a huge problem. A friend has placed a screensaver on my computer, but every time I move the mouse, it disappears.

Customer 14

Tech support: How may I help you?

Customer: I'm writing my first e-mail.

Tech support: OK, and what seems to be the problem?

Customer: Well, I have the letter 'a' in the address, but how do I get the circle around it?

Customer 15

A woman customer called the Canon help desk with a problem with her printer.

Tech support: Are you running it under windows?

Customer: "No, my desk is next to the door, but that is a good point. The man sitting in the cubicle next to me is under a window, and his printer is working fine."

Customer 16

Tech support: "Okay Bob, let's press the control and escape keys at the same time. That brings up a task list in the middle of the screen. Now type the letter "P" to bring up the Program Manager."

Customer: I don't have a P.

Tech support: On your keyboard, Bob.

Customer: What do you mean?

Tech support: "P".....on your keyboard, Bob.

Customer: I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT!!

Forwarded mail

The Ca t

Maid-TO-Order MOM

2005-05-07T13:12:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

When my friend asked my help for paperworks to petition her mom, the first question, I asked her is “ you want her to take care of your kids?”

She said no." I want her to come and work so she will have a money of her own."

The next lady who requested me to help her too was frank enough to tell me that she needed somebody to take care of her baby. She was a single parent.

Months ago, instead of taking the train going home, I took a longer route, the regular bus. I did not even take the express; I took the regular which takes and drops off passengers in all bus stops. I want to observe people.

She must be over sixty but she looked younger.

Here in the US, senior citizens are given the right to take the front seats in the bus. The young Chinese students occupying the whole seat in one side of the bus ignored this right.With two kids in tow, her hands were full holding the kids and balancing her 5'foot-frame by setting her feet apart trying to be not thrown off every time the bus makes sudden stops.

I smiled at her. She smiled back.

At last, when the unruly students got off the bus, we were able to take the seats. Sabi niya. " Hirap pala amg buhay dito sa States."

I nodded in agreement although, looking at her, I knew that she was not a 9-5 corporate slave nor a 12-hour stay-out caregiver.

"Kung alam ko lang na magiging katulong lang ako sa bahay ng anak ko, sana hindi na ako pumunta dito."

Being the nosey Ca t, that I am, I asked her, " Hindi ba ninyo alam na mag-aalaga kayo ng mga apo ninyo?"

"Alam ko pero hindi ko alam na pagsisilbihan ko sila, pagluto, paglaba, paghatid ng mga bata." sagot niya. May pait ang kaniyang boses.

"Kinausap ba ninyo ang anak ninyo ? " pakialamera ko talaga.

"Paano ko makakausap yon, dalawa ang trabaho.

Pag walang trabaho naman, tulog o kaya punta sila sa casino ng kaniyang asawa. To unwind daw sa mabigat nilang trabaho."

"Ilan taon na ba kayo dito ?" Patuloy ko pang pakikialam.

"Mahigit isang taon na at alam ko lang puntahan, iskwela ng mga apo ko at ang simbahan pag Linggo."

Ibig bang sabihin niyan, gusto na ninyong umuwi sa Pilipinas? sobra na ako. *batok sa sarili*

"Alam mo iha, gusto kong makatulong sa aking anak. Gusto kong makalaro ang aking mga apo. Pero gusto ko yong na-eenjoy ko lang ang apo ko at hindi ako stressed sa pag-asikaso sa kanila. Hindi lang naman sila ang apo ko. May apo rin ako sa Pilipinas na kung tutuusin, mas kailangan pa ang tulong ko."

"Akala ko tapos na ako sa responsibilidad na yan nang mapatapos ko ang aking mga anak. Bakit ibinalik na naman nila ako sa ganong kalagayan?".

"Para akong nag-iisa. Pag-alis nila, inaasikaso ko ang bahay, ang mga bata at sa gabi ay pagod na ako para manood ng television".

"Sinubok ba ninyong makipagkaibigan sa mga kaedad ninyo sa simbahan. Mayroon diyang mga makakasama ninyo sa pamamasyal, sa sayawan, sa panonood ng sine."

"Ayaw ng aking anak. Baka raw makakilala ako ng lalaking manloloko sa akin."

Napatawa ako. Matindi rin naman ang anak ninyo pero hindi ko siya kilala. Kung gusto ho ninyong may makausap, eto ho ang aking telepono."

Inimbita niya ako sa bahay nila. Ipinakilala sa anak na babae.

Ang lakas ng halakhak niya sa mga kwento ko.

Parang mader ko. Tagahanga sa aking pagkakwela.

Bago ako umalis, kinausap ako ng kanyang anak. Ngayon lang daw niya narinig humalakhak ang kaniyang ina. Napapansin daw niya malungkot ito mula nang dumating sa Pinas.

Sabi ko sa kanya, iba-iba ang pagtingin sa kaligayahan. Siguro kailangan ng anak na kausapin ang ina kung ano ang kanyang nais. At ang nais nito ay kailangang mapagbigyan. Ina rin siya at darating ang panahon na mapupunta rin siya kalagayan ng kaniyang ina. Ngayon pa lang simulan na niya ang pag-unawa sa mga pangangailangan ng mga inang dumarating sa edad na yaon.

Kahapon ay tumawag ang matandang babae. Happy Mother's Day daw. Natawa ako. Sabi ko Father's Day ho ang siniselebrate ko. hakhakhak.

Pag Sabado raw ay inihahatid siya ng kaniyang anak sa isang Senior Citizen's center. May libre raw meryenda at may sayawan. Sabi ko alam ko kasi tumulong ako pag-ayos ng libro nito.

Tinukso ko. Pag may nanligaw sainyong senior citizen din huwag sagutin ng oo pag hindi kamukha ni Brad Pitt. Sabihin kaagad sa akin at iimbestigahan ko kung ilang babae ang binobola niya.

Humalakhak ulit siya.Sabi ko Happy Mother's Day.

The Ca t

Mothers’ Day

2005-05-07T09:46:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Mother's Day is one celebration that I would not fault the US for initiating it so the businesses may profit from its commercialization.

I feel bad and sad yesterday. I committed to attend a Mother’s Day party in a Jewish retirement home. Last minute, I have to call the Activties Director to apologize for not being able to make it. I am afraid that I will feel uncomfortable with those old women being feted for Mother’s day when I am coughing incessantly.

I did call the good old woman who was expecting me to come. The letter of invitation was sent to me by her daughter who felt that we would both enjoy each other’s company.

She was also not well. She had to go back to her bed because she was freezing.

On this mother’s day, I remember when we buried my mother in Boston. I hesitated to go and leave her in the cemetery. I thought that she would be alone and freezing too. No tears dropped though. That was how she brought us up.

While other people would be scared to see a ghost, that night, I was hoping my mother would show up and talk to me.

I got her sense of humor na mababaw. When we were out in the mall or in the streets, we would make fun of stuff that we found odd even without having to talk about it.

I miss my mom and to her and the beautiful old woman I stood up yesterday, Happy Mother’s Day.

The Ca t

Mga Salawikaing Lipas na

2005-05-06T06:54:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Sa pagbabago ng panahon, marami ng salawikain at sawikain ang hindi na naangkop sa ating pamumuhay.Tulad ng mga sumusunod:

Sawikain 1

Isang kahig, isang tuka- ito ay nagpapatungkol sa mahihirap.

Ang tama: Maraming kahig, bago tumuka.

Bagong sawikain dapat maisama

Isang kahig, maraming tuka=para sa mga corrupt na opisyales.

Wala ng kahig-tuka pa ng tuka-para sa maraming nakurakot.

Salawikain: Kung may itinanim, may aanihin.

Salawikain para sa CAP at PACIFIC Planholders

Kapag may itinanim, kailangan pang habulin.

Salawikain: Kalimitan ang isda ay nahuhuli sa bunganga.

Salawikain para sa mga mister na may kabit.

Kalimitan ang isda ay nahuhuli sa text sa cellphone.

Salawikain: Damit na hiniram mo lamang, Kung hindi masikip ay maluwang.

Bagong salawikain: Damit na binili sa ukay-ukay, Kung hindi masikip ay maluwang.

Salawikain: Baboy ba gagala-gala, Lama't taba ay masama.

Bagong salawikain:Baboy ba gagala-gala, Nagiging pulutan bigla.

Salawikain:Ang babaing palaingos, Kadalasa'y haliparot.

Bagong salawikain:Ang babaing palaingos, Kadalasa'y bagong noselift.

Salawikain:Ang taong nauuntog ng madalas ay natututong yumuko at mag-ingat.

Bagong salawikain:Ang taong nauuntog ng madalas ay maraming bukol.

Salawikain:Pag wala ang pusa, magulo ang daga.

Bagong salawikain:Pag wala ang pusa (The Ca t), hindi makapagblog si daga. (Dear mouse).hehhehe.

The Ca t

Ano ang ginagawa ng Pinoy sa hirap ng buhay?

2005-05-05T18:48:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Masama man ang pakiramdam ay pumayag na rin akong pumunta sa bahay ng aking kaibigan.

Balak niyang bumili ng computer pero hindi siya marunong. So go naman ako.

Habang ako ay nakikipag-usap sa phone, nakatitig ako sa 50-inch nilang TV na nasa TFC.Ito ang expression ko.

Ito talaga mga Pinoy.

Interviewer: Paano ho ang ginagawa ninyo sa hirap ng buhay ngayon.

Lalaking papunta na sa abroad: Hindi na ako umaasa sa gobyerno, kaya aalis na lang ako at magsasapalaran sa ibang bansa.

Babae: Nagdadasal na lang.

Matandang babae: Pumupunta sa WOWOWEE, baka manalo ng isang milyon.

Lalaking tambay: Tumataya sa huweteng, baka sakaling manalo.

Ito dagdag ko. Tenks to svelte rougue.

Isangkaigayang-igayang "lalakwe": Haaay Juice ko mahmah ngayong maharlika (mahal)ang lahat at wala na yatang morayta (mura) ang daming Tom jones Gutom); ako hindi na ako pumapayag na ganda lang (libre)pag gustong magpaganda ang mga mukhang katol (katulong).

Commercial break. Pinakita ang cds ni Eddie Perigrina habang pinaririnig ang kaniyang kantang Puppy Love.

Bira yong boy-from-hell.

And dey coil it tatty lab.

Palabas ulit.

TV host :Magbanggit ng kantang may word na TELL.

Contestant: 'Till I met You.

TV host: Kung ang plural ng foot ay feet, ano ang plural ng footprint ?

Contestant: Feetprint.

Boinkboinkboink

The Ca t

Something's fishy

2005-05-05T13:51:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

1. PATIS

Do you know that in Bay Area, PATIS or fish sauce is already being used in Western cuisines such as Caesar's salad and bouillabaise?

Yes, Virginia, I am referring to that tea colored, pungent condiment that gives flavor and aroma to Asian dishes.

Made from fermented saltwater fish and sea salt, the liquid drawn, filtered and bottled is known as nuoc mam in Vietnam, nam pla in Thailand and patis in the Philippines.

2. How to Cook the Book

Oscar is to film industry while James Beard award is to the Chefs and other culinary personalities.

This is the news that may interest our foodies/cooks/bloggers.

The charming oenophile with the refined palate and flair for fund raising seemed to have all the right ingredients to head the James Beard Foundation. But LEN PICKELL was a con man, whose cooking of the books nearly ravaged the organization.

When 1,700 chefs, restaurateurs, culinary writers, Food Network personalities and assorted other foodies gathered in midtown Manhattan on Monday to hear who had won this year's coveted James Beard awards, the single greatest presence might well have belonged to the man who was absent -- Len Pickell, the con artist who scandalized the industry and whose fall from grace came close to canceling the 2005 awards while ripping apart the nonprofit foundation that sponsors them.

For a decade, Pickell (pronounced pick-ELL) was a fixture at this million- dollar gala, the Academy Awards of food. Today he is in exile, awaiting sentencing for grand larceny.

The Ca t sez: Dapat sa kaniya gawing pickle. hekhekhek.

The Ca t

Batu-bato/ baril sa Langit

2005-05-05T05:09:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

The problem with me is even when I am sick, I am still up and won’t stay in bed as advised. So I always suffer they call “relapse”.

Between coughs and sneezings, let me give you the pics forwarded to me by my brother. Texts are mine.

Bato

Which do you think sounds funny ?

Caption 1. The Old man: Sino man ang nagsabing batu-bato sa langit,tamaan huwag magalit ay magtago na.

Caption 2. The old man: Palagay ko yong kapitbahay naming batang malikot ang may gawa nito. Sabi ng hintuan na ang pagtitirador.

Caption 3: The old man: Laki naming panghilod ito.

Caption 4. The old man: Nasaan kaya yong asawa ko?

Baril

Baril 1: Sumuko ka na.

Baril 2: Ikaw ang sumuko.

Commandant: Hoy huminto kayong dalawa diyan. Baba.

The Ca t

The Reynas in Santacruzan

2005-05-04T11:49:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

May is the month of celebration of the festival of festivals, the Santacuzan.

Have you ever wondered who these colorful characters are in this procession of beautiful women who are mostly movie stars or noted personalities if not gays.

First the Reynas and other ladies:

1.Reina Banderada, - a lady usually dressed in a long red gown carrying a a miniature Philippine flag.

2. Reina Mora, dressed in a Muslim costume, representing Muslim Filipinos- the dominant religion before Christianity .

3. Reina Fe (Faith) - symbolizes the virtue of faith, the first of the theological virtues. She carries a cross.

4. Reina Esperanza (Hope)-symbolizes the virtue of hope, the second theological virtue. She carries an anchor.

Reina Caridad (Charity)-symbolizes the virtue of charity - the third theological virtue. She carries a red heart.

5. Abogada, dressed in a graduation toga, she represents the defender of the poor and the oppressed.She carries a big book.

6. Reina Sentenciada, with her hands bound, she is the symbol of the innocents who have been convicted. She is accompanied by two Roman soldiers.

7. Reina Justicia, carrying a weighing scale and a sword,she personifies Justice.

8. Samaritana, carrying a jug on her shoulders, representing the Samaritan whom Christ spoke to at the well.

9. Reina Judith-she represents the woman who saved her city from the Assyrians. She carries the head of the beheaded man on one hand and a sword on the other.

10. Reina Esther, the biblical Jewish woman who spared her country from destruction through intervention with the King Xerxes. She carries a scepter.

11. Queen Sheba,-the queen who visited King Solomon, famous for his wisdom, power, and riches. She carries a jewelry box.

12. Veronica - the woman who wiped the face of Jesus. She carries a bandana imprinted with the three faces of Jesus.

13. Tres Marias: Mary of Magdala - she carries a bottle of perfume; Mary, Mother of Christ - she carries a handkerchief; Mary, mother of James - she carries a bottle of oil.

12. Reina Elena , walking under a canopy and with the small Constantino at her side, she represents the mother of King Constantine who looked for the Holy Cross of JEsus Christ.

Methuselah is the first character that is riding in a cart where he toast grains of sand in pan over a fire.

At the end of the proocession is the image of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Ca t

Duck (Tales) Tails

2005-05-03T18:07:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Pic forwarded.

Duck 1 :Bagal naman ang martsa.

Duck 2 : Di bale na pauwi na lang naman tayo.

Duck 3: Bakit ba naglalakad na lang tayo pauwi?

Duck 4: Kasi di natuloy ang EDSA TRES.

Duck 5 : Bakit di natuloy?

Duck 6:Kasi gusto noong heneral, ACTION; yong mga laborers, gusto demonstrasyon.

Duck 7: Sayang, galing ko pa naman sanang mag DUCK.

Duck 8 :Huwag kayong maingay, baka gawin tayong ROAST DUCK ni boss.

The Ca t

Hey you

2005-05-03T16:37:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

A picture forwarded by my brother.

Policewoman: Pull over and hand me your license.

The Ca t

MGA WALANG K

2005-05-03T05:47:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Kung napapansin ninyong masipag akong magblog ngayon, ito ay dahil down ako ng flu.

Ang flu strain namang tumama sa akin ay hindi iyong mataas ang lagnat kung hindi yong nanghihina lang, kaya nga marami akong blog eh. Labo noh ?

Walang K means, walang karapatan, walang kakayahan or wala kang taglay na katalinuhan para isagawa ang isang bagay.

Sa akin ang walang K ay ang mga sumusunod.

Walang Kaalam-alam

Si Arnold (Terminator)Swasss(whatever) ay nagsabi na isara ang borders para hindi makapasok ang mga illegal immigrants particularly the Hispanics.

Kung inalam lang sana niya na ang California kung saan siya gobernador ay populated ng more than 80 per cent immigrants karamihan galing sa Spanish speaking countries disin sana’y hindi humingi ng dispensa ang kanyang spokesperson na kagaya ni Bunye ay parang “wite-out” na taga correct ng mga statements ng kanilang boss kung alam nilang hindi maganda ang dating sa mga publiko.

Ngayon ay humingi siya ng dispensa. May nakapagsabi sa kanya na maraming botante ngayon ay mga Hispanic.

Ganoon din ang nangyari kay Abat at ang Coalation for “Salvation kuno” na balak magtayo ng revolutionary government.

Ang mga grupong Anti-Gloria at Pro-Erap ay nagbibigay ng senaryo na masyadong eksaherado na sa katagalan ay sila rin ang naniwala.

Tama ang boserbasyon ni Sassy sa article niyang ang Misleading and Misguided Surveys na may kinalaman ito sa balak na pagpapataob ng gobyerno ni Arroyo.

Pero dapat marealize nila na ang survey ay hindi ang pulso ng bayan.Magiging pulso lang ito kung ang survey ay hindi binayaran ng mga personalidad na mabibigyan ng pabor ng resulta at hindi lang isang libo ang kukunin nilang respondents.

Marahil ang malakas na panlaban ni Presidente Gloria ay ang pagiging hands-on president---nandoon siya sa mga lugar na dapat siyang maretrato at alam niyang alagaan ang militar. Di ba nga maraming recyled na mga retired military officers?

Anong Art of War, Art of War ang mga pinag- aaralan nila?

Walang Katotohanan

There are several concerts of Filipino talents being held in the United States at ticket prices ranging from 30 dollars to 150.

Okay lang sa mga fans who are dying to see and hear their idols. Ang siste ay ang misleading promos of these concerts as press releases or TV ads.

One such concert was Nora Aunor and Tirso Cruz III Together Again KUNO.

May nakapagsabi sa akin na hindi naman concert ng dalawa kung hindi special guest lang si Tirso Cruz. Harang di ba?

Where is truth in advertising.

Walang Kabuhay-buhay

Kailangan baguhin ng The Buzz ang strokes nito na pacontroversial controversial daw ang dating pero wala naman pala.

Para bang whistle bomb na panay lang whistle ,wala namang bomb.

Halata pang trying hard pero talaga namang promo lang ng mga movies ang mga walang kabuhay-buhay na may iyakan blues pa kuno.

Kainis

The Ca t

KKK

2005-05-02T08:15:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Hindi po ito organisasyon. Balita po ito sa iba't ibang panig ng mundo.

Katuwa.

It looks funny to see a chimp smoking," a zoo spokesman said, but Charlie's trick could cost him his health. The zoo is asking people to stop tossing cigarettes and contributing to the chimp's habit. A zoo official says Charlie "acts like a naughty schoolboy" and hides his cigarettes when workers are around.

The Ca t sez: Lagyan ng NO SMOKING sa cage niya. mwehehehe.

Kaawa

THE STUNNED WIFE: Preacher husband infected her with HIV -- knowingly.He'd married her to hide his down-low status, she said, and because he "didn't want to die alone."

Talagang bakla siya as in duwag mamatay gusto pang makadamay.

Katawa?

Gwinnett County District Attorney Danny Porter promised to look into whether Run away- bride Wilbanks, 32, violated the law by falsely reporting a crime.

Wilbanks, who had vanished Tuesday after saying she was going out jogging, initially told authorities she was abducted. But she later admitted she took a cross-country bus trip to Las Vegas, Nev., to avoid her lavish, 600-guest wedding, which had been set for Saturday, and then went on to Albuquerque, N.M.

The Cat sez: Feeling Julia Roberts siya noh ?

The Ca t

Pinoy Ka ba?

2005-05-02T06:54:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Jobert of World Famous in the Philippines came up with new "you’re-a-Filipino"- if/when/because...

These are my favorites.

10. When the government warns that a nearby volcano will erupt you ignore it. When a psychic mentions that an earthquake will happen at 5pm, you panic.

Except pag si Madam Auring ang nagsabi..

12. Your brand spanking new nose job was done by the beautician in the nearby salon.

Anoh? Hindi si VickyBelo. ?

13. Badminton is your latest sport

Titorolly AND COMPANY.....

14. Your cellphone is more a camera than a phone.

So you’re weird if you insist to buy a cell phone that functions as a phone.

16. U stl use txtspk evn wen chatng.

Even in the e-mail.

17. The Buzz and Startalk is your source of news

The Buzz lang po ako. Wala kaming Channel 7 dito.

20. You can easily name three of Kris Aquino's ex boyfriends but have a hard time recalling three presidents before Marcos.

I can name five.

1. Alvin

2. Robin Padilla

3. Philip Salvador

4. Joey Maquez

5. Mark Lapid

The Ca t

101 Recipes for Bangus

2005-05-01T21:50:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

To promote tourism in the Philippines, there are a lot of festivals being held in the entire archipelago. In Pangasinan, a province famous for its bangus, people recently held the bangus festival.

That is bangus cooked in a thousand ways.

So I looked for recipes of bangus and I found more than a hundred ways to cook this white scaly fish.

Grilled Bangus

Ingredients:

1 Whole bangus (about 2 lbs) pag kulang ng sa 2 lbs, awayin ang tindera)

1 1/2 tsp Salt

1/8 tsp. Pepper

1 big red tomato

1 medium sized onion, chopped

2 pcs of green onions, chopped

1. Cut the fish along the stomach and remove the gills and the fish intestines.

Rub the fish inside and out with salt and pepper,

Stuff the fish stomach with the mixture of tomatoes, onions and green onions.

Wrap in foil and with a bamboo stick, grill over live coals until it is cooked.

Serve with lemon juice and soy sauce dip.

Preparation and cooking time: 45 minutes Serves 4

This is a recipe of my sister.

So that's it folks.

Sorry, fifty bangus swam away and fifty were already cooked in the festival so I have only one bangus left. Good for one recipe.

Bahala na kayo sa one hundred.

The Ca t

Old soldiers never die

2005-04-30T18:03:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Balita: Magsasama-sama ang mga PRO-ERAP, PRO-GLORIA at ang mga MILITANTENG ORGANISasyon.

Pro-Erap- Hohum

Pro-Gloria-Hohum. Dumadami ang mga disgrutled na may mga beef sa administrasyon.

Militanteng organisasyon. Hohum. Para silang Si Madam Auring na kailangang palaging nasa balita para hindi makalimutan ng tao kaya lahat ng isyu sinasakyan nila pero oras na nakapuwesto na sila, wala ring nangyayari. Beep beep sa mga kaibigan kong kasapi sa mga militanteng grupo.

Si Madam Auring nga tatalon daw sa San Juanico Bridge at ipapacover pa sa CNN para lang controversial pa rin siya at laging in the news.

Pag pinapakita ang footage niya na nakikipaghalikan sa kaniyang batang batang boyfriend, para akong nanonood ng lolang humahalik sa apo.

Sandali pala, titol ko nga pala ay Old soldiers never die.

True...Sa Pimas, they are recycled and given juicy positions in the government or else they threaten to join a group that will destablilize the administration if it continues to check their lifestyles..

Sa Estet, iba naman. Sa susunod na blog.

The Ca t

Care Bears ni Piolo Pascual

2005-04-30T07:53:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

I do not publish all the comments that I receive in my blog. Pero ito i-publish ko na kasi baka ako kurutin at i-tsee.

ei.....care ba namin kay goma....care kami for PIOLO...well for everybody's info....PJ is a german....and hindi po siya bading... siokla...or what so ever...gentleman at napaka respetado lang talaga si papa PJ kaya napagkakamalang joding...kahit na ano pa ang lumabas na masama about him..hinding-hindi kami maniniwala...at diba may kasabihan nga na "one word is enough for a wise men...." sinabi na niya sa "the buzz" na hindi siya bakla and i think its about time para i-end na ang chisms na yan no...at kahit na anong gawin ng taga ibang walang magawang CHANNEL........!@)(7) (@!..PIOLO PASCUAL IS PIOLO PASCUAL...that's it ....and we,PJ's supporters...will stick to our beliefs... PJ IS NOT GAY.....and we'll always be here for him through stormy weather.. --kris _yap

The Ca t sez:

Oy care ko rin si Papa Piolo ha. Pinaiyak niya ako sa Milan. MILANG BESES BA AKONG NAGPAHID NG LUHA DAHIL naghihiwa ako ng sibuyas HABANG pinapanood kong nirenta kong DVD.

Talaga, Piolo Pascual is Piolo Pascual... hindi siya si Claudine Baretto noh. :) :)

The Ca t

A Day Without the Internet

2005-04-30T05:56:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

I was reading an article about Dr. Raymmundo Punongbayan, the former Chief Of Philvocs who died in copter crash and at the same time watching the interview of his granddaughter when I was disconnected from the internet.

Mine is dsl in a wireless router.

It was still early in the evening but i was just too tired to call SBC tech support as advised by a friend who put all the wires together so I can make use of the router given to me by my brother.

All the external modem's lights were on but I cannot log in.

Early morning, I called them. Theirs is 24/7 service.

Intructions, instructions,instructions... nothing happened. But I have to go for a very important appointment. So the techie suggested that I call them again when I get back using the case number as my reference.

Going home, I got by a store where many people seemed busy taking exams or what... an Apple Computer store pala where several laptops and desktops are available for customers' use. Parang cybercafe pero libre.

Ahaaa, makausisa nga. One old lady was writing an e-mail to.....(ewan ko noh). Haba naman.

I can't use the Apple NOTEBOOKS. Wala akong PEN. ahek wala palang mouse. I am a "mouse" person kahit ako si Ca t. Yeah I am using my laptop at home but I have an extra keyboard, my old IBM. It's fingers- friendly.

So I waited for those peeps who were using the desktops with the mice.(Plural ng mouse, diba?) (Mahihimatay talaga si Sir X-P sa blog ko, daming typos, dami pang grammar nightmares.)to log off.

One young lady, a Filipina was BLOGGING.. of all places. Hindi makapaghintay sa bahay. LIVEJOURNAL pa.Matagal pa ito, gagamit.

Ahmmmmm, bakit hindi. Total wala akong internet sa bahay. It will take sometime before we can troubleshoot the connection problem.

Great...one unit became available. Haaaa. ang laki ng monitor Day...sobrang 27 " yata.

Maaccess nga ang NOW WHAT, Ca t.

Wow bilis. pero teka, hindi Now What,Cat ang nakasulat kung hindi The Ca t lang doon sa yahoo search...hmmmm.

Click, click...

Dadayaanng. Laki ng retrayto ni Ca t sa monitor.

Tingin sa likod baka may nakakakita.

Ngeeek, may isang mamang tumingin sa monitor, tumingin sa akin, tingin ulit sa monitor.

Saka biglang nagtanong?.Habla Espanol.

Pag dating sa bahay, may internet na ako.

Huh ? wala naman akong ginawa sa p'yuter ko. Siguro sa line talaga nila, ayaw lang aminin. Tsee.

The Ca t

Pahabol

Pag ang Pusa po ay nawawala, maari hong pumunta sa pinaysaamerika.

A Woman with a Big Heart

2005-04-29T20:43:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Months ago, she was hurting when I wrote her a letter.It was a different pain she was going through.

Now the pain is physical. She had an accident last Friday which she survived miraculously.

Though she is hurting soul and body, she still cares not for herself but for the children of the man who caused the accident.

An excerpt of her letter to the Berks group shows that she is a rare gem of a lady.

A character that you may not find to a person who has had her share of the insensitiveness of people she had learned to love and care for.

She wrote :

All I can say is that he already have his hand full with the family of that lady who died. Adding my case to it will not make any difference or heal me any faster.

To you G, spiritual roses for your faster healing.

The Ca t

"Senator Luisa Estrada" wrote :

2005-04-27T21:37:00.000-07:00

Dear Mouse,

I do not receive spam except for one or two.

My spam guard is very effective.

But this letter went direct to my spam box. Letter pa naman ni Senator Loi Esrada.

I wonder if you out there in the Pinas receive this letter.

Dr Luisa Pimentel Estrada (estrada_637@walla.com)

Dear Friend

Greetings and peace of the lord unto your household.

I am Dr Luisa Pimentel Estrada, the wife of Joseph Ejercito Estrada,former president of Philippines. I have children with my husband Jose, Jacqueline and Jude.Two sons and a daugther. This mail may be coming to you as a surprise or an article but it is very real.I contacted you via chat some couple of hours back due to my desperation for help

I will want you as the receiver to read through it and think very well if you can help or render us any assistance.My husband Joseph Ejercito estrada was elected as the 13th President of the Philippines in May 1998 by the people of Philippines due his popularity in the film industry made him to win the largest popularity in the history of election in Philippines.He attained the position of Senate in 1987,then vice-president in 1992 and later become the president 1998.My husband was made mayor of his home town, San Juan in 1969 but it was 1972 that he had a string of public successes. My husband was named one of the ten Outstanding Young Men in Public Administration.He was also named Most Outstanding Mayor and Foremost Nationalist and Most Outstanding Metro Manila Mayor.My husband is recently accused of illegally acquireing some four Billion Peso ($80M) during his 31 months in office as President backed up by an uprising of mass Demonstrators and Senate Traitors.

They also said that he has skimmed off tobacco excise Taxes benefitting from government business deals.Most of them benefitted from my husband's generousity when he was in office. But they just turned around to be the ones to impeach him.I have tried every possible means to get him out of Detention without success.

blah blah blah. Pinutol ko po. Parang transcript na ng isang chapter ng Philippine history ang isinulat.

Para mas lalong authentic, may link pang inilagay.

ito.

ITO NA ANG MAGANDA.

Haven seen the way things are going with us.He decided to let me know that he deposited some money with security companies in Asia and Europe .He said that he deposited the sum of twenty Million dollars $20,000,000 in my name (Pimentel Luisa Estrada) in Europe.Now I want to start a new life with the money.I want to invest the money outside Philippines. What I am begging you is to assist me in receiving the money on my behalf.You will have to represent me in receiving the money with the security company.I have discussed with the security company here in Metropolitan Manila about this arrangement,they assured me that the money will be released to my representative.In that regards,I have gone to collect the documents needed from Gomez Carlos who my husband kept the documents with.

HINDI SIGURO NARESEARCH NA SI SENADOR NA ANG ASAWA.HEKHEKHEK

Ito na amg masaya. Pagkahaba-haba man daw ng prusisyon, marami ang umuuwi sa kalagitnaan.

If you are willing to assist me in receiving the money.You will send me your full names,contact Fax and Telephone numbers to enable me forward your information to the security company.

Once you get back to me,we will discuss the percentage you are likely to take for your kind a ssistance.I will be communicating with you by email because my telephone lines are not safe for the transaction because of the heighten security around me and my family.

I would want us to be in partnership in any good business you may suggest in your country.Please handle this transaction with maturity and sincerity.

Best Regards,

Luisa Pimental Estrada

N.B;Please reply to my confidential email address at luisaestrada@netscape.net

Thank you and God bless you.

Gaya gaya sa nigerian scam.

Kung akala ninyo walang baliw na papatul-patol dito, dyan kayo nagkakamali. Dahil may isang Pilipinong Heneral ang nabiktima ng Nigerian SCAM.

Sabi nga ng LOLOko, dalawa lang ang klase ng tao sa mundo, isang nanloloko at isang nakikiloko rin.

The cat

Tsunami and Tsee

2005-04-26T06:35:00.000-07:00

Dear mouse,

Isang seryoso at walang kakwentang topics po ang blog kong ito.

Tsunami

Last Sunday, I watched Tsunami 2004 , a documentary film about the December tsunami in Asia.

I hope our local media people should learn a lesson or two in covering this type of disaster from this documentary.I did not see close-up photos of dead people in their grotesque forms.

One thing that sticks to my mind is this fact that may also serve as a warning to people who may be caught in a tsunami stricken area. Lalo tayong mga ususera/ro.

Tsunamis do not come in one big wave. They come in several with intervals of at least thirty minutes.

More deaths resulted in that calamity in Asia because people did not bother to go to a safer place after the first wave. Instead, their curiosity to see the extent of the damage made them scamper for their lives when waves started coming in again.

Tsee

Hindi raw kumita ang pelukang Itim ni Eddie Gil. Keber.

Isang balita ang pasasabugin ng isang child star----Bakla po ako sabi ng anak ni Dolly/anak ni Ate Luds. –Keber

Bumalik na si Sandara mula sa Korea. Keber

Bakit umalis ba? Sensiya na ang mga Sandara Park Fans ha, pero siguro kung sasabihin ninyo sa idolo ninyo na baliin ang kaniyang leeg at kumuha ng wardrobe consultant (ahem) baka panoorin ko siyang sumasayaw na matigas ang katawan.

Sharon Cuneta—Paborito ko si Sharon sa kanta. Maganda ang boses niya. Pero last Sunday sabi niya tungkol sa tax evasion case ni Richard Gomez—Yan si Rixhard minsan gumagawa ng tseke na hindi niya alam kung kanino napupunta.

Sana mapunta o maligaw sa bulsa ko—pag pay to CASH.

Nora nagsalita na tungkol sa kasong drug. Sabi ni Ate Guy. Sana ho wala tayong siraan. Magmahalan tayo.

Tabi po sa mga Noranian fans.(Kasi ho muntik ng magiba ang e-mail ko sa naging blog ko kay Nora). Pero hindi ka naman sinisiraan. Nasa diyaryo yon eh. (LSS....LUPASAY SA SAHIG).

Nora: Tigilan na ho ninyo si John. May pamilya yong tao. May sarili siyang buhay. (Ahem, hindi niya kaya nakita yong mga footage niya sa US na laging nakatabi sa kanya ang John na yan. (ANDYAN KASI LAGI SA TABI MO.) (IMBT—Ikot mata, baba taas..transation..Roll eyes.

The cat