ANO ANG SINASABI NG MGA TAO SA LARAWAN?

Green Man 1: Napasobra ataang pagtagilid ko, pati picture ni Gibo ay tagilid, sorry!

HUMAN LOOP March 26

Green Man2: Parang lumindol eh, kaya tayo nakatagilid!

Green Man3: Itong poster nga ni Gibo, hindi ko napansin ay nakabaliktad!

Green Man4: Tabi kayo, kamay ko lang ay nakikita sa picture !
Green Man5: Bakit puro ata mga lalaki tayo dito?

CONGRATS SA MGA INYO !SULONG GIBO!

USAPANG GIBO-EDU SA LARAWAN

ANO ANG MGA SINASABI NG MGA TAO SA LARAWAN?
PICTURE 1

Edu: Sino yoon ? Parang si Vilma yoon ah? Kasama pa si Ralph?
Gibo: Huwag ka masyadong magpahalata. Siya nga yoon. Crush ka pa rin noon, hehe!
Gibo: Nakita mo si Nikki? Asan si Nikki sa crowd?

Edu: Ayon! Pinagkakaguluhan sa crowd! Si Nikki ata ang hinahanap ng
tao, hindi ikaw (hehe, nakaganti ako sa iyo)
Edu: Mga campaign materials ko ba yoon?
Gibo: Oo na. Ipinagpagawa na kita. Sabihin mo sa campaign manager
mo na si Reli German, huwag dakdak ng dakdak…

PICTURE 2
GIBO: Totoy, bakit ka naka-white? Sa susunod, bigyan kita green shirt at baller ha?
MAN: Balik po, balik po, hindi pa po ako nakakahandshake sa inyo! Gibo fan po ako ninyo! Nakalimutan ko lang pong magpalit ng green na shirt!
WOMAN: Ang pogi po pala ninyo! Asan po si Nikki?
WOMAN IN ORANGE: hmp. Kita mo naka-orange ako!

THE PHILIPPINES: JUSTICE FOR THE GOVERNOR

THE PHILIPPINES: Justice for the Governor
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A slender, hard-faced man, outwardly calm and obviously used to authority, stood last week in the governor’s office in Bacolod, capital of Negros Occidental Province, and heard himself sentenced to death. At this, an insignificant-looking woman, the mother of his victim smiled wanly and said: “Now I know that justice is for the rich and poor alike.”

In 1951 Rafael Lacson was the undisputed boss of Negros Occidental, second most populous province in the Philippines. He sat in the governor’s chair and, allied with the big sugar planters, ran a tight police state. The province’s 200.000 voters did as Lacson bade and so did the under paid farm workers. If anyone stepped out of line in Negros Occidental, he answered either to the planters’ private armies or to Lacson’s own bullet-hard, radio-equipped constabulary. In 1949 a few foreign correspondents flew in to inspect this little dictatorship; Governor Lacson turned them right around and flew them out. Occasionally, a charge of rape or murder against Lacson reached the court but nothing ever came of it. Even if he was a bit rough, he delivered solidly on election day. President Quirino’s Liberal administration could not afford to quibble.

Campaign Issue. But in 1951 a nobody named Moises Padilla invaded Lacson’s territory by running as opposition candidate for mayor of Magallon. Lacson sent word to Padilla to drop out. Usually this sufficed ; instead Padilla, an old guerrilla fighter against the Japanese, appealed to Ramon Magsaysay. then Defense Secretary, for protection. Magsaysay also worked for Liberal President Quirino, but Magsaysay had no use for Lacson’s little dictatorship. The army protected Padilla.

Padilla lost the election, of course. That night Lacson’s uniformed bully boys picked him up and took him on an impromptu road show. They toured from town to town beating and torturing Padilla, displaying him in a public square while one of the boys announced: “Here is what happens to people who oppose us.” Once Padilla saw his mother and managed to mumble: “Communicate Magsaysay.” But when Magsaysay reached Negros Occidental, he found Padilla’s body, broken and dripping blood onto a police bench with 14 bullets in the back. Lacson smiled easily: “Shot dead in an attempt to make his getaway.”

Magsaysay’s men uncovered enough evidence to indict Lacson and 26 henchmen for murder. The trial began in January 1952. but for one reason or another, during Quirino’s presidency, it was frequently interrupted (during one interlude, Lacson was convicted of raping his housemaid and sentenced to eight years). But the Padilla case was not forgotten. In his campaign for the presidency last year, Magsaysay would climax his speeches by declaring emotionally: “When I carried the body of Moises Padilla in my arms, it was not the body of Padilla but the body of the humble people of my country.”

Sobbed Verdict. One morning last week, in the social hall of ex-Governor Lacson’s own office building in Bacolod, the longest trial in the history of the province came to an end. As 2,000 Negrenses jammed the corridors, Judge Eduardo Enriquez rendered his verdict (there is no jury system in the Philippines). He traced Lacson’s rise to power, his private army, his “perfect and coordinated” system of political murder. Then the judge faltered. He recalled that he himself and Lacson had been college classmates: they had been “more than friends—like brothers.” The judge began to tremble but managed to say: “However, circumstances arise when the loyalty of friendship must give way . . .” Tears streaking his cheeks. Judge Enriquez then handed the decision to the clerks to continue reading and sat back in his chair, sobbing. The clerk faltered over the sentence; the judge shouted for him to continue, and the clerk went on: for 22 defendants, including three mayors, three police chiefs and Lacson, death in the electric chair

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,820089-1,00.html#ixzz0XrCcS4BM

ROTARY ARTIFICIAL REEF Part 2

ROTARY ARTIFICIAL REEF

ROTARY ARTIFICIAL REEF AT ATIMONAN, QUEZON

Quezon folk build biggest artificial reef

By Delfin Mallari Jr.
Inquirer Southern Luzon
First Posted 04:47:00 08/17/2009

Filed Under: Good news, Environmental Issues, Fishing Industry, Corporate social responsibility

ATIMONAN, QUEZON—It was a labor of love and showed the power of the bayanihan spirit.

In their aim to protect and rehabilitate the vast fishing grounds fronting this town, officials, environmentalists, fisherfolk and members of civic groups have banded together and built a massive artificial reef, which they sank to the bottom of Lamon Bay on Tuesday.

Touted to be the Philippines’ biggest, the concrete, man-made reef is about 4 meters high and 21 meters in diameter, and weighs some 85 tons. It is supported by hundreds of concrete-like balusters joined together in several sections.

The different sections were assembled on land. The steel bars were welded and cemented together.

On top of the artificial reef is a two-inch concrete slab showing an exact replica of the official emblem of Rotary International, the world’s first service club organization.

The giant emblem—a gear wheel with six spokes and 24 cogs with the name of Rotary International written on it—was painted with the club’s official royal blue and gold colors.

“We believe that our artificial reef is the biggest in the country, based on the records we found in the Internet. And for the record, it is also the biggest Rotary emblem in the world,” said Greg de Gracia, a known advocate of the Lamon Bay protection and rehabilitation.

De Gracia, a Rotarian, conceptualized the idea of building the giant reef with the Rotary emblem as model. The club maintains a 5-foot-diameter emblem in its headquarters in the United States.

“The artificial reef is a labor of love by all sectors of the community—local officials, civic groups and the fishermen themselves. Most of the fisherfolk volunteered to work for free,” Oscar Chua, past president of the Rotary Club of Atimonan and chair of the artificial reef project, told reporters.

The fisherfolk organization from the coastal villages of Balubad, Lubi, Talaba and Kilait (Baltak), which De Gracia heads, played a prominent role in the project.

Long dream

Putting artificial reefs in the Atimonan fishing grounds had long been a dream of the fishermen because of the natural absence of mangrove areas in the vicinity. A mangrove forest is the natural breeding ground of marine species.

“We started placing reefs using bamboo and other indigenous materials only to be destroyed by illegal commercial fishers. But we were not deterred by the setback,” De Gracia said.

“We continued to construct again, but this time, we decided to fight back and organized the fishermen into … a volunteer sea patrol to guard our fishing grounds against destructive intruders.”

Guillermo Anado, Balubad village chieftain, recalled that in early 2000, the seas fronting Atimonan were the favorite fishing ground of big-time commercial fishers maintaining fleets of “buli-buli,” “pangulong” and “taksay”—all destructive, illegal fishing boats.

“Our catch was getting smaller every day. We could not do anything as the illegal fishers were protected by politicians and influential persons in local government. But when we formed the Baltak fishers group to protect our traditional fishing ground, the situation started to change in our favor,” Anado said.

Seeing the plight of the poor fishermen, the Rotary chapter, in partnership with the municipal government, embarked on the project.

Cost: P1.2 million

In the past four years, the club and the local government have sponsored funding activities for the construction of smaller artificial reefs, which were placed in different marine sanctuary areas fronting the locality.

Soldiers from the Armed Forces’ Southern Luzon Command, headed by Col. Nestor Añonuevo, joined in by building several sections of the reef.

The cost of constructing the concrete reef reached P1.2 million, Chua said. “It could [be] more than that if not for the bayanihan work by the fishermen,” he said, adding that the Rotary Club of Madera in the United States provided half of the project cost.

Buying frenzy

De Gracia, owner of the De Gracia beach resort where the giant reef was constructed, said the project was started in November last year.

The proponents collected more than 1,000 sacks of styrofoam and rubber pieces to serve as floaters. A sack full was bought at P25 each. The indigenous floaters were tied under the water inside the different sections of the reef.

“The long coastline of the Lamon Bay in Atimonan and nearby towns had been cleaned of styro and rubber debris because of our buying frenzy. The project provided extra income to coastal residents,” Chua said.

Bearing fruit

The collective effort is now bearing fruit with the return of diverse marine species to the area.

The reappearance of whale sharks in the bay area demonstrated the renewed vibrancy of marine lives. Whale sharks disappeared from the bay in the 1980s after irresponsible fishermen began slaughtering them for meat.

On Aug. 9, during the first attempt to pull the huge reef toward the nearest marine sanctuary 600 meters away from the shoreline, schools of fishes were spotted jumping above the water.

“That is now a common sight. The presence of butanding (whale shark) in the company of fishing boats has also become a regular sight,” De Gracia boasted.

Local government officials, blue-shirted Rotarians, fisherfolk’s families and soldiers were in high spirit at the formal launch of the artificial reef.

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However, despite the assistance of military divers to pull the reef into the open sea, where it would be dropped, the effort failed due to extreme low tide and shortage of floaters to keep the massive concrete above water.

The proponents postponed the launch to gather more floaters.

On Aug. 11, De Gracia said the group was able to float the reef at around 6 a.m. and successfully dragged the huge structure to its target drop site four hours later with the help of big fishing boats.

Help also came from bus operators and concerned citizens who lent steel, plastic drums and other floaters to make the giant reef float.

Military divers and fishermen entangled the floaters from the concrete to submerge it.

Touchdown at 2 p.m.

“The reef finally made the touchdown at around 2 p.m.” De Gracia said.

De Gracia said the goal of the proponents was not only to provide an artificial breeding ground for marine species but transform the huge reef into another diving site for local and foreign tourists.

“The divers can swim around the maze of balusters. The center of the reef can also serve as a wedding altar for romantic divers,” De Gracia said, chuckling.

PHOTOS BY: GREG DE GRACIA

LINES TO “CORY”

“The pila itself started outside the main entrance, went all the way to the corner of EDSA and Ortigas, and then curved back to LaSalle, a line that was reallly a circle. And not a word of complaint from anyone” – from a Facebook blog

There were many who lined up at the “pila”. Disregarding people’s line, Mar Roxas wheeled into the VIP entrance and was prevented by the guard: “Sir, bawal po ang padjack dito…)

Panfilo Lacson intentionally piled up at the common tao’s line. He was seen by Sen. Jamby Madrigal – “Mr. Senator, mali ang pila mo. Hindi yan ang pila para sa DOJ”. And she let out a hearty laugh.

Lacson shouted back to Jamby- ” Hi, eh yoong pila mo, hindi yan ang papuntang COMELEC!”.

Inside, Manolo Lopez was seen talking and condoling with Kris. And Kris was unexpectedly sporting a more cheerful mien. With her is husband James and son Baby James.

More people came in and Erap and Sen. Lapid were among them. Erap: “Kris, I want you to know that I already forgave Cory for Edsa 2…” Sen. Lapid, fresh from US visit, seconded: “Pwede ba papicture with Cory?”.

Jun Lozada was there along with the nuns. He lives nearby, within the confines of La Salle grounds. As usual, he was on tears. Sen. Noynoy, comforting Jun: “ang burol lang ang lilipat sa Manila Cathedral, hindi ka lilipat ng bahay. Dito ka pa rin sa La Salle…”

During the early days of Edsa 86, I was at Camp Crame. Just a day before, Sen. Enrile, Honasan, and his group has just appeared on television withdrawing their support of Marcos. I was attending a 3-day seminar, and on that day, it was cancelled and we trooped to Camp Aguinaldo and later at Camp Crame. No multitudes of people yet. The several we saw, they were milling at the camp’s entrance. Several vehicles were driving to and from the site and unloading whatever kinds of barricades they seemed to be useful. It was a hot sunny day. The EDSA street seemed lonely except for us people around. Not much of yellow color around. No chants of “Cory, Cory” yet. And yet in the horizon, we see several groups of people coming… And in due time, there were hundreds and hundreds slowly joining in… We did not know then what would happen…

I had an autographed picture of Ninoy signed by Cory. But in 1995, the house we lived in was flooded by Typhoon Rosing. I regret much the loss of this very special piece of momento.

I tend to heckle, but this time, I can’t. I am simply a great fan. May you rest in peace! And give my regards to Ninoy!

GIBO

Sec. Gilbert “Gibo” Teodoro

GMA: “If you really want something done, don’t pussyfoot, don’t pander.” The largely pro-Arroyo audience broke into thunderous applause. Erap immediately reacted: <em>”Binanatan agad ako, plander daw!” and looked in the dictionary for the other word “pussyfoot”.

The quiz (An Adaptation, My Apologies to the Original Author…)
<img Former Pres. Erap

This incident supposedly happened before the recent “ANC PRESIDENTIAL FORUM”.

The most intelligent “presidentiable”(Pinoy term for presidential candidates), Sec. Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro, has challenged Erap, the least intelligent presidentiable to a quiz.

To make things interesting, Gibo says that every time she asks Erap a question which he cannot answer, Erap has to pay “Gibo” five pesos. BUT if Erap asks Gibo a question which he cannot answer, Gibo has to give Erap five thousand pesos.

Gibo asks the first question: “What’s the distance from the earth to the moon?
” Erap doesn’t say a word, reaches for his wallet, pulls out a five-peso bill and hands it to Gibo.

Now, it’s his turn. He asks Gibo: “What goes up a hill with three legs,
and comes down with four?” Gibo looks at him with a puzzled look.
He whips out his laptop computer and searches all his references.
He taps into the phone with his modem and searches the Net.
Frustrated, he sends E-mails to all his aides and assistants at the Department of National Defense, and friends.
All to no avail.

After over an hour, he admits defeat and hands Erap five 1000-peso bills. Erap says nothing, but politely accepts the P5,000 and turns away to go home.

Gibo: “Well, so what is the answer!?”

Without a word, Erap pulls out his wallet and gives Gibo another five pesos….

Erap walked away smiling. Gibo felt dejected and threw away the remaining 1,000 bills. A follower got a piece and said: “Sir, ang ganda naman po ng picture ninyo sa 1,000 bill!”

(Incidentally, Gibo is a UP Law graduate with Master of Laws at Harvard… A Bar topnotcher…)

*Search for answers for Among Ed…

Presidential candidate Palillo

Among “Ed” Palillo
1. God’s signs are all over his face.
2. God: Gusto mo pa isang miracle? Sobra ka na!
3. Pag kalaban mo lang si Pineda o si Lapid, pwede..
4. Kuhain mo muna si Grace Padacak na First Lady!
5. INK-Will anoint you if you join us
6. Lakas-Kampi- pwede, pakisoli mo muna yoong P500 thousand
7. GMA- hoy, pwede ba, mag pa-facial ka muna. Akho nga nag-phaayos pa bago pumasokh ng pulitikah!
8. Villar- naging squatter ka ba?
9. Roxas- kailangan ay may wedding plans ka, para mataas sa survey
10. SWS- bumayad ka muna ng survey