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KRIS AQUINO GETS FAILING GRADE IN FILIPINO LANGUAGE; PRESIDENT AQUINO GETS FAILING GRADE FROM U.N.

Kris and NoyNoy Aquino
Kris and NoyNoy Aquino

NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles® ) –  Yesterday, we reported that presidential sister and television host Kris Aquino admitted getting a failing grade in Filipino language during her school days in Manila.

Things always seem to come in two’s.

Today, the United Nations gave her brother President NoyNoy Aquino a failing grade in connection with housing relief for thousands of people made homeless by typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda) nearly two years ago.

Haiyan, the strongest-ever storm to make landfall in the Philippines, killed more than 6,300 people and displaced 4.1 million in 2013.yolanda

“Many families remain housed in collective ‘bunkhouses’ that do not meet necessary minimum standards for the provision of basic needs and services,” Chaloka Beyani, U.N. special rapporteur on the human rights of internally displaced persons, said in a news conference in Manila. “I was concerned to learn that funding shortfalls and political challenges, including inadequate cooperation between national and local governments, are delaying processes towards achieving durable solutions.”

Official government records obtained by Reuters showed only 2.5 percent of the targeted 21,012 permanent housing in the worst-hit Eastern Visayas region were ready as of June. The National Housing Authority reported only 542 houses were completed.

About 4,900 houses are in different phases of construction. In two towns on Samar island and six towns on Leyte island, not a single house had been built 20 months after the typhoon struck.

Aquino’s failing grade is in sharp contrast to the laundry list of “accomplishments” he touted during his State of the National Address earlier this week.

We wonder who Aquino is going to blame for his failing grade this time around.

REVISED: PHILIPPINE SONA’S BEST-DRESSED

Robredo at the Blue Carpet
Robredo at the Blue Carpet

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Yesterday, we announced our choice for the best and worst-dressed at the State of the Nation Address (SONA) red carpet ceremonies held last Monday . We named Senator Nancy Binay the best-dressed and Senator Loren Legarda the worst.

Based on new information we just received, we have revised our choice for best-dressed.  The award now goes to Representative Leni Robredo, widow of the late  Interior and Local Governments Secretary Jesse Robredo.image

We arrived at our new choice after we found out that Robredo sneaked out of the red carpet and used the back stairway to get into the assembly hall. A photographer caught the great escape and the photo has now gone viral on social media.

We understand that the red carpet-shy Robredo has been doing this for three years in a row now, except that this hear, she was caught in the act.

We congratulate Robredo for this honor.

PHILIPPINES: SONA HAS BROUGHT OUT A FEW ROMANTIC COUPLES

Left photos: Villanueva and Aquino; right photo: Robredo and Escudero
Left photos: Villanueva and Aquino; right photo: Robredo and Escudero

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Like we said in a previous report, photos don’t lie, which we have the goods to show for.

Not only did we confirm through these exclusive photos that TESDA Director General Joel Villanueva and presidential sister Kris Aquino seem to be an item, we also can now confirm that Senator Chiz Escudero (newly-married to actress Heart Evangelista) and Representative Leni Robredo, widow of the late Interior and Local Governments Secretary Jesse Robredo, may as well  be.

Among Filipino men, when they clasp their hands in the tradition of a prayer, it had better something serious. Like romance.

And it all happened during President NoyNoy Aquino’s State of the Nation Address (SONA) on Monday.