Category Archives: Politics

PAL Taps Senatorial Candidate Samira Gutoc To Record Airline’s Safety Video

50B6F13A-E1C1-4B94-A836-DB275E601F25MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Airlines are always thinking up of ways to make their onboard flight safety demonstrations and videos more interesting and effective.

Some airlines use comedy or dance to take boredom out of their demos.

Leave it to Philippine Air Lines to take it a step further.

PAL has tapped Otso Diretso Senatorial candidate Samira Gutoc to record its new, improved flight safety video. Airline officials were so impressed with Gutoc’s recent stunt in which she posed for a photo pretending to be heading by jet ski towards the West Philippine Sea to claim the country’s disputed territory from China.

In the infamous photo, Gutoc inadvertently wore her life vest the wrong way. Or invertedly.

Philippine Elections: Reelectionist Senatorial Candidate Grace Poe Drops Off Magic 12

D1390FFC-F9F5-4EC8-8D80-D17AB758B3A1.jpegMANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Cnronicles, Manila Bureau) – She has been consistently No. 1 in surveys on who Filipinos think should be elected (or reelected) Senator. But the latest False Asia Survey shows that reelectionist Grace Poe has been dropped off the Magic 12.

In her place for the top spot was FPJ’s Ang Probinsiyano, the long-running teleserye on ABS-CBN.

It only goes to show that in Philippine elections, what matters most is not what an incumbent politician has or has not accomplished, but rather, what voters  think is the  teleserye that would best tickle their fancy. Or fantasy.

Is this the end of Grace Poe’s political career?

Philippines Will Not Go To War With China Over Giant Clams, But As For Canada…

DF953231-EDE3-41F1-9F24-01C81F60E8B2MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – The Philippines will not go to war with China over giant clams (illegally fished out by the Chinese from Scarborough Shoal in the West Philippine Sea), but is prepared to declare war on Canada over its trash shipment that’s been stinking for many years now  in Manila.

President Rodrigo Duterte warned Canada that if it does not take back its containers of trash shipped to the Philippines under the guise of being recyclable plastic, he is prepared  to load the trash on a boat and personally dump it back on Canadian soil.

Duterte knows how to pick his battles. The Philippines may not be a match to China in terms of military might, but as for Canada? “Kaya natin yan,” he declared, suggesting the Philippines can easily win a war against Canada.

Duterte’s statement could all be rubbish, but Canada can’t say it wasn’t warned!