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PHILIPPINE PRESIDENT AQUINO CHASTISES SELFIE GENERATION

December 19, 2014 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Manila, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – President NoyNoy Aquino on Friday enjoined the Filipino youth to be involved in government instead of spending too much time on fads in the Internet age — like selfies and the Clash of Clans.

Speaking before youth members of the Jesus is Lord Church Movement, Aquino said indifference among young Filipinos would put his administration’s reforms to waste.

During the open forum that followed his speech, a young audience member asked Aquino: “Are you saying we should get involved in corruption, government inefficiency, and indiscriminate waste of taxpayer money?”

“Our government is best known for the pork barrel scam, overpriced government building constructions, corrupt cops, disaster fund donations that are unaccounted for, and now, the national prison being run by drug lords,” the young man said, “so what involvement are you expecting from us?”

Aquino didn’t know how to answer the question and was dumbfounded, so the conference organizers abruptly adjourned the forum, saying the president had to leave for another speaking engagement, but not after Aquino agreed to pose for a selfie with a member of the audience who flew all the way from Canada to be at the event.

Language, Law Enforcement, Politics

PHILIPPINES: NEW WORD ADDED TO TAGALOG DICTIONARY

December 1, 2014 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Manila, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – Previously, The Adobo Chronicles reported that ‘selfitis’ was officially added as a new word in the Oxford Dictionaries of English.

Today, a new word was added to the Tagalog (Pilipino) Dictionary, thanks to a new government fund scam uncovered by the country’s Commission on Audit (COA). The new word is Malampaya.

Origin

Malampaya is a $4.5 Billion project started in 2002 off Palawan Island in the Philippines. Operated by Shell Philippines Exploration BV and Chevron Malampaya LLC, it involves the extraction of natural gas off the waters of Palawan.

The service contract provides for a production-sharing scheme in which the government gets 60 percent of earnings from the operation.

Part of the government’s share — 900 Million pesos — was allotted for the rehabilitation of farms in 97 towns devastated by powerful storms. Instead, COA alleged that the amount was siphoned off and channeled to questionable non-governmental organizations, mostly associated with businesswoman Janet Lim-Napoles, the incarcerated alleged mastermind of another fund scandal, a 10 Billion-peso pork barrel scam which benefited many top government officials.

In the Tagalog language, there is a word — Manampalataya — which means “to have faith.”

The Commission on the Filipino Language thought it appropriate to add the new word Malampaya to the Tagalog Dictionary because of this recent fund scam. It will mean the exact opposite of Manampalataya.

The new word entry was indeed added to mean “to lose faith.”

Filipino language experts immediately hailed the new word addition, saying that “with the unending government fund scams and scandals that have preyed on taxpayer money, we urgently needed a new word to express our loss of faith in the government.”

Malampaya v., inf. lose faith; withdraw one’s faith in something, i.e., in a corrupt government

Politics, Technology

NEW INTERNET DOMAIN NAME TO DEBUT IN THE PHILIPPINES: DOT PB

September 11, 2014 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Manila, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – When customers want to find a business, whether it’s a local restaurant or a global retailer, the Web is the place where they first look. Domain names make it easy for customers to find items or services on the Internet.

Most domain names end with the suffix dot com or dot net. Many countries use the suffix dot gov to make it easier for citizens and constituents to find agencies or information pertaining to the government. Still, many countries also use a suffix that easily identifies where a web site originates or where it is located – like dot PH for Philippines, dot UK for the United Kingdom or dot AU for Australia.

Today, the Philippines’ National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) announced that it has approved a new domain name and suffix for the country: dot PB (dot Pork Barrel). It has deemed necessary the creation of this new domain because capacity is running out for dot PH and dot gov. But more importantly, the NTC says that there is a large enough clientele and users for this special suffix because almost all branches of the Philippine government – Executive, Legislative, Judicial – have been involved or implicated in the widespread pork barrel scandal in the country. Even the Catholic Church appears to have benefited from taxpayer funds that were siphoned into personal accounts of politicians, fake nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and ghost projects.

In no time, Filipinos will see web addresses and domain names such as www.Senate.pb , www.MakatiMayor.pb, or www.PNoy.pb.

Welcome to the expanding world of the Internet!