Impulses
New words
The Aquino administration should either raise taxes or reverse tax breaks that have been approved by Congress. The outgoing GMA administration has left the new one with a huge pile of budget deficit.
This is what we call the GMA 10-year legacy.
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The camp of President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III has formally invited Chief Justice Renato Corona and the other 12 associate justices of the Supreme Court to attend his June 30 inauguration.
Formalities, ritualities, proceduralities, trivialities. What’s important is it will not be midnight-appointee Corona who will officiate in the oath-taking.
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Aklan-based sanitary engineer Billy Domingo has urged the newly-elected leaders in the province to establish a beach authority in this resort island tasked to ensure the conservation of the white-sand beach.
I agree with him completely. If we notice, the government has spent a lot of money for many Boracay-based projects, but never for its pristine white sand beaches. It is just like spending much on the fixtures of the house rather than making sure that its foundations are strong and lasting.
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June 30 is a special non-working holiday to give way to the inaugural rites set on the same day for President-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III and Vice President-elect Jejomar Binay.
For some students, it is a breather for a seemingly choking June opening of classes. To others, it is a day to rejoice and bid goodbye to the rabid and controversy-marred administration of GMA. Either way, it’s a sure relaxing Wednesday!
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Iloilo Business Club has urged the local government officials to look for a definite solution to the water woes plaguing the locals and the business community.
Unfortunately, their answer was mudslinging, media blitz, and political bickering. Indeed, when personal interests sink in, no sincere public service is expected from our public officials, at least, to most of them.
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Mayor cum congressman Jerry Treñas is now a Liberal.
Is this a kind of a calculated political hopping; a tactical approach of getting more leverage in government projects. Besides, the party system in the country is never that mature enough, hence, changing parties may not mean so much at all to others.
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Bro. Armin Luistro will be the education secretary when president-elect Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III formally assumes office on June 30.
A La Sallist DepEd Secretary (Armin) of an Atenean President (Noynoy) with an Iskolar ng Bayan (UP) vice president (Binay). What a combination! I just hope that he will treat sex education with an open mind just like Noy-Bi.
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DOST is inviting participants to the 2010 Visayas Island Convention Contests and Exhibits (VIICE) which seeks to recognize and promote the Filipino Inventors’ ingenuity and creativity. The event is slated August 12-14 in Iloilo City.
“Filipino Inventions and Innovations: The Way Forward,” is the theme. I couldn’t agree more.
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44 boarding houses and dormitories have been checked by the Office of the City Fire Marshal of the Bureau of Fire Protection BFP in Roxas City just recently.
When will this be done in Iloilo City—the land of substandard, fire-hazardous boarding houses?
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The Jed-Treñas group is now scouting for candidates in the barangay elections.
They better invest on this well so they can work things out in the city well, without the Gonzalez’ factor.
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Kudos to Ateneo de Iloilo High School Department for their opening of classes this Monday, June 28, in their P115-million worth new building in Pison Avenue, San Rafael, Mandurriao, Iloilo City!
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Jokes of the Day:
Here are a list of new words that we could probably use in this new world...tomorrow we’ll have old words with new meanings!
- Cashtration: The act of buying (or building) a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.
- Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an ass.
- Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize that it was your money to start with.
- Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.
- Bozone: The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
- Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of having sex.
- Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
- Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.
- Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
- Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
- Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease.
- Karmageddon: It’s like when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, and then the Earth explodes and it’s a serious bummer.
- Decafalon: The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
- Glibido: All talk and no action.
- Dopeler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
- Arachnoleptic Fit: The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.
- Beelzebug: Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
- Caterpallor: The color you turn after finding half of a worm in the fruit you’re eating.
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Random Quotes:
A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.—Abraham Joshua Heschel
Talk to me about the truth of religion and I’ll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I’ll listen submissively. But don’t come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don’t understand.—C.S. Lewis, 1898-1963, British Academic, Writer, Christian Apologist
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Compliments are given to the very informative websites of local newspapers, The Philippine Daily Inquirer, The Philippine Star, ABS-CBN Network, PNA, PIA, joke-of-the-day.com, and The Business World.
(Engr. Herman Lagon, who “Facebookly” describes himself as a “social scientist,” is a physics teacher and a PhD. student in Math. He may be reached through h_lagon@yahoo.com.)
