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one more idiot of a legislator.  his priorities are askew, his interpretation of an item on religion in the constitution too shallow and literal.  but that put him in the news, obviously.

hey, why couldn't he set his sights on a constitutional provision that could be better interpreted into a bill, like article II section 26, otherwise known as the anti-dynasty provision?  wouldn't our legislative branch be more credible if there were less cayetanos, no enrile son or pimentel son, no possible senator kris aquino, no congressman son filling in a father's slot, or wife, or daughter, no tagbilaran nephew or brother gunning for an outgoing mayor's position, etc.? 

it's been more than 20 years and congress never came up with an enabling law on this provision.  let's hope this unknown youth representative challenges himself to commit this political harakiri.   

everything.  eeekkk! 

gibaliw na.

i am not amused.  way restroom.

you mean, lorenz is a badibildir pod?

seeing a frog where there is none, eh?

taym pa, taym pa.  giubo kog kinatawa ani.  hubag-hubagan man pod ta ani, hahahahahaha!

a more positive implication of course is that we have everything that those other countries have, wa na lay labot nga natagaan pa natog kabaw ang new zealand.

ad ni?  mora mag by implication, either puro ra ta kopya o mas popular tong sa ubang nasod. 

nice.

bawos-bawos lang.  si mader bitaw, insistir man ug minyo bisag wa pa mahuman ug eskwela.  siyagit-siyagitan pa iyang kaugalingong mader kay gipugngan siyag panguyab, hehehe.

ing-ana diay ang mo-bodybuild ug unlan?  mamorag nawong ni bantay?

cute is not good for your health.  it will reduce your mental acuity by 99%.  worse, it would automatically translate cebuano into korean. 

dia pa.  german?  ich bin laden.  italian?  kaoni pani inomi tubigi.  hawaiian?  kang yoyoy villame na ning expertise, with his classic "we are going to the hokilaw..."     

Quote from: hubag bohol on June 10, 2012, 04:39:58 PM

hahaha!  giangin pa ang cute nga bata aning... di ba ni same-sex wedding? 

mahimo ba kaha ning bear o octopus inig bukad sa kamot?

bilib ko sa details sa pagka-drawing, with the hand as medium.

wowowie!  bag-o man tawon nang inanak kay wa pay dunggan.

grabeh!  outadisworld gyod.  makapahinuklog.   

meanwhile, chaz bono's mother cher is turning out to be a cyborg.

Quote from: TUBAGBOHOL.com on June 16, 2012, 01:49:30 PM
ang bokton ni bono babae gihapon.

padung na tingali ni siya ma-badibildir human sa iyang stint sa dancing with the stars.  pero, hubagang manoy na uy.  makabugsay na gyod ni siya.

chaz bono
complete, with beard and beer belly

...and here comes chaz bono.

chastity bono
nearer, nearer...

FM/FilmMagic, Jason Merritt/Getty Images for GLAAD
Chastity Bono, School of the
Performing Arts Graduation
at LaGuardia High School
in New York City (1987)


chastity bono as a young lady

opposite ni si bb gandanghari ni chastity bono.



chastity bono as a young child with celebrity parents sonny and cher

nakakita siya sa iyang nobyo wearing her lingerie?

Quote from: Lorenzo on June 16, 2012, 11:32:37 AM
According to some DILG people, it is wiser for the 12 LGUs to take positively their failure to get the seal because admitting shortcomings is a measure of true greatness.

right on.

order unyag bees kun makaadto ka sa bee farm sa ato, bai hubs.

Quote from: hubag bohol on June 16, 2012, 10:06:50 AM
Hmm, hingigo ba kaha ang gunman unya ang kinatawo ba kaha jud ang planong puhagon...

on the contrary.  pareha ra mi katoytoy sa gunman.  apil-apil kog practice shooting sa una (never again, i swore), between the eyes akong tuyo sa lifesize picture nga target, ayay, arang layoa.  matod pa sa mga siaw nakong kauban, di gyod kuno sila mosukol nako kay hingigo man diya kuno kog itlog.    

Quote from: hubag bohol on June 16, 2012, 10:04:40 AM
Gipupho ba kaha tawon ang natuasik nga mga parte...

aron itaod ug balik?  i doubt...

Quote from: Lorenzo on June 16, 2012, 11:44:54 AM
are there no child protection services in the philippines or any social services group under the government that can come and intervene on the child's behalf? an infant living in the streets is prone to disease, and considering the lack of health care , could be prone to invasive pathogenic infection. i also am worried that her child is not getting enough nutrition , perhaps even prone to vitamin deficiency. saddening to hear about this.

there are such services, actually.  the requirements, as far as i can make out, are that the concerned parent (in this case, the mother) has to ask for these, she has to be registered as a resident of the barangay where she lives, and the result of a background investigation would render her qualified for such services.  i believe this particular mother did not make the cut.  her background means that she could actually avoid this kind of life if she chose to.

here we do not have the kind of service that the u.s. has, like forcibly getting a minor child from irresponsible and dangerous parents for government custody.  such situation could mean countless qualified children it would overwhelm our resources.  that, despite the fact that our social welfare department (dswd) has one of the biggest government budgets.

this mother's best recourse actually is to give the child up to dswd for adoption.  i don't see it coming, though.  on the streets, parents need children as props, right?   

islander's story, continued

ondo's average daily income afforded him only some pieces of bread and drinking water.  i knew then that puppee had also developed a taste for the same diet.  she needed getting used to with dog food.  well, if i was concerned with the dog's nutrition, why not with its human owner too?  that's how things began to evolve to the next level.  if i wanted to help the dog, can't the human be far behind?

this street community impressed me as tightly-knit.  people tend to know the whereabouts of their fellow street denizens.  every time i asked where ondo was, they always knew what street he went to or whether he was "parking" or "nangangalakal" at the moment.

oh, i took on the 9 a.m. daily routine of bringing food and water for puppee the dog.  he was as thin as his owner, a situation made worse by her being tied and was thus unable to scavenge. 

the habit simply evolved.  i started with leftover food.  then i switched to feeding her dog food.  i gave two tiny basins for her food and water and a new leash to ensure her safety in a busy street.  the tiny basins were gone in less than 24 hours.  they were stolen while he slept, ondo said.

one thing i learned about these street citizens is that their concept of private property is nil.         

"mangalakal" (root word "kalakal", tagalog for trade, commerce, or merchandise) for the street community is garbage scavenging for recyclable materials like metal, bottles, plastics, boxes, and paper that are weighed and sold to business establishments of the recycling trade.  what a choice of tagalog word to describe garbage scavenging, i thought.  they're into trading and merchandising, come to think of it.  so the word is apt.

hahaha!  unsa kahay lami sa tudlo with ingrown nails?

kalami na lang unta sagulon ang duha ka estorya aron lang tawon matabla ang kaguol ug kasakit.  ang anak nga 3rd year college of nursing nga gusto nang maminyo, and i would say she's rather thoughtless, mao untay angay makakita ug mga demonyo ug makadungog ug mga hunghong nga di mao. 

if it were so, 5 years of togetherness for these two people might be too long.

if you threw plastic garbage with your left hand, you're a leftist.  if you threw with your right, you're a rightist.  if you owned the plastic manufacturing firm, you are a capitalist.  okay?    

di diay open pit ning klaseha sa mining.

Quote from: chicogon on June 15, 2012, 10:58:58 AM


Kini nuon morag dili dangerous... uwagan lang. Gi drag pajod gamit ni ma'm 

pang-ilad ra na sa mga vulnerable... patuo-tuo nga wa kintahay mag-agig breast enhancement.

Quote from: chicogon on June 15, 2012, 10:57:21 AM
Kini man akong gi imagine: dangerous nga utanon (utinon) bwahahaha , ooops! 

upo diay ni?  my badness, abi nakog bahin rag iring ug iro nang liwatay, naa na pod diay roy upo nga liwat sa tag-iya?

angay ani warningan ang tb backyard gardeners nga si raqz ug langgamtamsi bahin ug upo da.    

wow, raqz!  salamat nga nitumaw na ka.  enjoy your stay in bohol.  please keep in touch.

"parking" means guiding drivers of vehicles when they park, whether such guidance is needed or not.  those who do this, like ondo, simply impose themselves.  if they get something, fine.  if not, it's all in a day.  some vehicle owners give as a matter of habit, others do for fear that once they drive out, the "parking" guy had scratched his car with a hidden knife.  thus, other vehicle owners even ask "parking" guys to also act as "watch-your-car" boys, for which they give extra.  better to get the trust of these guys rather than have one's car scratched, so to speak.   

any area, like a building or an establishment with its own security guard, is off limits for "parking" guys.  they can't have guards with guns as rivals.  besides, it would mean another player in this "job" that has its own politics.  the fiercer ones get the better and more income-generating areas.  ondo's style couldn't stand a chance.  he's too weak to be a street toughie.  i learned from those who knew him that he was always bumped off in areas where he chose to operate.  so he kept on moving around on any given day. 

the average take for "parking" per vehicle: 5 pesos. 

if there's a street dog, then puppee is the quintessential one.  other strays once had homes and they either got lost or have chosen to run away because of maltreatment or simple indifference by their owners.  puppee had never known a home because her owner was a street guy who accepted her as an unwanted puppy.

ondo left puppy on the sidewalk, permanently tied, while he went somewhere for his day's upkeep.  ondo did two things to earn his next meal, "parking" and "mangalakal", two words whose nuances in their street community's lingo are so layered, it's fascinating. 

let me put this straight.  i'm no do-gooder.  most of what i do in terms of extending myself for others are spur-of-the-moment decisions, not planned benevolent moves that define my life.  nothing of mother teresa there, really.

the dog came first.  i went out for groceries and toiletries and fast food fare when i noticed this very thin dog permanently tied to a water meter railing at the sidewalk.  it had no access to water.  i just have to know the owner then so i can tell him to at least provide this very basic need of any animal. 

subjects of the occasion: puppee the street dog
and his owner (to protect his privacy, let's call him "ondo")

other angles of that occasion
note: some of them are barefoot

if one is wondering why the focus of the people in the picture is the dog in the cage, it is because it is so.  i just brought the cage for the dog when this picture was taken.  i think the fact that the dog was going home with his owner made them curious as well.

drugs or no, the couple are my friends and they truly are nice to talk to.  they were at the frontline in helping me out prepare the dog and the owner for their trip back home.

Quote from: islander on June 15, 2012, 03:47:28 PM

that woman in the green shirt was pregnant when this picture was taken (she has a baby girl now who also sleeps on the street; her second child.)  her name's raquel.  her father's a retired pensioner, has a house nearby, and appears clean as his daughter is dirty-looking.  the father had given up on her, i have learned.  she's on drugs and she insists on staying on the street with her cebuano common-law husband who's also on drugs.     

here they are, street residents with whom i've become very familiar with.  the occasion was when i sponsored one of them for his trip back to the province.  he's from butuan.  so those who belonged to this street community and knew the guy as "one of their own" came to send him off and wish him well.  i took this picture with my mobile phone. 

usahay, nyor bugs, maapil pag kumot ang imong nawong kay sa paghatag nimo naa ni silay kauban nga nag-pick pod sa imong pocket. 

pwera sa tinuod nga wa gyoy laing kapaingnan, pait baya usahay nga mga bata pa gani praktisado nag emote.  paping-it-ping-it nga mangayo, paluya-luya, hatag ka, pagtalikod nimog pila ka lakang, lingia, di ba nalagsik ug ahat unya nangdukol dayon sa kauban kay ngano siyang gibabagan. 

those sights will always be touching, i know.  and some are very real.  there are those, though, that are mere "special effects".  parents are too lazy to work and they have perhaps figured out that staying put and begging is a lot easier.  what they've sacrificed is self-esteem, which they couldn't care about anyway.  these parents use their children as props.  this does not hold true in all cases, of course, but those of their kind that i've befriended (yes, the word is befriended) in these last few months that i've been in manila actually have choices, which they refuse to make.

my choice is the undried version.  kapoy man sa apapangig nang dried bolinao, labi nag dagko.

mantinir lang ang taga-dimeow ug bayeng ukay-ukay ang underwear.  may puruhan pa nga partner in crime na siya sa motorcycle-riding tandem assassins.  ang kanding de balingsya padayon lang sa iyang pagka-magic goat.

kanding de balingsya kana.  may puruhan nga paryente ni bugsay, lorenz ug yours truly.

si inday nga kanding nga paklayonon
ang tinan-awan ni hubag ug chicogon?

taga-balingsya tawon kanang kandinga
bisag tamayon magdalag bikog kana.

hahaha!  lisora isukol anang inyong kakrokongho
magluto na lang ko usa para among paniudto

kun anhi ko sa tbland nga mag-sige rag pungko
mouli unya si banana republic nga nagmugto.

refrain: islander, tindog na aron di ka
           mabunalan ni banana republika.

tsuwariwariwap!

Quote from: hubag bohol on June 15, 2012, 10:37:50 AM
He he, I know which head you mean...

if you're thinking what i'm thinking, you beat me to it.  wa pa mahulma tawon, imo nang gipalit.

Quote from: hubag bohol on June 15, 2012, 10:37:11 AM
Sigon sa gidak-on. Naa puy dried dates and figs...

kabahong na kun dates ug figs.

sa circus?  as a rare animal exhibit?

pugong ra na sa baba ni inday aron di mapiskan ug laway ang iyang gidala nga mga beer pints.

aw, tipo gyod hinoon nga mangilog ug shoal.

Quote from: chicogon on June 15, 2012, 10:45:15 AM


Kini sad (repost)

angay ni sila dad-on sa victoria's secret headquarters, as potential lingerie models.

Quote from: chicogon on June 15, 2012, 10:43:33 AM


Is this camote dangerous too? 

kun nagdala nag hiv, angay na siya sa emergency room and not the kitchen.

Quote from: chicogon on June 15, 2012, 10:41:36 AM
Ang upo asa man nalista? 

morag safe ra ang upo kay humok ra, labi nag pang-iton lang dayon gikan ug pupo.

Quote from: hubag bohol on June 15, 2012, 10:40:03 AM
Hmm, is this post supposed to appeal to a highly sophisticated sense of humor?

highly sophisticated, all right, but one has to be a vegetable.

"Good preparation is crucial when it comes to preventing kitchen accidents such as severe cuts, so make sure your knives are sharp and in a good condition, use a vegetable peeler where appropriate and do not rush chopping. Keep knives out of the reach of children and, if you're involving young children in food preparation, supervise them at all times and help them to develop good skills in the kitchen."

Thirty seven percent of people surveyed said they shouldn't enter the kitchen because they're a risk to themselves.

Just-Eat UK Managing Director David Buttress said, "Our research shows that cooking at home can be a dangerous game. When it comes to food preparation, it's the usual suspects that crop up time and time again… If it's a choice between laying down the potato peeler for a night and a trip to the hospital waiting room - I know which I'd choose!"

http://abcnews.go.com/

The Most Dangerous Vegetables Ranked

By Lauren Torrisi
ABC News Blogs â€" 7 hrs ago

Knife in hand, you shoot a puzzled glance at the butternut squash sitting on the cutting board, unsure of where to begin. You're not alone-a new study in the UK found that 88 percent of people injure themselves in the kitchen and over half of them do it while preparing vegetables.

In honor of National Safety Week, Just Eat surveyed over 2,000 of its customers to find the top five most dangerous vegetables to prep. Here's what topped the list:

1. Pumpkin 2. Swede (rutabaga) 3. Butternut Squash 4. Turnip 5. Jerusalem Artichoke

Thirty-nine percent of people said they injured themselves because the vegetable was difficult to cut.

"The kitchen is where some of the most serious home accidents occur and cuts are among the most common types of injury to happen, with tens of thousands of people attending A&E as a result each year," said Sheila Merrill, a public health adviser for the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents in a statement.

(Image credit: @JustEat_UK)

naa ba sa ka dinhay hulagway ug noynoy aquino with chinese wives, tubs?

hadlok ra pod ning klaseha sa harem.

contributory too:  thoughtless and improper garbage disposal, especially of plastics

tawon sad si inday in blue, nagpa-hollywood red carpet style ang posing nga de rigueur sa hollywood because this particular pose supposedly makes one look thinner on camera.  kaso, way nahimo ang posing sa pus-on ug dagkong paa ni inday.  charming ra ba unta siya. 

Quote from: hubag bohol on June 15, 2012, 06:02:50 AM
Wa ko ka-getz. Ang motor maoy silbi female?

ikaw ray makatubag ana, 'ding.

paagi ni sa management pag-warning nga naay hubog dinha magpabuing-buing, kausahon ra ni inday waitress-cum-bouncer ug busdak nang pints sa ulo ni ondoy, wingig gyod dayon.  

tstk, tsk, klarong unemployable.  maglisod man ganig pangitag trabaho tong naay telltale signs of pierced ears, unsa na kaha ni.

i'll have brad pitt's head for breakfast.

ang tiil part, unsa kahay himoong kunggo, raisins?

purya intawon.  kinsa mang mga perverts ang mopalit ug mokaon ani?  civilized cannibals?

unya inig-off aning mga bataa, labi nag kaadlawon para sa mga graveyard shift, maghuboghubog dayon, baye o laki.  puwera sa mga tarong, naa na gyod intawoy sub-culture ning call center workers.

bitaw uy, korean tourist na siya nga klarong nag-posing sa poso kay wa na sa ila.

laki na siya.  ang kawo maoy nagplastar sa iyang wig or hair extension in current lingo.

mora lagi ug naay epekto ang mx3 nako... ambot lang kaha, pero sa di pa ko tigtomar ani, naglurat pa akong mata at 3 a.m. tungod sa insomnia.  karon, wa pay 12 midnight, natampilaw na ko atubangan sa monitor.  i will observe further.  meantime, to bed i go.  goodnight, tb netizens.  happy to sleep before 12 midnight after such a long time...

ang kanding nga mohabal ug motorsiklo kay manganak ug bisikleta.

you will do when a joke, my friend.  you will better it business railway equipment not badder than steam engine walking on?

one of those quirky requests (read: swindles) that manages to get inside one's email inbox:

Hello, my friend! You can lend me 80,000 U.S. dollars it? How ridiculous it sounds, I never thought this would be a strange way to borrow money from foreign friends, my business had a loss of money, in the platform for the friends I really just try to borrow money, you will do when a joke. I was doing the business of railway equipment, and loss of money I do not own the business, but investment in other business friends, if you help me, I will also part of the money each year to you, I have a small shop, there are 60,000 annual income can be also a part of, can only explain so, I will seek God as their own a! then that I in money, not cheat, I need the money is also part of the debt, but also with the money to re-do a good job in the business! believe that God can prove what I have said is the truth! I am Chinese, but my English well, I have the ID card. my phone 13806782468

this headline was in 2000.  it turned out that until 2008 (at least, as far as i was able to read) there were more reported cases of filipino domestic helpers being burned by their employers in hong kong.  the favorite weapon is an electric iron.       

someone can also be too pretty to get married only to be lied on, cheated with, and played to.

at least, sakto ang iyahang grammar.

taym sa, kinsa may nag-ingon nga ang mga laksot lang ang angay ma-single?  calling, gabriela!

Quote from: hubag bohol on June 14, 2012, 07:28:38 PM


Salamagan! Fr. Chic is an acupuncturist? Can I have acupuncture in lieu of confession? 

lisod ni kay sunod unya nimong pangayoon ang mokaon na lang kag mangosteen imbis mokalawat.  further on, magpakasal unya kag mangosteen tree, na, mabunalan na gyod kag troso ni fr chic.

mx3 is manufactured in davao.  sa bag-o pa kuno ni, barato pa kaayo.  gipalit sa mercury drug, mao nga nimahal.

Quote from: insurectus on June 14, 2012, 12:26:55 AM
@Islander asa ka tigpalit ana mx3 og tagpila pod na

mercury drug at 23 pesos a pop.

naa ra man diay na. 

the distance of scarborough shoal a.k.a. bajo de masinloc to the nearest coast of china in hainan province is 840 kilometers.  halfway is 440 kilometers.  so leave bajo de masinloc (220 kilometers from zambales) alone.

China to PH: Let's meet halfway on dispute

by Willard Cheng, ABS-CBN News
06/14/2012 1:03 PM

PNoy vows to uphold PH territory

MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE) - China reiterated its commitment to have its territorial dispute with the Philippines resolved peacefully and diplomatically, reaffirming the deeply rooted friendship between the Philippines and China that spans centuries.

Chinese Ambassador to the Philippines Ma Keqing said both sides “should demonstrate political wisdom to meet each other halfway” to resolve the dispute in the South China Sea.

more at http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/-depth/06/13/12/china-ph-lets-meet-halfway-dispute

hayahaya nila uy.  tawgon man lang ug panakot morag ahos-sibuyas-kamatis ang potential baha sa manila.

so is he.

my name is prince, james prince.

and lest we overlook, this is prince.

who is prince charming?

merriam-webster (not miriam santiago whose definition would have been more interesting) says he is "an ideal male lover who is both handsome and of admirable character".

thus, he may not have money...

donald trump has money and silly hair.  where's the charm? 

...and he need not be a royal prince.

prince charles is a blue-bloodied royal and has aristocratic ears.  where's the charm?