So Naga, Carcar and Bogo are back to being towns or municipalities. Said my friend from Naga: “Town sad namo oy.”
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“Horse Buggies Back in Rural Europe” - Headline. Reminds me ... During those years when horses ruled our transpo system there were no such problems as transpo strikes. We had a stable economy.
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When horses ruled our streets, owner’s horse stables didn’t care about gasoline price hikes. They fed their horses with grasoline.
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I was introduced to Norman Knowles, a taekwondo practitioner from South Korea (although he’s a native of Canada). He said that taekwondo could give RP its first gold in the Olympics. So, let’s go for it and get a kick out of this event.
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A few columns back I mentioned the sad fact that sometimes I get berated by readers who can’t see the point or issue I touch or tinker with. It happened again after my last column came out last Wednesday. But I took it in stride. It was April Fools Day.
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One reader said: “Hibaw na ko pro-Gwen ka.” Hehehe! And her basis for calling me pro-Gwen was what I said in that day’s column. I said I liked the language — the prose — of the guvnor’s statements when she’s angry. It’s tough but colorful, I said. For that only pro-Gwen na ko? Hahaha!
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E-mail from Ed Lucasta (New York): “Your government has required taxi operators to paint their units white. I don’t know for what reason. But in New York and Taipei the taxis are all painted yellow. Because they say yellow is a safe color.”
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E-mail from Orly (no second name) of Talisay City: “We’re mad at Chinese writer Chip Tsao because he called us ‘A country of servants.’ The issue here should not only be our being a nation of servants but the main contents of the Tsao article which made us look like makalolooy intawon.”
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Thanks to Ed Lucasta (is he Pinoy or Kano?) and Orly (surely he’s Pinoy) for taking the time to send us their e-mails. Do continue reading TF either in print or in the Internet. We are on the Philippine STAR website ... www.philstar.com.
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A resident of Catmon reports that there is a big acacia tree on Km. 48, that town, that is causing some problem to motorists. Attention DWPH, DENR or the town officials themselves.
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Email: nitzjab@yahoo.com