bantay salakay

why do they say dogs are man's best friend?

 coz dogs are never "bantay salakay".

quo vadis... graduates

quo vadis is a latin phrase meaning "Where are you going?" or "Whither goest thou?"

mindanao power crisis... scripted?

survey rating boomerang

BURNT NA... BURDENED PA!!!

Unexplained wealth and unexplained poverty

EDGE DAVAO.... KADA ADLAW NA!!!

sin tax?

A recent study conducted by the Southeast Asia Tabacco Control Alliance reveals that 18.7% of Filipino young women between the ages of 13 and 25 smoke cigarettes. The numbers is expected to increase if the sample is restricted to teenagers between 13 and 15 for which  3 out of 10  have known to  already have the smoking habit.

Interview revealed that among female smokers, 60% say that they smoked their first cigarette at the age of 18, while the remaining 40% say they started  when they were still very young out of curiousity.

What is more alarming is the revelation that these smokers are not keen on quitting despite the fact that they are aware of the risks connected to smoking. The survey further revealed that nine girls out of ten know that smoking can cause lung cancer, infertility, early menopause, osteoporosis, and hysterectomy. 

INITIATIVES  to put warning labels on packaging remain futile to curb, if not totally stop this vice.

reversed psychology

pen is mightier than sword... but a bullet proves more fatal

"Journalism will kill you, but it will keep you alive 

while you're at it."   

Greeley, Horace

“Journalism can never be silent: that is its greatest virtue and its greatest fault. 

It must speak, and speak immediately, while the echoes of wonder, the claims 

of triumph and the signs of horror are still in the air.”

 Henry Anatole Grunwald

“Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism,
the second best into business, 

the rubbish into politics
and the shits into law”

 Auberon Waugh

75th araw ng Dabaw

HAPPY 75TH ARAW NG DABAW

Recently, local dailies banner news on the spate of hold-up incidents here in Davao City. People have become  watchful and and sensible not to wear dangling attractants tempting to the criminals. Police forces have been mobilzed and were allegedly assigned with "quotas" as to how many hold-upers should they nab in a day. 

Araw ng Dabaw (or Linggo ng Dabaw since we we celbrate this the  whole week) is about to unfold and  City Mayor Inday Sara is hell-bent to make this event successful and peaceful. 

"I would expect resiliency from each other especially so that this is not the first time this happened in our city," Inday Sara said.

With the 35 activities line up for this year's Araw celebration, the people of Dabaw, the DABAWENYOS, will surely rally to make this event a success.

No need to fear... the police officers are here!!!

hopefully.

CACOPHONY or symphony

THE SYMPHONY AND SYMMETRY eminent in the common interests and avarice of these two conniving entities aggravate poverty. Orchestrated move indeed and robbery in broad daylight!

But according to MALACAÑANG, the Aquino administration has been trying to do its best (huu-hoom) and exhausting all means  to cushion the impact of the rising oil prices. The Department of Energy had already releasedP1,200 each worth of fuel assistance to about 100,000 public transport card holders under the Pantawid Pasada Program. What then is the "cushion" provided to the passengers? Duh...pin cushion?

Various militant groups are demanding for the repeal the Expanded Value Added Tax Law, the Oil Deregulation Law, and the Power Electricity Reform Act (Epira). Unfortunately, the Aquino Government remains  deaf to the clamor of the people.

Or let's  just say, the clamor has faded into mere whispers and hushed moans.

KAY NGANO MAN KAHA?

NAPAGAW NA INTAWON ANG NAPASMONG PUBLIKO 
SA PAGSIGE UG SINGIT..

PULEEEESSSS please....

 

in the movies, cops always arrive at the crime scenes late.

hence they earn the monicker..."magbalantay sa kalinaw" or "men in peace".
abot na sila pag linaw na.

i hope in real life, it's the other way around. puleeeessss please...