Handling Du30's Barrage of Colorful and Vulgar Language

My friends and I were listening to Duterte's speech in the car last night, during the thanksgiving party in Davao, just so they can count how many P.I's he was going to say.

I only managed to catch the last five minutes of it, yet OMG - I have seen some of the world's best and most vulgar stand-up comedians and boy, they pale in comparison to our president! Even our own Vice Ganda pales so much in comparison in terms of the vulgarity of the choice of words!

I think it's even harder for us, Bisaya to listen to him since we understand it, and when it's spoken to you in your first language,it's like you were whiplashed!

I swear while I was listening to him, I was like, did he just say that? Did someone record this speech so I can listen to it again? Was that the word, blank and blank and blank used one after another?

Of course, you'd have to listen to how DU30 uses the words in context, but still, the imagery that he comes up with, just to stress a point, is something I haven't heard anyone use in my lifetime - especially from someone in authority - like your boss or your Dad or your Lolo.

There's no one quite like him.

Colorful is not even sufficient to describe it! I had to translate what he said to my friends, I translated it in English and even in English, it does sound a bit icky, sa Bisaya pa!

The reporters handling the Malacanang beat better have stomachs of steel! The pagmumura, I think, I can handle.

But the overtly sexual imagery, and the use of female and male genitalia in a very colorful context is something I have to get used to.

I'd hate to be a woman now handling the Malacanang beat! Siguro to prep you up, you have to listen to misogynistic black rappers para madesensitive ka sa kabastusan.

And I thought Madonna had a potty mouth na!

Thank You Lord for the Smooth and Safe Voting Experience!

Thank you Lord for the smooth and safe voting experience today in our precinct!

I suggest you vote early because the heat may be unbearable later.

The only unfortunate news is that our neighborhood newspaper vendor could not find her name in the voter's list even though her husband and she always voted together.

I wasn't able to ask though if she went through the biometrics process. She said, "Sayang, konti na lang ng ang boboto kay Miriam, mababawasan pa."

Oh well, I'll just assist her in the next registration of voters c/o BFF Mabel C. Villanueva.

Enjoying Davao's Bounties - Durian, Pomelo and the Marang

A trip to Davao isn't complete without tasting their fruit delicacies, durian and marang.  It took sometime for me to adjust to durian but I liked the marang immensely.  As for the pomelo, I used to eat a lot of that as a kid but since it's a bit pricey here in Manila, so I rarely eat it nowadays.

Fernando Botero Sculpture in Resorts World Manila

It was just my second time at the Resorts World Manila since frankly, it's just tooooooo faaaaaarrrrrrrr and too much effort for QC residents to go to. Tonight alone, it took us 2 1/2 hours to reach it - enough to go to HK or Davao on a flight! Anyway, I was amazed to see this beautiful chocolate sculpture of Fernando Botero at one of the lobbies!! 

A small Botero sculpture costs around 1 million HKD so this one, if it's really authentic, should cost as much as a Serendra apartment. Anyway, even if someone wants to steal this and sell it, it would be hard since it's so huge haha! Didn't know that Andrew Tan and the Megaworld people were Botero fans!!

UPCAT Test Items

Probably the best compliment I got from a UP professor was when my Math adviser in the UP Integrated School, Ms. Flora Cruz told me that she was endorsing two of the items I made for a second year honors algebra quiz to be included in the UPCAT entrance test because she was part of the panel that reviews and revises the exam questions for Math! I was really shocked with what she said but really very happy!! 

 Sadly, I could not confirm this anymore because I never really followed it up with her and asked her what happened. Tragically, I don't even have a copy of the two exam questions. All I remember is it was to compute for the slope but written into a Physics-like situation. And mind you, I wrote the quiz items in Tagalog!! Everything in UPIS, except English, is taught in Tagalog.