Magandang Umaga Bayan ! Goooooooooooood Morning Philipppppppines !
Hey what’s been happening in the land of Terminal charges, cute babes, and Bayani music !
Sing along with the Spaghetti girls from Quezon City, Y Spaghetti pababa, pababa ng pababa (sounds like) come on have some fun, and listen to the news to 5th November.
A Tribute to heroes.
The Forum Literary team at FilipinoUK would like express their condolences to the families of our soldiers in the Black Watch Battle group, who have been sadly killed in action serving this United Kingdom overseas, in the war on International terrorism, the men serving in the “Triangle of Death” fell victim to a road side bomb, our hearts go out to the families, and they are in are thoughts and prayers, during this difficult time.
Fiscal Problems in the Philippine Islands.
Her Excellency President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has recently commented on the Fiscal “Problem” that is facing the Philippines, this is a shift in the President’s diction to date, no doubt due to her advisors insistance on refraining from the use of the word crisis, crisis in itself has a connotation of life or death, whereas the softer language, the President is now using is seen as a major political shift in thinking, problems can be solved, whereas crisis’s tend to create fear, just goes to show that you shouldn’t make a drama out of a crisis.
Philippine Airlines rolls out new “Mabuhay” class to overseas destinations.
Philippine airlines has recently announced a new service on its long haul flights, they will now consent to switching on both engines during take off, during the recent austerity measures, and cutbacks, Philippine airlines executives had said that there was “A need to curtail” on use of aviation fuel, it was thought that only 1 engine was required during take off, passengers however on the port side of the aircraft were asked to flap their arms in a bird like motion, to enable the balance to be kept by the starboard engine, any passengers who objected to this, were told to “Keep their boarding passes and they would get a free flight in Fiesta class”. For those readers who are unfamiliar with Fiesta class, this involves passengers travelling on a rubber band powered aircraft.
The new Mabuhay class passengers will now benefit from:
A stylish clutch-type bag containing more than the usual travel essentials. For the ultimate in air travel therapy, the kit carries the AROMA line of skincare treatments by Lancome, a set of aromatherapy formulas to banish travel-related stress and promote constant skin hydration during the flight. To complement the Lancome skincare range, the kit also includes a wooden massager to relieve tired muscles and improve blood circulation, the kit also includes a complimentary vial of Kaolin and Morphine, to offset Gloria’s revenge, The kit contains other grooming items like hairbrush and comb, dental set (toothbrush and toothpaste) from Colgate, lip moisturizer by Neutrogena, and razor kit composed of a Gillette razor and Claire shave cream. Apart from standard sleeping necessities like slumber mask and slipper socks, ear plugs are provided to ensure an uninterrupted rest during the flight, each kit contains the standard “How to fly a Boeing 757 in 12 easy lessons”.
These accessories, will help to make the flight more comfortable, however passengers had been warned that they would only need to be interrupted if it was necessary to ask them to get out and paddle, this would only be necessary should the aircraft be required to ditch in the Philippine sea, such are the wonderful austerity measures in place at PAL.
Doctors Hospital Manila
Philippine Nurses have been issued with special uniforms, the current range of uniforms have been discontinued, many nurses have been complaining about the uniforms saying that “They were made out of a see through material, and that quote “patients and Doctors were continuously staring at their breasts”
All nurses who wished to complain were told to report to the Chief of medical surgery so that HE could assess the extent of the problem ?
US - RP Relations have worsened.
Relations between the Bush Administration and the Arroyo administration have appeared to have worsened of late, U.S. Ambassador to the Philippines Mr Riciardonne had expressed concern to the Malacanang that the withdrawal of the 53 strong Filipino military contingent could lead to other foreign hostages being taken.
PGMA had recently given in to the terrorists demands that the Filipino troops should be withdrawn to save the life of Mr Angelo de la Cruz, the United States and Australia had expressed concern that this error of judgment would lead to increased hostage taking in the Iraq area.
The Arroyo administration has been quick to play down the apparent cooling of relations saying that it wouldn’t matter to the Philippines who was elected to the White House, as the Philippines is a small country with little or no diplomatic influence on U.S. Foreign policy.
The Philippines Government has noted that after the U.S. Presidential election Americans are moving more now to the Christian right, and Conservatism with a small “c” PGMA had said that “There is no worsening of relations between our two countries, the U.S. understands our stance on the War on Terrorism”.
Well that’s it folks for this week, In the provinces we had the usual number of shootings, muggings, bribery, and corruption activities, but apart from that nothing really happened !.
Check back next week for more news.
