Hi there! It’s 20 days to Christmas and they are singing or playing Christmas songs (I’m wondering what makes it different from Christmas carols?). Anyway, I had a good laugh when I heard someone sing a “reworded” line from an OPM Christmas song, “malamig ang simoy ng gastos” instead of singing “malamig ang simoy ng hangin”. It’s worth a smile but it also manifests the sad reality about how most of us look at Christmas as a time to spend every penny on practically anything there is, the economic crunch notwithstanding.
Talking about the economic crunch, some the country’s economic wiz were quick to reassure the public about the effects of the U.S. recession. That life goes on normally, albeit with a few modification here and there. As Solita Monsod had it, we need to save, and we also need to spend. Economists are one in saying that we too have to keep the economy going. Anyway, why should I be mentioning this? It’s just that times are really hard, literally if I may add. How is that? Days ago, news had this: “ang rebulto ni Bonifacio pinagnakawan.” You don’t steal from dead people, do you? Much less from the monuments of dead heroes. Oh well, it happens. That’s certainly a new twist to the usual raket that many not-so-resourceful (and not necessarily hardup) pinoys are into like holdup, snatching, kotong, bank robbery (do we include carnapping?) especially so during this season of peace and goodwill a.k.a. season of gastos.
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The City Government of Calbayog is celebrating its annual Urban Poor Solidarity Week. The event commenced last Tuesday. Tomorrow’s activities will include a parade and fellowship to be participated in by the various homeowners associations in the city.
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The Giant Christmas Tree at the Cardinal Rosales plaza had been lighted. The tree which has become one of the fixtures of Christmas in Calbayog has taken different styles and motifs through the past so many years. But its purpose has remained the same – as a fund-raising activity of the Rotary Club of Calbayog. The Light-A-Tree Project which the Rotary undertakes in cooperation with the City Government of Calbayog, SAMELCO and the Diocese of Calbayog is but one of the activities which has helped the club in raising funds for their various projects which include feeding programs and eye operations, among others.
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THE CKC JOSE GOMEZ ORCHESTRA IN CONCERTThe CKC Jose Gomez Orchestra will have a Concert on December 12, 2008. The event will be held at the Frs. Leopold and David Auditorium at the CKC Campus. There will be two performances on that day, a matinee at 3:00 pm and gala at 6:30 pm.
Tickets are priced at 100 pesos. 500-peso sponsor tickets are also available. Proceeds of the concert will form part of the funds being raised for the renovation of the auditorium which will serve as the official home of the orchestra.
You may purchase your tickets at the CKC Bookstore; or at the gate during the concert.
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Let me leave you with the last part of that piece I left you with last Monday. These are from a book called Disorder in the American Courts, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place. (Please, don’t take it seriously. rrlr)
ATTORNEY: How was your first marriage terminated?
WITNESS: By death.
ATTORNEY: And by whose death was it terminated?
WITNESS: Now whose death do you suppose terminated it?
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ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?
WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a Beard.
ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?
WITNESS: Guess.
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ATTORNEY: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney?
WITNESS: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
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ATTORNEY: Doctor, how many of your autopsies have you performed on dead people?
WITNESS: All my autopsies are performed on dead people. Would you like to rephrase that?___________
ATTORNEY: ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go to?
WITNESS: Oral.
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ATTORNEY: Do you recall the time that you examined the body?
WITNESS: The autopsy started around 8:30 p.m.
ATTORNEY: And Mr. Denton was dead at the time?
WITNESS: No, he was sitting on the table wondering why I was doing an autopsy on him!
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ATTORNEY: Are you qualified to give a urine sample?
WITNESS: Huh....are you qualified to ask that question?
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ATTORNEY: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for blood pressure?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: Did you check for breathing?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy?
WITNESS: No.
ATTORNEY: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
WITNESS: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
ATTORNEY: I see, but could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
WITNESS: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.
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This is it for now. Have a nice weekend everyone! Ciao!
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