To speak or no to speak...English

When Erap testified at his plunder case yesterday, he wanted the proceedings in tagalog but the laywers argued that it's going to be hard for them and the stenographer as well. They wanted to use the English language (easier for them to do their job). Both parties made a compromise. The lawyers will ask questions in English and Estrada will answer back in Tagalog.

And so the interchange was done in Taglish.. Yikes!

It's funny to think about how we are all Filipinos here and yet the court has to have an interpreter just so it can translate Estrada's answers into English. How silly. Hehehe.

Hell, what happens if you're defending somebody poor who can't even understand the English language? Lawyers will just continue their gibberish slangs and and lexicon blabs without them knowing and understanding what the fuck is going on! Just look what happened during Ultra stampede hearings. The victims (mostly poor ones) were so clueless as to whats going on cos prosecutors and and everybody else was talking in english!

The PC [political correctness] movement exists not in order to improve the well-being of those whose oppression it purports to combat. Rather, its purpose is to wrap its proponents in a kind of verbal comfort-blanket. Beneath its complacent cosiness and nauseating sanctimony, the intrepid shock-troops of 'populist authoritarianism' pretend that suppressing the language of prejudice is the same as eliminating prejudice itself. Smug and self-satisfied, having assuaged whatever guilt they may have felt through their attacks on the 'non-PC', they ignore the real inequalities, ignominies and powerlessness of those whom they pretend to champion. They are instead complacently content at their 'victory' in contorting the language of 'acceptable' discourse in the classroom, in the textbook and in the mass media. ~Erik Kowal, as posted on The Wordwizard Portal

Uhm

Maybe Lawyers should realize that if their clients cannot speak much less understand English, they ought to go down to their level of understanding and talk to them and explain things to them in Tagalog. If you're a Filipino though you should be able to speak and talk argue and defend in your mother tongue and rephrase words in the most effective way.

On the other hand.....

Many agree that when it comes to court cases and hearings, English language is best used for arguments and questions and everything else. They said that terminology and articulation is but hard and will be difficult for them to translate into Tagalog words. Okay maybe they are right about that. Also if you want to be successful in the corporate world and be a professional (Doctors, Lawyers...etc) and travel abroad of course you need to speak good English-correct grammar and the right pronounciation and enunciation. One doesn't need to be so fluent (although it helps a lot).

Communicating effectively is a must. Whether it's in your native tongue or different language.

And just so you know, I speak fluent Tagalog.

Anyhow...

If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American.

Hmm. I have nothing more to say.

Why Cory doesn't like Gloria

I think I know why.. it's probably not a secret but here's my theory, it's because PGMA and Mrs. Marcos are talking. Meaning to say, that Mrs. Marcos thinks that with this present government of Arroyo she can get a deal to bury her late husband, and then at the same time, the government was willing to enter into an out-of-court settlement with Marcos over her tiaras, bracelets and necklaces in an attempt to speed up recovery of the assets.

As you know, if was the Marcoses who jailed Ninoy Aquino (Cory's husband) and thought to be the one who killed him which in turn sparked EDSA revolution.

And now, the government is entering a deal with Imelda Marcos ( about the ill gotten wealth cos PCCG said it has been so long.. already and nothing happening..to that effect) .

You get what I mean? Oh well, I know majority of Filipinos doesn't like PGMA. Heh!

The (Subic rape)case may not be a case after all

Accordng to this Reuters report: Manila may drop rape charges against US marine

Last year, Philippine prosecutors charged the four with raping a 22-year-old Filipino woman in early November but, following an appeal by defense lawyers, the government is reviewing the charges before the marines are formally arraigned.

"What I'm studying now is whether the culpability of all these people is the same," Justice Secretary Raul Gonzalez told Reuters.

When asked about media reports that the Philippines will drop all charges against three of the four U.S servicemen, Gonzalez said "I do not think so."

The case is weak I think.

The girl who granted news interview (shown on t.v) several weeks ago said she's educated, she's college graduate( Ateneo de Davao.. If I'm not mistaken) and that she was only in Subic vacationing. But why go to a club frequented by marines? Hoes go there! Where there are U.S servicemen, naturally hoes would be there as well.

Gory Hostel Movie

Hot hot heat. Holy crap! It's practically summer already. Just couple of weeks more and it will be official. I wanna write something long and crappy and something quixotically boring about my life but my diary site is gone which is bummer cos that's where I blab about me, myself and my aesthetic crap. My journal of thoughts. My day by day existence(sp?). I hope they fix that site AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!

Saw the movie Hostel and that was so fucking gory! Blood gory body parts spilling all over-eye gouching arm breaking knee bending heel cracking finger cutting goriness! I sat throughout the duration of the movie covering my face not because it was scary but because of the blood and yucky cutting body parts thing. Eww.

Bush hit by cricket pitch ball.Yeeeouch!

Uh oh. Something for the late night talk shows monalogues. View photo slide here or watch the video from you tube. You know how they like to make fun one of the President Bush or anybody for that matter. I guess he should stick to baseball. Hehe.

Btw, was gonna post the embed vid but covered a bit of my sidebar.

End Presidential Proclamation 1017!

"I am tired of chasing the bully" she once said. But... isn't it the bully who chases the wimps?!

Enough warrantless arrest! Enough crackdown on media! Enough curtailing freedom of speech and the right to free assembly! Enough being stupidness and hungering for more presidential powers. Enough sucking up to her! End greed! End the so called Martial law like PP1017!

She's been the President since EDSA 2 and will continue to be that way untill 2011! Man, that's like almost 10 years of GMA. It's sickening already. Enough!

Edit* President Arroyo lifted state of national emergency the following day. As far as I'm concerned,....she should lift herself out the Malacanang palace throne!

Saving what I can, missing routinary d-x updates

Yippee. I finally was able to salvage several yearly archives(different months and all that) of my D-x journals through yahoo cache and internet archives. It's not everything but at least I got to save hundred or so from the combined 5 years of journal entries I had with Diary-x. I thought I wouldn't be able to retrieve my life online but..thank goodness for caches. I placed all archives saved in geocities accoount I have since forever.. but I gotta to fix them to make it fucken gruven archive site with custom layout and what not. :)

I'm waiting for d-x to resurrect from it's tomb, In the meantime, I will blahg a bit of my so called life here..until of call the new d-x is ready with it's spanking new life! Okay enough this!