tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90760202024-03-07T15:21:34.704+08:00V I N C U L AMy Ties, Tethers, Anchors and Roots. These keep me grounded but also allow me to dream.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger310125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-75969434258063579662012-11-02T20:50:00.000+08:002012-11-03T06:58:48.695+08:00Third time's the charmI raved about his first two forays as Bond ("Best Bond in a long, long time") and ("No sophomore jinx") and I am about to do the same in this one. Definitely, third time's the charm.
For many of my generation and older, Bond was always Sean Connery. The others who followed in quick succession (Roger Moore, George Lazenby, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan) were simply fillersTed Tehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199366954843810747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-18059029338785791062012-10-14T13:35:00.002+08:002012-10-14T15:27:06.189+08:00THE ONSET OF LIGHT, THE MANY POSSIBILITIES OF HOPE<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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As someone who suffered as much as he did for his country, no one would perhaps have begrudged him the flight--out of the country. It speaks so much of the character of the man that he stayed. And that in staying, he persevered. And that in persevering, he fought. And, that in fighting, he led. And that in leading, he inspired.
In those dark days when law was Ted Tehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199366954843810747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-13643099672448297332011-03-27T23:09:00.001+08:002011-03-27T23:14:16.833+08:00A FAUSTIAN DEAL?It pays to wait--and also to have friends in high places apparently. That is the message I get from the successful evasion by Ping Lacson of his arrest while he awaited the quashal of the arrest warrant and the Information charging him for the Dacer-Corbito murders. All he needed to do was leave the country, cool his heels while there and then return as if nothing had happened. In the meantimeTed Tehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199366954843810747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-31319739014747276242011-03-27T23:03:00.002+08:002011-03-27T23:08:18.103+08:00REVILLAME, ET AL.Yes, Revillame is a hateful, insensitive, and crass man who simply does not belong in polite company let alone public television. I do not believe in censorship in any form, manner or circumstance but if I were to indulge a hypothetical, he (and one other) would be the best excuse for censorship. He is not however the first and only one to "abuse" children or women on television for the sake Ted Tehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199366954843810747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-29483517812180594002011-02-13T21:57:00.006+08:002011-02-13T22:05:50.616+08:00ADHD NATIONAs a nation, we just can't focus on one thing at a time and finish what we're doing. All this controversy that arose out of Angelo Reyes's death and the "taming" of the Senate is just another manifestation of the ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) we have as a nation. We swing from one end to the other, as our mood pleases, and lose track of what needs to be started, done and Ted Tehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199366954843810747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-777383570243422892011-01-28T13:21:00.008+08:002011-01-28T14:07:28.826+08:00THE POVERTY OF WORDSListening to the public hearing called by the Senate Blue Ribbon Committee to investigate the toxic deal entered into by the Ombudsman and the Special Prosecutor with former AFP Comptroller Carlos F. Garcia, I realized the poverty of the English language in expressing the sense of anger, outrage, and disbelief that I felt while listening to Angelo Reyes, former AFP Chief of Staff and Secretary Ted Tehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199366954843810747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-21624685747136784152011-01-20T08:28:00.003+08:002011-01-20T08:38:28.883+08:00NOT IN MY NAMEThe President expressed his reservations about reimposing the death penalty because the judicial system isn't perfect. He used to be for it but has changed his mind. The President is right on this issue and here is why. In People v. Efren Mateo, G.R. Nos. 147678-87, the Supreme Court made a landmark admission that the judicial system isn't perfect and how! Citing cold, hard statistics, the Ted Tehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199366954843810747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-45757475477948252022010-12-20T09:33:00.012+08:002011-01-28T14:35:31.889+08:00DOING A PACQUIAO......is what Mark Wahlberg's character Micky Ward does in "The Fighter", one of those really quiet, almost obscure films which really delivers, pardon the pun, a knockout punch. (Note: this film will probably not make it beyond Christmas, so catch it now, especially because from Christmas till the first week of January, we will be besieged again by that farce called The Metro Manila Film Festival;Ted Tehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199366954843810747noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-84767235353673737752010-10-14T08:58:00.003+08:002010-10-14T14:10:33.659+08:00Alter EgosI. The Forest, not the TreeI don't know Mr. Rico E. Puno. I have never met him. I had never heard of him until the day that President Aquino announced his appointment as Undersecretary of the Department of Interior and Local Government (DILG). In the 100 plus days since that time, however, not only I, but the entire nation and CNN-watching parts of the world, including Hong Kong and China, Ted Tehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199366954843810747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-57818900292039840482010-09-22T09:02:00.006+08:002010-09-22T09:58:48.540+08:00"...with a little help from my friends"With friends like Rico E. Puno, the President doesn't need Edcel Lagman, Danilo Suarez, Len Horn or even Gloria Arroyo. Puno's doing a great job, all by himself, of alienating and isolating the President and making people doubt the President's resolve to stop jueteng once and for all. Indeed, the President doesn't need enemies with friends like Puno.On Martial Law day 2010, Mr. Puno faced a Ted Tehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199366954843810747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-67971577942514536792010-09-02T08:56:00.006+08:002010-09-02T09:35:21.494+08:00IMHO, Part 2The President himself cannot be subjected to "clarificatory questioning" before a body he himself created. With due respect to the Justice Secretary and the President's Chief Legal Counsel, the fact-finding body created by the President to investigate the August 23, 2010 Hostage-taking Incident cannot even consider the possibility (as hinted by the Justice Secretary) of calling the President to Ted Tehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199366954843810747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-52681215566622322462010-07-20T08:25:00.004+08:002010-09-12T10:16:48.891+08:00IMHOIn today's verbal shorthand (although at the rate that these things go, this might even be soooo dated already), "IMHO" would be "In My Humble Opinion" (for those who don't pretend to be humble, simply omit the "H"). Ironically, phrases like these very frequently demand the opposite reaction--far from being "humble", a preface such as IMHO would generally be a red flag for "hey, this is Ted Tehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199366954843810747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-36595095721375428102010-01-04T11:27:00.003+08:002010-01-04T11:38:02.636+08:00How many !!! does James Cameron Use in a Sentence?After watching Avatar, I imagine that he uses a lot of !!!!s in his sentences.After a hibernation of 12 years, the creator of True Lies (the funniest Arnold movie) and the rejuvenator of Terminator (the most romantic Arnold movie) is back and how! Much has been written about Avatar and I won't repeat what they have said here. My personal review of the film consists of only three words: GO! Ted Tehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03199366954843810747noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-48219924170958386842009-05-05T16:11:00.001+08:002009-05-05T16:13:07.919+08:00Here's a question or two for Manny PacquiaoDo you really believe you can do something for your country as a politician? Whether it is in Congress, the Senate, or even as Mayor?Let's get real. Congressman or Mayor Pacquiao? Remember Ramon Revilla Sr.? Remember Lito Lapid?I believe that Manny can best serve this nation that is starved for heroes by doing what he does best. He is a boxer, the best there is right now, probably among the best Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-53769789471250932952009-01-30T09:56:00.004+08:002009-01-30T10:29:46.839+08:00No DoubtIt is one of the best I've seen and I say this not only because I'm a fan of Philip Seymour Hoffman and Meryl Streep.John Patrick Shanley's "Doubt" does not disappoint. Hoffman, Amy Adams and Meryl Streep are brilliant--each is the foil to the other. Adams as the caring and compassionate teacher who starts to doubt Seymour Hoffman's intentions as regards a boy in her class and informs Streep ofUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-24993924069727713252009-01-22T11:39:00.005+08:002009-01-22T12:08:35.347+08:00Foot in Mouth Disease, Part 2"First of all, our President is ahead of Obama and probably, I would think that if there's anything to be learned, it should be President Obama learning from President Arroyo." These words came from Eduardo Ermita, the Executive Secretary to Gloria Arroyo (to push the analogy a little further, the country's Rahm Emmanuel).I had to replay it quickly in my mind when I heard it because I couldn't Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-26875659613302881862009-01-21T08:37:00.004+08:002009-01-21T09:01:05.246+08:00B for the first part, B+ for the middle and A for the wind up. . .... would be the scores I would give the 44th President's Inaugural speech (cnn link here)Unlike the campaign speeches, the tone was sober--at times, even somber--but the speech itself was filled with hope. As called for by the occasion, it had greater gravitas as befitted his new stature as the 44th President of the world's only superpower. Many have said it was long on eloquence, short on Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-62848085555873764992009-01-20T09:48:00.004+08:002009-01-20T10:13:44.461+08:00Sometimes People Just Need InspirationThe 44th President of the only super power has aged since winning the election in November 2008. You see that in his face quite clearly. The weight of the world, literally, is now on his shoulders; add to that Dubya's dubious legacy of two wars without an exit plan, a recession and a country divided--not only along blue and red lines but also by cynicism, pessimism and seeming Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-66770942945696090482009-01-14T08:19:00.000+08:002009-01-14T08:20:35.213+08:00The Eloquence of SilenceFrom my Trial Techniques blog:Rule 130, sec. 32 of the Rules on Evidence provides that "an act or declaration made in the presence and within the hearing or observation of a party who does or says nothing when the act or declaration is such as naturally to call for action or comment if not true, and when proper and possible for him to do so, may be given in evidence against him." This admission Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-78514292950362881592009-01-13T14:38:00.004+08:002009-01-13T15:13:19.255+08:00Judicial Touch Move?In 1990, retired Supreme Court Justice Abraham F. Sarmiento, in Misolas v. Panga, G.R. No. 83341, wrote:"It perplexes me why this dissent should first of all merit what appears to be repartees from the majority. I am but casting a contrary vote, which, after all, is in performance of a constitutional duty.I am also concerned at how this case has journeyed from ponente to ponente and opinion to Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-66650257031972020232009-01-13T09:51:00.002+08:002009-01-13T09:59:22.758+08:00Sounds greek to me, againSome of the greek names that appeared in news stories the past months:UtopiaAlpha Phi BetaUpsilon Sigma PhiSigma Rho1. Utopia is the fraternity that is common to Felisberto Verano and Ricardo Blancaflor. (Reference: PDEA-DOJ-ALABANG 3 controversy). 2. Alpha Phi Beta is the fraternity common to Chief Justice Reynato Puno, Senior Associate Justice Leonardo Quisumbing, Lyceum Law School Dean Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-80945499323816383712009-01-13T09:40:00.002+08:002009-01-13T09:51:11.034+08:00Strategic DismemberingIt is as if someone took a really dull knife and starting hacking away at parts of one's body--not to kill but to maim, perhaps temporarily but hopefully permanently. That is how I feel when I read and hear the news stories about the way that institutions in this country are being dismembered.The kennel (este the House of Representatives) came first. The coup d'etat that replaced Jose De Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-65360798038741809762009-01-09T09:31:00.001+08:002009-01-09T10:00:44.372+08:00No Joking MatterComedian Tito Sotto, Chair of the Dangerous Drugs Board, is asking for the death penalty for drugs. The problem with putting comedians in public office is that they start to think their jokes can actually become policy.The proliferation of drugs in the country is a serious matter and should not be left to comedians--bad ones at that (if you don't believe me, watch Iskul Bukol: The Reunion). TheUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9076020.post-88888528625988015052009-01-05T16:31:00.003+08:002009-01-05T16:47:40.577+08:001/3 isnt too badIn the tenth installment of "Shake, Rattle and Roll", only the one with Marian Rivera as an Enkanto killer works. It is whimsical, light, fun and funny. Marian Rivera is definitely one of the prettiest faces around but in the third installment, she shows great comic timing. She's no Tina Fey but her installment does save "Shake Rattle and Roll X."Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1