Leni Robredo, The Vice President

**box_type** · October 28th, 2021 08:52 AM

technology is partly to blame, cute sa kanila yung jejemon and text speak, ganyan naman talaga bawat genre may kanyakanyang lengwahe nadedevelop, unfortunately yung henerasyon ngayon nadala nila tong jejemon/text speak pati sa professional lives nila kaya ayan ang resulta, Communication misdemeanors

**BratPAQ** · October 29th, 2021 01:41 AM

Proud pa. [emoji23]

**Yatta** · October 29th, 2021 06:17 AM

Originally Posted by box_type

technology is partly to blame, cute sa kanila yung jejemon and text speak, ganyan naman talaga bawat genre may kanyakanyang lengwahe nadedevelop, unfortunately yung henerasyon ngayon nadala nila tong jejemon/text speak pati sa professional lives nila kaya ayan ang resulta, Communication misdemeanors

**dr. d** · October 29th, 2021 07:49 AM

Originally Posted by box_type

technology is partly to blame, cute sa kanila yung jejemon and text speak, ganyan naman talaga bawat genre may kanyakanyang lengwahe nadedevelop, unfortunately yung henerasyon ngayon nadala nila tong jejemon/text speak pati sa professional lives nila kaya ayan ang resulta, Communication misdemeanors

in the exacting science of my profession, jejemon is a no-no.
"baka kung ano pa ang wrong message na ipamahagi."
heh heh.

come to think of it,
perusing our group's activity,
wala ngang nag-je-jejemon.
not even the younger ones.

**_Cathy_** · October 29th, 2021 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by dr. d

in the exacting science of my profession, jejemon is a no-no.
"baka kung ano pa ang wrong message na ipamahagi."
heh heh.

come to think of it,
perusing our group's activity,
wala ngang nag-je-jejemon.
not even the younger ones.

Nag evolve na ang definition ng jejemon. I guess now it's text speak but way back it was more on bad taste (stemmed from jologs)

**travajante** · October 29th, 2021 07:54 PM

THE PRESIDENT WE DESERVE
-Jose 'Butch' Dalisay, Jr.

I grew up a Marcos believer.

He was the guest of honor at my grade school graduation in1966. Newly elected, he looked every inch the hero he said he was—handsome, dashing, gifted with a golden tongue. Watching him I thought that a President was a great man, greater than all of us.

Just seven years later, I spent most of my 19th year in martial-law prison. I was there because the President I admired as a child had lied to me. He said he wanted to make the Philippines great again. Instead he acquired more power and more wealth, for which he stole from both the rich and poor, and punished those who opposed him.

That included young students like me. They called us“radicals” and put many of us in prison, and many of my friends suffered horrible deaths. Sadly, many more Filipinos didn’t care. Happy to see new roads, they did not know that billions that should have gone to their food, housing, and education went to secret bank accounts abroad.

I was at EDSA when Marcos left, and I was overjoyed that a good and honest woman would now bring change. But even Cory couldn’t do it alone. The system was too strong. Many Presidents followed Cory, some better than others, but the lust for wealth and power did not leave with Marcos. And instead of being remembered as the man who destroyed Philippine democracy, Marcos became a model for some of his successors, who not only buried him as a hero but who now want to resurrect him in his son.

When VP Leni Robredo offered herself for the presidency and said “Mas radikal ang magmahal,” I had to think long and hard about what she meant, and what kind of difference she would make in our lives and futures. Was she asking us, like Jesus, to love our enemies? After all the evil—the corruption, the oppression, and the despotism—we have been through, could we find it in ourselves to love those who clearly do not love us?

And then I remembered what another visionary, Martin Luther King, preached on the same subject. He said: “In the final analysis, love is not this sentimental something that we talk about. Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems.”

And that’s when it struck me that the real enemy is not people, but the “evil systems” that have created and supported the Marcoses among us. It is not one man or family we must vote against, but what they represent.

The easy temptation is to focus on personalities and their shortcomings. The harder option is to fight for the good and the positive.

These are the values and ideals that many of our national leaders, by their speech and behavior, have forsaken over the past five years. These are what VP Leni reminds us are worth loving and living for. And in today’s environment of violence, fear, and falsehood, to love them is to be radical indeed:

God. Country. Freedom. Justice. Peace. Truth. Life. Beauty.

Big words, they take big hearts and minds to accommodate. If I can find that largeness in me, then I can be a radical again, and instead of imprisoning us, our new President will free us from our past to become the nation we aspire to be. And that President—the President we deserve—can only be as great as we ourselves can be.

Jose "Butch" Dalisay, Jr., professor and award-winning writer

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