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YOUR GANGSTA NAME: Fave ice cream flavor and favorite cookie
Strawberry Mango Chocolate Chip

YOUR “FLY Guy/Girl” NAME: First initial of first name and first three letters of your last name
A. Luc (pronounced Ey Loos)

YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: Favorite color and favorite animal
Blue Cat (also any permutation of Tiffany Blue, Cyan, Aquamarine with Raccoon, White Tiger)

YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: Middle name and city where you were born
Figueras Quezon City

YOUR STAR WARS NAME: The first 3 letters of your last name and first 2 letters of your first
Lucad (if I use my nickname it would be Lucia!)

SUPERHERO NAME: ”The” + 2nd favorite color and favorite drink
The Green Coke

STRIPPER NAME: The name of your favorite perfume/cologne/scent and favorite candy
So Pink Orange Swits

WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: Mother’s and father’s middle names
Figueras Pelito

SPY NAME/BOND GIRL: Your favorite season/holiday and flowers
Fall Rose

CARTOON NAME: Favorite fruit and article of clothing you’re wearing right now + “ie” or “y”
Mango Pajammy

HIPPY NAME: What you ate for breakfast and your favorite tree
Tuna Narra

YOUR ROCKSTAR ENTOURAGE NAME: “The” + Your fave hobby/craft, fave weather element + “Tour”
The Design Wind Tour

YOUR PORN NAME: First Pet + name of street you grew up on
Ashanti Marunong (according to One Tree Hill it’s supposed to be first pet + middle name)

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WANTED: FIVE MILLION HEROES to help your country!

You are the HERO your country needs, if you are willing to:

1. BUY FILIPINO MADE PRODUCTS to create more industries and JOBS;
Team Manila!

2. SAVE 10% of your income in our local banks to increase domestic capital;
I have a Landbank and a Unionbank account. Does the latter count?

3. LEARN A NEW BUSINESS and keep yourself productive all the time;
Editing comics? Calling travel agencies? Those aside, I’m far more productive than anyone else in this household, even if I sleep 12 hours a day.

4. INVITE RELATIVES RESIDING ABROAD to visit the Philippines once or twice a year to boost Philippine Tourism;
We don’t need to ask them to do that. They already do.

5. INVEST ON AGRICULTURAL VENTURES to ensure food supply for the Filipino family;
Virgin Coconut Oil? I’m not that entrepreneurial yet.

6. RESPECT PROPERTY RIGHTS, FOLLOW ALL LAWS & REGULATIONS, AND BE HONEST to achieve a just and orderly Philippine society;
Snort. Giggle. Sneer.

7. ORGANIZE MORE COOPERATIVES to help the poor;
If all FIVE MILLION started a cooperative, wouldn’t that saturate the market?

8. CUT-DOWN ON ENTERTAINMENT EXPENSES to teach children the value of sacrifice and hard work;
I have no life. There’s nothing to cut down on.

9. INCREASE YOUR INDIVIDUAL PRODUCTIVITY BY 20% to become globally competitive;
It’s increasing. In a see-saw fashion.

10. REDUCE TARIFF ON ALL PRODUCTION AND AGRICULTURAL EQUIPMENT to encourage production.
Whut. How can I reduce tariffs???

Also known as the hotlinking images meme. The person who thought of this has no sense of ethics. (But why am I doing it?)

Type your answers in Google Images and pick an image off the first page.

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From Owen:

I just reached my limit last weekend, and decided to take action against the abusive MMDA enforcers. I basically called up the MMDA head office and inquired from the Personnel Officer, Antonio Pagulayan, to clarify their policies. Here is what I got.

If any of these abuses seem familiar to you, Mr. Pagulayan has asked that you call either the MMDA hotline (136) or call the METRO BASE at 0920 9389861 or 0920 9389875 and ask for an Inspectorate. They will send inspectors to the place where these MMDA officers are extorting, even while you are arguing out of your apprehension.

1.MMDA officers are not allowed to group together in order to apprehend. They are not even allowed to stand together in groups of 2 or more. The only time they are allowed to work together is for special operations (probably when they apprehend groups of buses for smoke belching)

2. Swerving IS NOT a traffic violation. Moving one lane to the left or right is not swerving, no matter where on the road you do it. And it is even less of a violation when you do it with a signal. Swerving is defined as shifting 2 or more lanes very quickly. So you can argue your way out of this, and call the Metro Base for help.

3. Sadly, using the yellow lane is a traffic violation and will get you a ticket. However, buses are really not allowed to go out of the yellow lane, so if you see selective apprehension of private cars only, you may complain.

4. MMDA has confirmed that your license MAY NOT BE CONFISCATED at a traffic apprehension. The only time they can do so is if you are part of an accident, or it is your third violation and you have not settled your fines yet. They are only allowed to give you a ticket, which you can contest. He recommends actually receiving the ticket in some instances, so that you can report the officer who did it.

5. Also, you are free to ask any of these officers for their “mission order”, which is written by their supervisor. If they apprehend you for a violation that is not in their mission order for the day, you can report them and they will receive disciplinary action.

So go out and fight for your rights if and when the occasion arises!

TIP: Print and keep a copy of this email in your car for future reference

They’re supposed to be on a more permanent spot on a blog, but I’ll just pick a few and put ’em here:

Dance. Music. Clock.

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