A NEWS report says Pharmally officials issued a statement saying that Krizle Grace Mago is not in hiding and is only scared of further testifying before the Senate inquiry after the detention of Lincoln Ong.
This is pure double talk only tricky lawyers can conjure. As convoluted as the explanation is, it speaks of lack of understanding of the English language.
The lawyer could easily fit as subject of a big laugh, who while on a long table dinner, he was asked to pass the rice, “Atty., rice pls,” and this lawyer stands up.
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This lawyer’s logic reminds me of this story in a court room.
Judge: “We have five witnesses who saw you steal”.
Prisoner: “You sure have your Honor, but I can give you twenty witnesses who did not see me steal.”
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In the news, the cost to education from this pandemic could run to trillions in pesos in value in the next forty years.
Efficiency in the knowledge formation due to this distant learning method is at very disturbing low. How so?
Following is a case in point.
In one online class, a teacher asked her class, which part of the body goes to heaven first?
One little girl volunteered an answer saying, “I think it is the mind because you have to have a mind in order to believe in God.”
The teacher responds: “Very good.”
Another girl in the class raised her hand, saying: I think, the heart as God is all about love.”
Teacher: “Very good.”
Then Juan just popped up on the screen, the teacher recognizing him. “So Juan which part gets to heaven first?’
‘It is the feet ma’am.” The teacher asked again: “Why the feet?”
Juan answered, “I was walking past my parents’ bedroom last night and my mommy had her feet in the air and was shouting, ‘Oh God, oh God, I’m coming.”
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Some geniuses in the mobility front of commerce and industry are making noises over the building of an expressway over the Pasig River.
It will impede flow of water and cause flooding, according to them.
In our more developed neighbor-countries like Japan and South Korea, there are roads over rivers and communities do not blame these roads for flooding.
First, because there is no flooding of streets. No flooding because the rivers do not over flow.
Rivers do not overflow because the rivers can carry the increased water volume even under heavy rains.
In the case of Metro Manila, flooding happens because Pasig River has very low carrying capacity not unlike the Laguna Lake.
Pasig River easily overflows at the height of heavy rains. What used to be deep Pasig River, it is now too shallow that ferries can easily get stuck.
Give this river few more years and it can start to carry, not water, but bicycles.
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Election update: Social Weather Station latest survey shows Bongbong Marcos leading the pack and Ramon S. Ang, a non-candidate at the bottom.
The survey must have been done in Ilocos, my paisano said.
I think had the survey had been done at the Makati business district, it would have been the other way around.