Can you do something bigger now Mr President?

First the wangwang. Then the billboards with names of politicians. And also stiff penalties to the no-OPM music on airwaves. Now littering on Pasig. Yun lang?

Err, Mr Noynoy Aquino, could you do something bigger and more impressive jobs worthy of a President?


And stop blaming Gloria!

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Isa pang hirit: Noynoy's Inauguration

Is that Kris dancing? Actually no. That's the Wowowee dancers with defunct Willie during heydays. The inauguration of the 15th President of the Republic of the Philippines was like that TV show- Wowowee. Without grace.

According to a columnist at The Manila Times: "What transpired on June 30 was not a presidential inaugural but a veritable pop concert, with musicians and stars belting out numbers on stage and inadvertently demeaning the very occasion itself. The musical numbers of the aging Apo Hiking Society, Christian Bautista, and the perennially-rambunctious Ogie Alcasid were out of place at the Quirino Grandstand and better suited for the 'after party' at Quezon Memorial Circle."


"But perhaps most disappointing was Aquino’s inauguration speech itself, which sounded more like a campaign lecture than a Presidential address," Cunanan added.

More can be read by clicking on this link- Buddy Cunanan's Politics of Course 

You may also read this comprehensive analysis of the Wowowee-like spectacular that was Noynoy's inauguration: The Wowowee Inauguration and Noynoy's Speech.

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Dear Mr President

I know some of you will bash Gibo instead upon reading this short blog for reasons I really do not know. Yes it is time to move on. But first let me share you this letter to President Noynoy Aquino beautifully written by Oya Arriola, a British embassy employee:

Dear Mr President:

Knowing your comfort zone is well and good. Having the courage to step out of it to do what must be done is what fulfills destinies.

I don't really care about how you decide which barong to wear on your proclamation. I need to know that you have vision beyond the 30th of June.

Whether you keep smoking or quit the habit is none of my concern. Whether you have the political will to deliver your promised reforms is.

I am not interested in whether you're getting married within the next six years. I want to see that you can build working coalitions to govern effectively.

It doesn't matter to me that you choose long-time buddies to be part of your Cabinet because you feel at ease with them. I'd like to know that you choose your team because you know they can deliver.

It's all the same to me if you choose to live in Malacanang or Times Street. Where your heart lies and whose interests you protect will spell the difference to me.

Well said. Enough of trivialities.

More readings from The Wall Street Journal on Aquino's promises-
> Noynoy's Philippine Promises 
> Aquino's Graft Probe Sparks Fears for Economy 

Picture grabbed from raissarobles.blogspot.com

Ma at Pa!