Miracle in Chile
The biggest news globally this week was the successful rescue of 33 Chilean miners. Expectedly, the leaders of Chile were jubilant. Nobody was killed, Chileans earned the respect of the world, and their government didn’t have to bow to the Chinese.
Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera was present at the mining site when the last trapped miner was rescued. Actually, one of his trusted aides advised him to just monitor the rescue efforts in a restaurant but he refused.
When the crisis was over, Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera faced the media. He was all smiles. And not a single Hong Kong Chinese national felt slighted.
For successfully managing the recent crisis, Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera was congratulated by world leaders… including Donald Tsang whose call was immediately answered by the Chilean leader.
After the flawlessly executed rescue of 33 miners trapped deep underground for more than two months, Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera plans to go on a vacation. He looks forward to visiting New York and eating hotdogs on a sidewalk.
The successful rescue of 33 trapped miners in the town of Copiapo in Chile took 22 hours to finish. The mayor of Copiapo did not call off the rescue… despite the unsolicited advice of his Manila counterpart to “just tire them out.”
Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera tells BBC that the mining crisis has united Chile. In fairness to Filipinos, we were united naman during the hostage crisis. It just divided… the Communications Group.
Thirty-three miners were flawlessly rescued after 69 days at a collapsed mining site in Chile’s Atacama desert. The rescue efforts wouldn’t have been successful if members of the media intervened in the operation.
Chile’s President Sebastian Pinera was praised for his handling of the mining accident crisis. He is so popular right now not just in Chile but all over the world including Asia. In fact, Maria Ressa is writing a ‘favorable’ article about him in the Asian Wall Street Journal.
PAGASA Progresses
In his First 100 Days Report, President Aquino said, “Marami po tayong binago sa PAGASA, at kasama na po rito ang bulok na sistema.” Yesterday, PAGASA left Friendster and set up a Twitter account.
PAGASA has set up a Twitter account (@dost_pagasa). It can now delete wrong forecasts.
Top Five Tweets of PAGASA on its First Day on Twitter
No. 5: dost_pagasa new here. ganito pala ang feeling. syet.
No. 4: dost_pagasa new here. ganito pala ang feeling. syet. apologies, pls disregard the previous tweet. napaglaruan lang ng anak ng isang forecaster dito sa office.
No. 3: dost_pagasa Weather Advisory No. 05 FOR: TROPICAL STORM “MEGI” Issued at 11:00 a.m., 15 October 2010. Click here for dtails. God please, sana tumama!
No. 2: dost_pagasa @PriscoNilo kapag ‘di ka tumigil ng pagpapa-interview against us, iba-block ka namin dito
And the top tweet of PAGASA on its first day on Twitter…
dost_pagasa @iamkrisaquino hi po. fans n’yo kami. we’re also monitoring your movement po. hehe
Handwashing Day
October 15 marks the third annual Global Handwashing Day. In the Philippines, the one-day only global event is being observed for almost two months now by Manila Mayor Alfredo Lim, Local Government Sec. Jesse Robredo, and Interior Undersecretary Rico Puno.
Satisfied
A StratPOLLS survey showed that 8 of 10 Filipinos were satisfied with the “performance” of President Aquino. The other two were Shalani Soledad and a certain Barbie Palagos.
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~Tennessee Williams
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nice one PH. thank you.
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Superr like!
O ayan ha, me model na tayo ng wrong rescue at right rescue. Pag nagkamali pa…
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Awesome as always!
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Pinera will never eat hotdog in New York sidewalk with full media coverage. The guy has sense, substance and solid track record unlike the Philippine president
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Have a safe and productive [and I don’t mean ‘sexual’] weekend! <— hahaha!
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nyahaha pasok na pasok sa banga sir ph ^_^
kulet ng #5 sa twitter post nyahaha
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On live coverage, Newsmen from RMN demanded from the Chilean President that they interview the miners because it was their duty and right to inform the public. Rogas, Tulfo and their Boss were allowed to have the interview…..down the mine and on condition that they would be on the rescue capsule AFTER all of the 33 miners would be out. Bakit kaya biglang nawala ang signal ng RMN? Brownout ba?
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Hmmmmm….. I like to commend you for being consistent!
Amateur nga!
Thanks for trying anyway.
PEACE!
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cute ang no. 3 dost_pagasa, ” God please, sana tumama!”
papaano yan, sumimplang, ayon sa 24 oras kagabi, baka daw kagabi din
or ngayong umaga dumating si mala ondoy na si megi, alas dos na wala pa,
akala ko ba super galing kayong mga personally selected ni noynoy, di ba Nilo?
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tnx tph for reposting our survey. Heheh you did a number on us last election season. But it was cool tnx keep on heckling.
Alfred sureta jr
executive director
stratpolls
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you’re welcome sir! 🙂
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hahahhahahahaha! Kakatuwa! You made my weekend!
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Correction lang po, no, the name of the town is Copiapo, not San Juan. Salamat po.
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hey thanks! 🙂 not san jose. 🙂
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Aysusmarroxas!
Excited pa naman ako nung mabasa ko title of this new post, akala ko pa naman eh ang aking flawless (read:plastic) face na naman ang topic. Hindi pala.
Hmmmmp! I’ll call Fafa Hayden na nga lang…. I miss him so much! Wala naman siguro siyang court appearance today.
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Hi babe,
Nandito lang namn ako palagi. Call me. Ano labas-bansa tayo ulit? Syanga pala, nakumpuni na yung dashboard ng Ferrari. PLASTIC nga gamit nila. Ano ba naman? Eh, labs, medyo malaki yung bill. hehe. Sige lang malaki naman…ang pagmamahal ko sa ‘yo.
Luv yah!
I will be in my flat as always waiting for you. But don’t come before 10 pm. Kasi my taping ako.
Miss ya, Babe.
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🙂 Hula ko si Becky Vilo at Hayden ako ay iisa. He-he! Pero okay lang…natatawa ako sa repartee ninyo. Parang sandwich.
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Ay di po! Promise!
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Si Becky Vilo ay si Etchosera, promise! 😉
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Eh kasi walang namamaril na praning na polis kaya sila successful.
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we have never felt so dwarfish as when we watched in awe the swift, organized, though poignant rescue of all 33 miners who were pulled up and out clean from their 79-day “forced interment” down about 2,000ft; no hassles, no brouhaha, no sidebars of some melodrama; all systems, all spontaneity , despite the odds. the “feeling so diminutive” is further blown up by this your blog, ph! buti na lang, it’s kinda humorized, as usual, kaya softened na lang ako sa LOL; otherwise, mamatay-matay ako sa inggit, sa senti at humiliation! huhuhu! and trulili, inggit din ako sa vigil na ginawa, ala loyal and religious true-blue barangay tanod na si Chilean Pres. Sebastian Pinera! ha tapang ha tao, hindi iwas-takbo! braavoo!
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Nice one, PH. #lolforever
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as usual,panalo ulit :))
i wonder if there will be a typhoon kris..hehe
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$22M ba namam ginastos sa rescue. flawless talaga un. kung dito yan ganun din magagastos. pero piko & maso lang gagamitin. sa tong-pats lang napunta budget.
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If the mining incident happened in the Philippines, so ass***e politician who just say,” there’s no way the miners would have survived”, and that would have been the end of it. Miner’s would have been buried alive, if it was in the Philippines…
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and all 33 of them will be shown weekly in Ces’ “I SURVIVED”. Now that’s 33 weeks in succession. Mga 7-1/2 months lang namang paulit-ulit na topic. Ewww.
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😦
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Galing PH! Talagang konek pa rin kay PNoy ah!ü
Solid PAGASA pa rin ako. Kahit kulang sa resources at hindi priority sa budget increase compared sa Comms Grp, at least they communicate kung ano ung nakukuha nilang forecast and they do it as one body. More power to PAGASA!
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I agree. Pagasa including Nilo has been giving Filiipinos information useful in their daily life. Unlike the three headed monster called communication group which collective incompetence is destroying the country
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Re your survey: CCT or conditional cash transfer is supposed to be a very deserving program for the poor; it’s not actually a dole out. take it from Brazil where it was initially implemented successfully, and now hopefully being seen to go even through succeeding generations of its presidents. Here, knowing how politics take pinoy psyche into delirious orbit, CCT will always be a worthless, root-of-corruption exercise!
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It maybe successful in Brazil but have they done an in-depth study why it’s a success? We can continue with the initial program of former PGMA and monitor it closely…that it doesn’t resort to a dole-out. Diyan tayo mahina, sa monitoring. And let’s not increase it very much so soon until we see that the system really works and is free of corruption (Hello Dinky! PEACE Bonds, remember? Ghost, ghost, ghost of the recent past…). Besides the huge amount of increase was at the expense of other more important items in the budget like say, the budget cut on U.P. (my U.P. beloved!) and other state universities.
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yo esa,
seems listener ka rin ng karambola nina teddy boy locsin. yun lang ata ang program na nag expose ng “kulay” ni dinky.
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The success of CCT in Brazil lies in its strict adherence to rules and guidelines which includes religious monitoring and which, admittedly, is not much of our game here. you’re right esa, dear, our problem is our christmas-light attitude. he he. patay-sindi baga! that is an area where we seem to excel… look at jueteng; di ba kopong time sindido na yan, always pinapatay tas sinisindi uli. ngayon nakasindi na naman! habang pinapatay uli! depende sa dalas ng Chrstmas season. ha ha. but seriously, we can be serious on a program run and managed by serious people with serious goals. ask, for ejemplo, any wife or mother in the barangay, who is a member of that NGO called Card Bank, and she will tell you such program works. If my memory serves me well, that Card Bank was a Ramon Magsaysay Awardee a couple of years back. If only government especially its local arms can run a show like that organization does, there will be less reasons why a good number of us are poor..
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😦 wala na ngang pera ang UPD para ipasaayos ang mga bulok ng Student Dorm, Staff and Faculty housing at pagpigil sa walang humpay na encroachment ng mga Illegal Settlers sa loob ng campus nila, babawasan pa nila? 79 has. ngayon ang nasasakop ng mga yan, that’s 16% halos of the 493 has. of campus land. Demolition alone would cost around 80 million. Nasa 20M ang budget ng UP police. 10% is spent on the demolition of shanties yearly. Pati arboretum, nasakop na.
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It’s alright to expand the project but increasing it to more than double it’s current coverage is reckless, to say the least.
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Wagi ka talaga PH! aliw naman yon nagdasal pa ang PAGASA para tumama ang forecast..hehehe..
Hindi ba sunday ang sexdayoftheweek para sa mga once a weeksexer..hehehe
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A StratPOLLS survey showed that 8 of 10 Filipinos were satisfied with the “performance” of President Aquino.
Performance-wise?
Hmmmmm. Bakit kaya everytime I look at Pnoy, parang nakikita ko siya as a member of a dance ensemble, performing the Singkil.
Siya yung tagapukpok ng kawayan!
Bago pa may maghuramentado diyan… lilinawin ko po, sa balintataw ko lang po yan nakikita!
Malay ko ba naman kung paano nyo ini-imagine si Pnoy? Hmmmmp!
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pwd ba talaga yang “hong kong national?” d ba hindi na man nation ang hong kong? hong kong residents are chinese rin naman.
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Tanong:
Kung sa Pilipinas kaya nangyari ‘yung mining accident na kagaya ng sa Chile. Magiging successful din kaya ang pagligtas natin sa mga minero?
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