Failed Excuse Letters

This is a collection of genuine excuse letters gathered through the web. These are e-mails, real excuse letters sent by parents, including original spelling and grammatical errors which was collected by schools throughout the Philippines. Read and learn from their mistakes. This is a hilarious way to learn. Brace yourselves and laugh out loud.

1. “My son is under a doctors care and should not take P.E. today. Please execute him.”

(O bahala na ang teacher kung paano siya ie-execute. Silya elektrika o firing squad?)

2. “Please excuse Lisa for being absent. She was sick and I had her shot.”

(Kaya hindi dapat naglalaro ng counter-strike ang matatanda.)

3. “Dear School: Please ekscuse John being absent on Jan. 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and also 33.”

(Makaimbento nga ng kalendaryong may 33 days.)

Published Opinion: Media is Now a Big Business

AS I SEE IT

MEDIA IS NOW A BIG BUSINESS

Carlo H. Andrion

 
How much time do you consume spending time listening to the radio, watching television, and reading broadsheets? Does it kill your time more than your studying and perhaps your working do? Do you believe of what the media teach more than you parents had to say?

Nowadays, media (i.e.  television, radios, newspapers, tabloids, magazines, and the powerful internet) plays a big role in polishing and honing the public especially the young minds. The media offers twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week in broadcasting and airing information you should need to know and the need-not ones. They have been your favorite entertainers, teachers, and worse your bible. From cartoons for the children, educational programs for the school-ers, teen-oriented shows, reality television, fantasy shows, sci-fi, crime stories, love stories, talk shows, news, and even to those Rated-18 shows. A myriad of entertainment genre has now been available at the click of a remote. Media is everywhere. From the streets, busses and trains, schools, at home, work sphere, and even in wireless communication. All are now being controlled by the media. They keep us in touch with the international and local world. Media was being patronized and prioritized now.

In the seventy’s Philippines, the government’s media inhibition led to finally overthrow the overstaying, unconstitutional, and the overpowered government. That was not an overnight suffering and struggle for the media to broadcast the real score and status of the Philippines that time. The overpowered government took lives of the hundreds of opposing media men and had been controlling the information circulation for a long time. Though media was imbibing the consequences of having a democracy-squandered government, they are being so helpful in that scenario. Delving deeper, how did the media inhibition move the democracy-famished populace? Somehow, because media was the last resort and refuge of the savagery-stricken Filipinos that time, they were finally pissed off which led the peaceful revolution. Whatever commotion and ruckus may arise, it was a total proof how people has been fascinated with the media. They are clinging to it considering their personal beliefs associated with the media. And what is next for the Philippines? We are still clinging to the media hypes and scheme. All illogical things make happen with the power publicity.

In the U.S., the media utilizes gruesome and gory crime stories because that is the stuff that people are more likely to buy. They don’t nurture the viewers with public awareness. Portion that induces rational thinking. They don’t serve them pieces that influences and encourages people to talk or even to raise a question. Questions that may have been beneficial to the viewers seeing the rudiments of relationship between power, rank, and eminence but never had a break to ask. And surprisingly, those identical media manner has now been conquering the Philippine primetime television. I may not need to name those, but to give you a hint, switch your channel to 23. It’s the channel that accommodates imports that Pinoy shows have been succumbing for.  From dawn to midnight you are bombarded with unnumbered foreign-made viewing. And to count Pinoy-made, you can have it in your hands.

Hitherto, Philippine media is still having the compact moral standards – somehow anyhow. The Philippine Government and the Mass Media has been somehow threatened by each other. Having a shame and preempted by each other in their unconscious custom. Fear of being deprived in any sense, in any way, and reserves tacit feats. If they ram with each other, they just pause a little and then recedes. In the zenith of their juxtaposition of who influences the general public more and worse, I will presume that the media disturbs us more.

In communal setting, the media poisons the viewers’ characters somehow if the media obstruct the right thinking. It was sordidly conceptualized that some things which shall be delicately deliberated was brought into mainstream for money-making.  Innumerable bad implications of media conquering were the monopolizing of the media man’s opinion into airwaves. A mogul trying to insist personal beliefs, and opinions to the public labeling it as ‘righteous’. The media hype has now been characterized by the teenage girls’ fascination to superficiality through flirty magazines who serves as their bible and boys who are getting hooked on sexy mags, and films that heightens the breadth and width of their pervert ego. It is now converting the must-treasure conventionality of the early Filipinos into a belligerent and malicious environment. Changing and resetting the norms and creating new fads and shoddier crazes. Relevance has now been being modified, not from the righteous customs but on the eye of the blinded masses.

If I have to reckon the media with, they are powerful. They are influential, commanding, authoritative, controlling, prevailing, dominant, potent, great, mighty, formidable, weighty, mighty, muscular, brawny, sturdy, forceful, hard, violent, robust, formidable, crushing, vigorous, and sinewy. All strong adjectives that may describe them belong to them. But only one adjective prevails elsewhere in the media, they are co-existent with the civilization. They are forever – If we will assume. Thus they are continuing on creating changes, and shiftiness on the relativity of man’s nature to adapt. They give an instant attention. Turning and giving a makeover to some untalented individuals to shine and leaving nothing for the deserving. Reaping the labors form the one who shall have it.  They are merely exaggerating if not saying the right. Whatever is 'hot' they seize for it just for the sake of gaining exclusive advertising contracts and any means of profiting. Money-making is their business, and serving the viewers with the right programming is just an option.
 
Somewhere along the line, I still believe. That someday the mass media will feed me nutritious and not destructive nourishment for my insurmountable famine of curiosity. I highly commend the radical forms of media anyhow who kills the fashion that I have been describing before. Blasphemers as others may foresee, but they have my utmost entrustment. I am still getting rewarded seeing other people killing the fashion. The fashion that almost everyone are getting in to. Media is everywhere, thus their threats will tolerate in the air. Somehow, somewhere along this timeline I still want consider that there are still worthy bunch of meticulous mankind ready to scrutinize what goes and comes around. Of what to take up, swallow in, and digest through. Poison is a poison whenever they’ll put it and we will never know if it is, unless we are ceased.



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Intellectual Property Rights Reserved:
Carlo Andrion y Hernandez
9 Aug. 2009
http://caloycoy.blogspot.com

Media Is Now a Big Business

How much time do you consume spending time listening to the radio, watching television, and reading broadsheets? Does it kill your time more than your studying and perhaps your working do? Do you believe of what the media teach more than you parents had to say?

Nowadays, media (i.e. television, radios, newspapers, tabloids, magazines, and the powerful internet) plays a big role in polishing and honing the public especially the young minds. The media offers twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week in broadcasting and airing information you should need to know and the need-not ones. They have been your favorite entertainers, teachers, and worse your bible. From cartoons for the children, educational programs for the school-ers, teen-oriented shows, reality television, fantasy shows, sci-fi, crime stories, love stories, talk shows, news, and even to those Rated-18 shows. A myriad of entertainment genre has now been available at the click of a remote. Media is everywhere. From the streets, busses and trains, schools, at home, work sphere, and even in wireless communication. All are now being controlled by the media. They keep us in touch with the international and local world. Media was being patronized and prioritized now.

Desideratum: Bagay na Dapat Gawin

Desideratum: Mga Bagay na Dapat Gawin

Sa tapat ng CSC (College Student Council) Office, nakaupo ako, mag-isa. Hawak ang cellphone, nagba-browse sa dictionary. Kailangang kumain bago sumabak sa giyera.

Ryan: “Pasok ka na nagsimula na ang screening!”

Ako: “Hindi naman ako sasali eh.” Pagsisinungaling ko.

Ryan: “Basta pasok ka na lang daw kapag sasali ka na.”

Ako: ***Di ako nakatiis. Pumasok din ako nang makaalis siya.

Pumasok ako sa CSC Office kung saan gaganapin ang screening. Sanamabits Ang lamig. Parang di yata ako makakapag-isip ng maayos. Then the journey continuous. (Nagsimula ng tumugtog ang Super Mario Theme)

Sa Paglipad ng Maya

Biyernes, ala-syete ng umaga, nagising ako sa dahil sa alarm at sa mga huni ng maya na kumakatok sa bintanang salamin ng aking kwarto. Masakit ang buong katawan, ikaw ba naman ang matulog ng alas-kwatro ng umaga dahil lamang sa pesteng plano ng bahay na yan. Agad akong bumangon. Noon ko na naman naisip na kahit patay katawan ka, kaya mong bumangon basta bukas ang isip mo sa responsibilidad na haharapin mo. Lumabas ako sa asotea, (terrace). Dinama ang sinag ng makulimlim na umaga. Tumingala, iniunat ang braso at binuksan ang mga palad. Iniisip kong yakap ko ang Diyos at sabay nagpasalamat dahil sa panibagong simula sa piling ng mahal kong pamilya.

Ayos! Nakuha ko na ang momentum para simulan ang bagong pahina ng buhay. Naligo, kumain, dumating sa pamantasan bago mag-ikawalo. “Ayos! Maipapasa ko na rin.” Iyan ang naisambit ko dahil umabot sa due date ang bunga ng sakripisyo. Bonus na kapag pinuri pa ito.

SONA 2009: This Made Me Smile

I have been fascinated by the Presidents' courage and superb intelligence. I never admired her like this until I had her SONA last July 27th. And I never imagined those conceited and deluded critics of her that way before. Revealing their selfish goals and political ambitions. I must say that she has been a good president. If not as the bestest. She stood modest and noble. I can't find any other words to describe and appreciate much how much she done in strengthening the country's economy. Bravo for her and long-live Philippines.

Here are her quotable quotes. You can use this as a reference.

"I had not done any of the things that scared my worst critics. “They are frightened by their own shadows.”

" A few days ago Moody’s upgraded our credit rating, citing the resilience of our
economy. The state of our nation is a strong economy
Good news for our people, bad news for our critics"

" I did not become President to be popular. To work, to lead, to protect and
preserve our country, our people, that is why I became President"

" Some say that after this SONA, it will be all politics. Sorry, but there’s more
work"

" I supported the tough version of the House of the Cheaper Medicine
Law, I supported it over the weak version of my critics.
To those who want to be President, this advice: If you really want something
done, just do it. Do it hard, do it well. Don’t pussyfoot. Don't pander. And
don’t say bad words in public."

" At the end of this speech I shall step down from this stage, but not from the
Presidency. My term does not end until next year. Until
then, I will fight for the ordinary Filipino. The nation comes first. There is
much to do as head of state to the very last day"

" As I said earlier, so
far we have been spared its worst effects but we cannot be complacent. We
only know that we have generated more resources on which to draw, and
thereby created options we could take. Thank God we did not let our critics
stop us."

" As the campaign unfolds and the candidates take to the airwaves, I ask them
to talk more about how they will build up the nation rather than tear down
their opponents. (applause) Give the electorate real choices and not just sweet
talk. (applause) Meanwhile, I will keep a steady hand on the tiller, keeping the
ship of state away from the shallows some prefer, and steering it straight on
the course we set in 2001"

" However much a President wishes it, a national problem cannot be knocked
out with a single punch. A President must work with the problem as much as
against it, turn it into a solution if she can"

" There isn’t a day I do not work at my job or a waking moment when I do not
think through a work-related problem. Even my critics cannot begrudge the
long hours I put in. Our people deserve a government that works just as hard
as they do"

" Everything right can be undone by even a single wrong. Every step forward
must be taken in the teeth of political pressures and economic constraints
that could push you two steps back if you flinch and falter. I have not
flinched, I have not faltered. Hindi ako umaatras sa hamon. And I
have never done any of the things that scared my worst critics so much. They
are frightened by their own shadows"

" In the face of attempted coups, I issued emergency proclamations just in case.
But I was able to resolve these military crises with the ordinary powers of my
office. My critics call it dictatorship. I call it determination"

" But I never declared martial law, (applause) though they are running scared
as if I did. In truth, what they are really afraid of is their weakness in the face
of this self-imagined threat"

" I say to them: Do not tell us what we all know, that democracy can be
threatened. Tell us what you will do when it is attacked"

" I know what to do: As I have shown, I will defend democracy with arms when
it is threatened by violence; with firmness when it is weakened by division;
with law and order when it is subverted by anarchy; and always, I will try to
sustain it by wise policies of economic progress, so that a democracy means
not just an empty liberty but a full life for all"

" I have never expressed the desire to extend myself beyond my term.
Many of those who accuse me of it tried to cling like nails to their posts"

" I am accused of misgovernance. Many of those who accuse me of it left me the
problem of their misgovernance to solve. And we did it"

" I am falsely accused, without proof, of using my position for personal profit.
Many who accuse me of it have lifestyles and spending habits that make them
walking proofs of that crime"

" We can read their frustrations. They had the chance to serve this good
country and they blew it by serving themselves"

" Those who live in glass houses should cast no stones. Those who should be in
jail should not threaten it, especially if they have been there"

" Today the Philippines is weathering well the storm that is raging around the
world. It is growing stronger with the challenge. When the weather clears, as it
will, there is no telling how much farther forward it can go. Believe in it. I
believe"

*Thanks to http://adonisjorda.multiply.com for sharing these facts.

Gusto Ko Ulit Maging Bata

Gusto Ko Ulit Maging Bata

Tahimik na naglalakad sa magulong kalsada. Puno ng sasakyang nagmamadali. Nag-aantay na makatawid sa walong-linyang kalsada. Naisip ko tila napalaki, napakaingay,at napakagulo na pala ng mundo ko. Malayo sa karakter ng mundo ng aking pagkabata. Naisip ko tuloy na gusto ko pumasok sa drawer ng mesang kahoy ko. Sumakay at maglakbay gamit ang time machine. Babalik at mananatili ng matagal sa panahon ng aking pagkabata.

Gusto ko ulit maging bata. Maglaro maghapon, sumigaw, tumakbo at tumawa ng malakas. Matagal na rin na hindi ako nakapagbitiw ng malulutong na “Hahaha” dahil sa sobrang aliw. Gugulong at hihiga sa damuhan. Maliligo sa ulan. Makikipaghabulan ng mataya-taya. Maglalaro ng luksong-tinik, tumbang-preso, tanching, sipa, at payaw. Bibili at susugal sa teks. Mag-iipon ng tansan ng redhorse, colt 45, mirinda, fanta, mountain dew, coke, at 7 up at gagawing pamato ang tansan ng patis. Gusto ko ulit maging bata. Maglalaro ng ungguy-unggoyan, uno cards, at super trump. At kapag ako’y tinamaan ng kagaguhan, kukuha ako ng Bibliya, barya, at maghahanap ng mga kasama. Hawak-kamay, pipikit, at maglalaro ng Spirit of the Coin. Gusto ko ulit maging bata. Magpapalipad ako ng saranggola sa mahanging Setyembre, magpapaanod ng bangkang papel sa Oktubre, at mangangaroling sa buwan ng Disyembre.

Gusto ko ulit maging bata. Panahon ng aking buhay na kung saan Rated G ang pwedeng panoorin. Manonood ako ng Mojacko, Dragon Ball Z, Shaider, Cedie, at Doraemon. Manonood ako Kakabakaba, Nginig, at Wag Kukurap. At Kapag lumabas na ang multo, tatakpan ko ng aking dalawang kamay ang aking mga mata at sisigaw ng “Tatay!!!Mama!!!”. Gusto ko ulit maging bata. Babalik ako sa panahon na kung saan naniniwala pa ako sa fairy tales. Takot magsinungaling at magmura dahil baka lalabas ang diwata at gagawin akong palaka. Gusto ko ulit maging bata. Dahil hindi ko na kailangang magpuyat gabi-gabi para matuto ng husto. Madalas marami nang dapat matutunan sa cartoons. Gusto ko ulit maging bata na kung saan ang mga palabas ay laging may moral lesson. Di man makatotohanan ang cartoons, naaaliw na ako dahil sa makukulay at nakakatuwang hugis ng mga ito.

Gusto ko ulit maging bata. Kung saan madali ang mag-aral. Kung saan ang pinakamahirap gawin ay magbasa, sumulat ng aking pangalan, at i-memorize ang multiplication table. Kung saan ang paborito kong libro ay ang librong dilaw ng Abakada. Babalik ako sa panahon na kung saan araw-araw may drawings at nagagamit ko ang mga Crayola na bili sa akin ni Mama. Gagawa ng paulit-ulit na ‘Ang Aking Naging Bakasyon’ at ‘Ang Aming Naging Pasko’. Babalik ako sa panahon na kumakanta ako kasabay ng mga kaklase ko ng ‘Chikading’, kasama na ang ‘Bahay Kubo’, at ‘Do-Re-Mi’. Babalik ako sa panahon na kung saan ang mga guro ay may tatlong klase: Mabait, Nakakatakot, at Halimaw. Babalik din ako sa panahon na may tatlong uri din ako ng mga kaklase: Mga Bati, Kaaway, at Uhugin na walang pakialam.

Gusto ko ulit maging bata. Babalik ako sa panahon sa ang sinasabihan ko lamang ng “I love you” ay ang aking mga magulang. Kung saan si Mama lang ang babaeng maaring halikan. Kung saan ang pinaka-romantikong magagawa mo sa sarili ay magkaroon ng ‘Crush’. Babalik ako sa panahon na kung saan kahit anong mali ang magagawa ko, tatanggapin ako ng mundo. Paulit-ulit. Kung saan kapag nasasaktan ako nandyan agad si Mama para patahanin ako. Yayakapin ako ng mahigpit, hahaplusin ang aking noo at hahawiin ang aking mga buhok.  Kakargahin ako ni Tatay sa kanyang balikat. Kikilitiin niya ako ng kanyang balbas. Sisigaw ako sa tuwa. Ngunit ipagpapasalamat ko iyon. Mga bagay na hindi ko na makukuha sa aking pagtanda.

Gusto ko ulit maging bata. Na kung saan laging may rainbow ang buhay ng tao at kung saan masaya ang lahat tulad ng mga nakapinta sa pader ng eskwelahan. Nagtutulungan, nagbabatian, at nagbibigayan. Kung saan kapag napagod na ako sa buhay, matutulog na lamang ako at gigising ulit kinabukasan. Kung saan lahat ng bagay ay masaya. Wala mang cellphone hindi ako nababagot o naiinip dahil palaging may panahon para maglaro. Kung saan ang trabaho ay laging magaan, madali, at masaya. Babalik ako sa mundo na naroon pa si Santa. Iinom ng gatas bago matulog. Panahon na hindi aburido sa suot kong damit at kung ano ang magiging hitsura ko. Tatawid sa magulong lansangan ngunit hindi ako mangangamba dahil hawak ako sa kamay nina Mama at Tatay. Babalik sa mundo na kung saan hindi nagbabago ang mga tao at hindi umaalis ang mga kaibigan. Kung saan ang lahat ng bagay ay payak. Gusto kong bumalik sa panahon na kung saan ang bawat istorya ay natatapos ng masaya, merong  ‘happy ending’  at ‘they live happily ever after’.

Ngunit lahat ng ito ay halusinasyon lamang. Mga bagay na makakamtan hanggang sa ala-ala na lamang at ngayo’y wala nang katotohanan. Mga bagay na masaya at mananatiling masaya na lamang. Mga bagay na lumipas na,  na tulad ng dumaang tren at hindi maaring bumalik pa. Kung magbabalik pa man o hindi na, wala ng makaaalam pa.

Intellectual Property Rights Reserved:
Carlo  Andrion y Hernandez
7. 24.2009

Published for: http://caloycoy.blogspot.com