Huli si ambassador!

January 8, 2008  --  Got something to say?
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Tsismosos in the embassy are giggling these days. Huli si ambassador! they say. Reason for the crowing is that Amb. Gaa wanted to keep the announcement of the hiring a new US lobbying consultant as quietly as possible. This was the reason why the one-page announcement of the lobby contract was posted only in an obscure corner of the embassys bulletin board and website on Dec. 11. Usually the ambassador issues a press release about an official announcement.

It seems that the moles in the embassy, probably incensed by another huge expenditure by the government while their salaries often come late, alerted the nosy mosquito press in Washington D.C. One of the reason the ambassador was reluctant to announce it, according to sources, was because he would be the signatory to a hot potato contract! He knew he would be in the firing line if the scandal erupts. But because there is a Philippine law that requires transparency in contracts, he had no recourse except to post it. And true enough, the story is now tops in Manila.

Suggested one tsismoso: The ambassadors New Year resolution should be to Tell it like it is.
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If reports are true, Simbang Gabi may have had a big effect on the religious life of some of the editors of the Manila Mail. A Tsismoso says he spotted Associate Editor Lito Katigbak with his wife, Mimi, praying hard at the Simbang Gabi at St. Leo the Great parish church in Fairfax, Virginia recently. It seems as if he had a halo over his head. He adds that the Mails national editor, Bing C. Branigin, also was busy genuflecting and taking pictures of the crowd and the mass. What happened? Are they born again? he asks.

This is this tsismosos additional report: Since it was the first ever Simbang Gabi at St. Leo organizers took great pains to feed a small army. More than 300 people turned up for the mass and salo-salo afterward. They went home spiritually and gastronomically well-nourished, including the Mail editors.

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While people in the Philippines welcome the New Year with fireworks and Filipino Americans in the Washington metropolitan area with New Year balls, Tsismoso will welcome the New Year with fireworks of his own. These fireworks are based on the angry complaints and acid comments of Tsismosos and Tsismosas about recent happenings in the Filipino American community. Of course, some of them might be coming from mere sour grapers, ax grinders, backstabbers etc.
Some former officers and staffers of the Philippines embassy were surprised to see in the Manila Mail the picture of a reunion with former Ambassador Benjamin Kokoy Romualdez at the residence of Ambassador Willy C. Gaa in McLean, Virginia Dec. 7. What reunion? I was not even informed by the organizers? gripes one former officer of the embassy. Some of those who attended said they were only there only accidentally. Heres another observation by an ex-embassy staffer: I was looking hard at the picture to find out if I recognized some officers who were present but could only spot two or three lower level staffers. One Tsismosa said even her friend who was invited did not even tell her about it. Did they want it to be exclusive among themselves and call it a reunion? It might have been a secret CIA operation because Kokoy was there! adds another Tsismosa. Ambassador Romualdez did not even know most of those present. The resentment is now being directed at Gaa for allowing groups to claim it was a reunion.
Hoy. Pipe down, please. Go out and explode a firecracker. Happy New Year.

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Now, here is another typical Filipino crab mentality at its best. After the very successful North American basketball championship in Virginia several months ago, some parents, players and coaches of the various categories of basketball players that participated did what crabs usually do. They are trying to dismantle the league by organizing their own groups. All because they, too, want to be leaders like Rudy Sinon and others. It seems that some parents and coaches also want to be in the limelight.

One group has named itself the Filipino Youth Basketball Association (FYBA). Thus, from FABA to FYBA. The next group might be called BABA. Some Tsismosos say the disgruntled parents who organized FYBA are not satisfied with the playing time of their son(s) in the tykes division. One runaway senior player was said to be furious that he was benched during a championship game. He is forming his own team so he could be the superstar! said one Tsismoso.
Last-minute efforts by FABA officers to solve the disagreements have reportedly proved futile. Of course, dahlings, they also want to be like you?

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Now here comes another intriguer who is obviously an avid reader of the Manila Mail. Mr. Tsismoso, bakit ba in every issue of the Manila Mail panay na lang ang mga retrato ni Ambassador Willy C. Gaa doing this and doing that? At among members of the community, panay din ang mga retrato of the same community leaders holding parties etcetera. Medio one-sided yata kayo diyan, signed: Tsismoso III.

Compadre, I forwarded a copy of your letter to the editor for his perusal. Tama ka. But you must remember that whatever the ambassador does, whether he is singing, dancing, chatting, modeling or eating, that is news. As for the frequent flyers, I mean party people whose photos are frequently published, it is probably because they either submit their photos for publication or invite Manila Mail staffers to their affair.
Palagay ko, jealous lang kayo.

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Are you aware that the ambassador, fellow Tsismosos and Tsismosos, is also a columnist? That the embassy has been publishing a newsletter that is distributed in the internet? Ambassador Gaas column has an intriguing title: From the Corner of Bataan and Corregidor. Words of wisdom from a Kanto Boy, says one who have read it. The last column of the ambassador was on the titillating subject of human rights in the Philippines?.no, in Myanmar.

(Send your hot tsismis to my email: tsismosodc@hotmail.com No ID needed, everything is confidential.)

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