Kapitan Sino Ni Bob Ong

THERE IS SOMETHING STRANGE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD





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KAPITAN SINO

Ang pinakabagong superhero noon.
Mas matibay pa sa orig.
Sa mas mahabang panahon.

Bob Ong's Disclaimer

Marami na kasing mga kumakalat na love quotes sa text, sa emails, sa blogs, at kailan lang, may lumabas pang mala-advise letter ni bob ong sa isang desperadong manliligaw. Narito po ang disclaimer ni Bob Ong sa naturang isyu:



Para po sa kaalaman ng lahat:Ang mga (love) quotes na umiikot sa mga text message ay hindi galing kay BobOng, liban na nga lang kung nabasa nyo ito mismo sa mga libro nya.

Ganon din poang isang Email (love advice) na isinulat ni Juan Ekis at ipinapaikot ng iba nagaling daw kay Bob Ong.

Pakitama o pakipasa na lang po ito sa mga kakilala nyong biktima ng maling balita. Kaakibat ng kalayaan natin sa paggamit ng teknolohiya ay ang responsibilidad ng pagpapasa lamang ng mga tamang impormasyon.

Magandang New Year's resolution ito kahit hindi New Year: Bago i-forward ang text o Email, balikan nyo muna ang nagpadala sa inyo at siguraduhing tama ang impormasyong natanggap at hindi lasing ang nagpadala.

Salamat po.

Humayo kayo at magparami.

-BO---------
Book 7: KAPITAN SINO
Official release on May... May... May konting delay lang, darating din yon! =>

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Totoong totoo!

As in si BO nga yung Model ng T-Shirts!

It started with this headless picture of a man wearing a special edition Bob Ong T-shirt:

Apparently, the mystery is being revealed at http://www.officialuse.net/:

For those who are still wondering-



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Itakwil ang Pilipinas

I have a rather unexpected (but nevertheless, very much welcome) visitor on my blog site today.

It is not uncommon that somebody might visit you blog. However, the reason why he was able to get directed to my blog verily disturbed me.

(Forgive the blurred picture, anyway, the actual site is here , you can browse the list).

Thanks to feedjit.com, we can now trace our blogs' live traffic which actually indicates the location of our visitors, including some data how they were able to come through our blog.

Anyway, feedjit discloses that:

"Los Angeles, California arrived from google.com on "Mountain Top Experience" by searching for "itakwil ang pilipinas".

-meaning, my visitor came from LA, California. While searching for the word "itakwil ang pilipinas", google directed him to my site, because one of my blogs, Dekada, is a story of a man who tells his younger sibling:

"Alam kong bata ka pa at maaaring hindi mo pa maiintindihan ang sasabihin ko. Pero ang mga nakikita mong kamalian ay huwag mong gawing dahilan para itakwil ang Pilipinas.

Magbabago pa ang Pilipinas. Kung hindi man ngayon, sa hinaharap; kung saan kayong mga kabataan ay kailangang gabayan at turuan ng tamang pagmamahal sa bansa. Dahil ang pagmamahal mo sa bansa ang magbibigay-daan para sikapin mong baguhin ang mga kamaliang nakikita mo sa paligid."

I am reminded about a post made by one member of the bobongpinoy mailing list and so I have asked his permission if I can repost his article here in my blog. So here goes (article, unedited):

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I just came back here to the U.S. from a visit tomy Aunt's house in Canberra, Australia where we had a family reunion. We have no more immediaterelatives in The Phillipines and a lot of our family members from all over the world congregated in my Aunt's house. The reunion was brought about because my aunt Maritess just got her Australian Passport and was ecstatic about it.

In the middle of the party, a ceremony was made wherein a paper shredder was positioned in the middle of the living room and Filipino newspaper article clippings were arranged on a table along with a Philippine Passport. It was quite solemn and fun at the same time. People were made to sing their national anthems. First was the US people who sang "Star Spangled Banner" (though some kids did it mockingly, they haven't been to The Philippines yet and can't understand). Not to be outdone, the Canadian Citizens/Residents sang "Oh Canada" at the top of their lungs! Then came some from the UK and New Zealand who sang the irrespective anthems.

When it came time to sing "Advance Australia Fair", people first read the articles on the Filipino newspapers and put them in the paper shredder after finishing each. People just shook her heads and breathed sighs of relief after hearing the articles' details, thankful that they left behind that country and the dogs that run it. It was very symbolic of the fact that we are people who deserve to be treated as people and to live dignified lives in countries that value human dignity. As the articles were shredded, "WaltzingMatilda" was playing in the background as lyrics of "Advance Australia Fair" were passed around to everyone. Then, when the last article was shredded, the Philippine Passport was handed to my Aunt and there was a prayer and a short speech, then the passport went into the shredder for it's complete obliteration as "Advance Australia Fair" was sung.

The melody and lyrics of "Advance Australia Fair" was as musical as the gears and blades that ground the passport to crosscut pieces. My aunt was in tears, thankful that she was now a citizen of a country composed of and governed by real human beings.

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While I myself could not understand why and how people are able to disown my beloved nation Philippines, I could not help but respect their thoughts and ideas.

We differ in our beliefs. We differ in our ways. We differ in our principles and actions and subsequent reactions.

But one thing we can all share and agree on-the truth stands there-seen entirely by the naked eye-the country is in a state where there are lots of socio-economic problems, not to mention the moral issues faced by the leaders of the nation.

Then, again, we choose, our path as a citizen of the nation.

Disown the nation and be a citizen to a foregin land.

Or stay as a Filipino and help rebuild a better Philippines.

We choose. Today.

Bob Ong Updates and Other Trivia

ABNKKBSNPLAko?!
Bakit Baliktad Magbasa ng Libro ang mga Pilipino?
Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas
Alamat ng Gubat
Stainless Longganisa
Macarthur

Credit these no-nonsense, pinoy na pinoy pieces of literary genius to the man named BOB ONG, the famous author nobody really knows.

Now, I wouldn't dwell much on the facts and details about the identity of our beloved writer as I know that so many articles in print and even in the internet have already been made for him and about him.

Ruel De Vera, in his Sunday Inquirer Magazine titled, The mystery begins with his name-Bob Ong (not his real name) on July 2006, describes Bob Ong as, "the mass-market mystery man, a publishing phenomenon whose blockbuster book sales are equaled only by the anonymity he maintains. He is Bob Ong—not his real name—the most unusual best-selling Filipino author you’ve never met."
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Click here to read De Vera's complete article
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The phenomenon that is Bob Ong may very well be attributed to where it all began- the now inexisting bobongpinoy.com.

The following FAQs provide details about bobongpinoy:

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Q: Ano ang Bobong Pinoy?
A: Ang Bobong Pinoy ay website ni BO, itinatag pagkaupo ng ikalabing-tatlong presidente ng Pilipinas, at binuwag matapos ang pagbaba ng nasabing pinuno sa trono. Kasalukuyan ito ngayong pinagkukutaan ng mga kapaki-pakinabang na tambay ng Pilipinas sa pamumuno ni Osama Bin Laden.

Q: Wala na ba kayong archive o mga natatagong articles ng BP na maaaring mabasa?
A: Meron. "Bakit Baliktad Magbasa ng Libro ang mga Pilipino?"

Q: Bakit ayaw mong... este, ni BO pala, ibalik ang website na Bobong Pinoy?
A: Napakaraming dahilan.

Q: Bakit isinama mo pa sa FAQ na 'to ang tanong sa itaas e hindi mo rin naman pala sasagutin?A: Pamparami
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10 years after bobongpinoy was birthed out; and after six successful books, all selling like hot pan de sal, Bob Ong followers are now craving for book seven (and maybe by now, stakes are high as to what would book 7's cover page color be).

A credible source confirmed that Book 7, another Fiction, will soon be released hopefully by October 2008. And if plans will push thru, Books 8 & 9 will still be Fiction, then the 10th may be non-fiction.

As previously stated, as much as followers are craving for the latest BO book, they are also on the watch as to what would be the color of the cover page this time.

And just in case some don't know about this color-coding schemes on BO's books, some pieces of trivia are posted at visprint's (BO books' publisher), website:

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Galing sa mga mambabasa ang nickname ng mga libro: Green book ang ABNKKBSNPLAko?! (book1); Yellow book ang Bakit Baliktad Magbasa ng Libro ang mga Pilipino? (book2); Black book ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas (book3); Orange book ang Alamat ng Gubat (book4); at White book ang Stainless Longganisa (book5).

Dilaw ang Bakit Baliktad Magbasa ng Libro ang mga Pilipino? dahil spoof sana ng "For Dummies" book series ang cover nito. Pero nag-evolve ang konsepto kalaunan hanggang sa nagmukha na lang itong...um, dilaw na libro.

Peksman! Talagang sina Dan Brown at JK Rowling ang nagsabi ng review na nasa likuran ng ikalimang libro.

Ipinasa ni BO sa editor ang unang libro bilang "ABNKKBSNPLAko!?" pero naipasa ito ng editor sa publisher bilang "ABNKKBSNPLAko?!". (Spot the difference.)

Isinulat ni BO ang ikalawang libro at ilan pang mga tula habang nasa piitan s'ya noong taong 1962 hanggang 2001. (Halata bang nauubusan na tayo ng trivia?)

the complete trivia here
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10 years and counting.

The then bobongpinoy.com might have, for some reasons, failed to resurrect in this time when we are again faced with the same situation when it first began-the nation in political crisis, with the highest person in-charge in question as to her capability to drive the course of the nation in its proper destiny, but Bob Ong's books will continually inspire the Filipino to prove the fact that the Pinoy is not bobo after all.

Dekada- The Article That Could Have Been

This was primarily made as an entry in one book compilation organized by bobongpinoy members. However, it did not make the top 30.

Anyway, it speaks about the present condition of the country, amidst the social problems that we are facing-poverty, corruption, and the other problems that seems to drag the country down.

This is inspired and is in conjuction with bobongpinoy's 10th year of existence in the internet, that's why the article was entitled DEKADA.

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DEKADA

Kuya, ano ba yung blunder?

“Ano’ng blunder? San mo ba narinig yan?”

“Sabi kasi ng teacher ko sa History, blunder daw yung kaso nung Presidente kaya nakulong”.

“Plunder. Plunder yon, hindi blunder”.

“E ano nga yung plunder?” Ba’t sya nakulong? Tsaka bakit EDSA 2? Di ba isa lang naman yung EDSA?

Sampung taon. Isang dekada na pala ang nakalipas mula nang ipinanganak si bunso. Sa edad nyang sampu, napakaraming tanong sa isip nya na aaminin kong kahit ako ay hirap na sagutin kahit na mahigit dalawampung taon na akong nabubuhay sa mundo.

Paano ko ba ipaliliwanag sa kanya kung bakit kailangang umalis nang bansa si Nanay at si Tatay para mag caregiver sa ibang bansa gayung pareho naman silang mga college graduates? Paano ko sya aaluin sa mga panahong naghahanap sya ng kalinga ng magulang?

Maituturo ko ba sa kanya na hindi tamang uminom, manigarilyo, magsugal at mag drugs, gayong lantad namang ipinakikita sa tv na ginagawa ito ng mga sikat na artista sa teleserye at maging sa totoong buhay?

Kailan ko sisimulang ituro sa kanya ang tungkol sa sekswalidad? Na hindi pa kaya nang kanyang utak na harapin ang mga malalaswang babasahin at panoorin? Ako ba ang magsasabi sa kanya at magpapaliwanag kung bakit may mga taong may ikatlong kasarian?

Masasagot ko ba ang mga tanong nya kung bakit maraming nagrarally sa kalye? Kung bakit mahaba ang pila sa bilihan ng bigas? Kung bakit laging ginagawa-tinutuklap-ginagawa ang kalsada sa tapat ng bahay? Kung ano ang ibig sabihin ng kotong? Kung bakit maraming alagad ng batas na nadadawit sa mga kontrobersyal na krimen at kung bakit laging nagagalit ang mga tao at pilit pinatatalsik ang Presidente ng bansa?

Isang dekada ng kanyang buhay pa lamang ngunit kayrami na nyang nakikitang kaganapan sa Pilipinas. Sa panahon kung saan kaydaling makakuha nang iba’t ibang impormasyon gamit ang telebisyon, cellphone, at internet, hindi ko alam kung mapalad nga kaya silang mga kabilang sa X & Y Generation.

“Kuya, ano ba’ng ibig sabihin ng corrupt? Kasi sabi sa balita, isa daw ang Pilipinas sa pinaka corrupt na bansa sa buong mundo. Sikat pala ang Pilipinas, ha, kuya?”

“Bunso….. corrupt ang tawag kapag ang mga leader ay maraming kamaliang ginagawa sa kanilang mga trabaho. Sa madaling salita, hindi sila tapat sa kanilang mga tungkulin”.

“Ayoko ng maging Pilipino, kuya. Nakakahiya pala tayo.”

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“Hindi, bunso. Huwag mong ikahiya ang pagiging Pilipino. Mahalin mo ang Pilipinas dahil ito ang bayan mo. Pilipinas ang kumukupkop sa’yo mula nang ipinanganak ka sa mundo.

Alam kong bata ka pa at maaaring hindi mo pa maiintindihan ang sasabihin ko. Pero ang mga nakikita mong kamalian ay huwag mong gawing dahilan para itakwil ang Pilipinas.

Magbabago pa ang Pilipinas. Kung hindi man ngayon, sa hinaharap; kung saan kayong mga kabataan ay kailangang gabayan at turuan ng tamang pagmamahal sa bansa. Dahil ang pagmamahal mo sa bansa ang magbibigay-daan para sikapin mong baguhin ang mga kamaliang nakikita mo sa paligid.

Marami pang dekadang darating sa iyong buhay. Marami ka pang matututunan at marami ka pang masasaksihang pangyayari sa kapaligiran….. ngunit bunso, mahalin mo ang Pilipinas.”
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The Sexiest Girl of D.M.

I first encountered this piece of literary genious from Bob Ong's Bakit Baligtad Magbasa ng Libro ang mga Pilipino?. The letter was said to have been found at a certain bar in Manila and has been preserved in its original, unedited form.

Now I have read this piece for at least 10 times and it never failed to make me laugh.

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To Marjie,

I am not surprise or wander why Dennis leave you. Why? What reason you can think about but you’re very fat body. I thought before that Dennis only use me to his toy but sooner and later I’m realize that he really can’t not beared or stomached to be with you anymore because at first, Dennis say he could not stand you’re habit of making pakialam all his walks (lakad) and always calling to their house what he go home or this or that

And then he say he get ashame to met iether in school or in his family and then asking you to exercise you’re very very, very fat body but you hate it thougth your the most preetiest girls he knows about what do you think you are “Beautiful Girl” of Jose Marie Chan

Even you are beautiful face to your think) you do not have the right to called me whatsoever or else different name one time or the other for the real purposed to insults my personality because I’m never call you names iether in the front of Dennis or in the backs of Dennis, but if you start already to calling me different name, I don’t have any other choice but to call you other different name to like you are a PIG, FAT, OBESSED, OVERWIGHT, AND UGLY SHAPE girl. Shame to you’re body that is to a BUDING.

You can’t not blame Dennis for exchanging you to me because I am the more sexier than you when you look to us in the mirror. I’m repeat again that you are like Ike Lozada when she is a girl.

FROM: THE SEXIEST GIRL OF D.M.

P.S. You say that I’m the bad breathe but who is Dennis want to kissed. Me or you? You or me? And the final is me. There you go.

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Pilipinas Kong Mahal

The loud voices reverberate inside the four corners of that small Aldaba Hall in UP Diliman as the people, most of them Iskolar ng Bayan, sang the Lupang Hinirang . I must admit that I have already forgotten the play I watched that time but I will never forget what I felt as all are singing the National Anthem.

Yes, it was only a song. But it was in those times when I can say Iam a proud Filipino. It was in those rare times when I can say, as I hear the students loudly sing the National Anthem, there is hope for the Philippines, there is hope for the Filipino.


"And the rain blended with our tears- tears of joy, of gratitude and of pride in supreme accomplishment. Above us flew for the first time and over this embattled land, alone, happy and unperturbed amidst the sweeping gales and whipping rain- The Flag of the Philippines.God! May it stay there ever, ever, ever."
- C.P. Romulo in "The Filipino Flag Rises... Alone"



[This is a repost from a previous entry made in bobongpinoy]