Fr.
Mao Mendez of the Lindaville church loves to open his homilies during dawn masses
with questions.
"How
are you this morning?" he sometimes asks.
If
ever Fr. Mao would ask "How is your Christmas, is it merry?" then we
would gladly join him in that question.
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For
truly, merriment depends upon what Boy Guingguing says which side of your bread
is being buttered.
And
we agree with Mayor Dan Neri Lim's editorial in his weekly "Mayors Report"
yesterday, although he twitted us later in the program, that Christmas is the
time of giving, rather than that of receiving.
If
we have our way, we would like to make your Christmas day tomorrow be merry with
a new breed of lingo that needs to be defined.
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To
our readers who are senior citizens, this may find helpful in understanding the
language that the youth of today speaks. Our campus work exposed us to tbese terminologies
which include some gay talk You cannot find these in the dictionary of our neighbor,
Sundry Chronicle. Here it goes.
1.
char; charness; char.com - an expression of appreciation. It may also be used
to temper something which is very serious;
2.
as in (?) - this is not used for comparison or analogy. It is now used as a confirmation,
usually coupled with a question mark; layso - means high class, something elitist;
3.
syodi abas - keep it secret, clandestine;
4.
chuvanes - etcetera, etcetera;
5.
promise - to drive home the point that the person is serious and sincere in what
he says;
6.
bonggacious - derived from the original Tagalog word "bongga". It now
refers to something ostentatious;
7.
gudam - this is good morning in text messages;
8.
dada - it means money;
9.
haler - from the original English word, hello. It is used to call the attention
of somebody to the point that the speaker is trying to drive at
10. jerjer
- never mind defining. This is already obscene.
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SP
UPDATE. Top on the agenda of the 9th Sangguniang Panlungsod of Tagbilaran before
the year ends is the proposed 2007 general budget of the city government.
Vice
Mayor Nuevas Tirol-Montes disclosed that the committee on appropriations will
meet this week to deliberate on the proposed budget before it will be calendared
for business. We received a copy of the proposed budget but due to the Christmas
parties we attended left and right, we have yet to peruse it.
Last
Wednesday, the city council approved the special rates of a physician and a pharmacist
who are paid as ordinary casual workers in the city for the past months now.
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Here's
wishing our dear readers the best of Christmas in 2006. *
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