Mommy Pehpot, Author at Mommy Pehpot

I Thought I Could Not Write About Her

Around the blogosphere, in almost every blog I have been, there’s a Cory Aquino entry. I must admit that I also have some in my Gossip Mom Blog. It’s an entertainment and news blog.. but aside from posting the news, I try not to give a personal touch to my Cory Aquino entries.. I thought I have nothing to say about her. I never knew her in a personal level. I was still young during the EDSA Revolution. My history orientation about her is very different from yours.. and then it hit me.. not the crowds that gather during the procession from La Salle to Manila Cathedral, but it was the Eulogy a while ago. It was how her close friends remembered here.. and so I must quote what Conrado de Quroz said:

“In life and in death, Cory has been—pardon my French—one damn good person” (from SNN)

It summarize it all as Conrado de Quiroz has been her greatest critic. She is indeed a GOOD person and is a great loss to her family and friends.

Come to think of it, on a personal level, I can name at least three things that is GOOD about her. First, when she stepped in as President after the EDSA Rev, she full fill her promise of freeing all the political prisoners. Second, she is the only President we have who is not power hungry. When it was time for her to step down, she did it with grace. Third, she is the most honest President we have, no corruption and she lived her life with in the simplest form, no luxury at all. It only shows she did not steal any from our taxes.

Oh lastly (I can come up with four?) she gave birth to Kris.. and if not for that, life would be less entertaining and light.

Motherly Instinct

We were browsing some old photo for my sister’s wedding on August 22 and saw this one.. Obviously at a very young age, I already have this thing they called motherly instinct. And it is not a surprise that at a very young age, I am already a mom of four.. LOL

The baby I was holding is my youngest brother…and here he is now (not now but here is the most recent I have.. taken last 2008)

Willie Revillame and His Remarks

Last Monday, ABS CBN had a coverage of the transfer of the Cory Aquino’s remains from La Salle Greenhills to Manila Cathedral. It was cut short to give way to Willie Revillame’s noon time show Wowowee. During the Wowowee show, there was a vidoe insert that shows the funeral march. In his own words Willie says:

“Di po maganda. Nagsasaya kami dito habang nagluluksa ang sambayanang Pilipino. ’Di ko magagampanan ang pagpapatawa habang ipinapakita ang libing ng dating presidente” source

The remarks made Willie contorversial again. A lot of furious and not so good remarks floats around the blog world, twitter world and face book world. As in almost every kind of world you can imagine. As for me, I have not seen it live as I don’t watch TV (I did not even watch any coverage that involved this past events). My initial reaction was he really is a very insensitive man. Then I think about it more and realized maybe it was not just him. Is Willie Revillame more powerful than ABS CBN? Instead of just inserting the coverage,they could have show it in full view, suspend the Wowowee or re schedule it. Or make it a back to back, Wowowee then coverage, no commercials in between.. Ah.. I get it.. it’s the popularity of Wowowee and the bucks it brings that won.