Marvin Trilles

Traveling through a car-packed Quirino highway down to the street-busy G.Tuazon can be a boring journey so I started a little chat with the cab driver which I shall call Ka Fredie . Ka Fredie is a typical taxi driver with a touch of a barrio accent coupled with a mix of rebellious thinking . Thus , i coined the name "Ka Fredie". Trash:"Mahirap na ba byahe ngayon?" Ka Fredie: Mahal na gasolina e, umaasa na lang kami sa dagdag ng mga pasahero. Trash:"Gasolina pala itong taxi nyo, di ba mas ok ung LPG?" Ka Fredie: OO, dati kumikita ako ng hanggang 1,500 kaso pinababa ako e. Trash:"Bakit? Ka Fredie: Sabi ng doktor pag di ko raw tinigil baka bibigay katawan ko. Etong gobyerno natin prinopromote ung LPG e masama pla sa kalusugan ng driver pati na rin sa pasahero Mahal talaga kasi gasolina kaya konti na lang kita namin. Trash:"Dagdag mo pa yung kotong" Ka Fredie: Ngayon ginagawa na nilang ordinance , kaya ung huli mo sa Makati iba pa ri...

Using the web as one of the primary channel for political campaigns is becoming a trend . Look at how the US presidential race has been gaining a lot of attention primarily because it is in the internet . Call it web-hype of some sort . Just tonight , I stumbled upon a blogger site purposely created by a teen blogger to somewhat persuade Mar Roxas to run for presidency this 2010 . Honestly , it is my first time to see a blog site with political campaign motive behind . I find it entertaining at some point yet informative on the other . Entertaining in the sense that it contains all the political gimmicks that can be possible to implement in the "webosphere" . Taking the Roxas site for example , it comes loaded with wittily created jingles that plays in the background . It also contains songs that can be related to the candidate . In Roxas' site , the song ranges from the famous Mr. Palengke song ( a rip off of Parokya ni Edgars' Mr. Suave ) to a more serious Umagang ...