Sept 3, 2000
NEWSFLASH NEWSFLASH ! ! !
 Google Web Directory  rates pldt.com as one of Top Fifty Satire Web Sites among the 1,060,000,000 web pages on their giant search engine.  Cool.


Beware of our friend, all ye who seek us harm.

Back to Court for the embattled website ww.pldt.com
It should be a welcome relief after quite a while. Jak Bausa, who is no longer registering domain names for the Monopoly, goes back on the stand.

August 31, 2000 
 Double speak, Sotto Voce, Forked Tongue? 
"Contrary to his claim, the senator's intention in mentioning the case of pldt.com is merely to cite that a case involving the issue of cybersquatting do exist in the Phils. We are not saying that pldt.com case is a cybersquatting case , but a case that "RELATES" to the issue of cybersquatting, only to prove that a case of such nature does exist in the country".  - posted on a discussion board supposedly by Office of Senator Sotto ( a certain Jojo ) in reply to a letter complaint from www.pldt.com legal regarding Sotto's making pldt.com an example of a cybersquatting case.


August 30, 2000
The Buck Stopped at Patikul.
With thanks to millions of dollars from Giddy Gaddafy, Old Pal of Imelda Marcos, the ASG is now trying to recruit hundreds of Filipinos in Sabah.  They can pay in US dollars and have cool guns to boot. It's any mercenary's dream come true.  Great going by the Showbiz Government!!! Maybe next time, Mr. Siazon, Foreign Minister kuno, you can just have mystical Moumar K., Old Pal of Imelda Marcos, ship Stinger missiles directly to the port of Jolo as ransom payment for the remaining foreigners.  It stuns me no end how much Siazon loves to put down the Filipino, as in the case of the Embassy bomb blast in Indonesia, when this government subjected its own citizens to scrutiny by another government.  
To whoever allowed those dollars in, we sure hope your commissions are well worth the trouble the country will soon go through! On our end, there is a tremendous value to every Filipino's life. It is a sad and sick fact that you in power would rather dance to the tune of the outsider, in this case, the white man, than defend your own countryman.  I hope the money was well worth it, if you got any. If not, then you are sicker than we think.
Quote of the month from Komander Robot on TV, waving a gleaming new Assault Rifle at the camera- "Heto Erap, hindi pelikula ito" (Come, Erap, this is no movie). fade to black.....

TEKA, TEKA, TEKA !!
How can this government succeed  against the nouveau riche Abu Sayyaf Group in Jolo if it cannot pin down the old rich, such as rich old Imelda.

August 29 2000
SPECIAL HOSTAGE EDITION.
Q : What do you call an Afro-American 'strolling' around the Abu Sayyaf lair, bringing his US passport, being inquisitive, and thereafter made a hostage?
pldt.com : An excuse.

Erap, Siazon to head Ninoy Aquino Airport welcoming committee.  On the heels of the reported kidnapping of an American "tourist" (wink, wink) in Jolo, Erapus immediately called the Cabinet Cluster E to a special emergency meeting to discuss the welcoming rites for the soon due American official guests.  Erap informed the Cabinet that he was expecting Arnold, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis to come and rescue the American hostage because "Show Biz is what it's all about."

www.pldt.com the site wishes to apologize to the Philippine Daily Inquirer for all the reader email generated by PDI's non-coverage of the Erap Wealth story.  OK guys, it's our fault. Now can we get on with the real issues? Like the Philippines, for Juan... the site wishes to apologize to the Philippine Daily Inquirer for all the reader email generated by PDI's non-coverage of the Erap Wealth story.  OK guys, it's our fault. Now can we get on with the real issues? Like the Philippines, for Juan... (for juans and for all).

August 28, 2000
We are pleased top present our latest pldt.com Top Ten List :

10. Final tranche of World Bank loan now in jeopardy due to my continuing difficulty in meeting budget deficit targets.

9. Lame "we already gave P100 million to the PNP" excuse from Mark Jimenez and the Manila Times.

8. Manny Pangilinan got my seat on Philippine Stock Exchange board of directors.
 
7. Investment in JELP housing project in lower Antipolo may take longer to recoup than originally expected.

6. Proposed move to Libya by Abu Sayyaf commanders Robot and Global puts original commitment to invest in site in doubt now.

5. Moving south, in the hopes of getting attention and development funds from the Mindanao Coordinating Council.

4. Frustrated hacker from Infocom may have gotten to the Top-Ten-List generator after all.

3. Sluggish market affecting rollout of pldt.com IPO.

2. Plans to swap sites with titosotto.com being delayed by change of heart by Mario Cruz.

1. Congress still deliberating on my request for emergency powers. 

August 23, 2000
PLDT PLACES PUBLIC PAY PHONES IN PRIVATE HOMES W/ NTC APPROVAL
Good news: Finally, PLDT to place more phones in Filipino homes.
Bad news: They are akin to public pay phones, but without coin slots.
Worst news: the government regulatory body approved this plan without batting an eyelash.
Endorsement: Submit NTC "brains" to Abu Sayyaf for neuro-psychiatric evaluation.

ISCOOP !
The Estradas' Three Dozen Houses
The President may have violated the Constitution
(http://www.pcij.org/stories/2000/jelp2.html)

Is Erap planning to put all his families in one compound? Are 36 houses enough?  Stick around to find out.
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MUSIC TO SURF PLDT.COM WITH !!

Brazilian volleyball goddess Leila Barros cozies up to the CEO...

"Guess who's NOT calling her country long-distance via THAT telephone company?" 8/17/2000

August 21, 2000 HOT NEWS
PLDT.COM set to lodge formal complaint to ICANN, NSI re epldt.com site for confusing readers?  Abangan...

August 19, 2000

ERAP DENIES ABU SAYYAF TO GO SCOT-FREE.  Stormeng Domeng allegedly clarified that they are going to Libya, not Scotland.

Did anyone else notice this name was not even  mentioned in the recent survey? Yep, Stormeng Domeng Siazon. Our candidate for the sycophant of the world award.  

PINOYS (STILL) WEARING (SUCKER) SIGNS AROUND NECK NEXT PLDT TARGET. Manny: 'How do you Top a Car?'
Tony S.: 'Sirit na agad, boss-tsip!! Ikaw kasi ang bida. Ikaw ang magaling, Ikaw ang pinakamabait. Ikaw ang...'
Manny: 'HOY. SHERAP Ka na. Heto- To Top a car, you 'Tep on the brake, Tupid'.
Remember metering? The very issue PLDT CEO Manuel Pangilinan only last week claimed would be harsh on the economy and maybe unpopular? The newspapers reported the  PLDT Chairman announcing (wink, wink) that their Local Measured Service Scheme was to be shelved for the moment.  Of course, the NTC Provisional Authority that allows PLDT to meter was never revoked.  Neither by the Senate or the NTC for God knows how many reasons. All this, even after Commissioner Simeon Kintanar who approved PLDT's request is now a Congressman and born again  Anti-Metering advocate.  It is so weird that this announcement came right before PLDT now imposes a new type of metered program.   Behold, the LMS re-engineered as (ta-dah!) PLDT's Tele-TUPID program. How Smart can you get?   Metering, as per Mr. Pangilinan, may be difficult for the economy at this time. 
But he will bring a phone to your house and charge you  more than the original amount they had in mind for metered service, which was PhP.40/min.. The new "scheme"  charges P.50 per minute.  Hello, NTC.  Is not a land line that is being tolled considered metered phone?  You really think Pinoys are  Tele-Tupid, don't you? Well, come to think of it, maybe they are, but that still doesn't make it right. Oh well, this should put to rest any ideas lower to middle class families may have had of improving their quality life via affordable telecommunications.  Buy a cell phone instead. At least the wire isn't as long. The least the NTC should do is make this an OPTION for the consumer. Let them decide for once in their lives if they want to get a metered line or not.

From Business World, August 16:
Consumer complaints: 
PLDT, Piltel, Smart, Infocom -- Part 1 
by Rick Ramos
"Secretary Rainerio O. Reyes told me during his stint with the Cory Aquino administration, the "single biggest stumbling block to the country's development is PLDT." 

Globe tele-incommunicado 
by Dean de la Paz
"Customer service is now just a memory of past strategies -- strategies created by those who knew how to read the market's pulse and not simply kiss the market's buttocks right in the spot where billfolds are kept.
The market, after all, is a collection of needs. It is not merely a source of revenues."


You know you are really in THE Republic of Bananas when....
The Head of the National Police says that a picture says a thousand words and that anyone could see that the massacre of cult members was in fact murder, BUT the Head of the Commission on Human Rights says the case will be very hard to prove, or even try as all the witnesses have scampered away.  Madame, we were all witness to that. We have not scampered.  But we saw Erap's CAFGU doing it's job!!! And we have how many?? Only 30,000 of those morons??!! 

A US-Based company ties up with a local group to service big bandwidth requirements BUT some smarty pants from an Indosuez-something-company (ask Ces hmmm, interesting Mr. or Ms. Raymund something guy) looking for a hold in his head announces that a) NOBODY can make a giant like PLDT budge and b) there is no need for more bandwidth in the country.  We hope he recorded his fifteen fleeting minutes because this site will mark it forever to  remind his children's children.  Come to think of it, why should an Indonesian Company root for the TU-PID Pinoys?

So who has been bugging YOU lately? This is who we traced trying to hack into PLDT.COM. Of course, they are above the Sotto law, so....
inetnum: 202.163.240.0 - 202.163.243.255
netname: INFOCOM-PH
descr: INFOCOM Technologies,Inc. 
descr: 31/F PLDT Tower II, Ayala Avenue, Salcedo Village
descr: Makati City, Philippines
descr: Philippines 2206
country: PH admin-c: NE4-AP
tech-c: PD16-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-PH-INFOCOM
changed: pdacanay@info.com.ph 20000421
source: APNIC

The good old bad days are back! And so are the bad guys.  Visit Ken's site:  Guinness Book of World Records by robbing their nation.  


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10. Final tranche of World Bank loan now in jeopardy due to my continuing difficulty in meeting budget deficit targets.

9. Lame "we already gave P100 million to the PNP" excuse from Mark Jimenez and the Manila Times.

8. Manny Pangilinan got my seat on Philippine Stock Exchange board of directors.
 
7. Investment in JELP housing project in lower Antipolo may take longer to recoup than originally expected.

6. Proposed move to Libya by Abu Sayyaf commanders Robot and Global puts original commitment to invest in site in doubt now.

5. Moving south, in the hopes of getting attention and development funds from the Mindanao Coordinating Council.

4. Frustrated hacker from Infocom may have gotten to the Top-Ten-List generator after all.

3. Sluggish market affecting rollout of pldt.com IPO.

2. Plans to swap sites with titosotto.com being delayed by change of heart by Mario Cruz.

1. Congress still deliberating on my request for emergency powers. 

August 23, 2000
PLDT PLACES PUBLIC PAY PHONES IN PRIVATE HOMES W/ NTC APPROVAL
Good news: Finally, PLDT to place more phones in Filipino homes.
Bad news: They are akin to public pay phones, but without coin slots.
Worst news: the government regulatory body approved this plan without batting an eyelash.
Endorsement: Submit NTC "brains" to Abu Sayyaf for neuro-psychiatric evaluation.

ISCOOP !
The Estradas' Three Dozen Houses
The President may have violated the Constitution
(http://www.pcij.org/stories/2000/jelp2.html)

Is Erap planning to put all his families in one compound? Are 36 houses enough?  Stick around to find out.
        ---------------------------

MUSIC TO SURF pldt.com WITH !!

Brazilian volleyball goddess Leila Barros cozies up to the CEO...

"Guess who's NOT calling her country long-distance via THAT telephone company?" 8/17/2000

August 21, 2000 HOT NEWS
pldt.com site for confusing readers?  Abangan...

August 19, 2000

ERAP DENIES ABU SAYYAF TO GO SCOT-FREE.  Stormeng Domeng allegedly clarified that they are going to Libya, not Scotland.

Did anyone else notice this name was not even  mentioned in the recent survey? Yep, Stormeng Domeng Siazon. Our candidate for the sycophant of the world award.  

PINOYS (STILL) WEARING (SUCKER) SIGNS AROUND NECK NEXT PLDT TARGET. Manny: 'How do you Top a Car?'
Tony S.: 'Sirit na agad, boss-tsip!! Ikaw kasi ang bida. Ikaw ang magaling, Ikaw ang pinakamabait. Ikaw ang...'
Manny: 'HOY. SHERAP Ka na. Heto- To Top a car, you 'Tep on the brake, Tupid'.
Remember metering? The very issue PLDT CEO Manuel Pangilinan only last week claimed would be harsh on the economy and maybe unpopular? The newspapers reported the  PLDT Chairman announcing (wink, wink) that their Local Measured Service Scheme was to be shelved for the moment.  Of course, the NTC Provisional Authority that allows PLDT to meter was never revoked.  Neither by the Senate or the NTC for God knows how many reasons. All this, even after Commissioner Simeon Kintanar who approved PLDT's request is now a Congressman and born again  Anti-Metering advocate.  It is so weird that this announcement came right before PLDT now imposes a new type of metered program.   Behold, the LMS re-engineered as (ta-dah!) PLDT's Tele-TUPID program. How Smart can you get?   Metering, as per Mr. Pangilinan, may be difficult for the economy at this time. 
But he will bring a phone to your house and charge you  more than the original amount they had in mind for metered service, which was PhP.40/min.. The new "scheme"  charges P.50 per minute.  Hello, NTC.  Is not a land line that is being tolled considered metered phone?  You really think Pinoys are  Tele-Tupid, don't you? Well, come to think of it, maybe they are, but that still doesn't make it right. Oh well, this should put to rest any ideas lower to middle class families may have had of improving their quality life via affordable telecommunications.  Buy a cell phone instead. At least the wire isn't as long. The least the NTC should do is make this an OPTION for the consumer. Let them decide for once in their lives if they want to get a metered line or not.

From Business World, August 16:
Consumer complaints: 
PLDT, Piltel, Smart, Infocom -- Part 1 
by Rick Ramos
"Secretary Rainerio O. Reyes told me during his stint with the Cory Aquino administration, the "single biggest stumbling block to the country's development is PLDT." 

Globe tele-incommunicado 
by Dean de la Paz
"Customer service is now just a memory of past strategies -- strategies created by those who knew how to read the market's pulse and not simply kiss the market's buttocks right in the spot where billfolds are kept.
The market, after all, is a collection of needs. It is not merely a source of revenues."


You know you are really in THE Republic of Bananas when....
The Head of the National Police says that a picture says a thousand words and that anyone could see that the massacre of cult members was in fact murder, BUT the Head of the Commission on Human Rights says the case will be very hard to prove, or even try as all the witnesses have scampered away.  Madame, we were all witness to that. We have not scampered.  But we saw Erap's CAFGU doing it's job!!! And we have how many?? Only 30,000 of those morons??!! 

A US-Based company ties up with a local group to service big bandwidth requirements BUT some smarty pants from an Indosuez-something-company (ask Ces hmmm, interesting Mr. or Ms. Raymund something guy) looking for a hold in his head announces that a) NOBODY can make a giant like PLDT budge and b) there is no need for more bandwidth in the country.  We hope he recorded his fifteen fleeting minutes because this site will mark it forever to  remind his children's children.  Come to think of it, why should an Indonesian Company root for the TU-PID Pinoys?

So who has been bugging YOU lately? This is who we traced trying to hack into
So who has been bugging YOU lately? This is who we traced trying to hack into pldt.com. Of course, they are above the Sotto law, so....
inetnum: 202.163.240.0 - 202.163.243.255
netname: INFOCOM-PH
descr: INFOCOM Technologies,Inc. 
descr: 31/F PLDT Tower II, Ayala Avenue, Salcedo Village
descr: Makati City, Philippines
descr: Philippines 2206
country: PH admin-c: NE4-AP
tech-c: PD16-AP
mnt-by: MAINT-PH-INFOCOM
changed: pdacanay@info.com.ph 20000421
source: APNIC

The good old bad days are back! And so are the bad guys.  Visit Ken's site:  Guinness Book of World Records by robbing their nation.  


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