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Newsman & famous speechwriter @teddyboylocsin gets drunk, renders “My Way” ahead of election results in 98 hours

    Newsman and speechwriter of at least three Philippine presidents Teddy Boy Locsin — apparently anticipating the results of  elections four days from now, drowned his sorrow in martini on worldwide  TV and rendered an editorial version of “My Way” in the ABS-CBN news program “The World Tonight”. (see video clip below) 

      His sudden career shift was apparently triggered by the most recent Pulse Asia survey results showing a probable Duterte win with a lead of 11 percentage points ahead of the closest rival 98 hours before election day. 

       Pulse Asia executive director Dean Ana Tabunda upon seeing the show said it was not their intent to upset Teddy Boy Locsin but it was simply their job to tabulate respondents answers. “If that had been the effect, we are sorry”. Asked to comment on the singing, she said: “Teddy Boy is a good speechwriter.” 

   Sought for an explanation about the lyrics as rewritten by him, the TV anchor was however whisked away by bouncers to avoid a brawl. The song “My Way” has been known to cause drunken bar room brawls in the Philippines. 

      Musician Ryan Cayabyab, when asked to review the performance, said “You know… he seemed to rush through the notes… he needs to render this with a proper 70-piece orchestra.”  

       Songwriter Paul Simon in his New York studio, by Skype, however said, “Truly, i felt his melancholy…”

       (video clip below, click the soundcloud pod in the upper lefthand corner to stop the piano and view the video below it  (the soundcloud pod piano music score is for his acapella version but he rushed thru the song out of unfathomable despondency)

when the video plays, there’s an ad that covers the graphics, click the upper righthand corner of the ad box to remove it and appreciate the agony of his lyrics

Election law & election campaigns, News

#Halalan2016 #PiliPinas @WordPressdotcom #Challenge Obstacles @COMELEC precinct-finder still down @jabjimenez

WordPress Discovery Challenge: Obstacles 

   The Comelec website  ( comelec.gov.ph ) is still down. And with it, the Precinct Finder is also down.

     More than 7 million voters in the presidential elections  eleven days from now are first-time voters. They’ve never set foot inside a voting precinct.

  They turned 18 years old in the period June, 2013 to October, 2015 and registered in that period for the first time.  Thankfully there is a precinct-finder, thanklessly it is down. The Comelec chair said that the Comelec website will not be opened because “it is still unsafe” (“Comelec website still down, unsafe –Chairman” GMA News online, Apr. 27).

    99.9 per cent of our students in the University are first-time voters. As part of our civic duty, i gave the optional assignment next week that they could use the first 15 minutes of classes to go online and locate their precinct thru the Precinct-Finder of the Comelec website.

   A student said it was down, and another student asked, what if it’s down for the entire week, how will we locate our voting precinct? (he’s 18). And i gave a feeble: “your voting precinct is most probably in the schoolhouse nearest where you live…locate the nearest schoolhouse… through…uhmm, by using…google maps…”      

       And that’s my “WordPress Discovery Challenge: Obstacles” post — Comelec officials were traumatized by the hacking, the Comelec chair said the Comelec website was still unsafe, therefore they have not opened it,  there is no Precinct-Finder, 7 million first-time voters will have to rely on…google maps… Waze… a compass… stargazers… wind vanes… crystal balls… tea leaves…

        (they’ll probably ask their mom… but we want our students to be independent 🙂  )

      Obstacles at: 

Obstacles