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And so I’m told about that even this true-blue activist on Facebook wanted to talk about the KC-Piolo break up, for a change, “nauuyam na ako kay GMA at Ram.” He might as well have added “…at kung sino ba talaga ang nanalo, si Pacquiao, o si Marquez?
Uyam says it so well, it’s not merely nagsasawa, which means “to get tired of.” Uyam directly translates “ad nauseam,” to refer to “something that has been done or repeated so often that it has become annoying or tiresome,” its Latin meaning, “literally, to sickness.”
Remember the hot pan de sal craze in the late ’70s that had bakeries sprouting like mushrooms in almost all street corners of the city? And then, after that, the lechong manok? That’s so Filipino, the penchant to go whole hog about, well, whatever. Kung ano ang usong kainin, isuot, isulat, pag-usapan, panoorin — that’s it.
Until uyam sets in, and there’s an inherent danger there, I think. I mean, to talk, and read about nothing else but the cause celebre?.... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20111129com4.html
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dapat talaga bantayan ang kaso ni gloria arrobo pero hindi lang naman siya ang masama, ano? hindi niya magagawa lahat ng ginawa niya kung hindi po niya kakuntsaba ang evl civil society--at kasama diyan ang Liberal Party of CHEATS ni abs.
"What do we discuss next? KC Concepcion’s torrents of tears on The Buzz last Sunday?
"We can’t afford to get tired of pushing for Gloria Arroyo’s accountability. Let’s continue to look for other things, to do away with umay."
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