PALpak
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| Armida Siguion-Reyna |
The word is Tagalog slang for sloppy work or performance, says an online dictionary under bansa.org. That the first three letters collectively make the acronym for Philippine Airlines isn’t mere coincidence. Palpak is, and palpak will be, there’s no other airline now palpak-er than PAL.
Time was when the family would not go anywhere, unless on PAL. My husband Sig was lawyer for the company, and he took such great pride in it, we flew PAL to wherever, whenever there was traveling to be done, whether for business or pleasure. There were free trips and discounts, but we paid for the most part. In those days you never presumed the freebies were for the asking, so came the day when Sig was no longer lawyering for them, we continued to patronize PAL and kept track of friends we’d made in PAL, like Pat Waln in Los Angeles and Nardoni in Italy, whose first name I forget, but whose face I still see in my head..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20120103com4.html
2 comments:
decades after, decades after the ouster of the 'dictator,' things keep getting 'palpak-er' and 'palpak-er' around here. kitang.kita sa national airline....ano ba ang nangyari?
"By then, I was getting along in years, and had started to travel skipping the US West Coast and going to the New York, via Japan, on Northwest, or via Hong Kong, on Cathay Pacific. News of how badly PAL was faring with its labor force had started to spread. There were lesser and lesser flights, none anymore to Europe, and only to California, Australia and Asia. Talk was rife, binababoy na ng mga pasahero ang PAL, hindi na iginagalang, dahil pakiramdam ng mga sumasakay, sila rin naman, hindi iginagalang ng airline that never took off on schedule, served terribly awful food, and on top of everything continued to use aircraft that should have long been retired, with toilets that clog and doors that won’t close and seats that don’t lean back."
palpaker?
Phakers talaga...
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