Sentidokomon

Pinay Sense

By Josephine “Joy� B. Miranda

A Leap On Something Of Substance

“Pinay Sense� is a cliché taken from my website www.sentidokomon.com where inputs are mostly out from my own personal views on certain issues. Starting this month, this would be my regular column here in Tinig Pinoy and I will tackle particularly about OFWs and work-related events, critical (and not so critical) comments, point to point, unbiased opinions on anything which adversely affects the working and living conditions of Filipinos in Cyprus.

In two months under my editorship, Tinig Pinoy has increased its sales in terms of copies being sold which means that there is an obvious progress of 80% in its redearship. Mr. Dionisis Dionisiou, the Editorial Consultant of Politis was happy to know about this development, as he was said to be a bit discouraged about the outcome of the previous Tinig Pinoy management. During a meeting last week, Mr. Dionisiou expressed his disappointment over the previous Tinig Pinoy matter where he started thinking that it is not to be taken seriously due to its poor readership and non-motivational outcome in sales.

There still are a few negative comments which I received from people who are “walang magawa sa buhay nila, � one bearing a mobile number of +357 99910877 which reads:

“Me comment lng me kala me d u eat panis bat c Marlyn at Beth d b mga panis yan at pwd lagyan u ng vetcin para magkalasa ang article nu at 1 pa ung flag pala ntin s bgo na pla may stamp n s gitna yan lang ho, d msama ang magtanong.� “And may nabago ba  sa dati at ngayon? Wala naman ah!�

I felt pity to whoever sent the above-written message where it only showed an obvious ignorance to grammar. This is the third published issue of Tinig Pinoy under me and I challenge the sender to bring to me all the previous copies from the old management and say in front of me kung wala bang pagbabago ang noon at ngayon. Hindi po tama ang pagkumparahin mo ang gawa ko ngayon at gawa  ng dati noon because my God, there is no point of comparison, unless ang sender na ito ay bagsak sa kanyang English subject, huh?

Everyone has a special skill at nagkataon na ang namamahala noon ay hindi niya talaga forte ang journalism, so if you don’t notice the big progressive change, please pakiusap huwag ninyo na pong ipaalam sa iba ang katalinuhan ninyo. Okay po? As regard the word ‘panis’ referring to my editorial article published last 1^st of September, hindi po tao ang ibig kong sabihin na panis, kundi mga walang kabuluhan at walang katuturan or thoughtless articles noon. (God, di pa rin nya na-gets!) As to the flag, it is still the same po, only we designed the Tinig Pinoy stamp bearing the Filipino flag. It is a design, an art. Satisfied po ba kayo sa sagot ko? Yes hindi po masama ang magtanong, welcome po ang mga questions. But be sure to throw questions which are sensible and relevant. This is the first and the last time for me to entertain such nonsense questions. So if you don’t have nothing of substance to ask and do, please don’t do it with me, maliwanag ba?

I would like to make mention here that Ms. Marlyn Panaguiton whom I assigned as Advertising and Finance In charge of Tinig Pinoy has opted to resign for personal reasons effective 16 September 2007. Ms. Panaguiton is one of the original staff of the old Tinig Pinoy. Ms. Rose Hempenstall was unanimously elected to replace Ms. Panaguiton. As the new management is working on more development of this paper especially in the business aspect, of getting regular advertisers which is a requirement to get additional pages in the upcoming months as being approved by Mr. Dionisiou, it is well agreed that all staff members are authorized to get advertisers on their own which will be either forwarded directly to Politis Advertising Department through Mr. Michaelis Georgiou with email address ads@politis-news.com or to our Advertising and Finance in Charge or any of the new staff. We will be disseminating the advertisement rates but for more detailed information regarding this matter can be directly asked from Mr. Georgiou through office number 22 861754. Deadline of submission of advertisements for Tinig Pinoy should be every 3^rd or last Wednesday of the month.          Lastly, I would like to inform the readers and those interested to send in their letters and contributions, that the articles and other writing materials will not be published unless otherwise they are sent to my email address. Despite the hectic schedules at work of all the staff members, rest assured that this Filipino newspaper will continue taking a leap forward, giving more substantial, informative and productive OFW events.