BY ISMAEL AMIGO

1ST-APLUMA NATIONAL PRESIDENT

1ST-APLUMA is proud to announce that we now have our very own website where members and other interested parties can communicate with us and get to know more about our advocacy.

Just type http://1st-apluma.yolasite.com and voila!, 1st-APLUMA will be right in front of you now.

Anyone can access it and be updated on the freshest news, important issues, what's going in both houses of Congress, etc. and of course,  information about our group which represents provincial journalists, photographers, poets and others who make a living out of writing.

Other marginalized sectors of society like food handlers and hospital workers are also being carefully studied by the national executive committee for inclusion.

This is but a temporary website because we are planning to purchase our own so-called web domain or web address. At present, we have utilized the free service of www.yola.com, where anyone can create their own website easily.

Our website features daily headlines of different newspapers and updates from different government agencies such as the Metro Manila Development Authority, Bureau of Customs and Malacanang.

Also, anyone can interact with us through our forum and blogs where they can post their opinions and other views on matters like current events and anything under the sun that affects our daily living.

Should anyone out there needs an important issue be published on national dailies in Manila, all you need to do is write it down on APLUMA's blog and we'll take care of the rest. 

Another important thing that transpired out of our very own indefatigable executive vice president in Fitzgerald Cecilio's creativity in designing APLUMA's web is that interested parties can now send in their membership form through the Internet. 

Just click your mouse at the section that says "How to join" 1st-APLUMA. Fill up the form and click send. Very easy. In seconds, your application form will reach us and you’re automatically a member of our group. No fees to be collected because we know how hard cash comes along these days.

We also welcome writers who wish to talk out loud, have their masterpieces published on the Internet. Just send it to our email unangapluma@yahoo.com and we will publish it online through http://1st-apluma.yolasite.com.

We also encourage interested persons from different parts of Luzon,  Visayas and Mindanao to send in their application form through our new website. 

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President Aquino should act quickly on the growing rift between members of the Malacanang Press Corps and his spokesman Edwin Lacierda, who from the looks of it is certainly not fit for the job as the presidential mouthpiece.

Lacierda’s lack of patience to media’s oft intense questioning should be a ground for removal from his current post as this greatly affects President Aquino’s image to the public.

Only recently, Lacierda lambasted a journalist for his alleged “redundant” questions which should not be the case because members of the media are just trying to clarify things that will make their report accurate. Iwas kuryente, 'ika nga, right mga tsokarans? 

This is not the first time that Lacierda had a brush with the media. During the first few days of the Aquino government, he made the media wait for more than two hours for his scheduled media briefing.

With this, we give an unsolicited advice to Noynoy to replace or remake Lacierda or if not with someone who can tolerate the media’s “kakulitan”. 

Do it Mr. P-Noy before its too late!!!