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Bob Ong
Bob Ong
Bob Ong, or Roberto Ong, is the pseudonym of a contemporary Filipino author known for using conversational Filipino to create humorous and reflective depictions of Philippine life. His actual name is unknown. Website
The pseudonym Bob Ong came about when the author was working as a web developer and a teacher, and he put up the Bobong Pinoy website in his spare time. The name roughly translates as "Dumb Filipino," used fondly as a diminutive term. "Although impressed," Bob Ong notes,
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"my boss would've fired me had he known I was the one behind it. " When someone contacted him after mistaking him as an actual person named Bob Ong, his famous pseudonym was born. The site received a People's Choice Philippine Web Award for Weird/Humor in , but was taken down after former President Joseph "Erap" Estrada was ousted after the Second People Power Revolution.
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There have been occasional confusions between Bob Ong and Chinese-Filipino author Charlson Ong. However, Bob Ong himself refutes this in his account in Stainless Longganisa, saying his surname is not "Ong" and neither is he even Filipino-Chinese. The family nam
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With the influx of book-to-film adaptations landing our way (see: “Ang Mga Kaibigan ni Mama Susan” and “Trese”), we’re taken back to our school lit classes and the gems they’ve added to our mental libraries. And, no surprise here—to anyone who’s read Filipino novels, chances are, we can agree: They’re as cinematic as words on paper can come.
We’ve delved into short stories and local folklore, but for the novel side of things, there’s still a Filipiniana section’s worth of reads that ought to be realized on the big (or small) screen. From corruption in crime fic to lovers in historical stories, take a look at some of our lit picks below.
“The Sky Over Dimas” by Vicente Garcia Groyon
Family drama? Skeletons in the closet? The perils of high society? Check, check, and check. While it has already graced the stage, Vicente Groyon’s Palanca-winning “The Sky Over Dimas” has all of the ingredients that make for an intriguing, thought-provoking film or your HBO series of the month.
In the OG novel, a man named Raffy is compelled to rush home to Bacolod in the hopes of stopping his mentally ill father from further disgracing their family, the hacienderos of the Torrecarion and Jarabas clans. The trip back home proves to be even less than ideal when he soon unravels the dark gen