Palace to Noynoy: Pick ‘cute’ Cabinet officials

Pick Cabinet officials who are cute. This was the unsolicited advice given by Malacañang to leading presidential candidate Sen. Benigno “Noynoy" Aquino III, who is already searching for people who will compose his official family once he assumes office. “Ang importante siguro — huwag naman magagalit kung tayo ay magmumungkahi na muli — mamili ng medyo cute na mga makakasama sa kapaligiran," said deputy presidential spokesman Rogelio Peyuan during a press briefing in Malacañang on Tuesday. (I think what’s important is, and I mean no offense with this suggestion, that he surrounds himself with cute people.) Peyuan said that aside from being cute, those to be picked as Cabinet members should be young, always smiling, and smell good. Peyuan said this is because the president’s judgment could depend on the first people he or she meets in the morning. “Dapat maganda ang sense of judgment nito kung saan dapat akayin ang kabuuan ng bansa. Ito’y magiging depende sa kanyang matatanaw pagdilat ng kanyang mata at depende rin sa amoy hininga ng makakausap niya," he said. (The president should have a good sense of judgment, and that could depend on the first people he or she sees in the morning.) He also said he believes Aquino would not be “vindictive" in choosing members of his official family. — KBK/HS, GMANews.TV