SIRI

Program Manager (rubbing his iPhone 16 like Aladdin's Lamp): Ensure that contract amendments and budget disbursements are made on time.

Siri: Do you mean fast-tracking the Umbrella OPA review and briefing implementing partners on the timely submission of their final reports with zero unspents?

Program Manager (staring and almost praying at a ThinkPad screen): And disburse the last two payments for Year 3 but not in the same effort exerted in editing PRISMA 1-4.

Siri: Do you mean as discussed in the Monday meetings and a Learning Booster on climate finance, or the conversations on social protection and a report from Brussels?

In Scandinavia, virtual assistants interpret speech and recognize tense voices from Melbourne that extol Susan Alice Bennet in words that can only be heard from Paradise where the families of Chanidae (kinilaw na bangus) and Bovidae (sinampalukang kambing) starred in a play about Karaoke Nights in Baloc.

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Program Manager (unchained and adjusting a bike seat): Five days of the monuments, these are what the sirens screamed for and not the the credit card payments for three servings of Gotong Batangas that the Phantom Biker sliced from a soft morning rain.

Siri: Do you mean plain strong lager or paired with mushy tokwa't baboy and infused litsong manok from the ancient tamarind tree of the Big House ? 

By end of Saturday, the Defender of the People secured a Beautiful Victory and was raised to the sublime degree of sinaing na tulingan and pinakbet, Spanish ham and cheese, and a friendship that convenes over breaking bottles of Argentinian wine and Irish whiskey...