Jack The Scribbler

It’s highly unlikely.
But a published account written by Cory’s speechwriter, newspaperman, and Makati City congressman TeddyBoy Locsin Jr. said that Kris Aquino was named after the word that has singularly defined the state of Philippine society (and arguably, her personal life).
“We’re gonna call her Krissy, for crisis,” Locsin wrote in page 320 of the book, Cory Magic: Her People’s Stories, citing Ninoy.

The book, Cory Magic: Her Peoples' Stories, remembers the former president and her funeral. (Picture from starmometer.com)

The remark was made over a dinner in August 1971, when Locsin was covering Aquino’s career for the Philippines Free Press.
“Ninoy and I immediately hit it off,” Locsin added, remembering the event more than three decades ago when the senator’s youngest daughter was just “a chubby, little baby girl” held by Cory whom he met for the first time.
In the meantime, Ninoy’s remark — as reported by Locsin — may have been flippant.
After all, it was uttered hours after grenades were thrown into a crowded Liberal Party (LP) campaign rally at Plaza Miranda in Manila, an event that Ninoy — an LP senator — begged off from attending at the last moment. The decision may have prolonged Ninoy’s life although he would later be assassinated exactly twelve years later to the day at the airport now bearing his name.
Now, more than thirty years later, Ninoy’s words about Kris sounds prophetic.
Just this week, Kris reportedly cursed and caused a scandal when she visited the house of her husband’s fan, a certain Mayen Austria, in an upscale village east of Metro Manila.
But Aquino immediately denied the incident in a text message.
She only expressed her feelings about Mayen’s “actuations” toward her husband, basketball player James Yap, she said.
The incident could have been easily set aside.
Except that Kris’ brother Noynoy is running — and is the leading contender — for the presidency of the Philippines.
And no spin doctor worth his bag of tricks will miss this opportunity to reduce Aquino’s popularity.
This explains why political operators of all shapes, shades, and sizes are working overtime, only to make sure that the incident — no thanks to Kris and her husband — renders the most maximum damage possible to his campaign.
Already, a text message supposedly from Austria, has been making the rounds, accusing Kris of being “very mad, berating us, saying I always text and call james” and of “passing by the house to make me sugod [confront me].”
The lengthy text message ends with the question, “Do you want Kris to be in Malacanang?”
Whether the message came from Austria or not, Aquino’s political rivals are stopping at nothing to create — what’s that word again? — a crisis big enough to dent his lead in the surveys.
It enough to make you think whether Ninoy had the power to predict the future.
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From the Acknowledgments Dept. Altered pic of Kris and Noynoy was copied from Karl Kaufman. Thanks, man. Picture of the book came from Starmometer.com.