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Filipino author

Bob Ong is the pseudonym of a contemporary Filipinoauthor known for using conversational writing technique to create humorous and reflective depictions of Philippine life.^[1][2] The author's actual name and identity are unknown.

Career

Bob Ong pursued writing after dropping out of college.^[3] His pseudonym 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 to "Dumb Filipino", used fondly as a pejorative term.^[4] "Although impressed", Bob Ong notes, "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.^[1] The site received a People's Choice Philippine Web Award for Weird/Humor in 1998, but was taken down after former President Joseph "Erap" Estrada was ousted afte