'Although impressed,' Bob Ong notes, 'my boss would’ve fired me had he known I was the one behind it.'” The site received a People’s Choice Philippine Web Award for Weird/Humor in 1998. The name of the site roughly translates as 'Dumb Filipino',' used fondly as a the diminutive term. 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. cite web | url = | title = A B N K K B S N P L A Ko?! | accessdate = | publisher = ] The books of Bob Ong are often humorous can produce feelings of nostalgia for the reader. It has been suggested that the poet, Paolo Manalo, is Bob Ong, but he has denied this. *' Stainless Longganisa (Stainless Chorizo)', and *' Alamat ng Gubat (Fable of the forest),' * ' Ang Paboritong Libro ni Hudas (Judas' favorite book),' *' Bakit Baliktad Magbasa ng Libro Ang Mga Pilipino? (Why do Filipinos read books in reverse?),' *' ABNKKBSNPLAko?! (Aba nakakabasa na pala ako?!) (Wow, i can really read now?!),' The six books he has published thus far have surpassed a quarter of a million copies. cite web | url = | title = The mystery begins with his name-Bob Ong (not his real name) | accessdate = | publisher = Sunday Inquirer Magazine]. Bob Ong or 'Roberto Ong' is the pseudonym of a Filipino contemporary author known for using conversational Filipino to create humorous and reflective depictions of life as a Filipino.

Macarthur by bob ong