P-Noy alone again?

MANILA, Philippines - Alone again, naturally.

That has apparently been the case with President Aquino for three weeks now, according to sources.

His joke last Saturday about possibly getting third time lucky with an Ilongga was seen as a loaded statement.

The sources said the President finally stopped seeing Korean host and model Grace Lee but declined to elaborate on the reasons. They confirmed that Aquino was no longer dating anyone.

Social news network Rappler reported on April 16 that Aquino and Lee had broken up but some Palace insiders were quick to deny it because the two were still going out.

In fact, they were seen at the inauguration of the Puerto Princesa Underground River as one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature and at the concert of jazz legend Sergio Mendes.

The sources also said they were not sure if the proper term was “breakup” when nobody had admitted they were “on” in the first place.

They said the President had been busy and had not really seen Lee for quite sometime when the news about the “breakup” came out.

But even if things were no longer smooth sailing, the two still went out together to events that had been planned ahead.

There were text messages going around against Lee as well as tweets saying she was seen going out with another guy.

In Negros Occidental last Saturday, the President quipped that after two Ilonggas who captured his heart, he might be lucky with a third one but that he was not yet ready for marriage.

The two started seeing each other in January and Lee admitted in many interviews and in her radio and television shows that she liked the President.

She would later be criticized for being a blabbermouth.