Year: 2015

Dishonesty and foolishness have resulted in preventable tragedies in the Philippines

March 22, 2015 Ilda 26 Comments

A mistake is an act or judgment that is misguided or wrong. Everyone makes mistakes. While some of our mistakes have little to no consequence, we can make mistakes that have bigger consequences that could actually change the course of our lives or even other people’s lives. We definitely have to live with the consequences…

Crime, Government, Politics, Society

Mental health awareness in the Philippines

March 22, 2015 rsurtida 21 Comments

There was news about an apparent suicide floating around the office the past week. A relatively healthy employee, dead at thirty. It would have been more shocking had this instance been the victim’s first attempt but I believe it wasn’t. According to people who knew him well this was the third and, unfortunately, successful time…

Culture, Education, Science, Society

A Look Back into the Abyss: The Atrocities of World War II

March 21, 2015 Grimwald 15 Comments

World War II is probably one of the most influential events in all of human history and continues to affect the modern world even as we speak. While World War I was actually more brutal and the Cold War had much more horrifying implications, World War II is certainly the go-to point in history when people…

Crime, Culture, Society

Why I Think Filipinos are Immature

March 21, 2015 Grimwald 44 Comments

So, it has come to this. Sadly, while I am pleased to know that more and more people are waking up intellectually because of the Aquino administration’s repetitive mishaps, a lot more remain delusional regarding the true state of the country. To this day, I still meet a lot of people who are in vehement…

Crime, Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Five Inaccuracies Still Accepted as “Philippine History”

March 20, 2015 MidwayHaven 101 Comments

Some time ago I watched a local documentary that dramatized Ferdinand Magellan’s visit to Mactan Island in 1521. Most Filipinos are aware of the events here: Mactan’s chieftain Lapu-Lapu kills Magellan, and the rest of the natives drive the rest of the Spanish back to their boats. What irked me however was what the actor…

Civics, Culture, Education, Society

Bakya Society: A Culture of Stupidity and Idolatry

March 19, 2015 Grimwald 22 Comments

This is more or less a response to Kate Natividad’s articles about breeding out idiots and why I think that, despite Ms. Natividad’s good intentions, it will be of little help in this country. This is also related to ChinoF’s article about “bakya” society and why this is one of the major problems we need…

Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Thanks to new K12 system: Coeds set to ‘perk up’ the heads of Grade 11 and 12 Atenista boys!

March 19, 2015 Kate Natividad 10 Comments

I heard the news! The Ateneo high school is going coed! Well, actually it’s now effective only for what they call “senior high school” or Grades 11 and 12 (what used to be 3rd and 4th Year high school in the old days). That’s gonna be quite a treat for a bunch of oversexed students…

Culture, Education, Lifestyle, Society

Whatta guy: Philippine President BS Aquino and Pia Wurtzbach rumoured to be dating!

March 19, 2015March 19, 2015 Kate Natividad 24 Comments

WTF? Make her brother “happy”?? According to an ABS-CBN News report this was Kris Aquino’s request to current Miss Universe Philippines title holder Pia Wurtzbach after rumours spread that she and Philippine President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino were an item. Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach also known as Pia Romero (born September 24, 1989) is a Filipino-German…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle