Year: 2015

Facebook etiquette fail: Are Singaporeans getting fed up with Filipino guest workers?

January 14, 2015January 14, 2015 benign0 23 Comments

So while the French are stuck with 5 million Muslims, Singaporeans are stuck with almost 200,000 Filipinos. France, of course, has bigger problems. The Muslim population there is proportionately bigger at 7.5 percent of the population. Filipinos “guests” in Singapore, on the other hand, make up less than 4 percent. Many French Muslims are citizens….

Culture, Development, Economy, Education, Lifestyle, Society, Technology

Telenovelas: Building Walls in Society

January 13, 2015 Grimwald 14 Comments

Well let’s face it: Do the telenovelas of Philippine TV really have anything to offer the common people? I’m an upper middle-class Pinoy who lives with a lot of kasambahays who just love to watch telenovelas. While I hate said shows with a passion, I cannot help but notice a few issues with the…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Society

Defining Freedom in Filipino Society

January 13, 2015 Grimwald 16 Comments

Ladies and gentlemen, this is my first post for GRP so please bear with me at the moment as I am rather new to a lot of the stuff here… Okay, so before I begin, I would like to ask you the simple question: What does it mean to be “free”? Of course, with the…

Culture, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Should parents be bragging about their kids’ academic achievements on Facebook?

January 13, 2015 Kate Natividad 37 Comments

Ok, so I’m one of those sheeple whose first activity after getting out of bed in the morning is to check their social media timelines. That shameful admission out of the way, I’ll get to the point of this piece. Today, I discovered just now, is obviously the day after the announcement of the results…

Culture, Education, Lifestyle, Society

Showbiz ‘Bakya’ helps keep Filipinos Poor

January 13, 2015February 17, 2015 ChinoF 14 Comments

Sorry, this #DongYan issue won’t die when people keep talking about it. Not just us. Other people, too. Actually, this isn’t about just “show of wealth” – which a wedding should not be (but that’s another topic for another day). It’s about what showbiz in the Philippines does. We write about showbiz because we believe…

Glitz and Glamour

Getting Out of Debt The Benitez Way

January 12, 2015 P. Farol 9 Comments

So I discussed the controversial case of PWU and STI with other writers of Get Real Post and it was generally agreed that it’s a real life example of how Pinoys dig themselves into poverty. Good old Benign0 has been saying for years that poverty is simply entering into obligations that you can’t fulfill and…

Crime, Economy, Money Talks

Pet Parents, Beware of Dog Spa Philippines

January 12, 2015January 12, 2015 P. Farol 27 Comments

I’ve long believed that dogs are people too, although it was only late last year that I read an article from the New York Times that tended to validate my belief. An article by Gregory Berns, a professor of neuroeconomics at Emory University and the author of “How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog…

Crime

Let’s Talk World Peace at a Gay Bar in Mecca

January 12, 2015 Hector Gamboa 18 Comments

So in the aftermath of the recent Islamic terrorism events that happened in France last week that shook the world, people ought to be calm and revisit the importance of tolerance (religious or otherwise). A lot of liberals, in their typical peacenik fashion, are trumpeting the idea that if only people learned to understand and…

Culture, Religion, Society