We beg to differ.
I noticed something about Filipino “national heroes”. None of the ones that the nation’s “thought leaders” wax poetic about most frequently are soldiers. As I wrote a while back, most of them died with their back turned towards their assailants. They captured no territory nor held a stronghold to the death. They are hailed as…
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The bad news just keeps on coming for the Philippine Opposition. It has not been a good year for them. In fact, things haven’t been good for them since President Rodrigo Duterte won the election in 2016. Members of the Opposition particularly those allied with the Liberal Party have tried every trick in the book…
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I’m gonna see Crazy Rich Asians as soon as I can. How can I not? It’s been promoted ’til Kindgom come! There’s also all that hype surrounding Queen of Philippine Media Kris Aquino’s millisecond appearance. Lol! If I were her I wouldn’t make such a big deal of it. When you are The Queen and…
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False advertising, fake news, fake election results, and guess what’s trending next… Below is an open letter to the former diva Charice (Charmaine Clarice Relucio Pempengco, 26) who now goes by the name Jake Zyrus, a transgender “male”. This is in response to her coming out in the recent interview at the Tonight with Boy…
Filipinos should start to rethink their office attire. Wearing long-sleeved shirts and a tie is really impractical in a tropical climate. Perhaps if Filipino office workers are allowed to wear sando and shorts, more people would be willing to take public transport. For that matter, tens of millions of kilowatt-hours are expended on air-conditioning every…
The National Football League is back. The good news is that even here in basketball myopic Philippines we get the NFL on TV albeit on standard definition. Instead of nice looking extreme sports when there is a break in the action we get commercials for US shows dubbed in Tagalog Think about whatever TV series…
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The No Single Driver rule. It’s the bane of the miniscule minority of Filipino private motorists who can afford to tool around Metro Manila alone in their own personal cars. With the implementation today of this rule along EDSA today, one can expect only a small proportion of EDSA users to be up in arms….
The question ” who sings this?” usually tells me everything I need to know about the person posing the question in terms of their level of music appreciation. I will not call it a stupid question. Though Mr.Garrison once said something else. I can’t help it that when I started really paying attention to music…
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