Category: Culture

Gilas Pilipinas and the Filipinos’ continuous tradition of ZERO results inspiration

September 29, 2014May 16, 2023 FallenAngel 16 Comments

As I write this, the Philippine men’s national basketball team, better known as Gilas Pilipinas, has just won against Kazakhstan in the 2014 Asian Games basketball tournament currently being held in Incheon, South Korea. According to reports, however, Gilas needed to win by eleven (11) points in order to advance to the semifinal round. They…

Culture, Development, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Society

Kabadingan and kalaswaan in Philippine fashion

September 23, 2014September 24, 2014 Kate Natividad 54 Comments

Bad taste plain and simple. What was Bench thinking? Sure the much-hyped fashion show The Naked Truth is all about underwear. But just because it is does not mean the show needs to be borderline pornographic. I mean, get a load of this one by Jake Cuenca. I heard this drew a healthy round of…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Wretched Philippine-style poverty is actually quite normal

September 23, 2014November 5, 2022 benign0 28 Comments

It doesn’t take much to remind Filipinos of their poverty. The problem, however, is that these reminders almost always have to come from external entities. And within this month alone we enjoyed the privilege of two stark reminders, Typhoon Mario and that Aegis Global viral video that the Philippine government is now desperately trying to…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Society

Emma Watson’s feminism speech and why men should STILL harden the f–k up

September 22, 2014 Kate Natividad 5 Comments

I watched just now the excellent speech delivered by Emma Watson at the United Nations in New York City last Saturday. This was on the occassion of the launch of the UN HeForShe campaign and she spoke as the UN Women Goodwill Ambassador, a role she was appointed to about six months earlier. Watson said…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Religion, Society

The futility of begging for foreign investment when your country sucks

September 22, 2014 benign0 23 Comments

Recent events have, yet again, highlighted the embarrassing way with which Filipinos and the government they elected to lead them are desperately scrambling to extricate themselves from systemic poverty after decades of misguided “development” approaches and serial promise breaking. Like many many previous presidents before him, Philippine President Benigno Simeon ‘BS’ Aquino III went on…

Culture, Development, Environment, Government, Politics, Society

Aegis video pits Malaysia’s infrastructure versus the Philippines’ in bid to attract BPO business!

September 20, 2014September 20, 2014 benign0 184 Comments

It seems the Philippines has been singled out by a company in Malaysia as its single biggest competitor for investment in the region. A promotional video produced by a Aegis Malaysia, a global business process outsourcing (BPO) company makes a pitch to its clients to locate their BPO needs in Malaysia by highlighting that country’s…

Culture, Development, Economy, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Money Talks

Knocking fashionistas is really just a fashion statement

September 18, 2014September 18, 2014 benign0 3 Comments

Well, I guess fashionistas had it coming. My key takeaway after reading Lourd De Veyra’s tirade against the fashion-conscious, Sermon sa Mga Fashyown is the notion of fashion as a form of self-expression to which The Lourd argues using the question: So you mean your self-expression changes with the comings and goings of fads? Well,…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Society

We are all still waiting for technology to make our lives better

September 17, 2014 benign0 5 Comments

You gotta give credit to those who cheer on the inroads technology is relentlessly making into people’s personal lives. Technology, they say, is “making lives better” by “empowering” ordinary people to take greater “control over their lives”. The nebulous banter seems to resonate with consumers who remain wide-eyed in anticipation for the coming of the…

Crime, Culture, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Society, Tech Talk