Category: Culture

Four questions for the call center and BPO industries that need to be asked

January 30, 2014January 30, 2014 FallenAngel 49 Comments

Let’s keep it simple. Certain members of the call center/business process outsourcing (BPO) industry took the “offending” lines from GMA-7’s drama series “The Borrowed Wife” way too personally. But why dwell on a perceived slight over something that may or may not be true when there are bigger things to worry about? Because these bigger…

Culture, Development, Economy, Lifestyle, Media, Technology

What women like Deniece Cornejo teach us about rape

January 30, 2014 Kate Natividad 17 Comments

Wow! Turns out my initial hunches about the Vhong Navarro incident were right! Unlike Senator Bong Revilla’s toy truckload of evidence (literally), the evidence burying mobster Cedric Lee and girlette Deniece Cornejo is mountainous (figuratively). As such, I find it hard to believe it when I see some people still coming to the defense of…

Crime, Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle

PNoy’s abuse of power is the result of the Filipino people’s laziness

January 29, 2014January 29, 2014 Ilda 16 Comments

We all have to deal or transact with hired professionals or employees on a regular basis. Most of us would rather see the good side of the individual we are dealing with than their bad side because the alternative would be hard work. For example, when we find a dentist who was highly recommended by…

Culture, Government, Politics, Society

ABS-CBN saturation coverage of Vhong Navarro and Deniece Cornejo causing Filipino intellectual bankruptcy

January 29, 2014January 29, 2014 benign0 133 Comments

In recent days, that unsavory aspect of the character of Philippine society has yet again reared its ugly head. As the saying goes, a distracted mind is a happy mind. In no other place in the world does this truism apply better than in the Philippines where, despite monumental wretchedness casting a long-term pall over…

Crime, Culture, Development, Education, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Top smut consumers: Filipinos just need some stimulation on the fly

January 24, 2014 Kate Natividad 11 Comments

Hey, here’s another item to chalk up for “Pinoy pride”! According to a GMA News report, Filipinos are among the top viewers of Internet porn in the world. Filipinos, it seems, are renowned for their “stamina” when it comes to their duration of visits to the porn site P0rnHub_dot_com [Editor note: Spelling changed as a…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Media, Religion, Society

Anti-Vaxxers: A Dangerous Trend the Philippines Needs to Avoid

January 22, 2014January 22, 2014 MidwayHaven 38 Comments

Parents only want the best for their child, be it as general as a good environment to grow up in or as specific as health. I grew up knowing that quite a number of deadly diseases could easily be cured through vaccination. Granted the means of delivering the vaccine are scary (children always cringe at…

Civics, Culture, Education, Lifestyle, Media, Science

Misbehaving OFW’s: the Filipinos’ own worst enemy

January 20, 2014January 21, 2014 FallenAngel 36 Comments

Ok na sana daw for Pinoy Pride and the reputation of Filipino caregivers/nurses eh. What with Rose Fostanes, a long-time caregiver in Israel, winning their local version of the program X-factor. She became yet another “hero” that the validation starved Filipinos would be using in order to prop up to the world that they are…

Crime, Culture, Development, Lifestyle, Society

How Filipino women can strongly contribute to building a more intelligent Philippines

January 17, 2014 Kate Natividad 100 Comments

The Net is awash lately with lots of lament about the sad state of intellectualism in Philippine society. Most recent is the stuff about the way Pinoys lionize new X Factor celeb and erstwhile caregiver Rose Fostanes. Like, is there nothing more to the Philippines than reality TV stars and beauty pageant winners? Then there…

Culture, Development, Education, Lifestyle, Media, Society

Gabsboy
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
"Tingala sa langit" "Tingala sa gobyerno" "Tingala sa Amerika" Learned
zzz
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
It's funny how those without contribution run their mouths, seek
benign0
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
Filipinos' tingala mentality. It is WORLD renowned.
Slaves
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
How’s being American puppets going? Maybe if you chose a
Gabsboy
on EDSA 40 years after: Overthrow and “Leftist” Ideals Don’t Work
It would have been absolute cinema had the military coups
Ven
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
Who the hell is prepared for a crisis when any
megget
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
the filipino way is scraping by on the least amount
Gyn
on The Philippines reels from yet another global “crisis”
This whole thing is not working, and you know it