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Filipinos: like a ship lost at sea searching for a beacon

Posted on April 21, 2012August 12, 2013 By FallenAngel 46 Comments on Filipinos: like a ship lost at sea searching for a beacon
Filipinos: like a ship lost at sea searching for a beacon

Introduction  When I visited Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia last year, I saw a banner run across the two Petronas towers with the following words in Malay on it: Daulat Tuanku  As soon as I could, I searched on Google what this phrase means. It is more or less the Malay equivalent of the English expression…

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Culture, Economy, Government, Politics, Society

The Philippines: a country governed by people who reflect the society that elected them

Posted on April 19, 2012October 12, 2013 By benign0 44 Comments on The Philippines: a country governed by people who reflect the society that elected them
The Philippines: a country governed by people who reflect the society that elected them

Does the solution to the multitude of ills that plague the Philippines reside in politics? Is it really the quality of government that is behind the chronic failure that is the Philippine nation? Think again. [Photo courtesy Today in History.] Perhaps there was a time when there were lots of scapegoats that Filipinos can count…

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Culture, Development, Government, Politics

Filipinas are forced to look for real men from overseas

Posted on April 18, 2012February 4, 2023 By Ilda 323 Comments on Filipinas are forced to look for real men from overseas
Filipinas are forced to look for real men from overseas

Aren’t there enough Filipino men in the country good enough for some Filipino women (Filipinas)? As far as I know, there is no shortage of Filipino men and I haven’t heard of any reports that say there is an imbalance in the sex ratio that would compel some Filipinas to seek men from overseas either….

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Culture, Lifestyle, Society

The flaccid tantrum of the League of Filipino Students against the US Embassy in Manila

Posted on April 17, 2012April 30, 2014 By benign0 38 Comments on The flaccid tantrum of the League of Filipino Students against the US Embassy in Manila
The flaccid tantrum of the League of Filipino Students against the US Embassy in Manila

What did League of Filipino Students (LFS) “activists” hope to accomplish by burning the American flag and defacing the United States embassy facade today (the 16th April)? Did they actually think that they could send whatever noble “message” they imagine their quaint movement to possess to the powers-that-be of what is still the planet’s mightiest…

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Culture, Development, Government, Society

Walking a fine line betwen critic and crab

Posted on April 15, 2012August 22, 2013 By FallenAngel 11 Comments on Walking a fine line betwen critic and crab
Walking a fine line betwen critic and crab

A familiar concept to us Filipinos is the utak-talangka, or crab mentality. Explaining it in the simplest terms possible, I define it as the “if I can’t have it, neither can you” kind of mindset. Take crabs in a pot. In order to avoid that one of them escape from the pot, they all pull…

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Strike three for impunity!

Posted on April 12, 2012July 25, 2013 By FallenAngel 26 Comments on Strike three for impunity!
Strike three for impunity!

The Japanese have a proverb/saying: 仏の顔も三度 – hotoke no kao mo sando Literally, this means “Buddha’s face lasts only three times”.  What this means is that even the nicest of persons can get angry after being provoked to a certain extent. Why three?  I don’t know, but for simplistic reasons just think of it as…

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Crime, Culture, Development, Environment, Government, Politics, Society

Criticizing PNoy is good for us and democracy

Posted on April 11, 2012July 27, 2013 By Ilda 51 Comments on Criticizing PNoy is good for us and democracy
Criticizing PNoy is good for us and democracy

President Noynoy Aquino still has until 2016 before he steps down from his post. That seems like a really long time for him to remain in office and have photos of him taken while “working” bandied around as evidence of “achievement”. It would seem even longer, like an eternity, to Filipinos who have lost their…

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Civics, Culture, Development, Government

Behind the silly smile is a sad sad nation

Posted on April 10, 2012 By benign0 36 Comments on Behind the silly smile is a sad sad nation
Behind the silly smile is a sad sad nation

The Philippines used to be or perhaps is still known as the place “where Asia wears a smile”. It is true. Filipinos are prerpetually smiling. The most powerful Filipino himself, President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, is famous for sporting a grin on his mug even as he assured the public that his administration was on…

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