Category: Culture

Prosecution’s losing streak was capped by Vitallano Aguirre’s meltdown

March 2, 2012March 3, 2012 Ilda 55 Comments

Do you know anyone who has ever had a meltdown? How about this flight attendant who became infamous after pulling the emergency-exit chute of an airplane in the United States in 2010? Apparently, this JetBlue airlines flight attendant got upset with an uncooperative passenger on a just-landed flight and â€œunleashed a profanity-laden tirade on the…

Civics, Culture, Media, Politics

Vitallano Aguirre’s mind will forever be stuck in February 29 2012

March 1, 2012 benign0 96 Comments

Quite a shame that the prosecution team in the impeachment trial of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona, already beleaguered over the course of the proceedings by a litany of gaffes, episodes of mediocre performance, and instances of unethical behaviour laid bare by one Senator-Judge after another, has to suffer the humiliation of one of…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Government

Senator Miriam Santiago is just what the doctor ordered for the prosecution

February 28, 2012October 8, 2013 Ilda 280 Comments

I know what the Philippines needs. We need more people like Senator Miriam Santiago. We need more people like her who won’t think twice about saying the truth. Senator Santiago doesn’t care about what other people think of her because she has the balls to tell them outright when they are being stupid. And the…

Civics, Culture, Government, Society

Suggestions on Educational Reform in the Philippines

February 4, 2012August 23, 2022 ChinoF 78 Comments

Many who read this blogsite and allied sites may agree that the educational system of the Philippines is in a terrible state. I read some months ago about 58,000 nurses applying for only 10,000 slots in the government. Another one was that around 88% of those who took the civil service example flunked. And we…

Culture, Education

Senator Lito Lapid now under ABS-CBN Network payroll

January 25, 2012 benign0 27 Comments

Senator and former “action star” Lito Lapid will be moonlighting again in showbiz despite his duties as senator-judge in the on-going impeachment trial versus Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona. “Kailangan kong kumayod,” (my translation: “I need to scrape hard to make a living”) said the action man which leads us to wonder what sort…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Media, Politics

Filipino ‘heroics’ in the Costa Concordia disaster in Italy lauded

January 23, 2012August 17, 2013 benign0 18 Comments

Almost on cue, Philippine President Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III was quick to praise the Filipino crewmen of the ill-fated Costa Concordia which capsized off the Tuscan coast of Italy on the 13th of January while carrying more than 4,000 passengers. Soon after the incident, President Aquino said, “You are men and women of courage, heroism…

Civics, Culture, Society

The illusion of progress in the Philippines

January 11, 2012July 6, 2013 benign0 32 Comments

Filipinos choose to measure progress from a Western perspective (mainly financial wealth and capital-intensive development). Thus a “successful” Filipino individual as measured by contemporary Filipino society fits the standard Hollywood mold — big house, party lifestyle, trendy clothes, shiny car, and flashy mobile devices. The trouble with Philippine society is that we embrace the superficial…

Culture, Development, Environment, Lifestyle, Money Talks

Can Photos Help Save Our Indigenous Cultures?

January 10, 2012April 1, 2012 Jacob Maentz 21 Comments

I believe they can. Last July I traveled to a remote part of the Sierra Madre mountains in northern Luzon where I spent two weeks with the indigenous Agta and Dumagat communities of the area. Being a travel and documentary photographer based in the Philippines I do a good amount of traveling around the country,…

Culture, Environment, Society