Category: Culture

Could Manny Pacquiao be on a one-way street to poverty?

March 9, 2012November 28, 2013 benign0 5 Comments

One arguably good outcome of the impeachment circus of Supreme Court Chief Justice Renato Corona is that it had turned politician against fellow politician in an amusing free-for-all fishing expedition for evidence of wrong-doing surrounding one another’s personal fortunes. Indeed, what is different today is that there is no one standout anti-corruption “czar”. What is…

Culture, Glitz and Glamour, Society

Passage: Star Wars concept designer Ralph McQuarrie

March 7, 2012 benign0 2 Comments

Farewell to Ralph McQuarrie, the man behind such timeless and culture-shifting Star Wars characters as Darth Vader, R2-D2, and C-3PO. He was 82 when he died in his home on Saturday the 3rd of March 2012. McQuarrie joined George Lucas in 1974 to help conceptualise what were to become the defining images of the blockbuster…

Culture, Lifestyle, Tech Talk

The Filipino people are on trial, not just the Chief Justice

March 5, 2012 FallenAngel 174 Comments

The Filipino people are at a crossroads in their political lives. The impeachment trial of Chief Justice (CJ) Corona will resume on March 12, which gives us time to think how we have gotten to this point. GRP personified benign0 gives us an idea here. Let us recall what has happened in the last two…

Culture, Development, Government, Media, Politics, Society

Filipino attitude towards money highlighted yet again

March 5, 2012March 5, 2012 FallenAngel 21 Comments

Recently, a renowned financial expert in the United States, Suze Orman, was in town for a series of talks about personal finance. Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) brought her over as part of their financial wellness advocacy. Naturally, one of the things she focused, and expressed concerns about, is the Filipino attitude towards money….

Culture, Economy, Government, Lifestyle, Money Talks, Society

Filipinos have started counting the cost of a 26-year swindle

March 4, 2012 benign0 58 Comments

As we start a week of no trial sessions and face the prospect of several days of separation anxiety over not seeing our favourite characters in the on-going drama of Chief Justice Renato Corona’s impeachment, it may be worth looking back and getting a sanity check on what really got us to this point. We…

Crime, Culture, Society

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