Category: Development

Removing Calculus and Trigonometry in the Philippine Education System?

December 19, 2015December 19, 2015 Vincent 18 Comments

On 17 December, 2015, Philstar.com reported that presidential aspirant Rodrigo Duterte said if he will be elected president, he will have Calculus and Trigonometry removed in the education system and that Algebra be replaced with Business Mathematics. According to the report, Mr. Duterte said, Yung Calculus alisin ko talaga yan. Dumaan kayo ng high school,…

Development, Education, Government, Science

Duterte And Roxas Should Just… Give Love On Christmas!

December 17, 2015 Grimwald 8 Comments

Let’s begin with a little music, shall we? It seems that the current conflict between Rodrigo Duterte and Mar Roxas has just gone up a notch. As of late, it’s been declared that Mayor Duterte has even challenged former DILG Secretary Mar Roxas to a gun duel. While this may all seem like a lot…

Culture, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Politics, Religion, Society

My Wish List For This Christmas

December 17, 2015 Grimwald 9 Comments

I’m putting this here just in case somebody out there might actually be listening… Dear Santa, I have been a very good boy this year so that means I can make a wish list that you are obliged to fulfill. If that’s the case, worry not because all you really have to do is fulfill…

Culture, Development, Economy, Education, Government, Lifestyle, Media, Politics, Society

US President Barack Obama’s insight into the powerlessness of the presidency

December 15, 2015 FallenAngel 13 Comments

Yes, you read that right. In an interview with GQ Magazine, the man in the position often referred to as “the leader of the most powerful country in the world” bared a realization – that the job of president of the United States isn’t as powerful as one might expect it to be. But what…

Development, Government, Politics

3 Big Reasons Mar Roxas Should Just Disqualify Himself

December 14, 2015 Grimwald 14 Comments

After the hullabaloo that was Mar Roxas’ campaign video, it seems surprising that he still has the audacity to continue the campaigning. Oh well, he probably has reasons for doing so. It might have something to do with his wife wanting to become first lady, a way for the LP to stay in power or…

Development, Government, Media, Politics, Society

The 2016 Official Charles Englund Political Campaign Manual

December 13, 2015December 13, 2015 Charles Englund 8 Comments

Free political campaign advice from the Charles Englund Foundation (CEF): In the curious morass that is the Filipino collective psyche, a leader must never volunteer or present himself for political office, more so, not for the (cue trumpets) “highest office in the land” (or what people in other countries simply call, the presidency). To present…

Culture, Development, Government, Politics, Society

Euthanasia for the Sick Man of Asia

December 13, 2015 zaxx 44 Comments

It’s been a slow and agonizing wasting away with the current crop of incompetent and corrupt empathy-devoid bozos that fill the political arena here in the country widely known as the Sick Man of Asia. This decaying remittance-transfusion-sustained corpse of a society/economy, the semblance of life being just the wiggling movement of infesting maggots under…

Charter Change, Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Government, Politics, Society

Voting for Mar Roxas will result in continuation of the same inutile Aquino government

December 12, 2015 Ilda 24 Comments

Presidential Elections in the Philippines is ugly but never boring. It’s when you witness a lot of mudslinging between candidates and their supporters. It gets worse as Election Day approaches. Presidential bets use every negative piece of information against their opponents in an effort to beat them at popularity surveys or in some cases, disqualify…

Development, Government, Politics

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