Category: Development

Noynoy’s 2016 presidential promise to Mar Roxas is destroying the Philippines

February 4, 2014 benign0 7 Comments

Time and again, Filipinos and their government (which, in a democracy, reflects its citizens’ character) have proven a lack of ability to step back and manage their affairs to a level of competence befitting a modern 21st Century state. In key occasions when it was a national imperative to exhibit a collective resolve to squarely…

Development, Government, Politics

Erap and Isko, Reviving Manila (Part One)

January 31, 2014 P. Farol 32 Comments

Manila is the core city of the National Capital Region and despite the many attempts to restore it to its “old glory”, it is still pretty much rotting away and there seems to be no way of stopping its decay. Polluted, crowded, crime infested, unbearably hot during the summer months, chronically flooded during the rainy…

Development, Environment, Government, Politics

Jojo Binay or Kris Aquino may be president in 2016 – but it really does not matter

January 31, 2014 benign0 72 Comments

The next presidential elections is still more than two years away but Filipinos are already looking to 2016 for that anticipated cool change. It’s not that the current term under President Benigno Simeon “BS” Aquino III can be described as hot. Far from it. The Second Philippine Reich can be considered more of a protracted…

Development, Economy, Politics, Technology

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

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

The Filipino call center and BPO industries need to learn how to demonstrate value

January 28, 2014January 28, 2014 FallenAngel 44 Comments

As expected, I ignited a small firestorm with the Filipino call center and business process outsourcing (BPO) communities with my previous article “Why the outrage over the call center agent ‘slur’ in ‘The Borrowed Wife’ fails to move me” (henceforth known as “Outrage”). Of course, I wish I could have provoked a more substantive reaction….

Development, Economy, Money Talks, Technology

Were the ‘victims’ of the San Roque, Agham demolition legal residents or just a bunch of squatters?

January 28, 2014 benign0 15 Comments

Nowhere in the incident reports issued by commie publication Bulatlat did information surrounding the legality of the demolition victims’ residency in the area come up. The only piece of information remotely pertaining to some semblance of legal argument in the report was around a “notice of demolition” that supposedly expired several months ago. According to…

Civics, Development, Government, Lifestyle, Society

Why the outrage over the call center agent ‘slur’ in ‘The Borrowed Wife’ fails to move me

January 27, 2014January 29, 2014 FallenAngel 257 Comments

The outrage being expressed by certain members of the call center agent population, or business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, over a perceived affront in the script of media giant GMA 7’s latest series “The Borrowed Wife”, frankly just fails to impress me: Indignant call center agents vowed to boycott the newest GMA television series, “The…

Development, Economy, Media, Money Talks