Category: Lifestyle

Why did Isabelle Duterte have a photoshoot in Malacanang Palace? Because she can.

December 17, 2017December 17, 2017 benign0 9 Comments

Isabelle Duterte, granddaughter of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, has been receiving a lot flak lately for a photoshoot she had in Malacanang. Why, key “thought leaders” of the Philippine Opposition ask, should Duterte’s granddaughter be allowed to use Malacanang as the setting for her pictorial? Simple. Because she can. Circuses like these are the reason…

Glitz and Glamour, Lifestyle, Politics

Your Tito’s Car: The Ford Ecosport

December 12, 2017 P. Farol 3 Comments

So, a friend from Facebook I have only seen in person twice (once when she interviewed me for her thesis and the other when I was interviewing her for a job) chatted me up out of the blue and asked if I wanted to test drive the Ford Ecosport. As with all offers on the…

Lifestyle, Tech Talk

When someone says you are “ugly”, would you sue him? Jover Laurio believes you should

December 11, 2017December 11, 2017 Ilda 18 Comments

Jover Laurio, the blogger behind Pinoy Ako Blog has filed a libel suit against social media personality Franco Mabanta. How do I know this? Well, no less than Rappler Chief Executive Officer Maria Ressa tweeted an article published in her own site about it. That’s right, folks. People like Ressa seem to think Laurio is…

Lifestyle

Filipinos prefer to cheer kids who shoot hoops over kids who shoot soldiers

December 4, 2017 benign0 6 Comments

If the Communist Party of the Philippines has not gotten the memo yet, let me spell it out. Their “revolution” is dead. In this day and age of instant digital gratification and even more potent tribalism on exhibit via social media, little girls being “martyred” in a jungle “revolution” simply can’t compete with the glitz…

Lifestyle, Politics

Da Pinoy and Road Manners

October 22, 2017 joeld 6 Comments

I recently got into a Facebook group comments section with the topic of the Land Transportation Office (LTO) regarding aftermarket lights, exhausts, horns, etc. It started with one complaint of a person who got traffic citations for his aftermarket blue corner lights and aftermarket exhaust on his scooter. He was basically saying that the LTO…

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Culture, Lifestyle, Society

HOPE lies in imagining a JEEPNEY-FREE Philippines

October 18, 2017June 26, 2022 benign0 14 Comments

As usual, the whole “debate” around the plight of the hundreds of thousands of jeepney drivers and the “threat” to their “livelihood” presented by the prospect of modernising public transport in the Philippine has taken a wrong turn. Highlighted by the usual “socially-aware” cliques of “activists” is the wellbeing of what is, essentially, a relatively…

Development, Lifestyle

Will the next anti-Duterte rally be AWESOME enough for Millennials?

September 12, 2017 benign0 10 Comments

According to various sources, there will be (yet another) protest rally against the government of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte in the coming days. What are these rallyists going to protest? Duterte’s purported authoritarianism? Martial Law in Mindanao? “Killings” related to his “war on drugs”? So what else is new? This is, after all, the era…

Lifestyle, Politics

To @RapplerDotCom ‘thought leader’ @seclaudio: Apology accepted

August 31, 2017 benign0 19 Comments

You don’t need to be a perfect, sinless person to be a critic. You just need to be consistent and rational. More importantly, what you shouldn’t be is a shill like Rappler “thought leader” Sylvia Estrada Claudio who, in her latest “thought” piece I apologize for being a critic, issued this vow: As a way…

Culture, Lifestyle, Media