Category: Lifestyle

Filipino maids banned from using elevators in Manila’s luxury condos!

November 20, 2014November 28, 2022 benign0 97 Comments

The management of an Icon Residences luxury condominium building in Bonifacio Global City in Taguig has been called out for what Filipino netizens allege are “discriminatory” building access policies. A certain Poch Ceballos posted a photo on Facebook of a letter issued by the building management with the following caption: When Filipino maids in HK…

Civics, Culture, Lifestyle, Society

Should Clash of Clans be banned in the Philippines?

November 15, 2014 benign0 42 Comments

I’ve been hearing about this petition to ban the popular game Clash of Clans in the Philippines. The petition seems to have been instigated by a troop of parents long frustrated by how it has hijacked the lives of their kids. The thinking there, as I understand, is that if addictive narcotics are banned, then…

Culture, Education, Lifestyle, Tech Talk

Colegio de San Agustin road rage! Is the Philippines home to a decent society?

November 5, 2014November 5, 2014 benign0 50 Comments

We make one big assumption whenever we express indignation and outrage over the instances of banal injustice that make regular news fodder in the Philippines — that ours is a “decent” society. But step back and ask a more fundamental question: Is Philippine society really a decent one? Just now I spied a recent post…

Civics, Crime, Culture, Education, Lifestyle, Society

The First World can’t help the Third World because they don’t understand Third World poverty

November 4, 2014November 4, 2014 benign0 48 Comments

Q: What do the conflicts in the Middle East, pestilence in Africa, and chronic poverty in the Philippines have in common? A: The West’s insistence that it can “help” the Third World. How many more times will the West’s intervention in the Third World end in disaster? Many more times — because the First World…

Culture, Development, Economy, Lifestyle, Society, Technology

Sorry, Joe. No more boom-boom in Manila and Olongapo City

October 29, 2014November 22, 2022 benign0 25 Comments

If I were a businessman of any sort in the Philippines, I’d be fuming. In most NORMAL countries, the arrival of shiploads of young, cashed-up, and physically vigorous American military personnel would be greeted with joy and eyes flashing with $$ signs. Not in the Philippines though. The other day, the United States aircraft carrier…

Crime, Culture, Development, Economy, Government, Lifestyle, Politics, Society

Rubbish at the Manila International Airport: Nakakahiya sa mga Kano!

October 27, 2014 benign0 28 Comments

When I posted that photo tweeted by former Bureau of Customs chief Ruffy Biazon of the rubbish mess left by passengers in a lounge at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) Terminal 3, I didn’t realise what a big wave it was going to make. Indeed it was interesting to note how deeply-revolted many Filipinos…

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Rubbish-littered Manila NAIA Terminal 3 airport lounge tells the real story

October 25, 2014October 25, 2014 benign0 221 Comments

A photo of a waiting lounge littered with rubbish in Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA) has caught the attention of many people and is making the rounds on social media. The photo was originally posted by former Philippine Bureau of Customs Commissioner Ruffy Biazon on Twitter with the caption: NAIA 3…trash left behind by…

Civics, Culture, Development, Environment, Lifestyle, Society

I am Joseph Scott Pemberton

October 25, 2014 benign0 72 Comments

I am Joseph Scott Pemberton. I’ve been that boy in the wrong place at the wrong time. I’ve been in dark alleys, rented rooms, and in the company of strange women. But I was lucky (like you’ve been lucky) that the person who could have harmed either of us just didn’t harm us at that…

Crime, Culture, Lifestyle, Media, Religion, Society